Coagulation: Selected Works 1996-2000
Editorial Reviews Randy Yau’s recordings deal with conceptual ideas that challenge sound and the physicality of it’s form. Yau aims to recreate sound in kinetic sequences that are organically impossible or absolutely inhuman. Although his sounds may sound "real" or "natural" in occurance, they are far from it. Abject actions and organic sounds are recorded and meticulously re-constructed to create sound incidents virtually non-existent either in nature or occurring as a function of time. Composed in a manner of "existence vs. void," Yau confronts the listener with distressed silence and pulverizing anxiety.
Coagulation: Selected Works 1996-2000, Music, R.H.Y. Yau
About the Artist
Randy Yau currently serves as Vice President of 23five Incorporated, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and increased awareness of sound works in the public arena, and to the support and education of artists working with and discussing the medium of sound. He founded Activating the Medium, an annual festival bringing sound artists from all over the world to perform, exhibit and lecture. Activating the Medium hosted artists such as: John Duncan, Matt Heckert, Steve Roden, Sheri Simons, Neil Grimmer, Brandon Labelle, Kimhide Kusafuka, Koji Tano & more. Mr. Yau is an active performer of sound sculpture and sound recordings. He has performed and exhibited extensively throughout the West Coast of the United States & Japan, with artists such as Incapacitants, Masonna, Scot Jenerik, Achim Wollscheid, Crawl Unit, Zbigniew Karkowski, Geoffrey Brandin, Speculum Fight, K. Mizutani, Destroy All Monsters, Kazumoto Endo and more. Randy Yau also founded Auscultare Research, a record label releasing sound works from artists all over the world. He has conducted radio programs focused on noise & sound art for over 8 years, including Dark Market Broadcast.
Album Description
Completely brutal docomentation of Yau's abject noise actionism completed between 1996 and 2000. As pure as it gets, this collection features rare compilation material and previously unreleased actions, including rare collaboration tracks with Kazumoto Endo.
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Coagulation: Selected Works 1996-2000
Manufacturer: Auscultare Research/Ground Fault Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
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ASIN: B00012UY5S Release Date: 2003-11-12 |
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Album Description
Completely brutal docomentation of Yau's abject noise actionism completed between 1996 and 2000. As pure as it gets, this collection features rare compilation material and previously unreleased actions, including rare collaboration tracks with Kazumoto Endo.Customer Reviews:
Huzzah! THE Randy Yau disc!.......2004-03-20
This, finally, is the Randy Yau disc I have been waiting for for years, the one I always knew he had in him, but refused to be released. Eighteen short, painful blasts of vocal-induced distortion that are easily on the same pain threshold as Merzbow's wall-of-noise works, but without the time commitment Merzbow demands. Coagulation is like a stripped-down Hollowing album, with the same infinite layers of sound mashed together to create chaos (and sometimes all run through a distortion pedal to create thick, blistering walls of static), but without the melodic elements. The main source of Yau's recordings is voice, and for all we can tell there's nothing here BUT voice, just pounded and processed into something unrecognizable most of the time. (There are a few times the sound is clear. You're probably better off not thinking about what's going on those times.)
If you cut your teeth on the minimal Arford/Yau disc Edit for Unconsciousness, or Yau's other Ground Fault foray The Hidden Tongue, and have always wondered what Yau would sound like with no limits, then run, do not walk, to your nearest Ground Fault-carrying store and get a copy of this disc. Sixty minutes of cut-up-fold-in-wall-of-noise heaven. **** ½
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