and/oar

and/OAR is a recording label committed to releasing unique and interesting environmental recordings and various kinds of avant garde sound art that somehow utilizes environmental recording or recordings.



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richard garet - four malleable (2cd)

richard garet - four malleable (2cd)

"My work over the last several years has focused on the investigation of aural phenomena, environment, spatial listening, structure, natural and evolving processes, function, possibilities, and materiality. My interests have led me to explore acoustics, psychoacoustics, binaural beats, and diverse methods of recording sound, and the application of systems and strategies, which have served as the...
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various artists - yasujiro ozu-hitokomakura (2cd)

various artists - yasujiro ozu-hitokomakura (2cd)

This is the second of a series of label projects pertaining to film directors. The first one was for Andrei Tarkovsky, the third one is currently in progress and pertains to Michelangelo Antonioni's "Tetralogy" (L'Avventura/La Notte/L'Eclisse/Deserto Rosso). This second release turns its focus upon Yasujiro Ozu's use of  "pillow shots" (i.e. short poetic pauses that appear...
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tomoko sauvage - ombrophilia (cd)

tomoko sauvage - ombrophilia (cd)

Tomoko Sauvage: water, porcelain bowls, hydrophones, condenser mics, metal wire and wood spoons. "Sauvage, a Paris-based Japanese musician, uses water-filled porcelain bowls for her electro-acoustic performances and compositions. The use of hydrophones (underwater microphones) allows her to capture the subtle sound of water waves and drops resonating in porcelain bowls. The serene, contemplative...
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billy gomberg - comme (cd)

billy gomberg - comme (cd)

Billy Gomberg (b 1979, Chicago) is a musician and video artist living in Brooklyn, New York. His studio practice incorporates analog synthesis, digital treatments, acoustic recordings and custom programming that gives rise to electronic sound caught gazing at its own physicality, acoustics in love with their own abstraction. Billy's debut CD release displays abstract and complex dimensions of...
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isobel clouter & rob mullender - myths of origin - sonic ephemera from east asia (cd)

isobel clouter & rob mullender - myths of origin - sonic ephemera from east asia (cd)

At long last, after a culmination of delays amounting to 3 years, and/OAR is extremely happy to finally present a full length releasefeaturing "singing sand" and "booming sand" recorded in Japan andMongolia by British sound artists Isobel Clouter and Rob Mullender."Singing sand", "booming sand", "whistling sand" or "barking sand" issand that produces sounds of either high or low frequency...
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jason kahn & asher - vista (cd)

jason kahn & asher - vista (cd)

The work on Vista began in the summer of 2006 with recordings made by Asher in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston. Walking through the alleys and side streets he recorded the various mechanical rooms, generators, ventilation systems and idling motors which were to be found there. These recordings were processed and sent to Kahn. Later that fall, Kahn sent Asher several pre-dawn recordings he had...
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seth nehil & matt marble - ecllipses (cd)

seth nehil & matt marble - ecllipses (cd)

a/O is very pleased to present this highly anticipated first collaboration release between two American "sound composters", Seth Nehil and Matt Marble. A dynamic whirlwind tour through states of ellipsis and eclipses, abrupt ruptures, reuniting and igniting. Where nothing is static for too long. Through an invigorating admixture of instruments, field recordings and various found matter, a...
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francisco lopez - wind (cd)

francisco lopez - wind (cd)

and/OAR couldn't be more pleased to present the third part of Spanish sound artist Francisco López's already classic "trilogy of the Americas" which started with La Selva, followed by Buildings [New York] (both released by V2 Archief, Netherlands). An immersion into the sonic matter from micro- and macro- environments dominated by wind in Patagonia. A vast barren space shaped and inhabited by...
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michael northam - automnal 2003 (cd)

michael northam - automnal 2003 (cd)

Highly indicative of the nomadic life that international sound artist Michael Northam has come to know over the past 5 or so years, this release represents a sonic recollection of his life dispersed across a vast geography, pinpointing three specific locations and moments from his long journey: - Glacier du Trient, Switzerland / France - Eagle Creek, Indianapolis - Ils Grosbois, Montreal At...
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osone - passerelle (cd)

osone - passerelle (cd)

Documented on this CD is a site-specific sound installation / performance given by °Sone (pronounced "osone"), a project of Yannick Dauby, Christophe Havard & Hughes Germain. The only sounds used were from within the walls of the building where the event took place, channeled and recorded using large transducers and then mixed and broadcast back into the main space of the building. passerelle...
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mou, lips! - untree (cd)

mou, lips! - untree (cd)

...and so the new mOAR subdivision of and/OAR starts off its 2008 CD release schedule on a happy-go-lucky child-like note with Untree by Italian project Mou, Lips! (Andrea Gabriele, from Pirandelo and formerly of Tu m') with various tracks featuring Emanuela De Angelis, Stephen Vitiello, Jara Queeto, Marita Cosma and Ivan Solano. Untree displays Gabriele's well honed ability to weave a complex...
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yuki kaneko - rut (cd)

yuki kaneko - rut (cd)

Continuing onward with the new mOAR division of and/OAR, we next have Yuki Kaneko's Rut, a beautiful sparkling kaleidoscopic homage to the common wonders of day to day life, which displays this young composer's already great talent for subtly weaving together complex textures of electronic and acoustic sound sources into cleverly abstract melodic musings. A first "draft" or version of Rut was...
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