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Artist:	YUI, MIKI
Title:	Lupe Luep Peul Epul
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 003CD

"The latest release from sound/installation artist Miki Yui. Miki was born in Tokyo, Japan and currently resides in Cologne, Germany, presenting her work in galleries, on CD, and as soundtracks to theatre/dance performance and film productions. Lupe Luep Peul Epul is an extension of her well received 1999 release small sounds (BMB Lab, Cologne) taking sounds recorded in various spaces, often sampler processed natural/acoustically based, and woven them into intricate multi-layered compositions. These acoustic fragments are meant to fill in the sonic environmental gaps and create a new space that implies a layer of memories. Miki's sounds mirror memory loops -- bits and pieces of past sights, visions, feelings, echoed in warm sine tones, clicks, grit, and vibrating timbres -- recalled and then merged into the environment to return as new memories that let the listener sink into the moment of listening, creating a loop. This work is a loop for listening to our environment. It is designed to be played back in loop/random mode and at a quiet, transparent level."

Artist:	DUUL_DRV/NIBO/VEND
Title:	Clean
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 011CD

"Duul_Drv is S. Arden Hill, sound artist and painter, who explores the environment of miniature re-juxtaposition. His sound work combines various forms of processed audible texture, ranging from phonographic recordings to abstract and pop ambience. These textures are processed with lo-tech software, manifesting slow and organic compositions. Nibo is active in sound, design and visual art. Many of his works including his multi-media installation pieces focus on scientific or mathematical themes. Vend is Alex Peverett and Joe Gilmore. Over the past three years, they have have worked together under various project names. Vend was the result of a mutual interest in understated generative/algorithmic audio design. vend.clean consists entirely of sounds constructed using various forms of audio synthesis."

Artist:	CHARTIER, RICHARD
Title:	2 Locations
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 013CD

"While Chartier is known for his quiet and subtle works incorporating silence and implied silence, this pair of compositions presents quite audible and apparent constantly shifting sounds. These pieces contain no points of silence. Location especially presents a departure for Chartier. During the process of creating these works he moved from outside of Washington, DC to Baltimore, MD. This shift in location can be felt between the two pieces. Richard Chartier (b.1971) has produced critically acclaimed recordings for labels including Trente Oiseaux (Germany), Line (USA), Meme (Japan), and Fallt (Ireland), as well collaborative works with Nosei Sakata (*0),Taylor Deupree, and Kim Cascone on 12k (USA). His work explores the relationship between sound, silence, focus, and the act of listening." Last copies, deleted item.

Artist:	CHARTIER, RICHARD
Title:	Set or Performance
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 018CD

"LINE is proud to present Set or Performance, the first live performance documentation of Richard Chartier." "My live performance differs perhaps most significantly from my recorded work by virtue of an increased audibility and activity. The sounds used are selected from a collection of pre-designed sounds, culled from past compositions and unreleased works but chosen with attention to the space and situation in which they will be presented as part of a new performative composition. In this sense, a live piece works to bring sounds into new and more immediately dynamic relations, creating a compositional outline within which a degree of space exists for immediate and on-site improvisational effects and reworkings." -- Richard Chartier.

Artist:	VEND
Title:	Wiel
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 021CD

"Line is proud to present Wiel, the first full length from the collaborative project Vend, by Joe Gilmore and Alex Peverett. Wiel is a selection of compositions focusing on a subtle, delicate use of acoustic and synthetic sound in both abstract and linear form. Shorter pieces of acoustic events flutter about the stereo field with almost accidental design and are related to Vend's use of playful rhythmic compositions. The two longer compositions, 'Wiel vii/2' and '-vi/2' take their form from the sonification of visually complex spiral patterns."

Artist:	DOUBLENDS VERT
Title:	Cistern
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 024CD

"Cistern was made in a two million gallon underground reservoir at Fort Worden, a de-commissioned military base overlooking the entrance to the Puget Sound. The space's resonance extended the instruments in a way similar to electronic processing. The acoustic properties of the cistern created new sonic relationships to which the group applied their musical concept. Cistern captures Doublends Vert's first experiences in the sound-world of the cistern. Doublends Vert formed in 2003 through a common interest in creating restrained, acoustic music exploring the timbre blending possibilities of the violin, accordion, and clarinet."

Artist:	TIETCHENS, ASMUS
Title:	Z-Menge
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 025CD

"The new installment of the continuing Mengen series from influential German electronic music pioneer Asmus Tietchens. Line will be releasing the subsequent works in this series. Zeta-Menge means Zeta quantity. 'Another approach to ultimate situations, nearly stillness before becoming silent as Samuel Beckett taught us. End Game. Microtones and structures are only the tools. The Night Of Lead revisited...' Asmus Tietchens first released his unique electronic music in 1980, but created works since the late 1960s. Since then he has produced over 37 full length solo works and more cutting edge recordings on numerous international labels dealing with electronic sound and concrete music. Some of his over 20 full length collaborative projects include the ongoing Kontakt der Junglinge with Thomas Koner. Tietchens' focus is the manipulation of found sound in ways suggested by the material itself. German label Die Stadt has begun to reissue his groundbreaking early works on CD in limited edition. His latest critically acclaimed project, a series based strictly on sine tones and white noise is the Mengen series released by Ritornell/Mille Plateaux (Alpha-, Beta- and Gamma-Menge)."

Artist:	CHARTIER + TAYLOR DEUPREE, RICHARD
Title:	Specification.Fifteen
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 027CD

"LINE is proud to present the first full-length collaboration by Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree since 1999's Spec. (12k). For this collaboration, sound artists Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree were invited by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, to create a new live work inspired by the Seascapes series of renowned Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto on the occasion of his retrospective exhibition. The result is this live recording, Specification.Fifteen. This work premiered on March 30, 2006 in front of the curved panoramic window of the Museum's Lerner Room as the sun set across the city1s skyline. Specification.Fifteen evokes the stillness and opposing yet related spaces of Sugimoto's Seascapes, which suggest infinitesimal change and variation under a seemingly uniform surface. Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing." -- Hiroshi Sugimoto

Artist:	STEINBRUCHEL
Title:	Stage
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 028CD

"Stage is Steinbr�chel's second full-length solo release on Line. The album contains 10 scenes that move between warm organic and melodic digitalised sounds and cold crystalline-like sparks. The sounds and compositions are even more detailed and have a more melodic approach then previous recordings by Steinbr�chel. Single isolated and stretched tones are structured together with smaller loops and particles of clicks and noises into dense atmospheres. Parts of the sounds used in several scenes are based on piano recordings by Bernd Schurer and/or guitar recordings by Tomas Korber. For the first time, Steinbr�chel has used and processed recordings of acoustical instruments to this extent in his compositions. Stage brings to life once again a collection of precise and carefully composed structures and textures, which are formed into different scenes where they all interweave with each other. All the tracks were composed in 2005 for the interactive dance performance HYBRIDOME, produced by Avventure in Elicoterro Prodotti -- Ariella Vidach AiEP. The tracks on the CD release are in a different order and are also structured differently than the actual still unfinished dance performance."

Artist:	PHILLIPS, TOMAS
Title:	Intermission/Six Feuilles
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 029CD

"This work was created out of the desire to wed acoustic and digital instrumentation in a particular compositional field, one that allows room for (a)tonal and silent gestures alike. Piano and koto are accompanied by the shifting texture of physically manipulated organic materials, in combination with minimal electronics whose function is to engage rather than to counter the non-digital elements. More than an homage to Morton Feldman, the title is a direct reference to his own series of 'Intermissions,' from which Intermission/Feuilles draws much of its decisiveness and inspiration. Tomas Phillips (b. 1969) is a composer, novelist and teacher whose sound work focuses on improv performance and minimalism through composition."

Artist:	DOMNITCH + DMITRY GELFAND + VARIOUS ARTISTS, EVELINA
Title:	Camera Lucida
Label:	LINE
Format:	DVD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	LINE 030DVD

"LINE is proud to announce the release of its first DVD, Camera Lucida. The project by Russian/American installation and video artists, Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand and developed in collaboration with scientific laboratories in Japan, Germany, Russia and Belgium, Camera Lucida (chamber of light or lucidity) is a 3-dimensional sonic observatory that directly transforms sound into light by employing a phenomenon known as sonoluminescence: ultrasound, propagating within a liquid, triggers the formation and implosion of micro-bubbles that reach temperatures as high as are found on the sun, and emit light in the shape of sound waves. The authors of the installation, Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, joined forces with multiple sound artists to create the sonochemical compositions presented on this DVD. This DVD also contains a data partition with uncompressed high resolution audio files of all the works. Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand create sensory immersion environments that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. Having dismissed all forms of fixative and recording media, Domnitch and Gelfand's installations exist as ever-transforming phenomena offered for observation. Because these rarely seen manifestations take place directly in front of the observer without being distorted and flattened onto a screen, they often serve to vastly extend the observer's sensory envelope." Artists: Taylor Deupree + Richard Chartier, Alva Noto, Evelina Domnitch + Dmitry Gelfand, Alexander Kaline, Asmus Tietchens, Kenneth Kirschner, Matmos, Coh, & Carter Tutti. Please note that this is a PAL-format DVD, not the North American standard NTSC format. 12K's note about this is as follows: "Due to the detailed and subtle visual nature of this work and phenomenon the artists have chosen to use PAL over NTSC encoding to maintain the maximum resolution possible for the movie and sound files. This DVD is region-free and can be played on any computer DVD drive. No region switching is necessary for television screen viewing, it can only playback on a PAL or multi-system DVD player."

Artist:	FRIEDL, HERIBERT
Title:	trac[k]_t
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 031CD

"This is the final work in the series encompassing ataraxia, bradycard, trans~, and back forward that uses the cymbalon as source material. The process of working with this hammered stringed instrument for this series has been a 'discussion' between the instrument and myself, an exploration of traditional playing, digital processing, and mixtures of both. I feel that trac[k]_t should convey the scope of using an instrument without losing both its intrinsic nature of engagement as well as the sound of how it is played. Being a conceptual work, rather than a kind of 'tract,' the process of this recording has become a kind of instruction for myself to understand not only my work with this instrument in of itself but also its communion with digital processes. The work is to be continuation in sound from my previous works. While not a repetition of ideas and sounds, it has become more of a search for the essence of this instrument. The way of working with it to come to a satisfiable conclusion and summation. Heribert Friedl lives in Vienna where he studied sculpture at the University of Applied Arts. In his exhibitions he has been working with scents and its non visual phenomena -- sometimes in combination with sounds. He has had exhibitions, sound performances and projects in Hungary, Germany, England, Italy, USA, Cuba and Austria. Since 1998 he has worked solo and in collaboration with artists such as Bernhard Gunter, John Norman (Radian) and Dale Lloyd. In addition to the utilization of digital sounds and field recordings, Friedl been using sounds of cymbalon and zither in his most recent series of works. Friedl follows the kind of minimalist aesthetics that composes with few sounds, small events, and nearly imperceptible movements. Despite its seeming simplicity, Friedl's is a very delicate kind of music: each and every sound bears enormous significance and have to bear the responsibility for the whole work. After numerous mp3-releases and albums on such labels Trente Oiseaux (Germany) and and/OAR, he founded his label Nonvisualobjects with Raphael Moser in 2005. Nonvisualobjects releases works by renowned minimalist artists and composers Steve Roden, Richard Chartier, Roel Meelkop, Bernhard Gunter, among others."

Artist:	DEUPREE/CHRISTOPHER WILLITS, TAYLOR
Title:	Listening Garden
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 032CD

"The latest collaboration between artists Taylor Deupree (12k) and Christopher Willits (12k, Ghostly International). Often known for their skittering and melodic blend of guitar and synthesizer, Deupree and Willits are heard here creating 'ambient music' in one of its true definitions of spatial 'wallpaper' sound, although in Listening Garden's case, the walls are glass and sky. Listening Garden was originally developed as a sonic alteration of two quiet indoor/outdoor tea spaces installed at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media in Yamaguchi, Japan, in June of 2004. The audio installation was designed to heighten visitor's senses and alter the sonic space as they sat, read, or had quiet conversation amongst the trees. Taylor Deupree and Christopher Willits composed a number of short, randomly sequenced multi-channel soundworks using guitar and electronics. The fragments of sounds, while both gentle and subtly rich, are intentionally weathered, eroded and understated, generating a sonic bridge between the digital work of sound and the audiosphere of nature.The audio on this CD is built from location recordings taken in the garden over the course of a week during the exhibit. The environmental and incidental sounds played a large part of the physical work and are captured and utilized in the recording. Listening Garden is meant to enhance the experience of simply sitting and enjoying one's place in time. This CD is best heard in a similar situation and at a low background level. Headphones are not recommended."

Artist:	TIETCHENS, ASMUS
Title:	η-Menge
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 033CD

"Line is proud to present η-Menge (Eta-Menge), the final installment of the critically acclaimed Mengen series from influential German electronic music pioneer Asmus Tietchens. Eta-Menge means eta quantity. Based strictly on sine tones and white noise, the Mengen series was released by Ritornell/Mille Plateaux as the CDs Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Gamma-Menge and then continued on LINE as the CDs Epsilon, Zeta, and Eta-Menge. Asmus Tietchens' first released his unique electronic music in 1980, but created works since the late 1960s. Since then, he has produced over 37 full length solo works and more cutting edge recordings on numerous international labels dealing with electronic sound and concrete music. Some of his over 20 full length collaborative projects include works with Merzbow, Achim Wollscheid, Vidna Obmana, Richard Chartier, and Kontakt der Junglinge with Thomas Koner. Tietchens' focus is the manipulation of found sound in ways suggested by the material itself. German label Die Stadt has begun to reissue his ground-breaking early works on CD in limited edition. In both 2003 and 2006, Tietchens was awarded the Karl-Sczuka-Preis f�r Akustische Kunst by S�dwestrundfunk (SWR)."

Artist:	BASINSKI + RICHARD CHARTIER, WILLIAM
Title:	Untitled 1-3
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 034CD

"New updated and remastered version of William Basinski and Richard Chartier's universally acclaimed work Untitled 1-2. Originally released in 2004 on the noted Japanese label Spekk, the original edition of 1300 sold out within 2 months. This new version Untitled 1-3 includes two new works 'Untitled 3' and 'Untitled 3 (reprise)' and has been remastered with care by Taylor Deupree. 'Untitled 1' contains Chartier elements from 1991-1992 and Basinski elements from 2003 using the Voyetra 8. 'Untitled 2' contains Chartier elements from 2003 and Basinski tape loops from 1981 and 2001 using the Voyetra 8. 'Untitled 3/3(reprise)' contain Chartier elements from 1993 and the 2006 sound installation Mixing Desk commissioned for the Bleeding Edge Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California and Basinski elements from 1997 using the Voyetra 8. 'Untitled 3' mixed by Basinski. 'Untitled 3(reprise)' mixed by Chartier. 'Richard and I became friends after meeting at Tonic in NY when he and Taylor Deupree did a show with Carsten Nicolai. He contacted me about a possible collaboration and sent me a track which I thought was very rich and harmonically similar to something I had recently been working on, a very swampy, dark piece I was calling The Garden of Brokenness after a very beautiful new installation by James Elaine. I popped it into pro tools with my piece and something really special was happening, so I spent a few weeks weeding my track, trying different things... eventually I stripped it way down and we were both quite happy with the result. Richard came up to NY and we fine tuned it a bit together and it was done. Since the piece had changed quite a bit we decided not to use that title for this piece. He then sent me another one and again, it just worked with something else I had been working on... the second track came together very quickly, and there you have it! I love Richard's work... very elegant, like the man!' --William Basinski."

Artist:	CHARTIER, RICHARD
Title:	Further Materials
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 035CD

"Line is proud to release this collection of recordings from numerous international compilations from 2002-2005. This collection is a wide range of sound works from the ultra-minimal whispers of 'Composition09.01' to the subtle harmonics and musicality of 'How Things Change' to the loud violent distortion of 'Tempt' (a piece only performed a handful of times for noisy spaces -- for example, this one was in attempt to drown out Akufen's set filtering from an adjoining area). Many of these original compilations are out of print or hard to find editions and 'Untitled' makes its debut on CD from its original vinyl appearance. 'Specification.Eleven' and 'Specification.Fourteen' are both part of the continuing collaborative works with Taylor Deupree. This CD serves as a follow-up to 2002's Other Materials."

Artist:	SCHAEFER, JANEK
Title:	Extended Play
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 036CD

"Line is proud to release the latest audio work from British composer and installation artist Janek Schaefer, based on his installation of the same title. 'Red is the color of Life, of Death, and of Love. Scarlett, my first child, was born in 2005, and since then I have been very aware of how lucky we all are. I have been constantly comparing this to the fact that my mother was born in Warsaw in 1942 -- the epicenter of World War II. How opposite can two beginnings be? This inspired me to produce the Extended Play installation, which continuously and positively celebrates hope and new beginnings, for child survivors in all situations around the world. The original idea for the composition, came from learning about the 'Jodoform' system of secret musical messages, that were broadcast by the BBC World Service, during World War II. The music they played was given a particular meaning, which was interpreted by The Polish Underground. I discovered from the original Jodoform log book that the lovely Polish folk song 'Tango Łyczakowskie' was broadcast on the day my mother was born. The song describes how children in 1918, had been forced to take up arms, in defense of their town. From this tune, I chose a short rising musical phrase, and with my arranger Michael Jennings, developed a 10-minute score. Each of the three solo parts was then recorded separately, edited, and cut onto vinyl. In the gallery, 3 x Cello EPs, 3 x Piano EPs, and 3 x Violin EPs are played at either 33, 45, or 78rpm using nine retro record players. These play continuously, and each was modified to stop playing briefly in response to the audience moving around the exhibition. This has the effect of changing and extending the composition, so that it is never the same again."

Artist:	RODEN, STEVE
Title:	Airforms
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 022CD

"Line is proud to present the latest full length recording from visual and sound artist Steve Roden. Airforms was first presented at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [Scottsdale, Arizona] in April of 2004. The work was inspired by a group of experimental houses designed by Wallace Neff in the 1940s using a process he called airform construction. The houses were built by spraying concrete over an inflated balloon structure. Inspired by the nautilus sea shell, the houses were an investigation into the aesthetic possibilities of structures formed by air, and the psychological effects of living inside a kind of organic space. The installation attempted to reflect Neff's ideas in the use of air as an inspirational skeleton and physical presence in the construction of the forms as well as the audio. Five objects were built by laying plaster over small balloons. The sound work was created using the transformed sound of a breath blown through an old wooden organ pipe. Both essentially built from Roden's own breath. The original multi-channel audio work consisted of five small speakers, each placed within a single plaster form. The version for this CD has been re-organized for stereo listening. The lack of narrative structure attempts to create an audio space in line with Neff's architectural interests in the airform projects."

Artist:	CHESSMACHINE
Title:	Live In Los Angeles
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 023CD

"The collaborative performance project Chessmachine by Richard Chartier (US) and Ivan Pavlov (aka COH) (RUS). An unusual release for Line, Chessmachine's live sound is alternately loud and quiet, mysterious and genuinely unsettling. A certain humor shapes the conceptual dialectics of the Chessmachine live experience. Their interplay suggests the historical confrontation of East and West; an austere and chilling tete-a-tete over the chessboard that reconstructs the somber milieu of a bygone Europe, even as it conveys a kind of absurdist levity through the rehearsed performance of these roles. The use of MAC and PC computer operating systems by Chartier and Pavlov, respectively, becomes the late-20th century manifestation of classic Cold War combatants. Through their engagement, a process of sonic and aesthetic displacement unfolds, such that one player's strategic manipulation of sound begins slowly to affect and then determinatively shape the compositional technique of the other."

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Artist:	MEELKOP, ROEL
Title:	(To Be Announced)
Label:	LINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LINE 010CD