#andrewpekler

[theegregore]

Andrew Pekler Sunshower at Sandy Island (2019)

From the album: Sounds From Phantom Islands (Faitiche)

[discrepant]

Various Artists - Aquapelago: an Oceans Anthology Introducing a new series of concept albums based around the idea of the Aquapelago.* ‘’Since the earliest days of the planet there has been a rhythm of tides that creates coastal interzones where humans have foraged and pursued various livelihoods. Developing boats to fish from and technologies that enabled them to immerse themselves deep underwater, the aquatic realm has been one explored, experienced and imagined in various ways. In an effort to express the vitality and richness of this environment I coined the term aquapelago in 2012. The wordplay was deliberate. The neologism was designed to distinguish the liquid inbetweenness of this space from the dry, scattered, lands of archipelagos. This compilation album takes the concept of the aquapelago into new depths and breaches it on fresh shores. The tracks are soaked with the aquatic. Bassy sonorities boom as if heard deep underwater. Bubbly textures breach the surface, water drips and seabirds soar high above waves.‘’ Philip Wayward Featuring Sugai Ken, Andrew Pekler, Vica Pacheco, Babau, Francesco Cavaliere with Tomoko Sauvage, Yannick Dauby and Sculpture. Mastered by Rashad Becker Artwork by Evan Crankshaw *upcoming albums featuring unique artists collaborations resulting from various residencies at @keroxen festival #discrepant #aquapelago #keroxen #sugaiken #babau #vicapacheco #francescocavaliere #tomokosavage #sculpture #andrewpekler #yannickdauby https://www.instagram.com/p/CjAWokLsofT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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仕事を終えて "SUGAI KEN"が始まる少し前に到着… 氏が場内を動き回りながら発する生音と 変調された電子音の交錯は 音の"居場所"や空間移動を意識させる… "Andrew Pekler" モジュラー、OP-1からの 木漏れ日のようにあたたかい 波動に身を委ねていると末梢が鋭敏/ 肉体が希薄…という相反する感覚が降り立った. #AndrewPekler #ExContinent #Sugaiken #Ultrafog #KazumichiKomatsu #HidekiUmezawa #Koichi Sato #KazunoriToganoki #Nobuki Nishiyama (Soup) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Vr2rhjB1g/?igshid=byeflaubh8am

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incredible delight

[urbanmutantradio]

Coming up quickly! Starting #campofwolves #satinsheets #azarswan #oyukiconjugate #400ppm #secretstation #exek #assembledminds #objectagency #twelvehourfoundation #mathieudelcroix #solipsik #mechanicalfacade #otherworld #wolfensteinosx #tonycampo #vercettitechnicolor #ekoplekz #thoabath #vivakauldren #auramics #shutup #whitenightghosts #mothcock #stacian #andrewpekler @dmt_tapes_fl #witchhouse #vapourwave #experimentalelectronic @adhesivesounds @kitrecs @castlesinspace @patternedair @giallodisco @akashikrecords #sexliesmagnetictape @100percentelectronica @largebinocularrecords @w.25th

[edicoescn]

@andrewpekler ‘ great Phantom Islands LP plus a real island. 🏝🗿💚 (bij Isola Zannone) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5IuebQgNlz/?igshid=1ma778a2xvml9

[dromik]

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[the-out-door]

200 Words: ANDREW PEKLER

(In 200 Words, we highlight a new record we like a lot, via a 200-word review by one of us (Marc Masters or Grayson Currin) and 200 words (or so) from the artist about whatever they choose.)

ANDREW PEKLER – The Prepaid Piano & Replayed LP (Entr'acte/ Senufo Editions)

A few years ago I wrote an essay about how experimental music can be really funny, even when – sometimes especially when – it’s serious. Andrew Pekler’s work is proof. He investigates some heavy sonic concepts, but there’s always a sense of play and absurdity running though his music. Follow his winding lines closely and they become a series of set-ups and punch lines, or a collage of wordless puns.

The title of his latest project, The Prepaid Piano, is a literal pun, playing off the serious concept of Prepared Piano (i.e. piano altered by placing objects inside it). But it’s not just a funny line. It reflects Pekler’s process of placing prepaid cell phones inside a piano, which vibrate the strings when the audience calls them. The result is bubbling, cartoon-ish music that’s also eerie, dramatic, and evocative. There are echoes of electronic music’s original prankster, Raymond Scott. But Pekler has a unique brand of sonic alchemy, which plays even better on side B, Replayed, where he ultra-MIDI’s the sounds from side A. He sees humor where others might see seriousness and vice versa, and that uncanny vision makes The Prepaid Piano & Replayed one of the best albums of the year.

 – Marc Masters

Andrew Pekler on The Prepaid Piano & Replayed

Like the album before it, the Prepaid Piano has its origin in a play on words. The prepared/prepaid pun had been floating around in my mind with all the other debris of unrealized/unrealizable ideas for few years before attaching itself to another strain of thought I'm always entertaining: how to get music to make itself, with minimal participation on my part.

Taking the form of an installation piece, the Prepaid Piano goes like this: In a room is a grand piano. Inside the piano, five mobile telephones rest directly on the piano strings. Calling any one of the telephones activates its vibration alarm, thereby ‘playing’ the strings on which the phone happens to be lying. Visitors choose which parts of the piano are played by calling any of the five telephones. Contact microphones attached to the piano’s sound-board send the sounds of the vibrating piano strings to a modular synth that's set up to continually loop and modulate the incoming signals. The audio is played back over loudspeakers and subsequent calls to the phones produce new loops that gradually displace the previously recorded audio. When the prepaid credit on all of the phones in the piano runs out, the piece is over.

The Prepaid Piano & Replayed is out now on Entr'acte/Senufo Editions. Buy it here. 

[peach-pear]

Treatment: Kong Island

[one-track-daily]

Andrew Pekler Cool Symmetries / Ascending Vortices (2016)

From the album: Tristes Tropiques (Faitiche)

[theegregore]

Andrew Pekler Hy Brasil (2019)

From the album: Sounds From Phantom Islands (Faitiche)

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