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Tom Hall - Past, Present, Below Cover Art
Apr 2010
<a href="http://shop.overlap.org/album/tom-hall-past-present-below">Tom Hall - Where Nothing Touches, You or Me by Overlap.org</a>
Electricwest - Detatch Cover Art
Mar 2010
<a href="http://shop.overlap.org/album/electricwest-detach">Electricwest - Still by Overlap.org</a>
2 new video pieces
17 Aug 2010, 11:50am +0000 by ashish

Hi Guys,

Here are two video’s I made using M4L & Ableton. They were captured in real time & cleaned up in FCP

Saraswati Nebula

interstellar overdrive

Any feed back is encouraged.

Thanks,

Ashish Sharma

Matt Rösner – March 7th, A Dry Heat
11 Aug 2010, 2:08pm +0000 by Simon Hampson

Matt Rösner

Matt Rösner is an Australian sound artist who has had releases on Room40, Apestaartje, & Meupe.

He has the gift of taking digital and acoustic sounds and fusing them seamlessly, setting them against a rich tapestry of field recordings and sonic experimentation.

“March 7, a dry heat is built from a solo piano performance by Adam Trainer taken during the ‘repeat’ sessions. The upright piano had recently been moved to Adams new flat where it now occupies a space in his reading room. On this particular March day, the Perth sun was beating down hard, light streaming into the room, with the sound of near by traffic creeping in. Two Rode microphones were positioned, and Adam commenced the improvisation.

Seven months went by and I returned to the piano recordings. The track happened very quickly, like all the good ones do, if I sit on them too long I tend to loose the focus. The piano was edited, and then augmented with further processing of Adams percussion and field recordings taken from near my home. I feel very close to this piece, it signals the start of something new whilst closing off the period when ‘repeat’ was made.”

Out now:



TAPE SERIES No 1 – Audio Cassette – Meupe

REPEAT – Limited edition 12″ Vinyl – Miatera

 
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Overlapcast – Marc Behrens in the mix
12 Jul 2010, 1:00am +0000 by Simon Hampson

Hi folks,

A very special guest mix this week from Marc Behrens. It is a downmix of a four-channel live performance at Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal, October 14, 2009, as opening performance of Futureplaces 2009.

Marc Behrens in Brazil

Marc Behrens works on several cerebral and physical levels.

His works mainly consist of concrete electronic music, installations, the occasional photograph or video. Recent activities include field recording trips to remote western China and the Amazon rainforest, founding an incorporated company as a social art work, and staging a rite of passage for an investment banker.

Behrens has performed and exhibited extensively across Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, North America, and East Asia, and developed collaborations with Achim Wollscheid, Bernhard Günter, Francisco López, Jeremy Bernstein, Nikolaus Heyduck and Paulo Raposo, among others.

Enjoy the mix,

Simon

 
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Into the Arts of Chris McNamara
09 Jul 2010, 1:08pm +0000 by Luke Michael Peugeot

Mutek, an organization that promotes and celebrates creative and original digital artistry, has released an article on Chris McNamara in their online publication, Mutekmag. Check out the article, as well as a video interview with Chris and nospectacle at mutek.org.

Overlap Podcast – 12 Months of Overlap releases
18 Jun 2010, 7:13pm +0000 by Simon Hampson

Hi folks,

At around half way through 2010 we are taking a look at some of the Overlap releases for the last 12 months. This kicks off the new Overlap & Symbiosis presents series of podcasts. The Symbiosis mixes are now available from my own site – www.symbiosis.com.au.

I hope you enjoy this look at the great sounds that Christopher Willits has curated for Overlap. If you like what you hear drop on by the shop and grab the releases.

Cheers,

Simon

12 Months Of Overlap – Tracklist (start time before each track)

0.00 Raster-Noton Live At LISTEN/VISION
Signal – Live At LISTEN VISION (excerpt)

http://shop.overlap.org/album/raster-noton-live-at-listen-vision

2.48 Flossin – Serpents EP
Serpents (Strategy Remix)

http://shop.overlap.org/album/flossin-serpents-ep

Flossin is a cosmic rock/noise/jazz/free improv band with rotating members. CHRISTOPHER WILLITS, ZACH HILL (Hella) have been at the helm of the Flossin ship since 2004. Flossin “Serpents” see’s Willits and Hill joined by their friends MATMOS, NATE BOYCE, and CARSON MCWHIRTER (The Advantage). Flossin bring their collective talents to bear creating a warm and spontaneous sonic wash of masterful free improvisation. “Serpents” showcases the diverse musical cross-pollination from the San Francisco Bay Area.

8.08 Chris McNamara – Vague Cities
Sleeping Car Shunting Yard

http://shop.overlap.org/album/chris-mcnamara-vague-cities

Echoes from the Windsor-Detroit techno scene modulate off Lake St. Clair and emerge into the sound forms of “Vague Cities”. McNamara’s muffled beats, gentle harmonies, and light-like shimmering textures envelope you wholly, while creating a space to breathe and be.

Chris McNamara is a Windsor ON. / Ann Arbor-based video artist, writer, DJ, new media instructor, and founding member of Thinkbox ( thinkbox.ca ), a label/collective that currently includes Christopher Bissonnette (Kranky), Steve Roy, Rob Theakston, Bill Van Loo and Mark Laliberte.

15.08 Electricwest – Detach
Flourish

http://shop.overlap.org/album/electricwest-detach

Electricwest is Patrick Benolkin, a diverse and prolific producer from Boise, Idaho. With a tip to the more electronic sides of Warp records and Ghostly International, Electricwest creates soulful and crystal-sharp experimental electronic gems. In 2006, Electricwest made some Overlap-related waves by winning a Creative Commons (CC) remix contest of Christopher Willits’ track “Colors Shifting” which was featured by Ghostly International and CC. Since then Benolkin has surfed an explosion of activity, releasing six albums via his Electricwest and Eluder monikers. “Detach” is Electicwest’s newest and most concise statement to date.

19.06 Tom Hall – Past, Present, Below
Breaks To Rest

http://shop.overlap.org/album/tom-hall-past-present-below

“Past Present, Below” is the accumulation of 2 years of experimentation, bringing together a vast array of instrumentation (drums, guitar, piano, organ, virbraphone, chinese gongs and harmonia) and field recordings (Australia, Kyoto temples, German rivers, Tasmanian forests). Hall ties these varied sources together with a unique blend of studio practices ranging from Max/MSP / Ableton Live processing, analog effects pedals and a unique process of replaying and re-recording compositions back into environments in which they originated. This album is Tom Hall’s most developed and beautiful work to date, exclusive to Overlap.

You can get these releases at the Overlap shop:

http://shop.overlap.org/

Enjoy the sounds and look out for some great releases coming up. Connect with us at demos@overlap.org

 
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Willits YouTube Channel lifts off
17 Jun 2010, 1:57pm +0000 by overlap

Christopher Willits’ YouTube channel is alive and well : http://www.youtube.com/user/christopherwillits

Many new videos to come- new audiovisual pieces, new tutorials, new experiments.

Here is a short clip from a performance at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on May 14th, 2010.

Symbiosis on Overlap – Tom Hall
25 Apr 2010, 6:55pm +0000 by Simon Hampson

Symbiosis on Overlap - Tom Hall

www.tomhall.com.au
www.axxonnband.com

Track listing:

Tom Hall – Ravena, Italy – July 2009 Tom Hall – ‘From Thoughts Distraught’, Past Present, Below – Overlap.org April 2010
Taylor Deupree – ‘Untitled’, Landing – Room40
Tim Hecker – ‘Blood Rainbow’, Harmony in Ultraviolet – Kranky
Oren Ambarchi – ‘Girl With the Silver Eyes’, Grapes From The Estate – Touch
Nadja/Black Boned Angel – ‘Christ Send Light’, – Battlecruiser / Sound Devastation
Tom Hall – ‘In Void We Explore’, Past Present, Below – Overlap.org April 2010
No Anchor – ‘Wolves Bite Then Disappear’ – FSS Compilation

Check out ‘Past Present, Below’ out on Overlap.org, April 2010

Other releases

Fluere (self-released) – Nightrider Records – 2006[6]
Floats (self released) – Nightrider Records – 2007
Cross – hellosQuare – 2008[7]

Various artists – Airport Symphony – Virtual Terminal Room40 – 2007
Euphonia w/ Lawrence English – Presto!? – 2008

Check out more mixes over at the new Symbiosis blog – www.symbiosis.com.au

 
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