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The Pleasance & The Purchase

by Coppice

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A fixed perspective that offers no choreography for present bodies.

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

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released April 1, 2012

Format: 7"
Duration: 10 minutes
Label: Senufo Editions (senufo edition # twenty seven)
Country: Italy
Artwork: Holly Murkerson
Mastering: Giuseppe Ielasi
Including: Modified Boombox I, Shruti Box (Orange)
Date: 2010 (composed and recorded), March 2012 (released)

Composed by Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer.

Recorded at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Thank you to Giuseppe Ielasi and Holly Murkerson.

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

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"Search for images of the lads who comprise Coppice and you will find that they look remarkably like slightly better-scrubbed direct descendants of the squeezebox player on the cover of Killing Capitalism With Kindness. Spin the 45, though, and a different picture emerges. They mine their squeezebox (shruti box, actually) for wheeze, whistle, and most of all clatter, not notes. The results are more like field recordings of debris being moved or surreptitious activities in a workshop than the blessedly begrimed tunes on that old Xpressway box. I suspect, though, that if this stuff were made in New Zealand in 1990 rather than Chicago in 2010, it would have stood an excellent chance of finding its way onto the box. If you need less obscure coordinates, Can made ethnographic forgeries – these guys craft fictional locations. Although Giuseppe Ielasi’s name appears nowhere on the record, it’s his label, and his attention to sonic detail is evidenced by sounds that seem to take shape in air after the stylus sucks them off the vinyl and passes them through the speakers. It comes in a lovely black and white sleeve in a numbered edition of 200." –Bill Meyer, Still Single (2012)

"Coppice has been examining the spatial and temporal characteristics of texture and rhythm since Vinculum in 2010. The Pleasance & The Purchase is a particularly good example of this; indeed, most of Senufo’s discography is. There, dense crackling fields (or a drone, even if atonal) and periodic squeaks of the bellows (a rhythm) frequently interact through rising and falling amplitude to produce complex miniature beat patterns – the resulting tension pulls both the sound and our linguistic understanding of each towards the other. This tidily portrays why often only the density of a given sound set will account for whether the listener perceives it as rhythmic or percussive instead of textured. Once the periodicity of sound is perceived as dense and moderated enough to square with our concept of texture, rhythmic music suddenly becomes drone – a binary imposed on what is more properly a spectrum." –Brian Beaudry, Cut & Run (2017)

"The Pleasance & The Purchase est un 45 tours qui renvoient aux premiers enregistrements et aux premières explorations sonores de Coppice en 2010. Sur ces deux courtes pièces de 5 minutes chacune, le duo utilise un shruti box et deux ghetto blasters modifiés par Joseph Kramer. A ce moment-là, le son du duo était plus brut, plus noise. Le shruti box est utilisé comme une source sonore non-instrumentale, seuls les souffles et la mécanique sont amplifiés, les notes sont à peine perceptibles, et ce qui compte avant tout ici, c'est la transformation du signal par les bandes insérés dans le ghetto blaster. Coppice compose ici avec ce premier (d'une longue série) instrument à soufflet une musique très abstraite, aride, et abrasive. De la recherche pure avec tout de même un soupçon de musicalité apporté par les boucles des cassettes et les bourdons fantomatiques du shruti box. Mais de manière générale, l'atmosphère de ces deux pièces ressemblent plus à une sorte de field-recording étrange, plein d'insectes insouïs et de souffles lancinants.

Bien sûr c'est très court au total, mais j'aime bien tout de même ce format 45 tours qui permet de présenter rapidement un projet, avec un son excellent (mastérisé ici par Giuseppe Ielasi). La démarche de Coppice est ici posé : des instruments à soufflet modifiés de manière électroacoustique - principalement par des cassettes et des lecteurs modifiés et préparés. La démarche artisanale et exploratrice de Coppice est déjà là, la précision de l'exécution aussi, et la beauté de cette recherche est déjà saisissante. Belle introduction de ce qui formera ensuite une des formations essentielles de cette décennie." –Julien Héraud, Improv Sphere (2014)

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

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