{"title":"Carl Stone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarl Stone is an American composer and pioneer in the field of live electronic music. Born on February 10, 1953, he studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts under renowned composers Morton Subotnick and James Tenney. Since 1972, Stone has been creating captivating electro-acoustic music that pushes boundaries and challenges traditional notions of sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCurrently a faculty member in the Department of Information Media at Chukyo University in Japan, Stone also resides and works in San Francisco. His unique approach to music combines intricate compositions with innovative technology, resulting in mesmerizing performances that captivate audiences worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInfluenced by a diverse range of artists such as David Toop, Pauline Oliveros, Jon Hassell, Laurie Spiegel, Nuno Canavarro, and many others from various genres and backgrounds. Carl Stone's work stands out for its ability to seamlessly blend different musical elements into a cohesive whole.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"electronic-music-from-1972-2022-2","title":"Electronic Music From 1972-2022","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eElectronic Music from 1972-2022\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to frame ­fty years of Carl Stone's compositional activity, starting with Stone's earliest professionally presented compositions from 1972 (\"Three Confusongs\" and \"Ryound Thygizunz\", featuring the voice and poetry of Stefan Weiser – later known as Z'EV) up to the present. This collection is not meant as a de­nitive history but rather as a supplement to be used alongside the previous two archival releases. It is simultaneously an archival release marking Carl Stone’s evergreen 70th birthday and a document of archival art. In the spirit of disorienting repetition and layering, call it an archive of archiving. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStone’s practice emerged from the repetitive archival process of his graduate job at CalArts preserving vinyl recordings by dubbing them to tape. With perhaps 10,000 albums ranging from Renaissance and electronic works to music from across the globe, he had to re-record multiple discs concurrently, creating chance collisions and coincidences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the decades since, he’s explored various ways to compose this process, creating temporal envelopes in which found sounds – existing tracks or ­eld recordings – can take form. Whilst the technologies he’s used have changed and samples have varied beyond categorization, what’s remained consistent is his concern for organizing temporal experience using fragments of pre-existing sounding events. Stone's impish collage-like constructions of times cut from time suggest that archival records are neither wholly in documents preserved from change nor in living memories and use, but in their interaction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unseen Worlds","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50392518263115,"sku":"2045724","price":54.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Electronic_Music_from_1972-2022_2e7b64cc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726409210"},{"product_id":"we-jazz-reworks-vol-2","title":"We Jazz Reworks, Vol. 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe Jazz Records presents the second volume of their reworks albums dealing with source material from the Helsinki-based label's catalog. This time around, it's Carl Stone's turn to tackle the source albums at hand and filter the label's output through his musical lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe Jazz Reworks is an idea that repurposes some of the label's output 10 albums at a time. That is, the label invites producers whose music they love on board, and one by one, they tackle 10 albums worth of source material, of which they are free to use as much or as little as they choose. The series evolves chronologically, so this volume being number two, the source material is pulled from We Jazz LPs numbers 11 through 20. The artist has complete freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 2 in the series happens with Carl Stone, a legendary figure in creative music. His career spans decades of unlimited musical innovation. Stone's recent output on Unseen Worlds, the label who has also been instrumental in issuing some of his remarkable earlier work, ranks among the most original art of our time and renders notions such as \"genre\" virtually meaningless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, We Jazz originals by Terkel Nørgaard, OK:KO, Jonah Parzen-Johnson and more are met here with a fresh sense of discovery, spun around and delivered ready for the turntable once again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"We Jazz","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50418493522251,"sku":"1169523","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6f276b4c-1c1f-44c4-9f34-01f9c972608b_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1726741409"},{"product_id":"electronic-music-from-the-eighties-and-nineties","title":"Electronic Music From The Eighties and Nineties","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing the widely acclaimed 3LP collection, \u003ci\u003eElectronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties\u003c\/i\u003e, Unseen Worlds has compiled a second, 2LP collection of favourite and unreleased Carl Stone works. \u003ci\u003eElectronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties\u003c\/i\u003e presents the soothing, hallucinatory side of Stone’s slow-evolving, time-bending composition. While we can’t always identify the source, we can hear that his sounds come from somewhere, and that there is a “correct” or “complete” version of them in theory; and so we can hear when they are being changed. What drives Stone’s music is the flow that he draws out of those differences: the way an Indonesian gamelan morphs into a chorus built from one female vocalist over the course of \u003ci\u003eMae Yao’s\u003c\/i\u003e twenty-three minutes, the surprise emergence of a Mozart chorus out of the synths and skip-glitches of \u003ci\u003eSonali\u003c\/i\u003e, or the slow, ambient evolution of \u003ci\u003eBanteay Srey\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eWoo Lae Oak\u003c\/i\u003e, issued in a single side edit for the first time, is an exception. Its samples – a tremolo string and a bottle being blown across the top like a flute - are simple in the extreme. Yet the Stone hallmark is clearly present, he locates the inherent emotional properties of the sounds – the tingling anticipation of the string and the calm nobility of the wind – and takes them into unexpected expressive territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2Lp - Double Vinyl with Download and New liner Notes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unseen Worlds","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50452415611211,"sku":"1037636","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c6440b5e-2c24-4229-bb9b-24efeda59ca9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727151817"},{"product_id":"wat-dong-moon-lek","title":"Wat Dong Moon Lek","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarl Stone continues his late career prolific renaissance with a new album of sculpted, tuneful MAX\/MSP fantasias. Stone “plays” his source material the way Terry Riley’s In C “plays” an ensemble – with a loose, freewheeling charm connected to the ancient human impulse to make sound, melody, and rhythm from anything. Stone’s unique technique simultaneously focuses and sprays sound like a symphony of uncapped fire hydrants. Is this techno, avant-garde, sound art? It’s simply (or rather fantastically messily) Carl Stone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unseen Worlds","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50504573288779,"sku":"1153424","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50504573747531,"sku":"2000435","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/1260678b-4428-4f3a-89df-42880bbbc840_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727806994"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/carl-stone.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}