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Matches

by Coppice

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Held Cascade 01:24
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Bromine 06:14
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Labile Form 03:41
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Bramble 10:04
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Caper 07:14

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A story with many holes.

Part of Coppice's study in Bellows & Electronics (2009-2014).

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released September 22, 2015

Format: Limited edition of 100 CDs in manually-assembled packaging (jewel case, diamond aluminum mesh, colored thread, transparencies, and hand-numbered card)
Duration: 34 minutes
Label: Category of manifestation: (KIND_2)
Country: USA
Artwork: Coppice
Mastering: Jonathan James
Including: Accordion, Amplified Melodica, Fire Bellows, MIDI Box, Modified Boombox I, Monophonic Oscillator, Prepared Pump Organ (Kinder), Shruti Box (Orange), Shruti Box (Pink), Sphygmomanometer, Transmitters, Wooden Input Bars
Date: 2009–2015 (composed), September 2015 (released)

The album formed from various collaborative processes between 2009–2015. It’s made up of various compositional structures (studio, live, and a mixture of both), it was recorded in various locations (in and out of Chicago in both home and studio settings), with many instruments and objects related to bellows and electronics (shruti boxes, prepared pump organ, and tape processes), as well as new technologies and signal processors of custom design.

The Saga Edition CD release of "Matches" is to be handled from all sides.

Composed by Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer.

For more information visit coppice.futurevessel.com and instagram.com/futurevessel.

Side effects:

"Electro-acoustic improvisation need not be the pleasant cohabitation of two avant-garde musicians agreeing with each other than nothing of import needs to happen for there to be a scribble of a record that gets released. There can be, nay, there SHOULD be grit, risk, and error; and through the process, some sort of meaning or revelation comes through the sound. […] hand-crafted texture thrust into expository movements of communed intellect and instinct." –Aquarius Records (2015)

"[Coppice’s] organizational principle is partly intuitive and partly mechanical, a map of the way every part interacts, relates, and behaves." –Lucas Schleicher, Brainwashed (2015)

"Nothing here sounds static, as Coppice scans surfaces of their instruments in a varying amount of spaces (small ones, bigger ones) and all of the irregularities of the surface become alive in this music." –Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly (2015)

"The ever-marvellous Coppice have a self-released CD out, Matches, showcasing a new collection of their unique frictionally-charged acoustic experiments (excerpts here). The duo’s ongoing complex relationship with pitch and pulse reaches an intense zenith in ‘Bromine’; centred on a prepared shruti box, it’s one of their most challenging pieces, projecting its core pitch with the relentlessness of a surgical instrument (provoking similarly eye-watering results). But Coppice’s focus, as it has been consistently through their work, is a three-pronged exploration of sound, noise and silence, confronting once again what might otherwise be called ‘deliberate’ and ‘extraneous’ quantities, and to some extent rendering both terms entirely moot. ‘Held Cascade’ throws together a boombox and a prepared pump organ to yield a heartbeat of exhalations modulated with electronic buzzing, a soundworld expanded considerably in ‘Labile Form’, where the organ is replaced with accordions, transmitters and an oscillator, resulting in an ever-shifting firmament of emergent tones and hard-edged, aggressive regularity. ‘Discharge Form’ and ‘Subparallel Episode’ are a pair of intriguing examinations of near-silent mechanical action, but the album’s high points are its lengthy closing pieces, ‘Bramble’ and ‘Caper’, where imagination runs wild (including, possibly, the first ever instance of a sphygmomanometer being used in live performance), together forming a large-scale synthesis and development of all that’s gone before. ‘Caper’ is the more gentle of the two, something of an epilogue with a quietly unexpected structure, but ‘Bramble’ is surely one of their most engrossing works to date, encompassing miniature movements and huge imposing razor-edged buzzsaw tones and hydraulic pressure. Utterly wonderful." –Simon Cummings, 5:4 (2015)

"Their music is full of noises caused by what most musicians would consider imperfections, creaks and clatter, but instead of masking these noises, they are drawn out and become the defining characteristic of the sounds produced. These delicate sounds are knit into heavy textural pieces and the reward of these painfully crafted instruments is immediately apparent in their music." –Sullivan Davis, Resonance Series (2015)

"The music sounds so volatile, on the verge of slipping into disintegration. Precisely here is where the paradox of power of Coppice music lies." –Luka Zagoričnik, Radio Študent (2015)

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Host of Coppice (since 2009) and Nestor (since 2018).

Musical experimentation and postphenomenological investigations.

A continuous hollow book.

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