{{More citations needed|date=June 2009}} {{Infobox company | name = Intransitive Recordings | type = Independent Record Publisher | key_people = Howard Stelzer<br />Artists: Kommissar Hjuler, Roel Meelkop, Kapotte Muziek, Lionel Marchetti|fr}}, C. Spencer Yeh, Nerve Net Noise | foundation = 1997, Gainesville, Florida | location_city = MA, United States | genre = Electroacoustic, Electronic, Free Improvisation, Improvisation, Noise | industry = Music | homepage = [http://intransitive.bandcamp.com] }} '''Intransitive Recordings''' was an independent record label for experimental music, founded by the artist Howard Stelzer. Intransitive published electro-acoustic music, free improvisation, sound art, sound poetry, and noise music between its start in 1997 until its ending in 2012.<ref>[http://www.discogs.com/label/Intransitive+Recordings Intransitive Recordings]</ref>

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."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/features.php?whichlh=76 |title=--==> foxy digitalis : Features <==-- |website=www.digitalisindustries.com |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080527214748/http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/features.php?whichlh=76 |archive-date=27 May 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

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, Brume (Christian Renou, from France) and Kapotte Muziek (Frans de Waard, from the Netherlands) to submit an album for me to put out."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=755&category=features|title=Igloo Mag interview with Howard Stelzer|access-date=2009-06-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831002720/http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=755&category=features|archive-date=2009-08-31|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2002, Stelzer was asked by Philippe Petit 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 Marc Behrens 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pandemoniumrecords.com/bip-hop/webzine/pdfwz3/intransitive.pdf|title=Bip-Hop Magazine interview with Howard Stelzer|access-date=2009-06-19|archive-date=2008-09-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905132101/http://www.pandemoniumrecords.com/bip-hop/webzine/pdfwz3/intransitive.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2009, the label added a sub-division called '''Songs From Under the Floorboards''' (named after the song by Magazine) in order to publish small-edition CDRs.

In addition to publishing CDs, CDRs and records, Intransitive Recordings also hosted concerts in the Boston area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.weeklydig.com/arts-entertainment/music/200804/intransitive-recordings|title=Weekly Dig article about Intransitive Recordings|access-date=2009-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080427010656/http://www.weeklydig.com/arts-entertainment/music/200804/intransitive-recordings|archive-date=2008-04-27|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Partial Discography==

*'''int004''' Kapotte Muziek '''''The Use of Recycling''''' *'''int006''' Brume ''''' Kreig''''' *'''int007''' Roel Meelkop '<nowiki/>'''6 (Mailcop Rules)'''' *'''int013''' '''''v/a - Variious''''' (feat: Taylor Deupree, Voice Crack, Kevin Drumm, Brume, Roel Meelkop, Michael Prime, Jerome Noetinger, John Watermann) *'''int014''' {{ill|Lionel Marchetti|fr}} '''''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 '''''Relisten''''' *'''int020''' Nerve Net Noise '''''Meteor Circuit''''' *'''int021''' Howard Stelzer & Jason Talbot '''''Songs''''' *'''int022''' Seth Nehil/JGrzinich '<nowiki/>'''Confluence'''' *'''int024''' Roel Meelkop '''''5 (Ambiences)''''' *'''int025''' Kapotte Muziek & Lethe '''''Tsurumai''''' *'''int027''' [https://brendanmurray.bandcamp.com/ Brendan Murray] '''''Wonders Never Cease''''' *'''int028''' Seht & Howard Stelzer '''''Exactly What You Lost''''' *'''int029''' Nerve Net Noise '''''Dark Garden''''' *'''int030''' Howard Stelzer '''''Bond Inlets''''' *'''int031''' {{ill|Lionel Marchetti|fr}} & 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 '''''1975'''''

==See also== * List of record labels

== Notes == {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://intransitive.bandcamp.com Intransitive Recordings website] * [http://www.discogs.com/label/Intransitive+Recordings Intransitive Recordings entry @ Discogs.com] * [http://www.allrecordlabels.com/db/4/5224.html Intransitive Recordings at allrecordlabels.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822225046/http://www.allrecordlabels.com/db/4/5224.html |date=2009-08-22 }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080527214748/http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/features.php?whichlh=76 Interview with Howard Stelzer about the History of Intransitive Recordings]

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