Originally from "Jamie Drouin & Lance Olsen ‎– Snowfield + Remix" 2xCD
www.yannnovak.com/recordings/remix/snowfield-remix/

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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.
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Review:

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Jamie Drouin and Lance Olsen’s Infrequency was born in 2001 as a platform for small edition works focusing on minimal sound and art works. This first double CD release comes as the original work by Drouin and Olsen themselves along with a second disc of remixes by Yann Novak, 2 versions by Jamie Drouin, one reinterpretation by Lance Olsen and finally a remix by Tomas Jirku. The original work on the first disc is taken from a 2003 work using the interaction with a field of snow in British Columbia to create the basis for the sound. A series of hypnotic, ultra-minimal compositions using field recordings and direct manipulation which will be very appealing indeed to lovers of the works of Richard Chartier, Dale Lloyd or Andrew Deutsch it consists of layers of micro texture, found sounds and recordings, drone plus low and high frequency range sounds that capture an icy cold yet completely compelling feeling. A deep work of musical art. The remixes on the second disc are beautifully varied and feature some incredibly dense work with gorgeous layers of sound… at times similar to Rod Modell’s ambient work or some of the other Silentes material. These versions are punctuated by the more abstract and fractured version from Tomas Jirku which evolves and mutates over time using multi-layers of captured sound and manipulated tones that keep the essence of the original intact. The final version by Jamie Drouin is an intense journey through layered drone and it brings the project to a wonderful close. If this is the calibre of release we can expect from this label in the future, then I for one will be eagerly anticipating the next installment! Quite superb from beginning to end and a must for lovers of Raster Noton, NVO, Line and other such labels. Highly recommended.
– Smallfish
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