Sunday, August 01, 2010
Non Projects is a record label dedicated to the support and discovery of Los Angeles' most innovative artists and composers. Mislaid within an ever-changing and confused recording landscape, Non Projects offers imaginative works of art and sound.
With the aim to showcase each artist's devotion to their love of music and the joy of uncovering hidden and undiscovered sounds and resonances, each release is available with supplemental materials providing a commonly forgotten tangible experience no longer associated with acquiring music.
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Part of ongoing tape series. Music for three guitars, ball point pen, x-acto knife, cassette tape, owl feathers, scotch tape, duct tape. Guitars recorded onto cassette, cassette manipulated with ballpoint pen and x-acto knife. Owl feathers attached directly to tape. Pressure pad cut down using knife and covered with layer of duct tape. Owl feathers taken from Ana Caravelle's halloween costume. Happy November.
Asura - "Owl Feathers (For Ana)"
Two companion pieces.
Anenon - "Self Conscious Fiction"
Photo - Spencer Lowell.
Two excerpts from The Periphery And The Centre by Manfred Eicher.
IV
Music is the focal point of my life, its essential core. It is from there that everything else grows, and to there that I always return: to the concert halls, chuches and studios. Music is my vocation: the atmosphere produced at a recording session should be inimitable and awaken the desire to make changes or, where necessary, to improve and perfect. For instance, to question things, to be prepared to abandon concepts worked out during rehearsals or even ones that were successful in concert - concepts that, in the privacy of the recording studio and with different people listening, change and require transformation.
We experience a sense of joy when we can express and give acoustic reality to music through a single gesture, a single intake of breath. These are the moments when something is set in motion. It is like breathing on a mirror: within seconds the surface is veiled in an evanescent mist that, moving inwards from the edges, as quickly disappears again. What remains is the question: what was there - was it anything at all?
The crucial thing is for a tone or mood to be created - an atmosphere that sincerely expresses what one wishes to convey of oneself and one's emotions. Music is the art that speaks directly to the soul.
This is delicately powerful music, and only the most petite taste of what we can expect from Ana in her upcoming full length debut.
Enjoy.
Lara Lee conducted this interview with Teo Macero in September of 1997 at his home in NYC.
LL: Do you think that the studios that you had been working in early on were in any way comparable to the studios today?
TM: I had a studio available to me for thirty years. And I had access to guys who could create a piece of equipment that I needed. In the '50's and '60's we didn't have anything like a digital delay. We had to manufacture a digital delay. Now when you want a digital delay, you turn your machine half a step or whatever it is. To me, that doesn't really make the difference. It was the crudeness of all the things that we did.
Non Projects' inaugural release, the self-titled debut from Asura, available for purchase now!
