mAtter

New Release . Dec 16,2009 - MATTER004

artist :: Shinkei + mise_en_scene
title :: scytale

1.Cryptology
2.Cuts
3.Remodelled I
4.Remodelled II
5.Cryptology [agrandissement] _remixed by Luigi Turra
6. Dreaming Assent_remixed by Michael Hartman
7.Abstr.B.,No2_remixed by Yukitomo Hamasaki(mAtter)

Mastering : Taylor Deupree (12K) at 12K MASTERING

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ARTIST :: Shinkei + mise_en_scene
TITLE :: scytale
LABEL :: mAtter
CAT NO. :: MATTER004
PRICE :: 2,100 yen(2,000 yen without tax)
FORMAT :: CD
RELEASE DATE :: 2009.06.17

-link

shinkei : www.koyuki-sound.org
mise_en_scene : www.myspace.com/miseenscene11
Luigi Turra : www.navenight.com
Michael Hartman : www.kuronekomusic.com
Yukitomo Hamasaki : www.matter.jp
Taylor Deupree (12K) : www.12kmastering.com

ARTIST :: Andy Graydon
TITLE :: Geomancy
LABEL :: mAtter
CAT NO. :: MATTER003
PRICE :: 2,625 yen(2,500 yen without tax)
FORMAT :: CD + DVD
BARCODE :: 4941135990155
RELEASE DATE :: 2009.06.17

Geomancy

CD : Untitled (geomancy)

01. untitled_12'12
02. untitled_02'11
03. untitled_04'38
04. untitled_03'32
05. untitled_04'40
06. untitled_03'09
07. untitled_21'47

DVD

01.Farwanderer [2009] _08'43
02.Surroundings (the ship,the shoal,the shore) [2005] _06'47　play movie
03.Focal Plane (ten frames aligh on the) [2006] _23'29
04.Untitled (aina) [2008] _ 26'22


picture + sound : Andy Graydon
mix : Andy Graydon
mastering : Naph at NATURE BLISS STUDIO
photography : Andy Graydon
sleeve design : mAtter

Geomancy is a new dvd+cd collection of works about place and displacement, location and identity, and with the environment (or the "field" of field recordings) as a complex envelope of forces and meanings which light and sound can both trace and transform.

The CD contains a new long-form sound work, "Untitled (geomancy)". The piece was created from field recordings that were subject to a series of material and digital transformations: the original recordings were cut to a series of acetate phonograph records for an installation work in 2008, and these well-worn records, revealing a new landscape of their own in both sound and texture, became the basis for the composition.

The DVD collects four of Graydon's super 8 films on video. "Farwanderer", a story of finding identity in displacement, is the keystone work, revealing themes that are central to much of Graydon's film work. "Surroundings" evokes a restless sense of place more directly in images and music. "Focal Plane" is based on a live image and sound performance piece, and deals with the coming to life of an environment from the most fundamental elements of light, shape, motion -- and how these are always something less and something more than they seem. "Untitled (Aina)" is a visual field recording of sorts, showing environments on the islands of Hawaii where natural and human processes are set in friction or resonance, and accompanied by sound from the original acetate records used to create the "Untitled (geomancy)" sound composition


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Andy Graydon

Andy Graydon (b. 1971, Maui, Hawaii) is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin.
His work focuses on the interaction of sound, image, and environment. In his recent work Andy is interested in creating what he calls "Science Fiction Ecologies" by engaging with the speculative and transformational qualities within an environment. Taking the form of videos, sound works, media objects and installations this work explores the boundary zones between performance and exhibition, presence and deferral, liveness and mediation.

Graydon has presented work nationally and internationally in programs such as Ausland, Berlin, the Worldwide Video Festival, Amsterdam, and the Portland Art Center, Oregon. Recent exhibitions and performances in New York City include work at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, LMAKprojects gallery, Diapason, Art In General, Participant Inc gallery, Galeria Galou, The Dumbo Arts Festival, Millennium Film Workshop, White Box gallery, and Tonic. In 2005/2006 he was the visiting artist at the Center for Computer Music, Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Recent sound releases are available on Non Visual Objects (Vienna), Winds Measure Recordings (Brooklyn), 12k/Term (New York), EKO (Paris), On;(do) Music (Miami), The NY Society for Acoustic Ecology, and forthcoming from White_Line Editions (UK). Collaborations include performances and recordings with John Hudak, Kato Hideki, Kenneth Kirschner, sawako, Amnon Wolman, David Grubbs, Ben Owen, Zach Layton, Andre Golcalves, Brendan Murray, mpld, and Richard Garet. He is the co-founder and curator of three media and performance series in New York City: Becoming, Sonogrammar, and the upcoming LMAKseries.

www.andygraydon.net 

ARTIST :: Go Koyashiki
TITLE :: slit
LABEL :: mAtter
CAT NO. :: MATTER002
PRICE :: 2,100 yen(2,000 yen without tax)
TYPE OF FORMAT :: CD
BARCODE :: 4526180017950
RELEASE DATE :: 2008.12.10

slit

01. untitled_02'23
02. untitled_05'33
03. untitled_05'37
04. untitled_06'57
05. untitled_04'52
06. untitled_01'29
07. untitled_04'18
08. untitled_02'24
09. untitled_03'29
10. untitled_05'30

mix : Go Koyashiki+uhitokiyosue
mastering : Go Koyashiki+Isao Kumano at Phonon studio
photography : Yukitomo Hamasaki
sleeve design : mAtter

小屋敷 剛

音楽家／映画音楽家。青森県三沢市出身。バークリーメソッド、音楽史を学び、弦楽や室内楽の作曲も手がける。ギタリストとして多くのバンド活動を経験後、音楽製作をコンピュータにシフトすると同時に、エレクトロニカ、アンビエント、実験音楽、サウンドアートといったジャンルに傾倒していく。プログラミング言語を駆使した、サインウェーブによる音響合成処理による音素材と、フィールド・レコーディングの音素材を加工／編集したものを主に作曲に使用している。舞台や映画の音楽制作にも携わっており、数多くの舞台／映画作品に楽曲を提供する。

http://www.gokoyashiki.jp/

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Go Koyashiki

Musician/Film Composer. With the background of having learned Berklee method and music history, Koyoshiki composes strings ensemble and chamber music.
After having played in a few bands with various genres as a guitarist, Koyashiki started to shift his

http://www.gokoyashiki.jp/

ARTIST :: Yukitomo Hamasaki
TITLE :: d+p
LABEL :: mAtter
CATLOG NO. :: MATTER001
PRICE :: 2,100 yen（2,000 yen without tax)
TYPE OF FORMAT :: CD
BARCODE NO. :: 4526180015857
REREASE DATE :: 2008.08.16

d+p
01.untitled_01'01
02.untitled_10'36
03.untitled_08'24
04.untitled_10'55
05.untitled_05'06
06.untitled_05'40
07.untitled_10'04

mix : Yukitomo Hamasaki + uhitokiyosue
mastering : Yukitomo Hamasaki + Isao Kumano at Phonon studio
photography : Yukitomo Hamasaki
sleeve design : mAtter

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濱崎幸友の音楽には、私が評価できる要素や特徴が多く含まれています。周りの音と共存できる「主張しない」音楽です。つまり、透明感のある、窓のようなものです。
窓を通して、もしくは顕微鏡を通して風景を観る／聴くようなものです。音の風景のある要素が延ばされており、焦点がどんどん移っていくようなイメージです。遠くから、近くから聴こえる鐘、電車、虫、鳥や人間の声、飛行機などは、風によってフィルターされているように感じられます。また同時に、今現在聴こえている風景がデフォルメされ、その風景の基本構造が明らかにされているように聴こえます。それはエリック・サティの「ソクラテス」に対してのジョン・ケージの「チープ・イミテーション」のようなもので、欠くことの出来ない重要な部分のみによって構成されているように思えます。デリケートな音作り、広がって行く音色、環境音との絶妙なぶつけ合いによって、
聴く度に新しい体験のできる作品です。

クリストフ・シャルル
（サウンド・アーティスト/武蔵野美術大学映像学科准教授/環境芸術学会理事)
http://home.att.ne.jp/grape/charles/

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濱崎幸友の音楽は、小さすぎず、大きすぎず、少なすぎず、多すぎず、速すぎず、遅すぎず、強すぎず、弱すぎず、あたかもそれが最初から、そこにそのままあったかのように聴こえる。
光あるところ必ず影があるように、不可視で不可避な何ものかを常に携えながら、それらすべてをひっくるめなければ現れない、ちりちりとした境界をつくりだす。それは音のコンポジションでもなく、耳のコンポジションでもなく、しかしコンポジションとしか呼び得ない、奇妙なシンメトリーを保っている。
そんなしなやかな中庸の強度は、何かを極めようとする、保守的な心からは生まれない。抽象的でありつづけることは、自由であることのように難しい。

久保田晃弘
（サウンド・アーティスト / 多摩美術大学教授）
http://homepage2.nifty.com/~bota/
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Comments by Christophe Charles

The music created by YUKITOMO HAMASAKI includes a lot of worthy elements and features. His music is possible to put into context within the sounds that surround us,in a sense, it could be called selfless music, It's like a clear window. It's as if we're looking at  or listening to a landscape through a window or a microscope. The elements of the sound landscape are expanded to an extent in which the focus is constantly shifting.I feel as if these sounds, such as both a distant and closer bell sound, the sound of a train, insects, birds , a human being's voice, and an aircraft, are filtered with winds. At the same time, the basic structure of it's soundscape gives me an explicit sense of a landscape which has been deformes.
I appear to be that it's composed of only the integral important parts and  it's like " Cheap Imitation" by John Cage against ”Socrates" by Eric Satie.

The more you listen to it, the more you have new experiences, due to the fine clashes of his delicately crafted sounds, the diffusible tones and sound environments.

-Christophe Charles (sound artist/assistant professor of Dept. of imaging Arts in Musashino Art University)
http://home.att.ne.jp/grape/charles/

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Comments by Akihiro Kubota

The music brought forth from YUKITOMO HAMASAKI is not too small, not too big, not too little, not too much, not too fast, not too slow, not too strong, not too weak.As if it sounded that way from scratch.As if where light is, there is also shadow,　his music always has an invisible and unavoidable " something ",   and brings forth a flickering border that could not  appear without all of these elements.It's not a sound composition nor an ear composition, but if there is only one way to call it, then it's "composition" held up by some bizarre symmetry. Such an intensity of balance and suppleness couldn't have been created from a conservative spirit that is simply trying to master something.Keep being abstract, as well as keep being free, despite the difficulty.

Akihiro Kubota (Sound Artist/ Professor of Tama Art University)
http://homepage2.nifty.com/~bota/