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Showing posts with label derek piotr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label derek piotr. Show all posts
Friday, January 24, 2014
Friday, June 7, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
EIC Premiere: Derek Piotr - Grave
Taken from Derek Piotr's latest LP 'Raj', which he will self release this February.
~Thanks for sharing Derek!
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Quality Mixtape find..
Experimedia Mix 2012
Tracklisting:
1. Andy Stott - Numb
2. Dntel - Dustmites
3. Gudrun Gut - Frei Sein
4. AGF - Stœrung (Kiteki Rmx)
5. Derek Piotr - Amendola
6. Rafael Toral - II.IV
7. Dirty Projectors - While You're Here
8. Fennesz - Fa (Mark Fell Remix)
9. Buda Musique Du Monde - Chants & Narrative - Oktjabrina Vladimirovna & Svetlana Naumova
10. Mohamed Al Ali - Mili Alay (Sway To Me)
11. Missy Elliot - 9th Inning
12. Derek Piotr - Deliver (Pinkcourtesyphone 'Out Of Area' Mix)
Not really "found" per se, more shared.. (but still of quality) ~Thanks Derek;p
Sunday, September 9, 2012
EverythingIsChemical Virtual 7" No. 25 - Derek Piotr
"The avant-garde makes more sense to me." ~John Cale
Next release comes out September 23rd.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
EICV7" No. 25 - Derek Piotr ..coming soon!
EverythingIsChemical Virtual 7" No. 25 - Derek Piotr comes out September 9th!
"Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.” " ~Gorgias
(hopefully you checked out the last v7"?)
Friday, August 10, 2012
Friday, July 13, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
A few more things Derek Piotr..
This song remixed:
Derek Piotr - Deliver (Backyard Gypsy Remix)
+ this song remixed
Derek Piotr - Will Rise (Will Love) [Acoustic]
+ this video:
+ this song remixed
Derek Piotr - Will Rise (Will Love) [Acoustic]
+ this video:
= further proof of Derek's genius..
Monday, March 26, 2012
EIC's 10Q's w/ Derek Piotr
"..between the scary, the mechanical, the maniacal & the emotionally inept.."
Derek Piotr
Maladroit Mechanized Acuity
Derek Piotr Bio:
Derek Piotr is a Poland-born sound artist based in New England, whose work focuses primarily on the voice. He has been intern to Meredith Monk, and had his work featured on The Wire’s Adventures in Modern Music program.
Hello, how are you?
I’m well; currently sorting releases for the 2012 and planning my live show a little more extensively, planning visuals and whatnot. I’m also in the middle of talking to radio stations for a new radio play I’ve composed.
What are you currently listening to?
Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of Morton Feldman and Harry Partch, but it being winter here, Björk’s album 'Vespertine' is on rotation too. Gudrun Gut’s album 'I Put A Record On' is getting a lot of spins, as is Steinbrüchel’s 'Skizzen'.
Who were/are your biggest influences when it came to sculpting your sound?
When I was about 16 and started putting my first experiments on the web, Last.fm recommended a bunch of similar artists to my work, and one of them was AGF. I am totally in love with her debut record, 'Head Slash Bauch', and her work in general. HSB really got inside my head while I was in high school, and I felt like I had to do something about it, so I contacted her and asked her a few questions, which snowballed into two years of trading emails with her and culminated in her offering to help produce my debut, 'AGORA'. I have been very fortunate. She continues to be someone I trade ideas with and share beautiful things with.
Meredith Monk is also a big inspiration for me. I was intern to her in summer 2010 and that experience has really informed how I incorporate vocals into my work. A lot of her vocal pieces never have any language to them, so she opened the door to wordless vocal work for me, in a big way.
Care to tell us a little about 'AGORA' and it's remix partner; theme, favorite song, etc.?
'AGORA' is my debut full-length record. It sort of grew out of my love for the sound mp3s get when they’ve been fileshared a zillion times over soulseek or something: there’s a kind of hollow hiss that distorts and crushes the audio. So I intentionally added a lot of grain and hiss to this record. I have also had a fascination for a long time with Eastern melodies and scales, so when I wrote the manifesto for this album I knew it had to include samples from different countries. One of my best friends is a Pakistani vocalist, so she ended up contributing to this record as well. The word agora had been floating around in my writing since 2009, but aside from the ancient Greek implication of a meeting point (which this record was), it also means “now” in Portuguese, which is kind of a nice urgency. so the title has many meanings. working with AGF on the material was incredible, she’s very precise, humble, and open-minded. for one piece on the record, Value System, she used the same patch on my voice that she used on her record 'Head Slash Bauc'h. Hearing my own material put through that filter gave me goosebumps.
Other collaborations that I had wanted to happen for a long time finally happened during the making of 'AGORA', some vocal work with Zach Thorpe and production collabs with beatsmiths Salakapakka Sound System and HeeG. the title of the record seemed to conjure a very literal meeting point for a lot of things, which I find quite interesting.
the “gatherings” continued when I decided on curating a remix album, 'AGORA Regathered'. I have always loved listening to remixes; I think they’re an interesting way to extend an artist’s body of work. Actually I find often that remixes of my work are particularly inspiring to me; it can kind of blueprint techniques with my material that I could try. I find that really powerful and fertile. People I never would have expected to say yes answered my calls and provided remixes, among them Blevin Blectum, Steinbrüchel and Scanner. I received about 60 remixes during the curation process and I worked very hard with some of the mixers to ensure all of the remixes that ended up on the release would be in flow with one another; this sometimes meant asking for redos or remixes of different tracks from the same producer…it was far more labor intensive than it maybe should have been, but I feel it was well worth the effort.
I have a new record coming out in the spring, called 'Airing'. The sonic world of this album is based around the sound of the bell, and also incorporates a bunch of samples of radio static, hence the title Airing (Air. ring.). I am sort of going back to the early electroacoustic composers with this release, I aimed to have a lot of “classical” instruments on it this time, versus 'AGORA' which is more digital, so I bought a toy piano and some croatles and played them on this record. I also visited Boston last spring, so I played violin at Berklee and recorded that, it ended up on one track on the record. conventional musicality is not such a bad thing! I also decided to multitrack my own voice on this record, that is something I wish had explored a little more on 'AGORA'.
If you could collaborate with any artist of your choosing, whom would it be with and why?
I have been very fortunate to work with or alongside a lot of artists I admire, but I think it would be nice to collaborate with Gudrun Gut or even Steinbrüchel more extensively. I think it could also be really interesting to work with St. Vincent; her record 'Actor' is to this day one of my favourites and I’d love to push her sound even further into experimental territory.
Any side projects/collabs we should know about?
At present I am finishing up a collaboration with a countertenor named Mikah Meyer. We recorded in a cathedral in December, organ and voice, and I am now layering and processing and adding some delicate electronics. It should be released by March.
I am also in the middle of a project I have called “Radio Mantras”; I have created extended forms of this piece: http://derekpiotr.bandcamp.com/track/radimantra , and also a remix by Safety Scissors will appear on that release. I am planning it as both an EP and a radio show, which should be out by June. many more collaborations are in the making, but some that were released last year include a vocal only improvised EP with Ivan Cheng under the name Gobs: http://gobs.bandcamp.com/
and a remix EP with Salakapakka Sound System of one of the AGORA tracks: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/DEREK_PIOTR__SALAKAPAKKA_SOUND_SYSTEM/Behaviour_state/
What movie would work best on mute with your music as it's soundtrack?
hmm…I don’t watch movies much so this I am not sure of. I read a review of my album where David Lynch was mentioned, so perhaps one of his films, though I’d probably prefer to soundtrack an art film, or a nature or cultural documentary.
What’s you least favorite thing about the music industry?
I think the industry, at least the electronic music industry, has gotten to the point where digitized releases are the easiest thing to promote and create, so that’s mostly what’s available. I am pretty certain that even 5 years ago I could have found someone to press my record, but funds and time are so low lately for labels that I decided to just go ahead and do limited run CDrs for the 'AGORA' material. It’s all gotten quite DIY, which maybe isn’t such a bad thing, but I have felt the sting for pressing a proper album for 'Airing' on my own.
You can only keep/listen to ONE album for the rest of your life. Which album would it be?
Either Björk’s 'Medúlla' or AGF’s 'Head Slash Bauch'. I cannot choose.
Are you living your dream?
In a lot of ways, yes. my music is widely distributed and I am working with people I want to work with, those two things are such gifts. But I’m ambitious, and I feel like I still have so much to do. I hope I continue to find the ways to do it.
Thanx Derek!
Derek Piotr is about to release his second LP in May, also he recently released a remix companion to 'Agora' that you should check out...
Derek Piotr
Maladroit Mechanized Acuity
Derek Piotr Bio:
Derek Piotr is a Poland-born sound artist based in New England, whose work focuses primarily on the voice. He has been intern to Meredith Monk, and had his work featured on The Wire’s Adventures in Modern Music program.
Hello, how are you?
I’m well; currently sorting releases for the 2012 and planning my live show a little more extensively, planning visuals and whatnot. I’m also in the middle of talking to radio stations for a new radio play I’ve composed.
What are you currently listening to?
Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of Morton Feldman and Harry Partch, but it being winter here, Björk’s album 'Vespertine' is on rotation too. Gudrun Gut’s album 'I Put A Record On' is getting a lot of spins, as is Steinbrüchel’s 'Skizzen'.
Who were/are your biggest influences when it came to sculpting your sound?
When I was about 16 and started putting my first experiments on the web, Last.fm recommended a bunch of similar artists to my work, and one of them was AGF. I am totally in love with her debut record, 'Head Slash Bauch', and her work in general. HSB really got inside my head while I was in high school, and I felt like I had to do something about it, so I contacted her and asked her a few questions, which snowballed into two years of trading emails with her and culminated in her offering to help produce my debut, 'AGORA'. I have been very fortunate. She continues to be someone I trade ideas with and share beautiful things with.
Meredith Monk is also a big inspiration for me. I was intern to her in summer 2010 and that experience has really informed how I incorporate vocals into my work. A lot of her vocal pieces never have any language to them, so she opened the door to wordless vocal work for me, in a big way.
Care to tell us a little about 'AGORA' and it's remix partner; theme, favorite song, etc.?
'AGORA' is my debut full-length record. It sort of grew out of my love for the sound mp3s get when they’ve been fileshared a zillion times over soulseek or something: there’s a kind of hollow hiss that distorts and crushes the audio. So I intentionally added a lot of grain and hiss to this record. I have also had a fascination for a long time with Eastern melodies and scales, so when I wrote the manifesto for this album I knew it had to include samples from different countries. One of my best friends is a Pakistani vocalist, so she ended up contributing to this record as well. The word agora had been floating around in my writing since 2009, but aside from the ancient Greek implication of a meeting point (which this record was), it also means “now” in Portuguese, which is kind of a nice urgency. so the title has many meanings. working with AGF on the material was incredible, she’s very precise, humble, and open-minded. for one piece on the record, Value System, she used the same patch on my voice that she used on her record 'Head Slash Bauc'h. Hearing my own material put through that filter gave me goosebumps.
Other collaborations that I had wanted to happen for a long time finally happened during the making of 'AGORA', some vocal work with Zach Thorpe and production collabs with beatsmiths Salakapakka Sound System and HeeG. the title of the record seemed to conjure a very literal meeting point for a lot of things, which I find quite interesting.
the “gatherings” continued when I decided on curating a remix album, 'AGORA Regathered'. I have always loved listening to remixes; I think they’re an interesting way to extend an artist’s body of work. Actually I find often that remixes of my work are particularly inspiring to me; it can kind of blueprint techniques with my material that I could try. I find that really powerful and fertile. People I never would have expected to say yes answered my calls and provided remixes, among them Blevin Blectum, Steinbrüchel and Scanner. I received about 60 remixes during the curation process and I worked very hard with some of the mixers to ensure all of the remixes that ended up on the release would be in flow with one another; this sometimes meant asking for redos or remixes of different tracks from the same producer…it was far more labor intensive than it maybe should have been, but I feel it was well worth the effort.
I have a new record coming out in the spring, called 'Airing'. The sonic world of this album is based around the sound of the bell, and also incorporates a bunch of samples of radio static, hence the title Airing (Air. ring.). I am sort of going back to the early electroacoustic composers with this release, I aimed to have a lot of “classical” instruments on it this time, versus 'AGORA' which is more digital, so I bought a toy piano and some croatles and played them on this record. I also visited Boston last spring, so I played violin at Berklee and recorded that, it ended up on one track on the record. conventional musicality is not such a bad thing! I also decided to multitrack my own voice on this record, that is something I wish had explored a little more on 'AGORA'.
If you could collaborate with any artist of your choosing, whom would it be with and why?
I have been very fortunate to work with or alongside a lot of artists I admire, but I think it would be nice to collaborate with Gudrun Gut or even Steinbrüchel more extensively. I think it could also be really interesting to work with St. Vincent; her record 'Actor' is to this day one of my favourites and I’d love to push her sound even further into experimental territory.
Any side projects/collabs we should know about?
At present I am finishing up a collaboration with a countertenor named Mikah Meyer. We recorded in a cathedral in December, organ and voice, and I am now layering and processing and adding some delicate electronics. It should be released by March.
I am also in the middle of a project I have called “Radio Mantras”; I have created extended forms of this piece: http://derekpiotr.bandcamp.com/track/radimantra , and also a remix by Safety Scissors will appear on that release. I am planning it as both an EP and a radio show, which should be out by June. many more collaborations are in the making, but some that were released last year include a vocal only improvised EP with Ivan Cheng under the name Gobs: http://gobs.bandcamp.com/
and a remix EP with Salakapakka Sound System of one of the AGORA tracks: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/DEREK_PIOTR__SALAKAPAKKA_SOUND_SYSTEM/Behaviour_state/
What movie would work best on mute with your music as it's soundtrack?
hmm…I don’t watch movies much so this I am not sure of. I read a review of my album where David Lynch was mentioned, so perhaps one of his films, though I’d probably prefer to soundtrack an art film, or a nature or cultural documentary.
What’s you least favorite thing about the music industry?
I think the industry, at least the electronic music industry, has gotten to the point where digitized releases are the easiest thing to promote and create, so that’s mostly what’s available. I am pretty certain that even 5 years ago I could have found someone to press my record, but funds and time are so low lately for labels that I decided to just go ahead and do limited run CDrs for the 'AGORA' material. It’s all gotten quite DIY, which maybe isn’t such a bad thing, but I have felt the sting for pressing a proper album for 'Airing' on my own.
You can only keep/listen to ONE album for the rest of your life. Which album would it be?
Either Björk’s 'Medúlla' or AGF’s 'Head Slash Bauch'. I cannot choose.
Are you living your dream?
In a lot of ways, yes. my music is widely distributed and I am working with people I want to work with, those two things are such gifts. But I’m ambitious, and I feel like I still have so much to do. I hope I continue to find the ways to do it.
Thanx Derek!
Derek Piotr is about to release his second LP in May, also he recently released a remix companion to 'Agora' that you should check out...
REVIEW: Derek Piotr - Agora
As I'm sitting here beginning this review I am actually listening to 'Agora Regathered' which is the remix or "companion piece" to 'Agora' (the album I'm supposed to be listening to/talking about..(I'll get to it;) But truth be told, I had never heard of Derek Piotr until a few months (maybe more) ago. The first album of his that I was introduced to (via Derek) WAS 'Agora Regathered'. I loved it, I could tell the form that had been so stripped down/minimal and desperate was once triumphant, emotionally more complex and possibly darker. I had to "put the pieces back together" I suppose.. Now that I have, I have even more appreciation for the evolution of this project, 'Agora' delivers and then some. ..Another time I find myself kicking me again, better late than never I suppose.. Oh! And while you're reading this, know that in about a month or so Derek Piotr's next full length "Airing" is coming out.
'Agora' is anything but a "conventional Indie album", its extremely playful (in a morbid-technological sense) and (quite possibly) way ahead of it's time. It can be a harsh sound to swallow and I know it's only meant for the most well trained music lovers;], but it's quite astonishing if you let it creep in. Derek's art lays somewhere between Xiu Xiu (maybe Br'er) maybe Swans meets Coil, or Bjork meets Raster Noton. Multiple sounds are constantly evolving in his music..That (his sound) could easily change from one mood to another (mostly depressing on this release). With his first release (yep, this one) he wanted to focus on voice .."dramatized" of course (that's where the Xiu Xiu/Br'er/Bjork reference comes into play) in doing so he decided it would be best to keep all other soundscapes quite/minimal, somewhat cold & manufactured ambiance (this is where the Coil/Swans/Raster Noton reference comes in). When mixing the elements of some of my favorite musicians you're in for a harsh judgement, there's so many things you can do wrong. Well Derek, I judged you (harshly and honestly) ..you sir, are anything but another homage that eventually fades into the sunset, sure you "pay homage" to certain sounds but you do it in a way that is unique to you. You ooze originality and gut-wrenching brutal-dark honesty in your voice. Your music is not only perfectly crafted/totally complementary to your voice, it's also important and critical to my ears. Between the scary, the mechanical, the maniacal & the emotionally inept, is an environment that is unique to 'Agora'. You've got my full attention now Derek.
Seriously amazing weirdness.
Standout Tracks: Overtaker (sooo smooth), Scrape, From Whiteness, Remain (THIS remix is pretty swell too)
Friday, March 2, 2012
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