[Microsound-announce] 3 NEW 12k/LINE releases out now!

[richard chartier / LINE]

12k
NOV.7.2005

AVAILABLE NOW:

artist: ANTTI RANNISTO
title: ÄÄNIESINEITÄ
cat.no: 12k1034
edition: 1000

info: www.12k.com/1034.html
shop: www.12k.com/shop

12k is proud to release Ääniesineitä, the debut full-length CD by Antti 
Rannisto. Rannisto [b1978] is a Finnish artist whose ultra-spare sound 
was formed via a diverse background of hip-hop, house, and experimental 
electronic music. Despite the highly improvised and free-form 
influences, Ääniesineitä is highly calculated music so stripped down to 
the basic elements that subtle shifts in panning, envelope, or phase 
become instruments in themselves. He explores the ideas of rotation in 
much of his music, utilizing repetition and overlapping, out of sync 
structures that create networks of hypnotic patterns.

Ääniesineitä is a minimalist foray that defines Rannisto’s sound and 
breaks away from 12k’s recent mold of organic and melodic microsound. 
The beating of a  sinewave over a 4/4 kickdrum, or a blipping 
polyrhythmic loop creates ever-shifting patterns forming his style that 
is too sparse to be called techno, but far too rhythmic to ever be 
called ambient. His palette is simple, pure, colorless, and free of any 
unnecessary sound or movement. It is minimalism in the truest sense. It 
is challenging music that demands attentive listening.
 

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12k
NOV.7.2005

AVAILABLE NOW

artist: SAWAKO
title: HUM
cat.no: 12k1035
edition: 1000

NYC/Tokyo sound artist Sawako has recently made a name for herself with 
her own unique combination of field recordings and DSP combined with 
noticeably feminine touch. It is this strong use of both mediums that 
makes her hard to classify or neatly tucked away into a specific genre. 
Her latest release, Hum, is an elegant and detailed work in which she 
consciously brushes against the fringes of pop music by extracting and 
processing the sounds of everyday life and working them into melodies 
and arrangements. Coded sound blends lightly with piano, voice, 
roomtones, field recordings and the additional instruments from a 
number of supporting musicians including Aoki Hayato (guitar + 
pianica), and 12k’s Kenneth Kirschner (room tones), and Taylor Deupree 
(kyma).

Hum is very much an album about life that takes influences from 
Sawako’s home in Japan and her recent years as a student of sound and 
media technology in New York City. There is at one time both a sense of 
girlish innocence and curiosity and the result marks a unique point in 
12k’s recent output.

While Hum is primarily a soft, ambient album, Sawako is obviously 
hinting at much more beneath the surface. It’s as if she is not just 
searching for music in non-musical places but playing hide-and-seek 
with the most beautiful and sublime sounds around her and forming them 
by hand into a dreamy work of art.


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LINE
NOVEMBER 7, 2005

NEW RELEASE:

artist: DOUBLENDS VERT
title: CISTERN
cat.no: LINE024
edition: 500

AVAILABLE NOW

http://www.12k.com/line/line024.htm

online shop: www.12k.com/shop

Cistern was made in a two million gallon underground reservoir at Fort 
Worden, a de-commissioned military base overlooking the entrance to the 
Puget Sound. The space’s resonance extended the instruments in a way 
similar to electronic processing. The acoustic properties of the 
cistern created new sonic relationships to which the group applied 
their musical concept.  Cistern captures Doublends Vert’s first 
experiences in the sound-world of the cistern.

Doublends Vert formed in 2003 through a common interest in creating 
restrained, acoustic music exploring the timbre blending possibilities 
of the violin, accordion, and clarinet.

Doublends Vert:
Clarinetist Adam Diller’s (b. 1980) music deals with the problems of 
composing for recorded medium, integrating electronic and acoustic 
sounds, and improvising with social and natural environments. His 
process draws on experience with jazz, composition, improvisation, and 
computer-based sound design. Since moving to Seattle in 2002, Diller 
has performed in many situations and produced 10 recordings.

Annie Lewandowski (b. 1979) is a composer and multi-instrumentalist 
with backgrounds in classical, improvised, and experimental music. She 
has performed at festivals in the USA, Canada, and Europe with trio 
Doublends Vert and duo Emma Zunz (with Cristin Miller). She currently 
lives in Seattle.

Tom Swafford (b. 1972) is violinist and composer active in a wide 
variety of musical styles. He studied composition in Boston, Berkeley, 
CA, and The Netherlands (with Louis Andriessen). He is a member of 
Cipher, Drumolin and Doublends Vert and also performs classical, 
bluegrass and rock music. He resides in Seattle, WA.

Matt Crane joins on timbales for cistern tracks 4 and 5 and engineered 
this live recording. Crane has been playing drums from an early age. 
His profound interest in music has translated into the study of many 
different idioms. He currently engages in many improvised settings with 
an emphasis on environment and its shaping of the musical experience.


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