- ib006 - cd + dvd + photographic/drawing portfolio - 2012
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- excerpts from the dark backward abysm of time & everything is abyss
- excerpt from * the castle at cöthen (1717-1723) *, bonus cd for the limited edition
- special edition of 11 includes :
- - limited edition cd the castle at cöthen (1717-1723), with a drawing on each disc by johannes d'église
- - a drawing by matthew swiezynski (40 minute drawing made while listening to the lp lost beyond telling)
- - a photographic portfolio, kept in an handmade envelope, obscured by vellum
- - a booklet/numbering card, with tipped in plate
- - standard edition enclosed in fabric
- standard edition (included) :
- reinterpretations of ingenting kollektiva's lp fragments of night, with additional material from j.s. bach,
- ingmar bergman, olivier messiaen, johannes d'église and matthew swiezynski.
- music inspired by the work of modern french poets such as charles baudelaire, yves bonnefoy, and philippe
- jaccottet. titles and ambiance for this album have been greatly assisted by richard stamelman's book lost
- beyond telling : representations of death and absence in modern french poetry.
- dvd :
- film 1. spectral analysis loops - 2011-12
- a collaboration between tarrl lightowler (image, editing, sound) and matthew swiezynski (editing, sound)
- sound material from the lp fragments of night plus new material by matthew swiezynski
- the music for loop three; deep in the glowing, was mastered by giuseppe ielasi
- film 3. i can feel the sea falling over my head - 2008-09
- a collaboration between matthew swiezynski (image, editing, sound) and diane granahan (harmonium, sound)
- notes to the spectral analysis loops :
- "i attempt to render sections from the spectral analysis of things, to show them in many
- aspects and permutations simultaneously: their relations, sequences and oppositions.
- unfortunately i am unable to observe things from all sides - i consider my so-called abstraction
- and my actual ambiguity to be moments of realism."
- from hugo huppert's (in the prayer-mill's rattling): a visit with paul celan in the book translating tradition.
- the films are loops made from animated photographs of Natur taken by tarrl lightowler and then generally remixed by matthew
- swiezynski with either new soundtracks, or extended versions of sound from their LP fragments of night. nature, landscape, poetry,
- alchemy and perception are very important to this series.
- notes to my heart, delirious with sound :
- abstracted water, trees and light patterns originally shot in 2007 around north carolina, and reedited in
- 2011-12 with a new soundtrack of dark ambient japanese flute extractions and modifications by dg + ms.
- notes to i can feel the sea falling over my head :
- a film reflecting on a near death experience with the sea, which after some time had passed, became transcendental.
- also motivated by the lush emotional songs of the smiths.
- i was first introduced to ingenting kollektiva in vital weekly 820, when i reviewed their LP 'fragments of night' and here they
- return. it's collective of musicians and film makers, who work in various constellations. they are johannes d'église, diane granahan,
- kirston & tarrl lightowler and matthew swiezynski. the CD is by d'église and swiezynski, while the DVD has music by swiezynski
- and lightowler, and films by the both of them and granahan. complicated perhaps? "the kollektiva seeks to issue recordings that are
- meditations on the quality of light, sound and atmosphere created by ingmar bergman and sven nykvist" it still says on the website,
- and to that musical end we have here music being processed by johann sebastian bach, ingmar bergman, olivier messiaen, arthur de eriomem
- and their own 'fragments of night'. the nine pieces on the CD flow into each other in a most natural way, so that we indeed have one
- long piece, but also clearly divided into nine separate sections. highly atmospheric music, using lots of time stretching (i assume),
- which are smeared out in thick layers over the canvas (that is the computer that is). all of it quite dark and heavily textured,
- perhaps not unlike their previous album. you won't recognize any of the sound sources, me thinks, and perhaps soundtrack music. and
- last time i wrote: "i wonder what their own films be like", so now i can head over to the DVD part of this. now, i am not much of
- critique when it comes to art movies, certainly when they are of an abstract nature, and i feel i can only judge them in merely
- subjective views, i.e. i can tell you what i see and if i like it. to start with the latter: i do like it. ingenting kollektiva know
- quite well how to translate their music into film (although you never know what came first). especially in the four films by tarrl
- lightowler we have a fine bombardment of visuals, multi-layered, swiftly moving about, like flicker movie. perhaps too rapid if you
- are an epileptic, but i thought these were great. images of birds, petals, and more abstract imagery work quite nice altogether.
- in the film 'my heart, delirious with sound', the images are very reduced. black background and abstract grey washes dropping by every
- now and then. it fits the sparse music of single processed flute quite well. such sparseness is also present in 'i can feel the sea
- falling over my head', and these two longer films offer a totally different side of the coin of ingenting kollektiva. i liked the LP
- back then, but it's this package which completes the picture even better.
- maybe too late but there is a special highly limited and highly expensive edition which includes thirty more minutes of music, which
- may not shed more light on their music, but instead further explores the depths of their musical world.
- this is an october, 2012 release from the ambient/sound art label, invisible birds that only leaves us with high quality works made
- from a slow pace. (this is) the drone unit, ingenting kollektiva from diane granahan & matthew swiezynski who continuously present
- their works of video together with sound. this time they release a piece in the form of a CD + DVD set. in the main piece, generally
- speaking, the matter/contents of the sounds are magnificent; the quite clouded tone-colours and un-stable blurring lets flourish
- miraculous sensations. collages of petals, even the simple videos of monochrome images vibrating and moving are great. highly
- recommended.
- the new ingenting kollektiva set (CD+DVD) 'lost beyond telling' on invisible birds is really something to behold and behear. the album
- itself is an astonishing, multi-layered dreamscape that encompasses both the super- and the hyper-natural. the music seems to fold light
- into its shifting tapestry of threads and is one of the most filmic sound narratives i've ever heard. very highly recommended. it could
- well be my album of the year.
- here's one of those beautiful drone albums that should resonate with anyone keen on something to follow stars of the lid, the caretaker,
- or basinski. the ingenting kollektiva remains something of a mystery both to us and, so it seems, to the rest of the world. some infor-
- mation about their ideas are available (thanks to the impressionistic "art of memory" blog run by the kollectiva's m. swiezynski), but
- much remains purposefully arcane, which suits their smoke and mirror approach to sound design. the kollectiva's first album seemed an
- homage to ingmar bergman's definition of nothingness, in spanning the existential gap between the mundane and the eternal void. it also
- channelled a zeitgeist that threaded together various pieces of music and film from 1969, but the results of that project formed an
- ethereal set of dronemuzik that found a particular voice that transcended the cultural references.
- the ghostly mood and nocturnal spell of their first album continues here on lost beyond telling, tracking further back in time with
- references to messiaen and baudelaire. and again, the kollecktiva finds itself making a slow, almost liturgical album of minimalist
- serenades through heavy processed instruments (guitar, cello, psaltry, etc.), field recordings, and manipulated pieces of crusty vinyl.
- a beautiful night sea music opens the album with pools of deep drones that gradually fracture into basinski-like looping patterns phased
- through a refined use tremolo and delay. comparatively scabrous textures churn through spiralling bird-song-like twitter on "the dark
- backward abysm of time" all leading up to the somber, twenty-three minute conclusion of damp field recordings and backmasked bells
- dragging through a darkened loveliness of oceanic driftscaping getting close to a salt marie celeste vibe. so nice!
- the dvd portion of the program features two distinct visual aesthetics from within the kollektiva. the first four short films come by way
- of tarrl lightowler, who operates with an intense stroboscopic flickering of ever magnifying, ever vibrant images. thickets of wire, bright
- petals, chunks of ice, and piles of leaves are just a scant number of the images that lightowler projects in his videos, all siphoning out
- of a violent vortex of pulsing light. for all of its natural source materials, his videos are quite violent, countering the hypnotic wash
- of the sound, much of which originates from the material on the cd. brilliant stuff for sure, but please watch carefully, as retinal fatigue
- comes on very quickly with these films. the two latter films are from matthew swiezynski, whose videos are far murkier with whisps of fire
- and shadows of the landscape dominating the darkened field of vision. on both of his films, the sounds are wholly unique based on creepy
- sounding loops that could have been culled from tibetan horns and harmonium.
- ingenting kollektiva released 'fragments of night' to universal acclaim, a deep, sprawling excursion into a misted, dark netherworld steeped
- in 20th century composition forms and experimental drifts. 'lost beyond telling' is a groundbreaking re-interpretation of that album with
- additional material from j.s. bach, ingmar bergman, olivier messiaen, johannes d'église and matthew swiezynski.
- the dvd features collaborations between matthew swiezynski and invited visual artists. video tracklist: film 1. spectral analysis loops -
- 2011-12
- a collaboration between tarrl lightowler (image, editing, sound) and matthew swiezynski (editing, sound)
- sound material from the lp fragments of night plus new material by matthew swiezynski.
- the music for loop three; deep in the glowing, was mastered by giuseppe ielasi.
- brianlavelle.org best of 2012 list
- following on from last year's fragments of night LP (technically only out at the start of this year, i think, but considered as a 2011
- release), this new album is an astonishing, multi-layered dreamscape that encompasses both the super- and the hyper-natural. the music
- seems to fold light into its shifting tapestry of threads and is one of the most filmic sound narratives i've ever heard. the whole is
- a multi-part affair, although each piece segues and surges slowly into the next so that you're soon lost in the collective's thick waves
- of sound. it's not really drone music, because there's far too much going on here. truly glorious whatever you want to call it and all
- wrapped up in a spectacular package. even in its non-limited edition format, it looks fantastic.
- this CD and DVD set is purely sensual. the audio portion is absolutely immersive and extremely well-developed. the visual component
- features some truly astonishing imagery and some of the finest abstract film work i've encountered in recent memory. an impressively
- cohesive and haunting experience.
- very dream-like, this is filled with drones, field recordings, and who knows what else; it stays truly engaging throughout.
- wonderful transcendental drones on CD+DVD, second album after the nice "fragments of night" LP by this drone-collective from US, feat.
- a re-interpretation of the first album & additional material + 3 films on the DVD; beautiful poetic / transcension ambience, inspired by
- many french poets such as baudelaire, and others.. lim. 500, much recommended !!
- santasangremagazine.wordpress.com on fragments of night & lost beyond telling
- the devious ides of march may be yet over but ingenting kollektiva provided the soundtrack this year. this is organic, found sound design
- of the highest order; the LP consists of two long form compositions which set their sights on capturing the late twilight hours after the
- sun has set over the horizon. through the usage of menacing, rumbling tides of acoustic interplay, they usher in the night and we stand
- in silent observance of it. the butterflies flutter this way and that, crickets begin to chirp in the hazy distance. you can just begin to
- smell the distant burning leaves and clippings which are offered up reverently albeit unconsciously to the stars which begin to come
- out slyly as the sky turns from the deep, penetrating blue of day into the gray wispy hints of the evening. sit about, if you like, on
- your porch or as i did out back on the patio with this on. if you took all of tor lundvall's paintings and then stripped out all the color
- you would have on your hands what fragments of night contains. there's no direct line between these two artists but the starkly similar
- manner in which they summon up such elegant depictions of the silent places in our lives is riveting.
- while your mind strolls along to these two tracks, enjoy how it wanders from the path; this is all purely instrumental work, there are no
- words or catch phrases to distract you from meditating on your own existence. there is a rough, coarse texture to what the kollektiva compose
- on fragments of night. you almost get the feeling they woke from a dream and tried to nail it all back down before the wisps of imagination
- were excised in the harsh light of day. but for all the netherworld wonder this first part is comprised of, it is the second movement that
- gets to me the most.
- lost beyond telling is a full length series of re-interpretations culled out of those fragments; what the precise choices are i am not privy
- to but i can tell you this: what coil began on the bonus cd-r for the seasonal singles is very much alive and thrives gorgeously on here. again,
- there's no direct line between the two but there is something strangely familiar in the noises which come out of my speakers while i listen to
- this. sometimes its a collection of droning menace and then at others i find the enchanting echoes and ritualistic near serpentine flicks of
- highly manipulated bells... or are they voices, i could swear i hear someone talking very very softly as though the intent of their words has
- been buried beneath so much electronic machination. i really am held rapt by what i'm hearing here, i only wish i'd have secured one of the 11
- copies which contained an additional piece which no doubt completes the near symphonic majesty of what surely must be an ambient epic.
- there is also a visual side to this outfit which i have not seen as of yet but i plan on addressing this. can what they've caught under the lens
- come close to what i'm seeing when i close my eyes? i have no doubt it will exceed my expectations but until then i am quite content to listen
- along to these masterful musicians as they alter and re-shape the scenery all around us. go into your own private realm, they seem to say. take
- council with your thoughts, give them substance. it sometimes pays off quite impressively when you just strike out into the unknown, step away
- from your burdensome train of thought and throw off the shackles of routine.
- somewhere between where i live and the coast there is a road which this pair of albums may well have been drawn out from. one begins in the cities,
- progressing through numerous freeway interchanges and then arrives at a barren stretch of desolate, deserted two lane asphalt. there is nothing out
- there save the occasional lights of a settlement, endless mile after mile of rusted, warped barbed wire but through the gloaming skies you can make
- out an unbroken series of wire raised high above your eyes. the one link with the outside world, the tenuous thread back to civilization. these are
- the fragments of night, indeed. don't say you have not been thoroughly advised, this set of releases dissolves the waking life you lead into a
- somnambulist's paradise...a mercurial dominion of omnipotent reflections.
- if even avant-garde, but correct! behind the ingenting collectives hide a handful of artists living in the united states, whose love for the films
- of ingmar bergman and sven nykvist they suggested established this collective as well as the label oiseaux invisibles. but where do they actually
- take their ideas, is only vaguely known. collections by various, seemingly incompatible artists and other influences are listed on their website
- for their LP "fragments of night"; for example: "album inspired by various recordings from 1969."
- that forty minute album is now further thought on the successor of the second as aptly titled "lost beyond telling" that is partly made up of
- fragments of "fragments of the night" re-composed, and enriched by numerous other factors. from heavy distorted instruments (guitars, cello,
- bells, tibetan prayer bowl, harmonium, shakuhachi, saxophone), loops, and various field recordings, ingenting creates complex developed ghostly
- moods from her source of inspiration, the light, the sounds and the atmospheres in bergman nykvist and emancipate completely. it is interesting:
- the almost eighty minutes CD creates a more cinematic narrative than the six videos and movies on the equally excellent DVD.
- it is hardly possible to describe the wealth of stories and meditative qualities of the music in a few words. the nearly 70-minute DVD in turn
- yields a very different picture, which settles on pleasing expectable gloomy stimmungsgemale similar projects, particularly in the four of animated,
- developed abstract nature photographs "spectral analysis loops." the stroboscopic and thus quite aggressive mounting rapidly changing images could
- give sensitive viewers headaches. and rather shady minimalism of the two films by matthew swiezynski. especially recommended for lovers of sound
- artists mentioned below.
- ~ ingo j. biermann (bad translation of german using google translate)
- darkroomrituals.wordpress.com & maeror3.livejournal.com
- in the spirit of post-modernism, with which contemporary art is successful and generates itself non-stop, the participants of ingenting kollektiva
- run loops recycling bach, olivier messiaen, ingmar bergman, as well as material from their own debut album "fragments of night", (which was also
- built on the processing of records of the sixties), with the result, multidimensional drone ambient, in which living organic textures entered into
- an algebraic cold electro-transformation, helping to achieve genuine infinity in the cycle of individual small particles "everything is abyss".
- okay, bad habit to start a review from the end of the album, as it should start from the beginning. the origins of "lost beyond telling", inspired by
- reflections on french poetry and existentialism, takes in the winter dusk isolationist, where the walls swept house on the outskirts of civilization
- someone trying to dream, drowning in endless snowy landscapes, and it is almost impossible. more precisely, it turns out to capture the moment
- when a drowsy consciousness beginning to have fragments of melodies and sounds that seem so familiar, but stubbornly defy identification. in
- deep sleep interfere dive footsteps behind a wall but a ghostly whisper, it is possible that these winter ghosts hurry to look into your room and head
- through the frost-painted glass. overall likable beginning, where the resonating cavities arise spontaneously, quickly go to the forefront, paving the
- bridge to the following picture, mood, inspired by this sleepy humming and vibrating extracts from time classic music. somewhere along the way there
- is a guitar haze, sometimes even to take the shape of "right" tunes, but sinking into the soul of it is this his ephemeral, likening fell to earth the
- mist, through which the rays of dawn had already punched, driving some to thicken at the time "this presence perhaps absence" darkness. but in the
- morning bliss should absolutely charming organic ambient "the air wove of these nothings", transparent, full loop of the lake screaming birds and
- ringing singing bowls. in this little world of the melting of winter and the coming of spring breaks sound of water along with the sounds of cello
- and violin as well as flocks of cranes returning from the south, the shouting and beating of wings are attached to established authors locations
- vitality and organic beauty. however, even the new eydzhevym moments "lost beyond telling" moody textures are almost always accompanied by
- a sense of the abyss, spanning all the living things that make this album. elements gradually simplified, lose their "color" under string sounds,
- and fall into the void, which is like a small child, to screen large resonant arrays and spatial indexes, leaving only sound the sand grains and
- brittle bones of birds that will be shifting in the palms throughout "everything is abyss". however, in this endless time, you probably will sleep
- and very different dreams.
- in its texture and emotional content "lost beyond telling" is a very high quality and strong album. its frosty crackles, echo dawn glare and emptiness
- want re-listens, perhaps with a small volume of baudelaire in ones hands, with some bach fugue, which plays in the background of the next room,
- and black and white bergman characters on the screen, open their mouths in time with the beyond whisper, and is filled with the strange and
- expressive music "ingenting kollektiva".
- ~ sergey oreshkin (bad translation of russian using google translate)
- amoeba records, from "music we like, spring/summer 2013"
- CD + DVD set following up from the previous LP fragments of night, this is another excursion into shifting forms and atmospheres by this kollektiv
- of sound and film artists. mesmerizing and beautiful, haunted, hushed. . . an entire night's worth of dreams assembled into two pieces of silvery
- plastic. i don't know how much to say about this wonderful ensemble, their releases thus far are far and away the best "ambient" music i've heard.
- recently excellent at most any volume, a perfect soundtrack to drift - whether to sleep, to think, or to stare into space and empty your thoughts.
- beautiful
