Austere is an anonymous , obscurantist electronic music group that has covered a wide variety of styles in their releases: Classical Minimalism , psybient , psychedelic ambient , ambient , dark ambient , drone , glitch-ambient , and downtempo -style drum and bass music, which out of deference to Coil they spell "musick." The group started working together in 1997, with their first release on 1 January 1998 , and is loosely based in the Pacific Northwest in Portland , Oregon due to their connection to Sound-O-Mat Recordings which is located there.
The two members have lived in various places, such as New York City , NY ; North Chatam UK , UK ; Portland , OR ; Seattle , WA ; Brighton , UK and SF , CA amongst many more.
Their Classical Minimalism recordings: "Convergence", "Eco", "Pulse" and "Vox" all draw upon composer Steve Reich 's Process Music approach, as defined by his 1968 manifesto "Music as a Gradual Process ."
They have collaborated with a number of musicians/bands including Abstract Audio Systems (New York City ), In The Now (Brighton , UK ) and Stephen Philips, owner of Dark Duck Records .
They have contributed to videos and films: the soundtrack for The Thin Horizon Artifexwerks located in Forest Grove , Oregon ; a track from the Dark Duck Records Drone Download Project was used Claude's Room , also an independent film. They have also contributed to several music videos, such as the Abandon video, and most recently, the Tiny Danser .
Austere's members have recorded solo works, as The Mystifying Oracle and Freq. Magnet . The latter has released three full CDs, a DVD, and a recent track on a Hypnos compilation CD.
Discography
Austere discography Studio albums 13 EPs 4 Soundtrack albums 2 Live albums 1 Singles 10 Video albums 2 Collection 1
The discography of Austere , includes thirteen studio albums , four extended play CDEPs , ten compilation appearances , including several on Hypnos and a 6-hour compilation box set of previously released and three unreleased tracks.
Albums
Released
Title
Other information
Label
18 January 1998
Convergence (CD)
Originally a CDR released by the band. Reissued on CD by Sound-O-Mat Recordings in 2005.
Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#01)
October 1999
Monodia (CDR)
Limited edition of 50 and 15 promo copies (65 total), long out-of-print.
Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#02)
February 2000
fade (CDR)
Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#03)
October 2000; reissued 2006
Curio (CDR)
First limited edition of 50 with gold foil. Reissued by Sound-O-Mat Recordings in 2006.
Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#05)
March 2003
Remission (CDR)
"Unreleased" in January 2004, replaced by Remittance CD.
Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#06)
December 2004
Remittance (CDR)
A "re-release" of Remission with two changed tracks and a remastering job. Free copies were offered to those who bought Remission via a "replacement kit".
Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#08)
2005
Eco (CD)
Artwork by Cat Rayburn. First CD design done by someone other than one of the band members.
Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#09)
2005
faded (CDR)
A "demix" collaboration between Austere and Stephen Philips of Dark Duck Records , using their original CD release fade .
Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#10) ; co-released by Dark Duck Records .
2007
Pulse (CDR)
The third of their Steve Reich inspired process music releases.
Hypnos Secret Sounds (hss10) .
August 2007
rirrom ("mirror") (CDR)
All information on CD package is backwards, printed on "mirror-like" material, and can be read by holding up to a mirror.
Blue Water Records () .
10 February 2008
Solyaris (CD)
The first on Hypnos main label.
Hypnos (hyp2753) .
18 January 2009
The Sound of Silence I: An "Unnatural History" of Rare and Unreleased Tracks (box set with MP3 player)
Box set comes with all tracks in 320Kbs CBR MP3 format on a SanDisk flash card in an MP3 player. Released exactly ten years after band's first release.
Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#11) .
13 January 2012
Euterpe (CD)
The first on relaxedMACHINERY art /music / community label.
relaxedMACHINERY (rM_0021) .
EPs
Compilations
Soundtracks
DVDs
Year
Title
Director
Album
2006
faded DVD
Austere
faded
Blue Water Records in 2007.
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