[spectre] Furthernoise issue December 2010

[marc garrett]

Sorry for any cross posting...

Dear all who listen,

Welcome to the final Furthernoise issue of 2010 (sister site of 
furtherfield.org).

Full of new reviews and sound for your reading and listening pleasure 
over the holiday period.

Furthernoise issue December 2010
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=89

"Effective Disconnect/Endless Falls/Powers of Audition" (feature)
The venerable Kranky continually, coherently, renews its 
ambient-drone-space-postrock mission with refinements to its blends. 
2010 is no exception; from Brian McBride's neo-classical soundtrackery 
to the latest doleful Loscil is an appreciable leap, yet in line with 
house style. Jonas Reinhardt's Kartoon Kosmische, however, might have 
been best kept out of the house.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=364
feature by Alan Lockett

"59 Airplanes Waiting For New York" (review)
Early on in 59 Airplanes Waiting for New York the air of a strange 
familiar wafts through its ambiguous lulling loops. Liner notes ID Dirk 
Serries and Premonition Factory's use of a synthesizer and loop devices 
further point to Obmana's ghost and a mentor in the wings. No charges of 
derivation, though, more a positive proclamation: Vidna Obmana is dead, 
long live Premonition Factory.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=368
review by Alan Lockett

"Amerika and The Birth of Primary Cinema from the Spirit of Sound - 
Frank Rothkamm" (review)
Frank Rothkamm will need little introduction for Furthernoise readers. 
He has been both a contributor and guest reviewer, and continues to push 
the boundaries of conceptual music, sound and film theory in 
contemporary media discourse. This review examines what he describes as 
the final chapter in his self proclaimed "Magnus Opus", as the final 
Tetralogy encompassing the Birth of Primary Cinema DVD, and accompanying 
soundtrack Amerika.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=371
review by Roger Mills

"Don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing..." (review)
Sound artist Simon Whetham's CV bespeaks years of environmental 
auscultation and deep listening. Liner notes to Beneath the Swinging 
Bridge state that all source material was recorded in the Cumberland 
Basin, Bristol. As would be expected, water, variously voiced from drips 
to sluicings, plays a leading role, but the creaks and baritone lowing 
of the swing bridge are the stars.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=365
review by Alan Lockett

"et Nighttide by Swartz" (review)

http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=372
review by Derek Morton

"Gail Priest's Spider Garden" (review)
Composed from electronics, field recordings and processed vocals, Gail 
Priest's Presentiments from the Spider Garden is an extended web of 
unanticipated exotic territories, a suite inspired by the indefatigable 
spiders in her back yard, populated by recurring soundmark characters 
and visionary sonic environments.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=370
review by Caleb Deupree

"Les Amusements - The Batteries Duo" (review)
The Batteries Duo are a New York based trumpet and electronics duo 
featuring trumpeters Gareth Flowers and Josh Frank, who met while 
studying at the esteemed Julliard school. Forgetting for the moment that 
this where innovators like Miles Davis and Steve Reich honed their skills...
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=369
review by Roger Mills

"Salvaged Violets/Generic City/The Die That's Caste" (review)
Three from Celer: Salvaged Violets, a second coming for Infraction 
making an interesting contrast with earlier Discourses of the Withered; 
a collab with Yui Onodera, Generic City, distinguished by extensive 
deployment of field recordings; more tenebrous hues brought out by con-v 
curator, M. Tolosa, on The Die That's Caste.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=366
review by Alan Lockett

"Vicmod label debut" (review)
The modular synthesizer performance group Vicmod started their own label 
this year, and the first four releases display the breadth of invention 
and creativity from these vintage instrument that is the modular 
synthesizer.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=367
review by Caleb Deupree

Roger Mills
Editor, Furthernoise