This is a collaborative record released by experimental musicians Francesco Fabris and Ben Frost from Reykjavik, Iceland on the experimental label room2023 in Brisbane, Australia in March 3.Contains field recordings made at the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland - 40 natural drone songs. DL code included.Out of print.Below is an explanation by the label. "Nothing is fixed, nothing is permanent, nothing is for anyone, at any time, for anything. This planet is not as stable as we think it is. It is a paper-thin crust. is the zone in which we find ourselves and are primarily concerned, but it exists as a discreet veil, concealing dynamic seismic disturbances.However, there are moments when ruptures occur.Inside. Pressures from the Earth move to and through the Earth's surface, bringing destruction and pristine landscapes at once. Geological time is condensed, and world-building is brought to life in freewheeling and provocative detail. Visible and audible across the globe, volcanic eruptions like those captured by Francesco Fabris and Ben Frost in Vakning speak volumes about the living geology of our planet. , existing at the juncture of liquid rock becoming solid, capturing moments of transformation, annihilation, and creation, often all at once.These are dynamic, free-spirited, living material objects. This is a record of a beautiful planet." Click here to see more Room7 releases...

This is a record released in October 2022 by ambient artist Peter Knight from Melbourne, Australia, on Room10, a label led by sound artist Lawrence English from Brisbane, Australia.Contains 40 minimalistic ambient drone songs using trumpets, violins, cellos, and synths. Comes with DL code.Below is a commentary by the author himself. “Most of this record was made in the shadow of COVID and deep in the mouth of Melbourne's long winter closures in 5. It's a meditation on the nature of connection. One of the only people I saw outside of my family this time of year was my old friend and teacher, Ania Wollwitz, and we met on the waterfront near the Docklands, where our zones overlapped, bright and cool. We talked while walking on a winter afternoon, and when Ania passed away unexpectedly in September, that conversation became a big part of my thoughts. During her time there, she would gather threads of ideas, record them on her cell phone, and write them down in her notebook, which would then resonate in her head. was doing.Her work was informed by everything (a lot) she read, but it was crafted in a dreamy way.It is a state in which the subconscious mind springs up and words shape themselves in meaningful ways, resonating rather than expressing.I thought a lot about that while making this song.We recorded every day with trumpets, an old Revox reel-to-reel, some synths, a harmonium borrowed from a friend, and whatever else was out there.I mainly worked on diving a little deeper each time I sat down.Through the simple process of exhaling, I explored my relationship with the trumpet, which has been through many twists and turns.The breath-generated timbre was unfolded in long tape loops, degraded beyond recognition by a chain of pedals and plug-ins, leaving only traces of the initial gesture.Other times, while riding long distances on my bike, I listened to the previous day's work with an earpick, gliding through familiar streets where the lack of people and movement felt a little strange.We often rode the Footscray Rd adjacent to the harbour, coasting past the old boat moorings and down towards the Docklands to stop pedaling.The sounds coming from the dark studio were mixed with low air passing through helmets, bicycle gears, birds chirping, and cars.Then I remembered her last conversation with Ania.In the afternoon sun, squinting at the light on the water, she explores the different words for blue in Polish and Russian, and how words don't just change how we perceive things, they actually perceive us. He talked about changing things.That afternoon, I felt like anything was possible.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Room2020 releases available at...

Clarinetist Aviva Endean from Melbourne, Australia released this CD in December 2022 from the country's experimental label Room12.Contains 40 minimal drone songs.Shrink specifications.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Room6 releases available at Tobira. ---------------------------- Matte.. .

A collaborative CD by Indonesian duo Senyawa and Australian experimental musicians Lawrence English/Aviva Endean/Peter Knight/Helen Svoboda/Joe Talia.Below is a commentary by label owner Lawrence English.My first sighting of Senyawa was in the early 2010s.She competed at the Monafoma Festival in Hobart.Senyawa's performance that day was memorable.At the same time, it was a dubious foreshadowing of what was to come.This project, The Prey And The Ruler, finds its roots in the volatile months of mid-2021.As the pandemic progressed and lockdowns became the norm here in Australia, Peter Knight and I were talking about what was happening in our respective states.I was thinking about the situation in Indonesia, just to the north, as my friends in the region talked about it.So I thought I'd reach out to Rully and Wukir in Senyawa and hear firsthand what's going on with them and their community.And after a long time, it's a good time to start a project that will break the geographic isolation and provide opportunities for Senyawa's community of instrument makers who are friends of Senyawa, who have been greatly affected by the pandemic. So we made the same decision.A few weeks after this exchange, Wukir sent me a series of videos taken with his cell phone.It was footage of plastic molds, smoke, spray paint, sounds, and more.Each video showed an instrument being conceived, tested and forged.These are new instruments brought to life before our eyes and ears.These instruments and the audio possibilities they suggest are at the heart of this work.After a few more iterations, we started passing recordings to each other.In this way, while exchanging materials, the form of the work that can be heard on this album was completed.Now that I had all the materials, I decided to forge them.When I first listened to it, every performance had a deep impact, and I felt like I was about to burst out.This is probably the result of people almost shutting themselves out in order to break the loop of their daily lives.Kazuto Sengoku's approach to sounds, unfamiliar sounds, and unexpected sounds will surprise everyone.It was as if I surrendered myself to the sound and applied myself to the peculiarities of the new instrument.What you can hear on this album is the result of efforts to expand the range of listening.It's an album that enables a kind of "cuddling" act.It is the result of the minds of many people being applied to the same collective action. ...

Brad E. Rose, who runs the long-established American review site foxy digitalis, released a CD in November 2022 from the Australian experimental/ambient label Room11.Contains 40 minimal and warm ambient drone tracks.Click here to see more Room6 releases available at Tobira....

This CD was released by Swiss experimental musician Zimoun in May 2022 on Australian experimental label Room5.Includes a booklet with dialogues and photos with label owner Lawrence English.Below is a commentary by the writer.In this "Guitar Studies" series, we have only dealt with the sounds and noises produced by the guitar.There is an orthodox way to play the guitar by hand, but it was more often driven by a smaller DC motor.I used various microphones for recording, loose pickup contact, and various amplifiers.From small toy amps that are partially flawed to beautiful Magnatone amps with analog tremolos from the 40s to old Fender amps that I first bought with my guitar when I was 60 years old.In addition, the recorded sound was played back in various environments, such as in a cardboard box or in a room of a different size, and re-recorded.By doing so, I was able to give the sound a natural sound and spatiality.I also sent the guitar signal to a bare speaker membrane placed on the table, and put sand on the membrane to create a distorted sound.The friction between the membrane and the sand creates various forms of distortion.I tried various iterative processes to see how to transform the guitar.No loops are used in any of the works.For each layer of each piece, I recorded everything I was looking for for about an hour.In this way, I put together countless sounds of time.With almost endless overlays and long recording times, I tried to achieve some sort of vibrancy.It's not exactly the same, but it doesn't go anywhere.In that sense, these works also have a strong sculptural element.After this process, I started working on the microstructure of the recording.For example, I recorded some songs while slowly shifting the equalizer.We also played them live using various controllers and analog equalizers.This approach has allowed individual frequencies to increase their presence and mix with other frequencies over time.Figuratively speaking, this is similar to using a lamp (or various lamps) to illuminate a sculpture from different angles or create gradual changes in light that affect the perception of the sculpture.Also, on different sound stages, this can cause even more psychoacoustic phenomena.Through these methods, I sought to create complexity in the subtle structure of sound and its evolution.Click here to see more Room10 releases available at Tobira. ----------------------------...

Lawrence English, the presiding officer of the Australian experimental label Room40, is a remastered reissue of the work released in record format in 2015.Comes with a 48-page booklet of Antarctic photos and texts from field recordings.Below is a commentary by the writer. In the summer of 2010, I was invited by the Argentine Antarctica Bureau to visit Antarctica.As everyone thinks, it was a life-changing event.Departing from Buenos Aires and heading for the continent of ice, Hercules transport planes regularly stopped at an air force base on the outskirts of Rio Gallegos under the direction of the Argentine army.I intended to wait for a few hours, but an unexpected strong wind blew at the time of landing, and it lasted for several days.It became clear that we could not take off due to a stronger wind than expected.In addition, bad weather along the Antarctic Peninsula exacerbated the situation.The scientists and military personnel who accompanied me were sleeping in the dormitory, but I was dragged into the raging air outside.The Patagonia wind is truly breathtaking.Literally, a strong wind that seems to hold your breath blows. Over the course of three days, I recorded abandoned buildings, a tree folded over a tundra-like meadow, shivering road signs, a crying fence, and anything else that was brought to life by the wind.It wasn't a comfortable experience at all, but I think I was able to capture a variety of sounds.Recordings in Antarctica were made in two snowstorms at Marambio Base and Esperanza Base.During the snowstorm in Marambio, the temperature dropped to -3 degrees Celsius, which made recording particularly difficult.The wind smashed the base's structures and communications equipment, creating disturbing drones and deep low-frequency vibrations that resonated inside the base.The blizzard at Esperanza was milder than that, but the penguins were still covered in snow and were strong enough to squeeze together in the worst case.When you listen back to these recordings, you'll be amazed at the physical strength of the wind.It's rare to feel a physical loss due to the movement of the air, but in Patagonia and Antarctica, I did.A small piece of organic dust in a raging storm.Click here to see more Room2 releases available at Tobira. ---------------------------- Includes insert. ..

This is a reissue of the debut work released in 1980 by Kyoto acoustic artist Akio Suzuki.Includes a booklet containing photo materials of his own musical instrument, Anarapos, and an English interview with Aki Onda.Click here to see more Room40 releases available at Tobira. ----------------------------...

American sound artist Pierce Warnecke, who is a lecturer at Berklee College of Music in Barcelona, ​​Spain, will release the latest work from Australian sound label Room2022 in August 8.Below is a commentary by the author himself. Deafened By The Noise Of Time is a speculative attempt at how sound decays and disappears, examining the inevitable entropy and decay of all things over time through four tracks. say.The title is borrowed from Julian Barnes' novel The Noise of Time, a fictional biography of Shostakovich.I first started working on the material for this album for a performance at the Eglise Saint-Méry in Paris in 40.After the concert, I started editing the music, struggling with the work, finding new flaws each time, and not being able to stick to the original compositional ideas.Frustrated, I decided to strip the musical content down to a more voluminous structure and look for other principles and processes to tie everything together.Focusing on rusty, dirty, burnt or broken finds, the camera uses simple lighting and slow movement.I like the idea that these things are both modern and ancient, modern relics of a world that is constantly crumbling.I also like the idea of ​​being able to feel memories of things that have become almost unrecognizable.This pushes the back against the inevitability of impermanence.I love the act of salvaging and reusing discarded objects to shed a new, yet uncertain, light on them.I like to think of this as a sort of ritual transformation of "trash to treasure", the evocation of all of an object's past through imperceptible clues left on its surface. Deafened by the...

This CD was released by Finnish ambient writer Antti Tolvi on the Australian experimental label Room 2022 in July 7.Includes an organ performance at a 40th century church on Kimito, Finland, and two feedback gong drones he created for his installation.Click here to see more Room14 releases available at Tobira. ---------------------------- Artist .. ..

This is a CD released from the Australian experimental label Room 1990 in May 2022 by PINK COURTESYPHONE aka Richard Chartier, a major experimental musician in LA, USA who has been active since the 5s.Includes 40 songs from Cold Drone to Dark Ambient. Includes an 7-page booklet.Click here to see more Room8 releases available at Tobira. ----------------------------...

American influential experimental musician Phill Niblock is a reissue released in June 2022 from Brisbane, Australia's experimental label Room6 (originally released in 40).Below is a description of the label. Ghosts And Others is a singular piece in Phil Niblock's body of work.The work is singular not only in its content, but also in its methodology and approach.This work represents a very concentrated activity in editing, location and sound observation.In many ways, this work is an acoustic reflection of his practice as a filmmaker.The work exposes itself to the world, and in doing so reveals a particular point of view, speaking as much about its maker as it is about its subject.Like all of Niblock's work, this one is a work of perseverance.Certain moments dominate in one part and seemingly vanish in another.Moving back and forth between one place and another and gradually evolving over time suggests movement within boundaries. There's a sense of conflict throughout Ghost And Others.Dynamic percussion explosions to ward off ghosts at a funeral procession in Aberdeen, Hong Kong, characterize the work.Car horns, cows hooting on Soviet-era farms in Hungary, and other sounds blaring among various snippets.Elsewhere, reed instruments try to carve out space for themselves, but the world won't allow it.This is a work that celebrates proximity as well as aural perspective.Transit is also the theme of this work. What's appealing about Ghost And Others is the sense of movement in the work.Trains divide the work, marking points of transition, distraction, and discovery.The train acts almost like a gatekeeper, transporting us into new spaces and suggesting new relationships between sounds as they combine and separate.As a field recording effort, Ghosts And Others is generous, inviting, and most of all, deep.It is a sympathetic perception of places, people and things.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to...

This record was released in October 2021 by the American acoustic writer Marina Rosenfeld, who has been released by Shelter Press and iDEAL in the past, on the label room 10, which is presided over by the acoustic writer Lawrence English in Brisbane, Australia.Below is a commentary by the label. "Teenage Lontano" and "roygbiv & b" are 40 and 2008 works, respectively, and consist of two major works by composer and artist Marina Rosenfeld.Both works are choruses imagined and performed for teens.Premiered at New York's huge Park Avenue Armory, "Teenage Rontano" is a groundbreaking "cover version" of the 2011s masterpiece by Hungarian composer György Ligeti for orchestra. It is a work.Teenage Rotano has been reconstructed as an immersive sound environment bisected by a row of teenagers wearing headphones. 2 Under a 10/1960 turn loudspeaker, the voices of teens make Ligeti's dissonant chords echo in their hearts.Teenage Rotano has been performed on three continents and will premiere in France in 33 as part of Musica Strasbourg. In roygbiv & b, asynchronous and sometimes noisy song fragment spells slowly swell and disappear, centered around the deliberate misunderstanding of the acronym ROYGBIV.In Rosenfeld's version, "r" is "are" ("Who are you?" In Rosenfeld's version, "r" is "are" ("Are you ..."

This is a cassette released by Australian sound writer Robin Fox, who has been released by Editions Mego in the past, on the label Room 2021, which is presided over by sound writer Lawrence English in Melbourne, Australia in December 12.Includes two modular drone songs.The following is a commentary by the writer himself.Everyone seems to live their own apocalypse.That is inevitable.It incorporates the inevitable feeling that the end of the world, as we know it, is just around the corner while we live on Earth.It is part and part of what each unit of human consciousness believes it is at the center of everything.When I try to avoid catastrophic thoughts, a sense of fear and anxiety creeps in and is now in my heart, which is also reflected in this work.The two tracks in this release are linear takes recorded on my studio's Eurorack modular system.The two songs were recorded on different days and in different patches, but they seem to be related.Both sessions began with the desire to patiently explore the harmonic series and create something vast.At that time, two magnificent works were born that expressed the sadness and disconnection that struck the city and my heart.Listen to these tracks when the light is changing.At dawn, dusk, or the moment when the sun emerges from behind dark clouds, on the borderline.While Threnody is lamenting, there is hope for the growing harmony phrase.From this era, we have the feeling that it may be better than before.We have to be better than before.everytime.Click here to see more Room40 releases available at Tobira ....

This cassette was released by Japanese acoustic writer Aki Onda, who has been released by Cassauna and others in the past, on the label Room 2021, which is presided over by the acoustic writer Lawrence English in Melbourne, Australia, in October 10. Includes a 40-minute drone work. DL code included.Click here to see more Room45 releases available at Tobira. ----------------------------...

Marina Rosenfeld, a turntable artist from New York, USA, who has a career of more than 20 years, released the latest work in November 2021 on the label room11, which is presided over by the acoustic artist Lawrence English in Brisbane, Australia.Contains 40 collages of smoked silver. The 6-page booklet contains a dialogue and photos with Lawrence English.Click here to see more Room32 releases available at Tobira ....

It is a co-production released in November 2021 by the acoustic authors Magda Mayas and Tina Douglas from Melbourne, Australia, which have been announced by Another Timbre and others in the past, on the label room11, which is presided over by the acoustic artist Lawrence English in Brisbane, Australia.The booklet contains scores, dialogue and photos.The following is a commentary by the writer himself. "I met Tina about 40 years ago through a fellow musician in Melbourne. Tina listened to my performances on various occasions, and I visited her studio and watched her performances many times. It quickly became clear that we had a personal and aesthetic connection, and in years of conversation we shared a way of working. We are both improvised. Attracted by the intuitive process, I create works using unique objects and tools and build close relationships with them. Things generate ideas, limit my actions, and fundamentally compose my work. Tina's score is very sculptural and tactile. The piano and my objects and the preparations in them also feel sculptural, tactile and embodied. Tina's score When I started recording music to react to, I want to slow things down, expose some fragility and imperfections, and one melody, one chord, one small note is enough With piano, an orchestra-like approach is possible, and I often do that, but I felt that this collaboration didn't require this kind of complexity. The score has some kind of fragility that I like. It's a thin paper score, everything I carried from Australia to Berlin, cutouts, etc. is very fragile and beautiful, and I want the music to be that way too. I felt it. "Click here to see more Room10 releases available ...

This is the latest work released in January 2022 by American acoustic artist Steve Roden.This work is an installation work created for the exhibition "The Grand Promenade" held in Athens, Greece.The booklet contains essays.The following is a commentary by the writer himself.The exhibition, held at various archaeological sites and historic sites in central Athens, created a situation where site-specific contemporary works interact with the historic environment.Initially not presented as a candidate site, I begged the curator at the church of St. Dimitris Lumbaldiadis of architect Dimitris Pikionis, about a 1-minute walk from the main pass of the Grand Promenade. I got permission to make a work.The original promenade designed by Pikionis can still be seen in some areas, but many of the original designs in this area were modified during the pre-Olympic "restoration" of 10.The path leading to the church further impresses Pikionis' vision for the entire promenade, and I wanted to draw viewers and listeners into his world through my work.When I first saw this little church, I was completely breathtaking and soon began to think of works that would resonate with this church but not interfere with it.The church itself is still in use, so I wanted to make it a gentle work that wouldn't get in the way of those who worship there.Therefore, I decided to use a large tree in front of the church to create a hanging work that produces a visual presence and a sound that harmonizes with the sound of insects and the tranquility of the area.The audio was made from field recordings and small "poor" things such as tin whistling and toy harmonica.These "musical instruments" were proposed by the Athens Musical Instrument Museum, and although decent musical instruments occupy most of the museum, there are musical toys, religious things, and other sounds that are not considered musical instruments in the basement. The equipment that comes out is housed in a wonderful display case.I felt that these naive things were related to Pikionis's way of thinking about architecture and crafts, and his interest in the relationship between indigenous culture and intellectual and modern culture.I felt like it had something to do with it.Click here to see more Room2004 releases available ...

Christina Giannone, an American / NY acoustic artist who has announced in the past from Past Inside the Present, is the latest work released in January 2022 from the label room1, which is presided over by the acoustic artist Lawrence English in Brisbane, Australia.The following is a commentary by the writer himself. "While making this record, I realized that I was going back to the idea of ​​escape and how intensive psychological quests play a role. The main purpose of this project is the subconscious. It's a process that encourages you to leave the front line and allows you to jump into the subconscious. In a sense, you can start the escape process by falling from your consciousness to another state. It may be that, in this place away from the consciousness, there is the realm of the soul, and in the groove of the spirit there is a "zone" and a "portal" to another dimension.I wanted to provide this album with an opportunity for people to reach out to these ditches, get to know them, and be invited to live there for even the moment.I hope each work will help to transcend these rooms and spaces in the subconscious world.There, your perception transforms and evolves in the direction of your choice, allowing for free expression and introspection.It is in the subconscious that there are new possibilities for freedom and perhaps more generally cultivated.We are often afraid to observe the world within ourselves, but they can serve higher purposes and provide basic cognitive and survival tools.By allowing us to visit our inner dimensions, we may be able to find an oasis of peace and eternal self-assurance.This work is a soundtrack to such a place, a promise they have, and for all of us to travel in our hearts.Click here to see more Room40 releases ...

British mogul guitarist Mike Cooper, who has been active since the 60s, released his latest work in January 2022.Contains 1 ambient exotica songs that blend field recordings collected around the world with lap steel guitar, 3 types of saxophone, and percussion. The 9-page booklet contains his collage works.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Room48 releases available at Tobira. ----------------------------...

This is the latest work released by the Iranian brothers' experimental dub duo Saint Abdullah, which has been announced in the past by Cassauna and Psychic Liberation, in February 2022 on the label Room 2, which is presided over by the acoustic writer Lawrence English in Melbourne, Australia.Contains 40 cut-up collage ambient songs.The following is a commentary by the writer himself. The 5-minute film "glamour factory" begins by listening to the voices of outstanding film narration artists with decades of career in the Iranian film industry.He has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the film world.In his speech, he first said, "Society does not accept us with multiple identities. Society does not accept us with multiple identities. To be easy to understand. Easy to understand, Easy to measure. The movie allowed him to be free from it. This is what we feel very strongly, and in contrast, sound and music are free from everything. That's why I thought it was appropriate to sample the ultimate sampler. To talk about the concept of identity through those who have lived it and those who have acknowledged it. You're going to make a pit stop across Inshara Land. This street is dense. We live on top of each other. We're anxious to create from nothing. The place is a living place. It is permanent. In Insharaland, we happen to recognize our interrelationships in front of the mirror and we are multiple. We are forced to recognize the fact. We can only make points together. We are holding a mirror. It's not just a serious story. In many ways, this work Is humorous. With understanding. We can and exercise our right to laugh at ourselves. We should always be able to laugh. What is a voice? Human voice ? Voices and stories that are special to us They will be your friends, these samples. Build relationships with them. Nightly, revisit and reinterpret. Other friends and stories Introducing. Maybe we can understand each other as long as we share the space together. These stories have a blind desire. Labels and other works are here /// Click here to see more Room22 ...

A CD co-written by Room 40's Lawrence English and NY mogul sound writer Stephen Vitiello.Contains 7 ambient to electroacoustic songs.Click here to see more Room40 releases available at Tobira. ----------------------------...

The new work released by Lawrence English's sound label Room 40 in March 2021 has arrived for the first time in Japan.This work is the latest work of NY mogul sound writer Richard Chartier.Includes 3 low-flying drones from beginning to end. A note from Richard Chartier: "I find myself at the ...

A work released in 60 by Mike Cooper, a British guitarist who has been active since the 2017s.Contains 7 pastoral guitar ambient songs spun by open tuning. DL code included. "Mike Cooper's output of the past half century has been described as ...

UK guitarist Mike Cooper, who has been active since the 60s, released a record in 2020 from the Australian experimental label room40.Includes 7 ambient soundscapes that exquisitely mix environmental sounds and guitar ambiences recorded in islands such as Bangkok, Venice, and Jakarta. Comes with DL code. " Playing With Water is a novel written by James Hamilton-Paterson....

Room1984, which is presided over by Australian ambient writer Lawrence English, reissues the album released on cassette in 40 by Japan's leading sound artist Akio Suzuki.Contains all 4 organic sound collages. DL code included. Originally release on cassette in 1984, “Zeitstudie” is remastered and published ...

The latest 2021 work by Melbourne ambient writer David Shea, which has been released on famous labels such as Sub Rosa and Avant, will be released on CD from Room 40 in the country.Contains all 10 ambient songs that are influenced by oriental music everywhere. Includes an 8-page booklet. Includes special 8 page saddle stitch booklet with essay from David Shea ...