Molecular Gamelan, by Astasie-Abasie

Molecular Gamelan

by Astasie-Abasie

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1.	Pantang 04:52	buy track
2.	City of Crocodiles 03:00	buy track
3.	Vicissitudes 05:07	buy track
4.	Synthetic Shells 04:36	buy track
5.	Brace Sea 03:00	buy track
6.	Burnt Tamarind 05:03	buy track
7.	Expulsion 04:27	buy track
8.	Steam Room in Buitenzorg 05:15	buy track
9.	Decoy Bird 04:50	buy track
10.	Strung Intervals 02:54	buy track

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This album is the first in a series of experiments exploring the magnification of the small 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

All tracks recorded August to September 2020.
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 August to September 2020
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released May 6, 2021

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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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discography

Elliptical Gamelan

Jul 2022
The Ice Desert

Oct 2021
Molecular Gamelan

May 2021
Myriametres

Mar 2021
asphaltic

Dec 2020
Astasia-abasia

Sep 2020
auto-Change

Jul 2020
fracture/process

Aug 2004
Delayed Inaudible P2

Feb 2004
Pacifica

Feb 2004
Ceremonial

Dec 2002
Chloroform

Jan 1985

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