Monday, October 24, 2011

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)

Sunday, October 23, 2011

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

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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)