zeena parkins, rhys chatham, keiji haino, wolf eyes, yellow swans, yasunao tone, aodl, merzbow, einsturzende neubauten, kk null, one umbrella, nels cline, maja ratkje, nurse with wound, sonic youth.
Email booking inquiries to: Sarah (at) sarahlipstate (dot) com
Noveller is the solo project of Brooklyn-based sound artist and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. She has performed in Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Army, and as a member of Glenn Branca’s 100 guitar ensemble. In March 2008, Lipstate joined Parts & Labor as their new guitarist and completed several U.S. and European tours before leaving the band in July 2009.
Last year, Lipstate performed as part of the Underground at the Abrons performance series at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In December, she played at the Un Son Par Là, Music of Today festival in Nîmes, France. She recently performed in the revival of Rhys Chatham and Karole Armitage's "Drastic-Classicism" as part of the Think Punk! program at The Kitchen in NYC. Following that performance, she joined Rhys Chatham and his cast of guitar-allstars at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a performance of his minimalist punk classic "Guitar Trio". Along with 199 other guitar players, Lipstate performed in Chatham's "A Crimson Grail" for 200 guitars which debuted at Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park in August 2009.
In April, No Fun Productions released her debut LP Paint on the Shadows. Following the release, Lipstate performed at No Fun Fest at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. In September, the label released her full-length CD follow-up titled Red Rainbows and Lipstate performed at No Fun Fest Sweden in Stockholm.
Her short films screened at the SXSW film festival in both 2006 and 2007, and earned Lipstate the "Diamond in the Rough Cut" award for exceptional emerging filmmaker at Cinematexas 2006. Her short, Memory Scars, screened at the Reel Venus Film Festival at Anthology Film Archives in NYC in October 2008. She debuted her most recent short film "Interior Variations" at the New Museum in NYC as part of No Fun: Infinite Sound and Image in May. The film is also scheduled to screen at the 12th Kyoto International Student Film& Video Festival in Japan in November.
Lipstate received a BS in Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin in December 2006, and currently resides in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.
Colourful Disturbances split LP with Aidan Baker (Divorce Records)
"Guitars warped so hard they dissolve into pure consciousness! Seriously, this record had to happen because these two are the NOW of transcendental guitar weirdness. In families like ours where deformed music of one kind or another pours out of the speakers all day long, Toronto's Aidan Baker is a household name. He is no doubt one of the most imaginative experimental musicians of the new generation, quickly creating a universe of limitless sound with his bursting discography. He offers this record an extensive piece which mixes drone, texture, and an ever-bowing foundation -- imagine the sound of falling backwards... forever. The new blood on this split is guitarist Sarah Lipstate from Brooklyn, New York (aka Noveller). Sarah's prepared twin guitar works up a slow hypnotic force, gently pulling way out to the furthest deep end of pulses and patterns. Beautiful repetitions effortlessly skirt over a dark undercurrent. A+++ listen. Edition of 600 copies. Ships in late October. Artwork by Caroline Contillo."
"Debut CD from Brooklyn musician and film maker Sarah Lipstate. Red Rainbows is full of growing tonal drones that evoke visions of menacing multicolored skies alongside tracks full of beautiful minimalist structures that shoot straight for the heart. Sarah uses double-neck guitar and various electronics to create breathtaking atmospheres with an intensity that works on both a cognitive and emotional level. These tracks are either really beautiful or really dirty when the time is right, which is the key here. Sarah knows what she is doing and when to do it. This is an essential initial document from one of the new artists bending abstract sound into meaningful structures. Includes a collaboration with Carlos Giffoni. This is an enhanced CD and includes the short film “Interior Variations”. Artwork by Caroline Contillo."
Paint on the Shadows LP (No Fun Productions)
"Paint On The Shadows begins with a liltingly pretty, side-long construction of intertwining guitar loops and elliptical fingerpicked patterns that conjures all of the best that Grouper and Colleen had managed through their loopstation laboratories. All of these sounds blossom out of a harmonic bed of bowed guitar drones; and steady low end thrums sublimate into richly plucked chiming notes that could even double for Jozef Van Wissem. The flipside offers up two pieces which seem to reflect her live presentations, with ebows, motors, and hand-held tape decks driving the strings and pick-ups from her double necked guitar. With precise placements of the ebows and some choice tremolo effects, Lipstate generates phasing tones often heard in the cosmic explorations of Eno & Fripp's No Pussyfooting or certainly not that far from Emeralds." - Aquarius Records
This Heat Will Melt The Earth cassette (Baked Tapes 2008)
"Noveller is the sonic personification of rolling waves, brush fires and distant bird songs. All of which are accomplished by the contrast of distant chiming bells, primal singing and brick walls of feedback. "This Heat Will Melt The Earth" begins with a subtle lyrical beauty that lies in stark contrast with the grimy sound masses that follow. This release covers more ground than most noisicians would dare to try. This full spectrum of expression is why Noveller, aka Sarah Lipstate, stands out from the bulk of noisicians. As a whole this release makes one coherent thought which is equally effect as it's five constituent parts." - Dracula Trap
36 artist mega-compilation of lady noise artists comes in the form of 3 CDs and a special zine packed in hand-printed chipboard boxes. Special limited edition of 50 (almost gone!) includes 2 CDs and a cassette tape with the zine, and a free Ladyz in Noyz button.
"The 3CD noise beast is unleashed... 3 labels, 55 artists, 225 minutes of music packed in a fancy 5 x 6 box set. Here's the line-up: Black Meat, Door, Noveller, Jason Zeh, Teeth Collection, Earwicker, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Gerritt, Thurston Moore, Wzt Hearts, Skullcaster, Steve Bradley, Wether, Mermaids, Strotter Inst., Mike Shiflet, Leslie Keffer, Magicicada, Burning Star Core, Oblong Box, Aughra, Travis Ryan, Donna Parker, Robert Inhuman, Yellow Tears, 1thousand holy shards, Back from Iraq, Sick Ill Cell, Dead Machines, Herpes -- DeLuxe, The Cherry Point, scutopus, Ben S. Jacobs, Blango, Decimation Blvd, ultra//vires, Subterrane, Perfect Teeth, Darsombra, Panicsville, OP Rechts, Bet Hell, Gerritt & John Wiese, Josh Lay, Cotton Museum, Big China/Little Trouble, Forbes Graham, Small Life, Iovae, Heirs of Rockefeller, Destructo Swarmbots, Hum of the Druid, Sword Heaven, Tonight Golden Curls, and Guilty Connector. Released by PG, Epicene and Underadar."
"Brand new themed all-female noise comp from Chocolate Monk featuring excellent exclusive tracks from a boggling international line-up that includes Heather Leigh, Tovah Olson, Kim Gordon, Inca Ore, Smack Music 7, Polly Shang Kuan Band, Hockyfrilla, Bridget Hayden, Replicock, Leslie Keffer, Sharkiface, Sharon Gal, Hertta Lussu Assa, Unicorn Hard-On, Goils, Goils & Fripped, Noveller, Nicole Chambers and Helix. Highly recommended." from Volcanic Tongue
Noveller's track Signal is on the Women Take Back The Noise compilation featuring 47 female experimental artists from around the world. The three disc box set comes in a limited edition of 1000 in custom-made circuit bent packaging. Killer!!
