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V.A. (VARIOUS ARTISTS) (COMPILATIONS) - Variable Resistance

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: 23five Incorporated and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 23F/SFM 901 Release Year: 2002 Note: with: OREN AMBARCHI, PIMMON, PHILIP SAMARTZIS, etc.. Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info 23FIVE INCORPORATED ist nicht nur seit Jahren der wichtigste Konzertveranstalter für experimentelle Musik in San Francisco, sondern inzwischen auch als Label tätig. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ist eine Compilation-Reihe entstanden, die pro Ausgabe Projekte eines einzigen Landes vorstellt. Diese CD ist AUSTRALIEN gewidmet und beinhaltet Stücke von AMBARCHI, PIMMON, DARRIN VERHAGEN, PHILIP SAMARTZIS und einigen anderen...sehr schöne Zusammenstellung! “Variable Resistance" was the second 'listening room' event co-sponsored by SF sound art organization 23five, Incorporated and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Where the first collaboration between 23five and the Museum centered on Japanese experimental music, this one takes a southern route to Australia, which has enjoyed a healthy explosion of adventurous musicians exporting their wares across the globe. Assembled by noted sound artist Philip Samartzis, "Variable Resistance" is a title that encapsulates the tone and extent of the work on hand, referencing not only the electronic gizmo (the variable resistor) as key to many of the featured homespun constructions, but also as an applicable non-definition of those artists who "offer variable resistance in how they are defined and the positions they occupy in a broader cultural context, fragmented, and dispersed among remote cities and divided by enormous physical and psychological space." That said, Samartzis attempts to breakdown the Australian aesthetic into a number of sub-genres: Microphonics, Metallic Plates & Resonating Strings, Residue, Flutter & Flux, Malfunction & Resistance, Improvised Composition, Suspended Time & Expanding Space, Electrical Impulses & Variable Flow, Soundhackers, and Microwaves, Collisions, & Noise. While each of these subgenres do offer some help in interpreting the work of these artists, those featuring on this cd (a condensed version of the SFMOMA event) are pretty good at resisting any imposed characterization. Much of the work on "Variable Resistance" is based upon live improvisation filtered through a number of DSP techniques (with obvious exceptions and detours) with tracks from Oren Ambarchi, Robbie Avenaim, Philip Samartzis, David Brown, Xonk, Thembi Soddell, Darrin Verhagen, Pimmon, and Delire.” [Aquarius Records]