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: CD
• 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: 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

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
• 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 the prepared pump organ and of the 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 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

• 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

1. Compound Form

• 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
• 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
• 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.

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

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

Recorded live at the Joseph Bond Chapel and Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago in 2011.

• Format: CD-R
• Label: Rhizome.s (#08)
• Including: Apiary, Modified Boombox I, Shruti Box (Orange)
• Date: June 2015

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

• Format: C60
• 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.

• Format: CD-R
• Label: Agxivatein ‎(#13)
• Artwork: Coppice
• Including: Accordions, Free Reed Boxes
• Date: December 2014

Recorded live as part of Crystal Baschet Concerts 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.

• Format: CD-R
• Label: Self-released
• Artwork: Nathan Keay
• 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 Pleasance
2. The Purchase

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

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

• Format: CD-R
• Label: Consumer Waste (cw05)
• Artwork: Consumer Waste
• 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