RICHARD CHARTIER

‘Mapping the Barely Audible with Richard Chartier’ via Foxy Digitalis

READ HERE

chatting about my latest album ‘Eventual’ on 901editions, my favorite sounds and sound memories, LINE, process, etc etc etc…

LEONIE STRECKER

OUT NOW on all listening platforms

‘Chroma’ (LINE_173)
by LEONIE STRECKER

listen / order on bandcamp:
lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/chroma

Chroma: the pure shimmer of appearance that never settles into a thing. Leonie Strecker’s debut album takes this as its guiding figure, unfolding five compositions devoted to wavering states of sound, to layering and veiling, to emergence and disappearance, to the slow shifting of what is heard and what is almost heard. Again and again, the music moves along fault lines between abstraction and materiality, between synthetic construction and fragile presence, between stasis and barely perceptible transformation. What is at stake throughout is not simply sound as an object, but sound as something that blurs, is reinterpreted, covered over, or recalled like a memory, never entirely fixed, never entirely gone.

–

Leonie Strecker (b.1995, Düsseldorf) is a German composer and artist. Her current work deals with notions of presence, absence and the connections of memory and experience. She utilizes concrete, synthetic and instrumental sound to evoke ambiguous meanings, creating listening experiences that reflect individual perception and collective dynamics.

Her works have been shown at La Biennale di Venezia, Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, Kunstsammlung NRW and De Singel Arts Centre, among others.

She studied electroacoustic composition in Rome and Düsseldorf before graduating from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. She is currently based in Vienna.

leoniestrecker.com

STEVE RODEN

Christopher Trela writes about Steve Rodens’s show at UCI OCMA that’s on view through end of May 2026.

‘Wandering the Steve Roden Exhibit at UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art’

Wandering the Steve Roden Exhibit at UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art

JORGE SOLÍS ARENAZAS

out now on all digital listening platforms

Displacements (LINE_172)
by JORGE SOLÍS ARENAZAS

BUY ON BANDCAMP: lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/displacements

LINE presents Displacements, the debut album from Mexican sound artist, essayist, and composer, Jorge Solís Arenazas.

“Displacements is a journey through various ranges of the audible frequency spectrum. Both versions of Anabasis  —taken from the Greek word for ascension— are composed mainly of feedback recordings and focus on the upper frequency range. Catabasis —a journey of descent— originates in red or brownian noises, moving through lower frequencies. Eschatia—the edge of the exterior, a frontier or border to even time— is an exploration between two lands, an interlude in the voyage, making use of different synthesizers for the tonal layers and recovering residues of rhythmic structures created with modular synthesis.”
— JORGE SOLÍS ARENAZAS

www.noema.mx

CINDYTALK

a new interview with LINE artist Cindytalk in conversation with Jim Haynes
of The Helen Scarsdale Agency.

READ HERE

out now Sunset and Forever 2LP on The Helen Scarsdale Agency
and its companion album That We Must Pass Through This Life on LINE

MARK FELL

MARK FELL
Ten Types of Elsewhere (LINE_019)

Boomkat/LINE limited edition cassette
ORDER HERE

BOOMKAT PRESS RELEASE:
20+ year reissue of Mark Fell’s uniquely compelling debut solo album; a fascinating experimental playground for his ideas on topology, asymmetry, and spatiotemporal disruption, triggering one of modern electronic music’s most fanciful, radical, and peerless catalogues. Essential listening for anyone on the line from Autechre to Ikeda.

Richard Chartier’s LA-based minimalist label Line issued ‘Ten Types of Elsewhere’ in late 2004, hailing the first significant body of Mark Fell’s work beyond his string of aces as one half of SND, and a decade of credits spanning everyone from rave crew DiY Discs to Mille Plateaux’s classic Clicks & Cuts series.

Comprising 45 parts in 10 sections, Fell’s first album would most firmly outline his systematic, process-oriented studio practice as derived from attempts to document his installation work, with results that captivatingly collapse his world of extra-musical influences – aspects of structuralist film thru to advanced maths, philosophy and sociopolitical/cultural critique – into forms of concrète electronics defined by a perceptive curiosity for possible spaces and spatial objects.

We’re probably preaching to the choir here, but Mark’s recent Tone Glow interview is the ideal place to get a horse’s mouth grip on all the above, including ‘Ten Types of Elsewhere’, which he admits was made while still relatively “unfamiliar with traditions outside of what I’d grown up with. That whole vocabulary of music with silence, or spaces…”. What unfolds provides an early glimpse at kernels of his work for the next 20 years, from the stop/start pings of his ‘Topology’ parts to the calligraphic scrabble of ‘incompleteness’ bits thru shearing ‘abjections’, rhythmic urgency and resonant lushness of ‘storage’, passages of pitch-bent strings and even disarmingly cute digital both of his ‘remote systems’ section and ultimately the floating structure of ‘commuting (3).’

It holds its own among the early C.21st’s daring investigations of form and function, warping and dissecting conventions with a balance of the drily technical and wryly ludic that’s come to define much of his subsequent, inspirational catalogue, now reaching to a bewildering spectra of mutant dance music and fractious, innovative duos (with Pat Thomas, Okkyung Lee, Limpe Fuchs, Rian Treanor , et al), and various ensembles. But for the rhythmically curious and big eared listeners who can join dots across mediums, ‘Ten Types Of Elsewhere’ should be considered crucial listening, no less.

CINDYTALK

OUT NOW on all digital listening platforms

That We Must Pass Through This Life
by Cindytalk
(LINE_171)

PURCHASE DIRECT VIA BANDCAMP

Cindytalk returns to LINE with the new album ’That We Must Pass Through This Life’. Cindytalk presents spaces between emotion and noise, a fluid experimental framework… a sonic world of duality.

Their lasting love of discovery and deviation seeking “new pathways always being uncovered” continues to be expressed in their second album for LINE. ‘That We Must Pass Through This Life’ is a continuing part of that expressionistic path, again in four parts, stripped down like a delicate suspension. This time even more minimal but remaining raw and powerful. A light to dark dream state slowly evolving… to catharsis.

“Maybe not the first artist to spring to mind when we think of LINE, Cindytalk nevertheless slips ideally into the label’s singular vein of tactile minimalism thanks to her exquisite grasp of layered, spatial nuance and time-slipping patience, manifest in four works totaling 44 minutes, but feeling like we just visited another dimension with its own gauge of temporality, atmospheric physics.”
—boomkat.com

“… one of this month’s most significant offerings, and one which deserves attention from discerning listeners… so starkly realized, so precise and austere, that the record sort of stuns. It’s anti-music in a way, and yet, too nuanced to be ambient”
—apessimistisneverdisappointed.com

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Cindytalk’s previous album for LINE, ‘When the Moon is a Thread’ (LINE_147) is 50% OFF through January on Bandcamp.

STEVE RODEN

2025

I was asked by Boomkat.com to list my favorites of 2025. see it here and see many more artists’ lists and Boomkat’s choices here

Ø — Sysivalo

Marja Ahti / Manja Ristić — Transference

Siavash Amini — Caligo

CoH & Midori Hirano — Sudden Fruit

Jean Claude Eloy — Gaku-No-Michi Materials

Jürg Frey (Reinier van Houdt) — Composer, alone

Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause — The Quiet Sun

Masaya Kato — Mydriasis Variations

Olga Anna Markowska — ISKRA

Meitei — Sen’nyū

Savvas Metaxas — Magnetic Loops IV

Mohammad Reza Mortazavi —Nexus

NKISI — Anomaly Index

Steve Roden — Six Sound Installations

Six Microphones — Environmental Studies

JASMINE GUFFOND

surprise! the first LINE vinyl edition by our friends at Boomkat !

Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity
(LINE_165)
Jasmine Guffond

edition of 300
now shipping from boomkat.com

“On constant rotation here for months, Jasmine Guffond’s stunning suite for opiated brass and woodwind ‘Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity’ has sat right at the top of our listening pile this year. A commentary on background music and the contemporary Ambient industrial complex, Guffond’s composition is so expertly conceived, recorded and arranged that it makes us acutely aware of how limp and hollow so much of that scene is by comparison.

Trust, it’s real, low-key AOTY territory, highly recommended if you’re into Gavin Bryars’ ‘Sinking of the Titanic’ or Sam Kidel’s by-now classic ‘Disruptive Muzak’, newly re-mastered by Rashad Becker for this first time vinyl edition.”
—boomkat

MASAYA KATO

OUT NOW on all digital platforms

Glass Anthimeria (LINE_170)
by MASAYA KATO

Japanese artist Masaya Kato returns to LINE with his work Glass Anthimeria created as the sound installation for the 2024 solo exhibition of glass artist Mayuko Ogawa. The three compositions incorporate sounds generated during the glassmaking process as well as the sounds from the works themselves and by digitally granulating (particling) the collected glass sounds. By constructing the piece to resonate with the classical technique Ogawa adopts, pâte de verre (a method by firing powdered glass in an electric furnace), it aims to connect the classical and the contemporary, imbuing the exhibition space with a sense of temporal thickness.

LISTEN / PURCHASE ON BANDCAMP

+

MASAYA KATO’s previous LINE album, ‘Wavefront Aberrations’ (LINE_104) from 2019 is also 50% OFF on Bandcamp in December…

MANJA RISTIĆ

‘Manja Ristić about Animal Sounds and Interspecies Communication’

Nature, for Manja Ristić is an intelligent system, complex and cruel, self-devouring and adaptive. Her sound work is holistic, yet curious about micro-environments and their subtle wonder. It is not a product on display, but an invitation for listening as an act of communication.

via FIFTEEN QUESTIONS, Nov 2025

MANJA RISTIĆ

OUT NOW on all digital listening platforms:

MANJA RISTIĆ
Into Your Eyes
(LINE_169)

Serbian sound artist, poet, curator, and researcher, Manja Ristić returns for her third album for LINE. Ristić’s new album ‘Into Your Eyes’ is a triptych of her unique micro focus works recalling the subtle, detailed worlds of Steve Roden or France Jobin fused with the adept field recordings of Jana Winderen, Francisco López, and the delicate resonances of Toshiya Tsunoda.

listen / order on BANDCAMP

+

her previous LINE releases are 50% OFF through November on Bandcamp:

Ma (LINE_154) 2024
Awakenings (LINE_138) 2023

STEVE RODEN

tune in to www.radioarte.it each Sunday in November 2025 for 24 hour programming / monograph of the sound works of artist Steve Roden (1964-2023)  including many of his works from LINE. a very deep sonic dive…

RICHARD CHARTIER

ONE CALL FOUR SIDES

choreography: Cristina Caprioli
light: Thomas Zamolo
sound: Richard Chartier

nov 1 (premiere)
nov 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23
Hallen I Farsta (Farsta, Sweden)

full info & tickets

inside the frame, at odds with her own framing
one single call, repeatedly contemplated

dancers: Samuel Draper, A. Livingstone, Pontus Pettersson, Adam Shütt / Tom Caley, Annika Hyvärinen, Petter Jacobsson / Nelia Naumanen

MANJA RISTIĆ

‘Mnemosonic Topographies – Sensory Epistemology Between Sound, Space, and Memory’
written by Manja Ristić

In the interstice between sound, space, and memory, this article unfolds a mnemosonic topography — an embodied listening practice that traces the ephemeral contours of place through sonic resonance and sensory recall.

Drawing upon field recordings and psychoacoustic reflection, it navigates the liminal terrain where sonic phenomena become mnemonic vessels, carrying sedimented histories and affective geographies.

Read the full article at theatticmag.com

MARK FELL

READ: Tone Glow 193: MARK FELL

a great new interview that kicks off from ‘Ten Types of Elsewhere’ (LINE_019) 2004

Mark Fell’s new album ‘Psychic Resynthesis’ is out now on Frozen Reeds

STEVE RODEN

out now on all digital listening platforms

‘six sound installations’
by STEVE RODEN
(LINE_168)

LINE is proud to issue this collection documenting six installation works by artist Steve Roden (1964-2023). These delicate sound pieces encompass a range of Roden’s approaches to creating sound and his unique coded visual scoring.

LINE, working with Sari Roden, Stephen Vitiello, Michael Raphael, and Steve Roden Studio, has assembled these for distribution on all digital platforms so that more listeners may hear them and once again be immersed in his extraordinary lowercase worlds.

Over 3.5 hours in length and all lovingly remastered by Taylor Deupree.

September 6 marked two years since the passing of Steve Roden. He was formative in the creation of LINE through his inspiration, innovation, energy, and friendship. It is a honor to have these works on LINE.

PURCHASE VIA BANDCAMP

+ FULL INFO + LINKS

+ previous LINE releases by Steve Roden are 50% OFF through October on Bandcamp:

forms of paper (2024 remaster) (LINE_158)
walking from savoonga to gambell (LINE_090)
suite nuit (with Frank Bretschneider) (LINE_068)
proximities (LINE_052)
airforms (LINE_007)

‘Steve Roden, An Archive, An Unreliable Narrator’

READ: ‘Steve Roden, An Archive, An Unreliable Narrator’
by Stephen Vitiello
in On Mind by The Kitchen, NY

In the liner notes to one of his releases, forms of paper. Steve writes, “while the artworld and popular culture seemed to favor spectacle, i was interested in silence, humility, intimacy, and thus began to describe my work as having a lowercase aesthetic—and i viewed the term as a quiet form of protest.”

WILLIAM BASINSKI + RICHARD CHARTIER

surprise! out today, the second LINExBOOMKAT cassette tape limited edition…

‘Aurora Terminalis’
(LINE_157)
William Basinski + Richard Chartier

“Longtime pals and collaborators William Basinski and Richard Chartier return with ‘Aurora Terminalis’, a pastel-hued refraction of light-headed, subtly kosmische synth tones and washed-out rhythms presented thru a sheet of whirring tape noise…

More formally structured than their previous releases—but packed with so much fine detail that you’ll need repeat listens to illuminate all the filigree cracks—it’s an advanced variant of minimalism from two of the scene’s most imposing figures.”
—boomkat.com

ORDER VIA BOOMKAT:
https://boomkat.com/products/aurora-terminalis

25 YEARS OF LINE

September marks the 25th anniversary of LINE !

thank you to each & every artist on LINE for their work/entrusting it with me.

thank you to the listeners/supporters over these 25 years.

thank you to the writers who have reviewed and DJs who have played LINE releases.

thank you to Taylor Deupree for suggesting I start a label & all early encouragement/support (originally as a sublabel of 12k).

happy listening…
more exciting sounds planned…

best,
richard chartier

SAVVAS METAXAS

Greek composer Savvas Metaxas returns to LINE with a fourth installment of the Magnetic Loops series.

Three new long form compositions based on the magnetic tape and the revox A77, this time with the electric guitar as the main sound source as well as Turkish bağlama / saz that was purchased on a recent trip to Istanbul.

Magnetic Loops IV (LINE_167) OUT SEPT 12, 2025

40% OFF EVERYTHING

it is that time of year…

the annual LINE Summer Sale
40% OFF EVERYTHING in the LINE bandcamp shop

catch up on recent releases or do a deep dive investigating the back catalog of 173 available digital albums since the founding in 2000. and YES, September marks 25 years of LINE.

this offer also includes an additional 40% off the already discounted ‘full digital discography’ download package on bandcamp (shown on each release page)… 173 LINE releases for $406.

use code ‘summer40’ at check out.
August 8-18, 2025

thank you again for your continuing support of LINE and the artists on the label.

SIX MICROPHONES

OUT NOW on Bandcamp and all digital listening platforms

Environmental Studies
by Six Microphones
(LINE_166) 

Six Microphones is a site-determined composition of audio feedback by designer and composer Robert Gerard Pietrusko, which explores the mutually constitutive relationships among sound, space, and audience.

The artist returns to LINE with ‘Environmental Studies’, an iteration of the piece created specifically for the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (CCVA) in Cambridge, MA—the only building in North America designed by famed architect Le Corbusier. Installed at the CCVA during the spring of 2015, the piece unfolded over the course of a month. This recording is an excerpt from that longer performance, captured on the evening of 9 April 2015.

Installed, Six Microphones illustrates the simplest and most legible diagram of feedback—a microphone pointed at a loudspeaker. The piece transforms the gallery from a space in which sound simply propagates, to the medium required to bring sound into being.

Six Microphones 2019 self-titled release for LINE (LINE_105) is also half price until Aug 11

JASMINE GUFFOND

SURPRISE!
Boomkat has partnered with LINE to release a special limited edition cassette version of

‘Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity’
(LINE_165)
by JASMINE GUFFOND

Edition of 100 copies, same programme plays both sides.
this is the first LINE release on cassette!

ORDER HERE

LINE will have a few copies for sale in the coming weeks, will keep you posted

“Not just a commentary on background music, ‘Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity’ ends up being a subtle statement about contemporary “ambient” and drone forms, where experimental techniques have been hijacked by lazy clout chasers, self-styled wellness gurus and beanbag snoozers. Guffond’s composition is so expertly arranged, tweaked and engineered that it makes us acutely aware of what we’ve been missing. For a soundtrack to dystopia, it ain’t half idyllic.”
—boomkat.com

JASMINE GUFFOND

out now on all digital listening / purchasing platforms:

Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity
JASMINE GUFFOND
(LINE_165) 

LINE welcomes Jasmine Guffond with her work Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity, a poetic inversion of Muzak’s traditional role in stimulating seamless productivity in the workplace.

Installed for Dystopia Sound Art Biennial (2024), at the Amazon Packing Station located before HAUNT-Frontviews in Berlin, Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity sonically addresses utopic notions of seamless, efficient productivity, inherent to capitalist cultures, and their very real dystopic effects from labour exploitation to the impacts of over-production on the environment.

FULL INFO / LINKS
LISTEN / BUY ON BANDCAMP

SIMONEL

out now on all digital listening / purchasing platforms:

Cartographies of Silence
by SIMONEL
(LINE_164)

Cartographies of Silence by Mexican artist Simonel maps inner landscapes through warm, textured ambient and drone. It explores the profound beauty and intricate spaces found within quietude. These sonic maps are drawn with warmth, subtle distortion, and the cyclical embrace of tapeloops, aiming to evoke a sense of spaciousness, ethereal emotion, and introspective calm.

FULL INFO / LINKS
LISTEN / BUY ON BANDCAMP

JOHANNES MALFATTI

out now on all digital listening / purchasing platforms

Fragments
by JOHANNES MALFATTI
(LINE_163)

Composer Johannes Malfatti returns to LINE with a beautiful new piano work. His previous work for church organs, ‘In the Glow of Distant Fires’ (LINE_144) was released on LINE in 2023.

For listeners who enjoy the sparse lingering acoustic tension of works by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jürg Frey, and Morton Feldman.

FULL INFO
LISTEN / BUY ON BANDCAMP

+

In the Glow of Distant Fires (LINE_144) is 50% off through June.

VITTORIO GUINDANI

out now on all digital listening / purchasing platforms

Strame
by VITTORIO GUINDANI
(LINE_162)

LINE presents the latest work by Italian sound artist Vittorio Guindani. Strame is a series of incredibly delicate and intriguing miniatures formed from his field recordings.

FULL INFO
LISTEN / BUY ON BANDCAMP

WZRDRYAV

LINE welcomes wzrdryAV, with ‘Wave Resource’ his 3rd album for the label out now on all digital platforms

LISTEN / BUY

+

His previous albums ‘West Coast Systems Vol 2’ (LINE_127, 2022) & ‘West Coast Systems’ (LINE_116, 2020) are loved by listeners for their grainy warmth & lushness…

AND are 50% OFF through the end of May on Bandcamp here and here

DAVID LEE MYERS

OUT NOW on all digital listening platforms

Sensus
by DAVID LEE MYERS
(LINE_160)

PURCHASE ON BANDCAMP

“In summer 2024 I came across several tracks that had been recorded twenty years earlier but never used. These sounds had been created by feeding a Lexicon LXP15 multieffects unit back into itself with a small specialized mixer. At the time, I appreciated the sounds but did not find them suitable for a project or release, and so set them aside and they were forgotten for decades. In the intervening years, new innovations in hardware and software audio processing have been allowing ever more opportunities to develop complex structures from simple sound sources. The original recordings were put through many alterations and layerings before becoming ‘Sensus.'”
—David Lee Myers

‘Sensus’ is David Lee Myers’ first solo album for LINE. His previous collaboration with Asmus Tietchens, ’60:00′ (LINE_017) was released on LINE in 2004.

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60:00 is also on sale in April for 50% OFF on Bandcamp

TU M'

OUT NOW ON ALL DIGITAL LISTENING PLATFORMS

Monochromes Vol.3 is a continued collection of works created between 2008-2009 by Italian multimedia duo Tu m’. The Monochromes volumes are a series of modular audio and video compositions for electric chamber ensemble intended as fragile atmospheric colors made of sound, light, space. Monochromes Vol.3 serves as the final volume of this, now, trilogy.

Previously unreleased, these additional nine billowing, cloud-like pieces casting a feeling of suspension are a continuation of the prior Tu m’ albums Monochromes Vol.1 (LINE_040) and Monochromes Vol.2 (LINE_142) published on LINE in 2009 and 2023 respectively. Vol.1 is one of the most downloaded, streamed, and cherished in the LINE back catalog, voted among the 15 best releases of 2009 in the area of electronic music by The Wire magazine.

LINE is happy to be able to have this final hour long collection of unheard works presented after 16 years.

ORDER DIRECT VIA LINE BANDCAMP

50% OFF
THROUGH THE END OF MARCH 2025 ON BANDCAMP:
Monochromes Vol.1 (LINE_040)
Monochromes Vol.2 (LINE_142)

LINEmix8

happy new year to you, wherever you may be!

This 2 hour continuous mix by Richard Chartier showcases the most recent and back catalog works from his label LINE’s history… 2000-2024. the first in 2 years and part of the continuing LINEmix series.

enjoy.

also check out the other mixes on Bandcamp, LINEmix1-LINEmix4 are currently FREE/name your price.

MANJA RISTIĆ

‘Ma’ (LINE_151)
by Manja Ristić

on A CLOSER LISTEN
2024 Top Ten Field Recording & Soundscape list

STEVE RODEN

STEVE RODEN
Forms of Paper (2024 remaster)
(LINE_158)

OUT ON JANUARY 31, 2025 on all digital platforms

Aurora Central Records (Mexico) in conjunction with LINE announce the first time editions on vinyl and cassette of the important 2001 lowercase work Forms of Paper by Steve Roden (1964-2023).

This project, initiated by Aurora Central Records, was supervised under the guidance of his estate and the Steve Roden Studio. This new version has been lovingly remastered by Taylor Deupree in 2024 from the original recording. It is a testimony to the enduring legacy of this fascinating minimalist sound work.

In keeping with the wishes of the estate of Steve Roden, LINE will be digitally distributing this new version.

PRE-ORDER physical release via AURORA CENTRAL RECORDS:
VINYL (edition of 250 copies)
CASSETTE (edition of 100 w/exclusive B-side interview)

PRE-ORDER digital release via LINE’s Bandcamp

“Like the object that it takes as its point of departure, ‘Forms of Paper’ unfolds from a nominally two dimensional plane into a space shot through with hidden depths and cavities, each one a wormhole leading to a realm as full of possibility as silence itself.”
—The Wire, UK

“Alluring…”
—Boomkat.com

WILLIAM BASINSKI + RICHARD CHARTIER

WILLIAM BASINSKI + RICHARD CHARTIER
Aurora Terminalis
(LINE_157)

OUT JANUARY 10, 2025 on all digital platforms

Longtime friends and collaborators, iconic ambient composer William Basinski and sound artist/composer Richard Chartier return to LINE with ‘Aurora Terminalis’, their first new work together since 2015’s Divertissement LP (Important Records, US).

From an unexpected sudden burst of sound jaggedly spiraling outward, the tumult fades and shockwaves slide into lulling haze of a melody. Background nuance—nearly imperceptible—and foreground romanticism ripple near each others’ edges. Then, rhythmic and liquid, an erratic drifting over a clouded void… an ‘un-still’ life… a slow tracing.

Aurora Terminalis… a fading gauzy signal for a finality.

pre-order now on the LINE Bandcamp and receive 2 advance excerpts, now and Dec 20.

HAPTIC

OUT NOV 22 on Bandcamp and all digital listening platforms

HAPTIC
Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions
(LINE_156)

For Haptic’s latest release, the group has once again contracted to a trio. What would eventually become Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions began with discussions and email exchanges in preparation for a recording session at Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) in April 2022. In lieu of a fixed score or set agenda for the session, a wide range of possible models from which to draw inspiration were discussed, particularly focusing on those records that had formed each member’s earliest musical influences.

Alternately transparent and opaque, Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions beautifully articulates Haptic’s deeply considered approach to recorded sound and acts as a fitting summation of their career to date.

HAPTIC:
Steven Hess
Joseph Clayton Mills
Adam Sonderberg

full info here

ESTELLE SCHORPP

OUT OCT 4 on Bandcamp and all digital platforms

ESTELLE SCHORPP
In My Ears (for Maryanne)
LINE_155

‘In My Ears (for Maryanne)’ is a tribute to the work of American composer and sound artist Maryanne Amacher. Algorithmically composed using SuperCollider, the album highlights several aspects of her work: amplitude dynamics, sound-walk-inspired temporal structure and, above all, the musical exploration of distortion product otoacoustic emissions. The composition encourages the creation of “perceptual geographies,” to use Amacher’s terms, by making space, body and ear resonate at the same time. Thus, by alternating scales of perception within the temporality of an unfolding landscape, ‘In My Ears (for Maryanne)’ is a sound experience that is both delicate and visceral, essentially physical.

ERNESTO LONGOBARDI + DEMETRIO CECCHITELLI

LINE_154 OUT SEPTEMBER 6

The research behind the collaboration of Italian sound artists Ernesto Longobardi and Demetrio Cecchitelli crosses the ontology of the relationship between physiology, poetics and imaginative interpretation. Placed between sound art and minimalism, ‘Maloviento’ (Strzybog) consists of four specific windows in reductionist, sometimes subtractive, or purely acoustic and organic modes.

LINE SUMMER SALE

it is that time of year…

the annual LINE Summer Sale
starting now… 40% off everything in the LINE bandcamp shop

catch up on recent releases or do a deep dive investigating the back catalog of 161 available digital albums since the founding in 2000.

this offer also includes an additional 40% off the already discounted ‘full LINE digital discography’ download package on bandcamp (shown on each release page)… 161 releases for $456.

lineimprint.bandcamp.com

use code summer40 at check out.
now through August 11, 2024

a fine series of releases coming in the Fall/Winter starting in September. thank you again for you continuing support of LINE and the artists on the label.

STEVE RODEN

steve roden (1964-2023)
floating over the silent world

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 20, 4 – 6 pm
exhibition on view through September 7, 2024

Vielmetter Los Angeles
1700 S Santa Fe Ave, Suite 101, Los Angeles, CA 90021
+1 213 623 3280
vielmetter.com

Vielmetter Los Angeles presents floating over the silent world, a tribute exhibition of steve roden’s lesser-known paintings, drawings, and sculptures from 1990 to 2019. The exhibition marks his passing in September 2023 and showcases the artist’s visionary aesthetic.

Image: steve roden, “human scale (my body floating over the silent world, where bells sound like rainbows,” 2005, oil, acrylic, ink, bees wax, polyurethane on linen, 66″ x 66″

ØJERUM

OUT JUNE 28, 2024

Prolific Danish artist øjeRum returns to LINE five years after on the swollen lips of the horizon (LINE_103) with the four gorgeous pieces—selected and sequenced with Richard Chartier—that make up Cut Paper Flowers (LINE_153)

LINE is offering on the swollen lips of the horizon (LINE_103) for 50% off on Bandcamp during June.

FRANCE JOBIN + YAMIL REZC

MANJA RISTIĆ

OUT NOW on Bandcamp and all digital platforms

Manja Ristić’s new album ‘Ma’ (LINE_151)

Serbian sound artist, poet, curator, and researcher, Manja Ristić returns for her second release for LINE after 2023’s ‘Awakenings’ (LINE_138). Her new album ‘Ma’ recalls the incredibly subtle, detailed works of Steve Roden, Francisco López, or Bernhard Günter fused with the adept field recordings of Jana Winderen and the delicate resonances of Toshiya Tsunoda. Two entrancing long form works incorporating field recordings, acoustic instruments, and unexpected found sounds.

LINE is offering her previous work ‘Awakenings’ (LINE_138) for 50% off during April

SAWAKO KATO (1978-2024)

It is with sadness that I post this about the loss of one of the sweetest and most kind sound sculptors, Sawako Kato (May 27, 1978 – March 31, 2024).

I was lucky enough to know, work, and perform with Sawako.

Her audiovisual work ‘flirting 07121602’ and performances were an essential part of the Colorfield Variations program, screenings and DVD on LINE.

Sawako always had a smile ready. You can sense it in her music. If you do not know her work, I would suggest that you seek it out and explore her unique world.

Many condolences to her family and friends. Sawako will be missed…

Taylor Deupree has posted a memorial on the 12k site.

EVA-MARIA HOUBEN + JOHN HUDAK

OUT NOW on all digital platforms

German composer Eva-Maria Houben and American sound artist John Hudak present Paloma Wind (LINE_150), a fascinating collaborative work.

This piece concentrates on the act of listening and on the process of a gradual emergence of a “we” (including both composers and listeners), which is based on the longings for a free and unlimited listening experience allowing various kinds of associations, visions and day-dreams. The two composers in co-operation are listeners—and the listeners will become composers while listening. Therefore, the composers do not try to describe in a detailed way the origin of the basic sounds and the work of converting sounds. A precise description would not allow people to imagine freely for themselves.

The composers focus on the development of a community of listeners and on the quality of the material. The piece sounds out the aesthetic potential of the sounds and attempts to sensitize the ear of the listener to the acoustic possibilities. The aim is to support inner and outer listening. Following this path to free listening, sonic material and musical material melt. In our listening, we may find mixtures of various sounds belonging to different social, cultural, musical, sonic environments. All kinds of objects are suitable to widen our sensitivity.

learn more / listen here

pre-order on the LINE Bandcamp and receive the first track in advance.

PHILIP SULIDAE

OUT FEB 16, 2024 on all digital platforms

Circulator continues a nocturnal pathway developed from Sulidae’s previous LINE release, Perplexor (LINE_108) in 2020.

Composed from found sound sourced mainly from film, Circulator is a stage set of fragments and passages tangentially linked. Collected over the last five years, these sound portions were processed, interweaved and concentrated into eleven pieces. Evoking an uncanny absence and detached from their origin, these vignettes strike a resonant chord that is simultaneously suggestive and remote.

Together they form a palimpsest of narrative that leads in contradictory paths, circling and returning.

pre-order on the LINE Bandcamp

KOENRAAD ECKER

Out JANUARY 12, 2024

Belgian sound artist Koenraad Ecker returns to LINE with a new collection of works, Raw Materials. This is his second release on LINE after 2015’s Sleepwalkers in a Cold Circus (LINE_070).

Sleepwalkers in a Cold Circus is 50% off through January on the LINE Bandcamp.

Happy 2024

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL LINE LISTENERS!

this year I returned with a list of some of my favorite recordings for Boomkat.com’s END OF THE YEAR lists.

boomkat.com/charts/boomkat-end-of-year-charts-2023/2262

please visit boomkat.com/charts for MANY more artists’ lists and find something you might love and have missed.

there was a LOT of wonderful music this year this list of 20 just represents works that I kept coming back to.

and remember… never let anyone make you feel bad that you don’t know about a certain release or artist… just find joy in discovering…

Steve Roden — night ring
Ryuichi Sakamoto — 12
AGF — Poemproducer
Olivier Alary — Apparitions (Vol.1)
Amma Ateria — Concussion I
William Basinski — The Clocktower at the Beach
Michèle Bokanowski — Musiques de Concert
Cindytalk — When the Moon is a Thread
Beatrix Ferreyra — UFO Forest +
Jürg Frey (Keiko Shichijo) — Les Signes Passagers
Tujiko Noriko — Crépuscule I & II
Fabio Perletta — Nessun Legame con la Polvere
Cinna Peyghamy — The Skin in Between
Eliane Radigue — In Memoriam-Ostinato / Danse des Dakinis
Rrose — Please Touch
Ayako Shinozaki — Music Now For Harp: Takemitsu / Tsubono / Kosugi (remastered)
Erik K Skodvin — nothing left but silence
Statische Musen — Diskretion. Funktionsmusik für Verrichtungsboxen
Valerio Tricoli — A Circle of Grey
Various Artists — The NID Tapes: Electronic Music from India 1969-1972

enjoy!
richard

END OF THE YEAR SALE

another year is coming to a close… 

 to celebrate use code ‘goodbye2023’ for 25% off everything on the LINE and Richard Chartier/Pinkcourtesyphone bandcamp shops, Dec 15-31.

catch up with 2023’s releases or fill in the gaps in your collection from the back catalogs! (this includes an addition 25% on top of the already discounted full digital discography packages too!)

2023 was a busy year for LINE:
The Clocktower at the Beach (1979) by WILLIAM BASINSKI
Apparitions (Vol. 1) by OLIVIER ALARY
Magnetic Loops III by SAVVAS METAXAS
Awakenings by MANJA RISTIĆ
on a continuous form by RICHARD CHARTIER
Strömen by MIKI YUI
Monochromes Vol . 2 by TU M’
Four Unbindings by COLE PETERS
In the Glow of Distant Fires by JOHANNES MALFATTI
Disappearing Music (for Nam June Paik) by KAMRAN SADEGHI Colmena by SIMONEL
When the Moon is a Thread by CINDYTALK

visit the Bandcamp shops to listen and buy
lineimprint.bandcamp.com   / richardchartier.bandcamp.com

ENJOY! and happy new year in advance.

CINDYTALK + SIMONEL

OUT NOV 17

‘Colmena’
by SIMONEL
(LINE_146)

LINE welcomes Mexican musician Simonel onboard with his new album Colmena. Delicately constructed from tape loops, dictaphone, field recordings, found sounds, and synths, this collection of nine works presents Simonel’s emotionally moving language of stasis.

RIYL: William Basinski, Koray Kantarcioğlu, Savvas Metaxas, Caretaker, Pinkcourtesyphone

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‘When the Moon is a Thread’
by CINDYTALK
(LINE_147)

“Mercurial enigma Cindytalk advances from decades of work with everyone from Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil to Robert Hampson and Ancient Methods with the bleakest invocation of their native Scottish wilderness for Richard Chartier’s Line imprint.

‘When the Moon is a Thread’ only complicates that matter by adding a dose of vicious, unheimlich, yet at times, lush, electronic noise to their personal mix with four pieces recorded 2013-2023 in Kobe, London, and Glasgow that speak to a life well travelled, but is also distinctly rooted in a sort of bittersweet, northerly romance that bleeds out and resounds in their music, no matter the style.

…for discerning dark ambient souls, moving at the speed of witching hour thought between what sounds like Harry Bertoia sculptures animated in subzero.”
—boomkat.com

“Bewitching, harrowing, and melancholic, often within the span of a single track, ‘When the Moon is a Thread’ is the most satisfying Cindytalk album in years.”
—acloserlisten.com

KAMRAN SADEGHI

Kamran Sadeghi returns to LINE with Disappearing Music (for Nam June Paik) (LINE_145) a series of works utilizing the Wobbulator, a 1970s video synthesizer of the founder of video art, Nam June Paik.

Sadeghi’s previous LINE release was 2020’s Loss Less (LINE_110) which is on sale for 50% off through October.

order now on BANDCAMP

OUT OCTOBER 13 on all digital platforms

JOHANNES MALFATTI

“In the Glow of Distant Fires” (LINE_144) is a selection of impromptu compositions for church organs in Berlin by Johannes Malfatti. The music was recorded between Summer 2020 and Spring 2021 during the shooting of the feature film “Whales” that documents churches in the former West part of Berlin. 

eerie and autumnal…

order now on BANDCAMP

OUT OCTOBER 13 on all digital platforms

Haruo Okada (1953-2022)

just made aware of the passing of LINE artist Haruo Okada (1953-2022). His LINE recording ‘Genkai 限界’ (LINE_080) with Fabio Perletta is one of my favorite releases. RIP

Haruo Okada (1953-2022) was a sound designer, working at Pioneer Corporation Audio Company. He had many experiences in studios as a recording engineer and since the 1970’s recorded sounds for various genre of music, commercials and music production for TV shows and events. In 1990, he started to create sound sources for research and product’s contents. In 1997, he launched the “Creation Project” in which he took part in product planning and proposed some products such as “Pure Malt Speaker” and “System Component Happy Tune”. In 1999, he started the “Sound Bum” project and collected field recordings worldwide. Since 2008, he had directed the sound matter and the sound source creation for the web site ”Sound Lab”. In 2009, he created and recorded the high sound quality CD, titled “Dynamik”.

steve roden (1964-2023)

I am lucky enough to have been able to call Steve Roden my friend since 1998. I reached out to him after hearing his self-released 3” CD series created purely with the sounds made with modernist designs by Eames and Nelson (and later Bertoia). So much rivetting sound coaxed from singular objects, “non-musical” objects.

I shared my work with him and found we had a mutual interest in quiet small sounds and mid 20th century design.  After that, we began to have frequent and long phone conversations. Steve was friendly, funny, and possessed a wealth of information on art, design, music, culture, vintage kids’ food packaging . Always fascinating and always with a smile. You could feel his smile even on the phone.

Every visit to LA meant seeing Steve… He and his wife Sari were two of the reasons my husband and I later moved to Los Angeles. We knew we would have great friends to greet us.

Steve was a brilliant sound artist, visual artist, sculptor, installation artist. But beyond that he was one of the most honest, sincere, and kind people I have known. The scope of his work is astounding. He loved to create, it brought him joy. The complexities of his work are beguiling. He was always creating, always making, and always playing. 

His work has touched so many.

His influence significant in so any ways.

Without Steve there may not have been my label LINE.

Would anyone have coined the term ‘lowercase’, if not Steve?  He was very supportive of LINE and I feel honored to have been able to publish his works.

I still ask myself, “what would Steve think of this” when listening to works for LINE.  

The final years of his life he succumbed to Alzheimer’s which took him from us far too soon. It is a disease that kills slowly and painfully. This allowed me some space to grieve but did not prepare me for the shock of his passing.   

One of the last times I saw Steve was before the pandemic, as my husband and I had lunch at Steve and Sari’s house. A final memory of him is watching him at his front door smiling and waving goodbye. 

One of my biggest regrets is that Steve and I never collaborated on an album together. We had planned on it, talked about it. And now we never will.  

As I think of Steve and listen to his work today, as always, I think of kindness and joy. 

The joy of listening, the joy he had creating these works, and the kindness and humility with which he presented them to the world. Small sonic experiences of great power. His simple suggestion to all: “listen…”

Many condolences to Sari, and the rest of his family, and also to those who’s eyes and ears were drawn to his infinitely fascinating world.

I will miss him dearly.

Richard Chartier

EXPLORE+LISTEN:
www.inbetweennoise.com
steveroden.bandcamp.com/music

TU M'

OUT SEPT 8 on all digital platforms

Monochromes Vol.2 is an archival collection of works created in 2008 by Italian multimedia duo Tu m’. The Monochromes series is a collection of modular audio and video compositions for electric chamber ensemble. Intended as fragile atmospheric colors made of sound, light, space.

Previously unreleased until now, these eight majestic, cloud-like pieces are a continuation of the prior Tu m’ album Monochromes Vol.1 (LINE_040) published on LINE in 2009. Vol.1 is one of the most downloaded, streamed, and cherished in the LINE back catalog, voted among the 15 best releases of 2009 in the area of electronic music by The Wire magazine.

LINE is thrilled to be able to have this second collection of just over an hour of works unearthed after 15 years.

pre-order on Bandcamp and receive 2 tracks in advance

COLE PETERS

OUT SEPT 8 on all digital services

LINE welcomes Canadian sound artist / field recordist Cole Peters. Four Unbindings, his first release for LINE is recommended for listeners who enjoy the works of Chris Watson, Jana Winderen, Manja Ristić, Norman W. Long, Tomoko Hojo + Rahel Kraft, or Simon Whetham.

pre-order on Bandcamp and receive 1 track in advance

40% OFF

it is that time of year…
the annual LINE Summer Sale!

40% off everything in the LINE bandcamp shop

catch up on recent releases or do a deep dive investigating the back catalog of 149 available digital albums since the founding in 2000.

use coupon code ‘summer40‘ at check out.
now through August 20, 2023

https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com

MIKI YUI

in conjunction with the release of the new work ‘Strömen’ by Miki Yui, LINE is offering her last album ‘Silence Resounding’ (LINE_015) FREE / name your price for the 20th anniversary throughout July on Bandcamp.

lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/silence-resounding

RICHARD CHARTIER

on a continuous form (LINE_140)
by Richard Chartier

Sound artist and composer Richard Chartier presents his first release on LINE in over three years. In this new four part work, on a continuous form, Chartier explores his minimalist sonic language. Detailed, subtle, and deep resonances suggested for headphone listening.

MIKI YUI

Strömen (LINE_141)
by Miki Yui

One of LINE’s earliest artists, Miki Yui, returns exactly 20 years after her last album on the label, silence resounding (LINE_015). Here she presents five new intuitive experiments created on modular synths to acoustically shift environments. One of the formative microsound / lowercase artists, Yui continues to create sublime small sounds in a changing, loud world. 

To celebrate LINE is offering her last release ‘Silence Resounding’ (LINE_015) FREE / name your price for the 20th anniversary throughout July. 

MANJA RISTIĆ

new interview with LINE artist Manja Ristić via Fifteen Questions

Manja Ristić talks Sound
“I wouldn’t say I have a particular interest in extremes. Who am I to discriminate among sounds!”

https://15questions.net/interview/manja-ristic-talks-sound/

CHARLES WESLEY

out May 19

C
by CHARLES WESLEY
(LINE_139)

As much as C is a typographic sign and the first letter of first name’s author, it further symbolises a hook, something that tends to grasp, hold onto, or an open-ended envelope. The metaphor of the hook as a sound; and its potential to express emotional honesty in weaving rhythms, spoken words and chants. C is also autobiographical. An attempt to portray how Wesley’s non-binariness was lived retrospectively—since he grew up not knowing we actually can express both genders at the same time— and how it is an on-going experiment through becoming, exceeding the ingrained, palpable and unconscious limits in being, towards an embodiment.

Either said, posed very close, or lurked in ambiance, the texts explore intimacy, love and perception at the digital age. Wesley’s voice, surrounded by urban-like glares, often resonates in opaque spaces, merged with signals and air-like pollution, desolation of late capitalism. By treating it, Wesley seeks clarity at an individual scale, inviting the listener to eavesdrop. Radical while manifesting some quirky simplicity, C innovates in the field of electroacoustic pop and nods to different types of influence, from dance music to noise and industrial. Evolving into poetically—not-to-say subjectively—charged environments, it has the power of revealing both the joy and discomfort of Wesley’s vulnerable pouring into this faith of possibility.

RIYL: Cosey Fanni Tutti, AGF, Eartheater, Arca, and more abstract moments of COIL.

www.lineimprint.com/editions/sound/line_139/

available on Bandcamp and all digital music platforms: lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/c

RICHARD CHARTIER

Further Materials (LINE_035)
RICHARD CHARTIER
5.2008

“A great selection of music by one of the very finest electronic composers currently out there—Highly Recommended”
—Boomkat.com

“Followers of Chartier will no doubt be fully aware of his considerable influence on modern minimalism, and for the neophyte, this is a vital and essential access point to his work, and numerous approaches. Highly recommended.”
—Whiteline, UK

“The common factor between all of the pieces is that, though they are pulled from a variety of sources, the artist’s unified vision holds the album together. It doesn’t come across at all as an “odds and sods” compilation. It progresses from ultra minimalism to louder, certainly noisier music, providing a superb primer on Chartier’s recent work. Chartier throughout his time as a sound artist has always questioned the way sound should he heard, how we listen to it, and how it relates to our physical space. Fortunately he also makes sounds which provide for us a reason for us to listen to it.”
—musiquemachine.com

FREE / name your price download during May 2023
lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/further-materials

SKOLTZ_KOLGEN

Hyalin (LINE_014)
SKOLTZ_KOLGEN

“Glacially evolving enigmascapes wend their ways through Hyalin, simply hovering over (and forming) cool isolationist territories. Regardless of of how this piece was created (an interesting naturalistic exploration though it is), Skoltz_Kolgen discover much with this minimalistic sonic experience”
—Ambientrance, US

FREE / name your price download during May 2023
lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/hyalin

MANJA RISTIĆ

OUT NOW

Awakenings (LINE_138) is the first album on LINE by violinist, sound artist, poet, curator, and researcher, Manja Ristić. Her work incorporates extensive field recordings, acoustic instruments, and unexpected found objects. RIYL: Chris Watson, Félicia Atkinson, Norman W. Long, Simon Whetham and Tomoko Hojo & Rahel Kraft.

SAVVAS METAXAS

Savvas Metaxas returns to LINE for a third volume of his enveloping Magnetic Loops series. For fans of meditative and looping drone works by William Basinski, Tu M’, Triac, Pinkcourtesyphone, and Miguel Angel Tolosa’s Nostalgia (circa 1987).

plus Metaxas’ previous LINE album ‘Magnetic Loops II’ (LINE_128) is half price through the end of May.

OLIVIER ALARY

Apparitions (Vol. 1)
by Olivier Alary

LINE_136 out April 7

After six years, composer Olivier Alary returns to LINE with ‘Apparitions (Vol.1)’, an album exploring the idea of hauntology music for acoustic instruments. His previous album for LINE, the well-received ‘Pieces for Sine Wave Oscillators’ (LINE_089), was released in 2017 and was on ‘Best of 2017’ lists for Experimedia and Lend Me Your Ears.

“This album is the first volume of instrumental acoustic pieces centered around the idea of a musical representation of the spectrality of memory. My aim is to represent musically a spacewhere time collapses and our past collective memories haunt our minds, like a ghost. Inspired by hauntology music which relies on the intersections of memories and depicts musically how we are haunted by the past, my process consists of composing evocative pieces smeared by noisy instrumental techniques inspired by audio artifacts from defective recording technologies. (such as hiss / white noise, tape saturation, wow & flutter, glitches). By adding instrumental grime to the sound, my aim is to evoke a deeper meaning from the musical material of the pieces. It’s like a beautiful object that has been unearthed where dirt is an integral part of it and adds more beauty and poignancy as it becomes a trace of time passing.”
—Olivier Alary

ASMUS TIETCHENS

March 23: Rotterdam, NL @ Huidenclub INFO

March 24: Brussels, BE @ Les Ateliers Claus INFO

March 25: Paris/Saint-Ouen, FR @ Sonic Protest Festival  INFO

March 26: Brugge, BE @ VillaBota INFO

Nicolas Bernier & Ensemble d'oscillateurs

WILLIAM BASINSKI

William Basinski’s The Clocktower at the Beach (1979)
(LINE_135) now available on Bandcamp and all your favorite digital music / streaming platforms and services.

Composer William Basinski presents a formative archival work from 1979 on LINE.

William Basinski is an artist that needs no introduction. His looping, elegiac works are hypnotic and form a cornerstone of 21st Century avant-garde and ambient music.

‘The Clocktower at the Beach’ is a previously unreleased 42-minute archival work composed and recorded in 1979 during his time living in San Francisco. At times faint, and other times roaring, this sprawling, foggy drone is a tumult of ebb and flow.

Composed from tape loops of original night shift factory recordings and broken 1950s televisions—rescued from the street by his partner, artist James Elaine—in their sparse Haight Street apartment, ‘The Clocktower at the Beach’ is one of Basinski’s earliest and eeriest works.

sink in… and enjoy…

WILLIAM BASINSKI

LISTEN: William Basinski guest DJ set on NTS 

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LISTEN: William Basinski interview with Ducceschi on TotallyRadio

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ON TOUR: William Basinski Europe March 2023

WILLIAM BASINSKI

The Clocktower at the Beach (1979)
by WILLIAM BASINSKI
(LINE_135)

Composer William Basinski presents a formative archival work from 1979 on LINE.

William Basinski is an artist that needs no introduction. His looping, elegiac works are hypnotic and form a cornerstone of 21st Century avant-garde and ambient music.

‘The Clocktower at the Beach’ is a previously unreleased 42-minute archival work composed and recorded in 1979 during his time living in San Francisco. At times faint, and other times roaring, this sprawling, foggy drone is a tumult of ebb and flow.

Composed from tape loops of original night shift factory recordings and broken 1950s televisions—rescued from the street by his partner, artist James Elaine—in their sparse Haight Street apartment, ‘The Clocktower at the Beach’ is one of Basinski’s earliest and eeriest works.

out March 3

pre-order now and download an advance excerpt via Bandcamp
pre-order / pre-load on all other digital platforms on Feb 13.

LINEmix7 out now

This 101 minute mix by Richard Chartier showcases recent and back catalog works from his label LINE’s history… 2000-2022. the first in 2 years. based in part on a mix done for Clot Magazine with lots of extra additions and edits.

listen / stream / download

TRACKLIST:
mHz – 05-06-21 / 15-03-00 / from LINE_134
savvas metaxas – pt.2 (excerpt) / from LINE_128
miki yui – schlaf / from LINE_003
asmus tietchens – parallele ebene 1 / from LINE_130
oliver thurley – subcutaneous 1b / from LINE_122
haruo okada + fabio perletta – genkai 12-17+19 (excerpt) / from LINE_080
norman w. long – return and recovery (excerpt) / from LINE_129
monty adkins – empire (excerpt) / from LINE_099
france jobin – scène 3 (excerpt) / from LINE_093
miguel angel tolosa – salon 20-04 / from LINE_121
steve roden – airforms (excerpt) / from LINE_022
zimoun – various vibrating materials (excerpt) / from LINE_120
robert curgenven + richard chartier – acquisition eviction / LINE_056
evelina domnitch + dmitry gelfand – mucilaginous omniverse II (excerpt) / from LINE_063
masaya kato – m3 lrp-III (excerpt) / from LINE_104
agf – breathing in lines (excerpt) / from LINE_seg02
mark fell – attack on silence 3F / from LINE_037
porya hatami – 8 (kurdish folk song) / from LINE_087
emile bojesen – scrape 8 / from LINE_112
geneva skeen – ii (excerpt) / from LINE_118
triac – day 2 / from LINE_071
hosoo – p.29 / from LINE_107
tomoko hojo + rahel kraft – diffusion of morning dew (excerpt) / from LINE_123
’t geruis – tastbare stitle, zilver / from LINE_132
emra grid – the weight of greatness / from LINE_125
pé – conversing intrusive thoughts (excerpt) / from LINE_126
frank bretschneider – circle_cycle / from LINE_074
ensemble d’oscillateurs – faust: movement 6 (else marie pade) / from LINE_124
luigi turra + belinda guerriero – bouleversement (excerpt) / from LINE_133
wzrdyav – ktz connection / from LINE_127

2021

for all the up to date news and special discounted offers please visit:
LINE NEWS on Bandcamp
or follow LINE on Twitter

LINEmix5

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM LINE!!!
This 1 hour 37 minute mix by Richard Chartier showcases recent and back catalog works from his label LINE’s history. FREE / name your price download. all proceeds go back into LINE operating costs.

TRACKS:
hosoo – p.107 / from LINE_107
asmus tietchens – Teilmenge 38 (excerpt) / from LINE_020
steve roden – forms of paper (excerpt) / from LINE_007 / LINE_053
hosoo – p.65 / from LINE_107
france jobin – p orbital (excerpt) / from LINE_054
derek piotr – value system / from LINE_094
øjerum – of the horizon (excerpt) / from LINE_103
triac – departure two / from LINE_096
joaquín gutiérrez hadid – circulaire / from LINE_106
duenn – seeing itself / from LINE_100
monty adkins – empire (excerpt) / from LINE_099
vend – clean 3 / from LINE_011
yves de mey – DXMS / from LINE_101
six microphones – parts 5+6 (excerpt) / from LINE_105
skoltz_kolgen – hyalin (excerpt) / from LINE_014
fabio perletta – ichinen 3 (excerpt) / from LINE_085
valerio camporini f. – beauty / from LINE_102
ensemble d’oscillateurs – synphon (excerpt) / from LINE_098
agf – digital yoik (excerpt) / from LINE_SEG02
masaya kato – lrp-IV / from LINE_104
william basinki + richard chartier – untitled 3 (excerpt) / from LINE_034
pinkcourtesyphone + gwyneth wentink – where sickness left its touch (excerpt) / from LINE_SEG06

Annual Summer Sale

its that time of the year again… LINE’s annual summer sale. 40% off anything on our bandcamp site.

that includes an additional 40% off the entire available digital discography.

just use coupon code ‘summer40’ at check out.

August 5-19, 2019

Steve Roden

Steve Roden
could/cloud
July 13 – August 24, 2019

Vielmetter Los Angeles is pleased to present Steve Roden’s solo exhibition could/cloud. Known for his work in sound, video, sculpture and painting, Roden’s work is deeply rooted in an interest in systems that he translates into a highly idiosyncratic aesthetic language across multiple mediums. Taking a particular interest in the relationship between sound, noise and color – specifically the spectrums of noise which are used to determine frequencies in sound as they relate to certain colors – Roden creates a symbiosis between two videos, several ambitious paintings, and a sound installation.

Performance by Steven Roden
Conversation with Michael Ned Holte
August 24, 2019— 4-5 pm. FREE

Vielmetter Los Angeles
1700 S Santa Fe Ave #101
Los Angeles, CA 90021

LINE & lowercase on Bandcamp Daily

The “Lowercase Music” Genre is Ambient at Its Most Minimal

featuring works by LINE artists:
Steve Roden
Miki Yui
France Jobin
Taylor Deupree
Richard Chartier
Bernhard Günter
Roel Meelkop

including key LINE works:
Roden’s ‘Forms of Paper’ and Yui’s ‘lupe luep peul epul’

LEARN MORE about lowercase with this 2011 essay by Steve Roden ‘on lowercase affinities and forms of paper’

YVES DE MEY

Sueda
by Yves De Mey
out Feb 22, 2019

LINE is pleased to welcome back Yves De Mey for his first release for LINE since ‘Lichtung’ (LINE_039) in 2009.

more info: LINE_101
order / listen / stream on Bandcamp

LINE ARTISTS IN AUSTRALIA

MONO.31
France Jobin
Robert Crouch
Yann Novak

Feb 12, 2019
at the Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia)
more info

DUENN

OUT NOW! JAN 24

bgm (LINE_100)
by Japanese artist & merzbow collaborator Duenn.
beautiful… drifting…

MONTY ADKINS

“Making a film score for Andy Warhol’s ‘Empire’ is a unique challenge. At over eight hours long and with so little happening on screen, how does one create a soundtrack that can engage the audience in witnessing ‘the passing of time’ as Warhol wrote about ‘Empire’, whilst not drawing overt attention to the score itself and away from the film? In the film the Empire State Building stands like a bell tower, a beacon in the skyline…”

MONTY ADKINS Empire (LINE_099) Out November 16. listen + pre-order now

PREMIERE PERFORMANCE at HCMF (Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK) November 21, 2018

SYN-Phon

‘SYN-Phon’ graphic score by Candas Sisman (2013-2018) by ENSEMBLE D’OSCILLATEURS Artistic direction: Nicolas Bernier Oscillators: Charlie Beaulieu, Renaud Bouliane, Gian Tenio Carlone, Hugo Descourvières, Francis Lecavalier, Charles-André Leroux, Mathieu Major-Parent, Émile Ouellet-Delorme, Jean-Guillaume Théorêt. from the album ‘4 compositions’ (LINE_098) release date: Oct 12, 2018

Sustain

a mini trailer for ‘Sustain’ (LINE_097) by Argentine artist Joaquín Gutiérrez Hadid. coming out at the end of August.

TRIAC + PINKCOURTESYPHONE

Two short but sweet new languid releases are out now on LINE for summer (well summer in the northern hemisphere). TRIAC Departure (mini album) (LINE_096) + PINKCOURTESYPHONE Romantic Threat EP (LINE_SEG05) exclusively on Bandcamp

Richard Chartier on Mika Vainio

Richard Chartier culls the discography of Mika Vainio for this feature on Self-Titled to find three selections that most exemplify the late artist’s unique sonic language. read more and listen in HERE

France Jobin

a live concert version of Inter/sperse, installation created last year at  Museolaboratorio (Lux Residency #1) She will start the evening by introducing the works created by the students of her recent workshop at Accademia di Belle Arti L’Aquila. May 20, 2018 21:45 Chiesa di Santa Chiara Città Sant’Angelo (IT) more info

'Central (for M.Vainio)' by Richard Chartier

Listen to the 40 minute title track from Central (for M.Vainio) exclusively via XLR8R this week!

'Central (for M.Vainio)' by Richard Chartier

Two pieces dedicated to the work and lasting influence of artist Mika Vainio (May 15, 1963 – April 12, 2017). more info order / download

Re.Direct by Richard Chartier

LINE artist Richard Chartier has created a new art print for the 20th anniversary of his first album ‘direct.incidental.consequential’ on Intransitive Records in April, 1998. A visual remix/rework of the package and its subsequent remastered/reissue. In the vein of LINE’s previous sold out print edition ‘mono.poly.chr’ (2002). Hand-signed and numbered limited edition of 100. more info / purchase

Sol Variations

Sol Variations, a New Sound Installation by Richard Chartier. VOLUME and Human Resources, Los Angeles are pleased to present Sol Variations, a new quadrophonic sound installation by Richard Chartier as part of “Cosm, Organism-Construction, Second Instance,” an exhibition of new work by Anja Weiser Flower. April 21, 2018, 7pm until late more info

Seth Cluett

Congratulations to LINE artist Seth Cluett, the new Assistant Director of the Computer Music Center and Sound Art Program at Columbia University, NYC.

Seth joins the CMC and Sound Art Program from Stevens Institute of Technology where was a joint-appointed Assistant Professor of Visual Arts & Technology and Music & Technology and was Director of the Sensory Computation/Experimental Narrative Environments (SCENE) Lab researching immersive digital media. Seth has been the Artist-in-Residence at Nokia Bell Labs since spring 2016, where he is currently collaborating with the International Contemporary Ensemble to create a new large-scale work using network addressable 3D-printed modifications to acoustic instruments that will premiere in the fall of 2018. Active as a composer, visual artist, and performer, his recent work has been commissioned by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and So Percussion, exhibited at the Whitney Museum and MoMA/PS1, and performed at Issue Project Room in New York and the Museé MAC/VAL in Paris. His research interests and critical writings investigate embodied cognition, sound in virtual and augmented reality, the media history of the loudspeaker, the history and documentation of sound in art practice, and auditory memory. Cluett holds an MFA in electronic art from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a PhD in composition from Princeton University where he was a fellow with the Center for Arts and Culture Policy Studies.

SETH CLUETT on LINE: Forms of Forgetting (LINE_067) Objects of Memory (LINE_048)

Yann Novak

Derek Piotr remixes

Read about the upcoming LINE release Underlined by Derek Piotr remixed/reworked by various LINE artists. Listen to an exclusive stream of Simon Whetham’s mix via The Chocolate Grinder / Tiny Mix Tapes Listen to an exclusive stream of France Jobin’s mix via XLR8R

LINE ON END OF YEAR LISTS

Scenes (LINE_093) by France Jobin FAVORITES OF 2017 – Experimedia Gesto (LINE_091) by Cygni FAVORITES OF 2017 – Experimedia Pieces for Sine Wave Oscillators (LINE_089) by Olivier Alary BEST OF 2017 LIST – Lend Me Your Ears FAVORITES OF 2017 – Experimedia Monads (LINE_087) by Porya Hatami BEST AMBIENT OF 2017 – drownedinsound.com TOP 20 OF 2017 – musicisgood.org BEST MUSIC OF 2017 – earinfluxion.com Surroundings (LINE_086) by Yann Novak TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2017 — acloserlisten.com TOP 10 DRONE ALBUMS OF 2017 — acloserlisten.com BEST OF 2017: Music for Bending Light & Stopping Time – headphonecommute.com BEST MUSIC OF 2017 – earinfluxion.com FAVORITES OF 2017 – Experimedia Ichinen (LINE_085) by Fabio Perletta TOP 10 AMBIENT ALBUMS OF 2017 — acloserlisten.com + BEST OF 2017 LIST by Richard Chartier for Boomkat

LINEmix4

Happy 2018 in advance from LINE. FREE / name your price 2 hour mix of recent + back catalog LINE releases. Hope you will enjoy it! LISTEN / DOWNLOAD LINEmix4

Evelina Domnitch + Dmitry Gelfand in Minsk

design by Steve Roden

LINE artist Steve Roden has designed the 1st in a series of shirts: “as 2018 arrives, it will be the 35th anniversary of “in be tween noise” and my first “in be tween noise” CD. so, i thought after all this time it is finally time to make some “in be tween noise” t-shirts”. why t-shirts?… well i have always been a t-shirt fanatic (i actually did a lecture about my work and life, using images of t-shirts i still own or remember them… (the sad faded torn ones now gone!) the first t-shirt i owned was a fritz the cat t-shirt (my mom’s boyfriend worked in a head shop!), and my second was a zig zag man shirt, around age 7, and i remember the small adult shirt was down below my knees. the art for these consist of imagery cribbed from old bubble gum wrappers, phrenology booklets, ernie bushmiller’s nancy comic strips, and ready to be mashed up together! like sampling! these designs have been a long time coming… so you might as well get them while they’re hot!” — steve roden ORDER HERE by November 28!

Fabio Perletta

LINE artist Fabio Perletta touring Japan in November. LIVE: Art Center + Akiko Nakayama| Nov 18 | Tsukuba (JP) LIVE: Otooto + Lorenzo Balloni + Minoru Sato | Nov 25 | Tokyo (JP) LIVE: Gift_Lab + Kana Nakamura + Hideki Umezawa + Yukitomo Hamasaki | Dec 02 | Tokyo (JP) LIVE: Ftarri + Lorenzo Balloni + suzueri + Tetuzi Akiyama | Dec 03 | Tokyo (JP) LIVE + INSTALLATION: Ryosokuin Temple + Asuna & Minoru Sato + Takamitsu Ohta + Eisuke Yanagisawa | Dec 09 | Kyoto (JP)

France Jobin & Miguel Isaza

new LINE releases now available for listening/pre-order: FRANCE JOBIN scènes (LINE_093) MIGUEL ISAZA Macondo (LINE_092) both out on Nov 17, 2017. pre-order here

MIGUEL ISAZA 'Macondo’

new teaser video for upcoming release ‘Macondo’ (LINE_092) by Columbian artist Miguel Isaza. coming in November.

Steve Roden

The Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France hosts ‘Quand tout s’éparpille, il faut rassembler les pièces… différemment’  a monographic exhibition of the American artist Steve Roden from September 14 – November 12, 2017. kunsthallemulhouse.com

the radio station at nome’ by STEVE RODEN

new video for upcoming release ‘walking from savoonga to gambell’ (LINE_090) by Steve Roden. pre-order now. release date: Sept 8, 2017

Steve Roden & Cygni

new LINE releases now available for listening/pre-order: STEVE RODEN walking from savoonga to gambell (LINE_090) CYGNI Gesto (LINE_091) both out on Sept 8, 2017. order here

CYGNI "Gesto #2"

new video for upcoming release ‘Gesto’ (LINE_091) by Cygni (sound artist Fabio Perletta + sound designer Pierluigi Scarpantonio). pre-order now. release date: Sept 8, 2017

Seth Cluett at Nokia Bell Labs

From June 2017 to January 2018, LINE artist Seth Cluett will maintain a studio as full-time artist-in-residence at Nokia Bell Labs on their Murray Hill, New Jersey campus. In addition to developing new work, he’ll be working with researchers on haptic and acoustic communication technology as well as developing a series of chamber music works to be performed in their anechoic chamber and presented and processed in realtime to an adjoined wavefield synthesis/hoa listening space designed by Arup acoustics. Follow his residency work via http://www.onelonelypixel.org

Bandcamp + Transgender Law Center

all sales of Bjørn Hatterud’s ‘November 20th’ (LINE_081) on Friday, Aug 4, 2017 will be donated to Transgender Law Center. please share! Bandcamp will be donating ALL their profits for sales made on Friday as well. learn more HERE Bjørn Hatterud has created a dense emotive musical soundscape for this collection of electronic works, an album presented as a humble tribute to 12 transgender women in history. All the tracks are named after and dedicated to transgender women who died a violent death. The cause of death might be structural violence or social pressure, lack of medical help or wrong treatment—or it might be a result of an act of physical transphobic violence.

Domnitch, Gelfand, Basinski

IMMERSION / Limits of Knowing Arrival of Time at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin June 30 – Aug 1, 2017 Exhibit will feature new work Orbihedron by LINE artists Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand with the music of William Basinski. On view at Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin till August 1st, 2017!

Olivier Alary & Simon Whetham

new LINE releases now available for download: Olivier Alary Pieces for Sine Wave Oscillators (LINE_089) Simon Whetham Watering the Piano (LINE_088)

Perletta / Roden / Novak

VOLUME VOLUME partners with LINE and Dragon’s Eye Recordings to present the first US performance by Fabio Perletta, for which he will premiere ‘Ichinen.’ The evening will also feature performances by Steve Roden and Yann Novak. Generously hosted by Human Resources, the artists will perform alongside EJ Hill’s installation ‘A Subsequent Offering.’ June 11, 2017 Human Resources 410 Cottage Home St Los Angeles, CA 90012 more information

'Inter/sperse' by France Jobin

May 27 – June 10 Museolaboratorio Vico Lupinato, 1, 65013 Città Sant’Angelo, Abruzzi, Italy more info / invite

Luminiferous Drift

Luminiferous Drift by LINE artists Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand awarded Honorary Mention in Hybrid Art by Prix Ars Electronica. learn more here. Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand in association with Jean-Marc Chomaz (LadHyX, École polytechnique) and Erik Werner (Hui Lab, University of California lrvine). Sound by Richard Chartier. With additional scientific support from Wilhelm Huck and Emilien Dubuc (Huck Group, Rad-boud University). Support received from Beall Center for Art + Technology (USA), Creative lndustry Fund (NL), Carraso Foundation (FR) Photocredits: Martin Argyroglo, Evelina Domnitch, Dmity Gelfand

Robert Crouch on Long Wave

Long Wave: suspending time and immersing the listener in a widescreen of sound every month on Dublab LINE friend Mike Harding talks to LINE artist Robert Crouch about the AxS festival, The Pasadena Arts Council and his new album, Sublunar (out May 19th 2017 on Touch) LISTEN

LINE Parallels T-Shirt (LINE_ED15)

design by Richard Chartier, 2017. edition limited to 100. first new LINE shirt since 2011. 4 color/noncolors of premium soft 100% combed cotton shirts to choose from. pre-orders must be in by June 10 to get this limited edition shirt. don’t delay. order here via Everpress

FRANCE JOBIN 'Entre Deux'

Created entirely with actual field recordings from across the globe and on location in Palermo Sicily around N38E13, Montreal sound artist France Jobin’s site-specific work Entre-deux explores acts of systemic, yet subjective, information gathering. Spaces and times are chosen for their inherent beauty, then processed and reformed as location and experience itself becomes transposed. Entre-deux is the re-placing of data. This site-specific work is the first gallery exhibition of Jobin’s installations in Sicily. The sound installation will be developed in relation to possible dialogues with art exhibition by Carlos Rivera DES-ASTRE. May 21, 2017 more info

SKOLTZ_KOLGEN 'Hyalin'

Finally available digital for the first time, the first full length album by Montreal duo Skoltz_Kolgen. Hyalin (LINE_014) originally released in May 2003 can now be purchased as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. via the LINE BANDCAMP

TRIAC "Day One"

new video by Triac. music from the album ‘Days’ (LINE_071) on LINE, 2015. music composed and perfomed by Triac. Recorded in 2014. Rossano Polidoro (of TU M’): laptop Marco Seracini: piano, synth Augusto Tatone: electric bass

France Jobin in Italy

LUX RESIDENCY PROGRAM  April.23 – May.27.2017 Inter/sperse @ Museolaboratorio in Città Sant’ Angelo, Pescara, Italy Vernissage – May.27.2017 Jobin is the first artist to take part in the new LUX RESIDENCY PROGRAM. She was invited to create and present Inter/sperse, an in-situ sound installation that will address the territory and surroundings of Museolaboratorio. LIVE PERFORMANCES: to be announced

Porya Hatami + Yann Novak

PORYA HATAMI Monads LINE_087 YANN NOVAK Surroundings LINE_086

A Guide to Iran’s Electronic Underground

New LINE artist Porya Hatami’s work featured in Bandcamp Daily’s ‘A Guide to Iran’s Electronic Underground‘ His album Monads (LINE_087) is out today.

STEVE RODEN on Bandcamp

LINE artist Steve Roden’s works are finally being made available online. Roden, who coined the term ‘lowercase’ music, is gradually putting his discography on his new Bandcamp shop including hard to find vinyl / CD releases as well as books and exhibition catalogs. steveroden.bandcamp.com

INTERVIEW: TRIAC

interviews with TRIAC  about their LINE release Here.

Fabio Perletta - Secret Thirteen Mix 214

Fabio Perletta Secret Thirteen Mix214

Yann Novak: Repose

video documentation for ‘Repose’ installation in Los Angeles.

Ichinen 一念 (trailers)

video trailers for Ichinen 一念 by Fabio Perletta trailer #1 trailer #2 trailer #3

Yann Novak: Repose

Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA February 10 – 18, 2017 Opening: February 10, 7 – 10pm

FABIO PERLETTA Ichinen 一 念 LINE_085 ELEH + RICHARD CHARTIER LINELEH II LINE_084 ELEH + RICHARD CHARTIER LINELEH I LINE_083

New Website + Direction

dear LINE listeners, Since 2000, LINE has published works on CD and digitally. Starting this year, into the foreseeable future, LINE will no longer be publishing works on CD.

le vide et la lumière

Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand with Paul Prudence + Richard Chartier Le Lieu Unique / Nantes, France / Oct 21, 2016 – Jan 8, 2017 download 42 page catalog PDF

AxS Incubator Symposium: Domnitch & Gelfand, LIGO/Caltech

ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA December 10, 3 – 4:30pm

Candy Darling

Video for ‘Candy Darling’ by Bjørn Hatterud. created by Ilavenil Jayapalan.