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First Out, for guitar (2015, 22:14)

David First, guitar. Completed in November 2015 in Hong Kong. Premiered on Czech Radio in Prague, Czech Republic, Nov. 27 2015. Material recorded at Berklee School of Music, Boston, MA.

Working Touch - USB in digipak (Physical only release)

USB Flash Drive

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11 films - 3 hours 55 minutes - 30+Gb - This release is on a USB stick which can be read in a PC or Mac computer, and opened in VLC or Quicktime, or other media player software. There are three files, a Read Me with instructions; the Video file, which has the images and music; and a Music file, which has all the music as 24 bit, 44.1. It can be played from the USB stick, or copied to a drive or the internal disk of the computer.

Allophones Movement and its arrangement of voices captures the immediacy of machine-funk sampling techniques, whipping the immediacy of vocal expression into a composition that swings back and forth, like a Ron Hardy edit stripped to its bones. On Phonemes Movement her own vocals take centre stage with spirals, gurgles, purrs and cries that reach ecstatic heights: the voice excavated from its bodily origins.

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What are we opening ourselves to when we tune in to sound? How can the activity of recording move beyond notions of capture and release into more generative frames? Rather than a tool purposed for preservation or ‘conservation’ of memory, of time and place, can recording sound instead form new vibrant or vibratory spaces of attunement?

‘A coincidence..’ is an LP length composition of multiple interlocking parts, created through exchange, alignment, unpredictability: the title borrowed from poet Fanny Howe falling right into place, a flock of birds in flight, pitches matched and moved across different geographies and temporal frames. Marja & Judith have created an intuitive, lyrical longform piece that considers the idea of attunement itself as, in some sense, the smallest form of measure or denominator connecting their respective practices.

“Der Schimmel” lays out a hermetic and gem-like study in voice, tape and electronics across two side-long compositions. Poem-fragments mold and gather into a sonorous mesh. The compositions echo in organic repetition while some integral part of its inferred world refrains from emerging in full.

Recorded as the artist was adjusting to a recent move to a new country, and learning a new language. Der Schimmel, exhibits the amplifying fruits of immersion; a stage precariously revealed in it's pull between the familiarity of home and the grafting of new roots.