textura

Albums
Actress
Ellen Allien
The Alps
Aniline
Anodyne
Tommy Babin's Benzene
Maya Beiser
Pier Bucci
Budd & Wright
Celer
Ceremony
Richard Chartier
Deceptikon
Deepchord & Echospace
Marcel Dettmann
Dirac
Efdemin
GéNIA
Guillaume & C. Dumonts
Hammock
Helvacioglu & Boysen
Richard A Ingram
Inhabitants
Marsen Jules
Akira Kosemura
Manual
Dom Mino'
Teruyuki Nobuchika
Nono/ Wakabayashi
Olan Mill
Originalljudet
Fabio Orsi
M.Ostermeier
Rene Hell
Jeffrey Roden
J. Rogers
Roll The Dice
Secret Cities
Soundpool

Compilations / Mixes
Main Control Board
SEED X: Part I - III

EPs
Alternative Networks Vol. 2
Aural Diptych Series # 1
Aural Diptych Series # 2
Celer
Deerhoof vs OneOne
Filterwolf
Incite/
Ketem
Kogumaza
Yann Novak
Poratz
Quiroga
Repeat Orchestra
Sepalcure
Sub Loam
v4w.enko
The Zeitgeist EP

DVD
Stephen Vitiello

Yann Novak: Nightfall
Self-released

Nightfall, the latest work from Los Angeles-based sound artist and Dragon's Eye Recordings curator Yann Novak, is about as conceptually pure as a recording can be. The nineteen-minute piece, issued as a three-inch CD-R in an edition of only forty copies, was created at the Jentel Artist Residency outside Banner, Wyoming in February 2010, and uses as a starting point a field recording of a snowfall at dusk. The recording begins quietly as it captures the silence of the dry, wintry landscape but then gradually swells as snow accumulates on top of the microphone's windscreen. As the sound grows ever blurrier, it at first suggests snow flurries, but then slowly changes until it becomes a soft, droning rattle that, in turn, eventually fades into silence. As he has done in other works, Novak takes a real-world setting that—depending on where one lives and to what degree snow is a part of one's experience—may seem rather unusual or mundane, and uses various treatments to transmute it into abstract sonic form where it loses its rigidly identifiable character. Adding to the release's appeal, each edition is accompanied by a unique watercolour Novak created that's based on the cover photograph of the landscape taken at dusk.

June 2010