Saturday, April 12, 2008

Jonathan Benham & Christopher McFall - For Wings That Seldom Sleep



"The four parts of this tempestuous nocturnal journey, take us through rain soaked labyrinthine streets and alleyways of a shadowy metropolis reminiscent of the film "Blade Runner" or a much smaller and strange decrepit world like one conjured up by the Brothers Quay.
Either way, the work definitely sounds as if we were listening to this particular world from a very small perspective like that of a fly or a moth.
The fourth part of this work ends in such a way that doesn't provide a sense of completion, but leaves the listener wanting the journey to continue. Who knows? Maybe it will with a sequel? We shall see."
(Dale Lloyd, and/OAR)

and/OAR launches a new series of releases in mp3 format only, thus an online catalogue.
The first title is a collaboration between Jonathan Benham and Christopher McFall, both Texan sound artists, the second who released in the past years many works in digital format and a CD on Entr’acte label in 2007.
McFall deals primarily with environmental recordings submitted to computer treatments: his method consists in transforming them through computer-based processes.
In this case, sound sources were provided by Benham who used a digital recorder and occasionally an analog tape, whereas McFall manipulated and re-worked them according to his approach.
They obtained four parts (but substantially one long piece, considering that there is a logical continuity of execution) wherein atmospheric soundscapes rise above a field recording structure of basis.
Different sources are edited, processed, combined, amalgamated, determining a suggestive, obscure, crepuscular mass of sounds.
Perhaps the best work of Christopher McFall so far.

Label: and/OAR
Cat. #: and.p31
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 2008

Tracklisting:
01 - For Wings That Seldom Sleep 1 (10:45)
02 - For Wings That Seldom Sleep 2 (05:10)
03 - For Wings That Seldom Sleep 3 (07:10)
04 - For Wings That Seldom Sleep 4 (10:02)

buy it here
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Christopher McFall’s discography:

A Starved-Strafe Lancing Machine
















Label: CON-v
Cat. #: CNV25
Format: File, MP3
Release date: 2005


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A Little Rouge
















Label: Earlabs
Cat. #: LM037
Format: File, MP3
Release date: 2006


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Grayscale Is Failing
















Label: Clinical Archives
Cat. #: ca030
Format: File, MP3
Release date: 2007


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Self-Preservation Intact With Teeth
















Label: Test Tube
Cat. #: tube085
Format: File, MP3
Release date: 2007


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Touch Type: The Rising
















Label: Alg-a
Cat. #: ALG028
Format: File, MP3
Release date: 2007


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Four Feels For Fire
















Label: Entr'acte
Cat. #: E42
Format: CD
Release date: 2007

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For Wings That Seldom Sleep
















w/ Jonathan Benham

Label: and/OAR
Cat. #: and.p31
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 2008

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Solemn Words For A Fabled Apparatus
















Label: Gears Of Sand
Cat. #: GOS 35
Format: CD
Release date: 2008

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All For The Terror That Sings Sweetly To You In The Night
















Label: 1000Füssler
Cat. #: 3" CD-R
Format: CD
Release date: 05/2008

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The City Of Almost
















Label: Sourdine
Cat. #: sd-002
Format: CD
Release date: 2008

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This Heat Holds Snow
















Label: Mystery Sea
Cat. #: MS48
Format: CD-R
Release date: 08/2008

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Red Is The Color Of Price By Relation
















Label: Moving Furniture Records
Cat. #: MFR002
Format: CD-R
Release date: 03/2009

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The Dirty And The Clean .EP
















w/ Ben Fleury-Steiner

Label: CON-v
Cat. #: CNV54
Format: File, FLAC
Release date: 06/2009


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Tactile.Surface
















w/ Luigi Turra

Label: Unfathomless
Cat. #: U02
Format: CD
Release date: 01/2010

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An Amber Hollowed Night
















w/ Asher

Label: taâlem
Cat. #: alm63
Format: CD-R
Release date: 01/2010

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The Body As I Left It
















Label: Sourdine
Cat. #: sd-004
Format: CD
Release date: 05/2010

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Lost At Sea And Seldom Found
















Label: Impulsive Habitat
Cat. #: IHab008
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 05/2010


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The Anatomical Submissiveness Of Lions
















Label: Entr'acte
Cat. #: E96
Format: Cassette
Release date: 05/2010

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An Eris 23
















Label: SiRiDisc
Cat. #:
Format: CD-R
Release date: 10/2010

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A Long Time Running For The Suicide Strays
















Label: Resting Bells
Cat. #: RB090
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 11/2010


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Credence
















w/ David Velez

Label: Impulsive Habitat
Cat. #: IHab025
Format: File, Mp3 / FLAC
Release date: 07/2011


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The Inescapable Fox
















w/ Steven Hess

Label: Under The Spire
Cat. #: spire043
Format: LP
Release date: 10/2011

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The Alpha Is Strong And Amplifying Beta
















Label: Impulsive Habitat
Cat. #: IHab033
Format: File, Mp3 / FLAC
Release date: 12/2011


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Christopher McFall’s tracks appear on:

  • VV.AA. - Mandorla Autumn Soundscapes (2007, Mandorla Netlabel, MNL 010) track: Perplex Fable
  • VV.AA. - The Sound Ecology: Range (2011, Nitkie, patch two) track: An Arc Casting The Stitch
  • Simon Whetham & Friends - Meditations On Light (2011, Monochrome Vision, mv35) track: Blackout Carrier

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Christopher McFall’s other projects:

EARLabs 3 - Helix
















w/ Jos Smolders, Sascha Neudeck

Label: Entr'acte
Cat. #: E63
Format: CD
Release date: 01/2009
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Latest releases on and/OAR:

°SONE - Passerelle
















Cat. #: and/29
Format: CD
Release date: 2008

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Seth Nehil & Matt Marble - Ecllipses
















Cat. #: and/30
Format: CD
Release date: 07/2008

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Jason Kahn & Asher - Vista
















Cat. #: and/31
Format: CD
Release date: 08/2008

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Celer - Nacreous Clouds
















Cat. #: and/33
Format: CD
Release date: 08/2008

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Isobel Clouter & Rob Mullender - Myths Of Origin: Sonic Ephemera From East Asia
















Cat. #: and/32
Format: CD
Release date: 12/2008

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Arsenije Jovanovic - Galiola - Works For Radio, 1967- 2000
















Cat. #: and/all2
Format: CD
Release date: 2008
Notes: packaged in a digipak with 12 page booklet

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Andrea Borghi - Selected Works 2001 - 2006
















Cat. #: and.p32
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 11/2008



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VV.AA. - Translations Of Opacity - For Michelangelo Antonioni
















Cat. #: and.p33
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 12/2008



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Christopher DeLaurenti - Found Soundscape: C-SPAN Presidential Inauguration, January 20, 2009












Cat. #: and.p34
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 01/2009



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Lasse-Marc Riek - Das Teilen Der Flügel
















Cat. #: and.p35
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 02/2009



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Five Elements Music - Green Noise
















Cat. #: and.p36
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 05/2009



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Richard Garet - Four Malleable
















Cat. #: and/34
Format: 2xCD
Release date: 11/2009

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Seattle Phonographers Union - Seattle Phonographers Union
















Cat. #: and/mim1
Format: CD
Release date: 12/2009

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Ernst Karel - Heard Laboratories
















Cat. #: and/35
Format: CD
Release date: 04/2010

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VV.AA. - Michelangelo Antonioni - Trilogy And Epilogue
















Cat. #: and/36
Format: 2xCD
Release date: 10/2010

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Luigi Turra - Ki
















Cat. #: and/37
Format: 3xCD
Release date: 06/2011

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Celer - Levitation And Breaking Points
















Cat. #: and/38
Format: CD
Release date: 09/2011

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Latest releases on either/OAR:

Jim Denley & Kim Myhr - Systems Realignment
















Cat. #: either/1
Format: CD
Release date: 02/2009

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Dropp Ensemble - Safety
















Cat. #: either/2
Format: CD
Release date: 02/2009

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Tomoko Sauvage - Ombrophilia
















Cat. #: either/3
Format: CD
Release date: 06/2009

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Flymodus - Milky Seas
















Cat. #: either.p31
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 09/2009



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Adrián Demoč - Zikkurat / Variations For Piano
















Cat. #: either.p32
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 01/2010



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Vincent Paillard - Untitled
















Cat. #: either.p33
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 03/2010



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Olivia Block & Kyle Bruckmann - Teem
















Cat. #: either/4
Format: CD
Release date: 06/2010

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Jim Denley & Kim Myhr - Live In Munich
















Cat. #: either/live1
Format: CD-R
Release date: 08/2010

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Kraig Grady - Our Rainy Season / Nuilagi
















Cat. #: either/5
Format: CD
Release date: 02/2011

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Lethe - Dry Ice On Steel Tables
















Cat. #: either/live2
Format: CD
Release date: 03/2011

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Kiyoshi Mizutani & Kiyoharu Kuwayama - Interlude
















Cat. #: either/6
Format: CD
Release date: 09/2011

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Latest releases on mOAR:

GoGooo - À Côté
















Cat. #: moar.p31
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 2008

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Mou, Lips! - Untree
















Cat. #: moar1
Format: CD
Release date: 2008

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Yuki Kaneko - Rut
















Cat. #: moar2
Format: CD
Release date: 06/2008

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Jasper Leyland - Sediments
















Cat. #: moar.p32
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 03/2009



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Gintas K - Frozen Time
















Cat. #: moar.p33
Format: File, FLAC
Release date: 05/2009



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Billy Gomberg - Comme
















Cat. #: moar3
Format: CD
Release date: 06/2009

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Nathan McNinch - When You Went Into Churches
















Cat. #: moar.p34
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 10/2009



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Links:
Christopher McFall
and/OAR

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