Sarajevo, 2006

Thank You Danny Nightmare

Photos by Craig Yu, Roxane Hopper, and Cole Pierce

grandma's

Willful - Mick Muttley

Featuring an exclusive mix for Presto Samo, made by Mick Muttley of SubVersion.

"Wilful" is the culmination of open-mindedness, organisation and overdubbing. The principle was conceived from a gap in tastes. Rock The Dub's Khal once said that he found it difficult to get into ambient music. All the while his love of hip-hop remains steadfast.

"Wilful" is an attempt to merge the two into one cohesive hybrid. The "unmixed" version is the backing track, the final outcome a unique showcase of the talents of Busdriver and Mr. ShaoDow. These are Muttley's two favourite rappers. Therefore "Wilful" is both a call for accumulative appreciation, and an extension of Muttley's current mix archetypes.

Master tempo buttons enable pitch-shifting the ambiences underneath the rhymes and beats. ShaoDow and Busdriver are interviewed to dovetail with a supplmentary feature on SubVersion. Voice recordings are implemented to aid the flow of the audio file. The subjects covered extend the scope of the text copy. Together in wilfulness the objective becomes complete.

01. Boards Of Canada - Into The Rainbow Vein (from the album "The Campfire Headphase" - Warp)
02. Bibio - I'm Rewinding It... (from the album "Fi" - Mush Records)
03. ICR - Before Noon (insert) (from the album "Daytrip" - Covert Operations)
04. Aquadorsa - Daylight Fading Into Evening Silence (from the album "Cloudlands" - Glacial Movements)
05. Alva Noto - Xerrox Soma (from the album "Xerrox Vol.2" - Raster-Noton)
06. Koen Holtkamp - Walker (from the album "Field Rituals" - Type)
07. Klute - No Return (from the album "No-One's Listening Anymore" - Commercial Suicide)
08. Christopher Bissonnette - Jour Et Nuit (from the album "In Between Words" - Kranky)
09. Belong - Beeside (from the album "Colorloss Record" - St.Ives Records)
10. Murcof - Cosmos 1 (from the album "Cosmos" - Leaf)
11. Quosp - Beechwood (from the album "Soundscapes 1" - U-Cover)
12. Lopus - Luoto (from the album "Glow" - Counter Intelligence Digital)
13. Jasper TX & Anduin - Everything Disappears In A Tunnel Of Light (from the album "The Bending Of Light" - SMTG)
14. David Tagg - Picked In Air (from the album "Wind Blown Guitar" - Second Sun Recordings)
15. Rapoon - Thin Light (from the album "Time Frost" - Glacial Movements)
16. Tim Hecker - Blood Rainbow (from the album "Harmony In Ultraviolet" - Kranky)
17. Philip Dickau - Whyte Avenue (from the album "This City, And You" - CD-R)
18. Berliner Philharmoniker & Sir Simon Rattle - Streets Of Paris (from the album "Perfume: Story Of A Murderer" - EMI)
19. Lamenter - Northern Pacific (from the album "Sleeping Me" - Phantom Channel)
20. Machinefabriek - Lief (from the album "Weeler" - Lampse)
21. Deaf Center - Thread (from the album "Pale Ravine" - Type)

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Mick regularly collaborates on mixtapes and curates mix exchange projects. Find my contribution to this crosspost on SubVersion.

Halloween

Halloween

disorientation, excerpt

sneak preview
s/t disorientation (excerpt) Cole Pierce
music by Cinchel

Piano Clockworks

Piano Clockworks by colepierce

Last year I self released Piano Clockworks, an album of gritty ambient music that was also a sound installation at Old Gold. Here is the title track.

Check out the rest of the show on my website.

Nice Forecast

Danny Think Tank

Video Installation Detail

Cole Pierce Light Installation, originally uploaded by Laura M Gray.

Photo by Laura M Gray, 2009

New Mix! Summer Bin

Part 1
Summer Bin Pt 1 by colepierce

Part 2
Summer Bin Pt 2 by colepierce

Part 3
Summer Bin Pt 3 by colepierce

(my summer jams)

Philip's Antenna

Hike, Interrupted

Hike by colepierce

Field recording of Tyler wearing a wireless lav mic walking into the woods talking to himself, away from the receiver and then returning to signal range. Recorded in the mountains somewhere in Oregon, August 2008.

Tape Epiphany at Antena Gallery

August 7- September 5, 2009

ANTENA
1765 S. Laflin St.
Chicago IL 60608
www.antenapilsen.com
antenapilsen (at) gmail.com
(773) 257-3534
Hours: by appointment only

Cole Pierce, Tape Epiphany 2009
VHS Tape and Nails, 14'x12'
Antena Gallery
Chicago IL

Tape Epiphany at Antena Gallery

Tape Epiphany (2007) Block Museum of Art

Friends and Colleagues,
While most of Chicago is going to be standing in sweaty shoulder to shoulder solidarity for Lallapalooza, Antena Gallery and I will be hosting a quiet revolution of our own for those that are truly down. I have painstakingly installed "Tape Epiphany" (2007) in Antena Gallery's Project Wall Space and to prove it, the opening reception is Friday August 7th from 6pm - 10pm. I look forward to seeing you there.



August 7- September 5, 2009

ANTENA
1765 S. Laflin St.
Chicago IL 60608
www.antenapilsen.com
antenapilsen@gmail.com
(773) 257-3534
Hours: by appointment only

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Tight Quarters Fashion

Lines - Some Noise Correction, originally uploaded by Laura M Gray.

Photo by Laura M Gray

Per Second

2 Channel Video and Sound Installation by Cole Pierce

6 Channel Interactive Sound Installation by Dustin Camilleri

Upcoming Show, Per Second Project

Friends and colleagues,

This weekend we are exhibiting new work in a show titled Per Second taking place in a vacant storefront in Logan Square as part of the Milwaukee Ave Arts Festival. Cole Pierce presents a two channel video installation in collaboration with Dustin Camilleri, who created a six channel sound piece in response to one of the videos. Roxane Hopper presents a single channel video called Echo Amphitheater, and an installation composed of photographs and a neon wall sculpture.

Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, July 31st from 6 to 10pm.

Location:
2827 N Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL

When:
July 31st - 6 pm - 10 pm *Reception
August 1st - Noon - 10 pm
August 2nd - Noon - 8 pm

Check out the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival website for the schedule of events and view the map of participating galleries.

Facebook event invitation

Per Second Project at Milwaukee Ave Art Fest

Per Second

2827 N. Milwaukee Ave

Chicago IL

August 31 - July 2

Milwaukee Ave Arts Festival

Cole Pierce

Roxane Hopper

Dustin Camilleri

Genre Study: Glitch Ambient

 

Bin 3, Part 1 (17 min)

Ijspret 1              2:26 Machinefabriek
Faithful Friend 4:02 The Humble Bee
On Waiting        8:44 Greg Haines & Wouter van Veldhoven
Variation 2        5:09 Molly Berg + Stephen Vitiello

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This is what I refer to as crafty ambient music, because it is obvious that instrumental craftmanship is emphasized just as much as production techniques. Aligned more with glitch, this ambient music does not rely on spacial harmonics and extremely long tones but focuses on specific textures; balancing field recordings, post production noodling and instrumental works into a carefully composed harmony. 

Work in Progress: Experiments in Audio Degeneration

Liftoff tape bell loop by colepierce

liftoff-tape-bell-loop

Work in Progress, experimenting with analog distortion, this track is comprised of samples of stages of audio degeneration. I'm using a loop of bells and kids toys that I made with Forrester, recorded to cassette and stripped off portions of the magnetic tape with typewriter liftoff tape. This was digitized, looped and dubbed back onto the damaged cassette, then I distorted the tape further by wrinkling it with my fingers. This was again digitized and I layered the audio into 3 tracks, applying effects using Ableton.

T. Carter Mixtape

Side A
The Dirty Three -Red,
T.Carter -The Warning,
Sia - Breath Me (Four Tet Mix),
Sebadoh - Subtle Holy Gift,
Radiohead -In Limbo,
J Dilla - One Eleven,
Elvis Perkins - Moon Woman II,
Nina & Jim - Our Discussion,
Sebadoh -Whitey Peach,
Aric Naue - Tropical Depression,
T.Carter - The Hindenburg


Side B

Phillip Glass -A Gentleman's Honor,
Isolee - Face B,
Flying Lotus-Auntie's Lock,
Child's View - Asse Que Dodo,
Edan - Promised Land,
High Places - From Stardust to Sentience,
Hot Chip - The Warning

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Tyler's Blog
I Wanted to Write an Email

Mixtape, May 2005 - Sweat Equity

Widely eclectic bbq mixtape I made 4 years ago.

Side A

1 sweat equity side A by colepierce

John Grisham - excerpt from Testament, Charlie Hunter - New Orleans Organ Interlude, Skip Spence, Sonic Youth - Tokyo Eye, Caribou - Barn Owl, The Modern Lovers - Modern World, Fennesz - Asusu, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Animal Midnight, Mouse on Mars - Fantastic Analysis, Willie Nelson - Georgia on my mind, Gustavo Santaollalla - La Partida, Piano Magic - Saint Maria, The Dining Rooms - Catania City Blues, Earth Wind & Fire - Can't Hide Love, M. Ward - Sweathearts on Parade, One unshod horse passes on rough, John Grisham - excerpt from the Testament


Side B

2 sweat equity side B by colepierce

The Sea & Cake, Califone - Pastry Sharp, The Cinematic Orchestra - Channel 1 Suite (Four Tet Mix), Stevie Nicks - Gypsy, The Arcade Fire - Haiti, Bernard Hermann - Twisted Nerve, Timeout Drawer - Soon a winged beauty will appear, Skip Spence, Ogurusu Norahide, Nanci Griffith - Boots of Spanish Leather, Secret Chiefs 3 - Book T -Exodus

Frog & Toad Tape

My dad asked me if I could copy a tape to a cd for him. I said sure, what is the tape? He just laughed and said I'd like it. Next time my parents visited he handed me an instructional tape on identifying frog and toad for species found in Iowa. The tape sounds a bit damaged, perhaps by a magnet.

1 Frog & Toad Tape by colepierce

As you can all imagine, the canadians destroyed my mix cd

Fence