Keith Fullerton Whitman - Disingenuity

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Keith Fullerton Whitman has consistently blown our tiny minds this year with a stream of utterly crucial releases. Whether morphing the Arabic Oud

into majestically ornate formations or commanding his self-generating hybrid analogue/digital modular setup into unimaginable arrangements, we're witnessing

the culmination of years of dedicated research and experimentation blossoming into tangible, cherishable productions in 2010. Arguably, he's saved the best for

this LP, using masses of recordings gleaned from live improv and studio sessions between 2007-08 as the raw material for these compositions, created between

2008 and spring 2010. In the seventeen minutes of 'Disingenuity' we're subject to a cataclysmic display of cosmically attuned imagination, conjuring myriad

configurations of textures, shapes, contours and tones with the constant ability to shock, seduce and tear us apart at will. Within the ever shifting dimensions

of his arena, sounds are generated from his Doepfer Hybrid Modular Synth and made to radiate and ricochet from every surface, returning to our ears in a

different shape and space each time, violently unstable and cosmically chaotic, yet hopelessly engrossing, kinda like hearing a field recording from the big

bang. If that was the genesis, then 'Disingenuousness' is what came after, as the constellations settle into place and the excess energies disperse with reduced

velocity, homogenizing into alien harmonic structures and nuclear melodies with the deft electro-acoustic rendition of pioneers like Pierre Henry, Bernard

Parmegiani or Tod Dockstader, whose work he effectively continues today. If you love experiencing visceral, thrilling electronics that sounds like the music

of the stars, you simply owe it to yourself to listen to this album, you will thank yourself afterwards. **Please be aware, this album is strictly limited, housed

in custom printed outer-pvc with a design aesthetic worthy of the music contained within

keith fullerton whitman

boomkat

PAN

i need to catch up on this guy

just got ears round variations for oud and synthesizer - unconventional, but i quite enjoyed it

he's hrvatski

What do watmmer's think of this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSbui8NiTkU

Would appeal to the AE headz I'd imagine. I have heard a few clips and it sounds like the noise your brain would make reacting to snorting microchips mixed with stardust.

I guess I am 50/50 to buy it on vinyl but looking for a few good words perhaps to persuade me.

i didnt think it was the best piece on the album, and tbh i had to take some time to get into these ehh,..cosmic modular synth workouts of his, but i like it once a while. subotnick kinda sound...

this is his latest thing, i think, on "amish records":

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTekesQddrQ[/YOUTUBE]

(short excerpt of an 18 min track)

Big, big fan of this one.

Wow, what I'm hearing here sounds tasty. Way more accessible than I thought it was (it's doesn't correspond to what I remember I've heard from him back in time).

I also listened back to Swarm & Dither three days ago and remembered how much that release is awesome. It gave me the curiosity to check other stuff by him once again, so this thread is very welcomed

edit : just realised the thread is from 2010. thanks for upping it anyway !

Awesome cover artwork and great music. The guy has a very interesting online music store www.mimaroglumusicsales.com. If I wasn't so obsessed right now with techno variations I would totally start getting into that stuff. Looks like a whole new continent of music to explore.

KFW is very good and I like his rough and ready live approach to making music which akin to Krautrock but with a fresh abstract edge.http://vimeo.com/18244639

defo checking out this new relase

Really nice guy, I see him frequently at shows around Boston and have spoken to him on one or two occasions.

The video just posted is great, I think it's a performance with his 'generator' system which is very neat. I recently got to see him play a really aggressive set with a modular setup one quarter of the size that he's performing with in that video. That guy is fast; constantly patching stuff and really showing off how much of a virtuoso he can be with a modular. I've never seen a performance like it.

He's about to take up residency in Paris for a week and do a gig in Austria. If any of you are in the area I highly recommend checking him out. He's a super nice guy, so don't hesitate to approach him. I hear he likes really good beer *hint hint*

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october 2nd through 7th 2011

composition residency

grm studios

paris, france

 

october 14th through 16th 2011

kontraste krems

keith fullerton (premiering a work for françois bayle's acousmonium), many others tbc

klangraum krems

minoritenplatz 4, a-3500 krems, austria

  On 7/17/2011 at 9:55 PM, beerwolf said:

What do watmmer's think of this?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSbui8NiTkU

 

Would appeal to the AE headz I'd imagine. I have heard a few clips and it sounds like the noise your brain would make reacting to snorting microchips mixed with stardust.

 

I guess I am 50/50 to buy it on vinyl but looking for a few good words perhaps to persuade me.

that's really nice, it's glitchy but not in the same way as some of his other stuff that i've heard. What else of his has pretty synth work like this?

Digital release out on boomkat now

don't really get the first track.

(second track.. on the other hand.. <3)

I caved in and got the vinyl. Something about this stuff that intrigues me. (From a galaxy far, far away. If you get my drift.)

Should be good.

  On 7/19/2011 at 12:19 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 7/17/2011 at 9:55 PM, beerwolf said:

What do watmmer's think of this?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSbui8NiTkU

 

Would appeal to the AE headz I'd imagine. I have heard a few clips and it sounds like the noise your brain would make reacting to snorting microchips mixed with stardust.

 

I guess I am 50/50 to buy it on vinyl but looking for a few good words perhaps to persuade me.

 

that's really nice, it's glitchy but not in the same way as some of his other stuff that i've heard. What else of his has pretty synth work like this?

Playthroughs is a beautiful album, my personal favourite by him. Also Yearlong is very very nice.

I meant Lisbon instead of Yearlong. Apologies matey

N/m. Found the digital copy on boomkat.

  On 7/21/2011 at 12:08 PM, Swerm said:

I meant Lisbon instead of Yearlong. Apologies matey

Will check your recommendations Swerm.

  On 7/21/2011 at 4:31 PM, Alfred P McLovely III said:

N/m. Found the digital copy on boomkat.

I find the artwork strangely addictive for some reason, hence the splurge on vinyl.

Sometimes it has to be done