December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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The Noise From Ridgewood - A Benefit Compilation... →
August 2011
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The Limbo Ensemble - "Plebiscitu" →
The Ukrainian composer Thomas von Hartmann (1885-1956) - contemporary of Schoenberg, Kandinsky and Nijinsky - wrote in his essay “On Anarchy in Music”: “While the inner voice does not revolt, everything is permitted. In all the arts, especially music, any method born from an inner need is correct.” Hartmann was refering in particular to improvisation: “What the...
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July 2011
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PBK Bio & Discography →
pbk-collab-project:
“I started to experiment with sound around 1986, but before that I was mainly preoccupied with visual arts theories. My interest in “gesture” and “subconscious” correlated to Surrealism(automatism) and Abstract Expressionism(spontaneous expression & improvisation) and I was motivated to apply these thoughts towards sound expression at least partially because of the...
Mark Spybey Discography →
Mark Spybey Biography →
pbk-collab-project:
Dead Voices on Air (DVOA) is Mark Spybey’s main musical project. It was formed in 1992 when he emigrated to Canada from his native England. Using improvisation and sound layering as a source for their music, DVOA blends processed sound from primitive instruments and toys into rhythmic structures or dark clusters of ambient sound. The result is music for the eyes. This is not...
Travis Johnson Discography →
Travis Johnson Biography →
pbk-collab-project:
Travis Johnson, curator of Ilse, was born in 1979 and began experimenting with radios, tapes and open circuits as a child, inspired by the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop for Doctor Who and by the rural isolation of Suwannee County, Florida. He received training on the guitar as a teenager, but has never been much interested in conventional musical phrasing, preferring...
