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::room40:: is a label and multi-arts organisation based in Brisbane, Australia. Since 2000, ::room40:: has released over 50 high quality editions and multiples in the fields of electronics, improvisation, experimental-pop and sound-art. Curated by Lawrence English, the label continues to publish in and around the margins of each of these fields drawing on a diverse roster of both established and emergent sound-makers. ::room40:: also produces numerous events, festivals and exhibitions in Australia and beyond.

(Biography Last updated 7 August 2007)



Latest 20 releases by room40 – Browse all 54 releases by room40

11 Easy Piecesby Leighton Craig

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Release date 2 June 2008
CD In Stock £10.00 buy

On 11 Easy Pieces, his first widely available solo LP, Craig offers an intimate yet robust collection o works recorded on an array of cheap analogue keyboards, including his instrument of choice the Casio MT40. Recorded to cassette at the kitchen table between 2003-04, these recordings have been lovingly toasted ... [more]


Studies For Stradbrokeby Lawrence English

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Release date 7 April 2008
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Hydrophonic recordings made January and August 2007, Stradbroke Island, Queensland.

Limited edition CDR of 150. Housed in letterpress sleeve and released on Winds Measure Recordings.


Stémeby Erikm

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Release date 25 March 2008
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Between his reputation as swift shifting improviser, concréte composer and turntable deconstructionist, Marseilles based artist Erikm has earned himself an enviable position in the European music community. With Stéme, his most ambitious and fully realised compositional work to date, he devolves and recontextualises the boundaries between sound source and sound ... [more]


Oceanic Feeling - Likeby Chris Abrahams / Mike Cooper

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Release date 5 January 2008
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"The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out." Annie Dillard

It’s this musical whisper that is amplified on Oceanic Feeling-Like, as Italian based musician Mike Cooper and Australia’s Chris Abrahams unite for the first time to create what could be described as ... [more]


Signalby various artists [::room40::]

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Release date 7 December 2007
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Finetuned was established in 2005 by artists who maintain an engagement with sound oriented work both curatorially and in their own practice.

"This is what happened:

We created a space. It was a little early so we left it vacant. We started to wonder about the space; it reverberated around the back ... [more]


Revers Quest*by Sebastien Roux

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Release date 15 October 2007
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"This is the story of a man marked by an image of his childhood …” Or perhaps is it the story of this woman coming here to meet a beloved stranger, at the Grange-Auloup street? or maybe their story?” - Sébastien Roux

Revers Ouest* is a radiophonic work based on text ... [more]


Basisby Steinbrüchel

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Release date 15 October 2007
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'Basis' is based on recordings of acoustic instruments. All sounds were processed and layered into compositions by Steinbrüchel. Through this processing Steinbrüchel revealed hidden structures and melodies and isolated them, creating new melodic and organic textures without losing the soul of the original.

These seven tracks reveal a new side in ... [more]


Norbergby Tim Hecker

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Release date 15 October 2007
CD In Stock £7.50 buy

Recorded at the Norberg Festival (Sweden) amidst the mineshafts and cluttered buildings strewn throughout parts the city, this 21 minute live piece summarises much of what makes Tim Hecker’s music so vital and compelling.

Adept at counter-pointing the most ferocious of distorted platters with smooth beds of ambient sound and ... [more]


Airport Symphonyby various artists [::room40::]

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Release date 24 September 2007
2CD Limited Stock £13.49 buy

As Alain De Botton suggests in his book ‘The Art Of Travel’, the act of transit between social, cultural and geographic circumstance is far more than mere bodily movement. Language, architecture, food, gesture, landscape and sound all play a part in travel and ultimately contribute to the sensations of excitement, ... [more]


Morse Code shirtby ::room40::

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Release date 6 August 2007
TS Limited Stock £12.00 buy ||

Very limited T-shirts featuring the morse code spelling of ::room40:: on either black or grey shirts.

There are also two very limited girls fitted sizes available. These are sizes 8 and 10 and once again feature the morse code design.

Printed on Ramo t-shirts you can find more information and size details ... [more]


New Daysby For Barry Ray

Release date 30 July 2007
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For Barry Ray is the husband and wife duo of Carina Thorén (Sweden) and John Chantler (Australia). After a number of compilation appearances, long gone CDrs and lathe cut records under various guises, the pair bunked down over the winter of 06/07 to lay the foundations for ‘New Days’, kicking ... [more]


Plants And Heartsby Christopher Willits

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Release date 30 July 2007
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Christopher Willits is a ceaseless creative force focused on teasing out the most from his instrument of choice – the guitar. With 'Plants and Hearts', he sets out on a divergent exploration of the tonal qualities of guitar, rendering out a composition that references in equal doses the minimal harmonic ... [more]


Asobiby Lawrence English

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Release date 14 July 2007
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“Object is an infrequent but ongoing project..” explains Lawrence English , the man and the musician behind Object. In describing where Object exists musically, Lawrence explains that Object “..sits outside the more textural field recordings and sound artwork realm. This album (is) based on percussion, organ, and other instrumental ... [more]


Totemo Aimashoby Tenniscoats

Release date 9 July 2007
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In essence Tokyo’s Tenniscoats celebrate all that makes song vital in our collective conscious. Matching emotive live performance against delicately psychedelic folk songs, the duo of Saya and Takashi Ueno (assisted by a plethora of floating members), create some of the most compelling music currently emanating from Japan.

On Totemo ... [more]


Les Protorythmiquesby Erikm (Luc Ferrari) & Thomas Lehn

Release date 28 May 2007
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This recording is taken from a live concert which took place at the Musique Action Festival in France on Thursday the 26 of May 2005. Initially Luc Ferrari and erikm were invited to present "Les Protorythmiques" at Musique Action 2005, a work composed around a new 'open working ... [more]


Wakoolby Candlesnuffer

Release date 7 May 2007
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Recorded over a series of four Sunday afternoons, Wakool is an interrogation into an expanded range of techniques and gestures applied to instruments including banjo, electroacoustic guitar, bandura, and eukolin. In part an antidote to laborious studio process, this project privileges live stereo recordings without additional overdubs, processing or equalization. ... [more]


Landingby Taylor Deupree

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Release date 30 April 2007
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With ‘Landing’ American sound artist Taylor Deupree offers another vision of subtle shifting audio. A progression from the full-length Northern (12K), Landing matches acoustic instruments across broad washes of warm sonic texture and floating spatial movement. Removed from the falling sheets of silent snow swelling outside his home, Deupree’s Landing ... [more]


For Varying Degrees Of Winterby Lawrence English

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Release date 1 February 2007
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Winter is a season for introspection, contemplation and listening. Its the season when mother nature reasserts her rights and imposes her law on humankind, forcing those creatures to shack up, wrap up...and dream of higher temperatures.

The Australian composer and electronic artitst Lawrence English delivers a record for varying degrees of ... [more]


Loving You (Maelstrom)/For Marcus Cope (Two)by Function/John Chantler

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Release date 18 January 2007
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Lathe-cut 7". Limited edition of 81 . Split 7" born out of the collaborations between Matt (Nicholson, Function) & John Chantler during 2005. Two solo excursions - Function going all fenneszian process jam - JC getting busy with motor drums & wayward acoustic guitar strum.

Covers are an exclusive hand-coloured ... [more]


Rotterdam.1by Text Of Light

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Release date 30 December 2006
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Recorded at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in January 2005, this explosive piece from Text Of Light typifies their abilities as a vivid freeform
improvisational unit.

Ranaldo and Licht’s measured guitar work sets a basis on which Kreiger’s blaring saxtronics,Barnes’ percussive explorations and DJ Olive ’s swirling turntable incursions can intertwine ... [more]


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FOR BARRY RAY live & direct

16 November 2007

For Barry Ray play a series of dates in Germany, Switzerland and the UK over the next few weeks. Here are the details;

November 17: FYW, Köln. Germany

November 20: Festsaal Keller Kreuzberg, Berlin. w/ Andrea Belfi (solo)

November 25: Gallery Kunst und Bauschlosserei, Leipzig. Germany. w/ Antje Hensel
+ triPhaze (dj)

November 29: Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich. Switzerland. (Walchestrasse 6
ch-8006) w/ Longmo

December 01: Oblo, Lausanne. Switzerland.

December 09: Advent Sprawl: The Fleapit. Columbia Road, London. w/ Beddoes +
Josh ... [read full article]


LAWRENCE ENGLISH / ::ROOM40:: European invasion

26 October 2007

Lawrence English , head-honcho of ::room40:: will be packing his warm winter clothes and heading over to colder climates this November and December. Start organising the street parties...

Dates are...

NOVEMBER

01 - PORTO - Passos Manuel
02 - LISBON - Fábrica Braço de Prata (with anthony pateras) also CD Launch for It's Up To Us To Live on Sirr
04 - PALERMO - Teatro delle Balate
06 - ROMA - RialtoSantambrogio
07 - VALENCIA - OCCC, ((Vibra)) series
09 ... [read full article]


FOR BARRY RAY live in Oxford, UK

3 July 2007

If you are in the Oxford, UK, area, on August 26th, For Barry Ray will be playing in the upstairs room at the Port Mahon, which is at 82 St. Clements St, Oxford, OX4 1AW. 

This has been organized by the good folks at Fourier Transform and will also feature Traw & Dominic Lash.  Starts at 5 and over by 8.   All very civilised for a sunday evening!


JOHN CHANTLER update - July 2006

11 July 2006

Hi there,

Another missive after a very long absence.

In the Solitude of Cotton Fields
I've just finished composing and recording the music for a production of In the Solitude of Cotton Fields, by French playwright Bernard-Marie Koltés. It opens at the Battersea Arts Centre on July 25th and runs until August 6th. Capacity is very limited and its expected to sell out. If you get in early (before July 18th) tickets are cheaper too. It's being ... [read full article]


JOHN CHANTLER upcoming performances and releases

19 May 2006

Hi Folks,

Hope this missive finds you well. I've a couple a shows coming up and some new releases available v. soon too. 

Saturday, May 20 2006
John & Carina
The Pullens Centre
184 Crampton St
London SE17
Elephant & Castle/Kennington tube
ALL AGES. w/ Music for One and Butchers Boy.
£3. 7pm
new work including elements based on Vågspel (see below) with additional acoustic guitar interplay & cymbal stuff.

Friday, May 26 2006
John Chantler vs Inch-time (Static Caravan)
The Ritzy Cinema
Coldharbour Lane, Brixton.
Free. 8pm-12am.
I'm playing analog synth & computer. Something ... [read full article]


JOHN CHANTLER on ResonanceFM

30 March 2006

John Chantler will be presenting a one hour radio special on upstart electronic label of the moment, ::room40::. The programme will be broadcast this coming Monday April 3rd for Frequenzen on ResonanceFM. The show goes out from 10.30pm on 104.4FM (Central London) or online via www.resonancefm.com

The programme will feature upcoming new releases, out of print limited editions and some words from label boss Lawrence English.

Future editions of the programme will feature specials on ... [read full article]


JOHN CHANTLER missive November 2005

10 November 2005

Greets!

A few gigs & things.

First up, Carina & I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who came out to the last AT BOB event at the Luminaire with Tujiko Noriko & Aoki Takamasa, Achrid & Jodi Cave... it was a lovely night. Look out for a new series of AT BOB events sometime in the new year...

RADIO!
As of last monday I've joined ... [read full article]


JOHN CHANTLER missive October 2005 & At Bob presenting Tujiko Noriko & Aoki Takamasa

24 October 2005

greetings all,

EVENTS:

* next AT BOB is this coming Friday - October 28th, 2005.

Tujiko Noriko & Aoki Takamasa (live) [fatcat records]
Jodi Cave (live)
Achrid (live)
+ At Bob DJs

THE LUMINAIRE 311 High Road Kilburn London NW6 7JR
£5. Doors at 8.30 (free poster for first five through the door!)

AT BOB happily returns to the lovely LUMINAIRE in Kilburn presenting the stunning collaboration between Japan's avant-pop queen Tujiko Noriko and rising star of Japanese minimal techno, ... [read full article]


JOHN CHANTLER: At Bob, Friday 30th September

25 September 2005

Greetings,

This here is a missive purely to remind ye all of the next At Bob event this coming Friday, September 30th at The Luminaire in Kilburn. The Luminaire is nary a two minute walk from Kilburn Tube station and less than a minute from Brondesbury rail station. Full directions and such at www.theluminaire.co.uk - we went and checked it out the other night and its proper plush!

And you get to hear sublime ... [read full article]


LAWRENCE ENGLISH live in London

14 September 2005

Greetings fine people of London.

This is just a quick note for your Wednesday afternoon or time shortly thereafter.

Lawrence English - grand wizard master of the ::room40:: micro-empire will be performing a set of solo laptop/electronics at the long-running SPRAWL club tonight. Conveniently 'tis around the corner from my place of employ so I'll be there with bright shiny bells on.

Tomorrow night (Thursday the 15th) we will both be playing together at the very fine record ... [read full article]


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