LND007 - Billy Gomberg : The Land Of

Billy Gomberg (LND007)

Days collects ﬁve studio pieces drawn from acoustic recordings of piano and voice, treated, ampliﬁed, and arranged. The arrangements are simple: long passages of sound material lay next to each other, their closeness and distance outlining a structure.

The impressions of sound, and upon sound, color through the window inﬂuencing the acoustics. Transparency and a sense of architecture. Materials, once unique, begin to reﬂect each other, and that can be enough.

Anne recorded herself singing a old folk song in both Swedish and English. She took the recordings and mixed them together in software. She liked the result and suggested that I work with these recordings. The piano recordings are of my own improvisations. On “exposures,” I've done some singing as well.

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anne:
i think of these words
post-punk
architecture
what you hear at 5 am after you stayed up all night deep in some project and yr not
really sure yr awake
but yr just reentering reality
and sort of surprised it has been there all night

“no one writes or paints alone. but we have to make the pretense of so doing.”
bourriaud -81

Billy Gomberg delivers a thought provoking and beautiful release for the brilliant Land Of imprint. His work is fascinating and I've enjoyed it immensely over the last few years (beginning I believe with his contribution to the Post Piano open remix project where he provided a very nice interpretation indeed). Days consists of five studio recordings based on manipulations of piano and voice recordings. It instantly clicked with me as it takes the inherent beauty of both sounds sources and processes them in such a way that they become strangely hallucinatory. Ethereal and unearthly sounding, the tones are stretched into deep and mood driven textures with the naturally percussive piano hits taking on an almost (I stress almost) rhythmic quality. There’s variety here with more stark drone / soundscape pieces that flow beautifully as well as a style that, in my opinion, could simply be called pure ambient, although I’m aware that one man’s ambient is another man’s experimental. For fans of the label and other such high quality imprints (12k, and/OAR and Dragon’s Eye spring to mind) this is without doubt something to immediately give your attention to. Limited to 100 copies and fully excellent all round. - Smallfish

Billy Gomberg is a musician and occasional video artist living in Brooklyn NY. His studio practice incorporates analog synthesis, digital treatments, acoustic recordings and custom programming, creating electronic sound caught gazing at its own physicality, acoustics in love with their abstraction. Collaborators include Joshue Ott, Jan Kees Helms, and Offthesky. A committed improvisor, he performs solo, in duo w/Anne Guthrie (as Fraufraulein), trio w/Anne
Guthrie & Richard Kamerman (as Delicate Sen), duo w/Richard Kamerman (sometimes as Other Vultures), and duo w/Garth Stevenson. Billy also produces dance remixes and pop damage as Blue Eyes.

His work has been published on the Test Tube and Standard Klik Music netlabels, as well as in the journals Encyclopedia, CHAISE and 1913. He has contributed remixes for 12k/term and Anticipate. Recent exhibitions include PixelPops2008 (USA), LE:60 (USA), RadiaLx2008 (PT), Interpenetration Festival (AT), Digital Arts Weeks (CH) and ANYtime (NL).

His CD comme is currently available from mOAR, and his collaboration w/ Offthesky, Flyover Sound, is forthcoming from Experimedia.

http://www.fraufraulein.com/billy/