close mic'ing of the tape/motor - now that's a next step on the continuous exploration of Space Echo possibilities :-) The prominence of this instrument in the contemporary music can't stop to amaze me... So many artists I love use or started to use tape delays. It's so great to keep using mechanics in the age of digits and plugins... Loving the sound, can't wait for the new album to drop!

lovely stuff, taylor.  good to know a new album is on the way!

its so beautiful how do u do it. thank you

ELECTRONICA EXPERIMENTALE

~ LAAPS 012 ~ [SEQ.02 - LP12]

artist : Federico Durand
album : Herbario
duration : 39.52 mn
 date : June 17th, 2021

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / green colored vinyl / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : June 07th, 2021 / official release : June 17th, 2021
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Federico Durand: ARP Odyssey, cassette tapes, feedback looper, Sony TCM-459V, Microcosm, El Capistan, EHX 2880, RE-201, sampler, short-wave radio.
 
Mastered by Taylor Deupree.
Artwork by Albarrán Cabrera
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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"Herbario is the Spanish name given to a collection of dried plants and flowers preserved in an album. The collector usually writes with pencil the name of the herb, the place and date of collection, thoughts, and the habitat where the plant was collected from.
 
I live in a place surrounded by mountains and wild gardens which are, to me, a source of inexhaustible beauty. Through them I feel the passage of time: an ancient, circular temporality that follows the course of seasons, dialogues with the dark stillness of the mountain and the moon calendar. Each musical piece of Herbario has the name of my favourite flowers and trees.
 
Through a year of uncertainty, from March 2020 to March 2021, I composed this album in the same way a botanist would have proceeded: collecting and preserving simple, broken and hypnotic melodies.
 
F. D.
La Cumbre, Argentina. "

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/laaps.records/
https://federicodurand.bandcamp.com/

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Federico Durand - Salvia

Arturas Bumšteinas
So-called Space
Sloow Tapes- CS 30

Continuum-collage piece by Lithuanian composer Arturas Bumšteinas created in 2015 from incidental music sampled from various Lithuanian radio drama's from the 1950's to 2000's. A strange heady brew which juxtaposes music, sound effects, rudiments of vocal expression and various acoustic instruments among others in a compelling cut-up, reminding at times of People Like Us or Dirk Schaeffer's recent work for Peter Tscherkassky's movies. Edition of 70 copies.

Arturas Bumšteinas

Justine

Stream

A Lord Without Jewels

Sti.ll

Recur (For Guitar, Cello, Double Bass, Flute, Lap Harp, & Percussion)

Preview from the album 'Enigmatic Melancholy' by Garda.

Support: https://atlantearecords.bandcamp.com/album/enigmatic-melancholy

Stream: https://open.spotify.com/album/1j9MaE2XpwrQ0W5WSJhM2b?si=WIvrpn2DQ4qrNG8Nzo46zw

Music by @gardamusicofficial
Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Cover artwork by Anthony Asher-Yates
2024 © Atlantea Records | AR025

Enigmatic Melancholy

Garda - Enigmatic Melancholy [AR025] preview

FLORILEGIO’S MIXTAPE #23
A tapestry of contemporary experimental and underground tracks from Florilegio’s worldwide network of female musicians.
www.florilegio.org
www.freeformfreakout.com/florilegio-mixtape-23/

TRACKLIST:
Yu Ching “You, An Illusion” The Crystal Hum (Night School) 00:02 – 04:52
Heta Bilaletdin “Anaksa” Nauhoi (Kraak) 04:27-9:20
Signe Emeluth “2.2” BANSHEE (Motvind Records) 9:15-10:47
Maria Bertel “Bertel Solo 2” Live in Murmansk (School of the Arts) 10:37-13:52
Yao Chunyang “旁旁 Beside Her” Post-Oblivion 泯默集 (Dusty Ballz) 13:49-18:06
Jiyoung Wi “Swipe Left” Accept All Cookies (Enmossed) 18:05-21:45
Avola “In The Mourning” Psykor (SIGE Records) 21:43-31:11
Martina Berther “Cymbal” Bass Works: As I Venture Into (Kit Records) 31:01-33:01
Ka Baird “Gate IX” Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos (RVNG Intl) 32:53-38:26
Ma-Beyn & Sabine Salamé “7RK” N7S (Self-released) 38:16-42:49
Hiele Kinsella “The Third Summer of Love” The Third Summer of Love (Stroom) 42:43-49:00
Jessica Sligter “The Finest Hour” (Self-released) 48:39-53:18
Marta De Pascalis “Harmonices Infinity” Sky Flesh (Light-years) 53:09-58:09

FLORILEGIO MIXTAPE #23

This track is a direct recording from a computer generated music stream. As part of "La Mécanique des Beats", it impersonate the computer role in a trio with a dancer and a musician where the two human character struggle to fit in harmony with the automatic digital production.

Mouvement 5, La Mécanique des B(ea/i)ts

Mouvement 1, La Mécanique des B(ea/i)ts

a piece i started on may 8th for my upcoming album. it's primarily hohner pianet.. but today i added some acoustic piano and a lot of tape machine.. including the close mic'ing of the tape/motor of a roland RE-201 and some re/recording tracks onto a failing reel-to-reel.

this is an excerpt. the full track is about 10 minutes long.

the image for this sound is an insight as to how the album is being composed. all manual playing, no loopers or sequencing... it's highly structured yet humanly played.

... rough mix/unmixed... mostly in mono, for now.

june 11, 2015 (new album, progress)

http://www.recitalprogram.com/dreams-of-india-china/
Limited LP Edition of 500
12-page color booklet with essays and photographs
OUT ON APRIL 19th

Purchase

R59 - Rip Hayman - Dreams of India & China LP excerpt

"In a time when techno and abstract music is sounding repetitive, Metasplice continue to utilize unconventional sounds and arrangements. "Decant", being the more floor oriented track, combines groovy bits that turn into splashing immense noises and harmonies. "Churn" opens with a barrage of beautifully crafted harmonic sequences, then relentlessly descends into a sublime world. Both tracks are spectacular floating grooves that immerse the listener in the group's unique and intense headspace."

doser015 - Metasplice - a - Decant

Available end of September, 2013. Early pre-orders for those on the mailing list:

www.fac-ture.co.uk/Mailing-List

The audio process…

Light Folds by The Seaman and The Tattered Sail is a collaboration between Craig Tattersall (The Boats, The Remote Viewer, The Humble Bee, Cotton goods, Theodore and Hamblin, The Famous Boyfriend, etc.etc. and artist/designer) and Bill Seaman (SEA, Attsea, Otic.Info.Set, sp.op.cit, Spilly and the Drops, etc. and media artist exploring linear and interactive works). The work took place via the internet, sending differing files back and forth using Drop Box, wetransfer.com, and vast quantities of email. After about 2 years Tattersall and Seaman met face to face!

It started with a simple back and forth set of responses to a few audio files, building up loops and tracks. Over time it built up to over seven hours of music. We initially made a double CD of works but we kept abstracting and remixing and colliding things. Tattersall brought his distinct form of “dusting” which explored unique forms of noise, tape ambience, tape degradation, etc. Seaman often explored abstraction using Ableton Live, especially in terms of time / pitch manipulation, and exploring the combination of a multitude of Ableton plug-ins. Huge amounts of data were sent back and forth! Occasionally we went a bit mad with naming and keeping track of things… Usually a number of mixes for each initial work emerged out of the process. Sometimes the abstractions went quite far away from the original tracks. The double album on Vinyl came late in the game where a series of shorter versions and new abstractions were defined.

Tattersall played Guitar, piano, dusted loops, analogue loops, digital loops, drum machine, analogue synth, synth bass, field recordings, abstractions, fragment constructions and reconstructions, abstractions of Seaman (etc.), analogue spatial recordings, artificial wind, crackles (record surface noise).

Seaman was working primarily with Ableton Live and contributed Piano, vocal, text, fragment constructions and reconstructions, time abstractions, quartet samples, trumpet samples, clarinet samples, drum machine abstractions, drum machine constructions (samples), digital distortions, bit reductions, synth abstractions, abstractions of Tattersall (etc.), digital loops, radical pitch shifts, noise enhancements, historical samples, crackles – record surface noise (from Tattersall), artificial crackles.

We worked with some excellent musicians in the construction of the samples…

Trumpet (sample recordings) – Robert Ellis-Geiger; Ciompi Quartet (sample recordings) – Eric Pritchard (violin), Hsiao-mei Ku (violin), Jonathan Bagg (violin and viola), Fred Raimi (cello); Clarinet drones (sample recordings) — David Beaudry; in Ableton Live (construction space), and Seaman used a Roland Edirol R-09HR Ver.3.0 for instrument and voice recordings.

The musical influences run the gamut from ambient, industrial, glitch, dance, pop, jazz, classical, experimental, noise art, etc. Seaman has called this alt.genre in the past… although it really defies a single musical label.

The working process was quite exciting to hear what each had done with the tracks as an ongoing process… The project is incredibly rich in its subtle exploration of psychoacoustic spaces and layerings, and it is vast… The works form a series of plateau-like spaces where time is explored and erased, and an atmosphere for reflection and association is presented. Duration was not worried about and many of the works are quite long. The entire project has been incredibly exciting and rewarding in that we each seemed to pull the best out of the other!

It is also worth noting that as an aside to creating within this album, there was a huge element of learning within the album.

Working with a new creative partner always begins with finding a commonality in working practices, then from this you can bring your individual approaches to working practices, it is in the dialogue whilst working through these passages that you learn from each other.

The artwork process…

Like most work undertaken there is a underlying aesthetic language that has been built up over years of arts practice, whether this be audio or visual production.

An aesthetic language seems to span audio and visual works that is to say that you use a language and approach to creation in the same way whether it be audio or visual work, so it seems obvious that visual artwork that is in creation at any given time will in some ways mirror audio creation at the same time.

So as we where in the thick of creating the audio I had started making some experimental pin hole lumen prints (a photographic technique where you work with photographic paper within direct sunlight).

These were simple images of dots created with holes in little metal boxes. They were interested in capturing light and time rather than a conventional image. So the images were created using one (pin) hole exposed for one hour, two (pin) holes for two hours and so on up to 12 holes/12 hours.

I was sharing these with Bill and as well as Bill liking the work/process it became apparent that they seemed to share an aesthetic with the audio we were working, looking at light, time, space.

So in conversation with Bill I started to take the photographs into digital forms, exploring how the ‘dust’ of the analogue process could be extrapolated through digital forms, and then of course taken back into the darkroom and analogue processes, exactly how we were working in the audio work.

From there, and through extensive email conversations the artwork developed into the body of work that comes with the release.

Like the artwork the titles also reflect the abstraction process. Needless to say – “Light Folds” can be understood from many different perspectives. – Craig Tattersall

The Seaman & The Tattered Sail - Light Folds (Preview)

_ph011 Jordan Christoff - Плаващ

from 'Miscellany' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den348
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/origamibiro

After an almost 6 year hiatus, and the break up of the audio-visual trio it had evolved into, Origamibiro returns with Miscellany, a body of work amassed during the years since the release of 2014’s Odham’s Standard.

Though the group never officially disbanded, a number of life-changing events meant it simply became impossible to continue together. As such, the project organically reverted back to the solo pursuits of composer Tom Hill. Fellow multi-instrumentalist Andy Tytherleigh, however, remains a strong collaborator.

Miscellany comprises a varied mixture of work, ranging from electroacoustic to orchestral chamber music. Drawing upon much of the found-sound style for which Origamibiro became known, the DIY approach to sampling and composing continues to play a central role in the process.

Exploration into the tangible nature of everyday objects and textures - both in and outside of the home - is a theme relished in much of Origamibiro’s work. Forest brambles and plastic toy Easter eggs are examined in surgical detail alongside the debris of demolished piano parts, to be repurposed into whatever sonic potential they offer up.

However, new additions to the instrumental palette - viola da gamba, piano, zither, singing bowl, glockenspiel, drum machines and gongs - contribute to an even broader timbre.

Miscellany will be released on Denovali, March 2021.

Miscellany

Origamibiro - Circle Fifth

With over 100 physical releases since its inception by Taylor Deupree in 1997, New York-based music label 12k has decisively defined and developed the concept of minimalism in the realms of electronic music for more than a decade. Fusing elements from Ambient and Electro-Acoustic Composition with carefully arranged digital textures and associative micro-noises, the label's aesthetics revolve around a precisely-outlined, yet deeply emotional concoction of the technological and the organic. Eschewing the typical marketing mechanisms of the commercial music industry, Deupree has sculpted a platform whose influence today extends well beyond the confinements of the experimental community. 12k's integral approach, in which the label's instantly recognizable, elegantly spartan artwork enters into an inseparable symbiosis with the music, has created a timeless audiovisual language respected and appreciated all over the world.

Arts chorégraphiques post-brutes / Anatomie pour la danse / Fascia et pédagogie perceptive

june 11, 2015 (new album, progress)

12k

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