seth nehil & matt marble: ecllipses

a/O is very pleased to present this highly anticipated first
collaboration release between two American "sound
composters", Seth Nehil and Matt Marble. A dynamic whirlwind
tour through states of ellipsis and eclipses, abrupt ruptures,
reuniting and igniting. Where nothing is static for too long.
Through an invigorating admixture of instruments, field
recordings and various found matter, a compelling and
mysterious world comes alive to spark the imagination.

Track list:

1. Aprupture
2. Skully
3. Flock
4. Hither
5. Ecllipses

Seth Nehil is a multimedia artist living in Portland, Oregon. He
has composed sound for CD, multi-speaker installation, solo
and large-group concerts, dance, theater and performance.
Apart from and/OAR, Seth has release work on international
labels such as Alluvial Recordings, Kaon, Intransitive, Cut,
Edition Ellipsis, 20 City, Erewhon among others, and has
collaborated with composers such as John Grzinich, Olivia
Block, Matt Marble, Brendan Murray and MIchael Northam. He
has performed throughout the US, Europe and Japan. Seth is
also co-editor and designer of FO A RM projects, a
collaboration of arts and research with a focus on sound art.
He teaches Time Arts and Art Theory at the Pacific Northwest
College of Art.

Matt Marble is a composer / performer and writer / researcher
living in Portland, Oregon. Matt has composed works for film,
theatre, dance, CD, stereo diffusion, multimedia performance,
and instrumental ensembles. Currently and for the past 5
years he has been focusing on a practice of scored
improvisation, which emphasizes collective self-organization,
social and sonic geometry, and rhythmic elasticity. Exploring
social e-motions without a predetermined or singular cultural
ideology or aesthetic. Composing for nervous systems as
much as sound.

Matt studied music composition at CalArts (with Michael
Pisaro) and music theory at Portland State University and the
University of Paris, VIII, St. Denis-Vincennes (with Eugenia
Duta). He received his B.A. in Speech & Hearing Science from
Portland State University and currently work as a full time
Research Assistant for the National Center for Rehabilitative
Auditory Research (NCRAR) at the VA hospital in Portland, OR.
There,Matt assisted in studies pertaining to the "auditory blink"
phenomenon, tinnitus ('ringing in the ears'), and word
recognition tests. In the fall of 2008, Matt will move to New
Jersey to begin a graduate program in Music Composition at
Princeton University.