[Microsound-announce] LINE new releases: ALVA NOTO + RICHARD CHARTIER + TAYLOR DEUPREE out now!

[richard chartier / LINE]

12K / LINE
JUNE 05, 2006



new release:

artist: ALVA NOTO
title: FOR
cat.no: LINE_026
edition: 1000


info:

This alva noto CD brings together disparate recordings created 
thoughout the last four years, unified under a theme of dedication. All 
nine studies share the history of being made specifically for someone 
or for a project that for one reason or another remained open ended.

“wall anfang” for example, opens with a the voice sample “there must be 
a reason why it is so clear in my mind.” When we realize the person 
speaking is pioneering contemporary Canadian photographer Jeff Wall, we 
may understand the rising high tone that intoduces the track as the 
immitation of a photo-flash warming up to be triggered. The track was 
originally prepared for a documentary about Wall, who became famous for 
his large scale light boxes that cast white light evenly through his 
photographs. Like this balanced light, the track presents a purity of 
thought, that spirals inside and out, the voice of Wall breaking only 
impartially this conjecture of sound, while adding an atmosphere of 
introspection and study to the piece.

The percussive, almost marimba like sounds of the track “jr” echo the 
woodcutting of Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, (whose work Wall 
allegorized in his photograph A Sudden Gust of Wind (after 
Hokusai),1993). The stark, poised three point intervals of sound bring 
to mind the intricate and equisitely considered compositions of 
Hokusai1s style of Ukiyo-e 3pictures of the floating world.2 Jhonn 
Balance1s premature death in 2004 gave way to multiple dedications to 
his life and music by people who took influence from his activities in 
Coil. The track “odradek” was originally prepared for the tribute 
record ...It Just Is (In Memoriam: Jhonn Balance). Nicolai worked with 
Balance when commissioning him for the award winning release 20’ to 
2000 a CD set for the last 20 minutes of the year 1999.

These diverse engagements come to rest within this release. Like the 
image that seals the font cover of the CD, that depicts liquid 
oscillating with various frequencies, we are reminded that sound can 
give form to image and to thought and that it may continue to resonate 
in absences, particles, or processes‹until a point of final closure. ‹ 
Andrew Cannon  

Carsten Nicolai (b.1965, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Germany) fuses sight and 
sound in minimal installations and sculptures. His work suggests the 
atmosphere of an alchemist’s laboratory where sound is converted into 
frequencies, pitches, pops and pulses. Working outside the bounds of 
representation and art history, he often composes arrangements using 
signal tones and the sounds of communication data. These arrangements 
are released under the name alva noto in the music field where he is 
also known. Prior to working with sound, he originally studied 
landscape design.

His performances and installation works have been shown in museums and 
galleries around the world including recently at the Tate Modern 
(London, UK), Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), YCAM (Yamaguchi, Japan). 
He has collaborated with such artists as Ryuchi Sakamoto, Scanner and 
with Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender as Signal. Works by Alva Noto 
have been released on numerous international labels including 
Raster-Noton and Mille Plateaux.




new release

artist: RICHARD CHARTIER + TAYLOR DEUPREE
title: SPECIFICATION.FIFTEEN
cat.no: LINE_027
edition: 1000

LINE is proud to present the first full length collaboration by Richard 
Chartier and Taylor Deupree since 1999’s Spec. (12k). For this 
collaboration, sound artists Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree were 
invited by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 
to create a new live work inspired by the Seascapes series of renowned 
Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto on the occasion of his 
retrospective exhibition. The result is this live recording, 
Specification.Fifteen. This work premiered on March 30, 2006 in front 
of the curved panoramic window of the Museum1s Lerner Room as the sun 
set across the city1s skyline. Specification.Fifteen evokes the 
stillness and opposing yet related spaces of Sugimoto1s Seascapes, 
which suggest infinitesimal change and variation under a seemingly 
uniform surface.

Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the 
sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as 
if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.
                                             ‹ Hiroshi Sugimoto

Richard Chartier, sound/installation artist and graphic designer, has 
created critically acclaimed recordings for labels such as 12k/LINE 
(USA), Trente Oiseaux (Germany), Spekk (Japan), Mutek_rec (Canada), DSP 
(Italy), and ERS (NL), and Fallt (Ireland), including collaborations 
with artists Taylor Deupree, William Basinski, and COH, and has 
appeared on numerous international compilations. His digital minimalist 
work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of 
sound, silence, focus, and the act of listening.

Chartier’s sound works and sound installations have been presented 
internationally including at the exhibits Sounding Spaces at ICC 
(Tokyo, Japan), I Moderni / The Moderns at Castello di Rivoli (Torino, 
Italy), 2002 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), 
Resynthesis at The Art Institute of Chicago and with the travelling 
sound exhibit Invisible Cities created by digital media curators Fehler 
as well as solo and collaborative installations for Fusebox (DC), 1515 
Arts/G Fine Art (DC), Die Schachtel (Milan, Italy), and Diapason (NY). 
He has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, and North America 
at MUTEK (Montreal, Canada), GRM/Maison de Radio France (Paris, 
France), Observatori (Valencia, Spain), DEAF (Dublin, Ireland), 
Transmediale (Berlin, Germany), Lovebytes (Sheffield, UK), The Leeds 
International Film Festival (Leeds,UK), The Rotterdam International 
Film Festival (NE), Garage (Stralsund, Germany), La Batie (Geneva, 
switzerland), and other noted digital art/music festivals and at 
exhibits such as Frequenzen [Hz] at the Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt) 
and A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968 and Visual Music: 
Syneasthesia in Art and Music Since 1900 at the Museum of Contemporary 
Art (Los Angeles).In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE and has 
since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and 
installation work by international sound artists and composers 
exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism. The 
premiere release on LINE, Chartier’s Series as awarded Honorable 
Mention in the category of Digital Music by the prestigious Prix Ars 
Electronica, 2001 (Austria). 

Taylor Deupree is a sound artist, graphic designer, and photographer 
residing in Brooklyn, New York. On January 1st, 1997, he founded 12k, 
music label that focuses on digital minimalism and contemporary forms. 
In 12k1s 8 years of existance it has released 35 CDs and become one of 
the most respected experimental electronic labels in the world. In 
January 1999, Deupree currated a compilation for New York1s Caipirinha 
Music label that he called 3Microscopic Sound.2 This release was among 
the first to gather together artists of this style and helped put a 
name to a rising genre of electronic music. September, 2000, saw the 
launch of 12k’s sublabel LINE, with collaborator Richard Chartier, 
exploring conceptual, ultra-minimalist digital sound and the 
relationship between sound, silence and the art of listening. In 
September, 2003, Deupree started a 3rd label called Happy to release 
what he terms as 3unconventional japanese pop.2 Happy was born from 
Deupree1s interest in Japanese pop music and the fact that it is quite 
unknown outside of Japan. He hopes to change that with Happy. Over the 
past 12 years Deupree has recordedfor a number of other labels around 
the world including Spekk (Japan), Ritornell/Mille Plateaux, 
Raster-Noton, Disko-b, (Germany), Sub Rosa (Belgium), BineMusic 
(Germany), Fällt (Ireland), and Audio.NL (Netherlands). Instinct 
Records, Caipirinha Music, Plastic City (USA), and Dum (Finland), among 
others. Deupree has received much critical acclaim and recognition for 
his early musical projects including the techno and ambient sounds of 
Prototype 909, SETI, Human Mesh Dance, and Futique (1992-1996) and has 
many recording accomplishments and a substantial discography. His 
design work has appeared on dozens of record labels around the world 
and published in a number of design books in Japan and the UK. For the 
past 8 years Deupree’s music has taken influences from his passion for 
architecture, photography, and interior design and collaborative work 
with other musicians has played a large part in his output. Combining 
his computer techniques with guitarists (Christopher Willits), Pianists 
(Kenneth Kirschner) and vocalists (Sawako Kato) has pushed his sound in 
new directions and lead to one of the most pivotal recordings of his 
career: a complete re-working on an album by the acoustic, 
alternative/pop band Eisi from Japan. Such work has broadened Deupree’s 
scope while helping to push modern electronic music into new frontiers.




R I C H A R D C H A R T I E R

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<<<
CD . Retrieval 1-5 [ ERS, Netherlands ]
CD . Tracing  [ NVO. Austria ]
CD . Specification.Fifteen (with T.Deupree) [ LINE, US ]
CD . Levels(Inverted) [ LINE/G FINE ART, US ]

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CD . Incidence  [ Raster-Noton, Germany ]  July
LIVE . BAPLab @ Bushwick Art Project [ NY ] July 22
LIVE . Bleeding Edge Festival @ Montalvo Arts Center [ San Jose, CA ] 
Aug 13
LIVE . Decibel Festival [ Seattle, WA ] Sept 16
LIVE .  Ryoudenji Temple [ Tokyo, Japa ] Oct 21
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