Intransitive Recordings
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Intransitive Recordings is an independent record label for experimental music, founded in Gainesville, Florida
in 1997 by the artist Howard Stelzer
and currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
. Intransitive publishes electro-acoustic music, free improvisation
, sound art
, sound poetry
, and noise music
. Since its inception, Intransitive has released over 36 albums.
When the label began, its goal was to self-publish work by Stelzer: "... (the) reason for starting Intransitive was to publish my own work. I had recorded « Stone Blind » , a one-hour-long tape piece, and knew that no one outside of Florida had ever heard of me, so no one would have any reason to put it out. I just did it myself, and subsequently fell in love with the idea of putting out CDs."
In 1998, Stelzer decided to publish work by other composers, and reached out to people whose music he had long admired. "Since it was so easy to publish one CD, I felt empowered (and bold!) enough to ask two of my favorite artists, Brume (Christian Renou, from France
) and Kapotte Muziek
(Frans de Waard, from The Netherlands) to submit an album for me to put out."
In 2002, Stelzer was asked by Philippe Petit
of Bip-Hop Magazine if his label's mission was to discover and promote up-and-coming new artists. Stelzer replied that it was not: "Many of the artists whose work appears on Intransitive are folks whose music I’ve been excited about since I was young. Brume, for example, is someone whose music first excited me when I was 16 years old and in high school. Frans de Waard’s Kapotte Muziek
records and cassettes are things I’ve been listening to for years and years. Same with Marc Behrens and others. In many cases, I use the label to give something back (in a way) to the artists who I admire by publishing their new works.
In addition to publishing CDs and records, Intransitive Recordings also hosts concerts in the Boston area.
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Alachua County, Florida, United States as well as the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The preliminary 2010 Census population count for Gainesville is 124,354. Gainesville is home to the sixth...
in 1997 by the artist Howard Stelzer
Howard Stelzer
Howard Stelzer is a composer and live performer of electronic music whose work is made primary from sounds generated by cassette tapes...
and currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
. Intransitive publishes electro-acoustic music, free improvisation
Free improvisation
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician involved. The term can refer to both a technique and as a recognizable genre in its own right....
, sound art
Sound art
Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There are often distinct relationships forged between the visual and aural domains of art and perception by sound artists....
, sound poetry
Sound poetry
Sound poetry is an artistic form bridging between literary and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; "verse without words"...
, and noise music
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
. Since its inception, Intransitive has released over 36 albums.
When the label began, its goal was to self-publish work by Stelzer: "... (the) reason for starting Intransitive was to publish my own work. I had recorded « Stone Blind » , a one-hour-long tape piece, and knew that no one outside of Florida had ever heard of me, so no one would have any reason to put it out. I just did it myself, and subsequently fell in love with the idea of putting out CDs."
In 1998, Stelzer decided to publish work by other composers, and reached out to people whose music he had long admired. "Since it was so easy to publish one CD, I felt empowered (and bold!) enough to ask two of my favorite artists, Brume (Christian Renou, from France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
) and Kapotte Muziek
Kapotte Muziek
Kapotte Muziek is the musical improvisation project of Frans de Waard, Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop. Active since 1984, it is one of the most internationally visible improvisation and experimental project hailing from the Netherlands. The group began as the solo noise music project of Frans de...
(Frans de Waard, from The Netherlands) to submit an album for me to put out."
In 2002, Stelzer was asked by Philippe Petit
Philippe Petit
Philippe Petit is a French high-wire artist who gained fame for his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, on 7 August 1974...
of Bip-Hop Magazine if his label's mission was to discover and promote up-and-coming new artists. Stelzer replied that it was not: "Many of the artists whose work appears on Intransitive are folks whose music I’ve been excited about since I was young. Brume, for example, is someone whose music first excited me when I was 16 years old and in high school. Frans de Waard’s Kapotte Muziek
Kapotte Muziek
Kapotte Muziek is the musical improvisation project of Frans de Waard, Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop. Active since 1984, it is one of the most internationally visible improvisation and experimental project hailing from the Netherlands. The group began as the solo noise music project of Frans de...
records and cassettes are things I’ve been listening to for years and years. Same with Marc Behrens and others. In many cases, I use the label to give something back (in a way) to the artists who I admire by publishing their new works.
In addition to publishing CDs and records, Intransitive Recordings also hosts concerts in the Boston area.
Discograpghy
- int001 The Amazing Mr. Slug
- int002 tac & factor X Collaborations
- int003 Howard StelzerHoward StelzerHoward Stelzer is a composer and live performer of electronic music whose work is made primary from sounds generated by cassette tapes...
Stone Blind - int004 Kapotte MuziekKapotte MuziekKapotte Muziek is the musical improvisation project of Frans de Waard, Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop. Active since 1984, it is one of the most internationally visible improvisation and experimental project hailing from the Netherlands. The group began as the solo noise music project of Frans de...
The Use of Recycling - int005 Richard ChartierRichard ChartierRichard Chartier is a sound/installation artist and graphic designer. Chartier is works in reductionist microsound electronic music, a form of extreme minimalism in which the music is sometimes very quiet, sometimes very sparse, often both.-About:Since 1998, Chartier has created recordings for...
- 'Direct. Incidental. Consequential.' - int006 Brume Kreig
- int007 Roel Meelkop '6 (Mailcop Rules)'
- int008 tac & Howard StelzerHoward StelzerHoward Stelzer is a composer and live performer of electronic music whose work is made primary from sounds generated by cassette tapes...
Object anti-7"/anti-CD - int009 Loren Boyer Des Parasites Disquent de se Produire
- int010 nmperign & Jason Lescalleet In Which the Silent Partner-Director Can No Longer Make His Point to the Industrial Dreamer
- int011 Greg Kelley, Curt Newton, Tatsuya Nakatani Field Recordings vol.1: The Birthday
- int012 private
- int013 v/a - Variious (feat: Taylor DeupreeTaylor DeupreeTaylor Deupree , is an American electronic musician, photographer and graphic designer. He is most known for the founding of the 12k record label, along with his work as a member of Prototype 909, and his collaborations with Savvas Ysatis and Christopher Willits...
, Voice CrackVoice CrackVoice Crack was a Swiss electronic free improvisation group. Formed in late 1972 by Andy Guhl and Norbert Möslang, Voice Crack were initially a free jazz duo...
, Kevin DrummKevin Drumm-Biography:Emerging from the city's improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one of the world's pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Since then his work has expanded to include electroacoustic compositions and live electronic music made with laptop computers and analog modular synthesizers...
, Brume, Roel Meelkop, Michael Prime, Jason Lescalleet, Jerome Noetinger, John WatermannJohn WatermannJohn Watermann was an Australian composer, performer and filmmaker. Much of his musical work incorporated field recordings, which were heavily treated by electronics, resulting in highly rhythmic music, through the extensive use of cut ups.-Discography:*Warmth Is The Fifth Room, Nightshift Records...
) - int014 Lionel Marchetti Knud um Nom du Serpent (Le Cercle des Entrailles)
- int015 Mike Bullock / Howard Stelzer & Jason Talbot The Idea of Northeast
- int016 John Hudak & Jason Lescalleet Figure 2
- int017 M.Behrens Elapsed Time
- int018 Bernhard GalBernhard GálBernhard Gál is an Austrian artist, composer and musicologist.-Biography:Bernhard Gál works between the categories, creating music for instruments and electro-acoustic compositions, as well as art installations. Many of his intermedia art projects and sound installations present combinations of...
Relisten - infr01 Toshiya Tsunoda Extract From Field Recordings Archive #3: Solid Vibration
- int020 Nerve Net Noise Meteor Circuit
- int021 Howard StelzerHoward StelzerHoward Stelzer is a composer and live performer of electronic music whose work is made primary from sounds generated by cassette tapes...
& Jason Talbot Songs - int022 Seth Nehil/JGrzinich 'Confluence'
- int023 Intransitive Twenty-Three (feat. Birchville Cat MotelBirchville Cat MotelBirchville Cat Motel is a one-man experimental music project formed by Campbell Kneale from Wellington, New Zealand. Although largely unknown in his home country, Kneale has toured throughout Japan, America, Europe, and Australia. His first vinyl release was Jewelled Wings on the Freedom From label...
, Francisco LopezFrancisco LópezFrancisco López or Francisco Lopez may refer to:*Francisco López 16th century, Spanish Renaissance painter*Francisco López , Spanish Renaissance painter*Francisco López Contreras , Guatemalan footballer...
, Lethe, Magali Babin, Atau Tanaka, Ronnie Sundin, Olivia Block, Thomas AnkersmitThomas AnkersmitThomas Ankersmit is a musician and installation artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam. Initially an improvising saxophonist, his activities expanded to include live electronic music and installation pieces based on architectural acoustics and infrasound...
, Das Synthetische Miscgewebe, Giuseppe Ielasi) - int024 Roel Meelkop 5 (Ambiences)
- int025 Kapotte MuziekKapotte MuziekKapotte Muziek is the musical improvisation project of Frans de Waard, Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop. Active since 1984, it is one of the most internationally visible improvisation and experimental project hailing from the Netherlands. The group began as the solo noise music project of Frans de...
& Lethe Tsurumai - int026 nmperign & Jason Lescalleet Love Me Two Times
- int027 Brendan Murray Wonders Never Cease
- int028 Seht & Howard StelzerHoward StelzerHoward Stelzer is a composer and live performer of electronic music whose work is made primary from sounds generated by cassette tapes...
Exactly What You Lost - int029 Nerve Net Noise Dark Garden
- int030 Howard StelzerHoward StelzerHoward Stelzer is a composer and live performer of electronic music whose work is made primary from sounds generated by cassette tapes...
Bond Inlets - int031 Lionel Marchetti & Seijiro Murayama Hatali Atseli (L'Echgange des Yeux)
- int032 Jim Haynes Sever
- int033 Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer Asylum Lunaticum
- int034 Lethe Catastrophe Point #5
- int035 nmperign Ommatidia
- int036 Failing Lights Failing Lights