posted 21 July 2010 11:17            

My friends at Ex Ovo, "Music For Minimal Matters", will be releasing my first collection of recent music for the label later this year. In the meantime, though, Ex Ovo has produced a special limited-edition release to coincide with my performance at Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst, which they thoughtfully hand-delivered to the Festival on the opening day. The Schiphorst edition contains two tracks from the up-coming release, along with two other exclusive tracks, never before heard. Frans de Waard of Vital Weekly has this to say about it:

"There is belief in this composer from Ex Ovo, and why not? Lainhart is a master of drone music from the end of modern classical music. Playing a Steinway grand piano with nine e-bows, or the Kyma System on the electric guitar... Lainhart works extensively with the overtones generated by these 'simple' actions.... In his piano pieces, Lainhart effectively bridges the world of ambient and drone with that of modern classical and serious minimal music. An excellent release for those who love the Experimental Intermedia label and especially Phill Niblock's work."

This new release contains two guitar/Kyma tracks: "A Bell Above The Clouds" and "Threshold"

For more details about the CD, go here:
http://cms.exovo.org/richard-lainhart-cfw-schiphorst.phtml

This release is already sold out at Ex Ovo, although I still have some copies available for direct sale; contact me if you're interested. However, Ex Ovo has generously made it available in a pay-what-you-like digital download version on Bandcamp, and has included an additional exclusive remix track by Mirko Uhlig:
http://exovo.bandcamp.com/album/cranes-fly-west-digital-schiphorst-edition-2010

"Threshold" on "Framework"

An excerpt of my Kyma/guitar piece "Threshold" (commissioned in 2008 by Ear To The Earth), for electric guitar and New York field recordings processed with Kyma, was included in Edition #291 of framework, a radio broadcast and podcast project from murmerings.com. Framework has been on the air since June 2002, featuring regular editions of new and old field recordings and field recording based composition, live on-air performances, and special editions such as framework:focus, which features the work of a single artist, project or theme in a continuous hour-long soundscape, and framework:afield, a series of programs curated and produced by guest artists from around the world.

This edition of framework:afield was produced in the U.S. by John Kannenberg, and is the second in a 4-part series produced by members of the World Listening Project. John says: "... framework:afield travels to five continents to present Urban Archeology, the sounds of history that surround us - the sonic strata of cities. For more information see http://www.worldlisteningproject.org."

For a list of tracks and contributors, go here: http://www.murmerings.com/radio/playlists/ (scroll down to #291: 2010.07.04)

posted 03 August 2010 11:56            

Both of the Kyma tracks use the CrossFilter function. In cross-filtering, the tonal characteristics of one sound, called the impulse response, are imposed on another, called the source, so that the end result is a sound that contains only the characteristics common to both.