[spectre] Welcome to the August issue of Furthernoise.org

[marc garrett]

Sorry for any cross posting...

Welcome to the August issue of Furthernoise.org

Please find a host of new features and reviews, and a restocked audio 
player for your reading and listening pleasure.

We are also pleased to announce our new net label release, Active 
Crossover II, which is free to download with printed cover from the 
site. See editors review for details on this great collaborative 
performance and installation project.

Furthernoise issue August 2010
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=87

"4 Releases from Mimeomeme" (feature)
The Seattle Phonographers Union comprises five live performances 
recorded in Seattle from 2004-2008. It is interesting to note that these 
are not compiled in chronological order, though listening to the album 
repeatedly, I could not determine if sequencing really made that much 
difference, as each track creates its own unique sonic trajectory and flow.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=349
feature by Derek Morton

"Active Crossover II, Various Artists" (review)
Founded by Bristol (UK) based sound artist Simon Whetham, Active 
Crossover started in 2008 from a residency in Tallinn, Estonia, as 
guests of the Non Grata Collective. Presenting workshops in field 
recording and composition, it culminated in Whetham working with John 
Grzinich, providing a live sound track to a performance by renowned 
Estonian artist Peeter Allik.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=350
review by Roger Mills

"Amarok - Francisco López" (review)
On Amarok Francisco López deploys processed field recordings to create a 
windswept soundscape tailored to the Glacial Movements aesthetic. This 
isolationist dreamweaver conducts an arctic expedition with trademark 
atonal drones and snarling blasts evoking the eponymous giant wolf of 
Inuit mythology, representing a shivering parable for our times. Perhaps.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=344
review by Alan Lockett

"Collaborative Soundtracking - Erdem Helvacioğlu and Per Boysen" 
(review)
Through a long-distance collaboration, multi-instrumentalists Erdem 
Helvacioğlu and Per Boysen deliver the soundtrack preceding the 
film Sub City 2064 (currently somewhere between ideation and synopsis), 
whose use of recollected vocabularies from different avenues of pop 
music, from stadium rock to simmering ambient pads and lounge dub-jazz.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=346
review by Caleb Deupree

"Halation - Capricornus" (review)
Questing Infraction Records bring bright newcomer Capricornus to the 
ambient drone sleepover, hosting in Halation a slow-release narcotic of 
minimal means and maximal Morphean mien. Long languorous swathes of 
guitar outfolding towards the infinite in a successful foray into the 
zone between Deep Listening immersion and harmonised drone.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=345
review by Alan Lockett

"Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble II" (review)
Comprising bass, a vintage analog synth, trombone with effects, and 
drums, the Jack Curtis Dubrowsky Ensemble plays a futuristic lounge 
jazz, replete with nocturnal overtones, swampy, humid and mysterious.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=348
review by Caleb Deupree

"Lava - Markus Mehr" (review)
Released on Perth's Hidden Shoal Recordings Lava is an album, as the 
title suggests, of textural and timbral contrasts with disjunct leaps of 
dynamics and tonality. Written and recorded in his home studio in 
southern Germany, his palette of sounds come from all manner of sound 
emitting objects, electric shavers, ventilators, electric toothbrushes 
and field recordings,
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=353
review by Roger Mills

"Marsen Jules - Yara (Remastered)" (review)
Marsen Jules' classical-ambient-minimalism hybrid releases Yara, a 
release from 2004 on digital netlabel, Autoplate, well meriting 
remastered and beautifully repackaged form courtesy of Oktaf, complete 
with two bonus tracks. Source sounds drawn from classical trio, Yara, 
while flaunting cut'n'paste provenance and DSP mediation, retain 
something of the essence of their grace and delicacy.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=347
review by Alan Lockett