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December 23, 2009
Labels: Winds Measure Recordings
Winds Measure Recordings is an American (Brooklyn, NY), relatively young label (four years of activity) whose aim is to spotlight innovative methods in sound exploration, facing uncommon levels of investigation through the recourse to elements of musique concrète, improvisational components and a wise handling of environmental recordings.
As confirmation of that, its catalogue exhibits some of the best names in the field (Asher, Gilles Aubry, Greg Davis, Richard Garet, Andy Graydon, Lawrence English, Jeph Jerman, Jason Khan, Ubeboet, and, of course, Ben Owen, the mind behind this project).
Another prerogative of wmr is a particular care for the layout and package design of the titles, conceived according to a minimalistic perspective, following an exclusive, unique graphic style.
Furthermore, and not a (minor) detail, their contents offer aural contexts often involving visual significances as natural projection, a substrate almost functional to them, despite different sources exploited by the artists: raw recordings or practices of digital processing or, more, products of analog treatments.
Music that would spread into wide open spaces as well as eligible for a close listening in a small room; sounds which give motion to stills of daily life and, equally, very useful as interpretative key of urban experiences.
As confirmation of that, its catalogue exhibits some of the best names in the field (Asher, Gilles Aubry, Greg Davis, Richard Garet, Andy Graydon, Lawrence English, Jeph Jerman, Jason Khan, Ubeboet, and, of course, Ben Owen, the mind behind this project).
Another prerogative of wmr is a particular care for the layout and package design of the titles, conceived according to a minimalistic perspective, following an exclusive, unique graphic style.
Furthermore, and not a (minor) detail, their contents offer aural contexts often involving visual significances as natural projection, a substrate almost functional to them, despite different sources exploited by the artists: raw recordings or practices of digital processing or, more, products of analog treatments.
Music that would spread into wide open spaces as well as eligible for a close listening in a small room; sounds which give motion to stills of daily life and, equally, very useful as interpretative key of urban experiences.
Founder: Ben Owen
Location: New York, USA
Area: Electronic, Experimental, Ambient, Field Recordings, Free Improvisation
Website: http://www.windsmeasurerecordings.net/Blog: http://windsmeasure.tumblr.com/
Mail: wm(at)seasonalbk.net
Address: PO Box 1444 - NY NY 10276 USA
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Catalogue:
Jeph Jerman + Albert Casais - And This
Cat. #: wm01
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2006
Notes: limited edition of 100 copies
Package: silkscreen and letterpress sleeve. Designed and printed by Ben Owen
Cat. #: wm01-2
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2009
Notes: second edition
Package: translucent vellum envelope with letterpress sticker. Designed and printed by Ben Owen
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Ben Owen - Radio>in
Cat. #: wm02
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2006
Notes: limited edition of 100 copies
Package: letterpress sleeve. Designed and printed by Ben Owen
Cat. #: wm02-2
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2009
Notes: second edition
Package: translucent vellum envelope with letterpress sticker. Designed and printed by Ben Owen
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Ting Ting Jahe - 18 (16)
Cat. #: wm03
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2006
Notes: limited edition of 100 copies
Package: letterpress sleeve. Designed and printed by Ben Owen
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Greg Davis / Jeph Jerman / Albert Casais - 6 x 20
Cat. #: wm04
Format: 2xCD-R
Release date: 2006
Notes: limited edition of 100 copies
Package: letterpress sleeve and two composite photo cards. Designed and printed by Ben Owen
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EA - Balancing Act With Controlled Dynamics
Cat. #: wm05
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2006
Notes: limited edition of 100 copies
Package: 2 panel letterpress sleeve and one score card insert. Designed and printed by Ben Owen and Gill Arnò.
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Andy Graydon - At Bay
Cat. #: wm06
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2007
Notes: limited edition of 100 copies
Package: letterpress sleeve. Designed by Andy Graydon and printed by Ben Owen
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Civyiu Kkliu & Ilya Monosov - Cartolina Postale, Composition No. 2
Cat. #: wm07
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2008
Notes: limited edition of 150 copies
Package: letterpress sleeve. Designed by Civyiu Kkliu and Ilya Monosov, produced and printed by Ben Owen
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Ben Owen + Scott Allison - Untitled (For Agnes Martin)
Cat. #: wm08
Format: 8" lathe cut
Release date: 2009
Notes: limited edition of 50 copies
Package: letterpress sleeve. Designed by Scott Allison, printed by Ben Owen with Scott Allison
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Asher & Ubeboet - Cell Memory
Cat. #: wm09
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2008
Notes: limited edition of 150 copies
Package: letterpress sleeve. Designed and printed by Ben Owen
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VV.AA. - V-p V-f Is V-n
Cat. #: wm10
Format: 7"
Release date: 2008
Notes: limited edition of 350 copies
Package: letterpress sleeve and insert. Designed and printed by Ben Owen
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Lawrence English - Studies For Stradbroke
Cat. #: wm11
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2008
Notes: limited edition of 150 copies
Package: letterpress sleeve. Designed and printed by Ben Owen, cover image from a photograph by Lawrence English
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Richard Garet - L'avenir
Cat. #: wm12
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2008
Notes: limited edition of 150 copies
Package: letterpress sleeve. Designed and printed by Ben Owen
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Sawako - Untitled
Cat. #: wm13
Format: Poster
Release date: 2008
Notes: limited edition of 50 copies
Package: letterpress printed in 2, 3 and 4 panel. Sewn with wire or conductive thread
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Jason Kahn And Takefumi Naoshima - In A Room
Cat. #: wm14
Format: CD
Release date: 2009
Notes: limited edition of 300 copies
Package: letterpress sleeve. Designed and printed by Ben Owen
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Ben Owen + Scott Allison - Untitled (For Agnes Martin)
Cat. #: wm15
Format: Poster
Release date: 2009
Notes: limited edition of 40 copies
Package: 3 color letterpress print, 10.25" x 16". Designed by Scott Allison, printed in collaboration by Ben Owen and Scott Allison
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Gilles Aubry - s6t8r
Cat. #: wm16
Format: CD
Release date: 2009
Notes: limited edition of 300 copies
Package: letterpress sleeve. Designed and printed by Ben Owen
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Originally from Spiritual Archives, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Dec 23, 2009 at 11:12 PM