December 2009
2010 will have a strong beginning with a new release on Recorded Fields of the “Three Locations” (RF005) project, which has been in production for about 18 months. Featuring the work of toy.bizarre (FR), Els Viaene (BE),Tarab (AU), Felicity Mangan (AU/DE) and Klimek (DE/PL), Three Locations is a beautiful realization of five very unique and different works. For more information go the release page.
Also, you may notice that finally the Recorded Fields website has been updated and split to reflect the divergence between the label and Robert Curgenven’s projects. Much thanks to Janette Towell for her hard work to make this possible.
July 2009
It’s been a little time now, "Silent Landscapes No 2", which unsurprisingly features on the Recorded Fields release "Silent Landscapes", also appears on Gruenrekorder and CRISAP's "Autumn Leaves" download project which is the downloadable complement to the book of the same name. As one of the tracks on the complilation, it can now be said, perhaps with a shiny silver sticker on the front cover, that Silent Landscapes features the "award winning" track Silent Landscapes No 2, as Autumn Leaves was the winner of the best compilation award at this year's Qwartz Music Awards in Paris. Hurrah and so forth, congrats to Gruenrekorder and also to CRISAP, and of course to all the artists that made the project a success. Perhaps amusingly, the works are all field recordings and not strictly electronic, but it is a digital download, so touche to such petty amusements...
December 2008
The "Transparence" dubplate (RF007) developed as part of the Artist in Residence program at O’Artoteca, Milan, Italy, is a limited edition (of three) 10” vinyl consisting of two pieces composed from nineteen minutes of feedback recorded in O' exploring the resonances of the gallery.
Cut at Dubplates and Mastering in Berlin at extremely low volume and having no audible bass response of its own, the dubplate works within the physical limitations of the vinyl medium, employing the object as sound source and sound medium to become an instrument in its own right. The ephemeral audio signal becomes present only when played at high volume, allowing the dubplate to produce room-filling bass feedback via the resonance of the turntable and space - “Transparence” is not a passive mechanical reproduction of sound, instead it is designed to be “played” – an active engagement with the manipulation and evocation of the sound to produce a unique response from the room and amplification with each playing and simultaneously to gradually cause its sound to disappear every time it is played, as is the nature of dubplates.
Recorded Fields discs are now also available through Metamkine distribution (France), Sound 323 (UK) and Soundohm distribution (Italy).
August 2008
New release, air+electricity (RF006), is available as a limited edition of 40 hand numbered CDRs exclusively at shows in late August (as part of the air+electricity German tour by Robert Curgenven and Katrin Bethge) and shows in the Netherlands, Belgium and France in September and early October. Not to be reissued. For further details see its release page.
May 2008
Silent Landscapes is now available from the new PayPal shop under the purchase section. A series of four compelling pieces composed from field recordings spanning the past nine years work across remote regions of Australia. Extracts from the CD can be heard as part of the outdoor sound installation at Biorama-Projekt for the Offenes Atelier weekend, May 3-4 in Joachimstal, Germany – 70 kilometres north of Berlin. Silent Landscapes No. 4 was also previewed at “Mimicry”, an exhibition of 2, 3 and 4D works that examine and critique cultural constructs of the organic, 2-19 April, Darwin Visual Arts Association.
January 2008
The first release of the New Year, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney (RF004) from the Field Recording Series, is now available. Released in tandem with AnA Wojak's "triLamina" exhibition (5-29 January) in the Botanic Gardens' Palm House.
August 2007
The Recorded Fields label and its first release, the first volume in its' Sound Atlas Series, Alice Springs, Central Australia Sound Atlas (RF001), were launched at the Australasian Sound Recording Association Conference in Melbourne on 15 August where the CD was also acquired by the conference’s hosts, the National Film and Sound Archive for its contemporary Australian sound art collection.
