Several reviews of Lee Gamble’s Join Extensions CD have begun to emerge…
Nick Cain in the February issue of The Wire magazine, Piers Martin in the March issue of Uncut Magazine. Jean Dezert at Le son du grisli and Brian Olewnick at the Just outside blog.
Join Extensions’ initial sounds were created using several methods of digital synthesis, the results often subjected to further abstractions within the computer.
Parts of the work were generated from chaotic and improvised operations; at other points absolute compositional choices were made to realign or derail the compositional flow.
These methods can be seen to represent the macro and micro approach to the works overall design. Micro composition and synthesis informing the macro structures which are themselves subjected to further distortions on both micro and macro levels, leading to continuous cycles of transformation.
Join Extensions catalogues and illustrates specific stages in the development and abstraction of these forms. The sections which were committed to disc represent the ongoing process of perpetual configuration, disfiguration and reconfiguration.
AUSREIHE in co-operation with NK presents Electronic Music Concert 03 – with rare performances by current Professor for Generative Art at Arts University Berlin, Alberto De Campo, STEIM artistic Director Takuro Mizuta Lippit aka Dj Sniff, EVOL, Suk-Jun Kim and Kaffe Matthews. The event will take place at Heimathafen Neukölln Studio in Berlin on 21st November 2009 – flyer here
In early 2010 Lee Gamble will be the third artist to release on their new computer music label AUSREIHE
As part of the Southwark Anthology Of Noise a ‘12 part series on Resonance 104.4FM exploring noise music from the late 70s onwards…’ I will be in conversation with Clive Graham, label boss for Paradigm Disks and founding member of the influential improvisation troupe Morphogenesis and the series’ curator Tom Wallace.
The series is curated by Tom Wallace and invites guests to explore the notion of ‘what is noise music?’ Other guests include - Daniel Löwenbrück (Tochnit Aleph/Rumpsti Pumpsti) Ed Pinsent (Sound Projector), Clive Graham (Paradigm), Tom Wallace (ResonanceFM), Steve (Harbinger Sound), Gaya Donadio (Hinouema), Ron Lessard (RRR), Mikko Aspa (Freak Animal Recordings), Pete (Second Layer Records) Paul Hegaty (Noise/Music a History)
All shows are tracklisted and archived on the S.A.O.N blog here
Belsona Parallax Mix created for Thomas Bey William Bailey’s Belsona Academy podcast series, radical electronic sound for your threshold existence…
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This week on the Belsona Academy, Lee Gamble of the CYRK collective presents an exclusive mega-mix shaped from a dazzling array of computer music techniques – a veritable funhouse of timbre and spectral dynamics, and not a factory preset in sight. As a test run for his upcoming Entr’acte CD ‘Join Extensions’, this piece shows promise for that disc to continue the exciting trend of 21st century computer music and digital synthesis: that is to say, music which has escaped from its ivory tower imprisonment and is now free once again to act as a physical AND intellectual force.
[music behind DJ: intro from 'Drugs' episode of 'Brass Eye' / Pan Sonic, "Arctic" from the Mute/Blast First CD set 'Kesto'/ Station Rose, "A Fistful Of Acid" from the Crippled D*** Hot Wax CD 'Chansons des Perverts']
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other contributing artists to the series include – New York-based sound artist Gen Ken Montgomery, Computer music group EVOL, ‘Absolute Music’ composer and bio-acoustic researcher Francisco Lopez…
Listen to The Belsona Academy – Episode 5 (Belsona Parallax Mix) here | rss/i-tunes feed for the series here