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[NS​-​R 03] Gregory Taylor - Silicon​-​Bronze (Pentimento) (v 1​.​2)

by Gregory Taylor

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new artwork added on 7th October 2015

Nachtstuck Records is an (electroacousic) free improvisation, electroacoustic, contemporary, and electronica record label founded in Braga, Portugal, in 2013/2014, by Tiago Morais Morgado. The label artist rooster features names such as Karlheinz Essl, John Dikeman, Matthew Ostrowski, Antonio Panda Gianfratti, Gregory Taylor, Vladimir Luchansky, Peter Kirn, etc, sharing a philantropic commitment.

Nachtstück Records is net label founded in early 2014, working within releasing experimental music under creatives commons licenses, for free download, with possibility for donatives. all the incoming money of our releases, is being donated has been donated to UNICEF until the end of march of 2016. from now onwards, we will be supporting processing foundation, The Processing Foundation was founded in 2012 after more than a decade of work with the original Processing software. The Foundation’s mission is to promote software literacy within the visual arts, and visual literacy within technology-related fields — and to make these fields accessible to diverse communities. the goal of processing foundation is to empower people of all interests and backgrounds to learn how to program and make creative work with code, especially those who might not otherwise have access to these tools and resources. Furthermore, we will be helping STEIM. STEIM (STudio for Electro Instrumental Music) is a center for research and development of new musical instruments in the electronic performing arts, located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Electronic music in STEIM's context is always strongly related to the physical and direct actions of a musician. In this tradition, STEIM supports artists in residence such as composers and performers, but also multimedia and video artists to develop setups which allow for improvisation and performance with individually designed technology. The name of the label is inspired on Dick Raaymakers Nachtmuziek.

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Gregory Taylor was trained initially as a visual artist, He has studied central Javanese gamelan and electroacoustic music in the U.S. and the Netherlands, written for publications such as Wired, Array, and Option, and hosted a radio program of contemporary audio on WORT-­‐FM since 1986 (www.rtqe.net).

After a hiatus from his work in the cassette culture movement of the 1980s the the ARTlevel label, he returned to regular recording and live performance as an improvisor in both solo and group contexts in the late 1990s. In addition to his work in Nachtstück Records, his solo and group recordings on are available on the c74, Palace of Lights, Flood, pfMENTUM, Clang, Stasisfield, Loochtone, Mine All Mine, and Spectropol labels.

In addition to his solo performance career, he has remixed and collaborated with a diverse group of artists (Kim Cascone, BMB (bmbcon.org), The Bell Monks Scott Fields, The Yearlings and K. Leimer) and performed widely in group settings with Brad Garton and Terry Pender (in the dual-­‐laptop/mandolin trio PGT), Jeff Kaiser (as the duo The Desert Fathers), Geoffrey Brady and Tom Hamer (Thistle Inventory) and as 25% of the quartet Taylor Henrickson Hamer Grosse (with percussionist Tom Hamer and visualist Mark Hendrikson, and synthesist Darwin Grosse).

He currently labors on behalf of the new media software company Cycling '74, where he is in demand as a workshop facilitator and educator.

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The practice of alchemy sets itself the goal of transforming what is ordinary or common into something rare and precious. As modern scholars in the history of science have begun to decode the coded writings of its secretive practitioners, it’s become clear that alchemy shared a great deal with what we think of as the practice of science – they manipulated and analyzed the material world based on hypothesis and observation and reported genuine results. As a performer and improvisor/composer, I’ve been drawn to the idea of alchemy as a metaphor for practice – first by using the recording studio as a compositional tool to work with “ordinary” sounds as something malleable and ripe for recombination, and later as a way to think about how improvisation combines the regular materials of instrumental practice with more idiosyncratic/hermetic approaches to creating something new that may be worthy of the silence which precedes it.

The idea of materials are transformed under patient experiment and observation also extends to our tools; the years as an artist composing/making the recorded rituals of imaginary cultures and venturing into using Max/MSP produced a collection of ways of working with audio material that gradually transformed itself from a kind of toolkit to an instrument for improvising with sounds in real time that combined my decisions alongside those made by simple algorithms and mappings whose results were things I had never made before. Transforming the tools that transformed the audio, in turn, transformed me.

So I returned to performing live after many years of solitary studio practice, promising myself that I would always strive to go on stage with my Max patch/instrument, a folder full of audio files, and no fixed plan except to conjure. It is a promise I have managed to keep, and although it doesn’t always work or turn out as I expect, over the course of many performances in many different locations I’ve began to notice that some performances actually wound up having their own internal narrative curves and what seemed to me –on observation and reflection – to have been a locus and record for transformation.

There is a final irony to the alchemical metaphor – the “empirical” data associated with this recording [time/date/location of physical performance] is lost to me, owing to that particular kind of cataclysmic laboratory fire known in our age as “the destruction of my hard drive.” Like its sibling recording “Amalgam: Aluminum/Hydrogen” [Palace of Lights] it dates from a series of live performances from around the same time period, and is a single take live recording with no overdubbing of a live performance. I hope it’s worthy of your attention.

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released May 4, 2014

new artwork uploaded 12-6-2015

released 4th May 2014
Electroacoustic/Electronica/Soundart
Nachtstück Records 2014

music by: Gregory Taylor
Mastering by: Robert Sazdov (www.sokom.mk/index.php?option=c…id=129&lang=en)
Artwork: Thijs Geritz (www.thijsgeritz.nl)
Curating: Tiago Morais Morgado (@tiago_vla)

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In the vibrant music scene of Hamburg, Germany there exists a dynamic record label under the management of Andrew Levine. The electronic / electro-acoustic label, founded and previously curated by Tiago Morais Morgado (Braga, Portugal) has undergone an exciting transformation and continues to output cutting edge contemporary music. ... more

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