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Rie Nakajima

Recorded in London, November 27th 2011. Self-Made Percussion Instruments Rie Nakajima is an artist, originally from Yokohama, who lives and works in London. She studied art history and aesthetics at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and sculpture…

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The ElectroAcoustic Ensemble

Photo: © Caroline Forbes Recorded at Bates Mill, Huddersfield, November 18th 2011 Recording Notes This wax cylinder was originally made for Evan Parker’s improvisatory piece Tesserae, devised for the ensemble and directed by him and commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary…

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John Wynne & Denise Hawrysio

Recorded at Wilton’s Music Hall, London, November 5th 2010 Beating Tones and Flapping Wings  John Wynne is an award-winning sound artist whose practice includes installations and ‘composed documentaries’ for radio which hover on the boundary between documentation and abstraction. His…

Stelarc

Stelarc

Extracts from recordings made in Sydney and Melbourne, 1992, transcribed onto a wax cylinder in March 2009. Amplified Body Stelarc is a performance artist who has visually probed and electronically amplified his body. He has made three films of the…

Tetsuo Kogawa

Recorded at Wilton’s Music Hall, London, on November 4th, 2010. Tetsuo Kogawa’s interests range over a variety of disciplines and critical approaches. After studying philosophy at Sophia and Waseda universities, he taught at Wako University for 17 years. He is…

Richard Crow

Recorded on October 21st 2010 in London. The piece “Our Father” could and should be subtitled Bum Cheese, which are the two words that I inserted into the prayer on cue after my mother intones “Hallowed be thy…” and it…

Michael Esposito & Aleks Kolkowski

Recorded on 21st March 2011, in London. Michael Esposito was born in Gary, Indiana in 1964. He is a descendant of Alfred Vail who invented the Morse Code and several early telegraph devices together with his partner Samuel Morse. Another…