Intransitive Recordings was an independent record label for experimental music, founded by the artist

Howard Stelzer Howard Stelzer is a composer of electronic music, whose work is made primarily from sounds generated by cassette tapes and tape players. From 1997 until 2012, he ran the independent record label Intransitive Recordings. Early years Stelzer be ...

. Intransitive published

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, free improvisation, sound art,

sound poetry Sound poetry is an artistic form bridging literacy and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; "verse without words". By definition, sound poetr ...

, and

noise music Noise music is a genre of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise within a musical context. This type of music tends to challenge the distinction that is made in conventional musical practices between musical and non-musical ...

between its start in 1997 until its ending in 2012. Stelzer explained that "... (the) reason for starting Intransitive was to publish my own work. I had recorded Stone Blind, a one-hour-long tape piece, and knew that no one outside of Florida had ever heard of me, so no one would have any reason to put it out. I just did it myself, and subsequently fell in love with the idea of putting out CDs." In 1998, Stelzer decided to publish work by other composers and reached out to artists whose music he had long admired. "Since it was so easy to publish one CD, I felt empowered (and bold!) enough to ask two of my favorite artists,

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(Christian Renou, from

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) and Kapotte Muziek (

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, from the

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) to submit an album for me to put out." In 2002, Stelzer was asked by

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of Bip-Hop Magazine if his label's mission was to discover and promote up-and-coming new artists. He replied that it was not: "Many of the artists whose work appears on Intransitive are folks whose music I’ve been excited about since I was young. Brume, for example, is someone whose music first excited me when I was 16 years old and in high school. Frans de Waard's Kapotte Muziek records and cassettes are things I’ve been listening to for years and years. Same with

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and others. In many cases, I use the label to give something back (in a way) to the artists who I admire by publishing their new works. In 2009, the label added a sub-division called

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(named after the song by

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) in order to publish small-edition

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. In addition to publishing CDs, CDRs and records, Intransitive Recordings also hosted concerts in the Boston area.

Partial Discography

*int004 Kapotte Muziek ''The Use of Recycling'' *int006 Brume '' Kreig'' *int007 Roel Meelkop '6 (Mailcop Rules)' *int013 ''v/a - Variious'' (feat:

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Voice Crack Voice Crack was a Swiss electronic free improvisation band. Formed in late 1972 by Andy Guhl and Norbert Möslang, Voice Crack began as a free jazz duo. Then they used pre-recorded tape effects and live sound processing. By 1983 they had elimina ...

Kevin Drumm Kevin Drumm (born 1970) is an experimental musician based in Chicago, United States. Biography Emerging from the city's improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one of the world's pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Since then his work ...

, Brume, Roel Meelkop, Michael Prime, Jerome Noetinger,

John Watermann John Watermann (born February 19, 1935, in Berlin as ''Johannes Wassermann''; died April 2002 in Brisbane, Australia) was a composer, performer and filmmaker. Much of his musical work incorporated field recording Field recording is the term ...

) *int014 ''Knud um Nom du Serpent (Le Cercle des Entrailles)'' *int015 Mike Bullock / Howard Stelzer & Jason Talbot'' The Idea of Northeast'' *int017 M.Behrens ''Elapsed Time'' *int018

Bernhard Gal Bernhard is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar (1604–1639), Duke of Saxe-Weimar *Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1901–1984), head of the House of Saxe-Meiningen 194 ...

''Relisten'' *int020 Nerve Net Noise ''Meteor Circuit'' *int021

& Jason Talbot ''Songs'' *int022 Seth Nehil/JGrzinich 'Confluence' *int024 Roel Meelkop ''5 (Ambiences)'' *int025 Kapotte Muziek & Lethe ''Tsurumai'' *int027''
Brendan Murray
''Wonders Never Cease'' *int028 Seht &

''Exactly What You Lost'' *int029 Nerve Net Noise ''Dark Garden'' *int030

''Bond Inlets'' *int031 & Seijiro Murayama ''Hatali Atseli (L'Echgange des Yeux)'' *int032 Jim Haynes ''Sever'' *int033 Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer ''Asylum Lunaticum'' *int034 Lethe ''Catastrophe Point #5'' *int036 Failing Lights ''Failing Lights'' *int037

C. Spencer Yeh Burning Star Core is the experimental music project of violinist C. Spencer Yeh. Originally conceived 1993 in Cincinnati, the project is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Composing music that's driven by his violin, Yeh's Burning Star Core ...

''1975''

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External links

Intransitive Recordings website

Intransitive Recordings entry @ Discogs.com

Interview with Howard Stelzer about the History of Intransitive Recordings
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Partial Discography

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