Elektron presents : Night of Machines
NAMM AfterParty : 01.23.16 @ 9PM
Ital (Planet Mu)
Pepe Mogt (Nortec Collective, MX)
Projekt Dataline (Noorden, SWE)
Logreybeam (False Industries / Touched)
Double Diamond Sun Body (DDSB)
+ Elektron DJs
Get there before 11:59pm to have the chance of winning an Elektron Analog Rytm and other goodies!
$10 adv / 21+
Complex
806 E Colorado Blvd
Glendale, CA 91205
A double release of logreybeam’s It’s All Just Another Aspect Of Mannerism (2004), rem.rem includes a re-mastered (by Shawn @ AudibleOddities) version of the original, and remixes of each track by different artists. …Aspect of Mannerism is an arrangement of sounds and textures – beautiful, industrial, abrasive and calm. The space between the sound is as equally important as the noise, creating a seemingly tactile environment.
Logreybeam said of making …Aspect of Mannerism [2004]: It started with sound design, most of the sounds are acoustic samples that were mangled & manipulated beyond recognition… Usually the sounds let themselves go and I just went where they took me. A lot of times the composition came out of restraining the natural tendencies of the sounds.
He used: A lot of different mics, nothing really amazing. I knew that since I would be treating things so heavily, a pristine recording wasn’t my primary concern. In fact, artifacts that occurred in the actual recording sometimes lent to the processing that I was doing, giving me unique and exciting elements to play with. Also, everything went though Max/MSP at some stage.
Remix artists include Proem, Ilkae and Proswell, who have produced for Merck, Monotonik and n5MD.
rem.rem is available by donation at Bandcamp.
Perhaps… is a collection of encounters and conversations portrayed through sound. Compositions [written, played and recorded by Morley] include piano, accordion, clarinets, melodica, cello, and software, amongst other instruments and vocals. Late nights were spent laying down sketches of melodies and tones, and he would return to the studio in the morning to edit and arrange. Unlike logreybeam’s previous albums where his process is to electronically mangle instruments beyond recognition, with Perhaps… he features the instrument and applies very few electronic effects.
Orchestration: piano, accordion, Bb clarinet, alto clarinet, melodica, tenor saxophone, glockenspiel, cello, voice, acoustic guitar, electric bass guitar, clavinet and software.
All songs written, performed, and recorded by gabriel morley except ‘my own home’, written by Robert and Richard Sherman. additional vocals on ‘melody pines’ by Janice Marder. vocals on ‘this torment and this thought’ by Julien Neto.
Manufactured Landscapes is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them.
Margaret Atwood’s visionary work Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is the basis for this riveting and poetic documentary on “debt” in its various forms—societal, personal, environmental, spiritual, criminal, and of course, economic. Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal (Manufactured Landscapes) strikingly interweaves these (sometimes surprising) debtor/creditor relationships: two families in a years-long Albanian blood feud; the BP oil spill vs. the Earth; mistreated Florida tomato farm workers and their bosses; imprisoned media mogul Conrad Black and the U.S. justice system. With stunning cinematography and insightful commentary from renowned thinkers Raj Patel, Louise Arbour and Atwood herself, Payback is a brilliant, game-changing rumination on the subject.
While the original EP is a return to logreybeam’s electronica roots [e.g. Yasume, remixes for Metamatics and Norken], ‘False Start [remixed]’ departs in various directions — from ambient/ downtempo and IDM, to tech house and techno.
After opening with Ruxpin’s ethereal, glitchy rendition of Atumnal Tints, the album then makes a respectively deeper, then darker and dirtier turn through Missingsense and Roel Funcken. Exercise One opens a techno stretch with deliciously slow, sludgy beats, Mikael Stavöstrand delivers a rolling bassline + tech-house groove, and Roy E Gamble [another Gabriel Morley alias] offers a preview of what happens when the artist remixes himself. The album winds down with a comparative study on the deconstruction of ‘Reminder’ from Shiro Fujioka and Tom Roberts — the latter leaving us with a scape of loveliness, à la classic Global Communication.
False Start [remixed] is available on Bandcamp. Proceeds benefit Macmillan Cancer Support.
Inspired by conversations with Inuit human rights activist Miqqusaaq, the dramatic short film Throat Song takes place in the icy landscape of Iqaluit, Nunvaut, a small town in the Canadian Arctic. Ippik (Ippiksaut Friesen), a young Inuk woman, is silently suffering from the pains of an abusive relationship. Lost in a community that’s been tragically separated from its past, Ippik, through a job with the Department of Justice, begins to connect with other victims of violence in her community, and seeks to reclaim her voice.
False Start pays homage to logreybeam’s electronica roots, and utilizes his growing analog synth arsenal. “Reminder” is wholly sequenced with SH101’s on-board sequencer — a ‘quirky beast’ that gave it an odd time signature and drifting tempo. “Scales of Vociferation” was mainly written by a scale-based, random sequencer patch that triggered various synthesizers.
Many of the beats and melodies on False Start are controlled and sequenced by MAX/Msp patches triggering hardware, then subject to logreybeam’s fine instinct for arrangement. Heavily used on the EP are: Korg MS20 [vintage], Roland SH101, Ekdhal Moisturizer and Sherman Filterbank.
Half of the tracks on False Start are collaborations — “Marinetti vs. The Golem” with lure, Vibrane on “Technological Forgery” and “Autumnal Tints” with Latrondex and his stash of vintage drum machines.
