more from
Dragon's Eye Recordings
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Idleness, Endlessness

by Yann Novak

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $10 USD  or more

     

1.
Idleness 01:00:00
2.
Endlessness 01:00:00

about

“I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in the most profound activity. Whether our actions themselves, even if they do not take place until later, are nothing more than the last reverberations of a vast movement that occurs within us during idle days.

In any case, it is very important to be idle with confidence, with devotion, possibly even with joy. The days when even our hands do not stir are so exceptionally quiet that it is hardly possible to raise them without hearing a whole lot.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Life

Dragon’s Eye Recordings is pleased to announce the release of 'Idleness, Endlessness' by label head Yann Novak. 'Idleness, Endlessness' is a specially priced digital download to be released on the 10th anniversary of Novak taking over the label from his father Paul Novak. 'Idleness, Endlessness' explores labor, leisure and engagement over two hour long compositions.

The source material for 'Idleness, Endlessness' was collected while attending the Parkfield Artist Residency in September 2012. Parkfield is a unique retreat where invited artists have no obligation to create work, or anything other then their own meals each day. This creates a unique situation for contemplation and reflection.

The source material consists of synthesized tones and radio static collected on a portable synthesizer, and a single field recording of the wind. From 2012 - 2015 this material was processed in the studio and used in live performances. The final compositions were created through improvisation with the insertion of 5 minute periods of inactivity every 15 minutes to simply contemplate where the piece had come and where it should go.

'Idleness, Endlessness' is composed to so that the two pieces could be played back to back and looped creating an all day listening experience divorced from the engagement more traditional music demands.

credits

released August 27, 2015

de6014

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Yann Novak Los Angeles, California

Yann Novak is a multidisciplinary artist and composer based in Los Angeles. His work is guided by his unique perspective as a queer autodidact. Informed by his partial color blindness and dyslexia, Novak uses sound and light to explore how these intangible materials can act as catalysts to focus our awareness on our own direct experience. ... more

contact / help

Contact Yann Novak

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Yann Novak, you may also like: