OUT NOW! CASSETTE 18 MINUTES WITH CIRCUIT TORÇAT
(CT01) JUAN MATOS CAPOTE "JABAL" C18
It comes in an edition of 50, full color both-sides J-card +1 panel, and white case and CrO2 cassette. Total time 18 minutes.
PRICE: 7 Euros plus shipping & handling (+1 Euro to Spain, +2 Euros to rest of the world).
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REVIEWS
— Auxiliary Out (5/11/09)
"...This tape is quite good...Capote’s work isn’t exactly minimal but that influence is present. He focuses on constructing pieces from small fragments of sound. Though the two work from very different source material, Capote’s work might possibly sound like an isolated strand of Tomutonttu’s sound clutter. Sound placed into odd but clearly defined structures. A real pleasant jam."
— Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly 670 (17/03/09)
"...Capote's love goes out to circuit bending, which he uses here on this eighteen minute cassette, most notably the 'pink oscillator', modified electronic gear, some field recordings, contact microphones and prerecorded software synth phrases. Four pieces in total. 'Goat Escape' is quite a noisy piece of waving electric circuits, being touched, whereas the title track is a bit more spacious, like cosmic dust or SETI like signals. The best pieces are on the b-side, with the loop based 'Tide' and the more complex noise based composition 'Star Dust', which includes a lot of the things he credits himself for, and contact microphones play an important role. Its a nice release, a bit short, but surely to the point."
Juan Matos Capote is a Spanish sound and visual artist from the Canary Islands, based in Barcelona, Spain. He is also one half of the duo Thick Wisps.
— Tobias Fischer at www.tokafi.com
"One of the great developments related to modern technology is that more and more visual artists are starting to work in the field of music, presenting fresh visions of sound. One of them is Juan Matos Capote. In his case, the relationship between eye and ear has always been a symbiotic one. In fact, his paintings and sculptures already dealt with written sounds, silence and synaesthesia. It should only be consistent, then, that his fledgling career as a musician should be occupied with optical phenomena, threedimensional compositions and with methods of reflecting and representing the world which surrounds us in music: His debut as a solo artist, "The Subway Aural Recordings" was scored over the course of years and documents his travels with the New York City tube system. The entire process of its creation marks him as an artist who cares next to nothing for the traditional terminologies of the music business or for seperating writing from recording and purpose from spontaneity. While scoring "The Subway Aural Recordings", he hid recording devices in his clothes all the time, keeping them switched on incessantly to capture every nuance of his environment and to include chance as a vital element. Consequently, the album sounds anything but a regular field recording and offers much more than just a couple of soundscapes built from the same source material. Instead, it offers living testimony of his idea of treating sounds as aural spaces through which the composition flows."
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