Breath Fractals, by chik white and Xuan Ye

Breath Fractals

by chik white and Xuan Ye

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

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

Purchasable with gift card

$7 USD or more
Full Digital Discography

36

releases

Get all 36 chik white releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of sea foam floods the road - Hurricane Lee recordings, the clean shall flee (voice work), live in Bologna, Altered Voicing - Instruments Treated Poorly in Nine Movements, the sadness of flapping lips into the illusionary self, Off Motion, Wind Wound, improvisations, sketches, and outtakes, and 28 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$61.10 USD or more (35% OFF)

	1.	Precariousium 01:55
	2.	Satiate 02:29
	3.	As If By Bell 03:12
	4.	Long May I Sleeppppp 01:49
	5.	Homing Hymn 03:36
	6.	Polyphony of Breath Fractals, No. 2 00:21
	7.	Polyphony of Breath Fractals, No. 2 00:49
	8.	Wodd 02:42
	9.	Escalate, Escalate 03:53
	10.	Omnivore Machine 04:04
	11.	Crane 01:59

about

CASSETTE AVAILABLE FROM LABEL:.
noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/breath-fractals.

"Initially, the music of chik white (Darcy Spidle of rural Nova Scotia) and Xuan Ye (Toronto) are drastically different. Spidle improvises using the jaw harp, one of the world’s most ancient instruments, on a series of stimulating and freshly invigorating releases, including two recent tapes on Notice. Xuan Ye has developed a dense, fascinating, radically cutting edge synthesis of video and aural performance, somatics, and computer programming, engaging acoustic instruments, voice, field recordings, and strangled frequencies. Spidle has a deep and intense relationship with the ocean; its many guises and characteristics have provided a catalyst for a personal and unique body of work, one that is devoted to his oceanic surroundings and the natural phenomena inherent to its existence. Both artists reference not only outsider folk traditions, but also esoteric strains of the avant-garde, noise, field recordings, and sound collage.

This intimate release reveals their strong musical interplay, evident in the physicality and palpability of the tracks presented. Both are dedicated to the generation of raw sound, while reducing language into its constituent physical parts, as if dramatizing the struggle of human expression. They explore instrument and voice along what feels like very short and concise distances. At times, they branch out into explorations of spaces and objects that feel curious and almost narrative, with the “voice” often present but never remotely understandable. Both artists’ boundary-pushing of physical performance finds a new route in this collaboration." Notice Recordings

credits

released July 29, 2019

Reviews:

Marc Masters/Bandcamp:
daily.bandcamp.com/best-experimental/best-experimental-releases-on-bandcamp-august-2019

Frans de Waard/Vital Weekly:
www.vitalweekly.net/1194.html

Aquarium Drunkard:
aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/11/05/jaw-breaker-on-the-sickening-beauty-of-darcy-chik-white-spidle/

----

chik white - jaw harp, voice
Xuan Ye - percussion, voice, field recordings

Recorded 2016 - 2018
Mastered by Kyle McDonald

Source artwork by Xuan Ye
Layout by E. Lindorff-Ellery
Letterpress printed by Small Fires Press, New Orleans
Duplicated by Cryptic Carousel

license

about

chik white Nova Scotia

chik white is the moniker I use for my work as a free improviser. For years, my instrument of choice was the jaw harp, but recently, I’ve expanded my practice to include voice, nose flutes, horns, guitar, and harmonica. Along with the many chik white releases chronicled on this page, I’ve also included select field recording works issued under my proper name, Darcy Spidle. ... more

contact / help

Contact chik white

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Breath Fractals, you may also like:

Why Four Strings?
by Bill Orcutt

supported by 6 fans who also own “Breath Fractals”
go to album
Free Percussion
by tsss tapes

supported by 6 fans who also own “Breath Fractals”
go to album
Água Viva
by Daphne X

supported by 6 fans who also own “Breath Fractals”
go to album
Intuitive Voicing
by Jessica Zambri

Seven astounding, psychedelia-spangled new age meditations from producer and musician Jessica Zambri (Mass Gothic, Solvey, Zambri). Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 18, 2024
go to album
Pripyat
by Marina Herlop

The artist reveals a new dimension of orchestral rhythm and counterpoint in her compositions. Bandcamp Album of the Day May 25, 2022
go to album
awholerunboom
by MME dUO

Electronic Dadaism from this Cologne artist, full of gleefully cut-up vocal samples, arrhythmic drums & a sense of fun. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 9, 2019
go to album
Second
by Kevin Drumm

supported by 5 fans who also own “Breath Fractals”
go to album