Tomoyoshi Date & Corey Fuller
(with Tadahito Ichinoseki)
“Seiya (The Wire Tapper edit)”
Previously unreleased


Tomoyoshi Date and Corey Fuller met in Tokyo through mutual collaborator Chihei Hatakeyama. The original version of “Seiya” was recorded in a church in Bellingham, in the state of Washington, for their album Intimations Of Immortality. Over grand piano, pipe organ, percussion and electronics, Japanese poet Tadahito Ichinoseki reads lines from his work.

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SPLICED is an audio cassette label promoting experimental sound works created with analog tools. A computer may only be used as a final 2-channel recording device. SPLICED is a project label for established artists to explore new working and performing methods outside of the digital realm.

Launching in January 2010, and run by Jamie Drouin & Lance Olsen, SPLICED will feature small editions with handmade original artwork packaging.

We are pleased to announce the merger of Infrequency Editions with Dragon’s Eye Recordings.

Infrequency was established in 2001 as a platform for artists to explore sound as an art form through informal public concerts in a local Victoria (British Columbia) gallery. These events brought together various disciplines and provided a venue to create improvisational works. Within this framework, artists collaborated to created works in front of a live audience, for example musicians worked with painters, poets collaborated with synthesizer enthusiasts.

The next step in the evolution for Infrequency was to publish works focusing on live recordings and documenting installations. In 2002, the first such release was the self-titled live ep by Jeffrey Allport and Tim Olive, followed soon after by Tablet and snow:field, both by founders Jamie Drouin and Lance Olsen. As an early adopter of web-exclusive digital releases, Infrequency went on to publish several works under the title re:mote, a project which explored geographically specific soundworks, as an edition of free MP3s.

After a brief hiatus, Infrequency was relaunched in 2007 to coincide with the release of Snowfield+Remix, a remastered selection of seven tracks by Jamie Drouin and Lance Olsen from an installation created in 2003, and which included a second CD of remixes by invited artists Yann Novak and Tomas Jirku. Snowfield+Remixreceived critical acclaim from magazines such as The Wire, and reestablished Infrequency as a valuable platform for experimental sound works.

Since then, label curator Jamie Drouin has developed a unique catalog of works ranging from the poetic improvisation of Chiaroscurious Blues, to the recent Au Clair De La Lune featuring nine international sound artists reinterpreting the earliest known recording of the human voice. With the merger of Infrequency and Dragon’s Eye Recordings, Drouin hopes to further define Infrequency as an important catalog of sound installations and performance, focusing on the transformation of these works through their dislocation from the original venue and how this expands the concepts in unexpected ways.

Exciting things are just around the corner!

Apparently Novak’s Relocation exhibit coincided with a recent personal relocation from Seattle to Los Angeles—though the show itself ironically ended up being presented in Seattle. A booklet-and-CD-R release, Relocation.Catalog includes Relocation.Edits, three abridged versions of the soundtracks Novak created for the installations in the Relocation exhibition with two fifteen-minute settings framing a slightly shorter one. Notwithstanding the tall catalog booklet accompanying the release that contains exhibition photos and Christopher DeLaurenti’s essay, Striation, Erosion, Deformation, Recollection: The Erased Field Recordings of Yann Novak, the release’s major drawing card is the CD-R’s audio documents.


DeLaurenti’s text begins with a discussion of Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953), which involved Rauschenberg literally erasing a fairly well-developed work-in-progress by the Abstract Expressionist. Rauschenberg spent a month erasing the drawing until the sheet, almost purified of marks and lines, revealed that a new work (above) had replaced the old. The historical anecdote offers a natural segue way and neat parallel to Novak’s handling of the material on Relocation.Edits. The erasure here involves Novak effacing field recordings using digital processing, with the sound artist aiming to retain vestiges of the originating field recording while also neutering it of a too-defining and ultimately too-limiting character. While wanting to remain true to the location and time of the recording, he also wants to render it more abstract so as to liberate it from its specific context and allow the listener to experience the final piece as an aural Rorschach. In Relocation.Vacant.Edit, a softly swirling and persistent pool of medium-to-high pitches is punctuated by microsound accents. Relocation.Mobile.Edit is, during its first half, hyperactive by comparison, with metallic filaments massing into a dub-like cloudstorm; after fading to silence, the softly clangorous flow again re-asserts itself aggressively untilt eh ten-minute piece ends. Surging waves of traffic-like sounds roll across long tendrils of synthetic, organ-like tones during Relocation.Dislocation.Edit, with the activity level at as high a pitch as the second. Though Novak’s obviously aware of the locations whose erasure and transformation ultimately lead to the three settings as presented, nothing remains in the resultant works that would enable anyone else to pinpoint their geographical origins, de-contextualized abstraction in this case being the artist’s fully-realized goal.

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Dani Baquet-Long, wife and collaborator to Will Thomas Long of Celer passed away Tuesday, July 8.  The whole Dragon’s Eye family offers their condolences  to Will Thomas Long and the whole Baquet family in this dark time.  Her amazing contributions to the creative world through her music (both as Celer and Cubby Wolf) and her writing will not be forgotten.  She will forever be in out hearts.

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