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WHETHAM, SIMON

Album Format Label & Cat. Number Description Year Price (incl. 19% VAT)  
D/R CD-R 1000füssler 013 three pieces composed in Tallin, Estonia, together with performance artists; lim. 100 professional cover & duplication 2009 €9.00
Mall Muzak CD Unfathomless U07 seventh release in this strong series by MYSTERY SEA, dealing with "spirits of specific places"; MALL MUZAK is a drone-work for a "half-derelict" shopping-centre in Bristol, using original sounds from this now rather desolated place of consumerism; lim. 200, numbered, full-colour cover 2011 €14.00
Prayers Unheard CD-R Dragon's Eye Recordings de5032 site-specific composition based on field recordings of the old Jewish area in Krakow, Poland, that became a ghetto in the 2nd World War; ed. of 200 copies, professional design 2011 €10.00
Velvet mCD-R Taalem alm 76 24min piece from this very active British soundartist often working with processed field recordings - here he re-workes recordings made in South Wales for a subtle sound-journey that developes from completely amorph hiss-drones to a revelation of more and more concrete details.. 2011 €5.00
Hydrostatic CD Auf Abwegen aatp39 archaic & monumental sounding roaring water-dronescapes full of strange soughs and metallic scrunchings - HYDROSTATIC is a multi-channel performance using sounds from an old Pumping Station - this the true industrial sound massive, mysterious, ghostly..; lim. 300, much recommended ! 2013 €13.00
Never so Alone CD Cronica 073~2013 during an extended stay in Lisbon, Portugal, the British artist captured sounds from the city with various (contact) microphones and hydrophones, to especially record vibrating and droning sources that build the basis for the 7 compositions here => a very different kind of city portrait, dense and ghostly drones are mixed with "small sounds", resonances, hisses... " Very delicate, very refined indeed. Maybe the best thing I heard from him so far." [FdW /Vital Weekly] 2013 €12.00
Un Ano Tranquilo CD-R 3LEAVES - 3L019 sound diaries based on field recordings WHETHAM made on a one year "round the world" tour, coming from a wide array of sound sources... all kinds of nature, object & animal sounds, various music from different cultures & actions of people.. . all this truly multi-cultural sounds zipping subliminally into your mind like a long daydream.. very nice ! 73 min. playtime lim. 200 2013 €10.00
InTolerance CD Kohlhaas KHS 010 *S.WHETHAM has developed a characteristic practice of working with sound recordings as raw materials for composition and performance. These are often environmental sounds he has captured employing a variety of methods and techniques, in order to reveal discreet or obscured sonic phenomena...* - two long pieces with many passages, insprred by the notion of TOLERANCE, from various sites around the globe.. when "raw" sounds reveal a hidden beauty, think of TARAB, A.M.T., LA CASA.. lim. 200 7"cover 2017 €13.00
(II)nTolerance CD Kohlhaas KHS 024 the sequel to "InTolerance" (2017), curious "concrete" field & object recordings, unknown mechanical devices, elements, and strange aural situations, think of G*PARK, TARAB, etc..! - "a selection of combined scenes and activities in various globel locations" - (II)n consists of 14 shorter tracks that were created during the pandemia, making travelling impossible... the captured material emerges as fragmented memories to a wide range of lost possibilities.. - lim. 200 / 7" gatefold cover 2022 €13.00
Forced to repeat Myself CD Misantrophic Agenda MAR056 this fascinating "micro/macro concrete sounds" album was constructed from performnance recordings throughout 2018 - all done with a limited set of resources.. - *By the very nature of their disseminating sparseness, the tracks of Forced To Repeat Myself demand from the listener an attentiveness fixed on nuance and variation.* - ed. of 150 copies 2022 €13.00