Now Available: Vanessa Rossetto 'Mineral Orange' LP (KYE 08) Vanessa Rossetto is a composer and painter living in Austin, Texas. She uses primarily chamber instrumentation, field recordings, electronics and a wide array of different objects, exploring them through extended and traditional techniques. In 2008, she launched her own cd-r label, Music Appreciation, and through this imprint has released four solo albums: Misafridal, Imperial Brick, Whoreson in the Wilderness and the award-winning Dogs in English Porcelain. Her most recent release, the PDD-NOS (Period Tapes) cassette was described by Byron Coley in The Wire as sounding like "being under attack from slow-moving dune worms". Mineral Orange presents four new works, each showcasing Vanessa's deep commitment to abstract sound situations. These pieces exist as precision-edited travelogs of Vanessa's questing. Local sounds, audio verite and overlayed string interludes are scrambled into surreal matrices of time, place and event. Mineral Orange was recorded and produced in Austin, Texas in 2010, with additional production by Steven Flato and mastering by Jason Lescalleet at Glistening Labs, ME. Mineral Orange arrives in a elegant Rossetto-designed sleeve, in a hand-numbered edition of 300 copies. Contact hawkmoths@yahoo.com for prices/info
what people are saying about mineral orange:
The Kye label certainly has a nose for news. Vanessa Rossetto is another artist whose work I am not familiar with. Mineral Orange is a fine LP of field recordings mixed with some instruments and sharp editing. Each side contains two pieces, which gives Rossetto room to build in each of them. The pieces all .have the psychogeographical feel of a Derive, wandering about and experiencing the environment and situations. Rossetto has a sly sense of musicality, which pokes out to great effect on occasions. Swim Bladder, which kicks off side 2, is an early favourite as the focus seems a bit sharper, but all of the pieces are quite fine. There is a too much of that mic-bumping/cassette editing sound that I don't care for on Moire Pattern Caused By Dots, but I'm pretty sensitive to that sound. I've always tried to edit it out or cover it up in my own music. I'm old! At any rate, Mineral Orange is a fine LP of field recording explorations. Kye keeps on coming up roses. - swill radio
impressive vinyl debut from texan composer vanessa rossetto, offering up a suite of musique concrète pieces bent on injecting significance into their contituent banal field recordings & subtle instrumental addition(s), executed in the finest luc ferrari “presque rien” tradition. the record’s appearance on graham lambkin’s kye is no accident ; vanessa’s pacing & compositional processes are very much in & of the same school-of-thought as graham’s recent “salmon run” & “softly softly copy copy” ; rarely is there a moment herein that overtly demands your attention in a event-oriented way, rather the “background” sound-palette itself becomes the focus, revealing itself only through continued exposure to it’s many hidden layers .
an auspicious start for young ms. rossetto ; certainly one for the olivia block & lionel marchetti fans . -mimaroglu
New edition from Graham Lambkin’s consistently fantastic Kye imprint, this time documenting the work of a contemporary Austin based composer and recordist. Rossetto creates hallucinatory landscapes that confuse composition and mise-en-scene using indeterminate environmental recordings,. drones, small sounds, sampled speech, concrete tape work and occasional swells of strings to generate an invigoratingly alien sense of space. Touches on a similarly personal/diaristic approach to sound art as Christoph Heemann’s Aftersolstice/Days Of The Eclipse set but with a particular emphasis on spatial/audio illogic. -volcanic tongue
Rossetto's new solo LP is even better. I'm afraid any description won't sufficiently get across the goings on here, but I'll say that the potential shown in her works from a couple of years back, like "whoreson in the wilderness" has been fully realized. The viola has become one element of many (though a crucial one), embedded in a breathing, detail-filled sound world wherein each episode is both surprising and, in retrospect, absolutely appropriate. The opening low engine sounds bleed into an outdoor environment with soft chatter, the viola, a string orchestra tuning up (? I think?), more traffic, hisses, an ice cream truck (?), etc. all at great density combined with lucid clarity. It's like an unusually cohesive dream. Things always shift, though, sidling over to adjacent or distant areas, the ensuing track more electronics-oriented at first, giving way to masses of birds over a gentle, metallic hum and nearby clatter. At the end, a very simple, heartfelt melody on piano is heard, only just briefly, a glimpse through a window while biking by.
That orchestra (multi-tracked viola?) pops up again on the third cut, embedded in watery sounds, hums, zippers being zippered, clinks--so much more. But I do the music a disservice in only delineating the sequence of elements--everything hangs together wonderfully, filling the sonic page and then some, billowing outward. I've listened to it some 15 times as of this writing and I continue to hear new relationships, continue to be surprised, loving it more and more. Marvelous work.
One of my favorite releases of the year. Have turntable, get this record. just outside
Hwaet is the duo of Vanessa Rossetto and Steven Flato. From 2007 to 2008, they created a number of recordings which were then compiled, along with new material,into the pieces that make up their 2010 self-titled debut. Their debut straddles the line between composition and improvisation, with a creative process that encapsulates the two and poses them against each other in counterpoint. Despite being the result of a three year process, Hwaet maintains a sense of interactive buoyancy that belies the process in which it was created.
Pro-pressed CD-R edition of 200 with printed full color cardboard sleeve. Co-released by Abrash and Music Appreciation.
Pre-orders October 19, 2010; ships week of November 7, 2010.
$8 ppd domesticavailable athttp://musicappreciationrecs.com/hwaet.html
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[music's] order simulates the social order, and its dissonances express marginalities.
- jacques attali, noise: a political economy of music
current or previous releases (in order of release):
* split cassette with apple snails (2007 dnt)
* tmaog dark lowland yields on worm comp(ost) cdr comp (2007 echo curio)
* catrider self-titled cdr (2007 mymwly)
* tmaog we could fail under the stars cdr (2007 mymwly)
* tmaog your window right, your tree duty on trees in the attics cdr comp (2007 akoustic desease)
* tmaog cdr joy of the mountain (2007 ruralfaune)
* vanessa rossetto it gets even with us on ihm 2 - olives & pancakes net comp (2007 i hate music)
* tmaog revenez à la demoiselle qui est délégué du roi du ciel on frannce 3cdr comp (2007 ruralfaune)
* tmaog fruiting bodies on the crests of the avians dance to our vibes cdr comp (2007 celestial jars)
* pulga pulga loves you cd (2007 fire museum)
* tmaog enormous gold soul on cris et chuchotements cdr comp (2007 crier dans les musées)
* vanessa rossetto misafridal cdr (2008 music appreciation)
* vanessa rossetto imperial brick cdr (2008 music appreciation)
* vanessa rossetto whoreson in the wilderness cdr (2008 music appreciation)
* wondrous horse cavallo meraviglioso cd (2008 fire museum)
* hwaet peiohr on ihm 3 net comp (2008 i hate music)
* vanessa rossetto they're not there on ihm 3 - building & butte net comp (2008 i hate music)
* donato epiro/vanessa rossetto a flower tried to eat me on vinyl beards lp (2008 bsbta/beard of snails)
* vanessa rossetto for quiet room at compost and height(2008 compost and height)
* tmaog arnold school 1 on hand-rolled oblivion 3cdr comp (2008 mymwly)
* cat rider always leaping on hand-rolled oblivion 3cdr comp (2008 mymwly)
* vanessa rossetto gloria tejana at homophoni (2008 homophoni)
* vanessa rossetto/barry chabala from viola city at compost and height(2008 compost and height)
* vanessa rossetto fall at bagatellen listen project (2008 bagatellen)
* bright duplex dangerous celebrities at austinnitus audio series (2008 austinnitus)
* bright duplex feigned whir on menhir double 7" lathe (2009 root don lonie for cash)
* vanessa rossetto string quartet & lawnmower on cdr portion of second mind publication (2009)
* vanessa rossetto reveal yourselves on sous les pieds, la terre net comp (2009 headphonica)
* bright duplex strawberry trust cdr (2009 thor's rubber hammer)
* vanessa rossetto dogs in english porcelain cdr (2009 music appreciation)
* bright duplex a system of worlds on vinyl snails bonus cdr (2009 beard of snails)
* austin improvisations split mp3 ep with aditi tahiti (2009 niwosound)
* vanessa rossetto quoits on ihm 4 net comp (2009 i hate music)
* vanessa rossetto harmony no. 17 on only [harmony series 17] (2009 compost and height)
* vanessa rossetto without fear i go now to god in wobbling roof net publication (2009 wobbling roof)
* vanessa rossetto pdd-nos c-30 cassette (2010 period.tapes)
* vanessa rossetto mineral orange 12" (2010 kye)
* hwaet self titled cdr (2010 abrash/music appreciation)
other people's releases that i have played on:
* uton radio olio metaphysica (2008 om ha sva ha ksha ma la va ra yam)
* book of shadows 777 (2008 ikuisuus)
* book of shadows isadora shadow (2008 mymwly)
coming soon:
* lee patterson/vanessa rossetto tba cdr (2011 another timbre)
my cdr label, music appreciation
