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Elliptical Gamelan

by astasie-abasie

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1.
Sea Petal 03:58
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2.
Negentropy 03:35
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3.
Tinsel Pressure 03:59
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4.
Slender Knot 03:35
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5.
Half Implanted 03:29
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Circular Logic 03:09
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Glissement 04:54
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Neural Flotilla 03:53
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Feather Weight 03:08
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Metastasis 03:31
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This album is the second in a series of experiments exploring the magnification of the insignificant sounds of small metal objects such as washers.
The chaotic but inherently repetitive patterns created
by the interaction between the objects has been realised through a minimum of gestural action by way of a number of distancing strategies, such as the use of hand drills, film winders and motorised drills/screwdrivers.
Astasie-abasie is a project of Ian Andrews which evolved out of a long running performance collaboration with Garry Bradbury (ex. Severed Heads, Hiroshima Chair, Wet Taxis). The project focuses on the amplification of small sounds (following the approach of John Cage, Gordon Mumma and David Tudor) through the capture of sounds generated by small objects by way of contact microphones, home constructed cartridges, miniature piezo microphones and conventional microphones. Various devices are used as constraints in order to distance any performing gesture of the artist from the compositional process. The compositional process is, in this sense, aleatory and close to automatic. Much like field recording, sounds are found rather than performed or manipulated. Modified, or ‘prepared’ turntables are often used to bring about the sounds, after which any editing of the material is kept to a minimum.

Ian Andrews works across a number of disciplines including film and video, sculpture, installation and collage, poetry and writing, in order to explore questions relating to utopia and modernism, technologies and the post-human. The work attempts—via a strategy of deconstruction and collage, and the critical juxtaposition of appropriated materials—to locate the point of fracture in discourses of power and discursive regimes, and put into question the organising structures, and break the syntax of the accepted sedimented frameworks that keep thought rigid and ultimately hold us to ransom. His contribution to Australian experimental music reaches back to the early 1980s, including projects like The Horse He's Sick, Kurt Volentine, Cut with the Kitchen Knife and countless others.
releases July 1, 2021

All tracks recorded and arranged by Ian Andrews 2020-21. ian-andrews.org
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released July 31, 2022

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Ian Andrews Sydney, Australia

Ian Andrews produced electronic and tape based music on the label Lymph in the early 1980s (The Horse He's Sick, Kurt Volentine, Cut with the Kitchen Knife). He has continued to exhibit sound video and visual art internationally. Presently he works with Garry Bradbury on projects Sanity Clause and Atasie-abasie. He has also produced techno and dub under the names Disco Stu and Hypnoblob. ... more

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