Latitudes XII

2019-08-16

USA - San Francisco, CA
Cafe Du Nord

Version: Schoeps MK4 > RMOD > Tascam DR-2d

- John Krausbauer & Kaori Suzuki -
t01 - introduction
t02 - Krausbauer & Suzuki

- Samara Lubelski & Marcia Bassett -
t03 - Lubelski & Bassett

Length: 59:00 min
Source: FLAC
Sourcenotes: Source: Schoeps MK4 > RMOD > Tascam DR-2d > WAV 16bit/48Hz
Location: 2nd row 1 seat off DFC, stealth, mics in hat
Rip: WAV 16bit/48hz > Audacity (tracking, gain, normalize) > FLAC 16/48
Recording Type: Audience
File Size: 332mb

Taper: Ted Mattes
Transferer: Joe Noel

About;
- MARCIA BASSETT (guitar) and SAMARA LUBELSKI (violin) first performed as a duo in 2009, improvising musical scores to films by Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton at X-Initiative, Next Years Model series at DIA. Since their initial collaboration, Bassett and Lubelski have continued to draw from their like-minded approach to improvisational music; creating personal interplay with the environmental surroundings to expand on abstraction, chromatic noise, and long form drone. Both Bassett and Lubelski have extensive backgrounds in the East Coast /NYC sub-underground. Bassett has performed in experimental music projects for over twenty years including Un, GHQ, Hototogisu, Double Leopards and her solo project Za•mph. Lubelski is best known as a solo artist with eight full-length releases, but she has also been involved in various art-music provocations, Hall of Fame, Tower Recordings, as a member of Thurston MooreÕs band, and in her associations with the long-standing German collective Metabolismus. The 2012 release of their first LP ÒSunday Night, Sunday AfternoonÓ, on KYE Records, was praised as having Ò É incredible expanses and delicately menacing interplay with an increasingly satisfying audaciousness upon each subsequent listen.Ó Ñ Paul Haney, Tiny Mix Tapes. The latest LP, ÔLive NYCÕ, Feeding Tube Records (June 2017), ÒElegantly shows just how much brain damage you can do using only a guitar and a violinÉ A tale of twinned and lightly fuzzed tones, twirling and blendingÉThe threads of sound absolutely phosphoresce. ItÕs an incredible mix of motion, stillness and power.Ó Ð Byron Coley.
The duo will have a new LP release on Drawing Room Records Fall 2019.

- Kaori Suzuki (US/JP) and John Krausbauer (US) will present music for voices, amplified strings, electronics, and bell percussion. Their work originates from a shared interest in ecstatic and spiritual musics as well as the Òavant-gardeÓ. Utilizing sustained tones, alternate tunings, long durations/playing endurances, and stroboscopic lighting, their music explores the parameters and possibilities of psychotropic ÔexperientialÕ environments rather than the strictly Ômusical.Õ