a year in reflection

Every year and/OAR posts best of the year lists
from various friends and colleagues.
The page will continue to get updated with new
additions up until it is removed, which is usually
sometime in March.

www.and-oar.org/best_of_2007.html

Karlheinz Stockhausen 1928 - 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/08/arts/music/08stockhausen-1.html?ref=arts

Back into the great cosmos he goes...

Have a peaceful journey Karlheinz...

new from mOAR: GoGooo: À Côté

Well, getting an mp3 catalog set up took a lot longer than I initially

thought it would! Hopefully now that I've got it started, I can

streamline the process to get things finished much faster and

without any false starts...

As I mentioned before, I'm using Klicktrack based in Sweden.

They seem to be a pretty solid company that has other labels such as

Hapna, Kning Disk, Firework Edition, Mitek, Komplott and

All About Jazz using them, among many others.

All that aside, I'm glad it's finally up!

Here it is: http://and-oar.org/moar.html

Antonioni mp3 project redux and revision

Hello everyone.

The deadline for this project has been extended to February 1st, 2008.

For those who are new to this project, this is intended to be an mp3
counterpart release for the upcoming double CD release scheduled later in 2008.
http://andoar.blogspot.com/2007/06/new-project-antonionis-tetralogy.html

This is an "open call" project, which means anyone can submit work for
consideration. However, only a certain number of tracks can be selected.

It has been determined that this will now be a label-wide project hosted by
and/OAR and its two new subdivisions either/OAR and mOAR, which means
that the use of field recording sources in the submissions will no longer be
a requirement. This also opens the door for work composed entirely with
instruments, electronics, objects, etc.

The new MP3 catalog will be available, in cooperation with a Swedish
company called Klicktrack, and artists will be given the option to either
receive a percent of the proceeds, or some other arrangement can be
agreed upon.

Where the CD release is focused on Antonioni's "Tetralogy", the MP3
release will be open ended for people to pay general homage in any
number of ways, and can pertain to any number of films or aspects of
the director's filmmaking. If this all sounds rather vague, then you
would be correct! Antonioni's films were poetic works of opacity,
and were pretty much open to the viewer's interpretation.
However, this is not to say that the films had little meaning.
Very much on the contrary.

"Antonioni's lifelong effort (was) to uncover the meanings of things
beneath the mystery of their appearances." - Seymour Chatman
(Antonioni: Or, The Surface Of The World)

"Antonioni asks us to take a slow, steady look at the world around us,
to forget our ordinary preoccupations, and to contemplate that which
lies slightly athwart them." - Seymour Chatman
(Antonioni: Or, The Surface Of The World)

And now without further ado...

Guidelines:

- Track Length: Each track should not be much longer than 7 minutes.
Artists can submit more than one piece for consideration.
- Formats For Submissions: Audio or data CDRs containing WAVs or AIFFs.
Files can also be posted online or sent via a website like YouSendIt.
- Deadline: February 1st, 2007.

If you have any other questions, please let me know.

Best Regards,
Dale

http://www.and-oar.org/

"shut up and listen!" festival

Thanks to Bernhard Gál, a sound installation utilizing assorted
field recording tracks from the Phonography.org compilation
series will take place in Vienna, Austria as part of the"Shut Up And
Listen!" festival running from December 4th to the 7th.
There will also be a performance by "Phonographie-Ensemble",
whom I imagine will do a similar thing to what the Phonographers
Unions have done here in the US and UK, which will be field recording
improv-mixing. The Phonographie-Ensemble will be comprised of
Bernhard Gál, Heribert Friedl, Murmer (Patrick McGinley),
Lasse-Marc Riek (Gruenrekorder), Daniel Lercher, Peter Kutin,
and Hannes Raffaseder. Some of these artists will also perform
solo sets and apart from and/OAR & Phonography.org, people like
Christopher Delaurenti will have a room reserved for dedicated
listening to his recent controversial release "Favorite Intermissions",
and Derek Holzer & Sara Kolster will have an installation set up for
their on-going internet/live broadcast field recording project called
"SoundTransit".


For more info, visit the following link:
http://raum35.klingt.org/aktuell.html

yui onodera: suisei

I am very happy to announce the release of Yui Onodera's Suisei.
And I am very happy with the great job the manufacturer did
with the packaging as well. This serves as a signal to go ahead with
my plan to issue a slew of shorter edition CD releases limited to
300+ copies, so I am very excited, yes I am!

To read about the release, go here:
http://and-oar.org/pop_and_28.html

auf abwegen reviews

It's been discovered that a few reviews are featured in the Spring 2007

issue of Auf Abwegen magazine (in German only).

- Marc Behrens & Paulo Raposo: Hades

- Deupree/Kirschner/Korber/Steinbruchel/Ximm: May 6th, 2001

- Kiyoshi Mizutani: Scenery Of The Border

francisco lopez: wind [patagonia]

AVAILABLE NOW
http://www.and-oar.org/pop_and_27.html

photography featured in sonic scope quarterly #10

The theme for issue 10 of Sonic Scope Quarterly is black and white art
and design. and/OAR web site photos by Dale Lloyd are featured in the issue.
Thanks goes to Nuno Moita of Grain Of Sound/Rissoto/Sonic Scope Quarterly.
http://www.grainofsound.com/gos_v3/news.htm

new subdivisions: either/OAR & mOAR

As some of you may have also noticed on the main page
of the a/O site, that there used to be a link to the website
(still under construction) for the new sublabel called
either/OAR. I have replaced it with a link to the other
new sublabel called mOAR since it seems to have become
more active with several releases already planned for late
2007 and early 2008. Meanwhile, I'm still searching for
the right work to release on e/O, which means that
DEMOS ARE BEING ACCEPTED. Yes, you heard that right!

either/OAR will focus upon pure instrumentation (hopefully
more acoustic than electric) by way of modern minimal
composed or improvised work, soundtracks, installations, etc.
I will also accept electronic work provided that it fits within
the aesthetic I have envisioned for the label. This could take
awhile to find the right kind of work that I am looking for...
www.and-oar.org/either_oar1.html

And then there is the new genre-melding electronic and
experimental music sub-label of and/OAR called mOAR
www.and-oar.org/moar.html

words fail to express...

francisco lopez and matt shoemaker

Friday the 13th (July, 2007) turned out to be a very fortunate day for those in
attendance for the Francisco Lopez / Matt Shoemaker performance at Steve
Peter's lovely Chapel Performance Space (at the Good Shepard Center, Seattle).
Matt launched everyone into transcendental states of consciousness with
his mixture of deep vibrational electronics, intense hyperdimensional crescendoes
and occasional field recordings punctuating the journey along the way;
then Francisco jolted everyone awake who happened to still be buzzing from
Matt's performance, with mega-scale multi-channel sound design that would floor
even the best sound engineers working in the film industry.
This was not the ".absolute." drone fields we've come to know from Francisco of
years past. This was a new Lopez, taking his concept of ".absolute." listening
experience several levels ahead, thereby taking the audience on a rollercoaster
ride through larger-than-life sonic environments in a similar way as CGI special
effects can in the latest Hollywood films, although without the cliches and
"cheese factor" elements inherent with most Hollywood flicks...

If you get a chance to catch Francisco on any of his latest tours,
I HIGHLY recommend it!

Coming next in the release schedule:
(and/27) Francisco Lopez: Wind [Patagonia]

new project: antonioni's tetralogy

Alas, work on the next film-related CD release project has already begun...

The release is slated for sometime in 2008.

This project focuses its lense upon the great Italian film director

Michelangelo Antonioni and his great "Tetralogy".

The title for this release is tentative and subject to change.

The tetralogy of films include:
- L'Avventura (The Adventure, 1959)
- La Notte (The Night, 1960)
- L'Eclisse (The Eclipse, 1962)
- Deserto Rosso (Red Desert, 1964)

Artists confirmed thus far:
- Asher (USA)
- Marc Behrens (Germany)
- Olivia Block (USA)
- Juan Jose Calarco (Argentina)
- Alan Courtis (Argentina)
- EKG (USA)
- Lawrence English (Australia)
- Fhievel (Italy)
- Richard Garet (USA)
- Marihiko Hara (Japan)
- I8U (Canada)
- Jason Kahn (Switzerland / USA)
- Dale Lloyd (USA)
- Roel Meelkop (Netherlands)
- Pali Meursault (France)
- Ben Owen (USA)
- Gabriel Paiuk (Argentina)
- Tomas Phillips (USA)
- J. Winston Phillips (Canada)
- Antti Rannisto (Finland)
- Adam Sonderberg (USA)
- Steinbruchel (Switzerland)
- Luigi Turra (Italy)
- Tyler Wilcox & Corey Fuller (USA)

As with previous CD projects of this nature, it is not my intention to invite

everyone who is a fan of a director's work. The artists are invited in particular

because certain aspects of their previous work indicated artistic /aesthetic

qualities of which would fit well within the overall vision of a particular project.

In addition, these projects are never intended to function as a label showcase

or a standard various artist compilation. If anyone views them as such, then

they are entirely missing the point.

Even though the artists have been invited and are currently working

on their submissions for the next CD project, I would like to do something I

have not done with previous film projects. I have also posted a general call for

submissions for pieces that would be considered for an MP3 sub-project
to be issued as part of the upcoming and/OAR MP3 catalog.
Essentially, there will be two projects pertaining to Antonioni:

the CD release which will focus on the Tetralogy; and the MP3 release

which will be more open-ended to embrace all of the director's work.

Since these projects tend to generate a lot of interest from artists,

and because it is not my wish to make each project more than

two CDs, I've decided to take this route and give more artists a

chance to create work.

To see the guidelines for the MP3 release, scroll down to the next post...

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"Antonioni's lifelong effort (was) to uncover the meanings of things

beneath the mystery of their appearances."
- Seymour Chatman (Antonioni: Or, The Surface Of The World)

"Antonioni asks us to take a slow, steady look at the world

around us,
to forget our ordinary preoccupations, and to contemplate that which lies
slightly athwart them." - Seymour Chatman (Antonioni: Or, The Surface Of The World)

michelangelo antonioni: an open invitation

In addition to the related CD project, I am also posting a public call for

submissions for sound artists to submit work to be considered

for an MP3 counterpart release that will be made available as part of

a future and/OAR MP3 catalog of new works that will exist in addition

to the CD/CDR catalog.

The new MP3 catalog will be available, in cooperation with a Swedish

company called Klicktrack, and artists will be given the option to either

receive a percent of the proceeds, or some other arrangement can be

agreed upon.

And so without further ado...

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Antonioni was well known for not being too keen to use music in his

films, partially because he wanted the films to tell their stories free

from additional "gloss". Therefore, music was sparsely used if at all in

some cases. Antonioni considered the natural sounds or "background

noises" of a film to be of enormous importance, and considered this

to be the "true music" of a film. Composer Giovanni Fusco, whose work

is featured in most of Antonioni's films of the late 1950s to the early

'60s said, "the first rule for any musician who intends to collaborate

with Antonioni, "is to forget that he is a musician."

However, it is another composer that Antonioni worked with, that I

will want to acknowledge with the CD release; because if it were not for

his pioneering minimal electronic music featured in "Deserto Rosso",

this project might not have come together at all.

His name is Vittorio Gelmetti.

Gelmetti's minimal electronic work has consistently come to mind while
listening to certain pieces by a few of the artists who will be featured on

the CD release, which is going to be focused upon Antonioni's "Tetralogy".

I have decided to focus on what are often refered to as Antonioni's

informal "Tetralogy":

- L'Avventura (The Adventure, 1959)

- La Notte (The Night, 1960)

- L'Eclisse (The Eclipse, 1962)

- Deserto Rosso (Red Desert, 1964)

However, it is with the MP3 release, that I would like to open the

inspiration to include all of Antonioni's films. So, if you are reading this

and are interested in submitting work, please be familar with his films.

These projects are intended for enthusiasts only, and if I recieve work

that has no seeming connection to the subject matter, it will not be

considered.

Guidelines:
- Track Length: Each track should not be much longer than 7 minutes.

Artists can submit more than one piece for consideration.
- Formats For Submissions: Please send audio or data CDRs containing
WAVs or AIFFs only. Once contact is made, I will send a mailing

address to send the disc to.
- Deadline: December 1st, 2007.

When composing pieces, please consider including the use of environmental

recordings as part of the piece in some way (straight, processed, mixed,

live recordings, etc is OK). How you decide to do this is completely up to you.

The reason I ask this is because of the underlying concept of and/OAR as a
label. However, I might make allowances for some of the tracks to not use

field recordings, like in the case of using instruments, but most of the

tracks should incorporate a field recording element in some way.
And I must ask everyone to refrain from using any music or dialogue from
the actual films.

Once the final track selection is made, everyone will be contacted as to
whether their track was selected or not.
If you have any other questions, please let me know.

Best Regards, Dale

http://www.and-oar.org/



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"Antonioni's lifelong effort (was) to uncover the meanings of things beneath
the mystery of their appearances. " - Seymour Chatman (Antonioni: Or, The Surface Of The World)

"Antonioni asks us to take a slow, steady look at the world around us,
to forget our ordinary preoccupations, and to contemplate that which lies
slightly athwart them." - Seymour Chatman (Antonioni: Or, The Surface Of The World)

yasujiro ozu - hitokomakura

After almost two years and countless delays later, this project has
finally come to completion by arriving via UPS this afternoon.
And there was even ONE MORE delay with getting it from UPS
because the first time they tried to deliver the pile of boxes,
I just happened to be in the restroom, after waiting half the day
for them to arrive! Shimatta!!!

So, with strong willed persistence, I managed to get UPS to bring

the boxes back here this afternoon, and I am quite happy

(and very thankful) about the finished result.

I really hope you all will enjoy it!

www.and-oar.org/pop_and_26.html

hausswolff / nordanstad: two films

Well, the Hausswolff / Nordanstad DVD arrived recently,

and I must say that I'm very impressed.

Especially with the Hashima film and documentary.

It must be noted that the rather small island of Hashima (Japan)

in 1959, had the highest population density per hectare ever

recorded in the world... Completely mind boggling.

As can be imagined, if one were to just happen upon this now

abandoned island today, not knowing anything about it,

how stunned and spooked you might be...

There is also a loose conversation documented between the
the two artists talking about the films.

Now available in the and/OAR Diffusion shop.

clearance / trade items

If anyone is interested, I've started a new page for clearance & trading.
www.and-oar.org/clearance_trade_list.html
Any of these items can be combined with an order in the Diffusion shop as well.
A link to a Windows Notepad document of my want list can be found at the
bottom of the clearance & trading page. "Best offers" and special arrangements
can be arranged, so just ask.

Quite a few items have disappeared already...

eric adrian lee

I discovered and made contact with this wonderful painter (and sound artist)
on MySpace...



His sound work is quite nice as well.
http://www.myspace.com/ericadrianlee

new directions

Chances are highly likely that if you are reading this blog, then

you have already seen the new website design. This major change

marks the beginning of a new phase for the label (and Diffusion shop).

"What is this new phase", you might ask?

I have several new ideas to try to implement, like possibly an a/O

MP3 label (despite my usual grumbling about how the proliferation of

this kind of thing has lead to the present crisis of "information

overload." Anyway, it should be mentioned that an MP3 label

would be in addition to the existing physical label, and would be a

part of the a/O site. I would also like to take a cue from Miguel

at Conv, and provide links to downloadible PDFs of inserts for

printing. Stay tuned...

is this microphone on?

testing testing.... check check....