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Ostrofon Symphony
by Dental Drill Slips
Ostrofon 1-5 were created on a Casio SK-1 sampling keyboard by Dental Drill in 1988 as part of the Except Buses catalogue.
Fortunately WarpCensor kept all of the 20th century output of TCFSR on cassette and DAT and with the resurgence of tourmaline hum and TCFSR in 2011/2012 he digitised our entire archive.
Ostrofon 1-5 were intended as component parts of a track to be titled Ostrofon Symphony, which has not survived (or was perhaps never committed to tape?).
At the time we didn’t know what to do with Ostrofon Symphony and it never appeared as an Except Buses track.
In 2012 Dental Drill created an Ostrofon Symphony using the five parts and placed it on his now long dormant Soundcloud page. This version is included on the release.
Dental Drill has also recreated the original Ostrofon Symphony (1988) and used the parts to create an entirely new interpretation of Ostrofon Symphony from these five obscure noise tracks.
The cover image is a genuine x-ray of Dental Drill's teeth!
BERG 9
by British Experimental Rocket Group
Continuing the ramped up release schedule for our 40th year we have a new collection of tracks, 'BERG 9' from the ever popular British Experimental Rocket Group.
BERG 9 is the first release to formally include audio from a newer project. As a result of enquiries about the use of the BERG archives members of The Committee For Sonic Research and the British Experimental Rocket Group combined to create new material to take advantage of the huge changes and developments to electronic music creation that has occurred since both groups were originally active during the last century.
Modern BERG has developed in to what could be described as an ‘art collective’ that produce and exhibit physical and digital artworks in galleries, print and online resources separate to the music. More pertinent to the album releases on TCFSR, BERG also provides audio and sonic accompaniment to visual art installations around the world such as drone events, pyrotechnic displays and other types of mass public entertainment events at art centres, science fairs and music festivals.
BERG 9 is the first release to formally include audio from the newer project. This and future releases will not differentiate between ‘new’ and archive BERG material although some indication can be gleaned from material that is dated.
Proxy
by Eaten By Worms
'PROXY For A Long Descriptive Title That Renders The Audio Irrelevant'
is the first EP by sound mangler Eaten By Worms
I
by Dormance
Following the publication of a series of split releases French creatives Sobria Ebrietas and Iliaque have combined to create Dormance.
Their first album 'Dormance I' is available digitally or on limited edition CD.
DECIMATE
by Various Artists
The tradition of releasing a TCFSR Solo Word project compilation on the first day of the year continues with 'DECIMATE', the 17th Solo Word project.
In the TCFSR Solo Word project invited artists are given a single word (and no other instructions) to interpret with whatever audio they deem appropriate.
Twelve artists have contributed to this release, the first of our 40th anniversary year here at The Committee For Sonic Research.
FOOL
by Various Artists
The TCFSR Solo Word project reaches it's sixteenth iteration with the first mid year release for some time.
But this is no ordinary Solo Word project, in a development from the last collection 'EPOCH', which included three tracks by artists associated with Burnt Seed Records of Western Australia this compilation is a joint release and includes many more artists associated with Burnt Seed, so many more in fact that this compilation is a 27 track leviathan
Trixie Delight & Dental Drill
interviewed on Radio Linden
In July 2024 Dental Drill and Trixie Delight discussed (in English) the history of The Committee For Sonic Research with presenter Heiko on his show Geräusche für Fortgeschrittene "Sounds for Advanced Users" on Radio Linden https://www.radiolinden.de/ .
The discussion about the label is roughly chronological from our formation in 1985 and is punctuated by a dozen tracks from the TCFSR catalogue.
We have also added an interview from a year earlier in which Trixie Delight talks (in German) about her music career on the same show.
The shows are on the PODCASTS page. Click the show image (or the PODCASTS on the top menu) to take you there.
