- lethe
- catastrophe point #7 & #8
- ib003 - 2cd set - 2010
- edition of around 500 (of which 100 are special editions)
- disc one - catastrophe point #7 - 50.50
- sound materials recorded at arsenic: lausanne, switzerland
- 2004.10.21 - 11.28
- disc two - catastrophe point #8 - 58.00
- sound materials recorded at ex power station : edinburgh, scotland
- 2006.10.23 - 10.28
- standard edition includes:
- 3-panel letterpress sleeve by ben owen, assembled by invisible birds
- liner notes by giancarlo toniutti, letterpress printing by ben owen
- all compositions by lethe
- photos by kuwayama kiyoharu
- sleeve design by invisible birds & kuwayama kiyoharu
- letterpress printing by ben owen at middle press, brooklyn
- liner notes written and designed by giancarlo toniutti
- invisible birds continues lethe's catastrophe point series with a 2cd set which includes 2 recordings in his
- series, one recorded in switzerland in 2004 and the other recorded in scotland in 2006.
- lethe's series take place in abandoned industrial sites, using drones, chains, an occasional instrument, objects
- found in the space, but most importantly the resonant qualities of the space.
- the wire magazine explained this series "the music sounds like it's taking place in a vast, pitch black aircraft
- hangar of the soul".
- yannick dauby said ""these are kiyoharu's obsessive abstractions dealing with physical substance and volume".
- the packaging for this release was done in collaboration with kiyoharu kuwayama and letterpress printer ben owen
- with the hope of achieving something that reflects the beauty and intensity of the work.
- lethe:
- [l. lēthē, a use of gr. ληθη forgetfulness, f. ληθ,
- ablaut-var. of λαθ, root of λανθαυεσθας to forget.
- in gr. ληθη is not the name of the river, though it occurs
- as a personification; the river is ληθης 'water of lethe'].
- 1. gr. myth. a river in hades, the water of which produced,
- in those who drank it, forgetfullnes of the past. hence,
- the 'waters of oblivion', or forgetfullness of the past.
- ¶2. [?influenced by l. lēt(h)um.] death. rare.
- 3. atrib. and comb., as lethe-flood, lake, wharf; lethe-wards adv.
- (oed definition)
