Tim Olive
Smelt
Bent Window presents Tim Olive's new release "Smelt", a buzzing conveyance of sound manipulation made from the leftovers of our mechanical world. Hum, crash and crackle combine for a unique journey into electronic disaster. Magnetic pickups, analog electronics, radio signals and consumer detritus (springs, styrofoam, metal sheets, motors, magnetic tape, wood, dental floss) to generate sound-textures which evolve, shift and mutate. Born in Canada, currently residing in Kobe, his discography inclu…
Cone
Tim Olive: radios, tuning forks, magnetic pickups, synthesizerRecorded and mixed August 2022, KobeMastered by Jack ArmstrongCover by Chris Gibson
Tuxford Fumble
Magnetic pickups, analog electronics, and consumer detritus (springs, styrofoam, metal sheets, motors, magnetic tape, wood, dental floss) generate evolving/shifting/mutating sound-textures. Born in Canada, currently residing in Kobe, Tim Olive's discography includes releases on BISAD, Caduc, Chocolate Monk, Copy For Your Records, Dasa Tapes, EM Records, Hard Return, Humanhood, Intonema, Kirigirisu, Korm Plastics, Minimal Resource Manipulation, Notice Recordings, Pilgrim Talk, Steep Gloss, Tsss T…
Ribbon
Tim Olive returns for his third album on Notice, a rare solo outing from this avid collaborator. “Ribbon” is a document of his highly developed relationship with amplified object manipulation, in a manner most cathartic and engaged, and yet informed by compositional sensibility. This release is constructed from multiple tracks of a variety of sound sources recorded in his studio in Kobe, Japan; these tracks have then been edited and layered, in shifting densities and evolving textures. Despite t…
Telquan
** 2021 Stock. Glass-mastered CD in hand-stamped, recycled chipboard cover ** Minimalist Chilean guitarist Cristian Alvear and Tim Olive first played together in October 2016, doing three concerts in Japan, Alvear returning to Japan in October of 2017 for additional performances in Kyoto and Osaka, then spending a day recording in Kobe; this single improvised piece he result of that day, heard as it was recorded, with a few structural edits.
"Usually the sparring partners of Tim Olive, magnetic …
Brother of Divinity
** 2021 Stock. Glass-mastered CD in hand-stamped, recycled chipboard cover ** 845 label leader and sonic explorer Tim Olive uses magnetic pickups and electronics in this meeting with radical living room concert sound artist, poet and improviser Yan Jun in Kobe, Japan, Jun using a variety of electronics, radio and field recordings as the two improvise in a wonderfully mischievous set of errant dialog and restrained deconstruction.
First up is a twenty-eight-minute work, which was recorded in Octo…
Faune
** 2021 Stock ** Fellow Canadians, Montreal's Ambiances Magnetiques collective member, turntablist and electronics artist Martin Tetrault meets Japan-based electronic explorer Tim Olive performing on magnetic pickups, in their first album despite having performed sporadically across three decades: 4 rich improvisations minimally edited, shaping sound in compelling ways.
"[... Tim] Olive did a recording on "a lovely afternoon in Montreal, minimally edited", with the well-known turntablist Martin …
Nice You!
** 2021 Stock. Glass-master CD with recycled chipboard cover, hand-stamped ** After a performance in 2019, Kobe-based Canadian sound artist Tim Olive and Calgary percussionist, experimenter & Bug Incision label leader Chris Dadge recorded these two studio pieces using Dadge's amplified percussion, small instruments & electronics, as well as Olive's magnetic pickup/electronics system, running through a number of guitar & bass amplifiers.abel leader Chris Dadge recorded these two studio pieces usi…
63-66
** 2021 Stock. Glass-mastered CD with letterpress cover by Ben Owen/Middle Press ** Recording in Brooklyn in 2014, this collaboration between Tim Olive and Ben Owen presents four tracks of electronic improvisation using shortwave radio, oscillators, paper, contact microphones and magnetic pickups, creating a mysterious and well-paced album of sound experimentation. "The inconspicuous titles of Tim Olive and Ben Owen's first collaboration make it look like an album of discrete parts, just four im…
Lowering
** 2021 Stock. Edition of 100. Glass-mastered CD in hand-stamped, recycled chipboard cover ** Like mad scientists of sound, sonic explorers Tim Olive and Cal Lyall met in a Tokyo studio in 2012 armed with hydrophones, magnetic pickups and electronics to record this richly detailed and slowly unfolding work, blending organic and mechanical elements of indeterminate origin, finding absorbing dialog without clamor or tumult; intriguing and engrossing.I think I'd only heard Lyall a tiny bit on one o…
Bistre
**100 copies** Anne-F Jacques: rotating devices, Tim Olive: magnetic pick-ups. Recorded in Montreal, May 2019 Anne-F Jacques and Tim Olive use handmade, idiosyncratic instrumentation to produce and amplify detailed sound textures, from fine-grained to coarse. They share a tactile, lo-tech approach to improvised sound composition, manipulating diverse objects and materials in conjunction with somewhat unpredictable audio pickup/amplification systems to create a music in turns serene and agitated,…