Land's Air
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Land's Air
Tone List February 2023 Edition of 100 CDs. Eduardo Cossio - autoharps, microphones, cassettes, electronics, photography, design Josten Myburgh - alto saxophone, sustain pedal, recording Dan O'Connor -mixing & mastering at Encoder Sound |
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Jameson Feakes, Josten Myburgh & Michael Pisaro-Liu
Edition Wandelweiser June 2022 Edition of 500 CDs. Created by Jameson Feakes (electric guitar, field recordings), Josten Myburgh (alto saxophone, field recordings), and Michael Pisaro-Liu (composition). Recorded by Kieran Kenderessy, mixed by Michael Pisaro-Liu and mastered by Taku Unami. ABOUT THIS RELEASE
“When one contemplates there is no form, but when one examines, there is coherence.” Bu Yantu, quoted by François Jullien in The Great Image Has No Form Two Scrolls from Western Australia was written in collaboration with Jameson Feakes and Josten Myburgh. I asked each musician to select a location in Western Australia and then to make a set of field recordings there at different times of day. These recordings form the basis of the two scrolls. As with scroll paintings made in China from the Song Dynasty onward, poetic characters (here represented by music for the two instruments) are placed above the landscape. - Michael Pisaro-Liu The artists wish to pay acknowledgement to Whadjuk Noongar, Chumash, Tongva, Fernandeño Tataviam and Kizh lands, and custodians and elders of these lands past, present & future. The development and recording of this work was supported by the Western Australian Government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries. |
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Sounding Together
Tone List April 2021. Website and digital download. Improvisations with Anette Krebs, Jim Denley, Josten Myburgh, Rhys Butler, Luke Cuerel, Julia Drouhin, Simon Charles, Noemie Huttner-Koros, Daisy Sanders, Annika Moses, Eduardo Cossio, Stuart Orchard, Be Gosper, Lenny Jacobs and Jameson Feakes. Recorded by Josten Myburgh, mixed by Dan O'Connor at Encoder Sound. Featuring writing by Noemie Huttner-Koros, Daisy Sanders, Jim Denley and Eduardo Cossio, edited by Josten Myburgh and Liang Luscombe. |
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Josten Myburgh
Another Timbre. January 2021. CD & digital download. Performed by Jet Kye Chong, Josten Myburgh, Djuna Lee, Stuart James, Jameson Feakes and Kirsten Smith. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Lee Buddle at Crank Recording. Artwork is a still from "Night Parrot Stories" by Robert Nugent, with thanks. |
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Nick Ashwood, Josten Myburgh, Michael McNab & Emilio Gordoa
WildSonico. July 31, 2020. Digital download. Recorded and mixed by Josten Myburgh. Produced by WildSonico. ABOUT THIS RELEASE
Nick Ashwood - guitar, room Josten Myburgh - alto saxophone, room Michael McNab - percussion, room Emilio Gordoa - percussion, multi-tone generator, room Recorded in a historical bunker during Mahagonny's Australian tour. Alexandra Battery Park, lutruwita/Tasmania, August 2019. A special thanks to Nick for bringing us to this special spot and to Mona – Museum of Old and New Art | Hobart, Tasmania for the fancy food. |
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Emilio Gordoa, Josten Myburgh & Adam Pultz-Melbye /
Matthias Müller & Josten Myburgh Tone List (TL022). August 16, 2019 Edition of 200 CDs / digital download. Mixed and mastered by Josten Myburgh. Artwork by Lena Czerniawska. ABOUT THIS RELEASE
After playing sporadic sessions across three years since their first meeting in Berlin in 2015, Adam, Emilio and Josten produced this energised trio in a flat in Wedding in 2018. With a rapid rate of change and a tendency towards playful subversion, it's exploratory and colourful, while still precipitating in many moments of clarity and intensity. A few days before, Josten had met with Matthias Müller in his studio to discuss Matthias' upcoming trip to Perth for Audible Edge; they figured they ought to play together as well. What emerged was an immediately familiar language, a synchronicity between sharp digital feedback and articulate trombone gestures. Their very first meeting is published here. As opposed to the expansive chamber music of the trio, this duo works mostly by layering noise, and the results are far more stark. The recordings make a curious pair, with the same electronic sound-worlds existing in two spaces, divergent in approach to gesture and harmony. Perhaps Lena Czerniawska's artwork, drawn in response to the music, proposes some relationships between the two. |
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Tchake
Tone List (TL016) December 1, 2018 Edition of 200 CDs / digital download. Mixed and mastered by Josten Myburgh. Artwork by Michael McNab & George McNab. ABOUT THIS RELEASE
Tchake is the duo of Michael McNab (Naarm/Melbourne) and Josten Myburgh (Boorloo/Perth). Working together in short bursts across the last four years, the duo have performed at such festivals as Cable#8 Festival (Nantes), Supersense Festival (Melbourne), and the Totally Huge New Music Festival (Perth), have conducted an 11-show tour of Europe, and have released a trio album with Berlin-based vibraphonist Emilio Gordoa on Shame File Music. This marks their first recorded release as a duo. Both and Net was created during a short residency in Perth, facilitated by Dan O'Connor, during which the duo stripped back their setups and approaches to reveal a stark and intense language. Both pieces on this album were improvisations recorded live in front of audiences. The first piece is, in a way, documentation of the discovery of this approach as it happened, and is unpredictable and brutal. The second piece, recorded further into the residency, is a collaboration with guitarist Jameson Feakes, whose contribution of harmonies and drones adds additional dimensions to the music, allowing it to become almost tranquil and melancholic at times. Tchake would like to thank Dan O'Connor for organising the residency and performing as part of the evening concerts, as well as other performers and collaborators throughout the week whose work is not documented here but whose contributions certainly influenced these pieces: Djuna Lee, Sage Pbbbt, Mae Anthony, Jessica Porter-Langson, Wayan Billiondana, Eduardo Cossio, Eljo Agenbach, Ben Greene, Claire Keet and Annika Moses. |
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Antoine Beuger, Jameson Feakes & Josten Myburgh
Tone List (TL012) May 28, 2018 Edition of 16 boxes with CD-R, essays & art prints / free digital download. Composition by Antoine Beuger. Performance, mixing & mastering by Jameson Feakes & Josten Myburgh. Artwork by Lauren Salt. ABOUT THIS RELEASE
The first performance by Josten Myburgh of Antoine Beuger's 2007 work 'un lieu pour être deux' was with guitarist and electronic musician Andre O Möller at Klangraum Festival in Düsseldorf, as part of a performance which spanned all fifty pages of the work and which lasted upwards of three hours. Josten found the rich experience of playing the piece captivating and has endeavoured to perform it and share it in other ways many times since this first encounter. This particular recording with Jameson Feakes spans about twenty-or-so pages of the piece. It was made in Josten's home at the time, as part of the 'places to be two' project, where numerous performances of this work were being made around Perth in 2017 as part of a process of 'handing down' and sharing the experience of playing it with many different duos. Jameson Feakes & Josten Myburgh frequently collaborate together in a myriad of settings; their work as a duo explores the music of Wandelweiser composers and of other composers whose music creates similar listening situations. This piece in particular makes a compelling statement about 'being two', and about the musical duo: whilst its surface may seem relatively austere at first, being present with the work (through listening or performing) reveals its subdued intensity and the complexity of experience it creates for the performers, for 'the two'. It seems fitting for Feakes & Myburgh's first duo release (of surely more to come) to begin here, at some kind of investigation of the potential of 'being two' itself. It is suggested that you play this recording at a volume level that blends in with/is absorbed into one's environment, rather than dominating it. Artwork for the release has been provided by Lauren Salt (of Volim) who has created works in response to the experience of listening to the work. The physical release of the album comes in a box roughly A5-sized, featuring art prints by Salt and texts by the performers. Please note: Bandcamp does not accommodate large file uploads, so the recording has been cut in half exactly. This album was made on Whadjuk Noongar land. |
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Josten Myburgh
Flaming Pines (FLP50) June 30, 2016 Edition of 100 3" CDs / digital download. Andrea Sitas (contrabass) Natalya Czernicziw, Jameson Feakes & Sarah Cranfield (voices) Josten Myburgh (piano, percussion, radio, voice, electronics, composition) Recorded, mixed & mastered by Josten Myburgh. Artwork by Kate Carr. ABOUT THIS RELEASE
When I was living south of the river last year, this uncompromising brick wall is something I used to drive past whenever I was heading into the markets or the city. For whatever reason I found its austerity to be amusing; the unadorned facade, with no windows, doors, and (up until recently) not even any graffiti seemed surreal and in some ways signifying of the unglamorous landscape of this suburb. Perhaps its the influence of my friend Drew Woolley, whose own compositional work at the time included postcard pieces dedicated to the mundane urban clutter of Perth’s eastern suburbs, that made this weird southern monument stand out to me so much. Since noticing the wall I’ve been lucky enough to visit the Hamburger Bahnhof exhibition of Joseph Beuys in Berlin and walk through the 20 tons of tallow fat that constitute ‘Unschlitt’, a series of sculptures cast from the useless corner of a pedestrian underpass - ‘a testament to empty space slowly being wasted', as Alena Sokhan describes it. My homage to the wall is my way of trying to look at a similar idea, passing through a more personal veil of memories of people and place that I associate with the area now. |
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Emilio Gordoa, Michael McNab & Josten Myburgh
Shame File Music (sham089) March 20, 2016 Edition of 100 CD-Rs / digital download. Recorded, mixed & mastered by Josten Myburgh. Artwork by Josten Myburgh. ABOUT THIS RELEASE
In February 2015, Australian musicians Michael McNab (percussion/drums) and Josten Myburgh (electronics) toured Europe, and met up with Emilio Gordoa (vibraphone), a Mexican artist residing in Berlin since 2012. They recorded a couple of hours of improvisation in Gordoa’s Berlin studio. From these raw recordings comes the two excerpts that make up Passive Transport, a delicate tapestry of extended techniques and open improvisation, with various instrument preparations and electronic treatments exorcising any expected timbres from instruments like drums or vibraphone. The result is a work of crystalline sonic beauty and tension |
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