Yuko Pepe is an experimental/noise/improvisational musician based in Brooklyn, NY, born in Tokyo. She started playing the guitar in 2001 at university in Tokyo, where she also received her nick name, Pepe. Currently, Yuko plays with 12000 Trees, Cherubim, Helioscope and has performed solo in NYC, Berlin and Tokyo.
Brett Sroka is a trombonist, computer musician and composer for film, dance, installations and his own ensembles. He has performed at BAMcafe, the Sonic Circuits Festival, the Guggenheim Museum and the Teatro Fondamenta Nueve in Venice, Italy. His minimal, electro-acoustic jazz trio Ergo released it’s third recording, “If Not Inertia”, on Cuneiform Records in 2012.
Some drones made with slowly evolving frequential flows.
along with classical training in cello and piano, sarah ritch also played guitar and bass in several punk and metal bands between 1996 and 2003 in las vegas, nv. existing in two aesthetic worlds, sarah’s work ranges from improvisational noise to tonal notated music. she has been the composer-in-residence for chicago classical ensembles the millennium chamber players and anaphora, and regularly performs solo and with her free improv band, sound collision alliance.
this album documents the first meeting of these two chicago improvisers that went down on january 15th of 2013 at the surplus of options in chicago. sarah played electric guitar and cello and jim played electronic keyboards. the sound is: modem scratch. mechanical wood. tone bits. crushed fragments. surprise skree. atlantis shred.
made and intended for minidisc use by Melophobia
recording date : 08 April 2011 (Friday), Tate Modern, Bankside London UK
production / mastering date : 12 June 2011, Greece
six tracks running also as a unedited one of total time of 56’32”
another seventh track with heavier production/rework added as bonus (05’49”)
made and intended for minidisc use by Melophobia
01 Appregii
02 Precious
03 Dronefield
04 Sooner
05 Pncake
06 Glith Son Pro
07 Twoone
08 Backwoods
09 July16
Blackish drones with episodes of electro-acoustic floating.
Alexander has played a key role in the development of DISSOUND. We have worked closely through Strelnikoff. During all the time of our work together a lot of musical material have accumulated; some of them wasn’t included in our previous releases for various reasons: unreleased tracks DISSOUND, Strelnikoff’s remixes, collaborations between DISSOUND and NK72.
«In memory of A.Strelnikoff» is a compilation of unreleased tracks. However, this is not just a compilation, but the full-length album. The album, which we would like to devote to the outstanding person — Alexander Strelnikoff. Eternal memory!
D – Structure [0kbps046]
. Beer Sick DXM
. Black Hole
. Boulders
. Clickbassbox
. Drone Tail
. Feedback Station
. Overtune for Toy Piano
. Tree Pattern
MAV [0kbps] Records, October 2013
nappy hair’s best friend, their first album for pan y rosas, is a document of a performance in lakeside, michigan in september of 2012. the album captures the performances of two pieces of conduction/comprovisations by aacm member renée baker.
A bunch of metallic resonances arranged to produce an indefinable but astonishing feeling.
