Ballast NVP032 and 31 out now!

I'm pleased to announce the last two ballast releases for 2020.

 

NVP032, Hali Palombo: Homer & Langley c-20 cassette. 

Hali’s work focuses on processed 78 RPM records and cylinder records, shortwave, CB, and field recordings. Her releases and live performances are immersions into odd liminal worlds, where signals and ideas crossfade and collide, distorting originals forms just beyond the brink of familiarity yet retaining enough grounding to recall familiar forms.

“Homer & Langley” is an audio tour (of sorts) of the Collyer brothers’ mansion in New York—often considered one of the first examples of “hoarding” brought to the public’s eye in America. Reflective of the literal impenetrability of the property given all the obsessively collected materials inside, these two short tracks offer intriguing slivers of an aural glimpse inside the mansion. 

 

For a more immersive “visit,” the first 20 copies come with a bonus flash drive containing the following:
1) a 15 minute narrative (with accompanying soundtrack) by Hali about the Collyer brothers (in both .wav and .mp3 format)

2) select contemporaneous newspaper articles

3) select contemporaneous photographs

The 15 minute narrative comes in both .wav and .mp3 formats.

These first 20 copies come in a hand-stamped cloth bag with an envelope filled with early 20th century ephemera assembled by Hali.

Edition of 52 copies. $10 ppd US; overseas, get in touch for shipping.

NVP031, Boris Einhoff: Suicide Meditations 1951-2001 (booklet and CDR)

For fans of Fluxus, Vienna Actionists, Chris Burden, and Vagina Dentata Organ. The 20 page booklet features the transcript of the in-depth, illuminating, and often entertaining conversation between curator David Dierman and Einhoff in Turbine Hall at London’s Tate Modern as part of the 50 year retrospective of Einhoff’s Suicide Meditation installations. The attendant audio covers all 50 years of the works, with an emphasis on the recordings that did not manifest as installations.
Edition of 22 signed and numbered copies.

$10 ppd US; overseas, get in touch for shipping.