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Prune / Wu Wei

by Coppice / NNN Cook

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Coppice - Prune (Part I) 15:57
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Coppice - Prune (Part II) 13:55
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NNN Cook - Wu Wei I: Repose 11:46
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NNN Cook - Wu Wei II: Impulse 18:13
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Side A: "Prune", by Coppice, is a 30-minute composition for tape studying foundation reduction, threshold permutation, mercurial residue, and compression techniques. Recorded in Chicago in late 2010 using pump organ, fire bellows, push-pump organ, samples, and electronic processing. Coppice (Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer) is a Chicago-based duet of bellows and electronics. Formed 2009, they have produced original compositions for stage, fixed media, and performed installation settings, with a focus on adhering textural attenuation, processed gradation, the contours of instrumentation, and their multiple aspect highlights. Their variable instrumentation departs from bellows and reed instruments (accordion, pump organ, shruti box, harmonica), custom electronics (reproduction, transmission, spatialization, interference and gentle feedback), and multi-channel systems adapted in ways responsive to location, audience flow, and aural perspectives. They have recently appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Art, New Music at the Green Mill (Chicago); Music with a View (New York); Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts (Minneapolis); Dragonfly Festival (Göthenburg, Sweden); and several live radio performances.

Side B: Two new works from N.N.N. Cook chosen to accompany "Prune". "Wu Wei I: Repose" features the texture of select materials arranged in order to accentuate the color of each while inducing horizontal and vertical spatial movement. Material (and non-material) sources include: baoding balls, brass censer, feedback, porcelain vase, tape, voice, wine glass, and wooden flute. "Wu Wei II: Impulse" is the first 18 minutes excerpted from a 40-minute improvisation on electric organ. The meditative state involved in the creation/listening process and the immersive quality of engaging in the perception of the beats, overtones, and shading are its focus.

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released May 3, 2011

Originally released on cassette by Close/Far Recordings, 2011
Cover Polaroid by Joseph Kramer, Design by NNN Cook
Edition of 100

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NNN Cook St. Louis, Missouri

Sound & visual artist. Concerned with proximity, psychodynamics, psychoacoustics, geometry, mysticism, identity, & the primeval.
Runs the Close/Far experimental music label. Select commissions include: Laumeier Sculpture Park, World Chess Hall of Fame, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Radius (Chicago), High Concept Labs (Chicago), Experimental Sound Studios (Chicago), & Alarm Will Sound (NYC). ... more

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