Asher (LND004)
This new work was borne out of a continued interest in simple investigations of the perception of time. The composition consists of thirty nine fragments which are sourced from recordings made on the campus of Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. I see each fragment as part of an aggregate whole which can be experienced variously, as the fragments are meant to be played in any order. Thus these fragment represents intervals of time which are interchangeable, and subject to fluctuations in attention—they are keeping an aperiodic time, somewhat akin to our day to day experience. - Asher
One of the unique things about intervals is that it is presented so that the listener becomes an essential part of the artistic endeavor. While Asher offers these brief fragments of sound as single entities, the listener has the freedom and is encouraged to listen to the work in its multitude of available permutations. So it's recommended that you listen to "intervals" as gapless audio in random/shuffle mode. In this way the vast array of aural configurations becomes available. - Larry Johnson
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From Vital Weekly
Moving from the inside to the outside and back, the chirping of insects, the piano and other unidentifiable sounds make this one of the best Asher releases so far. Great! (FdW)
From Whiteline
The source recordings for this work represent atmospheres culled from the inside and the outside of Goddard College, Plainfield Vermont, although the location here is not of any intrinsic importance. What is important is that we are suspended in between external and internal moments – the “intervals” of the title, fused and frozen memories that are simultaneously familiar, yet slightly unsettling. Combined with the refreshingly delcious day-glo cover , with explicit and well constructed sleeve notes, this is possibly one of my favourite releases of the year so far..not a cliché, nor hint of plagiarism in sight..an artist and label that I for one, will be watching closely. Sound art of the highest order. (BGN)
From Cyclic Defrost
There’s a genuine vibrancy to these works, to all of them, in fact. In tracing the recurring trajectory of the incidental and everyday, Intervals is a wholehearted success, and a pleasurable one at that. (Max Schaefer)
From ParisTransAtlantic
Asher juxtaposes outside elements – recorded on a college campus in Vermont and including walks, birds, crickets, planes, rain and that unbelievable "breath" of life, the ever-present soft rumble that wraps silence – with indoor recordings characterized by meagre tolling piano notes. Blurred in foggy murmurs, they elicit sad reflections on the human quest for framing the unexplainable through useless and hollow dialectic.
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asher thal-nir is an artist living and working in Somerville, Massachusetts. His sound work is composed using recordings of acoustic and electronic instruments, location recordings and found recordings which are combined and processed in various ways. His work has been published online and on disk by conv, leerraum [ ], mystery sea, the land of, laboratoire moderne, term. and homophoni, with upcoming solo and collaborative releases on einzeleinheit, winds measure, transparent radiation, leerraum [ ], and/OAR, gears of sand,
and sourdine.