{"id":1042,"date":"2011-12-24T11:21:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T18:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2011-12-24T11:21:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T18:21:58","slug":"2011-re-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/24\/2011-re-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Re-cap"},"content":{"rendered":"

2011, my 20th year in music, was a very active year for me, even given the fact that I began a hiatus from creating music after the first third of the year.
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\nMy releases<\/u>
\nI re-released Crook’d Finger vs. Harlan \/ Crook’d Finger vs. D.Rhythm:O<\/a> early in the year…
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\nNot long after that came the massive compilation The More Unknown C. Reider<\/a>, a collection of artists using sounds appropriated from my work to compose their own music.
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\nThen there was what I consider to be my ‘major’ work of the year, Owning Extinctions<\/a>, a response, in sound, to the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
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\nModisti was kind enough to release my experiments with sine waves, Formerly Sine Drones<\/a> in June.
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\nI re-released a very early collaborative work featuring myself, Carrie from Auzel and Terry from Histatic Charge. We called ourselves The Unseelie Court, and our one off release from 1995 titled Fall<\/a> also came out in June.
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\nFinally, I released the inaugural track for the Dystimbria netlabel<\/a>, a difficult slab of calming drones and sharp noise titled “A Strange Seed”, which used sounds donated by Thomas Park of Mystified, Dave Seidel of Mysterybear and Miquel Parera Jaques.
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New Labels \/ New Projects<\/u>
\nAs mentioned, I also began the new netlabel Dystimbria<\/a>, which is now up to its sixth release. It explores the area between ambient music and noise music with each new track drawing source material from the music that came before.
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\nI also created a new subsection of Vuzh Music called Vuzh Underground Editions<\/a> for releasing classics from the cassette underground into the CC netlabel underground.
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\nMy biggest project of the year won’t come into fruition until the Spring of 2012, it’s an exhibition of sound art which I am curating as a student project for Front Range Community College. I have a new website for it here: Sound Through Barriers<\/a>.
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Releases on Vuzh Music<\/u>
\nThis year, my netlabel Vuzh Music released a varied lot of cool music, all of which is licensed in the Creative Commons, and is free to download:<\/p>\n