STEVE RODEN : A Thousand Breathing Forms

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Format: 6CD+3"CD Box [sns-14]
Shipping Weight: 0.2lbs
Label: Sonoris

6,600円

'A Thousand Breathing Forms, the second boxset of Steve Roden archive works released by Sonoris, is a selection of unreleased or hard-to-locate works from 2003 to 2008, a very prolific and creative period for the Californian artist. The boxset is centered on his hard-to-describe loop based sound works that are uniquely his own, such as Stars Of Ice (2008), A Christmas Play For Joseph Cornell (2007), but also includes the conceptual "One Hour As The Bumps Of Surfaces" and some more musical or instrumental works. So Delicate And Strangely Made, the title of one of his very first records (2003), could still be the right description of his sound work, rooted in visual arts and architecture, mixing conceptual rigor, and experimentation, without neglecting musicality. Most of Roden's sound works tend towards using a singular source -- such as objects, architectural spaces, field recordings, or texts. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi; Edition of 500.'

Tracklist
1-1 Stars Of Ice 34:02
- Stills For Guru Dutt
1-2 I 3:17
1-3 II 3:50
1-4 III 3:28
1-5 IV 3:58
1-6 V 2:51
1-7 VI 3:30
1-8 VII 3:35
1-9 VIII 3:42
- In Flows And Spuns
2-1 Into The Sun 14:49
2-2 Soft Walking 9:00
2-3 Out Of The Sun 16:55
2-4 Still Burning 8:19
2-5 22 Letters And The Resonance Of A Three Pointed Star 12:58
3-1 One Hour As The Bumps Of Surfaces 60:00
4-1 Calmem 22:18
4-2 For You The Sunrise 17:42
4-3 Banjoharmonium 19:52
5-1 A Christmas Play For Joseph Cornell 33:44
5-2 Thomas Sat Down And Looked At The Sea 7:49
5-3 Vester Fields 24:02
6-1 Winter Is Herd Or Heard 34:08
6-2 To These 4 Horizons 14:05
- Sleep/Walk/Drive
6-3 Sleep 6:20
6-4 Walk 3:54
6-5 Drive 6:41
6-6 Aucla Irde Lalu Ne 1:45
7-1 A Slow Moving Boat 15:25

Credits
Mastered By ? Giuseppe Ielasi

Notes
A Thousand Breathing Forms (2003-2008)

1-1: 2008, cdr, new plastic music.
1-2 to 1-9: 2004, unreleased.
2-1 to 2-4: 2004, released as a 100 copies LP by en.of.
2-5: 2006, released on eco e narciso: presenze sonore.
3-1: 2003, radio broadcast, unreleased.
4-1: 2008, unreleased.
4-2: 2008, online release via Roden's blog, described as unreleased.
4-3: 2006, unreleased.
5-1: 2007, cdr, new plastic music.
5-2: 2004 released on noli me legere, sirr records.
5-3: 2007, cd, volume projects.
6-1: 2007, unreleased.
6-2: 2008, released on geluidpost, lokaal 01 / universaal kunst.
6-3 to 6-5: 2003, unreleased.
6-6: 2008: released on au clair de la lune, infrequency.

Disc 7 is a copy of Steve Roden - A Slow Moving Boat, included as a bonus in each box set.
Edition of 500 copies.