Desk of the Components, the influential U.S. label that shut up store in 2011, will relaunch this 12 months as a curatorial platform, interdisciplinary manufacturing group, and publishing home. A relaunch occasion on the Backyard Cinema, in London, heralds its return, on Friday, June 13, with a screening and Q&A for the Tony Conrad documentary Fully within the Current. Extra occasions around the globe will happen within the following month, the group mentioned, together with a membership drive to help a docket of vinyl and digital audio releases, artist editions, podcasts, movies, and interdisciplinary stay performances.
Between its 1993 launch and 2011 dissolution, Desk of the Components put out data by the likes of Conrad, Thurston Moore, Jim O’Rourke, Keiji Haino, Pauline Oliveros, Faust, John Cale, Gastr del Sol, and Fennesz. New initiatives embrace a piece from composer Charlemagne Palestine, a podcast sequence exploring the Desk of the Components catalog, and an artist-led audio sequence. An preliminary batch of vinyl releases contains David Grubbs’ Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange; Matthew Welch’s Library of Babel; and Everloving, an album described as “the debut from the NYC ‘star-studded’ Henry Flynt tribute band.”
