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Cafe OTO

from Deviate From Balance by John Wiese

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    Recorded throughout Europe/UK, Australia, and the US, the album will include scored ensemble pieces including over 20 musicians each, recorded in Melbourne and Portland, as well as document the installation pieces Wind Changed Direction, a four-channel sound piece presented in the garden of the Getty Center (curated by Liars), and Battery Instruments, an eight-channel piece presented at HSP in New Zealand, now heard for the first time.

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    "simply an excellent album" ★★★★★ – Spontaneous Music Tribune

    "a deeply immersive listening experience into a whole universe of nuanced, imaginary sounds" – Salt Peanuts

    "a great improvising duo" ★★★★ – All About Jazz

    "instead of building towards a crescendo, Smyth and Wiese delight in sustained textures, then continue their patient growth … Scraped and plucked strings, caressed keys and percussive body knocks stand unwavering against waves of static, clusters of tinkling bells and spectral effects ... Throughout, the music’s flow remains profoundly atmospheric, almost oneiric, whether circling down a spiral of whisper-like low frequencies or being thrown around by violent stabs of noise. To finally break this spell, it takes the combined effort of Smyth making his piano sound like a piano in a jolt of violent phrasing and an eruption of applause." – The Wire

    WEEKERTOFT 13

    Paul G. Smyth, piano
    John Wiese, electronics

    26 February, 2015
    Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland


    Recorded by Spud
    Mixed and mastered by Spud at Guerrilla Sound Studios, Dublin
    Artwork by John Wiese
    Photography by Spud
    Design by Paul G. Smyth

    With thanks to
    Matthew Nolan and Catherine Kehoe at Note Productions
    Caroline Feehily at the National Concert Hall

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    Joseph Hammer/Joe Potts/John Wiese
    The Elusive Flexure
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    Helicopter, HEL 99092
    Release Date: June 9, 2023

    Helicopter is proud to present the first trio album of Joseph Hammer (Solid Eye, Dinosaurs With Horns, LAFMS), Joe Potts (Airway, Extended Organ, LAFMS), and John Wiese (Sissy Spacek, Strain of Laws).

    Joe Potts has composed electro-acoustic music exclusively since 1973, creating art/sound installations and performances internationally. A founding member of the LAFMS, he is also the man behind the curtain in Airway, combining walls of sound with subliminal treatments, utilizing both live musicians and the audience itself as electronic signals which are processed and manipulated. For the past 20 years he has been composing for an instrument known as the Chopped Optigan, a seventies optical sampling console organ that he has customized and rewired in order to create dense undulating chords of up to 64 notes at a time.

    Joseph Hammer has focused on tape loops since the early 80s, using phonomontage as a live process to assemble source material by hand with vintage magnetic audio gear. As part of the LAFMS, his groups Solid Eye, Points of Friction, Dimmer, and Dinosaurs with Horns have had an active presence alongside his constant solo practice.

    John Wiese is a sound artist and composer based in Cleveland, Ohio and Los Angeles, California. He is known for his unique and innovative approach to sound and his ability to create complex, layered compositions that blur all boundaries. Wiese’s early recordings incorporated elements of cut-up/collage, musique concrete, and electronics. He often used unconventional sources to create chaotic, improvised compositions. As he developed as a composer and performer, Wiese began to incorporate more electronic and processed elements into his work, creating intricate, multilayered works that retained the rawness, precision, and complexity.

    “Listening to this album, I feel that I am having multiple dreams at once. The dreams are fragmented and mixed, flowing through time. Dreams are recalled after we wake up, and we are not exactly aware of them while we sleep. However, when listening to music in this album, it is strange to think that the dreams we are having are like this in fact. This may be music that shows us the other side of consciousness.” (Except from the liner notes by Takuya Sakaguchi)

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Ikue Mori — electronics
Evan Parker — saxophone
Maja S. K. Ratkje — voice, electronics
John Wiese — electronics

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Recorded live at Cafe OTO
London, England
March 30, 2012
Recorded by John Chantler

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from Deviate From Balance, released March 1, 2015

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