ALLEN RAVENSTINE – ELECTRON MUSIC/ SHORE LEAVE

Posted on 2021-12-06

Waveshaper Media is thrilled to present Electron Music/Shore Leave, a new LP by former Pere Ubu synthesist and electronic music trailblazer, Allen Ravenstine. The LP is comprised of two EPs (1 per vinyl side), the first two parts in Raventine’s new Tyranny of Fiction series. Waveshaper Media first came into contact with Ravenstine when we interviewed him in 2012 for our modular synthesizer documentary I Dream Of Wires.

For those in the know, Allen Ravenstine has been one of the most creative synthesizer players of the past forty-plus years. Ravenstine started out in the mid-1970s experimenting in his Cleveland apartment with an analogue EML 200 synthesizer, eventually creating a piece in 1975 that became known as Terminal Drive. While he had no intention of releasing his compositions, word got out about the kind of sounds he was experimenting with, which led to an invitation to join pioneering “avant garage” group Pere Ubu for the recording of the group’s first 45, “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.” He soon joined Pere Ubu full-time, bringing to the band’s sound unpredictable textures, effects, bleeps, squalls, pulsating washes of sound—whatever he felt could enhance the soundscape of the band’s performances and recordings.

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DONNACHA COSTELLO – TOGETHER IS THE NEW ALONE

Posted on 2021-12-06

For its 20th anniversary, Keplar presents an absolute milestone in the history of IDM and ambient music for the first time in its definite form: »Together Is the New Alone« by Donnacha Costello was originally released on Mille Plateaux in 2001 as the second LP under the Irish producer’s given name and firmly established him as one of the leading artists in the field of forward-thinking electronic music after he had primarily made a name for himself with house and techno releases under the Jayrod moniker. This vinyl reissue with an entirely new artwork comprises all ten tracks originally only included on the CD version in their edited and final form in which they were last presented on the digital re-release under the name »Together,« remastered by Stephan Mathieu and self-published by Costello, in 2015.

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TONY LEWIS – NOISE! YOURSELF, ALSO DISTRAIN

Posted on 2021-12-06

Tony Lewis presents four new large scale vibrant drawings, where graphite and coloured pencils generate dynamic shapes on paper, displayng the artist’s signature glyph alphabet, influenced by his fascination with stenography Continuing to explore the Gregg Shorthand system and its connection to sound and language, Lewis uses shorthand notation that translates sounds
into curving and bisecting lines. Lewis develops his exploration of ontology and the epistemology of language into a wider investigation that reflects upon the hierarchical systems within society and the complexity of the black American experience. The Gregg Shorthand system is a light-line stenography consisting of a phonetic shorthand based on elliptical and bisecting lines, invented by John Robert Gregg in 1888. It was the most popular form of pen stenography in the United States and is still in use today, albeit less so than before due to mainstream digitalization.

Opposite – Noise, 2021

Exhibition runs through to January 12th, 2022

MASSIMODECARLO
55 South Audley Street
W1K 2QH
London

www.massimodecarlo.com

  

AMANDA WALL – BUTTERFLIES

Posted on 2021-12-06

A figure lies back, their hand behind their head, head turned to the side like they’re trying to see you, their neck cranked. Long legs lanky, and then big feet, sprawling toward the viewer, in a colour field haze that has the momentum of distorted perspective Wall is so known for. The feet coming at you, right there, toes that fit in your mouth. “There are definitely fetishistic elements to my work. It’s an aesthetic I really love that speaks to the limits of intimacy,” Amanda Wall affirms. The smoothness of the skin, hands, feet, gives almost a rubbery quality, but not the uncanny flesh of realistic sex robots. This is a living, breathing person. You can tell. Wall’s paintings have a wet quality that is somewhere in the field of gloss. The sheen in her work has depth. This is the point. There is that sheen depth in the portrait of a figure’s face. There is that sheen depth in the quality of how Wall paints the backgrounds, colour fields these characters float in. In another painting, the long-legged figure is sprawling once more, now in an inflatable. Red and pink, a toy that is neither a donut or a flamingo. On one side of the painting is a chiaroscuro effect, the shadows giving more of a sense of three dimensional space, the figure quite realistic; on the other side, less contrast, and more like a painting. Wall explores this sense of split worlds, like time or space is bifurcating, and all that is there to witness it is a head with a bow, staring at you with that one, penetrating eye, and a body crouching down.

Opposite – Blow up heart, 2021

Exhibition runs through to January 15th, 2022

Almine Rech
20 rue de l’Abbaye
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium

www.alminerech.com

  

SAKE STORM COWBOY S2 SET

Posted on 2021-12-06

Adding to its recent releases, Pharrell and NIGO‘s SAKE STORM COWBOY brand has released a complete “SAKE STORM COWBOY S2 SET.”

Launched by longtime collaborators, the Japanese sake name’s offerings are produced by celebrated distiller Ohmine Shuzo. It is interesting to note that SAKE STORM COWBOY’s sake won a gold award in the sake category at International Wine Challenge 2020.

The SAKE STORM COWBOY S2 SET features three taste levels: LIGHT PRESS, MIDDLE PRESS and HEAVY PRESS. All pressed from the same fermentation tank at different, the different variations all feature unique flavor profiles that together express a full drinking experience. Additionally, each set comes complete with a papier-mâché ornament bottle that replicates the design of SAKE STORM COWBOY’s signature packaging.

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PHOTOGRAPHY OF AFRICA AND ITS DIASPORA

Posted on 2021-12-06

With Shonibare’s work as a catalyst, Origin Stories: Photography of Africa and Its Diaspora confronts the intertwined relationship between identity and colonialism in communities across the African continent and throughout the African diaspora.

Featuring works primarily from the Norton’s collection, this selection of works offers perspectives from celebrated photographers working in Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe such as Les sœurs Chevalme, Delphine Fawundu, Ana Mendieta, Malick Sidibé, and Carrie Mae Weems.

Opposite – Malick Sidibé (Malian, 1935-2016), Untitled, 1974

Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2022

Norton Museum Of Art
1451 S. Olive Avenue
West Palm Beach
FL 33401

www.norton.org