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music tagged with: ambient

Quiet Clapping – Among The Haze

Quiet Clapping – Among The Haze
[mhrk308]

Quiet Clapping

“Among The Haze”

Quiet Clapping is a project of Jonathan Deasy – guitarist, improviser, composer, splitting time between Ireland and France. “Among The Haze”, his debut on Mahorka, is a departure somewhat from the usual Quiet Clapping formula of long form 20 minute ambient compositions. The pieces here are shorter, saturated and brimming with emotion. Written while reading Borges and living through a pandemic.

released May 28, 2022

Music by Jonathan Deasy

Artwork photo by Eberhard Grossgasteiger

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posted 28 May 2022

Martin Hoogeboom – Colony

Martin Hoogeboom – Colony
[ET60]

Martin Hoogeboom

“Colony”

Etched Traumas is more than happy to release ‘Colony’ by Martin Hoogeboom. ‘Colony’ is a soundscape work based on the sounds of ants. Martin says about ‘Colony’ :

“It might be an ethical concern to fill an ant’s nest with molten aluminum, to let it cool down, and to then dig it up. But this is the only way to get a building that looks like it has been designed by an alien architect.

Recent studies have shown that ants regularly communicate with each other by sound. Most ants have a natural washboard and plectrum built-in into their stomach. By rubbing these against each other, they create sound. This enables the queen to order her workers. Researchers can record these sounds, which are the basis of Colony, with the newest audio techniques.

I gave sound designer Theo Calis and trumpet player Ed van den Berkel the following instructions for improvisation: autumn forest, cold, blue sky, strong wind, chasing clouds. In the same forest where you are enjoying your walk, a superorganism is building complex colonies. Like aliens on a new planet.”

An Etched Traumas ET60 release February 2014

Credits

Written and performed by Martin Hoogeboom, Ed van den Brekel & Theo Calis.
Ed van den Brekel (soundcloud.com/ed-trum-ped): trumpet & electronics.
Theo Calis: fractal rhythms/sounds, sound design, additional recording, mastering.
John Grzinich (maaheli.ee) & Veljo Runnel (soundcloud.com/estlander): field recordings
Adrian Smith (adrianalansmith.com )& Robert Hickling (home.olemiss.edu/~hickling/): ant sound recording.
Mayako Nakamura (mayakonakamura.jp/): artwork (‘Futatsuboshi – A Pair of stars’)

I am very grateful to everyone for their support and commitment to this project.

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posted 27 May 2022

Various Artists – Thirteenth Listen

Various Artists – Thirteenth Listen
[PCLVA 013]

Various Artists

“Thirteenth Listen”

released May 4, 2022

Music by
Anderdog: anderdog.bandcamp.com
Fnordism: fnord1.bandcamp.com
MediaData: mediadata.bandcamp.com
Nariel: narielofficial.bandcamp.com
Tokee: tokee.bandcamp.com
Kothyus: kothyus.bandcamp.com
Sedatic: sedatic.bandcamp.com
Inoperative System: inoperativesystem.bandcamp.com
Collagist: collagist.bandcamp.com
Rifdent: rifdent.bandcamp.com
Marric: soundcloud.com/mar-ric
Arco5: arco5.bandcamp.com
AtOm_AnT: atomant.bandcamp.com
Odderon: odderon.bandcamp.com
b0t23: soundcloud.com/b0t23
Sibirsky Snickers: sibirskysnickers.bandcamp.com
Existential wabbit: imjustsayin1.bandcamp.com
The Tin Box: thetinbox.bandcamp.com
illocanblo: soundcloud.com/ill-o-can-b-lo
Anitta: soundcloud.com/anittaxoxoxo

Mastering by
Tokee: tokee.bandcamp.com

Original photo by Kaique Rocha:
www.pexels.com/@kaiquestr

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posted 26 May 2022

Various Artist – Sleep Paralysis

Various Artist – Sleep Paralysis

Various Artist

“Sleep Paralysis”

Compiled, cover artwork collage by Sábila Orbe.
released by Internet Daemon Netlabel (ex-Cian Orbe):
internetdaemon.bandcamp.com/
archive.org/details/fav-obscvre_triangle_compilations
ello.co/creativecommonsmusic
www.facebook.com/yaka.anima.noise

Each track composed by the respective artist. Links:
– Humanfobia: humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/
– Wilfried Hanrath: wilfriedhanrath.bandcamp.com/
– Persefone: https://soundcloud.com/user-928550581
– Lunar Eclipse: https://soundcloud.com/jesse-james-42
– Mayhem Lettuce: mayhemlettuce.bandcamp.com/
– Insatiable Void: insatiablevoid.bandcamp.com/
– Mrs Dink: degeneratetrifecta.bandcamp.com/
– Mean Flow: meanflow.bandcamp.com
– Filmy Ghost: humanfobia.jimdofree.com/filmy-ghost/
– Tribe of Astronauts: archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Tribe+Of+Astronauts%22
– flyoversx: flyoversx.bandcamp.com/
– Boban Ristevski: bobanristevski.bandcamp.com/
– Origin Of Styx: originofstyx.bandcamp.com/
– Lärmschutz: larmschutz.bandcamp.com/
– {AN} EeL: panpanpanaviandistresscall.bandcamp.com/

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posted 25 May 2022

Polwor vs Baltazár – Raw Opera

Polwor vs Baltazár – Raw Opera
[pn206]

Polwor vs Baltazár

“Raw Opera”

Scroll. Swipe up. Towns moving to transition phase. Revolt flashbacks. Governability. Populism. 2020 was going to be the year. #selfie. Body positivism. F at chat. tbt. Covid advisors board. That’s not the name for that board. Elites. I left my mask at home. Barricade. Are we meeting via Zoom? Or Google Meet? No, I go for Jitsi. You hear me ok?. Skincare. Citizenship. Subtle. Opinions scrolling. Statements for the press. Hunger. Olla común at neighborhood board. Hunger protest. Hunger screened on a building. Indigenous Peoples. U checked this meme out?. Thermometer on forehead. Liquid on my hands. I’ve got the conviction. Sinovac, Pfizer, J&J. What’s wrong with AstraZeneca? Is there any CanSino? Freighter stuck in narrow canal. Isolation. Bomb at the Lebanon. Mom. Let ‘s play. Non-ironic. Lateral Scroll. Got a match. No stock. Rappi got lost. Silent majority. Let’s try Corner. Election suspended? It’s on Netflix. Mood. Telemedicine. Democracy. Find their Tiny Desk show. #URGENT. Rent. Twitter being Twitter. Parity. But you’re not ready for that talk. No mask. Antivaccine. Transition. Who are these independent/indie ones. Here’s a thread. Thread of threads. Rumination. It’s on Disney+. 30 years. Critical care beds. Noise upstairs. Where are the arts?. Memes. Wholesome memes. Dankmemes. Gamestop stocks. Metamemes and antimemes. FeelsGoodMan. I’m two years older or two years younger. Pedro Pascal. Queen Mónica. Distance at the queue. Back to quarantine. Close contact. The street sounds like everyday, though. We’re a trending topic. Thanks for mansplaining. U got that reference?. We’re the river taking its bed back. San Benito. That’s not music, that’s noise. Social distance. Virtual partay. We’re the indigenous constituent power. Dua Lipa is inspiring. What’s your sign according to your sign. Social rights. They’re not listening. ICU beds. IDU. CP. BF. CD. HP. PAP. LOL. HR. EU. KEKW. TERF. PSC. BTS. GNP. CIT. G2. G7. OCD. Right. Epidemiology. Pedagogy. Communication. Fondart. Pulsar. Put some more Instagram hype. Call for works. Streaming. Webinar. Release. Online workshop. Who’s got the link?. Global Pandemics. Full venue. Mind rumination. Shh. Visual noise. White noise for sleeping. Noise for wellbeing. We are noise blooming from sound. Noise blooming from machines. Noise blooming from noise. Noise from the environment. Ambient Noise. #9 “Raw Opera Vol.1” is flux, and continuity, and affordance towards noise and noise in discrete noise era.

Matías Serrano aka misaa
(Santiago, Chile. Mayo / May, 2022)
English version by Carlos McPherson #stillsafeinHonolulu

The work by these two relatives has been coming out for some time via sonic research, working solo and as part of different projects. But there’s a notorious link behind all the tapes, cables, knobs and electricity around them. They experiment connecting situations, controlling voltage, in order to create this “Raw Opera Vol.2”.

Polwor vs Baltazár take us to a crossroads of dreams, mystical delusions, and parallel universes, where we are able to see the Nexus of separation between this timeline and bypassing to the other side. Sometimes this work takes us somewhere else, feeling like listening to someone else’s daily life, the sounds we’re hearing like field recordings from a universe beyond, or situations we are prone to watch in fever, hallucinations that can perfectly be seen in altered states. “Raw Opera Vol.2” is without a doubt a good way to go.

Máximo Campos (Ciudad Sonora)
(Santiago, Chile. Mayo / May, 2022)
English version by Carlos McPherson #stillsafeinHonolulu

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posted 25 May 2022

O Colecionador de Sons – Torre da Paz

O Colecionador de Sons – Torre da Paz
[emissão 96]

O Colecionador de Sons

“Torre da Paz”

Esta emissão d’O Colecionador de Sons viaja até à aldeia do xisto da Benfeita, concelho de Arganil, para escutar as badaladas e a mecânica do antigo relógio da Torre da Paz, erguida ali em homenagem ao facto de Portugal não ter participado na II Guerra Mundial e que todos os anos, a 7 de maio, toca 1620 badaladas, uma por cada dia que demorou o conflito.

Seguimos viagem e paramos no Convento São Francisco, em Coimbra, para recordar o concerto dado no ano passado, no âmbito do Dar a Ouvir, Paisagens Sonoras da Cidade, na companhia do trompetista João Silva e do guitarrista Pedro Martins, com o Mobiliário Sonoro MS02 a fazer as honras da casa, repleto de paisagens sonoras do Arquivo Sonoro do Centro Histórico de Coimbra.

Bem-vindos!

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posted 16 May 2022

Waldgrenze – Ökoton

Waldgrenze – Ökoton
[mhrk307]

Waldgrenze

“Ökoton”

Waldgrenze (border of the forest) – the project of Theo Kovalev (Wave Resistance), focused on ambient and experimental electronic music, as well as acoustic sound production experiments and field recordings, is inspired by the ecological idea of friendly coexistence of two opposing sides – nature and technology. Born in joint improvisational jam sessions with other artists, the project eventually transformed and acquired its own sound character, retaining the original idea of the changes made to live recordings to preserve the feeling of “here and now”, where in each composition you can hear the unique state of different places.

The third Waldgrenze album “Ökoton” is dedicated to the boundary between Earth and space in order to emphasize the unity of people living on a tiny planet in the middle of the infinity. The word ecotone was coined from a combination of eco(logy) plus -tone , from the Greek oikos (house) and tonos (tension) – in other words, a place where ecologies are in tension.
credits
released May 13, 2022

Music and cover by Theo Kovalev.

Mastering by Anatoly Grinberg.
Participated in recordings:
Vadim Rumyantsev (1,7 track) – electronics;
Alexander Shumilichev (2 track) – electronics;
Andrey Podolin (8 track) – vocal, flute;
Anton Popov (9 track) – sitar.

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posted 16 May 2022

various artist – Tribute to Dario Argento’s Occhiali Neri

various artist – Tribute to Dario Argento's Occhiali Neri

various artist

“Tribute to Dario Argento’s Occhiali Neri”

Released by EK4T3 (Italy) & Skull Triangle skull netlabel (Japan/Chile).-

Artwork by D#27 /// Model: Mist Spectra
www.instagram.com/mist_spectra

Each track composed by the respective artists. LINKS:

Saturn Drive [GR]
soundcloud.com/saturn_drive

D4rk3r Side [I]
soundcloud.com/darkerside

ꑛꁒꏸꃃ
soundcloud.com/h_m_c_b

Axis Project [U.S.A.]
soundcloud.com/axis_project

N‡MM [U.S.A.]
soundcloud.com/djnimm

Dariusz Jackowski [PL]
dariuszjackowski.bandcamp.com

DJ_Iterate [U.S.A.]
archive.org/details/ThomasParkBenchmarkHub

Filmy Ghost [CL]
archive.org/details/fav-sabila_orbe02

REBERHEAD [U.S.A.]
soundcloud.com/reberhead

doyoulikelove [U.S.A.]
soundcloud.com/doyoulikelove

Humanfobia [CL]
humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com

Lärmschutz [NLD]
larmschutz.bandcamp.com/

209 SINS [U.S.A.]
soundcloud.com/209sins

Ordis Salutis [U.S.A.]
soundcloud.com/ordissalutis

RDKPL [CZ]
rdkpl.bandcamp.com

PXL [I]
soundcloud.com/pxl47

elephanT▼Session [I]
soundcloud.com/ekatecollective/elephantsession-lain-with-the-bones-pt1

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posted 14 May 2022

Rafael Cheuquelaf – Camino interior

Rafael Cheuquelaf – Camino interior
[pn205]

Rafael Cheuquelaf

“Camino interior”

During the Pandemic that we have all lived through, we have had to modify our habitual behaviors and adapt to circumstances that, until not so long ago, seemed to only exist in the most dystopian imagination. Each one of us has dealt with their ghosts in their own way. I have found mine, returning to the habit of leaving the city to photograph whatever the Magellanic landscape could offer me. And I photographed the most solitary places of the steppe, going into those interior paths that few people travel. There are no human beings in these images, but there is the mark they have left, in the form of abandoned buildings corroded by time. Old houses and empty sheep stalls. Little shrines raised on the side of the road in memory of people who never returned home. Machine gun nests where soldiers waited for a war that never came. Remains of a forest burned by ranchers decades ago. And in the midst of all this, the non-human inhabitants who continue their eternal wandering through the land of the Aonikenk, today crossed by barbed wire that the guanacos jump until they get entangled and die.

Today I share with you the result of a creative exercise: composing and recording music inspired by this photographic record of Magellanic solitude, in a very short time and only using synthesizers, electric bass and an electroacoustic guitar. By doing this I wanted to draw a more complete vision of how I see my habitat and what catches my attention about it. With images and sounds I can express in a deeper way than with words the sensation of strangeness and melancholy that certain places produce in me. And thus reveal new textures under the hard light that illuminates this boundary. I hope you enjoy this brief visual and sonic pass through places where it is easy to imagine that the world has already ended. Because I believe that what would come after our disappearance will be just as calm as that interior path I love to lose myself on.

Rafael Cheuquelaf
(Punta Arenas, Chile. May 2022)

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posted 11 May 2022

Noxpox x Humanfobia – Vampire Blood

Noxpox x Humanfobia – Vampire Blood
[ACP 1348]

Noxpox x Humanfobia

“Vampire Blood”

all music by Noxpox. additional mixes and sound effects by Sábila Orbe
vocals in all tracks: Mist Spectra
artwork by Andre Hindenburg

– Noxpox is an industrial, experimental music project from Orsoy (am Niederrhein), Germany.
Created by Andre Hindenburg.

– Humanfobia is a witch house, experimental duo from Rancagua, Chile.
members: Sábila Orbe (sound mixer) & Mist Spectra (lead vocalist)

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posted 02 May 2022

Luka Prinčič – willow

Luka Prinčič – willow

Luka Prinčič

“willow”

released April 30, 2022

written and produced by Luka Prinčič

sample on track 1 from La Fille du Régiment: “Il faut partir” sung by Pretty Yende

finalized at StudioSP3

cover graphics by Pawel Czerwinski (unsplash.com/photos/x0EANu5-ymY)

thanks to Maja Delak, dancers from her choreography that nons supported, and A.P., who left us too early.

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posted 01 May 2022

various artist – Dreamcore Music vol​.​2

various artist – Dreamcore Music vol​.​2

various artist

“Dreamcore Music vol​.​2”

Compiled, cover artwork collage by Sábila Orbe.

Released by Internet Daemon Netlabel.
internetdaemon.bandcamp.com/
archive.org/details/fav-obscvre_triangle_compilations
ello.co/creativecommonsmusic

Each track composed by the respective artist. Links:
– Filmy Ghost: archive.org/details/fav-sabila_orbe02
– Humanfobia: humanfobia.jimdofree.com/discography-ii/
– tone tone: archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Tone+Tone%22
– Tribe Of Astronauts: archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Tribe+of+Astronauts%22
– Cult Of Parallax: ghostskull.bandcamp.com/
– Persefone: https://soundcloud.com/user-928550581
– Lezet: lezet.blogspot.com/
– Mayhem Lettuce: mayhemlettuce.bandcamp.com/
– Terbeschikkingstelling: sturmunddrang.bandcamp.com/
– Cuntboi: bandcamp.com/search?from=autocomplete&q=Cuntboi
– Origin of Styx: https://soundcloud.com/originofstyx
– Saint De L’Abime: saint-de-l-abime.bandcamp.com/
– Mean Flow: meanflow.bandcamp.com/
– Timmy the Tapeworm: timmythetapeworm.bandcamp.com/
– VICTOR HEADRICK: –

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posted 23 April 2022

Palancar – Aliquid Ex Nihilo

Palancar – Aliquid Ex Nihilo

Palancar

“Aliquid Ex Nihilo”

Most scientists today believe in reductionism, a principle that says all phenomena in nature can ultimately be reduced to just two physical theories: general relativity and the standard model.

Another way of saying this, perhaps more interestingly, is that all phenomena we see in the macro world around us are derived from uncountable (but finite) numbers of fundamental interactions that together add up to results of amazing complexity and intricacy — results that seem impossible given how elementary are the fundamental interactions.

Scientists call this sort of thing “emergent phenomena”, the situation when an entity has properties its component parts do not have on their own. Everything we see around us, including life and consciousness, happens as a side effect from vast numbers of fundamental interactions, all taking place simultaneously and purely by accident. I’m no deist, but this state of affairs feels to me uncomfortably like magic. My thoughts as I write these words are just physical accidents derived from all the known physics churning inside me? Untenable. There has to be more to the story than that.

For this reason, emergence in nature has always fascinated me. I’ve long felt there is something profound lurking in emergence that our science and philosopy today do not yet understand. Why does the random statistical behavior of a sea of particles add up to life and sentience, and not just some bland featureless noise? And where did music come from in all this miraculous emergence?

This is precisely what I am studying in the method for this album. What happens when I stochastically combine musical phrases and ideas that are themselves self-generated? Will emergence occur? Or will I end up with bland featureless noise?

The rules for the method are simple: 1). constrain myself to (virtual) analog modular synthesis; 2). construct generative musical phrases in isolation of each other that share only a few basic properties; 3) combine these phrases stochastically; and finally 4). orchestrate the results so there is a human element involved and the results feel intentional. The hope is that with this method I can construct music that is only partially of my own creation, that somehow enlists the help of emergence, so that nature itself is also helping to construct the music.

That’s the idea, anyway.

Did I succeed in causing emergence to spontaneously occur? Well, I don’t know about all that, but I can say that I enjoyed the method and will certainly continue to explore the world of generative music. I find the results worthwhile, and so I thought I should share the music with you, the listener, so you can form your own opinions about whether nature intervened to create listenable music.

So I am happy to unveil my latest release, called “Aliquid Ex Nihilo”, which is Latin for “something out of nothing”. Did I create something or did I create nothing? You be the judge. I’m just here having fun and loving the process.

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posted 21 April 2022