{"id":18151,"date":"2016-12-16T01:16:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T01:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18151"},"modified":"2016-12-16T01:16:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T01:16:28","slug":"subtextual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/12\/16\/subtextual\/","title":{"rendered":"Subtextual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/etudes.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"subtext1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/subtext1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c9tudes (2015) by Yair Elazar Glotman.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The work section of this website is still lacking the addition of some recent commissions but I have managed this week to get the albums section up to date. If I don&#8217;t talk about my work in the music world very much that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s been scaled down in recent years. I am still working regularly for the Subtext label, however, and the releases shown here are all the recent designs bar the latest one which will be out in February.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all my work for Subtext involves preparing artwork I&#8217;ve been sent, and applying the relevant text information (or &#8220;label copy&#8221; as the big record companies prefer to call it). That&#8217;s generally easy work but the minimal style of Subtext means that some designs go through several iterations before everyone is happy with the results. The <em>Signal<\/em> album by Emptyset required the careful cropping and adjusting of James Ginzburg&#8217;s photos to get something that sat well in the square of the album sleeve. Almost all the artwork here was selected by the artists; if it wasn&#8217;t then it was prepared with their approval. The individual web pages show the full layouts, and also have all the necessary artwork credits.<\/p>\n<p>As to the audio content, Subtext releases operate in the nebulous intersection between noise, drones, sound design and ambient music. The albums by Paul Jebanasam and FIS were featured this month on a list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/antigravitybunny.com\/?p=10849\" target=\"_blank\">Top 30 Drone Records of 2016<\/a>. See the label&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/subtext-recordings\" target=\"_blank\">Soundcloud page<\/a> for samples.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be posting another work update\u2014if I get round to it!\u2014next week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/emptyset2.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"subtext2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/subtext2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Emptyset (2015 reissue) by Emptyset.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/signal.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"subtext3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/subtext3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Signal (2015) by Emptyset.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/continuum.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"subtext4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/subtext4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Continuum (2016) by Paul Jebanasam.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/frenzy.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"subtext5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/subtext5.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Frenzy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2016) by Cevdet Erek.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/barotrauma.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"subtext8.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/subtext8.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Barotrauma (2016) by Eric Holm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/patterns.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"subtext6.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/subtext6.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>From Patterns To Details (2016) by FIS.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/blessed.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"subtext7.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/subtext7.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Blessed Initiative (2016) by Blessed Initiative.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c9tudes (2015) by Yair Elazar Glotman. The work section of this website is still lacking the addition of some recent commissions but I have managed this week to get the albums section up to date. If I don&#8217;t talk about my work in the music world very much that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s been scaled down in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/12\/16\/subtextual\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Subtextual&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,29,3,23],"tags":[8646,8645,3188,5997,7720,4130,4774,8295,6689],"class_list":["post-18151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-electronica","category-music","category-work","tag-blessed-initiative","tag-cevdet-erek","tag-emptyset","tag-eric-holm","tag-fis","tag-james-ginzburg","tag-paul-jebanasam","tag-subtext-recordings","tag-yair-elazar-glotman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4IL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}