Artist : Seth Horvitz
Title : Eight Studies For Automatic Piano
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2011
Date : 07/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 08
Label : Line
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length : 45:45 min
Size : 76,8 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Study No. 14: Arch Study For The 05:18
Highest Eight Notes
02.Study No. 4: Sixteen Diatonic 02:22
Glissandi Moving At Harmonic Rates
03.Study No. 2: An Approximate Series Of 06:05
Approximate Harmonic Series
04.Study No. 13: Echoes 03:57
05.Study No. 21: Bells 05:20
06.Study No. 1: Octaves, Systematically 05:46
Filled And Folded
07.Study No. 29: Tentacles 04:26
08.Study No. 99: Strumming Machine 12:31
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45:45 min
Seth Horvitz (b. 1973, Los Angeles) is
an interdisciplinary artist, musician,
and designer whose work revolves around
the perception of sound and the
idiosyncratic behavior of machines.
Since the mid-1990s, he has produced and
performed electronic music under the
name Sutekh for dozens of record labels
including Creaked (Switzerland), Leaf
(UK), Soul Jazz (UK), Orthlorng Musork
(USA), Force Inc./Mille Plateaux
(Germany), and his own Context Free
Media. He is also one half of the
spastic dance-theater-self-help duo
Pigeon Funk with Joshua Kit Clayton.
With strong roots in dance music, most
notably techno, Sutekh explores
uncomfortable areas where that
definition makes no sense, drawing on
influences ranging from Jamaican dub,
free improv, and noise to musique
concrΦte and the classical avant-garde.
Weaving between the meticulous and
messy, abrasive and tranquil, rational
and absurd, his work harnesses an
expansive sonic palette that exploits
the beauty and unpredictability of the
recording medium itself.
As a remixer, Sutekh has reinterpreted
the work of dozens of artists including
Norweigan Grammy Award winning singer-
songwriter Hanne Hukkelberg, micro-sound
artist Alva Noto (aka Carsten Nicolai),
pioneer of conceptual art Lawrence
Weiner, and the eight piece Klezmer
ensemble KLEZ-X. In 2006, the Leaf Label
compiled twenty-three of his remixes
into a double-disc and four-LP set
entitled ôBorn Again,ö described by the
BBC as ôgorgeous minimalism paired to an
unstoppable propulsiveness and a
brilliant deployment of texture thatÆs
so tactile it prompts feelings of
synaesthesia.ö
As a live performer, Sutekh has appeared
at festivals, museums, concert halls,
and nightclubs around the world,
including Mutek (Montreal), Sonßr
(Barcelona), Dis-patch (Belgrade),
Elektrodienos (Vilnius), Croma
(Tenerife), Numero-Projecta (Lisbon),
C-Sides (Jerusalem), Bios (Athens),
Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), the San
Francisco Electronic Music Festival,
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San
Francisco), SFMOMA, Cleveland Center for
Contemporary Art, Sydney Opera House,
Womb (Tokyo), Zouk (Singapore), and
Ostgut/Berghain (Berlin).
Horvitz has been an active member of the
Bay Area electronic music community
since the early 1990s, conducting weekly
radio shows, deejaying at numerous
renegade parties, and co-organizing
several notorious club events such as
Static, Sabotage, and Trouble. Though he
began his musical adventures as a self-
taught misuser of electronics, in recent
years he has gravitated towards a more
studied approach to composition, taking
private courses in piano performance and
music theory and completing scores for
several independent films. He holds a
BachelorÆs degree in Cognitive Science
from UC Berkeley (1995) and recently
earned an MFA in Electronic Music and
Recording Media from Mills College,
where he composed a series of works for
computer-controlled piano among many
other projects.
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