[Microsound-announce] BLOCKS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE UNBROKEN CONTINUUM Book + DVD

[richard chartier / LINE]

BLOCKS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE UNBROKEN CONTINUUM

Book + DVD

Editors: Brian Marley and Mark Wastell

Published by Sound 323

341 printed pages - full colour

Hardback

ISBN 978-0-9551541-0-2

Publishing date - 1st January 2006

**Exclusive Limited Edition

Price £50

PRE-ORDER NOW to secure your copy and qualify for free shipping 
anywhere in the world. Shipping rates will apply after 1st January 2006

 


What is the most significant development that has occurred in 
adventurous music during the last decade? It’s arguably neither a 
technique-driven development nor a technological one. Rather, it’s how 
we, musicians and audience alike, have opened our ears to the world and 
embraced its sounds as both a musical resource and as music itself.


Blocks of Consciousness and The Unbroken Continuum explores the work 
and aesthetic of various cutting edge musicians, environmental/sound 
artists and noise-makers. As well as profiles of Richard Chartier, The 
Necks, John Wall and Sachiko M, the book contains explorations of the 
history and changing nature of free improvisation, of Cage’s 
iconoclastic 4’33", and of where to draw the line (somewhat 
tentatively, to be sure) between improvisation and composition. There 
is, in addition, a series of personal statements by almost two dozen 
musicians, composers and sound artists, collected by Rhodri Davies; and 
in Out in the Field Bertrand Denzler and Jean-Luc Guionnet interview 
improvisers about their music and group the anonymised answers 
thematically. The authors of the principal chapters – David Toop, Clive 
Bell, Brian Marley, Dan Warburton, Andy Hamilton and Will Montgomery – 
are well-known and respected writers on music/sound.



Machines, noise and improvisation are factors common to all of the 
chapters in the book. David Reid’s DVD selection of video performances 
also carries this theme. The performances, all filmed during the last 
five years and part of his growing archive, represent a diverse range 
of musicians and their musics. Note, however, that the DVD content is 
neither illustrative of nor subordinate to the written material in the 
book; it comprises a chapter in its own right.

A feature of Blocks of Consciousness and The Unbroken Continuum that 
will be much remarked upon is Damien Beaton’s lavish design, which 
makes the book so much more than a mere receptacle for words.

 

CONTENTS

Introduction by the editors

Brian Marley - John Cage: Qualities of Silence

Rhodri Davies - What are you doing with your music? Answers to this 
question supplied by 


Otomo Yoshihide / Phil Durrant / Annette Krebs /  Graham Halliwell / 
Xavier Charles / Bernhard Günter /

Andrea Neumann / Lee Patterson / Sean Meehan / Matt Davis / Mattin / 
Ruth Barberán / Burkhard Beins /

Isabelle Duthoit / Jérôme Noetinger / Angharad Davies /  Takehiro 
Nishide / Nikos Veliotis / James

Saunders / Johan Berthling / Taku Unami / Steve Roden / Margarida Garcia

Clive Bell - Sachiko M: Ah, the Sweet Torture

Dan Warburton - Les Instants Composés

Andy Hamilton - The Necks

David Reid - Performances - video chapter (see below)

Brian Marley - John Wall: The Rocky Road to cphon

Bertrand Denzler and Jean-Luc Guionnet - Out in the Field

Will Montgomery - On the Surface of Silence: Reticence in the Music of 
Richard Chartier

David Toop - The Feeling of Rooms


 

DVD features live concert performances from;


Keith Rowe: Derby Dance Centre, Derby, 23 November 2003


Evan Parker: St Michael and All Angels, Chiswick, London, 11 October 
2001

Birdyak  (Bob Cobbing, Lol Coxhill, Hugh Metcalfe, Jennifer Pike): 
Freedom of the City, Conway Hall, London, 4 May 2002

John Tilbury: Ongaku, St Cyprians, London, 25 November 2003

Anton Lukoszevieze & Eddie Prévost: Freedom of the City, Conway Hall, 
London, 6 May 2002

Broken Consort (Matt Davis, Rhodri Davies, Mark Wastell): Whitworth 
Gallery, Manchester, 20 July 2003

Jérôme Noetinger: The Termite Club, Adelphi Public House, Leeds, 26 
March 2004

John Butcher: St Michael and All Angels, Chiswick, London, 22 November 
2001

Tetuzi Akiyama: Ongaku, 291 Gallery, London, 15 June 2003

Nmperign (Greg Kelley and Bhob Rainey): Sound 323, Highgate, London, 5 
June 2004

 

Sound 323
323 Archway Road
Highgate
London
N6 5AA

tel/fax 0044 (0)20 8348 9595
info at sound323.com
www.sound323.com
 
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