1. Territorial Scan
2. Sweet Thread (Topple)
3. Scanned Exit

• Format: Digital
• Label: Panospria (PAN 097)
• Artwork: Coppice
• Including: Fender Rhodes Piano Bass, Handheld Samplers, Prepared Pump Organ (Kinder), Transmitters
• Date: September 2016

1. Held Cascade
2. Bromine
3. Labile Form
4. Discharge Form
5. Subparallel Episode
6. Bramble
7. Caper

• Format: Limited edition of 100 CDs in manually-assembled packaging (jewel case, diamond aluminum mesh, colored thread, transparencies, and hand-numbered card)
• Label: Category of manifestation: (KIND_2)
• Artwork: Coppice
• Including: Accordion, Amplified Melodica, Fire Bellows, MIDI Box, Modified Boombox I, Monophonic Oscillator, Prepared Pump Organ (Kinder), Shruti Box (Orange), Shruti Box (Pink), Sphygmomanometer, Transmitters, Wooden Input Bars
• Date: September 2015

• Format: Edition of 100 C42 cassettes in clear poly shell case with risograph print
• Label: Hideous Replica (HR9)
• Artwork: Coppice
• Including: Modified Boombox III, Prepared Pump Organ (Kinder), Transmitters
• Date: May 2015

1. Hoist Spell (The Paver Version)
2. Hoist Spell (Michael Pisaro Remix)
3. Hoist Spell (Machinefabriek’s Philicorda Version)
4. Hoist Spell (Rushford & Talia Remix)
5. Hoist Spell (mAAs Remix)
6. Hoist Spell (James Hoff Remix)
7. Heist Poll (Bundy K. Brown)
8. Hoist Spell (Jeff Gburek Remix)
9. In The Pulse The Spirit (Joachim Nordwall)
10. Hoist Spell (VA AA LR Remix)
11. Hoist Spell (Labycz’s Hardware Construct)
12. Hoist Spell (Lescalleet Reconstruction)

• Format: Digital files
• Label: Quakebasket (qb 25.1)
• Artwork: Coppice
• Date: April 2014

1. Big Wad Experiments
2. Handheld Sampler Extractions From Hoist Spell
3. Alternate Turbulence
4. Corrugation Exercise
5. Snuck Keel (Live)
6. Sop Version (Live)

Ex includes an excision of the original board photographed for the Big Wad Excisions artwork, a CD-R with studies, alternate takes, and live versions of material revolving around Big Wad Excisions, and a handwritten carbon note. The twenty copies produced were offered in support of Coppice’s Compound/Excisions tour in March 2014.

• Format: CD-R
• Label: Self-released
• Artwork: Coppice
• Including: Handheld Samplers, Modified Boombox III, Prepared Pump Organ (Kinder), Transmitters
• Date: March 2014

1. Snuck Keel
2. Impulses for Elaborated Turbulence (Excised)
3. Sop
4. Hoist Spell

• Format: CD in semi-gloss folded insert packaged in a dual slot hi-gloss outsized gatefold card mini LP, album type, sleeve with booklet
• Label: Quakebasket (qb 25)
• Artwork: Coppice
• Including: Handheld Samplers, Modified Boombox III, Monophonic Oscillator, Prepared Pump Organ (Kinder), Prepared Pump Organ (Estey), Transmitters
• Date: October 2013

Soft Crown Transparencies is a ‘navigable composition for software’ that repositions the listener in a new type of active listening. It provides coordinates for engaging shifts of vantage point (as all sound layers develop in time) through a navigable vertical axis on the screen. Multiple sectors are accessible for close listening of different points of the interior of a prepared pump organ and of multiple generations of tape processes.

Soft Crown Transparencies isn’t a game or a tool. It invites the listener to figure a porous journey through a listening format that they can intersect as the music unfolds – to obtain finer details of the music’s materialities and to localize additional audio not found in the fixed stereo mix of Soft Crown.

Version: 1.0.1
Size: 252 MB
© 2014 Coppice

Compatibility: MacOS 10.6.8 or later
*Requires QuickTime
(Currently not available for Windows OS)

Special thank you to Mathieu Ruhlmann, and to Joey Beaver, Cole Friel, Ryan Hogg, Anthony Martinez, Tim Mena, Brad Nayman, Phil Pobanz, Brent Reardon, and Kyle Schroeder for their help in the construction of portions of the Estey Expander Module electronics present in Soft Crown.

• Format: Software (MacOS 10.6.8 or later)
• Label: Self-released
• Artwork: Coppice
• Including: Estey Expander Module, Multi-Material Filter, Prepared Pump Organ (Estey), Sphygmomanometer
• Date: February 2014

1. So Lobes Drape As Such Gills Over A Hanger’s Pit
2. Soft Crown

A special thank you to Joey Beaver, Cole Friel, Ryan Hogg, Anthony Martinez, Tim Mena, Brad Nayman, Phil Pobanz, Brent Reardon, and Kyle Schroeder for their help in the construction of portions of the Estey Expander Module electronics. 

• Format: CD-R
• Label: caduc. (CA03)
• Artwork: Coppice
• Including: Estey Expander Module, Modified Boombox I, Multi-Material Filter, Prepared Pump Organ (Estey), Prepared Pump Organ (Kinder), Sphygmomanometer
• Date: February 2014

Compound Form is a composition for amplified prepared pump organ (Kinder) and tape processes in an extended musical arrangement of various compositions. 

Bramble (2012), Scour (2009), So Lobes Drape As Such Gills Over A Hanger’s Pit (2013), Pivot (2011), While Like Teem or Bloom Comes (Tipping) (2012), and Brim (2009) are present in Compound Form.

Compound Form was performed numerously in Chicago and throughout tours. Its instrumentation sprung compositions that formed the core of Coppice’s live repertoire between 2012–2014, staged stereo recitals presented close-up to the audience. 

Recorded live on October 26, 2012 at the crow with no mouth series, Studio Z; St. Paul, MN. 

• Format: CD-R
• Label: Triple Bath ‎(TRB.038)
• Artwork: Coppice
• Including: Acoustic Filters, Modified Boombox I, Modified Boombox III, Modified Boombox IV, Prepared Pump Organ (Kinder), Transmitters
• Date: May 2013

1. Bluing
2. Son Form
3. Seam (Kinder)
4. While Like Teem or Bloom Comes (Tipping)
5. Blueing

• Format: CD in in gatefold printed cardstock digisleeve with resealable poly bag
• Label: Category of manifestation: (KIND_1)
• Artwork: Coppice
• Including: Handheld Funnels, Modified Boombox I, Modified Boombox III, Prepared Pump Organ (Kinder), Shruti Box (Orange), Transmitters
• Date: February 2014

1. A Deflective Index
2. A Refracted Index of “Seam” with Girls

All index transfers are artifacts on tape pulled from cassettes used in a dual tape-processing device. Side B contains a sequence of trio performances of Seam (2010), recorded between 2011-2012 in Chicago. In order of appearance: Carol Genetti, Sarah J. Ritch, Berglind Tómasdóttir, Julia A. Miller.

• Format: C41 (limited, hand numbered, in three colors)
• Label: Pilgrim Talk (PT26)
• Artwork: Nick Hoffman
• Including: Modified Boombox I
• Date: April 2013

Recorded 2011-2012 in Fljótstunga, Iceland and High Concept Laboratories, Chicago. Thank you to Halldór Heiðar Bjarnason & Lilián Pineda.

Since late 2009 we have developed compositions using a modified boombox – a tape loop machine that records and plays back simultaneously. Sounds that enter it are released within seconds, sounding gentle feedback. Our first compositions using this boombox and a shruti box marked the beginnings of our collaboration as Coppice, and a phase of up-close entwinement of both instruments in decidedly quiet gestures. Since then, we have expanded our dynamic palette and range of instrumentation to include more bellowed instruments, custom instruments and other electronic processes. 

Last Fall we began imagining what has become Pied, a composition for tape, pump organ and the boombox. Its form contrasts the tapes’ fibrous processing with the more tabular appearances of microtonal pump organ transpositions – performed quietly but loudly amplified to bring out interferences and resonances by means of the original microphone techniques. 

On one hand, Pied is a stark display of our sounds as solo artists, but in a borderline duet: five pump organ sections (recorded in Summer 2011 at Fljótstunga, Iceland) alternating with their boombox mediation and trails. 

On the other hand, developing this piece at High Concept Laboratories has been a careful and entangled collaborative process, working directly with tape, scoring multiple generations of processing, and using a variety of acoustic resonators for coloration. 

Although our compositional ideas may be fixed, the boombox’s response to these ideas is inherently oracular. Sections of Pied switch between several takes of the same content on tape, each sounding completely different from the other. We decided to keep many sonic incidentals and utterances across the many coats of the boombox’s reflections, also as a way to reveal the audible transparencies in the tape that didn’t erase. Towards the end of the piece, a snippet of our piece Seam seeps through the layers (what may perhaps be a recording from a performance in November of last year). 

It is in this dendritic way that our work continues to develop, with fractions of past works refracted, and with certain sonic aspects highlighted at the expense of others.

February 2012 

• Format: C40
• Label: Notice Recordings (NTR024)
• Artwork: Evan James Lindorff-Ellery
• Including: Acoustic Filters, Modified Boombox I
• Date: April 2013

1. Coppice – Prune
2. N.N.N. Cook – Wu Wei

• Format: Edition of 100 C60 CrO2 cassettes in jewel cases with full color double sided j-cards
• Label: Close/Far ‎(C/F 016)
• Artwork: Joseph Kramer, N.N.N. Cook
• Including: Fire Bellows, Modified Boombox I, S.D. & H.W. Smith Pump Organ
• Date: April 2011

1. Coincidence Departure: Quadrangle Congruent with “III. Phases” / Opening of First “II. Pivot”
2. Continuation and Closing of First “II. Pivot”
3. Mixed Procedures #1
4. Mixed Procedures #2 / “IV. Distant Hocket”
5. Mixed Procedures #3 / “VIII. Bass Shake”
6. Mixed Procedures #4
7. Mixed Procedures #5
8. “I. Breaths” / “VII. Distributed Waltz” / Mixed Procedures #6
9. Mixed Procedures #7
10. Mixed Procedures #8
11. “I. Breaths” / “IV. Distant Hocket”
12. “IX. Low F Phase & Chorus”
13. Mixed Procedures #9
14. Indexed Fraction A
15. Mixed Procedures #10 / “VIII. Bass Shake”
16. Mixed Procedures #11
17. Mixed Procedures #12 / Reed Moments
18. More Reed Moments / Opening of Second “II. Pivot”
19. Indexed Fraction B
20. Downcourse Continuation of Second “II. Pivot”
21. Turningpoint and Upcourse Continuation of Second “II. Pivot”
22. Upcourse Continuation and Closing of Second “II. Pivot” / “X. Low G Phase & Chorus”
23. Coincidence Withdrawing
24. Incidence Withdrawn

Information about the original performed installation can be found here.

Vinculum (Coincidence) includes the recordings S-1 02.01 004:44, S-1 03.01 005:36, and T-M 01.01 003:50 from Vinculum, Coppice’s archive of sonic artifacts. The studio arrangement for CD was developed between May 2011 and November 2012. The accordion duo score recordings were engineered by Todd A. Carter in June 2011 at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago.

Thank you to Maritza Bautista, Chelsea Culp & Ben Foch, Rodion Galperin, Guillermo Gregorio, Emily Green & Nick Wylie, Meg Kramer, Marinos Koutsomichalis & Akis Sinos, Julia A. Miller, Jenny Vallier, Tricia Van Eck, and to the audiences that varied and constellated the composition.

• Format: Limited edition of 100 red CD-R’s in plastic jacket stuffed with nesting booklets and sticker
• Label: Agxivatein ‎(#13)
• Artwork: Coppice
• Including: Acoustic Filters, Accordions, Free Reed Boxes
• Date: December 2014

Recorded live as part of Crystal Baschet Concerts with François and Bernard Baschet’s Aluminum Piano (1962), in conjunction with the exhibition Motor Cocktail: Sound and Movement in Art of the 1960s at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago on August 26, 2011. Curated by MCA Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow Timothy Grundy.

• Format: Format: Limited edition of 35 CD-Rs attached to hand-numbered cardstock packaged in a plastic sleeve
• Label: Self-released
• Artwork: Coppice, Nathan Keay (photographer)
• Including: S.D. & H.W. Smith Pump Organ, Shruti Box (Pink), Sister, Speaker Boxes
• Date: October 2011

1. Vinculum (Courses) 

Information about the original performed installation can be found here.

• Format: Digital file
• Label: Stasisfield (SF-9001)
• Artwork: John Kannenberg
• Including: Accordion, Free Reed Boxes, Inductive Mixing Table I, Shruti Box (Orange), Wooden Filters/Resonators
• Date: July 2011

1. (The Flavor of Missing) Mortar
2. Snow
3. Brim

Track 2 was recorded live at the Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago on November 20, 2011. Tracks 1 and 3 were recorded live at the Joseph Bond Chapel, University of Chicago on September 6, 2011, including room recordings by Greg O’Drobinak.

Track 2 features Andrew Furse’s Apiary, a double-feeder, double bellows free-reed aerophone. It contains two independent/identical air reservoirs with interchangeable reed-board tops. Sounds are obtained by opening small wooden slides that cover holes directly above block-mounted reeds. The feeder bellows are hand pumped and fill opposing wedge-shaped reservoirs pressurized by spring force. The air chest constitutes a near entirety of the instrument where all bellows and reed-boards are mounted. Folding legs allow the Apiary to be easily transported and played either sitting or standing. Construction details can be found here.

• Format: CD-R packaged in a 5" x 7" folded textured-paper cover
• Label: Rhizome.s (#08)
• Artwork: Coppice
• Including: Apiary, Modified Boombox I, Shruti Box (Orange)
• Date: June 2015

1. The Pleasance
2. The Purchase

• Format: 7"
• Label: Senufo Editions (senufo edition # twenty seven)
• Artwork: Holly Murkerson
• Duration: 10 minutes
• Including: Modified Boombox I, Shruti Box (Orange)
• Date: March 2012

1. Agate
2. Mild Grey Lustre
3. Scour
4. Brim

• Format: Hand-numbered edition of 100 CD-Rs in letterpresses and stamped handmade package with paper envelope, produced using 100% post-consumer waste materials.
• Label: Consumer Waste (cw05)
• Artwork: Consumer Waste (physical), Coppice (digital)
• Duration: 49 minutes
• Including: Acoustic Filters, Modified Boombox I, Modified Boombox II, Shruti Box (Orange)
• Date: May 2012

1. Scour
2. Mild Grey Lustre
   
3. Agate (Early Version)
   
4. Experimental Music
5. Son Form
6. Brim

• Format: Digital
• Label: Self-released
• Artwork: Rik Garret and Coppice
• Including: Acoustic Filters, Modified Boombox I, Modified Boombox II, Shruti Box (Orange), Test Tubes
• Date: April 2011

Vinculum is Coppice’s archive of sonic artifacts. It collects different perspectives of air and edges of a shruti box (a small bellowed organ), accordion, tubing, sphygmomanometer, and funnels. Sounds were recorded and reduced to highlight some aspects at the expense of others.

The archive is resource for a series of “performed installations” that study the relationships between audio and audience in spaces: Copse (2010), Vinculum (Courses) (2011), and Vinculum (Coincidence) (2011); and the relationships between audio and objects: A Vinculum Variation (2012), Vinculum (Passes) (2012), and Vinculum re: Screens for Mutual Attractions to Related Objects (Some Impossible) (2015).

Selections from the Vinculum archive are present in many other recorded compositions, most notably The Pleasance & The Purchase (2010), Bluing/Blueing (2012), Soft Crown (2014), and Bramble (2012).

Between 2010–2016 Vinculum was offered as unique/made-to-order hand-embroidered pouches stuffed with three different CD-R’s inscribed with their catalogue number, and additionally as individual discs in hand-painted sleeves. The listener is encouraged to play the discs simultaneously on repeat using multiple players when possible.

2012’s Vinculum Specimen Edition collects twelve CD-R’s housed in wooden boxes custom-designed and handcrafted by Andrew Furse, in an edition of five. The edition is featured in Stuart Tolley’s book Collector’s Edition: Innovative Packaging and Graphics (Thames And Hudson, 2014). The contents of each box are:

• A twine vinculum integrated on the sliding lid
• A copper mesh vinculum
• Twelve specimen glass-mounted/code-inscribed CD-R recordings selected from the archive: S-1 01.01 020:00, S-1 01.02 012:40, S-1 01.03 010:00, S-1 02.01 004:44, S-1 03.01 005:36, T-M 01.01 003:50, BK-1 E1.01 019:48, PC-1 01.01 006:54, PC-1 01.02 006:52, PC-1 02.04 004:33, PC-1 04.01 003:57, and F-GS 01.02 030:01
• A brass tube
• A brass free reed integrated into the box (activated by the mouth)
• A small index scroll indicating the presence of each recording in other works

Supporters of Vinculum in 2013 were offered a Vinculum Blowing Kit, containing a free reed, brass and plastic tubes, a cork-USB containing an obviously produced memory, and Red Scroll, a short video and 32-page PDF, all stuffed in a tall hand-embroidered Vinculum pouch.

• Year: 2009–2014
• Format: Multiple handcrafted editions
• Label: Self-released
• Artwork: Coppice, Jenny Vallier, Andrew Furse
• Including: Accordion, Free Reed Boxes, Handheld Funnels, Shruti Box (Orange), Sphygmomanometer
• Date: October 2012