Drone adaptation of 'Le Gibet' by Maurice Ravel

Tapage - Le Gibet (Excerpt)

Compound Disturbance is featured on the new Tapage vinyl 'Recursive Behaviors' on Ant-Zen.  


Tapage - Recursive Behaviors
A
The Error-Controlled Regulator
B
Centrifugal Near-Equilibrium
Compound Disturbance



'Recursive Behaviors', in more than one sense, investigates a mutual space where humans and machines mingle and exchange sonic materials with one another. Machines infused with chaotic processes, allowed to follow their own strange and unstable logic. As one encounters these shape-shifting entities, riddled with unpredictabilities, one soon realizes that they can merely be influenced and explored, but never fully controlled.


The machines develop their own internal sonic language. A lexicon and syntax of sound, at times playing fragile melodies, other times developing textural structures, locked into semi-repetitive rhythms. Timbres emerging from the intertwined recursions that form the backbone of their internal wiring. Machines, able to analyze their own actions and adapt behavioral patterns. Machines that hum, sing, mumble and scream.


'Recursive Behaviors' started out with extended recordings of these machines, letting them act out in uninterrupted passages of sonic expression. These recordings formed the backbone of each of the pieces, as an opening statement waiting for a response. My initial counter took the shape of cello improvisations, complementing the electronic textures with slow-moving, sorrowful drones. This resulted in a back and forth between the calls of the cybernetic machines and a range of acoustic responses. Pieces, written as much by the instruments themselves as through any human engagement with them.


All sounds and video by Tijs Ham (Tapage) 
https://tapage.bandcamp.com

Mastered by Jos Smolders at EARLabs
https://earlabs.org/
ant-zen. audio & visual arts
https://ant-zen.bandcamp.com/

Compound Disturbance

I sometimes run into these old directories with sketches... some are quite nice!...

Tapage - Some Old Test File

Tapage - And Another One

Debate port

Emergent port

A selection of tracks that have been released on albums and e.p's in the past. More tracks will be added as time goes along.

https://adnoiseam.bandcamp.com/album/eight
https://tympanikaudio.bandcamp.com/album/overgrown
http://www.raumklang-music.de/en/release/21/seven.html
http://meta4recordings.bandcamp.com/album/irukandji-e-p
http://tympanikaudio.com/releases/ta061/
http://tympanikaudio.com/releases/ta050/
http://tympanikaudio.com/releases/ta024/
http://tympanikaudio.com/releases/ta014/
http://meta4recordings.bandcamp.com/album/hydromedusa-e-p

Eight - Three of Eight

Tapage returns home to Tympanik Audio for the release of his latest work titled ‘Five & Six‘. With ‘Five & Six‘, Tapage continues on his series of integer inspired albums. 

The length, speed and rhythmical content of each track is derived from the title. This creates a sonic coherence throughout the album while still leaving enough room for brooding musical developments.

Where ‘Seven‘ & ‘Eight‘ were both exploring the slower rhythms of downtempo and triphop, this new album takes its inspiration from different places. Complex rhythmic structures and arpeggiating melodic acid lines are the threads that bind the tracks together. ‘Five & Six‘ provides the groove for brains to dance to.

Tracklisting: 

01. One of Five 
02. One of Six 
03. Three of Five 
04. Four of Six 
05. Two of Five 
06. Five of Six 
07. Three of Six 
08. Five of Five 
09. Two of Six 
10. Six of Six 
11. Four of Five

Two Of Six



Tapage returns home to Tympanik Audio for the release of his latest work titled ‘Five & Six‘. With ‘Five & Six‘, Tapage continues on his series of integer inspired albums.

The length, speed and rhythmical content of each track is derived from the title. This creates a sonic coherence throughout the album while still leaving enough room for brooding musical developments.

Where ‘Seven‘ & ‘Eight‘ were both exploring the slower rhythms of downtempo and triphop, this new album takes its inspiration from different places. Complex rhythmic structures and arpeggiating melodic acid lines are the threads that bind the tracks together. ‘Five & Six‘ provides the groove for brains to dance to.

Tracklisting:

01. One of Five
02. One of Six
03. Three of Five
04. Four of Six
05. Two of Five
06. Five of Six
07. Three of Six
08. Five of Five
09. Two of Six
10. Six of Six
11. Four of Five


One Of Five

Northbound

Harbor

A selection of tracks that have been released on albums and e.p's in the past. More tracks will be added as time goes along.

http://meta4recordings.bandcamp.com/album/hydromedusa-e-p
http://tympanikaudio.com/releases/ta014/
http://tympanikaudio.com/releases/ta024/
http://www.foolsforest.com/releases/v/fofov004/
http://tympanikaudio.com/releases/ta050/
http://meta4recordings.bandcamp.com/album/irukandji-e-p
http://www.raumklang-music.de/en/release/21/seven.html


Hydromedusa E.P. - Appropriate Title

TIORE - Pretend Not To See

Fallen Clouds -  Cancelling Unlisted Time

Irukandji E.P. - WMW

Seven - Three of Seven

Taken from:

https://tapeface.bandcamp.com/album/monorail

Monorail

Peninsula

A selection of tracks that have been released on albums and e.p's in the past. More tracks will be added as time goes along.

http://meta4recordings.bandcamp.com/album/hydromedusa-e-p
http://tympanikaudio.com/releases/ta014/
http://tympanikaudio.com/releases/ta024/
http://www.foolsforest.com/releases/v/fofov004/
http://tympanikaudio.com/releases/ta050/
http://tympanikaudio.com/releases/ta061/
http://meta4recordings.bandcamp.com/album/irukandji-e-p
http://www.raumklang-music.de/en/release/21/seven.html


Overgrown - Overgrown

Remix I did for a Polyfuse track... for some reason it never got out, so here it is...

Polyfuse - We Will Make Sure You Dissapear (Tapage Remix)

https://lomechanik.bandcamp.com/album/chrome-fragments

“My father used a 4-track recorder, because he liked playing quatre mains on the piano and didn’t have anyone to play with him at home. I used the machine in my youth to record my musical experiments with, among others, feedback, I didn’t have a computer then.

Last year Tapage received a cassette recorder from a friend and he has listened to the tapes he has always kept and then digitalized them. These recordings are the core of the new interpretations who will be released on tape again: Chrome Fragments (LOMEK027).

“Modern techniques enable me to have more control over the modifications of the source sounds. I was looking for a balance between the rough quality of the original tapes and the possibilities to record them in more complex compositions”, says Tapage

The grating of the source material on the one hand and the tight production on the other gnaws and propels. Organic music that forces you to listen closely. Futuristic, electrically charged while being very earthly, as if the elements play along as powers.

Chrome Fragments - Fragments

_In:still life

Taking inspiration from a range of dusty, crackling but soothing analog synths, 'One, Two, Three & Four' adds another chapter to the long running number series. The music focuses on the unpolished timbres, reworked in a series of warm, downtempo tracks. Ranging from the ambient pieces that make up the 'One' & 'Two' tracks towards the pulsating rhythms that define 'Three' & 'Four', the songs point to the ever shifting sonic landscapes that Tapage chooses to inhabit.

https://tapage.bandcamp.com/album/one-two-three-four

One, Two, Three & Four - Two Of Four

- Tolopea
- Plankton
- Hydrostatic Skeleton
- Osedax

Tapage & Meander - Etched in Salt - Preview 01

STATES started out as a live electronics setup, developed back in early 2016 by Tijs Ham. The first version combined analogue feedback with digital manipulations which resulted in a self-balancing and self-generating chaotic system, capable of producing deep, melodic and textured soundscapes. During a performance, the setup would be played until it would reach a state in which it was generating its own sonic material. The performer would then take a step back, allowing the system to run on its own. Carefully listening to the movements, progressions, noises, drones, and arpeggios until the urge to intervene took the upper hand and the system would be performed and nudged towards a new state of balance.

The STATES setup went through a series of revisions and alternative versions, each playing with the same basic ingredients, mixed up and prepared in various ways. In the summer of 2017, Tijs started to collaborate with Gareth Davis, well renowned for his work with contemporary and experimental music on the bass clarinet. During an inspired series of recording sessions at STEIM, the STATES setup was reinvented once again and lifted up through the spacious and engaging interplay between reed and recursion.
credits
releases June 7, 2019

Recorded at STEIM
In the summer of 2017
Tijs Ham (Electronics)
Gareth Davis (Bass Clarinet)
Artwork by Tijs Ham
Mastered by Jos Smolders at EARLabs
Moving Furniture Records
This is release MFR074
www.movingfurniturerecords.com
https://movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/states

STATES

STATES - STATES (With Gareth Davis)

Femtosecond Intervals has been recorded using the Ecdysis setup, combining analog and digital approaches to live electronics. This track will be released as part of a cassette tape box release on the new label Crossfade Tapes. The boxset will feature one Tapage solo tape of 'Ecdysis' material, one tape by Tapage & Espoir titled 'Bumblebee Amateurism' and a solo tape by Espoir titled ' Digging for Oscillation'. The box set will be released this fall...

Femtosecond Intervals

in ieder geval beter dan het origineel...

Koningslied (Tapage Baard Remix)

Tapage - Seven Preview

Seven

Four of Seven

Seven of Seven

I make music as Tapage
I play in a band named The Void*
I am an Artistic Researcher at the University of Bergen
And next to that I do a whole lot of other stuff involving Sound Art, Programming, Live Electronics, Experiments, Workshops, etc,...

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