jeremy bible & jason henry
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NOW/ Shpwrk (Experimedia)~us Vryashn (Gears of Sand)~us Vector (Experimedia)~us Glare (Resting Bell)~germany |
SOON/ Marker (pt1) (Gruenrekorder)~germany (08-09-15) Magnet (pt2) (Gruenrekorder)~germany (09) Ound (Abgurd)~russia (08) |
Review by Frans De Ward from Vital Weekly 638
JEREMY BIBLE & JASON HENRY - VECTOR (CDR by Experimedia)
JEREMY BIBLE & JASON HENRY - SHPWRCK (CDR by Experimedia)
Two new artists I think (with the amount of music arriving everyday one can’t always be sure), this time from Ohio, are Jeremy Bible and Jason Henry, who are closely connected to probably their own label Experimedia (ok, I reviewed music by Bible before in Vital Weekly 586). Two nice packages (glossy fold out prints) hold two of their recent releases. From the website I gather they “seek to expose a synergetic relationship between real world found sounds, acoustic instrumentation, and electronic sound design” and more than once such terms as ‘painting’ and ‘images’ are used. The language used on the website might be a bit swollen, but these two men do a nice job at what they do. Hardly surprising by any account, as both of these discs contain music that could go down as ‘experimental’, ‘ambient’ or ‘drone’, or anything that is a combination of these words. There are large chunks of field recordings to be spotted around here, sometimes almost ‘clean’, but at other times highly processed. Some of the techniques involved sometimes are bit dull, like time stretching, but throughout I must admit they do a fine job. Listening to both in a row is perhaps a bit much, but I must say if I had to choose a favorite from these two, I think ‘Shpwrck’ would be it. It’s a little more diverse in approach, with a more varying input in sounds, instruments and sound processing. Both dwell a bit too much on the use of reverb, but such is unfortunately a common place in this kind of music. Quite enjoyable late night music. (FdW)
A review of our album Vryashn has been posted on Furthernoise.org by Alan Lockett as part of a profile of the Gears of Sand label.
“Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry harness an array of electro-acoustics in forging Vryashn, a work of great depth and subtle eloquence. JB&JH propose a theme of the sensation of a dream within a dream; of being surrounded by snow, becoming numb and falling asleep only to awake in the rain in another dream and location. Various phases of such an experience are depicted, from elated to disorientated. Various sound sources - piano, water line pipes, wine glasses, rain on a window, and a garage lamp - articulate Vryashn’s variations; a two-part immersion zone of fragmentation and re-moulding that shuns the delicacy of a Budd bath for riskier reefs towards Andrew Liles’ The Dying Submariner and Aloof Proof’s Piano Text. JB&JH curate a descent into a drowned world of wrecked and wracked elegiacs, attended by envelopes of trills pushed into spills, redrawn revenants distended in a quest for new euphony. The duo’s design is to pique to poke in textural caverns and inlets of accidental harmonics. They achieve this, “Vrashyn I” exemplifying the warmth and spacious movements of their reverberant Satie dissolution - a fine exhibit of well-treated piano.”
Jeremy Bible and Jason Henry’s Shpwrck, is a beautifully diverse opus, bringing together a wide range of acoustic instruments and field recordings through unique processing and arrangements. Dark and minimal yet oddly comforting, Shpwrck’s wide open spaces succeed at creating exotic environments illustrating the duo’s growing attention to detail at crafting and bringing together delicate textures into lengthy abstract sound art montages. Subtle breaths of musicality lie amongst constantly evolving beds of atmosphere. Touches of gritty surface noise and found recordings approach from the distance and momentarily come into focus. Shpwrck comes packaged in experimedia’s custom signature three panel folding tall slim pack featuring the photography of Jeremy Bible and is protected in a clear poly sleeve. Your order of the limited edition packaged CD includes immediate bonus downloads of the album in highest quality MP3 and/or lossless FLAC formats so that you may begin to enjoy the album before your package arrives. Orders of the physical package (including free bonus downloads) can be made HERE for $10. Download only sales of the full album in FLAC or MP3 are exclusively available HERE $5.
Vector, the new album by Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry, presents an epic 1 hour and 7 minute avant-garde sound experience. Vector unfolds through the amalgamation of a vivid palette of sounds placed delicately on a worn canvas, burnt and tattered around the edges. Piano and cello seep through soft blankets of distant voices, rhythmic crackling, and soft distortions. A thousand birds arise from pulsing tones against the occasional rumbling sine wave. A profound score from beginning to end intended for deep listening.
Vector comes packaged in experimedia’s custom signature three panel folding tall slim pack featuring the photography of Jeremy Bible and is protected in a clear poly sleeve.
Your order of the limited edition packaged CD includes immediate bonus downloads of the album in highest quality MP3 and/or lossless FLAC formats so that you may begin to enjoy the album before your package arrives. Download only sales of the full album in FLAC or MP3 will be available exclusively through experimedia for $5 approximately one month after the CD release. This release will proudly NOT be available on iTunes.
NOW AVAILABLE FOR ORDER AND MORE INFO HERE
Our new album ‘Vryashn’ is out now and available from the fantastic record label Gears of Sand. Alternatively you can get details/samples from cdbaby.
“This two track opus is a truly epic immersion into the vast imaginations of Bible and Henry. The confident, effortless development of broken piano treatment at Vryashn’s epicenter bring to mind the sublime energy of Harold Budd and Brian Eno. The unique talents of the constantly evolving Bible and Henry are on full display with Vryashn. For one, the well honed laptopist duo turn here to piano as their main medium.
While the warmth, spacious piano movements of ambient pioneers Harld Budd and Brian Eno is often drawn upon for inspiration by other artists, few are able to use the instrument in ways heard on Vryashn.
More album previews available at last.fm.
Rather than sparse notes played between silences, Bible and Henry use the piano as a launching pad into a sprawling world of minimal piano motifs that build tension and release given a depth through subtle laptop treatments.
Vryashn is arguably a definitive statement of Bible and Henry’s talents as composers on the cutting edge of an overflowing and arguably oversampled electronic scene.
Beyond synthetic ’soundscapes’ or ‘interesting textures’ Vryashn coalesces into an extraordinarily epic journey.
Unfolding over two movements clocking in at just over 50 minutes, the work’s addictive minimalist motifs pull the listener in only to be washed over–often unexpectedly–by subtle sonorities of breathy fibrillations, pulsing machinery, and radiant drones that intrigue but never serve to take Vryashn off its massive, radiant course. In a word, breathtaking.”
The new and fantastic Halfadder EP…Staying Home Tonight….is available now.
“Staying Home Tonight contains four tracks of left field computer music written for depressed robots. Relying heavily on generative, non-deterministic techniques halfadder blends concréte, electro-acoustic and electronic music concepts to deliver an ep that he hopes is as equally pleasing to the mind as it is to the ears and the feet.”
Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry will be performing in Massillon, Ohio Saturday night the 21st on the historic Lincoln Theatre stage for the annual ArySyrcus event presented by The Ananda Center and Arts in Stark.
We will be performing new material live accompanied by our original motion visual art projected on the giant theatre screen. We will take the stage at 9:30pm.
The ArtSyrcus event begins at 6pm and will features a variety of performances, visual fine art on display, and screenings of short films throughout the various areas of the Lincoln theatre.
The Lincoln Theatre opened Tuesday, November 23, 1915.
lionslincolntheatre.com | www.theanandacenter.org | artsinstark.com
2008 marks the 50th anniversary of Groupe de Recherches Musicales, a French organization for research into sonology and electracoustic music. It was created by Pierre Schaeffer in 1958 as part of the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française with François Bayle as its head (1966-1997).
Members of GRM consist of some of history’s greatest pioneers of sound. François Bayle, Luc Ferrari, Bernard Parmegiani, and Pierre Schaeffer just to name a few. If you are not familiar with these artist’s and their work we highly suggest you take some time to read about and listen to their work. They carved the path for today’s electracoustic music.
Our friends over at the german label Gruenrekorder have released their first issue of Field Notes magazine. The first issue - published in May 2008 - features six articles, written by Costa Gröhn, Tanja Hemm, Christoph Korn, Stefan Militzer, Marcus Obst (aka Dronæment) & Aaron Ximm (aka Quiet American).
gruenrekorder.de/fieldnotes
http://event.electro-music.com/ August 14-16, 2008 Kingsport, Tennessee
Three days of experimental electronic music concerts, jam sessions, lectures, and demos.
“The Woodstock of electronic music” — Philadelphia Inquirer
electro-music 2008 is a three day conference/music festival to be held at the Renaissance Center in Kingsport,Tennessee, August 14 - 16, 2008. The program will include lectures, demos, jam sessions, and concerts.
The scope of this festival is very broad, covering all aspects of electro-music, experimental electronic music, including circuit bending, computer music, electro-jazz, modular synthesis, musique concrete, improvisation, noodles (generated or automatic music and algorithmic composition), multi-media, visual art and much more. The focus will be on participant involvement, sharing, community development, audience education, and great music.
A track from Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry’s recent album ‘glare’ on the restingbell.net label is featured on the fantastic walkman podcast. walkman-podcast
We will be performing at and attending the Electro-Music 2008 festival being held this year in Kingsport, Tennesee August 14th-16th.
Electro-music 2008, a three day conference/music festival to be held at the Renaissance Center in Kingsport,Tennessee, August 14 - 16, 2008. The program will include lectures, demos, jam sessions, and concerts.
The scope of this festival is very broad, covering all aspects of electro-music, experimental electronic music, including circuit bending, computer music, electro-jazz, modular synthesis, musique concrete, improvisation, noodles (generated or automatic music and algorithmic composition), multi-media, visual art and much more. The focus will be on participant involvement, sharing, community development, audience education, and great music.
A new jeremybible.com site has been launched that features a nice interface which showcases his sound, photo, and video work.
Our album ‘glare’ is now available from restingbell.net
Jeremy Bible and Jason Henry are two productive artists based in Canton, Ohio, an area of the United States referred to as ‘the rust belt’ due to its rapid industrial decline. Similar to their surroundings which contrast rural farmland against decaying industrial landscapes, the duo contrast various sounds and styles in ways that can be compared to the elegant and subtle color contrasts created by painters of fine abstract-expressionist art. Utilizing field recordings, found sounds, acoustic instrumentation and electronic soundscapes, their compositions take place in the wide field of musique concrete, experimental acoustic music, and electronic sound design.
“glare” is a huge piece of modern contemporary music. 5 tracks, about 60 minutes duration.From the first track, you can almost grab the intense and exciting spirit, being inherent in these pieces. Dark and gloomy melodies meet abstract glitches, lost radio frequencies, mysterious field recordings and other interferences. With all these ingredients, Jeremy and Jason create warm, nostalgic, and at times frightening scenery. It smells like old basements, dusty treasure chests, old physical instruments and yellowed pictures from your grandmother’s photo album. The duo’s growing catalog of “sound paintings”, each creating a new experience, will see release through a growing list of labels including Resting Bell, Gruenrekorder, Abgurd, Gears of Sand, and their own imprint, Experimedia.
We will be releasing two albums on Experimedia over the next two months.
vector [expcd003]
shpwrk [expcd005]
We will be performing at Art Displaced - October 25th 2008 - Massillon, Ohio | DETAILS HERE
We will be performing at Ingenuity Festival 2008 - Cleveland’s Annual Festival of Art & Technology
July 25th-27th 2008 Playhouse Square - Cleveland, Ohio
DETAILS HERE
Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry will be performing at NOTACON 5 @ Holiday Inn Select City Centre - Cleveland, Ohio
Saturday April 5th 2008 - 9:30pm
DETAILS HERE
Our piano based album entitled ‘Vryashn’ will be released on CD by Gears of Sand in May08.
It was confirmed that two of our albums, Marker (pt1) and Magnet (pt2), which coincide with one another will be released on CD by German based label Gruenrekorder.