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{"id":6139378598053,"title":"Jim Haynes \/\/ flammable materials from foreign lands LP","handle":"jim-haynes-flammable-materials-from-foreign-lands-lp","description":"\u003cp\u003eカリフォルニアを拠点に活動するJim Haynesは、サンフランシスコ近代美術館、ローザンヌアンダーグラウンド映画祭、バークレー美術館、WestSpace（オーストラリア、メルボルン）、Diapason（ニューヨーク）などで国際的な展示を行っている音響作家です。本作は彼がエストニア滞在中に制作したもので、ソビエト時代の廃墟から受信した不穏なパルス状のノイズやドローンなどで構築されたサウンドスケープ4曲を収録。クリアヴァイナル仕様です。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1170682572\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe new LP from Jim Haynes is a haunted and provocative endeavor, rust-covered and mysterious. It is the result of an immersive listening\/recording process through which Haynes' singular techniques intersected with an unfamiliar, disquieting landscape....\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The album was mostly composed, recorded, and sketched during an Estonian residency at MoKS for a program that was hosted by Simon Whetham and John Grzinich called Active Crossover. The goal of that program was to bring together various artists whose work pertained directly or indirectly to environmental recordings. When John asked me about what kinds of spaces I was interested in seeking out before I arrived, I mentioned that I would like to investigate sites that had a considerable amount of electro-magnetic disruption which I could capture on radio along with sites of psychic distress.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Estonian landscape is pocked with abandoned buildings of considerable size and decay. Many of the excursions for Active Crossover engaged the large crumbling Soviet-era structures. Given that the electricity was off in many of these sites, I had to rely on shortwave to capture any electro-magnetic disruptions instead of any fluctuations from shitty wiring or weird Soviet power transformers... and the radio reception from that particular time and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethat particular place (i.e. southeastern Estonia) was eerie and unsettled. The crackle, drone, and noise is unlike that which is heard in the United States, looming with a (possibly perceived) paranoia of the Russian state just a few kilometers away. That said, Estonia had experienced an encroachment from Russia as the Russian military kidnapped\/extradited an Estonian intelligence officer who was on Estonian soil at the time not too far from where I was staying. Given the contemporary military actions of Russia reclaiming Crimea from Ukraine, this incident put many an Estonian on edge.\u003cbr\u003eThe A-side to 'Flammable Materials' reflects this aestheticized paranoia through bursts of static, pulsed noise, and atonal sinews of sustained frequency. The B-side is wholly more introspective, cutting up an Estonian radio broadcast into phonemes, disjointed phrases, and cryptic speech. What few words that can be recognized from the Estonian pertain to the forces of globalization. From the context of someone who understands very little of the language, these snippets of a female voice clip like a surrealist collage or a Dada poem. Compositionally, I was thinking very much of Robert Ashley's 'Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon' and the Nurse With Wound recontextualization of such sounds.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Jim Haynes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased in California, Jim Haynes has exhibited internationally at the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, the Lausanne Underground Film Festival, the Berkeley Art Museum, WestSpace (Melbourne, Australia), and Diapason (New York). Recorded media has been published through Editions Mego, Ghostly International, Drone Records, Hooker Vision, Intransitive, Semperflorens, Elevator Bath, and The Helen Scarsdale Agency. He has also been awarded residencies at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (California), Recombinant Media Labs (California), Jack Straw Productions (Seattle), and MoKS (Estonia). He has participated in a number of fruitful collaborations with Loren Chasse, Keith Evans, Steven Stapleton, and M.S. Waldron. Until 2015, Haynes was the Vice President and Curatorial Director for 23five Incorporated, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and increased awareness of sound arts within the public arena. He is also the lone occupant at The Helen Scarsdale Agency.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eartist : Jim Haynes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003elabel : Elevator Bath\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-01-31T13:48:56+09:00","created_at":"2021-01-31T13:48:56+09:00","vendor":"Tobira Records","type":"","tags":["drone","elevator bath","lp","monooto","new"],"price":259600,"price_min":259600,"price_max":259600,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":37813094449317,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Jim Haynes \/\/ flammable materials from foreign lands LP","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":259600,"weight":430,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/a3407150987_16.jpg?v=1612068896","\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/0009155205_10.jpg?v=1612068896"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/a3407150987_16.jpg?v=1612068896","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":16308835090597,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"width":700,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/a3407150987_16.jpg?v=1612068893"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/a3407150987_16.jpg?v=1612068893","width":700},{"alt":null,"id":16308831191205,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.333,"height":900,"width":1200,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/0009155205_10.jpg?v=1612068852"},"aspect_ratio":1.333,"height":900,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/0009155205_10.jpg?v=1612068852","width":1200}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eカリフォルニアを拠点に活動するJim Haynesは、サンフランシスコ近代美術館、ローザンヌアンダーグラウンド映画祭、バークレー美術館、WestSpace（オーストラリア、メルボルン）、Diapason（ニューヨーク）などで国際的な展示を行っている音響作家です。本作は彼がエストニア滞在中に制作したもので、ソビエト時代の廃墟から受信した不穏なパルス状のノイズやドローンなどで構築されたサウンドスケープ4曲を収録。クリアヴァイナル仕様です。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1170682572\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe new LP from Jim Haynes is a haunted and provocative endeavor, rust-covered and mysterious. It is the result of an immersive listening\/recording process through which Haynes' singular techniques intersected with an unfamiliar, disquieting landscape....\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The album was mostly composed, recorded, and sketched during an Estonian residency at MoKS for a program that was hosted by Simon Whetham and John Grzinich called Active Crossover. The goal of that program was to bring together various artists whose work pertained directly or indirectly to environmental recordings. When John asked me about what kinds of spaces I was interested in seeking out before I arrived, I mentioned that I would like to investigate sites that had a considerable amount of electro-magnetic disruption which I could capture on radio along with sites of psychic distress.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Estonian landscape is pocked with abandoned buildings of considerable size and decay. Many of the excursions for Active Crossover engaged the large crumbling Soviet-era structures. Given that the electricity was off in many of these sites, I had to rely on shortwave to capture any electro-magnetic disruptions instead of any fluctuations from shitty wiring or weird Soviet power transformers... and the radio reception from that particular time and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethat particular place (i.e. southeastern Estonia) was eerie and unsettled. The crackle, drone, and noise is unlike that which is heard in the United States, looming with a (possibly perceived) paranoia of the Russian state just a few kilometers away. That said, Estonia had experienced an encroachment from Russia as the Russian military kidnapped\/extradited an Estonian intelligence officer who was on Estonian soil at the time not too far from where I was staying. Given the contemporary military actions of Russia reclaiming Crimea from Ukraine, this incident put many an Estonian on edge.\u003cbr\u003eThe A-side to 'Flammable Materials' reflects this aestheticized paranoia through bursts of static, pulsed noise, and atonal sinews of sustained frequency. The B-side is wholly more introspective, cutting up an Estonian radio broadcast into phonemes, disjointed phrases, and cryptic speech. What few words that can be recognized from the Estonian pertain to the forces of globalization. From the context of someone who understands very little of the language, these snippets of a female voice clip like a surrealist collage or a Dada poem. Compositionally, I was thinking very much of Robert Ashley's 'Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon' and the Nurse With Wound recontextualization of such sounds.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Jim Haynes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased in California, Jim Haynes has exhibited internationally at the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, the Lausanne Underground Film Festival, the Berkeley Art Museum, WestSpace (Melbourne, Australia), and Diapason (New York). Recorded media has been published through Editions Mego, Ghostly International, Drone Records, Hooker Vision, Intransitive, Semperflorens, Elevator Bath, and The Helen Scarsdale Agency. He has also been awarded residencies at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (California), Recombinant Media Labs (California), Jack Straw Productions (Seattle), and MoKS (Estonia). He has participated in a number of fruitful collaborations with Loren Chasse, Keith Evans, Steven Stapleton, and M.S. Waldron. Until 2015, Haynes was the Vice President and Curatorial Director for 23five Incorporated, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and increased awareness of sound arts within the public arena. He is also the lone occupant at The Helen Scarsdale Agency.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eartist : Jim Haynes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003elabel : Elevator Bath\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}
