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Dear friends and followers of clongclongmoo. It's great to have you here. As you may have noticed, the site has changed a bit. Some people wanted to be able to access the music with fewer clicks. That should work again now. Here's a quick note to everyone who uses relatively new platforms such as Mirlo, Faircamp, or Coop: feel free to use the submit form to draw attention to your new music. I'd especially appreciate hearing from anyone who runs a netlabel with free Creative Commons music. Thank you! Konrad from clongclongmoo

music tagged with: experimental

ce françois couture – derrière

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ce françois couture

“derrière”

ce françois couture is an experimental musician, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist based in st-faustin, quebec, canada. he came out of the music closet at age 38. he plays keyboards, theremin, percussion, and ukulele, but his main instrument is the no-input mixing desk, which he uses to sculpt rivers of controlled feedback.

françois’ first album for pan y rosas is a 39-minute improvisation performed using no-input mixers. it was recorded direct to disc. the sound is reverbed drone wave flow with shimmers.

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posted 06 February 2014

MRTN-CSTR – KR0M

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MRTN-CSTR

“KR0M”

Martín Castro began composing electronic music in 1992, venturing through different styles and forms as a forerunner in electronic music in the city of Córdoba, Argentina.

Currently, he is experimenting with the creation of his own software, working on patches for Native Instrument, his own “wavetables” and sound synthesis with complex structures in the style of Monolake or Richard Devine, who are his greatest influences. His sound is reminiscent of that of Parsons. Martin´s compositional ideas position him within the current of “Psychedelic Industrial Ambient”.

MRTN-CSTR is his alias for a disc constructed with only his own software: “Synthetic Instrument”.

posted 06 February 2014

Relentless – Document #102013

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Relentless

“Document #102013”

Sébastien Branche: Saxophone
Artur Vidal: Saxophone

Relentless is an experimental sound creation project based on saxophone. Coming from free improvisation, their current proposals are focused on different practices of sound art. Specificities of the performance space, exploration of their musical instruments and ways to relate with the public are the foundations of their work. For the past few years, they have been looking into the relations between dancing, video and improvised music. Relentless is, in a way, the sound layer that settled through these investigations. Long tones, circular breathing, multiphonics, objects, are some recurring elements always renewed in a dialog between an idiom that settles through practice, and the necessity to improvise to create a music that takes into account each sound and each instant in its composition.

posted 03 February 2014

Fundstücke – Live

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Fundstücke

“Live”

Fundstücke, the duo project of Gunnar Lettow (Hamburg) and Gary Rouzer (Washington DC), began as an online collaboration in 2010. Their debut recording was released in November 2011. They first met and performed together at the 2012 Blurred Edges festival in Hamburg, Germany. The two tracks on Fundstücke Live were recorded later that year during a short East Coast US tour.

Der Erste was recorded on 30 September 2012 at the Atlas Theater in Washington, DC.
Der Zweite was recorded on 27 September 2012 at the Spectrum in NYC.

Gary Rouzer- prepared bass, amplified objects
Gunnar Lettow – präparierter e-bass, electronics

posted 02 February 2014

Laskfar Vortok – Scombussolato

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Laskfar Vortok

“Scombussolato”

Artist: Laskfar Vortok
Title: Scombussolato
Genre: Glitch
Country: USA
Format: MP3 [256 kbps; stereo; 44,1 kHz]

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Tracklist:
01 – Bridage Sta Avanzando 3:06
02 – Perugia 2:11
03 – Via Appia 2:44
04 – Cloaca Maxima 2:54
05 – Viva La Liberta! 2:30
06 – Circus Maximus 2:42
07 – Pompeii 2:00

posted 01 February 2014

Frank Wilke / Andrè D. – Vertical Theory

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Frank Wilke / Andrè D.

“Vertical Theory”

Vertical Theory is the joint work of two musicians, possessed of free improvised music. The music came over the distance of about 1.26843e-10 ly in their head mostly first at nocturnal walks in such diverse regions of Europe as the French Maritime Alps on the one hand and the West German Ruhr area on the other.
posted 01 February 2014

The Darkening MAchine – Progression In The Haze

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The Darkening MAchine

“Progression In The Haze”

A new album from the mysterious project called The darkening machine. As all previous releases, this album is more about creating a mood than calling attention of itself. The listener seems to plunge into a dark, viscous and claustrophobic endless night. The darkening machine uses layers of analog synthesizers drifting sometimes to dissonant tones and melts them with spare piano notes that evoke the last apparition of sunrays just before the sunset.

Artist : The Darkening Machine
Title : Progression In The Haze
Catalog # : TXR066
Duration : 36:18
Date of release : January 29, 2014
Genres : dark ambient, drone, noise
Format : digital (FLAC and MP3)

posted 31 January 2014

Mark Browne – The Prejudices of History

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Mark Browne

“The Prejudices of History”

British sound artist, saxophonist and noise maker Mark Browne follows up his 2012 album “Malapert and Erratic” with this EP- featuring improvisations on percussion, bowed guitar,thigh bone and saxophone recorded on the evening of the 7th December 2013.

“The Prejudices Of History”
Or as I remain pleased with part 1, “Malapert and Erratic part 2″
Over the years I have become increasingly aware of what I do as a musician and the need to at least appear to conform to some ideal whether real or imaginary. This may be an attempt to answer the question: What epitaph will adorn my headstone?
It has been documented that I play the saxophone, and indeed this has been the case for around 30 years. The problem comes with the definition of saxophonist. For me picking up a saxophone, alto initially, was required in an effort to undo the learning that I had acquired over several years of classical guitar playing. The guitar still has the feeling of being someone else’s territory and I could not see myself developing in a manner that would create an approach and style that I could call my own. The uniqueness of a musician’s approach struck me as being important at that time, aged 16.
And so the saxophone was selected as my new instrument: its methods and approach being the antithesis of those of the guitar. Looking at some notes from this period it seems that I believed the ideal piece of music (naturally an improvisation) should aspire to infinite variation in dynamics, timbre and colouration, and rhythm. In later years the need for and development of form (rhythm in a wider sense) has become more important.
So the saxophone is not a guitar. Neither are many other instruments. Am I a saxophonist? Am I a percussionist? Probably neither, I am a collector of sound making devices â the saxophone, in a single instrument, fulfils a number of those early requirements. The other instruments are used to augment the repertoire, adding contrast to the saxophone and expanding the music’s soundscape.
As well as a collector, I am an arranger of sounds and occasional organiser of people. Nothing more.
The pieces were all recorded evening Saturday 7th December 2013”
-Mark Browne (from the sleevenotes available as a PDF with the download.

posted 25 January 2014

Chris Whitehead – Habitats for Metal Plants

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Chris Whitehead

“Habitats for Metal Plants”

Linear Obsessional is delighted to present this new release from Chris Whitehead – A EP of sonic environments to encourage the cultivation of metal plants,with an accompanying detailed PDF guide…

This CD was released simultaneously with Mark Browne’s “The Prejudices of History” (LOR049) – with which it shares some concerns and sounds.

“Since the Industrial Revolution the soil in Britain has changed considerably in its formulation. Where once it almost exclusively consisted of organic matter, it is now likely to hold high levels of metallic elements such as iron, aluminium and copper. Areas where industrial processes took place in the past but have since been reclaimed by nature are particularly rich in this residual metal content.

Plants growing in these environments have, by means of Darwinian natural selection coupled with sheer determination to survive, managed to incorporate various metals into their very DNA. The resulting species display a variety of features only made possible at the point where biology and metallurgy combine.

The aim of this guide is to assist the amateur metallobotanist in identifying these enigmatic plants, and also to instil enthusiasm into those armchair readers who have never searched the disused foundries of Sheffield for a reclusive Cutleri silvaservicia or listened attentively on the hills of West Yorkshire for the soothing sound of a clump of Alpine Cog Daisies (Coggi interlockia) gently turning in the breeze.

The two sound recordings included here have been developed to aid the growth of these unusual plants. By placing a speaker at either side of the specimen (ideally they should be equidistant and each no closer than two feet away) the sound produced will acoustically recreate a very favourable growing environment. Once brought indoors and planted in any kind of container what these organisms miss most are sound vibrations of a metallic nature.

By regularly subjecting your plants to these carefully composed and scientifically tested sounds (about twice a week is the recommended frequency) you should begin to see them flourish and possibly even bear fruit. Of course not all varieties are suitable to collect. Some are protected by law and others are just too bad tempered, quite frankly”

-Chris Whitehead, from the introduction to the booklet “Flora Metallicum Britannica- a field guide to the metallic plants of the Britsh Isles” (included with this download)

posted 25 January 2014

Art Electronix – Cold & Rusty

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Art Electronix

“Cold & Rusty”

This music is minimalist and rough , but it makes your head swing to the beat, as much as it makes you feel the rhythm whistling in the pipes, gurgling in the tap, dripping like raindrops on the window sill, cats meowing and the fridge purring. All this turns into a rhythmic march of existence, the music of a musical box, or crammed tricky electronic circuits. As if robots were singing an ode to existence.
posted 24 January 2014

Morphine Bandit – Ruin and Oblivion

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Morphine Bandit

“Ruin and Oblivion”

After a year in 2013 and four albums made for three different labels (Eg0cide Productions, Batenim, Textural Records), Morphine Bandit is back for his first release in 2014.
This release is quite short compared to previous ones but contains three tracks very different in terms of atmosphere and style that sweep the sonic possibilities of Morphine Bandit.
So what is this new album about ? Singing mystical sirens lost in a modern city, stretched notes mingling with the sound of distant bells punctuating the course of a forgotten meaning ceremony, unreal languages pronounced in a fall night, echoes of monolithic machineries coming from beyond the horizon…
Artist : Morphine Bandit
Title : Ruin and Oblivion
Catalog # : TXR065
Duration : 22:10
Date of release : January 22, 2014
Genres : dark ambient, drone, noise
Format : digital (FLAC and MP3)
posted 24 January 2014

Varios Artists – Midnight Radio Compilation 5.

Midnight Radio Compilation 5

Varios Artists

“Midnight Radio Compilation 5.”

Midnight Radio compilation various artists, your place for underground music and sounds. enjoy and spread it worldwide. come with me.

MRCVA:
[being part of one (or more) of next compilations various artists?
all styles are allowed. contact me.
(artist name, track name, website link [infos about you?] )
WAV, FLAC, MP3, etc.
send to (ask me email adress)
www.wetransfer.com
notice, some people think, this is a radio station and ask me to play her favorite song. this is not a radio station. this ist a free download compliation with various artists and her own, hand or software made music.

(dark) + ambient|avantgarde|experimental|electronic|and more
midnightradio-compilation is a part of:
avantgarde.glasklinge.de
midnightradio11.de
midnightradio11.bandcamp.com
www.eisenlager.com

regards, glasklinge zeitenlicht

posted 23 January 2014

Secrets Of The 45 – Lappers At The Rim

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Secrets Of The 45

“Lappers At The Rim”

SOT45 presents a collection of previously unpublished recordings, gathered throughout the 10 years of the project’s existence.Starting off with 3 early found sound constructions, ritualistic in their abrasiveness, the album then progresses to a minimalist deconstruction of a choir loop, slowly reducing it to a set of drones. It is then followed by two tracks from a discarded Momolot remix album – two approaches to rock music deconstruction – one busy and whirring, the second one blurry and dreamy. “Wintery Russia” is an ambient piece made out of a mangled cassette tape with accordion melodies. The set is concluded by an experiment in chance operations on a set of found sound samples, consitituting a disconcerting bouncy collage adventure.
posted 22 January 2014

lucie vítková – ideas and techniques

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lucie vítková

“ideas and techniques”

lucie vítková is czech composer and performer. she graduated in accordion performance at brno conservatory in 2010 and composition at janáček academy of music and performing arts in brno (cz) in 2013. during her master’s degree, she studied at royal conservatory in the hague (nl) and at california institute of the arts in valencia (usa). she has studied with martin smolka, jaroslav šťastný, martijn padding, gillius van bergijk and michael pisaro. she is member of the ensemble marijan, dunami, dust in the groove, and prague improvisation orchestra.

lucie’s first album for pan y rosas, is a collection of ideas and techniques that she accumulated throughout her practice as an improviser. in each piece she tries to portray certain phenomena in their pure, concentrated form to make their individual characters clear. to create the pieces on this album, she used three different accordions, her voice, and a harmonica.

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posted 15 January 2014

Proyecto Lazarus & Bleak Fiction – Parenthesis

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Proyecto Lazarus & Bleak Fiction

“Parenthesis”

Parenthesis is the first release between Proyecto Lazarus (Spain) and Bleak Fiction (Argentina).

They focused in a dark ambient atmosphere, with diverse elements like noise, spoken word, field recordings, minimalism and drone music. It’s a conceptual album, with allusion to moments of reflexion about different themes.

posted 01 January 2014

Black Square Cloudcast – Human Transfixed

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Black Square Cloudcast

“Human Transfixed”

“why
Do our black faces search the empty sky?
Is there something we have forgotten? some precious thing
We have lost, wandering in strange lands?” – Arna Bontemps

00:00 The Ghost Between The Strings – Nothing Will Happen
09:07 Ownsi Lense – Elementum V
13:01 Spit It Out – Almost There (mix on MIG)
23:40 Ostensibly Ossified – Nothing to Do With Anything
27:17 _Voice – Human Error
33:39 Sanmi – Blindman
36:12 Hox Vox – Undead
40:47 Ghazaleh E – Dead Now (Antioch Arrow Cover)
43:23 Muhmood – Sunn
48:37 Hyaena Fierling Reich – Human Transfixed
52:32 Cometa – Violin_C143

posted 31 December 2013