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music tagged with: experimental

Una Lee – From B with L

Una Lee – From B with L
[PT081]

Una Lee

“From B with L”

This is a recording of a soundwalk observed from a first person’s point of listening. As all sound recordings do, this soundwalk recording presents what the specific one person hears when she went on a particuar walk. The unusual feature of this work as a soundwalk recording is that it also provides an insight to the thoughts that occur to her while she is on the walk, rendered as a voice letter to an unidentified acquaintance. This reveals personal stories and memories related to the places she visits as part of the soundwalk.

Sound recordings, Voice, Artworks, Cover Art by Una Lee

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posted 07 December 2018

BELLEROPHONE – Uses of Gravity

BELLEROPHONE – Uses of Gravity
[ACP 1173]

BELLEROPHONE

“Uses of Gravity”

originally released in 2014

Recorded and mixed at bellerohome by D. Santziliotis in Athens, Greece, using: Roland Juno 6 and Roland System-100m synthesizers, Korg MS20, Roland RE-201 space echo and Uher 4000 Report Studio tape recorder
Mastered by James Plotkin
Artwork and design by Georgia Simogianni; photos by G. Simogianni.

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posted 07 December 2018

Onde Poussière – del_din04

Onde Poussière – del_din04
[Eg0_194]

Onde Poussière

“del_din04”

After a web collaboration (album Imperceptible,) Onde Poussière return to free improvisation with their 4th album del_din04, made of sessions recorded on 25th and 26th september 2018. For this occasion, they once more experimented with new set-ups, this time with a focus on lo-fi sound. Doedelzak played laptop amplified with cheap computer speakers and occasionnaly flute, while Kecap Tuyul used his z(xW+yW), a low-tech modular system based on tiny battery-powered guitar amplifiers and contact microphones. Through this new change they continue to explore sonic material and techniques that are likely to cause various accidents and usually unwanted sounds, which are an essential part of the ground on which the band build its improvised soundscapes.
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posted 06 December 2018

José Gallardo A. – Humores

José Gallardo A. – Humores
[pn137]

José Gallardo A.

“Humores”

“José Gallardo launches through Pueblo Nuevo his latest album ‘Humores‘ (pn137). Unlike his previous ‘Sinfonía para un hombre solo… en su casa‘ (pn107, 2016), which exhibits the realization of field recordings as a guiding thread, ‘Humores‘ makes reference to the moods or temperaments according to the classification of Hippocrates, considered the father of medicine. It is, thus, a kind of suite that is composed of emotional representations instead of dances.

The humoral theory, in force from Greek Antiquity until after the Renaissance, comprised four temperaments: Choleric, Phlegmatic, Melancholic and Sanguine. Each one of them was associated with an organ and with a secretion of the body (yellow bile, phlegm, black bile, and blood, respectively) and health would depend on the balance between these elements. The word ‘humor’ comes from the Latin ‘humore’ which means liquid or fluid.

As a means of opening, Gallardo adds a fifth state, that of ‘Ansiedad’ (Anxiety), where music tries to connect itself with the future from the present. This is the only track on which we hear an instrument played in a traditional way or without being deconstructed, the Saz of the Middle East, and from this material is apparently also extracted to create adjacent sounds.

Predominant in this album are rough textures, carefully agitated sounds obtained by microsampling – often treated in a granular way, and cacophonous conglomerations, almost always in counterpoint with their opposites, as in the game of resonances and punctual sounds of ‘Melancolía’ (Melancholy). The last track, ‘Sanguíneo Pasional’ (Sanguine Passional), is divided into two very clear moments, the second of them based on a calm drone that brings peace or, better, balance, to close ‘healthily’ this interesting set of music.”

Bryan Holmes
(Río de Janeiro, Brasil. Noviembre / November 2018)

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posted 05 December 2018

Naoto Yamagishi – The Fishes are Wafting in The Forest

Naoto Yamagishi – The Fishes are Wafting in The Forest
[WAC25]

Naoto Yamagishi

“The Fishes are Wafting in The Forest”

The fishes who lost their homes by the big wave from the outside turned into shadow and are wafting in the forest and over the mountains. Dreaming about the day they can swim that ocean.

live recording @ Newtown Social Club, Sydney, Australia

2nd May 2016

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posted 01 December 2018

Failure Circle – Frozen Clinamen #2

Failure Circle – Frozen Clinamen #2
[Eg0_193]

Failure Circle

“Frozen Clinamen #2”

Frozen Clinamen is serie of works by Failure Circle (a solo project of Kecap Tuyul) started on autumn 2017. It follows a simple method inspired by the the possibilities of his no-input mixer set-up and the will to use a limited sound material in a posteriori compositions : all the sounds included in these works are recordings of moments that feature no human intervention. Frozen Clinamen #2 was recorded and mixed between april and august 2018.

Methodology
step (1) Tweaking the set-up until it produces some seemingly autonomously self-sustained sound sequences.
step (2) Stopping tweaking and recording for at least 20 minutes without any intervention on the set-up.
step (3) Repeating steps (1) & (2) several times.
step (4) Using the generated sounds as only source in a posteriori compositions. The only variations used while mixing are equalization, panoramics and volume levels.
step (5) play it at low/high volume with open/closed window while complety asleep / fully conscious.

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posted 25 November 2018

PHILIPPE NEAU – Place where we listen​.​.​.

PHILIPPE NEAU – Place where we listen​.​.​.
[ACP 1172]

PHILIPPE NEAU

“Place where we listen​.​.​.”

mastering by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst)
photography & design by EMERGE
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posted 25 November 2018

Eggshell Goblin – April 14th

Eggshell Goblin – April 14th
[PE16]

Eggshell Goblin

“April 14th”

Vocal experimentation made on April 14th 2018 with family friends and my parents in the next room.
I make lots of music because living in the Borders is really Boring; creativity is essential for staying awake around here. I’ve been obsessively listening to my music until I don’t like it anymore for roughly 7 years. I’m not sure what I want to do with my life but I do plan on making music for the rest of my days.
Fergus McQueenie (aka Eggshell Goblin).Track 1 is all 3 tracks made available as one file.

Released by Pilot Eleven Netlabel (PE16).
www.pilot11.co.uk

released October 26, 2018

Cover art by Nikolai Krabbe – www.instagram.com/nwolfenheim/
Mastering by Dudley Ramsey – m.soundcloud.com/damsai

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posted 12 November 2018

Anastasia Vronski – Estrangements (volume1)

[Eg0_192]

Anastasia Vronski

“Estrangements (volume1)”

Anastatsia Vronski is a versatile experimental musician from Perm, Russia. Since years she has been creating an impressive and quite diverse body of work. Many of her tracks can be classified as “drone “or “noise”, but they always have a specific, often intriguing qualities. Above all, she’s not an artist who will do the same twice, and maybe that’s why some of her pieces are sometimes self-published isolately. Since we thought many of them deserved more exposure, we decided to make a selection of such works in a compilation album : Estrangements, that will be published in two volumes. The first volume gathers tracks composed in 2013 & 2014 (selected with the artist’s approval) that seem to share some kind of minimalist mood, although they are very diverse. For each of them, Vronski has written a few words about the specific methodologies and ideas (see below) involved in the composition. But this doesn’t make her music less mysterious. Each track seems inhabited by a mysterious and poetic spirit whose intrinsic qualities will appear to attentive listeners even without reading anything. The 2nd volume will be published in 2019
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posted 12 November 2018

Darren McClure, Toni Dimitrov and Boban Ristevski – Walden

Darren McClure, Toni Dimitrov and Boban Ristevski – Walden

Darren McClure, Toni Dimitrov and Boban Ristevski

“Walden”

Brand new release from Thisco. Walden is the first in the series of collaborative works by Darren McClure, Toni Dimitrov and Boban Ristevski.
Check for more releases by Jarboe, shhh…, Merzbow, Rasalasad, Rapoon, Phil Von, KK Null, Sci Fi Ind,among many others.
posted 11 November 2018

HOLZKOPF – Post​-​Neo​-​Pagan Wind Music Live at Ganze Bäckerei in Augsburg, Germany

HOLZKOPF – Post​-​Neo​-​Pagan Wind Music Live at Ganze Bäckerei in Augsburg, Germany
[ACP 1165]

HOLZKOPF

“Post​-​Neo​-​Pagan Wind Music Live at Ganze Bäckerei in Augsburg, Germany”

Improvised music by Holzkopf using a sampler, MIDI controlled feedback, a pretzel with paper bag and a beer bottle.

live @ Ganze Bäckerei, Augsburg, 07.07.18
recording, mastering, photography and design by EMERGE

Holzkopf is Western Canadian musician Jacob Audrey Revington Taves. A decidedly non-traditional musician, they have mainly used budget bin samplers and drum machines in combination with tape recorders, mixing board feedback and raw data sounds. Varying from deconstructed dance music to harsh rhythmic noise to delicate and soft soundscapes, Holzkopf performances channel influences as diverse as industrial, dub, microsound and gospel musi

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posted 03 November 2018

Number Eleven – Event

Number Eleven – Event
[EEM039]

Number Eleven

“Event”

Complex rhythmic combinations, constantly getting faster to the point of losing the structure and becoming a vast halo of drum-like noise tearing the last orchestral sounds, that couldn’t get ready for an end of a process that didn’t even start, and hopeless melodies that aren’t sure if they are supposed to exist.

Having difficulties to cope with worsening states of disorders, Event leaps to search for an answer by removing the definitions completely and allowing to make connections again, to feel attached to things that were once familiar and welcoming. Knowing that this way of searching for the source of the disorders will lead to a failure, by not being able to relate to those things, renders them strange, wiping all of them away. But one of those gets stuck, resisting to go away and holding everything together. The Event leads itself to disengage from everything that could be described with a definition.

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posted 30 October 2018

Various – Noise Factory 2017 “klanggänge”

Various – Noise Factory 2017 “klanggänge”
[ACP 1166]

Various

“Noise Factory 2017 “klanggänge””

Arne Heisch
Greta Neven
Dan Penschuck
Wolfgang Neven
Markus Schwill
Sascha Stadlmeier
Henning André Voss



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posted 25 October 2018

InO – Magali Albespy – 2017/2018

InO – Magali Albespy – 2017/2018
[Eg0_191]

InO – Magali Albespy

“2017/2018”

InO is the acronym for “Interpenetration and non-Obstruction”, one of the principles that John Cage used to create music that was anarchic (against the structures of most of musical traditions) and in the same time encouraging new possibilities of coexistence. Magali Albespy, a french artist rooted in dance and performance, took inspiration from this for a methodology of real time composition dance practice focused on sound. “2017/2018” is made of excerpts of the sessions recorded during the first year of these weekly events.

These recordings can be considered as documents of this practice. Indeed they are such documents, especially for people who were involved in the sessions. But we think that they also have a fragile and surprising beauty of their own that deserve an independent life for your listening. This unexpected musicality has been discreetly stressed by the editing choices, which we can consider like a delicate work of “a posteriori composition”, a work made with respect for the uniqueness of each sound event and their kind of abstract narrative power. That’s why we hope that you will enjoy these atypical works.

Credits :

Recorded and edited by Magali Albespy.
Pictures by Anne-Catherine Nicoladzé (front cover) and Emmanuelle Huchet (back cover)

Featured performers :
Magali Albespy, Jean Bloch-Laroque, Suzanne Cotto, Antoine Freychet, Chloé Garat, Flora Gaudin, Camilla Gliozzi, Virgine Gouband, Emmanuelle Huchet, Paul Kauffmann, Guillaume Lecamus, Laurence Luminet, Blandine Minot, Stéphanie Moitrel, Martine Muffat-Joly, Anne-Catherine Nicoladzé, Olivier Pelletier, Stéphanie Puechavy, Regina Ramsl, Anne Savelli, Kecap Tuyul, Donata d’Urso, Sig Valax, Mandoline Whittlesey

Magali Albespy is a dancer and performer. She likes to question the borders between formats and artistic disciplines. She explores real-time composition with body, video and sound. As a musician, she also plays in M.A.K.T. Sono and Mesce Basse.



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posted 21 October 2018