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Amnemonic Site out now on Alluvial Recordings
first solo CD in five years. full-color digipack with artwork by s.n. 47 minutes.
Gyre (with Jgrzinich) out now on CUT Records
Gyre is a sound art project which investigates, and then renders abstract,
acoustic experiences of place and location. The collaboration of Seth Nehil
and jgrzinich has no doubt been informed by the vast distance which separates
their homes in, respectively, Oregon and south east Estonia. The pair work
acoustic material from "empty barns, forests, fields and hills" into
heavily processed passages. The process is most recognizable in "Weald":
sparse, echoing taps and gongs sketch out the contours of their surroundings,
as they ring and report back from distant surfaces. But Nehil and jgrzinich
also invert such notions. For "Cast", they
use their source sounds not to imply or describe any kind of space, but to
build a gathering slew of thickly textured sound, which enters into the listener's
space like a concrete object.
- Sam Davies -The Wire, Oct. 06
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New interview
with Tobias Fischer of Tokafi.com 10/06 click here
Circus Me (A Round)
installation at the Portland Art Center 9/06 click here for pics
bio
Seth Nehil (US, b. 1973) is a sound and visual artist. He has composed
sound works for CD, multi-speaker installation, solo and large-group concerts,
dance, theater and multi-media performance. Published recordings include
collaborations with jgrzinich and Olivia Block and solo works such as Tracing
the Skins of Clouds (Kaon FR); Uva (20City JP); and Umbra (...edition
US), among others. He has performed throughout the US, in Europe and
Japan.
Seth Nehil is also co-editor and designer of FO
A RM magazine, a journal of arts and research with a focus on sound art.
contact: s_nehil(at)yahoo(dot)com
discography
forthcoming:
Sillage (with Brendan Murray) cd, Sedimental Records, USA
Ecllipsis (with Matthew Marble) cd, And/Oar Records, USA
untitled, track on Phonographic Migrations compilation
cd, And/Oar Records, USA
solo
Amnemonic Site, cd, Alluvuial Recordings, USA 2007'Knotknit', track on The Walls are Whispering compilation cd, EE Tapes, Belgium 2005
umbra, cd, edition..., USA 2003 reviews mp3 excerpt [3:00]
‘ Betula’, track on Infernal Proteus, compilation cd and book, Ajna, USA 2002
uva, 3" cd, 20City, Japan 2001 reviews mp3 excerpt [2:00]
‘ Transference’, track on Chaleur, compilation lp, GMBH, France 2001
from cloud to seed, lp, Alluvial Recordings, USA 2000 reviews mp3 excerpt [3:00]
tracing the skins of clouds, cd, Kaon, France 1998 reviews mp3 excerpt [3:00]
collaborative
gyre (with jgrzinich), cd, cut, Switzerland, 2006sunder, unite (with olivia block), cd, sedimental, USA 2003 reviews mp3 excerpt [3:00]
stria (with jgrzinich), cd, erewhon, Belgium 2002 reviews mp3 excerpt [4:00]
confluence (with jgrzinich), cd, Intransitive, USA 2002 reviews mp3 excerpt [2:00]
‘ Le Piemont’ (with Toy Bizarre), track on Nature of Sound/Sound of Nature, compilation cd, Kaon, France 2001
a random balance (with Stephanie Demopulos), cassette, self-released 1995
with Alial Straa
The Lumbering Intransitive Dream of… (with John Grzinich), cassette, Orogenetics 1997 (re-issued as cdr on Alluvial Recordings, USA 2000)Tunnels/Stairwell (with John Grzinich, Olivia Block, Michael Northam), cassette, Orogenetics 1996 (re-issued as cdr on Alluvial Recordings, USA 2000)
The Balanced Field (with John Grzinich), cassette, self-released 1995
with The Philosophical Society
Crimes Against... (with Aaron Lund), casette, self-released 1989
Transactions of... (with Aaron Lund), casette, self-released 1988
brooklyn, ny 2005
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