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klangboot radio podcast – Klangboot Radio #031 ~ Aqua+Space ~ 20120418

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klangboot radio podcast

“Klangboot Radio #031 ~ Aqua+Space ~ 20120418”

Klangboot Radio ~
Ambient, Electronica und Soundscapes

Playlist (Artist – Track – Label – Year):

1. Il Morris – Escape – http://load-and-clear-netlabel.blogspot.com/ – 2011
2. Wings Of An Angel – The Fathomless Soulfulness … – http://www.paralucid.net/ – 2010
3. Ars Sonor & Meklabor – Labyrinth of Obstacles – https://effluviarecordings.wordpress.com – 2012
4. Hidekazu Wakabayashi – Farewells in the Silver Afternoon – http://organicacoustic.bandcamp.com – 2012
5. Cinema Noir – Forget reality – http://www.nostressnetlabel.net – 2012
6. Gumbel – Wrong Dreams – http://gumbel.bandcamp.com – 2012
7. KrakEP – monodance – http://www.monokrak.net – 2006
8. Visciera – March – http://www.headphonica.com – 2012
9. John Whitehorse – Changes – http://www.deepxrec.com – 2012
10. Hecrom – Zimmer084.4 – Deimos – http:// www.zimmer-records.org – 2012
11. Nadejda Goes To Stardom – Piter At Night – www.dast-netlabel.eu – 2012
12. Due samoani – 5-1 via vittorio emanuele – http://paragraforecords.tumblr.com/ – 2012
13. june lauren prescott – sister valedictorian – http://20kbps.sofapause.ch – 2012
14. CHAIRS – Winged Chupacabra – http://chairsmusic.bandcamp.com – 2012
15. lookingAtMySilentReflectionThroughANonexistentMirror – http://www.paralucid.net/ – 2010

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posted 18 April 2012

Marta Zapparoli – Codex

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Marta Zapparoli

“Codex”

I always draw my inspiration from the narratives and metaphors of a variety of impacts from different locations and situations.

These are often quite unique experiences within a certain period of time, landscape or corner of society.

Last year during several trips, I did many different recordings in East Europa. During my research on land, I found special places with particular energies. For example : unpredictable movements, defective technology, misplaced animals, dis-punctuality, unforeseen natural sound effects or other cataclysms of nature and unforeseen cataclysms in Humans.

The idea of this release is a deep construction, cut up, manipulation and deconstruction on many layer of these recordings, decontextualized from their origin, creating an absurd and surreal landscape in codex.

The technical part is done with field recordings on tape-recorders mixed, converted on digital software for mastering.

Marta Zapparoli aka Penelopex :
sound artist, performer, musician, studied fine arts and the soproano saxophone. In Bologna/Italy being involved in a series of experimental radio shows, multmedia performances,sound installations and various dance companies and aswell experimental multimedia theater events.

She now lives in Berlin where she is part of the Splitter Orchester Berlin, collaborating on sound installations with Martin Kuentz and a duo project with Alessandra Eramo next to her ongoing solo project.

The last decade she creates strong narrative sonic pieces using a open variety of recording techniques and custom analog tools as well as found instruments and objects.

Her sonic explorations bridging together the sensual quality of field recordings and versatile processing of live electronics. Within environmental phenomena, acoustic ecology, noise pollution, focusing on sonic narratives & human emotions through decomposition and real-time tape manipulation, sounds that are considered non-musical or overheard.

She Releasesd several albums on Umbrella Noise records, Idiosyncratics records, Nohmad records and Zeromoon records. She was also extensively featured WDR3 open studio elektronische musik, and a variety of experimental radio broadcasts.

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posted 16 April 2012

Wings of an Angel – In My Darkest Dreams (night diary of a poète maudit in earthly exile)

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Wings of an Angel

“In My Darkest Dreams (night diary of a poète maudit in earthly exile)”

“I would have preferred to sing the blues in any small bar full of smoke than to spend the nights of my life scratching into language…” (Alejandra Pizarnik)

Abstract Sounds & Razor Sharp Words To Illuminate The Silence… Surrounded By Tears And Shadows… Sadness, Sadness. This Life Is An Ever Evolving Dark Night Of The Soul. And What Am I – A Galactic Wreck – To Do? In This Cosmic Catastrophe, There Will Be No Romantic Survivors.

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posted 24 March 2012

Wapstan & Hal McGee – Cruststain

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Wapstan & Hal McGee

“Cruststain”

CrustStain consists of paired 62-minute microcassette recordings by Wapstan (Martin Sasseville, Montreal, Quebec) and Hal McGee (Gasinesville, Florida). In early 2012 Wapstan recorded random and varied sounds from his daily life in Montreal (including radio and TV and sporting events, machine sounds, minimal electronics, etc.) in collage fashion on a microcassette and mailed it to McGee. McGee listened to Wapstan’s tape once through to get the general feeling of the flow of the sounds, and then he set about recording sounds from his daily life, from work, home, streets, restaurants, stores, conversations, etc. After McGee completed his tape he mixed his and Wapstan’s tapes together strictly on a one-to-one basis, arbitrarily, creating a happy-accident lo-fi crusty bruitistic dual-track juxtaposition celebration of the mundane drenched in tape hiss audio collage.
posted 18 March 2012

Fires Were Shot – Maritime

Fires Were Shot – Maritime
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Fires Were Shot

“Maritime”

Fires Were Shot are an amazing instrumental duo from Texas, United States. Their sound can be categorized as textural, guitar driven ambient music. No-Source Netlabel is excited to debut Fires Were Shot’s long-form single, “Maritime” to the world. Fans of Cheer, talkingmakesnosense, or Brian McBride (of Stars of the Lid) will instantly fall in love with the sound of Fires Were Shot. Maritime, at over twenty eight minutes, takes you on a journey out to sea and back. Field recordings of the ocean are quickly engulfed by layer upon layer of guitar drones, delay and plucking. While out in the waters surrounded by the deep, you find yourself at last. This is melodic acoustic drone that should be held up right next to the very best.
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posted 17 March 2012

d’incise – The fields remain while the recorder has long vanishe

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d’incise

“The fields remain while the recorder has long vanishe”

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bloody preamps, no windshields, fuck, hours feet in the water,
for almost nothing, time passed, I’m long gone, the fields
remain.
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posted 16 March 2012

VA – No Labels No Musics III

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VA

“No Labels No Musics III”

The electro-music/EdP sound collage project No Labels No Musics, challenges musicians to create original compositions from an existing field recording archive.
Participants are limited to field recordings as the only sound sources, but are encouraged to chop, mutilate, and process until cooked to desired flavor.
This is the resulting dish!
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posted 06 March 2012

Klangboot Radio – ~ Automat ~

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Klangboot Radio

“~ Automat ~ “

2 hours, 22 Tracks of Ambient, Electronica and SoundscapesOur Artists: 3bc, Jay-Dea López, 7 Vortex, Absorption, Aloo, Asmik, creative commons, FSB, GL[D], Hugo, kalope, keith303, Ken Palmer, klangboot, Ktnish, live live live, netaudio, quietman, Rasul Mono, readymedia, subterrestrial, Tobetozero, Tomputer, Wialenove, Wolfgang Kirchheim, Xesy
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posted 01 March 2012

Luís Antero – Viagens Sonoras

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Luís Antero

“Viagens Sonoras”

Luís Antero: field recordings
Locais: Lisboa e Coimbra
Equipamento: Zoom H4 e Zoom H2N
Ano: 2012 (Elétrico Sonoro) e 2010 (Lx_CBR)

Notas: a faixa “Elétrico Sonoro” é o resultado de uma viagem de eléctrico desde a Graça até à Estrela, em Lisboa, na companhia de João Ricardo (ocp, Ponto, etc.).
A ambiência sonora deste secular meio de transporte lisboeta, desde a partida até à chegada, é o que se pode escutar nesta faixa, sem qualquer tipo de processamento ou manipulação; a faixa “LX-CBR” é uma composição sonora resultante de recolhas efetuadas nas cidades de Lisboa e Coimbra e originalmente concebida para a radiofutura, emissão especial da rádio Zero no festival Future Places, em 2010. Também neste faixa não houve qualquer tipo de processamento ou manipulação sonora.

“this work contains pure field recordings”

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posted 23 February 2012

Rinus Van Alebeek – Return

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Rinus Van Alebeek

“Return”

Though I had images of a portual town as Graham Greene visited on his travels, I doubted very much if ‘Port Saïd’ would have been the right title.
I also thought of ‘Cargo.’ I am surprised by the calmness of the piece, and a feeling of warm summer days. At some points it feels like walking through narrow winding streets.

Some of the tapes I used in this radio performance contained snippets of conversations, meetings, evenings with friends, all bringing back memories that lay dormant on one of the shelves of my subconsciousness. It was a pleasure to go there again.

‘Return’ was first played 18. january 2012 on the radio show ‘A Maïzing Session With…’ hosted by Anton Mobin in his apartment in Paris.

I used various cassette players and dictaphones, an effect pedal and a small box full of tapes.

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posted 21 February 2012

TREEOFO – 22 EP

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TREEOFO

“22 EP”

Its rustling. Dripping. Playing. It makes zzz.
Moving in lines. Sounds are traveling. Hopefully melancholy.
It seems to be always the same persons, which are fighting in mind. Keeping Silence. A prospecting of Sound?
Views are floating, its still a Trial. Elusive.
A Saxophon tells us. And Trains. And a Piano… which could never decide!
If there is a possibility of listening waves beating? Or do they rythm the beat?

And when Acid becomes Jazz?

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posted 21 February 2012

Ponto – Sobre Carris

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Ponto

“Sobre Carris”

os dois registos de “sobre carris” foram gravados no mesmo dia – um de manhã, outro à tarde – com um telemóvel (se x8), em mono.
“eléctrico” conta-nos uma viagem da graça até à estrela, em lisboa, nesse meio de transporte tão pitoresco.
“entre estações” contrasta com o registo anterior ao capturar um momento de uma viagem lisboa – porto, no conforto (quase estéril) de um comboio inter-cidades.

posted 17 January 2012