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Seth Nehil

About Me

Discography: Tracing the Skins of Clouds CD, KAON, 1998. From Cloud to Seed LP, Alluvial Recordings, 2000. Uva mini-CD, 20City, 2001. Stria (with jgrzinich) CD, Erewhon, 2002. Confluence (with jgrzinich) CD, Intransitive, 2002. Umbra CD, ...edition, 2003. Sunder, Unite (with Olivia Block) CD, Sedimental, 2003, Amnemonic Site CD, Alluvial Recordings, 2006, Sillage (with Brendan Murray CD, Sedimental, 2007. Forthcoming: Ecllipses (with Matt Marble) CD, And/Oar, Flock & Tumble CD, Sonoris.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/6/2006
Band Website: sethnehil.artdocuments.org
Influences: iannis xenakis, organum, jose maceda, cornelius cardew/scratch orchestra, bronius kutavicius, john cage, terry riley, giancarlo toniutti, toy bizarre, new blockaders, andrew chalk, jonathan coleclough, olivia block, jgrzinich, mnortham, loren chasse, phill niblock, maryanne amacher, michael j. schumacher, timbaland, panda bear, the books, fela kuti, ethiopiques, ali farka toure, gong kebyar, steve reich, etant donnes, au, arsenije jovanovic, matt marble
Record Label: kaon, 20City, sedimental, intransitive, alluvial
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Flock & Tumble - a definition of terms.

The composition of Flock & Tumble combined the intensely detailed and the haphazard. This methodology meant being open to chance while paying attention to the "purpose" or necessity of every sound at...
Posted by Seth Nehil on Tue, 22 May 2007 02:27:00 PST

interview with Paulo Raposo

Seth Nehil | Answers to (paraphrased) Questions on "Space" by Paulo Raposo 3/8/07 (how did you become involved in sound-art?)I started working with sound when I was about 15 years old. I got a four...
Posted by Seth Nehil on Thu, 03 May 2007 09:25:00 PST

Amnemonic Site - Thoughts and Sources

"By the grace of this forgetting, we temporarily shelve our inherited ways of looking and see things as if for the first time..." 1For over a year, the working title of Amnemonic Site was "Amusia" ("....
Posted by Seth Nehil on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:36:00 PST

new tracks uploaded

I just uploaded two new tracks, composed within the last two months. They are part of an album to be released later this year on SIRR (Portugal) with the working title "Flock & Tumble" - the track ti...
Posted by Seth Nehil on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:01:00 PST

Amnemonic Site CD available

Hey, so my new CD, Amnemonic Site on Alluvial Recordings is available directly from me, on my website: sethnehil.artdocuments.org"There are field recordings, closely miked objects falling to the wood...
Posted by Seth Nehil on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:56:00 PST

FO A RM magazine 5 (autonomy) OUT NOW!

FO A RM magazine no. 5 (autonomy)156 pp., 7 x 9", perfect-bound, full-color cover, $15 ($9 wholesale)(with exclusive CD)We are very excited to present FO A RM no. 5, a special sound-art issue with an ...
Posted by Seth Nehil on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:01:00 PST

"Background Noise" (a reaction)

I was pleased to recently find my name in Brandon LaBelle's new book "Background Noise - Perspectives on Sound Art", among a list of artists including friends like John Grzinich, Michael Northam and O...
Posted by Seth Nehil on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:18:00 PST

Portland Sound Art 1 (Dan Senn at the PAC)

"Many Pairs Sounding", Dan Senn's new sound-sculpture in the Light and Sound Gallery at the Portland Art Center is a deceptively simple yet absorbing piece which breaks free of many of the formal cons...
Posted by Seth Nehil on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:42:00 PST

Falling Music / Tumbling Music (1)

5/06Voices bounced off a brick wall. Long text recited in single syllables. Each shout joined by a bamboo rattle. Clusters of voices in a variety of spaces, loosely synchronized (following cluster ...
Posted by Seth Nehil on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:05:00 PST

Falling Music / Tumbling Music 3

1/10/07The feeling of making music without any awareness of what music is, occupying its own world and obeying its own rules. Forgetting everything that has been heard before while sunk deep into thi...
Posted by Seth Nehil on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:33:00 PST