NTR018 - Ben Owen - "Birds and Water, 1"

Price is 7$ North America / 10$ World

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North America $7.00 USD World $10.00 USD

#1 : ( Notice #18 ) Ben Owen : " Birds and Water, 1 " (C94)

Those with a certain taste will be familiar with Ben Owen’s subtle yet stunning design work with his Brooklyn-based Winds Measure Recordings imprint, which also releases his own carefully crafted music in both collaborative and solo form. These are two masterfully textured sidelong pieces exemplifying his attention to craft, process, and detail at the most painstaking levels, while still embracing the sonic imprecision of the cassette tape medium.

"These recordings were made on residency with The Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY during May 2010. This was my third and—unknown to me at the time—last residency, as the Center has now closed. While two of three residencies were in partial an audio/video collaboration with Justin Lincoln, the Birds and Water series is my main body of work created at ETC. The recordings are both sound and sound and image based pieces using David Jones' image processing system. ETC expanded operations in 1974 with the first Jones Colorizer, and in 1975 with a set of keyers, a multi-input syncable sequencer and a bank of oscillators, all designed and constructed by David Jones. The analog system modules coupled with several external op amp generators are heard in these sessions. Numerous patches and variations of each were recorded in extended durations. Side A was recorded direct to cassette tape. Both recordings are presented in their unedited duration.

Thanks to Hank Rudolph, Sherry and Ralph Hocking, Justin Lincoln, Giuseppe Ielasi and Evan Lindorff-Ellery."

- Ben Owen

Tracklist :

Side A : cs-100507-s1 (46:47)

Side B : 100509-07 (47:39)

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. This release features collaborative artwork by Owen and Evan Lindorff-Ellery.

Cover art silk screen printed by the fine folks at Sonnenzimmer print studio in Chicago. Thanks to them for their help.

- Silk screen printed sleeve designed by Lindorff-Ellery. Two inserts included featuring video stills by Owen

- An edition of 200

- Type II Chrome cassette tape, C94

Larger and additional art is available using these links :

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Sound samples :

http://soundcloud.com/notice-recordings

Copies of some tapes in our back catalogue are also available. Contact us. Deals may be had.

Items of Interest :

- TOUR Travis Bird and Evan Lindorff-Ellery (and sometimes as Dense Reduction) are still on tour with Super-8mm filmmaker Jaap Pieters. Our tour is about half over. Currently writing this from Pittsburgh. So far we've received wonderful reception from the films and sound. If you're in or near a city that finds us making a stop, please come by for the screening. The shows are cheap or by donation.

- Photographs of the tour may be found on Evan's blog and the "official" tour blog directed by Jaap.

- Forthcoming releases by Sound Collision Alliance, Josh Burke, Illusion of Safety, John Cage's "One3", Derek Ho's string quartets, Anne Guthrie, Jez Riley French, Waterwheel/Windmill (a Kiln-related project), Seth Cluett, Ryan Jewell and more.

- Our website is currently still (still !) in the works. Nathan McLaughlin has been an invaluable guide during this venture into unknown territory, which is website coding. Seems to be on hold for the moment...

Updates, News *UPDATED*

Some tapes are still available, specifically the two just announced, so please send us an email for purchase if you're interested. We also have some back stock available at discounted prices.

*Paypal and contact is: noticerecordings [at] gmail [dot] com

A few things which have developed recently and are worth mentioning here :

Travis Bird and Evan Lindorff-Ellery will be touring with Dutch filmmaker Jaap Pieters, playing sound and music to his silent Super-8 films. This is a collaboration which developed after Travis' meeting with him at the Media City Film Festival in Windsor, Ontario. We will be playing some Dense Reduction material, but primarily more improv-based sound works to accompany his films.

In other news, an email-conducted interview by Foxy Digitalis / Digitalis Industries has been posted on their site. A fine example of how we see things, now:

http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=17044

The Wire magazine has posted two of our tapes on their "Sleeves Received" blog, featuring "gems" received in their "mailbag". A great, simple blog, highlighting some of the fantastic printing and design work on so many records, CDs, and cassette tapes these days. Here: http://thewiremagazine.tumblr.com/post/9921335615/the-wire-magazine-notice-recordings

Thank you

Notice #16 & #19 - Evan Lindorff-Ellery & Tiny Music

Two new tapes for the late Summer

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Prices are 6.5$ North America / 9.5$ World

Sale : Both for 11$ North America / 16$ World

noticerecordings [at] gmail [dot] com

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Shipping Costs, Multiple Item Deals

NTR016 - North America $6.50 USD NTR019 - North America $6.50 USD NTR016 - World $9.50 USD NTR019 - World $9.50 USD NTR016&NTR019 - North America $11.00 USD NTR016&NTR019 - World $16.00 USD

#1 : ( Notice #16 ) Evan Lindorff-Ellery : " The Tea Merchant and His Atmospheres " (C90)

Notice’s own resident artist returns with his second solo tape. The Tea Merchant and His Atmospheres is a fully realized and personal work of minimal, expressionist sound art that incorporates elements from the artist’s life, including field recordings from his home and travels as well as layers of at-home processing, including the use of radio static, room tone, and cassettes that he’s developed as half of Dense Reduction. Minimal yet highly textured sound environments run up against each other loftily like waves against foreign shores. As the pieces deepen over the course of each side, Lindorff-Ellery unfolds the mysterious connections that make up a sense of home and a sense of self. Non-narrative, nonrepresentational, closely observed and resolutely analog. Through the use of these elements, Lindorff-Ellery is mapping his life and environments. - Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery. Pro-printed on heavy stock. - An edition of 100. - Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire.

Larger cover art is available using this link :

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#2 : ( Notice #19 ) Tiny Music : " Epitaph " (C32)

Originally based in Chicago, Tiny Music developed a uniquely organic performance style, laying out an instrumental smorgasbord on the floor and performing acoustically—an intimate throwback that put the listener in direct contact with the band. In recorded form,Epitaph reveals even more of Tiny Music’s sense of structure and dynamics that makes their music so fascinating. The two sidelong pieces flow, as through a house or a silent film, from one musical doorway to the next—sometimes foreboding, sometimes flowering into complex or even composed musicality, but always dense and colorful. Side A meanders from its appealing din into a low drone, and Side B weaves abstract melodies through a hectic sound marketplace, with winding, squeaking, and even laughter dotting the mix, interspersed between plaintive, dark motifs. Tiny Music’s homey clatter on Epitaph uniquely mixes group improvisation, folk tradition, and pure exploration. -Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery. Pro-printed on heavy stock. - An edition of 100. - Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire.

Larger cover art is available using this link :

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Sound samples :

http://soundcloud.com/notice-recordings/sets/evan-lindorff-ellery-the-tea/

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Copies of the following tapes are available :

NTR007 - Dense Reduction, Shadows of Shipwrecks in Napkins on Shore (few) NTR011 – Yellow Crystal Star, Pathway To Celestial Towers (few) NTR014 - Godseye, No More Cake Here (few) NTR015 - Organ of Species, Random Selection NTR017 - Nathan McLaughlin, Echolocation #5

If you’re interested in any of these, let us know. Deals may be had.

Items of Interest :

- Dense Reduction duo Travis Bird and Evan Lindorff-Ellery will be performing soundtrack accompaniment to Jaap Pieters' films during the month of October. This will start in New York City, briefly travelling to a barn in Vermont, and then back South through Pennsylvania, Ohio and finishing in Chicago. DR will also be embarking on a tour throughout parts of the Southern and Western United States during the month of January.

- Forthcoming releases by Ben Owen, Sound Collision Alliance, Josh Burke, Illusion of Safety, John Cage's "One3", Derek Ho's string quartets, Anne Guthrie, Jez Riley French and many more.

- We have been featured in a series about tape labels based in Chicago by The Onion's online AV Club. This video interview can be seen here : http://www.avclub.com/chicago/articles/notice-recordings,54973/ The interview occurred last Spring.

- Notice Recordings co-owner and sound and visual artist Evan Lindorff-Ellery currently has his drawings featured in Jez Riley French's online art zine. They may be viewed here : http://issuu.com/engravedglass/docs/tristesse_august_issue_?viewMode=magazine

- Our website is currently still in the works. Nathan McLaughlin has been an invaluable guide during this venture into unknown territory, which is website coding.

Evan Lindorff-Ellery's Drawings on Tristesse Engraved

" Summer Travels Abound "

Notice Recordings artist and co-owner Evan James Lindorff-Ellery currently has drawings featured in the new issue of Tristesse Engraved, an online art magazine curated by sound artist and composer Jez Riley French. Some of these drawings have been featured on Notice Recordings' release artwork, and all of them have been sourced from similar frames of mind.

Links embedded in the text above.
Stay tuned for more and take care.

Update : Godseye, Organ of Species

In the works are two tapes by Brad Rose and Eden Hemming's Godseye project, and Scott "Cloud" Johnson's new alias Organ of Species. These should hopefully be available by the end of the year.

(Notice #14) : Godseye - "No More Cake Here" (C40)

(Notice #15) : Organ of Species - "Random Selection" (C30)

We also just noticed that Tomentosa has copies of Evan Lindorff-Ellery's tape "Conflicts and Interrelationships" (NTR002). This is sold out at Discriminate Music, and we don't have any copies left. So they're the last ones.

Look for more Lindorff-Ellery, on a forthcoming project with Travis Bird, featuring solo works, and on the solo tape "The Tea Merchant and His Atmospheres".

Here is a preview of the Godseye tape, as posted on Foxy Digitalis / Peyote Tapes :

Bird & Burke video

Here is a quick montage video of the Bird & Burke duo peforming at WNUR last winter. An amazing day of fog rolling in over Lake Michigan , with chunks of ice and snow floating on the undulating surface. Kind of funny to see this during the summer.
Be sure to attend their performance at the Hideout tonight around 10PM. The new record on Complacency will be sold at this show !

Montage by Dan Burke, footage by Evan Lindorff-Ellery.

A quick excerpt of a "review" by Peter Margasak of the Offstrings record : "... the real-time activity is beautifully complemented by clouds of effects-enhanced harmony, drone, and texture. In some cases it's clear that a guitar is the main sound source, and in others it's much harder to be sure."

FOR SALE; Illusion OF Safety "Repairs" Reissue is now available. All other tapes still available.

The classic Illusion Of Safety cassette tape originally issued on Sound Of Pig in 1988 is now available after some delay regarding the printing. Finally, we found an excellent and friendly printer : Kill Hatsumomo right here in Chicago. She did a great job. The cover art is the same as the original, given to us by Dan Burke, except this time it's silkscreen printed. The paper is heavyweight. The whole package looks great ! We have about 30 of these for sale from us, from an Edition of 50. Dan has some as well.





This is the same price as the other tapes : 6$ for North America and 9$ for the World.
Please Paypal the money to noticerecordings[at]gmail[dot]com. Thanks to those who pre-ordered. Please contact for other options of payment.


All the other tapes are currently available as well, pictured below.
If you buy 3 tapes, we will give you one for free. Buy all 6 tapes for 30$ including worldwide shipping. Selling tapes funds more releases, and we have lots to release !


Notices #3 & #4 are pictured above in two different ways. Along with the previous 2 Notices, the Travis Bird & Daniel Burke (Illusion of Safety) tape, "Negentropy", is also listed.
Click on each image for enlarged versions.
The first four cassettes pictured are letterpress printed ink drawings by E. Lindorff-Ellery, 2 panel fold-over inserts on heavy-weight, textured stock. "Repairs" is, as mentioned above, silkscreen printed.