Howard Stelzer
Torn Tongue
2002 release ** Edition of 160 in a 6.75" round three panel cardboard cover. Recorded 1997-1998 in Cambridge, MA and Nijmegen, NL. All sounds taken from the spoken voice of KS, recorded in Gainesville, Florida, in different acoustic environments.
The case Against
Big master of tape manipulation, Howard Stelzer builds a few pieces around a feeling of sound deterioration and some falling aprt landscapes.
Howard Stelzer (b. 1974, New York) is a composer of electro-acoustic music. Beginning in 1991 while still a high school student in Boca Raton, Florida, Stelzer has always based his music around cassette tapes. Almost all of his sounds are generated by, processed by, recorded onto and played back out of cassettes and consumer-grade tape players. He ran the…