sam rushton: analog modular
ayankoko: ppooll, guembri
fa cesario: analog modular
lauren rodz: diy electronics, voice
recorded live in Marseille, june 2021
Release date: 27 October 2021
TENTATIVAS FRUSTRADAS (Failed Attempts), Sept. 18th, 2021
“Sometimes you get bored with yourself and, simply, want to get rid of your old life. In pandemic times, such thing is easily possible when you feel in such a bore in lockdown, in isolation. Per Scelstak came into existence when George Christian felt disgust with himself and, also, with the way virtuality has become something exploitative in his life.
In fact, Per was born only as a pseudonym when he sent a concert piece for a competition (for which he didn’t win or earn anything). The secret behind his name can be found in contemporary classical music composers: Per Nörgard, Giacinto Scelsi and Walter Smetak. Influential to the mind behind Per, a certain guy whose last name is Pereira? Quite possibly. Per has only gained an image, though, when his creator felt in a real distress, in his personal life. Per killed the past social profile of George Christian, which was too revealing of his thoughts, too personal, too disastrous to be reached, too naïve. Per is the result of George’s anger against the way personal life is treated in the virtuality, by the social networks. Nowadays, Per is in conciliation with his creator. But not for so long.
Per is different. Per never talks in 1st person. Per is never personal. Per can be read here, or not. You might not understand why such distance, but probably you are closer to him. More than you imagine. Per is another face of reality that wants to be in the realm of different senses. And the reflection of such persona is in his music.
It took a long time to George Christian figure out the existence of Per. But Per has been following his steps since the days he decided to experiment only with electronics in his 3rd album, Three Dimensions of Unrecognizement and Other Unknown Reaches. Maybe he can be found in Exílios 3. Per can also be found in Secretos Universos. His real debut, though, is with two other crazy fellows from India: Hatiyar and Hazardnaut. Per is George into electronic extremities.
TENTATIVAS FRUSTRADAS is the first album under Per’s name and a sum of principles that have been guiding his electronic experimentation. In fact, this principle is just a single surrealist one: automatic writing. Per is completely ignorant concerning on how a machine language operates. Per IS a machine. Per IS a computer. Per IS nothing.
These pieces can be understood as inner failures. No songs, no hooks, no melody that can be easily sung. It requires a real deranged mind to deconstruct and build another world. Per is no strange to post-minimalism, post-spectralism, post-jazz, post-rock, post-psychedelia. His electroacoustics comes from the inwards of MIDI and tone colors’ researches to the spontaneous structural architectures.
Per is NEVER quiet. His brain listens to several voices and do not find peace in a single one. Per embraces all the voices. Heaven, hell, purgatory. Per has been in all of these places. He invites you to dance with your wrist and dry yourself into the waters. His manners may be of electronic, artificial gestures. But what he delivers is plain and pure reality. Cruel REALITY. Your nightmares should be dancing.”
released October 24, 2021
Recorded for Drone Day 2021 by UbiniqU and fourthousandblackbirds.
Mixed by Albérick.
photo by Wilfried Hanrath
design by EMERGE
www.zenapolae.com/releases/zen236/zen236__Fabio_Keiner__Nine_Eleven__01_Impacts.mp3
Musique concrète suite for bullroarer, church organ, cimbalom, vocoder, boat horns, Romanian Catholic choir, Indian ashram temple bell, Radio Afghanistan station ID, and other aural ablutions. Researching melodic patterns in musique concrète.
Recorded in July–August, 2021 in Paris and Poitiers, France.
L.F.: found sounds, samples, loops, sound collage, virtual synth, artwork.
Ed End:
Album concept, song titles, and original source music.
Charles Rice Goff III:
Additional sounds, mixes, final edits, and cover art.
Technology:
Ed End:
Novation Bass Station analog synthesizer in rack with Yamaha DX21 keyboard.
Rhythms generated by a Digitech Trio Pedal in various FX circuits, coupled with a pink Mini Kaossilator Korg, an electric frequencies generator, and various FX pedals.
Samples are done with an old turntable with an elastic band and some other stuff under the records to make irregular playing surfaces.
Etheric Body incorporates a computer overlayer mix.
C. Goff III:
Voice, Korg R3 Vocoder/Synthesizer, Korg Z1 Synthesizer, Micro Moog Analog Synthesizer, Hello Kitty Stratocaster Electronic Guitar, Aklot Electro-Acoustic Soprano Ukulele, Various Plectra, Boss RC 20X Loop Station Loop Duplicator, Ibanez DM 1000 Digital Delay, Yamaha FX 500 Effects Unit, Various Analog Foot Pedal Sound Effects, Tascam 424MKIII 4-Track Cassette Recorder, K-Mart Portable Phonograph, Modified Vinyl and Flexidisk Records, Cool Edit Pro II, Audacity, Midisoft MIDI Scorewriter, Windows Media Player, Roxio 2011 Sound Recorder, Several Plug-In Audio Sound Effects, Amazing MIDI Wave-To-MIDI, Polysoft MIDI to Mp3 Converter, Natural Reader Voice Emulator
Editing Process:
To produce this collection, Goff blended many of his own original recordings with Ed’s source materials. Goff also modified Ed’s source materials in many ways. Simple digital effects altered source track sounds and/or speeds. Some source tracks were played on a keyboard directly through the inputs of a Korg Vocoder. On one piece, a single rhythmic source phrase was modified in a number of ways, then the various modified phrases were linked together into a chain. Some source tracks were converted to MIDI files, then the resulting tracks were altered to showcase a variety of MIDI sounds. Some edits were recorded onto a 4 track cassette tape and remixed manually into digital files.
Below the surface :
We talked a lot about the symbolic elements before Goff upgrade it.
About Salvador Salvandus concept you will discover yourself an answer if you translate the fifth track title.
It seems one big problem in this world is about on one side the self proclamated saviors, kind of people often thinking that there is only one solution : their solution… and on the other side the savior worshipers, kind of people often thinking it’s more safe to be save by someone else than to do it themselves…
For me both are wrong. Of course, people with a little psychological skills know that the “hand seeking help”, is more trying to drag down someone else to feel less low. Sameway that the “helping hand” is more trying to steal the benefit of the salvation. Obviously the savior can’t save and the savior seeker can’t be save.
Both being blinded because too much self centered. In this problem there is not only two subjects but three and this third one is the world itself, and the world, this wide network of living beings brings a real solution if you are able to listen it. You get the process and knows how to act toward to solve it till you are able to feel these connections and understand how to set your mind.
Hard to explain fully in few words roughly translate that’s why I prefer let the music talk.
Above the surface :
It took me several listening before to get it, Salvador Salvandus is the kind of album you can often go back to and slowly become a familliar presence as well as that shadow behind you can be. For me it’s an important step in rADio eNd study of how a kind of soul can be reveal thru the transformation of the sound material. That’s why I’m so happy Goff share his editing process. And I hope you will be as joyfull than me that he brings this music to life.
This album is also available here:
archive.org/details/rADio_eNd_Salvator_Salvandus
evoked response: Eric Boivin & Albérick
CLOrk : Mo Abbas, Marcus Aterman, Didier Bergeron, Nicholas Brown-Hernandez, Aidan Charlton, Arthur Yi Duo Chen, Thomas Christie, Kevin Cogen, Bennett Dobni, William Graham-Simpkins, Jared Jukes, Simon Lacelle, Tyler Lewis, Dario Lozano-Thornton, Timothy MacKenzie, David Macri, Ryan Jeffrey Ockenden, Andres Andy Poblete, Adrian Roy Taylor, David Philip R. Russell, Thomas Speakman, Vanessa Zaurrini.
Eldad Tsabary, dir.
Recorded live at Concordia University, Room 8.245, January 29th 2015.
Recorded & mixed by Eldad Tsabary.
photos by Dan Penschuck (feindesign.de)
design by EMERGE
1.white trash (XIMER by Flesh:On:Steel) 09:58
2.vidange blanche (The Band Of Peace remix) 07:38
3.white trash (Bag remix by UbiniqU) 03:58
4.white trash (SEPL remix) 06:10
5.white trash (EMERGE remix) 03:44
Black lives matter.
Original version of white trash appeared on homework – year 4 (taâlem, 2019).
Thank you Jean-Marc, Eric, Max, Neb, Thierry, Sascha.
photo by Wilfried Hanrath
design by EMERGE
Thermoplastic Fibers
by Charles Rice Goff III and Michael LaGrega
1) Vinyon
2) Dacron
3) Teflon
4) Orlon
5) Nylon
6) Zylon
7) Rayon
1) Vinyon (Polyvinyl Chloride, invented 1939)
Resists chemicals, bacteria, insects. Crease resistant and elastic.
Used in blankets, draperies, children’s clothes, carpeting.
2) Dacron (Polyethylene Terephthalate/PET Plastic, patented 1941)
Barrier to gases, liquids, alcohol, solvents. Lightweight and semi-rigid. Recycles well.
Used in food containers, clothing.
3) Teflon (Polytetrafluoroethylene, discovered 1938)
Resists wetness. Low friction. Degradation is toxic to humans and birds.
Used as non-stick coating for cookware, lubricant for medical and military equipment.
4) Orlon (Acrylic, invented 1941)
Resists heat and acids, color-fast, machine washable. Soft, warm, mimics wool and cotton.
Used for clothing, insulated clothing, furnishings, carpeting.
5) Nylon (Synthetic Polymer, invented 1927)
Resists moisture, chemicals, molds, insects. Melts but does not burn.
Used in stockings, carpeting, various military equipment.
6) Zylon (Thermoset Liquid-Crystalline Polyoxazole, invented 1980s)
Stiffer than steel, thermally stable. Degradation begins within a few years.
Used in sporting, military, and medical equipment.
7) Rayon (Regenerated Cellulose, patented 1892)
Lightweight, mimics silk, velvet. More biodegradable than cotton.
Used in clothing, cellophane, sausage casings.
“Thermoplastic Fibers” was inspired by a 51-page research report that Goff put together for Mrs. Adams’ 5th Grade Science class in Fremont, California, 1969. This collection of recordings in no way recommends the production nor the usage of thermoplastic fibers for any purpose.
The Manufacturing Tools:
Goff:
Korg R3 Vocoder/Synthesizer, Korg Z1 Synthesizer, Micro Moog Analog Synthesizer, Ibanez DM 1000 Digital Delay, Hello Kitty Stratocaster Electronic Guitar, Aklot Electro-Acoustic Soprano Ukulele, Various Plectra, Slides, Beaver Jaw, Pete Davidson Vibrator, Yamaha FX 500 Effects Unit, Various Analog Foot Pedal Sound Effects, Billiard The Theremin, Five Below Modified Sound Generator, Boss RC 20X Loop Station Loop Duplicator, Voice, Cool Edit Pro II, Audacity, Several Plug-In Audio Sound Effects
LaGrega:
Korg 01R/W, Oberheim Xpander, Moog Matriarch, Alesis Andromeda, Kawai K5000W, Roland JD-800, Yamaha SY77, Omnisphere VST, Korg Trident VST (the ‘Tricent’), E-MU PX-7 Command Station, Boss DR-880 Drum Machine, Epiphone Les Paul copy (of a copy)
Produced March-June, 2021
Calendar, 12-part suite
…and the days when it snowed, music for speaking voices, music boxes, children’s glockenspiel, keyboards, objects and electronics
…and the days when it snowed is a 4 channel sound installation for the exhibition which took place in Lenfilm foyer (St.Petersburg). Here is a 2 channel version of the piece.
The exhibition art made by Polina Zaslavskaia, curated by Xeniya Zernina, timed to the Tonino Guerra’s 100th anniversary.
Texts by Tonino Guerra;
Voices by Laura Guerra and Tonino Guerra;
Music composed, performed (music boxes, children’s glockenspiel, keyboards, objects, electronics) and recorded by Kirill Shirokov.
A special release to celebrate the forty number of publications In Your Ears, the new effort by Smiltzo who had already published here the beautiful A Lifelong Quarantine.
Back To Life is a special vision of music and our existence, Indian titles that refer to an ancient wisdom to research in the contemporary and in the new forms of life we are experiencing. Smiltzo’s musical trajectory goes far beyond genres, we must look at the whole it generates, the strong emotions it causes, the illumination that creeps into our doubts.
Electronics of great quality and at the service of a very precise design, for an extraordinary musician.
Rarefied atmospheres or large visions of the whole, megalopolies of the future or small meadows behind our house, Smiltzo is everywhere.
