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| News Welcome to the Helen Scarsdale Agency. |
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| An Exhibition of Note: Electric Works in San Francisco has invited Jim Haynes back to their project room for an exhibition of corroded photographs, sound, and a new component to Haynes' visual repertoire -- the color photograph. The imagery from the corroded prints hail from his ongoing 'Disaster Series' featuring crumbled architecture, demolition zones, the charred remains from arson sites, and the aftermath from the Merapi volcano explosion from 2010 (of which these images were taken by Matt Shoemaker and used with permission). The color images are counterpointed abstractions of vibrant blues, reds, and greens of these color field images augmented through optical printing errors and the unpredictability of a plastic lens camera. All of the visual elements are in turn augmented by a subtle sound design from modified shortwave radio reception and crackled noise through aestheticized but decidedly lo-fidelity speaker constructions. Jim Haynes : Disaster and its Opposite January 13, 2012 - February 17, 2012 Electric Works 130 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 www.sfelectricworks.com |
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| Now shipping! Jim Haynes The Decline Effect 2LP / Digital From our perspective, it has been way too long for these recordings to see the light of day. But the test pressings are finally up to snuff, and we can now comfortably announce the forthcoming 2LP opus from the Agency's Jim Haynes. The album is entitled The Decline Effect, featuring plenty of obfuscated field recordings, tactile noises, sodden electronics, and blustery drones. We released this album on September 20, 2011 with the distribution through the normal channels. Get it HERE! |
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Recently published: BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa Big Shadow Montana LP / Digital BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa return to the Helen Scarsdale Agency with the apparitional Big Shadow Montana, an album of slow-motion delirium manifested in occluded smears, nocturnal gasps, and arcane tones from a variety of analogue synthesizers. Amidst the near constant wash of bleary-eyed etherialism, Big Shadow Montana cycles through several sonic themes and leitmotifs, displayed in varying states of clarity. In these transitions between half-remembered phrases and bleary-eyed thrumming, the album emerges as if it were the aftermath from a protracted bout of metaphysical channel surfing. NOW AVAILABLE : HERE! RV Paintings Samoa Highway LP / Digital The Northern California timebenders RV Paintings who have given us an exemplary piece of forest-drone assembage mired in a heavy-lidded psychedelia. RV Paintings is, of course, a parallel project to the Starving Weirdos; and they have previous work published by Blackest Rainbow and Root Strata. The LP is now available and comes with a digital download card. Later in 2011 and early 2012: The Slaves Ocean On Ocean 2LP Murmer CD Jüppala Kääpiö Alpen Ocean LP |
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| Facebook? Yes, The Helen Scarsdale Agency has joined Facebook. We will be posting various updates to what stock comes through our small mail order catalogue, links to various reviews from our publications, and announcements for interesting performances, exhibitions, and debacles from the many artists orbiting the Agency. You can find us by clicking here or the Facebook link in the menu above. |
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