"socrates martinis" entries in albums descriptions
| Artist |
Album |
Format |
Description |
Year |
Price (incl. 19% VAT) |
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| MARTINIS, SOCRATES |
Small Hand of Bronze. 24 Poems & 14 Images |
BOOK |
nice little artbook with poetry & visuals in English & Greece by Drone Records-artist SOCRATES MARTINIS also known as HELICE PIED, NIXILX.NIJILX, and BLANCO ESTIRA NUESTRO (+) HERMANA HELICE; "a geometry of elements from his personal mythology", influenced by MARCEL DUCHAMP, GEORGES BATAILLE, GIACOMO BALLA... like his soundworks, very philosophic, hermetic & thoughtful. 90 pages
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2010 |
€10.00 |
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| BLANCO ESTIRA NUESTRO (+), HERMANA HELICE |
Cylindre / Oeur (S+C) |
12 |
"To show an aeroplane in motion, one should not paint still lives" (*) Kryptische neue VÖ des griechischen Projekts, das ständig den Namen ändert (nach NIXILX.NIJILX und HELICE PIED - als DR-83 auch auf Drone Records verewigt) - und damit wirkliches Neuland betritt, denn der Wiedererkennungswert anhand eines festen Band-/Projektnamens ist wohl der Grundkonsens aller Musikschaffenden. Diese 45rpm 12" enthält 3 Stücke, die alle auf Aufnahmen von Flugzeugen (wahrscheinlich Innenräume) basieren. Dazu kommen absolut undefinierbare rumpelige Klänge und Sirr-Sounds, und diverse kryptische Zitate von MARCEL DUCHAMP(*), ANTONIN ARTAUD, JEAN COCTEAU, ARTHUR RIMBAUD und anderen auf dem Cover. Bestimmte Klänge auf den Stücken sind wiederum verbunden mit vorher erschienenden Tonträgern. Sokratis Martinopoulos produziert keine gewöhnliche Musik, sondern akustische Rätsel.
"blanco estira nuestro (+), hermana Hélice is Socrates Martinis’ (1984, Athens, Greece) third pseudonymous project, following nixilx.nijilx and Hélice Pied. This installment, composed in 2006–7 using found sounds and objects, focuses on the sounds and sights of a distant aeroplane,
the vanishing drone of which Martinis’ finds to be particularly beautiful. The subject of planes was first explored in Aputi (released by Authorised Version, 2005), the final section of which makes a return appearance here in the .oeur diptych. This piece also reuses a guitar sound from E.2, which originally appeared on the debut nixilx.nijilx CDR published by absurd in 2004. Cylindre. also revisits past recordings, borrowing a bell sound from Conduit no. 2 (Drone Records, 2006). Martinis is also
a member of ‘silkworms cannot be confiscated until they’ve become perfect cocoons’ with absurd’s Nicolas Malevitsis. First edition of 200 copies. Co-published with absurd." [label info]
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2008 |
€12.00 |
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| MARTINIS, SOCRATES |
Au Seuil de la Liberte |
7 |
"field recordings & objects composed by Socrates Martinis, 2009. title refers to the same painting by René Magritte, 1937. on gorgeous coloured vinyl." [label info]
http://absurd.noise-below.org/
"The same person who is working as Nixilx.nijilx, Blanco Estira Nuestro and Helice Peid is working as Socrates Martins and for his 7" he took the title of a painting by Rene Margritte from 1937. On these pieces he plays 'field recordings and objects', but all of this highly obscured through extremely lo-fi transformations. It seems like captured on a cassette (or perhaps a whole bunch of cassettes), which add a low resolution to the material. It moves low over the surface of sound and is truly obscure record, but also a captivating one, I think. Maybe because one doesn't have a clue what's going on here, it leaves lots of space to contemplate about that. A record that poses more questions then the answer it gives. Which I guess if you call yourself Socrates Martins is the whole idea. Beautiful obscurity." [FdW / Vital Weekly]
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2009 |
€6.00 |
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On Motion, Stasis and the Geometry of Desire |
MC |
"This odd cassette without first researching its origins sounds like ‘field recordings’ only not of actual fields but of industrial environments, possibly the continuous sound of a train or tram ride. Some are short, a few seconds others longer, all consist of such ambient sounds of mechanical travel… or perhaps an air conditioner or continuous extractor fan. No other sounds – human – animal or atmospheric except perhaps the slight sound of a garment on the microphone or a police siren of the European kind. The cassette arrived without card insert but from the on body print and via the Anitfrost website Socrates Martinis can be tracked down – a sound artist working in Greece. From here the tape appears to have 2 tracks on side A, and a further 2 on the B side. The B side containing again recordings in situ, only some of much more quieter ‘locations’ if these are actual
locations, and I guess now the short silences indicate where one track starts and another ends, though this is not obvious. Occasionally one is aware of the sound recordist ’s breath… but that is as expressive as this tape gets in a ‘representational’ sense. Why the printed inserts were not used is not stated, however this lack of information helps the enigmatics of this work. As such it has a strange beauty about it, clearly not in the telos or anti telos of noise, but much more the idea of listening as listening to sounds that are remarkable in their unremarkability and ubiquitous of industrial urban life and its environments. As such it poignancy captures the actual fragility of such environments which are seldom documented, noticed or of interest. ‘Art’ then in the great tradition of art, as who once would have thought a railway station a suitable subject for a painting…." [jliat/Vital Weekly]
www.antifrost.gr
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2012 |
€8.00 |
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