Coppice was founded by Noé Cuéllar and Joseph Kramer in Chicago in 2009, as an inquiry into the capture and generation of music and its relationship to its physical sources.

Its compound studies include Bellows & Electronics (prepared pump organs, shruti boxes, and tape processors) between 2009–2014, and Physical Modeling & Modular Syntheses between 2014–2018; focusing on the interactions between direct and reproduced sound, and the perceptual links between original and emulated sources, respectively.

Its third study in Phonography & Fiction (in progress since 2018) scrutinizes the dynamics between its previous two studies, and their relationship to architecture and time: the acoustic preservation and obsolescence of the Yerkes Observatory’s refractor and reflector telescopes in Williams Bay being the locus of investigation.

With sustained interest in sound’s capacity to cross domains, Coppice crafts pathways between music and technology in a cross-disciplinary language, resulting in work that is an overarching documentation of experimental music in-formation. Operating in cycles of instrument construction and modification, recordings, and live presentations, its productions incorporate sound design, sculpture, installation, software, images, and video.

Bypass Ideal

<a href="https://futurevessel.bandcamp.com/album/bypass-ideal">Bypass Ideal by Coppice</a>Previously unavailable on our Bandcamp is now Bypass Ideal, a cassette tape originally released by Hideous Replica (UK) in 2015 (sold out on our end but still available via their Bandcamp).

The two sides of the cassette tape present each instrumental part in isolation, on opposing sides, to evade the intended mode of listening of the piece as a duo performance. Instead, we offer a retrospective listening. We call this listening separation Bypass Ideal.

For this occasion, we have added a bonus track, Bypass, which juxtaposes both sides of the tape in simulation of the original live performances for heavily amplified prepared pump organ and Modified Boombox that this release is based on.

Please enjoy at high volume in a dark room.

Format: C42, risograph print, clear poly shell case
Label: Hideous Replica (HR9)
Artwork: Coppice
Including: Modified Boombox III, Prepared Pump Organ (Kinder), Transmitters
Date: May 2015