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most listened to music in 2011 :

- andrew chalk - violin by night - faraway press - lp

- taylor deupree & marcus fischer - in a place of such graceful shapes - 12k - cd + 7"

- lawrence english - the peregrine - experimedia - lp

- fennesz - seven stars - touch - 10"

- fire! with jim o'rourke - unreleased? - rune grammofon - lp

- tim hecker - ravedeath, 1972 - kranky - lp

- ingenting kollektiva - fragments of night - oiseaux invisibles - lp

- stephan mathieu - a static place - 12k - cd

- nils petter molvaer - baboon moon - columbia - cd

- the necks - mindset - rer megacorp - cd

- mickey newbury - looks like rain - drag city - lp reissue
- mickey newbury - frisco mabel joy - drag city - lp reissue
- mickey newbury - heaven help the child - drag city - lp reissue
- mickey newbury - better days - drag city - lp

- ohayo (andreas söderström, johan berthling, per eklund) - "the state we are in" - häpna - cd

- nils økland & sigbjørn apeland - lysøen - hommage à ole bull - ecm - cd

- popul vuh - werner herzog soundtracks - spv - cd boxset reissue

- radiohead - the king of limbs - ticker tape ltd/xl recordings - lp

- john surman - flashpoint: ndr jazz workshop - april '69 - cuneiform records - cd + dvd

- david sylvian - died in the wool | manafon variations - samadhisound - cd

- talk talk - laughing stock - ba da bing - lp reissue
- mark hollis - mark hollis - ba da bing - lp reissue

- tindersticks - claire denis film scores 1996-2009 - constellation - 5 lps

- chris watson - el tren fantasma - touch cd + lp

books :

- morton feldman - vertical thoughts: morton feldman and the visual arts - irish museum of modern art

- richard serra - richard serra drawing: a retrospective - the menil collection

- rob young - electric eden: unearthing britain's visionary music - faber & faber

movies / dvd / bluray :

- tomas alfredson - tinker, tailor, soldier, spy

- terrence malick - the tree of life

- steve mcqueen - shame

- béla tarr & ágnes hranitzky - the turin horse

- krzysztof kieślowski - three colors - criterion

- sidney lumet - 12 angry men - criterion (esp. the supplement : john bailey discusses boris kaufman)

- roman polanski - cul-de-sac - criterion

- ken loach - kes - criterion

(a condensed list of the many albums we enjoyed this year. which are usually posted here)

noyé par des voix

(tarrl lightowler image for arthur de eriomém's on line release)

more music from 2011 (in addition to our smaller list)

- luigi turra - ki - and/oar
- kraig grady - our rainy weason / nuilagi - either/oar
- lethe - dry ice on steel tables - either/oar
- kiyoshi mizutani & kiyoharu kuwayama - interlude - either/oar
- tom waits - bad as me deluxe edition - anti-
- yannick dauby & wan-shuen tsai (shijingren) - treasure - atelier hui-kan

- scott tuma - peeper / love songs loud and lonely - bathetic records
- morton feldman - last composition: piano, violin, viola, cello (aki takahashi, mifune tsuji, matthijs bunschoten, tadashi tanaka) - bvhaast

- colin stetson - new history warfare vol. 2 = judges = - constellation
- colin stetson - those who didn't run - constellation
- ar - wolf notes - corbel stone press
- john luther adams - four thousand holes - cold blue music

- akron/family - s/t ii: the cosmic birth and journey of shinju tnt - dead oceans
- king creosote & jon hopkins - diamond mine - domino
- lawrence english - kiri no oto - touch/digitalis - lp reissue
- bill callahan - apocalypse - drag city
- six organs of admittance - asleep on the floodplain - drag city

- sinikka langeland w/ arve henriksen, trygve seim, anders jormin, markku ounaskari - the land that is not - ecm
- giovanna pessi & susanna wallumrød - if grief could wait - ecm
- george ivanovitch gurdjieff - music of georges i. gurdjieff - ecm
- maurizio bianchi - hibernum - ee tapes
- rick reed - the way things go - elevator bath
- black swan - the quiet divide - experimedia

- loren connors - red mars - family vineyard

- jim haynes - the decline effect - helen scarsdale agency
- bj nilsen & stillupsteypa - big shadow montana - helen scarsdale agency
- alio die - honeysuckle - hic sunt leones

- arthur de eriomém - drowned by voices (japanese traditional music for four shakuhachi discovered by riley kelly lee and ralph samuelson) - invisible birds
- jessika kenney & eyvind kang - aestuarium - ideologic organ / editions mego - lp reissue
- sandy denny - the north star grassman and the ravens - island records - 2cd reissue (second disc has some great tracks)
- scott tuma - not for nobody - digitalis/immune - lp reissue
- tape - revelationes - immune/häpna
- james blackshaw - holly ep - important records

- bon iver - bon iver - jagjaguwar
- bon iver - calgary - jagjaguwar
- fovea hex - here is where we used to sing - janet records (w/ michael begg, colin potter and william basinski remix)

- tim hecker - dropped pianos - kranky
- sigur rós - inni - krúnk

- elodie (andrew chalk, timo van luijk) – echos pastoraux - la scie dorée
- stephan mathieu - remain - line

- simon scott - bunny - miasmah

- björk - biophilia - one little indian
- john cage - 108, 109, 110 - ogreogress

- six organs of admittance - maria kapel - pavilion (love tracks 1 & 8)

- alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto - summvs - raster-noton
- steinbrüchel - narrow - room40

- low - c'mon- sub pop records
- the hafler trio & autechre - ah3eo & ha3oe (ae3o3) - simply superior/die stadt
- jim o'rourke & christoph heemann - plastic palace people vol. 1 - streamline
- bellows (giuseppe ielasi, nicola ratti) - handcut - senufo editions
- eliane radigue - geelriandre / arthesis - senufo editions
- kassel jaeger - algae - senufo editions
- miles davis - miles davis quintet: live in europe 1967 - the bootleg series vol. 1 - sony
- kammerflimmer kollektief - teufelskamin - staubgold

- radiohead - supercollider/the butcher - ticker tape ltd
- hildur gudnadottir - without sinking - touch - lp reissue
- yannick dauby - arches - touch radio
- chris watson & marcus davidson - cross pollination - touch
- deceh - fundamental structures - the tapeworm
- jazkamer - chestnut thornback tar - type

- adrian dziewanski - orbital decay - vacant tapes

- karlheinz stockhausen / zeitkratzer - old school: karlheinz stockhausen - zeitkratzer records

ib004.5 (special preorder edition)

fragments of night ib004

sadly, we found most copies of our new record to have a manufacturing error.
the manufacturer is in the process of making new copies, and we should get them in 3-4 weeks.

as a thank you to customers that have already purchased the record, and customers that preorder it, we have made a special edition *, which is the standard record with a bonus dvdr of a film titled i can feel the see falling over my head *

the video is a transcendental harmonium playing, lit only by fireplace. the sound of the harmonium gently mingles with the crackling of wood.

a copy of this fine film, as well as a download coupon, will be included with all prepayments made from now until the ship date.

thanks for the patience.

oiseaux invisibles/the art of memory

i was never worse fitted since the nativitie of my actorshippe (part two, cassavetes related)

john cassavetes *

- alfred hitchcock presents: you got to have luck - 1956, robert stevens
- crime in the streets - 1956, don siegel
- edge of the city - 1957, martin ritt
- shadows - 1959, john cassavetes
- the killers - 1964, don siegel
- the alfred hitchcock hour: water's edge - 1964, bernard girard
- the alfred hitchcock hour: murder case - 1964, john brahm
- the dirty dozen - 1967, robert aldrich
- rosemary's baby - 1968, roman polanski
- husbands - 1970, john cassavetes
- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- columbo: etude in black - 1972
- mickey and nickey - 1976, elaine may
- opening night - 1977, john cassavetes
- the tempest - 1982, paul mazursky
- love streams - 1984, john cassavetes

elsie ames *

- various buster keaton shorts in the early forties
- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes

val avery *

(minnie and moskowitz restaurant scene, with rowlands and cassel)

- the harder they fall - 1956, mark robson
- edge of the city - 1957, martin ritt
- the long, hot summer - 1958, martin ritt
- last train from gun hill - 1959, john sturges
- the magnificent seven - 1960, john sturges
- hud - 1963, martin ritt
- faces - 1968, john cassavetes
- vanishing point - 1971, richard c. sarfian
- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- papillon - 1973, franklin j. schaffner
- columbo, 4 shows - 1971-75
- the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976, john cassavetes
- the pope of greenwich village - 1984, stuart rosenberg
- donnie brasco - 1997, mike newell

timothy carey *

- the wild one - 1953, laslo benedek
- crime wave - 1954, andré de toth
- east of eden - 1955, elia kazan
- the killing - 1956, stanley kubrick
- paths of glory - 1957, stanley kubrick
- one-eyed jacks - 1961, marlon brando
- various columbo episodes 71-76
- the world's greatest sinner - 1962, timothy carey
- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976 - john cassavetes

katherine cassavetes *

- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes
- opening night - 1977, john cassavetes

seymour cassel *

- shadows - 1959, john cassavetes
- the killers - 1964, don siegel
- faces - 1968, john cassavetes
- coogan's bluff - 1968, don siegel
- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976, john cassavetes
- opening night - 1977, john cassavetes
- love streams - 1984, john cassavetes
- colors - 1988, dennis hopper
- in the soup - 1992, alexandre rockwell
- trees lounge - 1996, steve buscemi
- rushmore - 1998, wes anderson
- animal factory - 2000, steve buscemi
- the royal tenenbaums - 2001, wes anderson
- the life aquatic with steve zissou - 2004, wes anderson
- lonesome jim, 2005, steve buscemi

fred draper *

- faces - 1968, john cassavetes
- husbands - 1970, john cassavetes
- various columbo episodes - 1971-76
- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes
- opening night - 1977, john cassavetes

peter falk *

- husbands - 1970, john cassavetes
- columbo - 1971-2003, richard levinson & william link
- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes
- mickey and nickey - 1976, elaine may
- opening night -1977, john cassavetes
- the in-laws - 1979, arthur hiller
- wings of desire - 1987, wim wenders

mario gallo *

- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes
- raging bull - 1980, martin scorsese

ben gazzara *

- anatomy of a murder - 1959, otto preminger
- husbands - 1970, john cassavetes
- the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976, john cassavetes
- opening night - 1977, john cassavetes
- saint jack - 1979, peter bogdanovich
- road house - 1989, rowdy herrington
- buffalo '66 - 1998, vincent gallo
- the big lebowski - 1998, coen brothers
- happiness - 1998, todd solondz
- summer of sam - 1999, spike lee
- dogville - 2003, lars von trier

john marley *

- kiss of death - 1947, henry hathaway
- the naked city - 1947, jules dassin
- i want to live, 1958 robert wise
- faces - 1968, john cassavetes
- love story - 1970, arthur hiller
- the godfather - 1972, francis ford coppola (horse in the bed)

gina rowlands *

- shadows - 1959, john cassavetes
- lonely are the brave - 1962, david miller
- faces - 1968, john cassavetes
- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes
- opening night - 1977, john cassavetes
- the tempest - 1982, paul mazursky
- love streams - 1984, john cassavetes
- night on earth - 1991, jim jarmusch

lady rowlands *

- minnie and moskowitz - 1971, john cassavetes
- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes
- opening night - 1977, john cassavetes

al ruban *

- madigan - 1968, don siegel
- coogan's bluff - 1968, don siegel
- the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976 - john cassavetes

eddie shaw *

- a woman under the influence - 1974, john cassavetes
- the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976, john cassavetes

jon voight * (played in the stage production of love streams)

- midnight cowboy - 1969, john schlesinger
- deliverance - 1972, john boorman
- runaway train - 1985, andrey konchalovskiy
- heat - 1995, michael mann


actorshippe list two
select filmographies
title found in the oed under "actorship", marston 1598
we enjoyed the smooth sounds of joy division's closer and hildur guðnadóttir's without sinking (both on lp) while editing this survey

ingenting kollektiva's fragments of night now available

(mix of iboo4)

america (mediamail) $20.00 USD america (ups or priority) $26.00 USD canada $25.00 USD rest of the world $30.00 USD

finally available, after two years in the making : ingenting kollektiva's fragments of night, issued on the art of memory's label invisible birds.

ingenting kollektiva is an homage to the films of ingmar bergman and sven nykvist.
the kollektiva recordings are meditations on the quality of light, sound, and atmosphere, as well as realizations of the various forms of "nothingness" captured by these 2 masters.

christmas of 2009, the kollektiva found themselves surrounded with many recordings from the year 1969 -
including miles davis & teo macero's in a silent way and bitches brew
john surman's way back when, how many clouds can you see?, and extrapolation (with john mclauglin)
bert jansch's birthday blues
vashti bunyan's just another diamond day (recorded december 1969)
fairport convention's unhalfbricking
jan garbarek & terje rypdal's esoteric circle
king crimson's in the court of the crimson king
scott walker's scott walker 4
holger czukay's canaxis
(plus many more).

with this in mind, they recorded some songs in the lightowlers' barn during a rainstorm, and later added recordings from northern california and los angeles. the editing process then became something similar to macero's work for miles davis.

the recording has been issued as a long play record with a gatefold sleeve and photographs by tarrl lightowler. thanks so much to taylor deupree for bringing many layers & hidden sounds to life in these recordings, and arthur de eriomém for producing the album.

more information here *

cable disengaged / lost in space

erik skjoldbjærg - insomnia - 1997

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

biosphere (geir jenssen) - soundtrack
randall meyers - sound designer
petter fladeby - sound re-recording mixer
erik s. watland - sound editor

relevant biosphere recordings

- biosphere - insomnia - origo sound - 1997 (beatservice records 2007)
- biosphere / deathprod – nordheim transformed - rune grammofon - 1998
- biosphere - cirque - touch - 2000
- biosphere – substrata² (esp. the track poa alpina) - touch - 2001
(substrata originally released in 1997)
- hazard / fennesz / biosphere – light - touch - 2001
(track : algae & fungi [candelaria version])
- biosphere – shenzhou - touch - 2002
- biosphere – autour de la lune - touch - 2004
- biosphere – dropsonde - touch - 2005/2006
- biosphere - spring fever from touch 25 - touch - 2006
- biosphere - outside by the fjord - touch - 2010

- biosphere - soundtrack for erik skjoldbjærg's nokas - 2010

(last three images from touch recordings)

the birds (manifold shrieks)

alfred hitchcock - the birds - 1963
(daphne du maurier story)

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

oskar sala - electronic sound production and composition
remi gassmann - electronic sound production and composition
bernard herrmann - sound consultant

the trautonium, invented in berlin in 1930, is still considered today one of the most versatile and interesting instruments of the early electronic instruments. the fact that it could produce sounds far more complex than the piano meant that a wide variety of applications were found for it. from producing the manifold background shrieks and screeches in alfred hitchcock's film the birds (1963).... the trautonium has played a key role in the development of electronic and atmospheric music.

from mark prendergast's the ambient century

the infinity of nothingness

- bert jansch - bert jansch - transatlantic - 1965
- bert jansch - it don't bother me - transatlantic - 1965
- bert jansch - jack orion - transatlantic - 1966
- bert jansch and john renbourn - bert and john - transatlantic - 1966
- bert jansch - nicola - transatlantic - 1967
- bert jansch - birthday blues - transatlantic - 1969
- bert jansch - rosemary lane - transatlantic - 1971
- bert jansch - moonshine - reprise - 1973
- bert jansch - l.a. turnaround - charisma - 1974
- bert jansch - the black swan - drag city - 2006

- pentangle - the pentangle - transatlantic records - 1968
- pentangle - sweet child - transatlantic records - 1968
- pentangle - basket of light - transatlantic records - 1969
- pentangle - cruel sister - transatlantic records - 1970
- pentangle - reflection - transatlantic records - 1971
- pentangle - solomon's seal - reprise records - 1972
- pentangle - lost broadcasts: 1968-1972 - hux records - 2004
- pentangle - the time has come: 1967-1973 - sanctuary records - 2007

- bert jansch - dazzling stranger: bert jansch and the british folk and blues revival (colin harper) - bloomsbury - 2000/2006

so early in the spring
a flower dances in my heart
where love was not before
for you i sing my song of love
and lowly bow

of love and lullaby

bert jansch (3 november 1943 - 5 october 2011), along with miles davis and teo macero, the biggest influence on our forthcoming 1969 record on invisible birds, sad to see him go.
nothing, if not.., above everything

(here are some recordings we have all enjoyed here at the art of memory)

voth - boot aus stein

hannsjörg voth and ingrid amslinger - boot aus stein - verlag far moderne kunst - 1983