Tisser Tissu Editions is committed to providing all of its digital releases with a contextual art object. This first release is accompanied by a very special 20+ page "chapbook" version of the release. The book, designed by Lasse Marhaug, and printed by Die Keure in Belgium features 130gr paper. The limited edition chapbook features contextual writing about each of the audio tracks plus a special setting of Wooley's A Story Based on Robert Graves's The White Goddess (the third study). It also features multiple reproductions of little-seen visual scores and performance-oriented artworks by Ryan Sawyer and Jen Mesch.
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"I consider this an addictively listenable (and readable) release demonstrating the groundbreaking depth we’ve come to expect from solo Wooley releases with new breadth never before recorded by the musician. There’s a thoroughness of concept in these studies not often seen in fully-developed pieces. If any one of these sketches were presented in completion, they would surely each be “five stars.” For now, support these endeavours - each robust listens and reads even in these germinal stages - in the hopes that we do get the full mass, the advanced wobble, and the first full publication of Wooley’s fiction." - Keith Prosk, The Free Jazz Collective
About Tisser Tissu Editions
There is a history of taking literary works as a weaving of many textual threads, a tisser tissu.* A text is viewed as a more or less structured collection of words, ideas, and impressions that can be unraveled by the critical reader—thread by thread—as they apply their experience and learning to understand the meaning the text has for them. That reader then adds their own personal and contextual threads back into a re-weaving of the textual tissu. Thus the text breathes and grows.
A piece of literature, thus, lives in a pure form only in the mind of its author. Every reader adds a layer of personal experience to the global understanding of the text. It is the same with music. Each time we listen, we are creating a new memory-map, weaving our own history and predilections within the sound to form a version of the music we hear that lives with us and changes as we learn more, feel more, and hear more; breathing and growing each time we undertake a new listening.
Tisser Tissu Editions is, at its core, an attempt to weave a similar fabric in experimental music. Each release of this sub label of Pleasure of the Text Records will be accompanied with information and context intended to help unspool and reconstruct the meaning of the music in the same way the reader unravels and reweaves a text. In some cases, these accompanying features will clarify: composers and performers talking directly about their work. In others they will only give a vague contextualization or will exist to purposely frustrate understanding. All of these elements are intended to goad the audience into reflection and personal study, with the best possible result being a return to the work to tisser new and individual threads into the tissu.
TTE001 features three studies for future work by Nate Wooley. It is a celebration of process over result and, besides hopefully causing some sort of joy in its audience, is intended to inspire all to work, try, do, and share.
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released May 1, 2020
TTE001: Nate Wooley: Three Studies for Future Uncertainties
Track Listing:
1. Study for a Mass (for Agnes Martin) 18:10
2. Intermediate Wobble Study 18:10
Recorded and Mixed by Nate Wooley
Mastered by Mikey Young
All compositions by Nate Wooley 2018 fourwordseamusic (bmi)
Design and Layout by Lasse Marhaug
Thanks to Nate Cross and Astral Spirits and Lasse Marhaug
