BRADLY BROWN
Impala Eardrums, Stage 1
2008
1972 Chevrolet car door, glass, steel

with BRADLY BROWN
Impala Eardrums, Stage 2
2008
1972 Chevrolet car door, glass, sandblasted steel

with BRADLY BROWN
Impala Eardrums, Stage 3
2008
1972 Chevrolet car door, glass, steel, photographic projection, stencil, acid, rust

with BRADLY BROWN
Impala Eardrums, Stage 3 [detail]
2008
1972 Chevrolet car door, glass, steel, photographic projection, stencil, acid, rust

RHYS CHATHAM
JONATHAN KANE'S FEBRUARY
MEGAFAUN
PAUL DUNCAN
COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES
NEPTUNE
ATELEIA
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS
Impala Eardrums: A Radium Sampler
2008
Radium/Table of the Elements
TOE-CD-812/TOE-LP-812
Compact disc; phono LP, 4/C labels, white vinyl, 11x17" poster

Meiternium Festival
South by Southwest
Austin, Texas
2008
Table of the Elements/Radium
Poster
11x17"

BRADLY BROWN
"Curtiss P-40"
Beastly Words
2007
Unique cyanotype/Van Dyke print
38” x 104” (2 Panels, 38” X 52” each)

“Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
George Orwell

with BRADLY BROWN
SAWfest Poster
2008
Offset, 17" x 11"

BRADLY BROWN
"XVI Olympiad"
Beastly Words (installation view)
2007
Unique cyanotype print
76” x 104” (4 panels at 38” x 52” each)

“And don’t look back — something might be gaining on you.”
Satchell Paige

BRADLY BROWN
"XVI Olympiad" [detail]
Beastly Words (installation view)
2007
Unique cyanotype print
76” x 104” (4 panels at 38” x 52” each)

“And don’t look back — something might be gaining on you.”
Satchell Paige

BRADLY BROWN
Battle of the Bands Ticket
2008
Cyanotype exposure, hand-cut watercolor paper
8" x 2"

The Social Registry
+
Table of the Elements
Battle of the Bands Poster
2008
11" x 17"

BRADLY BROWN
Donkey Punch [version]
2008
Chalk, chalkboard
36 x 48"

BRADLY BROWN
Title Treatment [version]
2008
Chalk
12 x 48"

BRADLY BROWN
Title Treatment [detail]
2008
Chalk
 

Bury the Square
2008
Radium/Table of the Elements
TOE-CD-815
Compact disc

"Bury the Square abounds with surprises that don't feel forced. "Find Your Mark" is a perfect example: The aforementioned barbershop harmonies, backed by extremely loose percussion, give way to tight and sprightly ba-bums that wouldn't sound out of place on a Sufjan Stevens album. Then some brief tape manipulations and the emergence of electric guitar tilt the song into a final movement that ties it all together. The eleven-minute "Where We Belong" is dominated by aching vocals and gentle banjo; the screeching noise section would seem to come out of nowhere if it weren't latent in the flittering subterranean rhythms beneath the calm surface of the song proper. The more traditionally inclined tracks "His Robe", "Drains", and "Lazy Suicide" prove that Megafaun don't necessarily need left-field embellishments, they just like them. But they're at their most compelling and original when they use them: "Tired and Troubled", which sinks the traces of a simple folk song into a chaotic labyrinth of field recordings, draws a direct and astute line between two idioms that are superficially at odds, but meet on the common ground of an appreciation for spontaneity and a reverence for the mutations of chance."
Pitchfork

Bury the Square
2008
Radium/Table of the Elements
TOE-CD-815
Poster, 11 x 17"

with BRADLY BROWN
2008
Paper receipt, Sharpie (overheard quote)

with BRADLY BROWN
Electric guitar, stencil, wood router

with BRADLY BROWN
Electric guitar, stencil, wood router

with BRADLY BROWN
Photography, offset printing

"GUITAR TRIO IS MY LIFE!"
2008
Radium/Table of the Elements
TOE-CD-813
3x compact discs, 48-page book

"If the most pure rock 'n' roll is all about excess, emancipation, and sexuality, then 55-year-old Parisian composer Rhys Chatham makes Mick Jagger seem like a Sunday school teacher: Chatham's second 3xCD box set for Table of the Elements, Guitar Trio is My Life!, collects 10 performances from Chatham's 2007 14-city North American tour. Every night, Chatham and a different ensemble of musicians performed his most famous work, 1977's "Guitar Trio", twice. It's about time: For too long, Chatham's massed guitars have been a footnote to those of the more famous Glenn Branca. But Branca  — like Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore, Swans' Michael Gira and Jonathan Kane, and the Modern Lovers' Ernie Brooks, many of whom appear here —  was an early student of and member in Chatham's New York ensembles. This exhausting, exhilarating collection, though, should confirm both Chatham and "Guitar Trio" as staples in the rock and 20th century composition canons."
Pitchfork 

"GUITAR TRIO IS MY LIFE!"
2008
Radium/Table of the Elements
TOE-CD-813
3x compact discs, 48-page book

"When considered alongside Chatham's statement that he can teach anyone this piece in an hour, such variety is exhilarating. "Guitar Trio" was composed after Chatham, then a New York composer taking a somewhat academic approach to minimalism, saw the Ramones play CBGB. Their music shocked him into redirecting his sonic approach within his own pre-existing ideas. The result is glorious, one-chord, electro-orchestral, garage-band minimalism. Anyone can learn this music. Anyone can play this music. Anyone can enjoy this music, rhythmically and tonally electrified as it is. This is a popular inroad for both understanding and participating in sound fields generally relegated to academia. "Guitar Trio" suggests infinite possibilities for this music, for all music, really: If you can combine basic "punk" ideas with basic "classical" ideas to create something that will forever alter the shape of both memes (see Sonic Youth and Glenn Branca), what can't you do?"
Pitchfork 

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