Other highlights of the year include performing in Riga [Latvia] (amongst many other great places),

The second installment of our guest list series comes from artists who have contributed to our mix series, or that were interviewed for my column Sound Propositions . Like Joe Cocker here, we get by with a little help from our friends.
Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt) remains one of our favorite artists, and luckily for us also one of the most prolific. His trilogy cctv with Celer was so successful that we asked the two to list each other’s favorite releases. (Read those here ).
1. Will Guthrie – Sticks, Stones & Breaking Bones (Antboy Music) 2. Laurie Spiegel – The Expanding Universe (Unseen Worlds) 3. Anne-James Chaton with Alva Noto and Andy Moor Décade (Raster-Noton) 4. Greg Haines – Digressions cctv (Preservation) 5. Mount Eerie – Clear Moon/Ocean Roar (P.W Elverum & Sun/7 e.p.) 6. Hildur Guðnadóttir – Leyfdu ljosinu (Touch) 7. Theesatisfaction – awE naturalE (Sub Pop) 8. Eli Keszler – Catching Net (PAN) 9. Lander Gyselinck and Hester Venrooy – Point Break (entr’acte) 10. Andy Stott – Luxury Problems (Modern Love) 11. The xx – Coexcist (Young Turks) 12. Kane Ikin – Sublunar (12K) 13. Helena Gough – Knot Invariants (entr’acte) 14. Oren Ambarchi & Robin Fox – Connected (Kranky) 15. Björk – Biophilia (Polydor) 16. Roel Meelkop – Secret Garden (OtO) 17. Diagram & Moliné – Ley (entr’acte) 18. Andrea Belfi – Wege (Room40) 19. Machinist – Convergence (Narrominded) 20. Locrian & Christoph Heemann – s/t (Handmade Birds)
Other highlights of the year include performing in Riga [Latvia] (amongst many other great places), touring with Celer, cctv recording with Michel Banabila and Jaap Blonk, making an installation for the NAI (Dutch Architecture Institute), working with Sarah Payton, the premiere of Chris Teerink s Sol LeWitt film (with my soundtrack), seeing Swans live and getting a cat.
Enrico Coniglio is a guitarist, environmental sound recordist and sound artist from Venice, Italy. A member of AIPS Archivio Italiano Paesaggi cctv Sonori , Coniglio has a marked interest cctv in landscape aesthetics which manifests itself in his audio work as well as his photography. He also co-runs the Laverna and Galaverna labels, and has contributed to Herion as well as many other groups. Along with Alessandro Doni, he recently published “noWHere an ideal manifest for sound artists,” which I am presently translating into English.
Considering the huge amount of music produced, even within cctv a niche as one of the “experimental” music, it seems difficult to decide which are the best releases in the year, knowing full well that you cannot listen to everything that come out, as it is impossible to draw up an exhaustive list. So, I chose the titles below according to a few simple conditions:
- my limited knowledge of the releases out on 2012; - my inability to listen to too much music; - with respect to an imaginary thread that goes from modern classical to ambient music; - with respect to the Italian scene (artists, producers, labels) that I admire and I feel duty-bound to promote. Say that I’m a chauvinist :)
1 if, Bwana, Antonio Della Marina, Marta Vigna, Michele Spanghero, Veronika Vitàzkovà, Sandro Carta “A Proposal For T.” (Ozky E-Sound) 2 Giovanni Lami “In sirenis” (Danilo Montanari editore) 3 VVAA “Loud Listening” (Cronica electronica) 4 Pietro Riparbelli “Three Days of Silence” (Gruenrekorder) 5 Zbeen “Stasis” (Entr acte) 6 Øe “Transfer” (Murmur) cctv 7 Julia Kent & Barbara De Dominicis “Parallel 41″ (Baskaru) 8 Yasuhiro Moprinaga “Sceneries from the castellated wall” (Galaverna) cctv 9 Attilio Novellino “Through glass” (Valeot) 10 RETINA.IT “Descending into crevasse” (Glacial movements)
I apologize to all those I have not included in this brief “shopping list”. cctv I would also like to point out that the relationship between numbers and the releases listed is arbitrary, I’m definitely not able to say what is the best album of the year. But I’m cctv sure that, in the face of too much music produced, artists and labels should make a deep reflection on the problem of what is called “market saturation” and respect to the limits of the “growth” as an economic and cultural model, nowadays clearly in crisis.
SEC_ is Mimmo Napolitano , the guy behind Toxo Records and many related musical projects, including Aspec(t) . Hailing from Naples, Italy, one of my favorite cities anywhere in the world, his idiosyncratic cctv music perfectly encapsulates the tension between chaos and order that defines that city for me. Testacoda, his recent collaboration with Jerome Noetinger on Bocian Records, was a highlight cctv of 2012 for me. Here are his.
Albums: Kevin Drumm “Crowde