photo by TJ Norris

VOLUME and Overlap are very happy to announce a rare live recording from the event series LISTEN/VISION, co-produced by VOLUME and Overlap. Three sound artists from the German record label Raster-Noton; Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, and Olaf Bender, reach through pop culture and science in this funky, minimal electronic set. This digital LP features a very unique performance from Signal, a collaboration between all three Raster-Noton artists. This is deep-listening techno for your body.

Buy it at the new Overlap shop !

LISTEN/VISION showcases new work by artists traversing the territory between art and music through multidisciplinary art forms including sound manipulation, soundtrack generation, digital media, computer-generated visuals, aural landscapes, video mixes, and animation.

Thanks to artist and curator TJ Norris for photo documenting the event.

Keep an eye out for 92982, the latest release from William Basinski. Word has it that the first copies will be available exclusively at the Resonant Forms Festival at LACE in Los Angeles, April 3-5 (Billy will be performing on the 5th, with a special live collaboration with Richard Chartier).

Here is a description of the release from Basinski’s website:

Something from a long time ago…in Brooklyn, 351 jay street…A fruitful evening in the studio… Home at last after a day of work at the answering service…answering phones for calvin klein, bianca jagger, steve rubell, and all the other somebody people…in our space station: home in my studio experimenting live. James is in the adjacent studio painting masterpieces. Roger is in the front, gluing old shoes on canvas and painting them orange… I’m clicking the old norelcos back and forth between channels…all the windows are open. The sound is spreading all over downtown brooklyn mixing with the helicopters, sirens, pot smoke and fireworks…

It’s crunchy, it’s distorted…it’s basinski archive circa 1982. The third track some of you may recognize: a shorter version was included as variation #8 on Variations: A movement in chrome primitive. So, this night in the studio spawned a direction I would follow for some time. As I love this document of that night, I thought you might like to put what came later into context, so I’m releasing this archival recording. The last track is a newly recorded reprise of the first track that I recorded with the original loop in February 2009 in Los Angeles. — William Basinski, March, 2009