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01. Yann Novak - All Things End, Sometimes in Fire
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02. Yann Novak - Accumulation
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03. Yann Novak - We All Disappear
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04. Yann Novak - The Metaphor of Party
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05. Yann Novak - Again and Again Until We Feel Nothing
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ARTIST
NOVAK, YANN
TITLE
Slowly Dismantling
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
ROOM40
CATALOG #
RM 4112CD
RM 4112CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
11/8/2019
With
Slowly Dismantling
, Los Angeles based artist
Yann Novak
problematizes understandings of ambience as homogenous and static.
Slowly Dismantling
deconstructs ambient, pulling it way from the blank and the atmospheric, refusing the perceived luxury of sound within which context is erased. Reflecting on his formative experiences as a queer youth in middle America, he explores the idea of these acoustic and social spaces as zones of liberation within which a spectrum of identity is formed.
From Yann Novak: "The cover of
Slowly Dismantling
features the remnants of Hotel Washington, home to the LGBTQ+ community in my hometown of Madison, Wisconsin from the '70s until 1996 when it burned down . . . I was 17 when the hotel burned down and had only gone to the cafe a handful of times. What I expected to be the formative site for exploring my newfound queer identity was suddenly lost to the past, and I was left wondering how such a space would have influenced me. What remained in Madison after the fire was only the mainstream version of gay culture . . . Art and music are often identified as 'queer' when they share these same core aesthetics, tropes, and character stereotypes . . . This led me to withdraw; the alienation that came with my introversion made it hard for me to take up space in the world. As my work as an artist and composer progressed, this lack of self confidence became part of my practice. I began using field recordings as a way for me to limit my decision making. I could shape and mold this source material to an extent, but there was always an external structure. While this allowed me to create work that was autobiographical, I was never totally in control of what I was making; thus, I was never fully visible in the work. This all changed following a transformative experience at a queer music gathering in the spring of 2019. I was finally immersed in a queer community that existed outside all dominant cultures, finally allowing me to feel seen as queer without any of the shortcomings the mainstream culture would have me believe . . . As I worked through
Slowly Dismantling
, it became a liberation from and a reinterpretation of myself. It allowed me to shed my insecurities and routines: grounding my work and process in something outside myself. Instead I choose to utilize digital and analog synthesis, recorded at my studio in Los Angeles and reprocessing recordings captured at MESS in Melbourne and EMS in Stockholm."
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