Knurl and related works of Alan Bloor 2000-
Knurl
Magnetomotive
CD, Gameboy Records, gb48, ltd.100
All pieces produced and recorded by Alan Bloor 2000.02. using found metal objects and effects. Released in 2003.
Inflame, Enkephaline, Inflexation, Perforce, Sense-Datum, Epithelia, Nystagmus
Knurl
Nocicept
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings
All pieces recorded live in 2000.06.
Strophan, Transfect, Chondrium, Morphite, Plieotrope
Knurl / Pyrox
Phenoscintilate
CDR, Kinky Musik Institute
All pieces produced and recorded in 2000.08.
Knurl - Preretro sagacity, Stratasystaltic Vitriol, Inveterate Facilitation, Compound Apraxia, Adverse Permutation
Pyrox - Trace Element
Knurl
Kharborundumm
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings, PRO04
Produced and recorded live in 2000.09.
Intralax, Parabond
Knurl / Koryphaia
CD, Galactique Recs., GAL001, ltd.500
Knurl pieces were produced and recorded in 2000.09.
Triflura - Enucleate, Hemipteran, Phocyte
Knurl / Government Alpha
CDR, M.Recordings, M.3CDR, ltd.95
Knurl pieces were recorded by Alan Bloor in 2000.10.
Eylamine, Pheroid, Anthrene
Knurl
Autotropia
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings, PRO08, Japan-only release
Recorded live in 2001.02.
Exotox, Tenesmus, Erythrin, Ribose, Conidia
Knurl
Dioculosa
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings, PRO09
Recorded live in 2001.02.
Knurl
Paramecium
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings
All pieces produced and recorded in 2001.08.
Varix, Turgence, Subsume, Occlusion, Mutagen
VA
Elect Noise Magazine 6 Compilation CD
CD,ENCD03
Track 4 - Knurl - Cyachloration
Released in 2001.09.26.
Knurl
Thymostat
CDR
Recorded in 2002.05-06.
All pieces produced and recorded live by Alan Bloor.
Facture, Arcanum, Covariance, Phrenia, Desideratum, Ectotrophia, Hafnium, Inculation, Quadrature, Centrism
Knurl
Revoltion
CD, Panta Rhei Recordings
Produced and recorded live by Alan Bloor 2003.05.
Knurl
Vorticose
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings
All pieces produced and recorded by Alan Bloor. Cover art and design by Alan Bloor. 2000.07.
Emmitance, Phistoma, Septicemia, Involution, Truculence
Knurl
Cytostatic
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings
Produced and recorded by Alan Bloor. All sounds were produced with instruments constructed from found metal objects. Cover design and layaout by Alan Bloor. 2004.09.
Hemiplegis, Morphalaxis, Fulguration, Reopsis, Ticotropin, Ridalis, Elenteration
Knurl
Acidamide
CDR, Harsh Noise, HN-018
All pieces produced by Alan Bloor March 25, 2005.
Oculation, Talopia, Stagmus, Mization, Volysis
Knurl
Triapse
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings
All pieces produced and recorded by Alan Bloor, June 2005.
Apheresis, Ketonuria, Lectivism, Zosphere, Triapse, Aptonema, Pernumerary, Riosteum
Knurl
Chromosytoma
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings
All pieces produced and recorded by Alan Bloor, June 2005.
Synogen, Throdesis, Ciation, Sionomate, Asyndention, Thenosphere, Ampestra, Phymixis
Knurl
Hematoma
CDR, Obscurica, OB-027
Produced and recorded by Alan Bloor. August 2005.
Cephalon, Epithelan, Inosine, Cytheamia, Porphyriax
Knurl
Lectophysis
CDR, Pitchphase, PP-308
Produced and recorded by Alan Bloor.
Encomlum, Prelapse
Knurl
Scyamine
CD, PACrec, PACrec120
Recordes and produced by Alan Bloor, October 29, 2005
Sounds were produced from an instrument created from a found stainless steel.
Aloplasm, Entrosyme, Exteroceptor, Perparaphy, Aesthesia, Scyamine, Panasomiasis
Knurl
Vermifuge
CD, PACrec, PACrec134
Recordes and produced by Alan Bloor, February 2007
Sounds were produced from a foot diameter pavement saw blade.
PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV, PART V
Knurl
Invection
CDR, skeletondustrecordings, SDR016, ltd.100
Produced and recorded by Alan Bloor, March 2007. Released in April 2007.
Sounds were produced from a scrap of stainless steel 2"x 4"x 1/8".
PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV, PART V
Knurl
Split
Cassette, Wintage Records & Tapes, WRT-20, ltd.50
Side A - Knurl "Black", Side B - Mabus "Green"
Knurl
Subluxation
CDR, Wintage Records & Tapes, WRT-23, ltd.100 in metal box
All tracks by Alan Bloor.
Sounds were produced from a found stainless steel 2"x 4"x 1/8".
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
"comes in a deluxe metal tin spryed down in mettalic blue car paint discs have a very nice black on black splatter effect."
Knurl
Triboluminescence
CDR, Brise-Cul Records, SADE 103
All pieces performed and recorded without overdubs by Alan Bloor, April 20th 2008.
Venesection, Myotonia, Typhus, Phyrazone, Syringomyelia, Trabecula
Special thanks to Martin Saseville.
Knurl
A Hail of Blades
CDR, Impulsy Stetoskopu, 004
All pieces produced and recorded by Alan Bloor, June 2008.
Sounds were produced from circular saw blades of various sizes bolted of various sizes bolted to a threaded rod. Recorded without overdubs.
Disposed to Embrace, Embolus, Respective Habits, Kallidin, Sinkhole
Design and artwork by Glaukus and Sylwia Kochan.
Knurl
Mesosoma
CDR, Impulsy Stetoskopu, 016, ltd.120 in metal box
All pieces produced and recorded live by Alan Bloor, Jan/Feb 2009.
Using scrap metal + viloin.
Lascination, Notheism, Matolytic, Chrosite, Atria, Thenium
Special thanks to Rafal Kochan. Design and artwork done by Glaukos and Sylwia Kochan. All quotes (of six inside cards) by Henri Bergson.
Knurl
Split
Cassette, Wintage Records & Tapes, WRT-58, ltd.50
Knurl piece was recorded live March 2009.
Side A - Knurl "Neurosecretions I-III", Side B - Burried Machine "Live in London"
Knurl
Dichromatism
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings
All pieces performed and recorded without overdubs, mixing or editing by Alan Bloor, April 5th, 2009.
Using metal and violin.
Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V
Pholde
Intone
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings, PRO06
All pieces produced and recorded live in 2000.12.
Deviation, Arise from a bony core, A level mirror
Pholde
Seal To Self
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings, ltd.50
All pieces produced and recorded in 2001.04. entirely from found metal objects.
Reliquiae, Suggests a fixed conception, Contexture, Negation of the predicate, Solvency
Pholde
In Accordance With Conscience
CD, Panta Rhei Recordings
All pieces produced and recorded using metals of various tensile strengths. Released in 2002.04.
Form and hold, To regard as being, Solecism, Any of various compounds, Centred over a point
Pholde
Relating to the Ultimate Purpose
CDR, Mystery Sea, MS14, ltd.100
All pieces were produced and recorded by Alan Bloor. Recorded in 2002.02. The instruments on this release was created from metals of different tensible strengths. The sounds are the natural sounds of the steel. "Reverb" being the only effect used. Released in 2004.05.
Opposite in position, Matter in suspension, Anathema, Between two parts of a structure, A porous article, Relating to the ultimate purpose, Representative of another
Aidan Baker, Thomas Baker and Alan Bloor
Terza Rima
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings / Ah Syd Music, Public Eyesore Number 66
Recorded live from the board 2002.10.01. at The Ambient Ping Series in Toronto Canada, all improvised, no overdubs
Alan Baker - electric guitar, Thomas Baker - piano, Alan Bloor - amplified metal
Pentametrical, Interlaced rhyme scheme, Tertiary
Pholde
...and With It, We Shall Divide
CD, Panta Rhei Recordings
All pieces produced and recorded live by Alan Bloor 2002.12. Sounds were produced from an instrument created from welded stainless steel plates. It was bowed, scraped, and struck with angle iron, small steel rods, and metal bars. Released in 2003.03.
The truth proceeding from awareness, Forming an upper extremity, With, or as if with, Terminal division, Discompose, Due to an upward movement, Tangential to the section, Fulfillment of an oracle
Pholde
Not Present to the Senses
CD, Total Zero, 17
Pieces produced and recorded 2002.12.25. by Alan Bloor.
The Objective Fact of Being, Visible in the Diplotene of Meiotic Prophase
Pholde
In Favour of More Permanent Pleasures
CDR, Dark Winter 2003
All pieces produced by Alan Bloor in 2003.06.07.
Denoting the ratio, Epicalyx, The sum of the factors controlling the prescence, In favour of more permanent pleasures, On a closed interval, Deviation of another variable, To curse while calling a deity to witness, The apex toward the observer
'Sounds were produced from found metal and welded stainless steel structures. These are the natural sounds of the steel, reverb being the only effect used. No oberdubs. No computers.'
Pholde and Arc
Eyes in the Back of Our Heads
CDR, Worthy Records
Alan Bloor: amplified metal, Richard Baker: drumkit/percussion, Aidan Baker: guitars/violin/flutes/percussion
Recorded live at The Ambient Ping in Tronto in 2003.08.03. w/ minimal subsequent manipulation overdubbing
Watch,watch, Eyes in the back of our heads, Soul windows
Sylken with Pholde
Sculptor
CDR, freeSpace, FS0302
Sylken ensemble - Eric Hooper: synths, guitar, loops, Alan Bloor: custum made metal instruments and Joe G: sysths
'Phasers on caress' recorded live at The Ambient Ping in Tronto in 2003.05.
Metalon, Call of a distant time, The eclipse of mind, Object of desires, Phasers on caress, From silence risen, Keeper of the deep, Metalons
- Spacey ambient unit ? including Alan.
Pholde
The Extent of Signification
CDR, Cohort Records, CRCD110
Produced and Recorded by Alan Bloor, Nov.2003. No overdubs or computers were used.
Carry into effect, Deflagration
Pholde
In Which One May Descend
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings
Produced and recorded by Alan Bloor
All sounds were produced from a stainless steel instrument made by Alan Bloor. There are no overdubs on this recordings.
To the Exclusion of the Alternative, Deposition of a Layer
Released in June 2005
Pholde
In the Subset of All Elements
CDR, taalem, alm 25
All Pieces Produced and Recorded by Alan Bloor, March 2005.
A quantity considered in relation, According to what is is deserved, From a place of concealment
Released in July 2005.
Pholde
That Which Tends To Dissuade
CDR, Gears of Sand
All Pieces Produced and Recorded by Alan Bloor, November 2005.
A quantity contained, To perform with division, A subject of difference between, That which tends to dissuade, To provide with something desired
Mastered by BFS in the Gears December 2005.
Pholde
An Instance of This
CDR, Blade Records, wmda073, ltd.200
Sounds were produced entirely from metal and recorded without overdubs by Alan Bloor, March 10th, 2006.
Encompass as a subordinate, Induced by the application, The point of attachment, At the fringe of consciousness, Capacity fitted to yield, Derived from such a result
Pholde
Finding Internal Asylum
CD, C3R Records, C3R 010
All materials recorded by Alan Bloor, playing homemade steel instruments. Released March 15th, 2007.
To emphasize the systematic nature, Insist with either more or less reason, Present in some utterances, Accompanied by a restricting urge, Peculiar to certain spheres of activity, As is done at the sixth sence
Booklet features photography of steel instruments by Alan Bloor, with text by Aidan Baker.
Pholde
Of Matter by Which It Remains
CDR, Inyrdisk
All Pieces Produced and Recorded by Alan Bloor, March 2007.
Sounds were produced on an instrument constructed of found stainless steel.
Constituting the degree of composition, Independent of changing circumstances, Being what may be conceived, Of matter by which it remains
Pholde
Luminance of a Perfectly Diffusing Surface
CDR, Gears of Sand Recordings, GOS 44
All Pieces Produced and Recorded without Overdubs by Alan Bloor, April 2008.
To be or become, Finding all possible pairings, Not openly avowed, Formed by solidification, Emanating from authority
Pyrox
Solidsteeltube
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings
All pieces were recorded live in 2001.01.
Part I, Part II
Pyrox
Accelerant
CDR, Panta Rhei Recordings
Electronics, production and recording in 2002.02.
Xylem, Reflux, Solute, Thwart, Plex
Pyrox
Miracidium
Cassette
Pyrox
Extreme Atmospherics
Cassette, Panta Rhei Recordings
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