UnPublic #79
ORLEANS, 23 JANUARY 2022
https://unpublic.bandcamp.com/album/orl-ans-23-january-2022
UnPublic #79
ORLEANS, 23 JANUARY 2022
https://unpublic.bandcamp.com/album/orl-ans-23-january-2022
X°=1 by "The Art Of K7" volume 1
Released on November 2021 on Steep Gloss
https://steepgloss.bandcamp.com/album/the-art-of-k7-vol-1
Released on 13 october 2021
Anton Mobin : prepared chamber
Martina Verhoeven : piano
https://newwaveofjazz.bandcamp.com/album/cure-and-mound
Performed, recorded, mixed and mastered at the Sunny Side Inc. Studio, Anderlecht (Belgium) on February 16th 2020.
Sleeve notes : Guy Peters
Layout : Rutger Zuydervelt
LINER NOTES //
nwoj0046 Anton Mobin & Martina Verhoeven - Cure And Mound
Hearing Cure And Mound for the first time, you might think there was something distressing going on in the studio, as these recordings are throbbing with a restless and almost physical agitation. It made me think of one of Steve Lacy’s interviews. Lacy, an amiable man by all accounts, and esteemed by his peers, repeatedly described jazz and improvised music as dissident and often intense by nature. The same for the musician’s relation to the instrument: “You have to have a certain warlike nature and a kind of thirst for violence, in a way. I think you must spend some time in your life doing that. You don’t have to do that all of your life but you have to beat it up for a while to get to the bottom of it, to tame it. Otherwise you’ll never tame your instrument. It’ll always be out of control. You’ll be at its mercy, subsequently.”
While there’s no violence going on here, this recording does feel like one of those ‘no holds barred’-sessions. It has its moments of rest and quietness, when the interplay dissolves into a minimalist haze of dream-like pitter patter, but the overall impression is one of tension and turbulence. To some degree it can of course be attributed to Anton Mobin’s prepared chamber, his ‘analogue compendium of possibilities’, as I referred to it in the liner notes to Close | Quarters, his album with Benedict Taylor on this label. The ultra- deep growls, somewhat reminiscent of the beating of a mammoth’s heart, are spectacular. Add to that the screeches and hums, wobbly waves, countless jittery effects and puzzling moans, and you are at the mercy of a relentless sound generator.
The beautiful thing is that Martina Verhoeven matches him step by step. Not by copying or attempting a kind of excessively brutal physicality, but by approaching the piano with a similar openness, eagerly exploiting the possibilities of inside playing, the fondling and manipulation of strings and wood, combined with an equally unconventional treatment of the ivory. To Cecil Taylor, the piano itself sounded like an orchestra, and occasionally, something similar seems to be going on for Verhoeven. The piano is an instrument she inhabits, turning the 88 tuned drums into a generator for rhythm, shapes, turbulence and a sheer endless provocation of sounds and ideas.
Add it all up, and Cure And Mound might be one of the most demanding releases in the NWOJ catalogue. There’s the physical density of the interaction, the otherworldly sounds and the intimidating length. You need some spare time and have to clear your head before delving into such an amount of information. But... once you are willing to invest the effort, you are in for a whirlwind of thrills that makes the sheer joy of producing wild and wondrous sounds utterly tangible. It is nice to get a reminder of how exhilarating this kind of music can be.
Guy Peters
■ is a blank cassette compilation (volume 3 in the series).
C40 limited edition on STEEP GLOSS
https://steepgloss.bandcamp.com/album/blank-tape-compilation-vol-3
The 10 artists were asked to submit an audio piece, with a duration of no more than 4 minutes, utilising blank tapes as the sole sound source. The pieces were then combined, top-to-tail, exquisite corpse style, to create a gestalt, resulting in the two distinct side long pieces presented here.
The artists were also asked to submit a 'blank' image, leaving the interpretation of which up to them. These images were then incorporated into the double-sided panels serving as the art accompanying the tape.
"Nothing, I suppose. Just darkness. Absolute night."
Paul Bowles
Further listening from the contributors:
Andrew M. Jarvis
burselmcryptrecordings.bandcamp.com
Brandstifter
steepgloss.bandcamp.com/album/in-leatherstockings
Christopher David
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrvGveEA7fM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xve_oPTZk9g
Auvikogue
klanggold.bandcamp.com/album/l-rm-silence-ansatz-23
Rinus Van Alebeek
rinusvanalebeek.bandcamp.com/audio
Anton Mobin
antonmobin.bandcamp.com
Karen Constance
bloodstereo.bandcamp.com/music
Hardworking Families
hardworkingfamilies.bandcamp.com/music
Gustavo Torres
gustavotorres.bandcamp.com
Daniel Vujanic
escrec.bandcamp.com/album/prosopagnosia
submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/paramnesia
Har$ (Harold Schellinx) & Anton Mobin
https://unpublic.bandcamp.com/album/ars-en-r-6-august-2021
#77.
Un-public Thursday early afternoon session on August 6th 2021, at 46° 12' 47.35" N, 1° 30' 28.76" W, facing the salt marshes between the Quai de la Chabossière and the Chemin des Gâtines a little outside the center of the village of Ars-en-Ré on the French island Ré. With Anton Mobin (dictaphone, iPhone, found sticks, tractor, bicycle and other metal things) and Har$ (dictaphones, Teenage Engineering, found sticks, tractor, bicycle and other metal things)
Fondé en 2001 par Benoit Hixe et AxDelbor, H.A.K. Lo-Fi Record a pour objet, puisqu'il en faut un, de favoriser la recherche et la promotion de créateurs et de créations sonores au dehors des marges définies par le marché, et autour de différents types de production (disques audio, CD ROM, DVD, organisation et participation à des manifestations artistiques, édition, création de site Internet…). H.A.K. Lo-Fi Record est une structure dirigée par des artistes dont le projet est artistique, avec l’objectif fondateur d’accès à la culture et notamment à la création artistique telle qu’elle est garantie par la loi.
Article 27 de la Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l’Homme du 10 décembre 1948 : « Toute personne a le droit de prendre part librement à la vie culturelle de la communauté, de jouir des arts et de participer au progrès scientifique et aux bienfaits qui en résulte. Chacun a le droit à la protection des intérêts moraux et matériels découlant de toute production scientifique, littéraire ou artistique dont il est l’auteur ».
Enfin H.A.K. Lo-Fi Record est un groupe à géométrie variable conjuguant les rapports de distance et de proximité. Les projets du groupe tendent à réunir, la plupart du temps autour d’une thématique et à travers des auto-productions, des personnes d’horizon et de formation différentes (musiciens, acteurs, plasticiens, enseignants, journalistes, artistes vidéastes, graphistes, dessinateurs…) selon la nature des projets, les disponibilités et le temps de chacun. A son apogée au début des années 2010, le collectif comptait plus de 80 membres actifs a travers le monde.
H.A.K. Lo-fi Record est un label de productions indépendantes qui comptent 268 réalisations discographiques sur tous les supports audio existants ; digital, cassette, compact disque et disque vinyle.
Pour célébrer cet anniversaire, une délégation lyonnaise, avec dans ses rangs le fondateur du mouvement, rejoint l’équipe orléanaise historique pour librement improviser l’aprés-midi. Puis, en soirée, ciné-concerts sur grand écran !
Programmation Lives (Aprés-midi)
PAILLE
Ayato (guitares) & Vincent Lemaire (batterie, percussions)
MUTORI (20 Minutes, rock psyché)
Guillaume Gaborit aka Benoit Hixe (batterie) & Julien Mouton (guitare)
BRU EXTENDED (30 minutes, poésie concrète)
Victor Jorge (voix), Paul Laurent (magnéto à bande) & Anton Mobin (chambre préparée)
EVARISTE CHAMPION (Solo clarinettes)
Programmation Ciné-concerts (Soirée)
Équipe orléanaise
Ayato (guitares) & Vincent Lemaire (batterie, percussions)
Victor Jorge (basse), Paul Laurent (magnéto à bande) & Anton Mobin (bruitages)
Équipe lyonnaise
Evariste Champion (clarinettes)
Guillaume Gaborit aka Benoit Hixe (batterie) & Julien Mouton (guitare)
FILMS
Maya Deren : Meshes of the afternoon - 14’ - (1943)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSY0TA-ttMA
Équipe orléanaise
Hans Richter : Rythmus 21 - 4’ - (1921)
https://youtu.be/FjQ-lpu8kjk
L’équipe au complet
Mahine Rouhi : Le granier - 15 ' - (2007)
Equipe lyonnaise
Norman McLaren : Caprice en couleur (7'48") (1945)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe_j-sPnqXg
L’équipe au complet
EC SPLIT 20
Anton Mobin & Harold Schellinx
an Electronic Cottage release now available here:
https://halmcgee.bandcamp.com/album/ec-split-20
« Principe d'Intersection »
These 24 'lullabies for a sick world' were composed and recorded (in the months August, September and October) of this so dramatic year 2020 by Anton Mobin and Harold Schellinx. They were made in pairs, using what they call the 'intersection principle', a working method that resulted in these 2 x 12 highly personal compositions, all in the respective authors very own style, that, however, pairwise have a 'melodic' overlap -their intersection- and the exact same duration.
Think of these intersections as the spines of a species of two-winged creatures, where each wing corresponds to one of the two corresponding pieces. But as the creature may flap and fold its wings, there is, as a consequence a third dimension: you may collapse each pair into a third one, the mix or union of the two ...
For more information see the pdf file that comes with the digital download, or visit harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00858.php
Our pairing by initiator and curator Hal McGee for the production of a 2 x 30 minutes sound work as part of the Electronic Cottage ‘Split’ project was an unexpected but very nice surprise. We know each other well, and—as partakers in the small Parisian under-world of cassetteurs and electroacoustic improvisors—have had the pleasure of performing and recording together on many occasions over the past fifteen years or so.
And even though the idea of the EC-Splits prohibits sonic and musical collaboration in the usual sense of producing a joint work, it was clear from the start that both of us wanted very much the eventual result to be a dual and/or complementary expression emanating from some basic, unifying idea. The same story, but told in two different ways.
It also was clear from the very start that if there were to be a story, if the music was about something other than itself, that other could be no other than related to our personal living and experience (in Dutch: be-leving) of these utterly weird and dystopian times.
It also went without saying that each of us was to hear the other’s version and way of telling the story only at the very end, with all composing, recording and mixing finished and done. These constraints and desires almost instantly led us to formulate a simple idea and rule for our collaboration.
We baptised it « principe d’intersection » — the intersection principle.
Here is how it worked.
We composed and recorded the Split in an alternating chain. Anton did his first, then I did my first. I then did my second, after which Anton did his second. Then Anton did his third, and me my third… and so on, descending like along the double helix of a musical DNA ... And on each level, the one of us who’s turn it was to do the first piece of that level, would forward his piece’s—we called it—melodic track to the other, who then would start composing and recording hispiece for that level taking into account precisely this code from the other's piece. Without, however, using the received track literally as part of the recording. In practice that meant: importing the track as part of the multitrack for a piece, but muting it—or at the very least almost all of it—in the mix.
This then are the intersections in which our individual pieces overlap, and which therefore—pairwise—have the exact same duration (which basically is that of their intersection)...
You can see each of the intersections as the spine of a two-winged creature, where each wing corresponds to one of the two pieces. But as the creature may flap and fold its wings, there is as a consequence a third dimension: you may collapse each pair into a third one, the mix or union of the two...
We did not beforehand agree on any particular limits for the duration of the pieces in each of the ‘levels’, but quite naturally these turned out to stay within the time-bounds of, say, the average popsong: the shortest is 1’32”, the longest 3’36”, and in the end we had 24 of them: 2 x 12.
Anton started our working chain. He sent Harold a first intersection on August 12th, and we continued the realisation of our Split consistently and with near clockwise regularity. Harold sent Anton the twelfth and final intersection on October 21st. We finished work on the audio part the weekend of October 24th, little more than a week before the project’s ultimate deadline.
As to the instruments and other means used in the composition and recording of the pieces, there were no restrictions other than the practical one, being that all was done with what each of us had available at his home.
Anton’s compositions make use of all of the instrumental vocabulary that he disposed of in his studio at home in Orléans, and I, apart from the piano and Korg MS20, on this particular occasion also dusted off guitars, vintage organ, toy piano...
The pieces in Anton’s strand of our ‘double helix’ together form a highly dynamic collage of music and sounds, angular, spiky, and full of surprises, in an atmosphere that is unmistakably pandemic, with whirling corona-infected absurdist grooves that continue to emanate from his rich palette of provoking, challenging as well as amusing and at times headache-provoking sonic (ánd rhythmic) processes. The twelve compositions also feature members of his family, speaking, singing, screaming, and playing the beatbox, piano, guitar or, quite notably, a jumping rope. It gives his work a touch of a juvenile sense of humour that nicely transcribes the situation of these months of living-all-together through a global pandemic.
Several of Harold’s pieces feature vocal recordings that recount stories within the story. There is a preacher woman reading from the bible to the vast emptiness that surrounds her on the Place d’Italie, someone’s softly singing on the subway, a man remembers himself, speaking on a tape found in London many decades ago, and Harold’s extremely drowsy self tries to capture, on his cellphone’s dictaphone, the essence of a pandemic dream in which a masked man sitting in the corridor of a deserted building instructs him to take the path that’s to his right. These make for some of the steady strokes, lifelines in a brittle grid of music built from fleeting melodies, random notes and wavering chords played on many different instruments, in all sorts of ways. From the flute that tries to copy the blackbird that during the days of the Parisian lockdown for many, many weeks continued to come loudly sing early mornings in his backyard, via fuzzed electric guitars, the acoustic one that someone sometime one day left behind in his home, the piano, an electric organ, a viola, saxophone, real and software synths, on to parts played and recorded on a Switch game console, with the instruments that can be had in Nintendo’s Animal Crossing video game, one of this pandemic’s big capitalist-escapist hits.
Bits of Harold’s piano playing originally were improvised and recorded around and along to the clapping, clanking, shouting and banging at the daily corona-ritual that also in his neighbourhood people performed on their balconies and in opened-up windows for a couple of minutes every evening starting at eight, from the first to the last day of the French corona lockdown, when this practice came to a sudden end. His twelve pieces start ánd end with a recording of a such ritual.
Together these 24 pieces (the number, indeed, is significant) are our modest offering, a gift of music from and for a sick world.
Orléans-Paris, October 25th 2020
Anton Mobin-side | >>intersection<< | side-Harold Schellinx |
Bonjour ! .1 | [ A — horns ] | 1. Bonjour ! |
Anton Mobin : prepared chamber
middleeightrecordings.bandcamp.com
LE DÉSORDRE EN LIVE [AABA#22]
Middle Eight Recordings, 2020
AABA#22 / Archive "Live" Série
physical copies tba
LE DÉSORDRE
Ruelgo (aka Le Syndicat) : Interfaces digitales, microphone, tapes
Anton Mobin : Chambre préparée, endless tapes
DU KRASH ET DU SANG - KrashNoz VIII
Élaboratoir, Rennes, 6 Juillet 2019
Enregistré par Thomas Fernier (aka Chevo Légé) et Mathias
Pas d'édit / dé-noizé et masterisé par Ruelgo
Big Up & Merci aux Krash Boyz ; Waldo, Nat, IsAAAc, Toto, Thomas, Mathias, Groin...
krashboyz.org
chevolege.bandcamp.com
Ce document a pour nous un goût et une odeur bien particulière. Nous avons souhaitez le mettre en ligne en hommage à la team rennaise des Krash Boyz, maîtres d'oeuvre des célèbres KrashNoz.
En effet, en 2011, Le Syndicat (à l'époque MMX en trio) et Anton Mobin sont programmé séparément, sur deux scènes différentes, à la KrashNoz VI. La connexion est faite et 8 ans après cette première rencontre les deux artistes se présentent en duo pour le KrashNoz VIII.
C'est aussi le dernier concert en public du Désordre avant le confinement 2020. Et quel public !!!
Cette archive a le goût du sang et l'odeur du krash !!!
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LE SYNDICAT
www.discogs.com/fr/artist/76952-Le-Syndicat
le-syndicat-mmx.bandcamp.com
Le Syndicat est un label et une association d'artistes fondé en 1982, à Paris. Dans les années 80, le label LE SYNDICAT produisait des cassettes audio. Le label a édité en dehors de sa propre production sonore, des artistes comme Merzbow, Controlled Bleeding, Dog As Master, Pacific 231...
Le Syndicat a continué a produire de la musique lorsque son label a cessé ses activités en 1988 en étant édité par d'autres labels à travers le monde. Il existe aujourd'hui, une cinquantaine de réalisations officielles du groupe sous forme de CD's, Vinyles et cassettes. Ruelgo, le seul membre fondateur du Syndicat encore en activité a collaboré au fil du temps avec de nombreux autres musiciens pour de la production musicale en studio et des actions en concert. Entre 2010 et 2012, la version live du Syndicat, Le Syndicat MMX, composée de 3 membres, s'est produite 12 fois à travers l'Europe pendant que la version studio du groupe était éditée par le label Rotorelief en France. Depuis 2014, la version live du groupe, composée de Saphi et Ruelgo a joué une dizaine de fois en concert et à été édité par le label Aussaat sous la forme d'un compact disc et d'un vinyle enregistré en live. Depuis 2012, Ruelgo et l'artiste Anton Mobin ont formé un duo de musique improvisée se nommant « Le Désordre ».
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Dernière sortie en cassette pour LE DÉSORDRE sur Middle Eight Recordings : middleeightrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/le-d-sordre-aaba-14