Latest releases
Away + Booking dates in NL/BE
Thanks for visiting.
I’m away from 21 December – 16 January. Any orders will ship after I get back. Only a handful of ‘Automatic Music’ LPs left that aren’t already spoken for.
Also, looking for shows in The Netherlands and/or Belgium around 10-19 February. Please get in touch at john-at-room40-dot-org if you have any ideas.
Best,
John.
Live recording // Basement Tapes @ Studio 180
Live at Studio 180 for Basement Tapes Night… 26 November 2011 by johnchantler
Room recording by Jamie Quantrill at Studio 180, Lambeth Road, London on Saturday 26 November 2011.
Modular Synthesiser -> Moog Ring Modulator -> VOX guitar amplifier
Thanks to Jamie & Bradford Bailey for making it happen.
London Concert: Solo + Organ Octet
‘Automatic Music’ LP (SOLD OUT)
This LP collects two different pieces recorded in December 2010 and sometime in 2009 – both offering different fields of surface stasis/hidden activity…
The first, ‘Automatic Music for Erik Griswold’ was recorded in Bundaberg, Australia using a ‘Eurorack’ modular synthesiser plugged into a borrowed guitar amplifier. It was made in preparation for a concert in Osaka in January 2011 organised by Tetsuya Umeda and was an experiment in using the synthesiser without any external controller (I’d just been touring with Tujiko Noriko and Lawrence English and had grown accustomed to playing the synth with a Roland SH101 as keyboard/sequencer). It is named for Erik Griswold, a pianist living in Brisbane, Australia, whose exceptional ‘Wallpaper Music’ recording was part inspiration for this work.
The second side is the older piece. Recorded at home in London, UK using two reed organs (one Hohner, one Busilaccio) and recorded to an Akai GX4000D 1/4? reel-to-reel. This is my homage to the lineage of pieces focussed on frequency beating cycles that most actively crossed my radar with Jim O’Rourke’s ‘Two Organs’. Jokingly a ‘cover’ of said piece, the working title for the recording was ‘Biting The O’Rourke That Feeds’ before I later settled on nicking the title of a rather lovely upbeat Tenniscoats song as a sly nod to the seasonly themed (and vastly superior) records of my good friend and ongoing inspiration Lawrence English who mastered the record and to whom I owe many ongoing thanks…
Pressed in an edition of 110 LPs with a two colour screenprint sleeve made from archival grade photokraft paper using a drawing by Marcus Cope.
SOLD OUT!!!
Still available:
‘The Luminous Ground’ LP
£11 + pp (UK – £2.50 / EU £3.50 / ROW £7)
‘The Luminous Ground’ LP + For Barry Ray ‘New Days’ LP
£20 + pp (UK – £3.00 / EU £4.00 / ROW £7.50)
Alternatively, any of the above LPs can be collected in person for £10 each (cash) from Cafe OTO, London by prior arrangement.
New Reviews of ‘The Luminous Ground’
New review of The Luminous Ground appeared on The Silent Ballet:
There is also a review by Rob Young in the latest issue of THE WIRE magazine:
“Hearing this music for the first time has a similar impact to the first exposure to Oval’s Systemisch from 1994, or the early Sähkö recordings like Ø’s Metri, in that it has a beauty partly derived from having travelled beyond the reach of human influence”
Concert in Milano, Italy – 22 June 2011
Looking forward to my first ever concert in Milan on 22nd June 2011. It will be #18 in The Lift series. Seats are very limited, so if you want to come you need to confirm by writing to liftthe@yahoo.it – The Lift is close to Piazzale Loreto-Viale Monza in Milano (MM1 stop Rovereto), the exact address is contained in the booking confirmation.
“The Lift ha luogo all’interno di un piccolissimo studio di registrazione.
Musicisti, sound artists, ricercatori sonori e liutai sono invitati a
presentare il proprio lavoro in un ambiente acusticamente accurato.”
“Sound is spherical, round. There’s a risk of listening to it only as height and duration. But it is not as we believe it is. Sound is round and spherical. All spherical things have a center, you must reach the heart of sound. Sound has a heart, as spherical it has a center, the center of its heart. You have to arrive at that center, only in this way we become musicians, otherwise we are craftsmen. A craftsman of music is a very respectable figure, but you are not a real musician nor a true artist, but a craftsmen of art or music. You have to go to the heart’s sound” Giacinto Scelsi http://soundcloud.com/liftthe/giacinto-scelsi
Upcoming Concerts
Solo (electronic music box):
Monday 9th May 2011 – Corsica Studios, LONDON w/ Tim Hecker, Talvihorros
Thursday 12th May 2011 – Corsica Studios, LONDON w/ Tony Conrad, Lichens
Wednesday 25th May 2011 - Cafe OTO, LONDON w/ Mountains, Simon Scott
Saturday 28th May 2011 – Unitarian Church, CAMBRIDGE w/ Mountains, Simon Scott, Ypsmael
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22-24 June 2011 – ITALY. dates/venues TBC.
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Outshine Family (playing drums/organ):
Friday 27th May 2011 – Arnolfini, BRISTOL w/ Mountains, Sleeping States, Simon Scott
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email john[at]room40[dot]org for booking enquiries.
Copies of ‘The Luminous Ground’ will be available for £10 at all of the above shows.
P*Dis sampler – Untitled#3 from Luminous Ground
First 4 and a half minutes of A3/Untitled#3 from the Luminous Ground (listed incorrectly as #2) is available to stream here:
john chantler – the luminous ground – untitled#2 (room40) by pdis_inpartmaint
LPs arrived yesterday and should be shipping from next week…
