Yann Novak | Discography

Leather Dragon's Eye Third Anniversary

Label: de6003
Duration: 56:07
Format: Digital Download
Edition: Unlimited
Year: 2008

1. Lissom - Adrift
2. Yann Novak - Studio Window
3. Clinker - Provodyty - A New Terrain
4. Jamie Drouin - Untitled (03-06-08)
5. Wyndel Hunt - Tectonic Regime IV
6. Kamran Sadeghi - NaN
7. Former Selv - Irn

Dragon's Eye Recordings is celebrating its third anniversary with the release of Leather, a free digital compilation. The Leather compilation showcases sonic excursions from artists currently working with the Label. Leather is indicative of the label's goal to explore new territory in minimal electronic music and sound art, and to expose and promote individuals whose voices it feels should be heard. The tracks included are all previously unreleased. The cover features a photograph by Chelsea Gaddy.

Cotton Dragon's Eye Second Anniversary

Label: der003
Duration: 61:28
Format: 5" cd
Edition: 300
Year: 2007
Press

1. Tadahito Ichinoseki + Tomoyoshi Date - Gensho no tabi
2. Yann Novak - Lullaby
3. Kamran Sadeghi - Untitled (kha series)
4. Corey Fuller - Light along the edge of water
5. Manning / Novak - Feeling alone all together
6. Tomoyoshi Date + Corey Fuller - Midnight sanctuary
7. Jamie Drouin - Dresden
8. Son of Rose - Grand treatments

The Cotton compilation and showcase mark the second anniversary of Dragon’s Eye Recordings’ continued examination of the intersection between minimalist electronics and unique textures and drones. Cotton represents a mix of current artists, new collaborations between them, and some new additions to the family. All of the tracks on this compilation are previously unreleased and consist of some originals for this compilations, while others are teasers for future Dragon’s Eye releases in the coming year. Cotton comes packaged in a slim clear DVD case to further showcase the photography of Steven Miller.

Snowfield + Remix

Label: Infrequency001
Duration: 59:23
Format: 2x5" cd
Edition: 500
Year: 2007
Press

Disc 1
1. - 7. Jamie Drouin + Lance Olson - Untitled

Disc 2
1. Yann Novak - Snow:Storm
2. Jamie Drouin - Raking Light Across a Frozen Path
3. Tomas Jirku - Animal Tracks in a Field of Snow
4. Lance Olson - Snowfield_Avalanche
5. Jamie Drouin - The Walk Out

Disc one of this 2-CD set features documentation of DROUIN / OLSEN's 4-channel installation SNOW:FIELD from 2003. The seven tracks were derived from the interaction with a field of snow in British Columbia measuring the same dimensions the empty host gallery in the United Kingdom where the compositions were played back. Originally issued as a limited CD-R release in 2003, SNOWFIELD retains an unexpected quality that continues to reveal new details through it's densely woven compositions.

Disc two contains remixes of the original material by Drouin and Olsen, as well as by invited artists Tomas Jirku and Yann Novak, who breathe new dimension and variation into the tracks. The intimate scratchings of the SNOWFIELD tracks open up into extended cinematic movements, with familiar textures reshaped into micro journeys through icy terrain.

Paper Dragon's Eye First Anniverary

Label: de5008
Duration: 59:23
Format: 5" cd-r
Edition: 150
Year: 2006

1. Yann Novak - Basilica di S. Maria Aracoeli
2. Son of Rose - Reunion
3. Wyndel Hunt - Unfold
4. Tyler Potts - Still Happening
5. Heavy Lids - Drum and Ghost
6. Ear Venom - Smasher & The Harar Horse.

Dragon’s Eye Recordings is celebrating the year of its rebirth with a compilation CD and two night performance series, both entitled “Paper.” Paper introduces two new artists on the DER roster, Portland’s Heavy Lids and Seattle’s Ear Venom.

Family Affair: A Dragon's Eye Showcase

Label: de5004
Duration: 60:20
Format: 5" cd-r
Edition: 200
Year: 2004

1. Tyler Potts - the swale
2. Yann Novak - piano.study.001
3. M. Evans - untitled 02
4. Son of Rose - stinging nettles
5. Yann Novak - piano.study.003
6. Tyler Potts - week thirteen
7. Son of Rose - up up up
8. Wyndel Hunt - boredom conversion
9. M. Evans - untitled 06
10. Hakea - retek
11. Hakea - noruz
12. Wyndel Hunt - come and see v.2

A showcase of Dragon's Eye artists and friends, available exclusive with the winter 05 issue of Ong Ong.

People Doing Strange Things With Electricity Too

Duration: 125:00
Format: 5" CD
Edition: 100
Year: 2005

Disc 1
1. christ2oooTM - HEMI-Powered Hear Me!
2. The Apartment - Electromusetic Sound
3. Brion Kinne - Where Did All These Dust Bunnies Come From?
4. Toby Paddock - Magnambiece_m3
5. Ninnie - Pretty Polly
6. Yann Novak - An End and a Beginning
7. Jeremy Winters - Baby Robot Nursery
8. Tamara Albaitis - Anticipate
9. Filastine - Figuig
10. Ffej - Modern Day Gavel
11. Chenard Walcker - Electricity
12. Marcus Alessi Bittencourt - Rabo de Arriya
13. inBOIL - I Invented Electricity (Dorkmix)
14. Christopher DeLaurenti - Attempting Anthem

Disc 2
1. Syphilis Sauna - hhallway
2. Carl Lierman - Thuzwolf
3. Jason Freeman - N.A.G. (Network Auralization for Gnutella): Dorkbot Mix
4. Lucas Kuzma - Amble/Orth/Derecon
5. Joshua Herrala - Facade
6. Martin McCavitt - Three Events
7. Shaun Wilson - Statica
8. Carl Juarez - Interstellar Intercept
9. Mutant Data Orchestra - Zzyzx
10. Roger Hayes - Untitled
11. Lullabelle - ?Somos Magneticos?

The first dorkbot-sea exhibition, People Doing Strange Things With Electricity, held at Center on Contemporary Art in the summer of 2003, reflected the diverse work and technological and creative interests of the Seattle-area dorkbot-sea community - the ninth in the dorkbot family, founded in New York City by Douglas Irving Repetto in 2000. Now, there are twenty-one of these informal, grassroots dorkbot organizations in cities across the world, with a further four on the way, and so for 2005 I expanded the scope of this exhibit to cover the work of both dorkbot-sea and the global dorkbot community, providing a physical means to encapsulate and encourage the exchange of creative ideas.

dorkbot is all about such extremes and contrasts: the deeply local community with instant digital access to a loose national and international network of like-minded people, who also in turn have a perspective unique to their offshoot's locale. dorkbot-sea meeting attendees range in age from eleven to eighty. Audiences typically comprise 50% artists, 50% technologists - with a 50% overlap between categories. Levels of artistic experience and technical capability vary as widely - and wildly - as the age range, and collaborations flourish. Even attempting to express this in a cohesive way for the exhibition viewer, and for each artwork in relation to the others in the exhibit, was an interesting proposition.