Framework:seasonal ::: Autumn 2013

 

"The framework:seasonal series of fund-raising audio releases continues with issue #6, another superb compilation of previously unreleased sounds by artists working in the field recording community. this selection features new names as well as several you’ve certainly heard before, all of whom are new to framework editions‘ release series. petra kapš (OR poiesis), kim walker, mathieu ruhlmann, sawako, david velez, éric la casa, tessa elieff (tattered kaylor), chris whitehead, and artificial memory trace."

View complete track details HERE

The rather talented Patrick McGinley (AKA Framework Radio) has just released the 2013, Autumn edition (issue #6) for your listening pleasure. In the selection of sounds you will find my own composition, 'Booroomba to Borough', composed exclusively for Framework. For more details on the work please have a read of the track details. Copies of the release can be purchased via a €20 donation to the cause - and what a cause it is! 

Enjoy,

T

Sombre nay Sated: Review in De:Bug issue #176

'Sombre nay Sated', has a review in De:Bug #176. Translation in english below................

"Tessa Elieff's ambisonic work, her interests in sound and effects of perception of specific spaces and rooms of resonance have led her to travel half the world in the last couple of years, notwithstanding Austria, where her debut album has finally been released on the Moozak label.  Her music, with its multi-layered dimensionality of diffusion and (re)editing (processing) always runs the risk of having these elements reduced when released on a CD. This is sometimes the case in this almost half-hour collection of three commission works. The shadow-like granular waves composed for the Melbourne event, 'Akousmatikoi' (with Jacques Soddell) one suspects only finds completion in its radiant emittance at the very location. Engaging, involving and immersive however, are the two following pieces for the ORF Kunstradio, both using the recordings of sound installations of Austrian artists Uli Kuehn and Andreas Trobollowitsch.
The mysterious and threatening low rumblings and buzzing hums are made alive through very engaged field recording processes and especially the sounds of weather and insects in, 'Taken to Booroomba' lets one eagerly await the planned collaboration work with Chris Watson." 

Tattered Kaylor mix on The Field Reporter

I am very happy to have completed a 2013 mix of the Field Recordings I collected during the In-Habit Residency 2011, for David Valez's, 'The Field Reporter'. These sounds include a previously unreleased (in any capacity) recording of buskers at an annual festival in the small township of Bruere Allichamps.

Find more details about the sounds, have a listen and download the mix HERE. 

Many Thanks to Cheryl Tipp for inviting me to such an opportunity.

Enjoy,

T

Sombre nay Sated EP Release on Stasisfield

:: Cover design by John Kannenberg of Stasisfield ::

My first EP was released  on July 18th - World Listening Day 2013, on the UK based, Stasisfield label alongside of label founder John Kannenberg's, 'Audio Tour: The 4'33" Museum - Collection 2'. 

'Sombre nay Sated', and its linear notes are available for free digital download from the Stasisfield website HERE.

Kannenberg introduces the EP release as below:

"Australian artist and curator Tessa Elieff has combined three separate commissions into an EP of elegant coherency. With three very different original sound sources this mixture of field recordings, specially recorded sounds, voice and synthesis merge into tenebrous melancholy as fragments of organic sounds brush up against pulsing synthesis to create a stark, flowing patchwork of multifaceted solemnity."

I am very excited to include one of my older works in this release. 'Waves', was created back in 2009 using sounds from a sonic pool as generated by the contributions from myself and Jacques Soddell. The work was part of a process implemented for the final evening performance titled, 'Akousmatikoi'. At the time I was curating, directing and general 'do everything - ing' to bring the night together and never felt that I spent enough time on the piece to enable it to reach its full potential. It was a great satisfaction to hear it come to fruition - as I imagined it always to be - four years later.

Many thanks to John Kannenberg for his appreciation of my work. I highly recommend listening to his,  'Audio Tour', series.

Enjoy,

T 

Interview: Blow-Up Magazine #176

I have recently been chatting with writer, curator and new media producer, Leandro Pisano - the result of which you can read via an interview in the January 2013 edition of the Italian electronic/alternative music magazine, Blow-Up. Issues are available from their website - interview is in Italian and is accompanied by an excellent image (below) taken by artist Markus Gradwohl, during the 'Selected Realities' album launch at the 'Moozak Festival' in Vienna, Sep 2012. 

:: Image by Markus Gradwohl, Moozak Festival, Vienna, 2012 ::

Selected Realities - OndaRock Review

Review from Italian Music/Culture site OndaRock

Apologies for the Google translate.... but you should get the idea

Selected Realities - Available in Australia

'Selected Realities' is now available for purchase within Australia.

Have a look HERE for more details including the media release. 

Bank transfer is also available - please EMAIL me for the details;

Paypal price includes shipping world wide

Selected Realities - Review in De:Bug issue #166

'Selected Realities', has a review in De:Bug #166. Translation in English below..........

"It is the perception of sound and thus accompanied perception of space and time which is the topic for Australian sound artist Tessa Elieff, and this combination of CD and DVD presents a good impression on how she is approaching this. Compositions made from sounds of Tibetan singing bowls or samples of singing birds only form the first level, followed by a second in which her sophisticated and diverse playback-recording-mix-procedure is suspended within the play of resonances in city-typical space constellations: E.G. within a six-storey stairwell or a waste water canal system, whose effects can be experienced on the 5.1-Surround DVD. The five concerned works including one live recording, often leave the entire sound experience with some documentary distance: You would just like to be at the locations yourself. However, a full compensation is given by the concluding quarter-hour audio/visual composition of recordings from the construction of a theatre lifting platform - an engaging symphony of heavy steel in cold light and geometrical dance."