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Artist:	WINDEREN, JANA
Title:	The Noisiest Guys On The Planet
Label:	ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Format:	Cassette
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	ASH 8.1CS

Cassette only, in an edition of 500 copies. Second edition, with alternate inlay. Recorded by Norwegian sound recordist, Jana Winderen, who also provided the illustration. Winderen writes that The Noisiest Guys On The Planet is "an ongoing investigation into the use and production of sound by decapods." The decapods or Decapoda ("ten-footed") are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crayfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns and shrimp. Most decapods are scavengers. As their name implies, all decapods have ten legs; these are the last five of the eight pairs of thoracic appendages characteristic of crustaceans. The front three pairs function as mouthparts and are generally referred to as maxillipeds, the remainder being pereiopods. In many decapods, however, one pair of legs has enlarged pincers; the claws are called chelae, so those legs may be called chelipeds. Jana Winderen researches the hidden depths of the sea with the latest technology; her work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath. The audio topography of the oceans and the depth of glacier crevasses are brought to the surface. She is occupied with finding sound from its hidden source, like blind field recording.

Artist:	WINDEREN, JANA
Title:	Surface Runoff
Label:	AUTOFACT
Format:	7"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	FACT 017EP

Great new Autofact 7" series, pressed in the UK w/ the same quality and design specs as Touch's recent 7" series. Perfect audio/art documentation, limited to 500 copies... Surface runoff is when soil is filled with excess water from rain, snowmelt, etc., and its subsequent flow of excess onto land. This cycle, and the dependence of life on water, is reflected in these hot and cold recordings made by Jana Winderen. Uniquely able to co-exist in its three natural states, of gas, liquid and solid, water is our most precious resource. Without it we die. Surface Runoff is the first in a new series of 7" releases.

Artist:	WINDEREN, JANA
Title:	Energy Field
Label:	TOUCH (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TO 073CD

Armed with four 8011 DPA hydrophones, DPA 4060 omni mics, a Telinga parabolic reflector mic and a Sound Devices 744T digital hard disk recorder, Norwegian sound recordist Jana Winderen studies and records wild places which have a particular importance in our understanding of the complexity and fragility of marine ecosystems. The recordings were made on field trips to the Barents Sea (north of Norway and Russia), Greenland and Norway, deep in crevasses of glaciers, in fjords and in the open ocean. These elements are then edited and layered into a powerful descriptive soundscape. The open spaces of Greenland, northern winds, ravens and dogs in an icy landscape provide the setting for these haunting but dynamic pieces. Sounds of crustaceans, fish such as cod, haddock, herring and pollock recorded as they are hunting, calling for a mate or orientating themselves in their environment, are all included in the mix. The result is a powerful, mesmeric journey into the unseen audio world of the frozen north.

Artist:	WINDEREN, JANA
Title:	Heated: Live In Japan
Label:	TOUCH (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	TONE 036CD

This is a blistering live performance at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, by Norwegian sound recordist, Jana Winderen, performed on October 24th, 2008. Heated: Live In Japan follows her only other release to date, a 7" vinyl limited edition, Surface Runoff, on Autofact (2008). After a spoken-word introduction from Tetsuro Yasunaga, these are improvised recordings based on her field research trips that force the power of the hidden to the surface, making the unheard audible. It's a strange world down there; a world of which we know little, replete with its own instrumentation and orchestras. Tapping into these, Jana's vision encourages us to explore the fertility of the oceans. About the artist: Jana Winderen researches the hidden depths of the sea with the latest technology; her work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath. The audio topography of the oceans and the depth of glacier crevasses are brought to the surface. She is occupied with finding sound from its hidden source, like blind field recording. Her most recent sound works include Submerge (2008), for Färgfabriken Norr in Sweden, based on hydrophone recordings in the local lake, freq_out 7 curated by CM von Hausswolff at the Happy New Ears festival in Belgium (2008), Rainbow Audio Transformation (2008) at Extra City in Antwerp, Belgium and the 6-channel sound installation +4°C - From Folgefonna To The North Sea (2007) at Sleppet during the centenary of Edvard Greig, Greig07, in Norway. Source material recorded with 2x8011 DPA hydrophones, 2x DolphinEAR/PRO hydrophones and 2x4060 DPA microphones on a Sound Devices 744T recorder in Greenland, Iceland and Norway.

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