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Stelzer, Howard

The Flemish Giants (Suburban Observances Vol. 5)

Stelzer, Howard: The Flemish Giants (Suburban Observances Vol. 5) (Love Earth Music)

A large-scale and meticulously deconstructed sonic exploration from Howard Stelzer, weaving layers of manipulated cassette tapes, tape players, and speakers with extensive processing from sonic luminaries Ralf Wehowsky, Brendan Murray, Linda Aubry Bullock, Bruno Duplant, Fani Konstantidou, and Andrew Zukerman — for a dense and unpredictable landscape where textures dissolve and reform in shifting abstractions.
 

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Howard Stelzer-cassette tapes, tape players, speakers, instruments

Ralf Wehowsky-processing

Brendan Murrayy-processing

Linda Aubry Bullocky-processing

Bruno Duplant-processing

Fani Konstantidouy-processing

Andrew Zukermany-processing


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Label: Love Earth Music
Catalog ID: LEM-280
Squidco Product Code: 35879

Format: CDR
Condition: New
Released: 2022
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded at the Sun Room, 2020-2022.

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"An ambitiously-protracted yawn hand-crafted from the finest of normal-bias cassette tapes as mangled by Ralf Wehowsky, Linda Aubry Bullock, Fani Konstantidou, Brendan Murray, Bruno Duplant and Andrew Zukerman then re-mangled by HS until this music emerged. Music for rabbits, but humans are allowed to listen also if the rabbits give you permission... just check w them first."-Love Earth Music


Artist Biographies

"Howard Stelzer (b. 1974, New York) is a composer of electro-acoustic music. Beginning in 1991, almost all of his sounds are generated by, processed by, recorded onto and played back out of cassettes and consumer-grade tape players. Stelzer ran the Intransitive Recordings label from 1997 until 2012."

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/542-Howard-Stelzer)
4/23/2025

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Ralf Wehowsky, born in 1959 in Mainz, Germany, is a pioneering figure in electronic and experimental music. In the late 1970s, he co-founded the group P.D., which later evolved into P16.D4, active primarily from 1980 to 1988. The collective embraced tape cut-ups, musique concrète, and extensive collaborations with artists like Nurse With Wound and Merzbow. Wehowsky's solo work, often under the alias RLW, continues to explore the possibilities of sound, making him one of the most respected electronic composers today.

-Squidco 4/23/2025

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"Bruno Duplant is a composer, improviser and multi-instrumentist (double bass, percussion, electronics, phonography...) living in the north of France. He has collaborated with lot of instrumentalists around the globe and has also made solo works for such labels as B-Boim, Engraved Glass, Peira, Ilse, Impulsive Habitat, Con-v, Unfathomless, Et le feu comme matière formatable technologiquement, Audiotong, Insubordinations and his own label curated with Pedro Chambel, Rhizome.s...

For him, composing, playing, improvising music is like imagining, creating and sometimes decomposing new spaces/realities, new entities. But it is also a reflection on 'memory', not the historic one, but a memory of all things, spaces & moments.

His new works, mostly based on phonographies & graphic scores, perfectly reflect that."

-Another Timbre (http://www.anothertimbre.com/az8.html)
4/23/2025

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Track Listing:



1. The Flemish Giants 47:51

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