Netil Radio Residency - An Ocean of ink in a single drop (Live + DJ Hybrid)

Episode 4 of Aboutface's 'An ocean of in a single drop' residency on Netil Redio, live and direct from the manifold. Ben used his recent move out of London as a catalyst to use music from the past, live improvisations in the present and pre-release music from the future, as a psychedelic exploration explore time, matter and memory, as one transient state. Featuring  sections of Henri Bergson’s ‘matter and memory’ recited by darker. Bandcamp/purchase links below

https://duckett4.bandcamp.com/album/whose-side-is-dog-on
https://lamassu.bandcamp.com/releases
https://jameskmusic.bandcamp.com/track/subliminal-burn
https://banoffeepiesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/slow-stumble-home
https://houndstoothlabel.bandcamp.com/album/bromine
https://offen.bandcamp.com/album/seven-diamond-lines
https://boomkat.com/products/never-the-right-time

EP4 'An Ocean of Ink in a Single Drop' on Netil Radio Live Improv/DJ 26 - 03 - 21

Aboutface is back with Ocean of ink in a Single Drop EP8 - The Ice Edge of the Blooms. Ben will be performing live two new compositions alongside conceptual selection framed by field recordings from Antarctica with cryospheric prose written on perspective of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and Thwaites Glacier.

Tracklist:

1) Somni451 - Probe (AF Ice Vocal edit)
2) Illuvia - Messenger (Epilogue)
3) Air	- Alone in Kyoto AF (Aboutface's the great bounding main mix)
4) Dorbachov - The Year The World Stood Still 
5) Aboutface - Live performance #1
6) Keplrr - Bod's Realm (Piezo's  Doom Ragga Mix + Aboutface ice edit)
7) Pugilist - 2. Sky Blue 
8) Bell Curve - Evaporate (Fixate Remix + Abouface Ice edit)
9) Bungle- Forms 
10) Leif- Low D 
11) Fentom- Tension 
12) Aboutface - Live performance #2
13) Sweepsculp - Plaudable 
14) Houschyar - Certronos
15) Pierre Schaeffer - Toccata et Fugue
16) Philip Glass- Floe (AF Ice Blooms Edit)
17) Virago - Listening for Bells Part D
18) Subsurfing - Frozen Ants 
19) Athlymn	Contextual- Dub (Aaboutface Ice edge blooms edit) 
20) O.utlier - Antarika
21) David Byrne - In the future

EP8 - The Ice Edge that Blooms (Live+DJ Hybrid) on Netil Radio 23-1-22

Aboutface is back live on @Netilradio 12pm - 2pm (UK GMT +1) with his bi-montly live + Dj hybrid show ‘An Ocean of Ink in a Single Drop’.  EP 9, is a special collaborative performance called Qachuu Aloom (Seed is Kin), centered around a specially written poem courtesy of @duckett-1 , expertly and tenderly recited by darker. 

“We've always viewed our seed relatives as relatives and kin” - Tsosie-Peña (Santa Clara Pueblo Native American community). As when seeds thrown into a derelict industrial factory, slowly democratises the decaying steel, this episode explores how planting seeds, figuratively and literally, can be an act of resistance and solidarity, geoshaping the cinders of humanity into a new future and showing us cycles are ephemeral and change is inevitable. 

The amazing supporting animations in this artwork called ‘The Elusive Good Egg, are by @miloustella_art ’. Collaboration is key to building hope and new futures.

Shout out to the labels on this one, I've tagged them, go check them out and buy some music. Buy Music club list for all the music (except the upcoming releases and live) is here: https://buymusic.club/list/aboutface-ep-9-of-an-ocean-of-ink-in-a-single-drop-qachuu-aloom-seed-is-kin

Tracklist

1	Aboutface Live performance #1			
2	Benoit B	Karma Du -(@naturalselectionsrecords, UK)
3	Symbolico - Remember (Self)
4	Mathilde Nobel - Thunder (@interceptrecords, Netherlands)
5	Somatoast - Tapping in Boyd Hill (@gravitas-recordings Recordings, TX USA)
6	HEXSYSTEM	Coluber	(Self)	
7	Nonplace Urban Field - Unireverse (@non-place, Germany)
8	Aboutface Live performance #2			
9	Joakim - Zumayyah (remix)(@fleeproject, Paris)
10	Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - LB Le Froid	(@dewee,	Belgium)
11      Tamburá - Tikitaka (Dazion Remix)	(@kalaharioystercult, Amsterdam, Netherlands)	
12	Amine Mesnaoui & Labelle	- Bleu Noir (@lo-recordings, UK)
13	Salamanda - Melting Hazard (@humanpitch, Brooklyn, NY)
14	Aboutface Live performance #3			
15	Salamanda - Overdose (@humanpitch, Brooklyn, NY)
16	The Science - Come by the River (Om Unit Remix) (@yukumusic, Prague)
17	Marc Renton - Delusion (OMni, UK)
18	Various Artists: Mathis Ruffing – FMeral (@indexrecords, Berlin)
19	Nookie and Ruth Royall - Love Less Chaos (Over/Shadow 	London, UK)
20	Arooj Aftab - Mohabbat (Self) 
21	Ochre - 111 (@lapsus-records, Barcelona) 
22	Freddie McGregor	- Big Ship

EP9 An Ocean Of Ink - Qachuu Aloom (seed is kin) Ft Duckett 27-3-22

The final episode of An Ocean of Ink in a Single drop EP10 - 物の哀れ Mono no Aware. Mono no aware describes the feelings of sympathy a person feels upon becoming aware of the fleeting,impermanent nature of life. Mono no aware suggests that impermanence should not just be accepted, but appreciated, often typified by the beauty of the cherry blossom (Sakura); the flower blooms intensely, yet only for a short period of time each year. As the flowers die and the petals fall, cherry blossoms line the streets like a layer of soft, pink snow, and are most beautiful when captured between the precipice of life and death.

We truly appreciate things when we accept they do not last forever.

Join me for live performances with guitar, flute , clarinet and electronics, conceptually selected music and 6 specially selected Matsuo Bashō Haikus, recorded in Japanese and English by Fumika Geary & darker.

Tracklist
Noel Hiyamizu - Sakura Fragments: Ⅰ. Sakura Nagashi
Hania Rani - Eden
Brad Mehldau - maybe as his skies are wide-
11ai - self patcher
Flore- The Switcher (PR) 
The Busy Twist- World Of The Spirits (Instrumental) 
Blocks & Escher- Shot In The Dark 
Aural Imbalance	- Caladan Shores
CELL- Walker Paper
Đ.K.	- Mirror
11ai	- aquatic mechanis
Susumu Yokota	- Azukiiro No Kaori
Đ.K.	- Middle Path
Syz	- Purify
Lone	- Realise 
KAAH	- Gud Har Med Sig Så Många Namn (CVRL Raveloon Remix Instrumental)
Mantissa	- U01A (Ciel's Subterra Dub)
Perko	- Songbirds
Brian Omen	-  Senescence
LSB	- Blinding
Optical	- Slip Thru

EP10 An Ocean of Ink - Mono no aware (Live & Dj hybryd) recorded live on Netil Radio

Aboutface is back live on Netilradio.com to present An Ocean of Ink season 2 episode 1 of – D3stiny: a surreal sonic narrative based on descriptions of dreams from the collective unconscious, using music selections stitched together with creative writing and live improvised music and sound design.  When the word ‘d3stiny’ is written lucidly during a dream, it initiates a pseudo-reality personalised game experience to fulfil the objectives and complete the game. However, the closer the dreamer comes to completing the game, the more they will start to identify the game as their waking reality, causing disruptions, side effects, and the blurring of all unconscious-conscious realities. This game experience is hosted by Dream Creator 17 (dark_e_r). Time to re-enter the manifold! ✨💤✨ 


Tracklist:
1	Arno E. Mathieu & Tokyo Black Star	- Livadaki (Tokyo Black Star Chillax Remix)
2	Doc Sleep -	Tomorrow is Beautiful! (ft. Glenn Astro)
3	Hamish Lang -	Scarlett 
4	Gigi Masin -	Malvina
5	Aboutface  -	 Azadi (Surgeons Girl Remix)
6	Nabalayo 	- Mtwapa siren
7	Drumskull	- Muscle Memory (Lone Remix)
8	 DJ Rap	/Spiritual Aura - Engineers Without Fears  
9	 Aboutface - live/Improv #1	live/Improv #1
10	ZOMBIE ZOMBIE -	Ring Modulus
11	Front de Cadeaux -	 Somehting wrong 
12	AWITW - Skyscrapers (AF edit) 
13	Sam Goku -	Lotus Drive 
14	Norio -	Hazama (ft. Satominagae) -
15	Principles of Geometry	Brosome - Ride
16	Aboutface - live/improv #2 
17	ZDBT - Lifes worth living ft John Glacier  (AF  Fork in the road edit)
18	Otik - Hyperborea 
19	Ehua - Leggera 
20	Thom Yorke - The Clock 
21	Magugu & Le Motel	- Let Me Down

SE02 EP1 An Ocean Of Ink – Aboutface pres. D3stiny (live/DJ Hybrid) Netil Radio 1-2-23

Aboutface is back live on Netil Radio with Season 2 EP 2 of his conceptual Live/DJ performance show ‘An Ocean of Ink in a Single Drop’. Aboutface presents a conceptual performance called: Pensée Sculpture (mind sculpture), which used sound, music and spoken word (in French) to create abstract worlds of art in our minds 🌀🌀🌀💙😵‍💫💙🌀🌀🌀.This performance will be presented by Le Sculpteur d’esprit (The mind sculptor). This performance was orginally developed for Cycardia festival, Nantes, France 20-5-23. Voice over and translation by Noemie Decaen. Time to enter the manifold!  
Credits: Aboutface: Flute, Clarinet, Electronics, Sound Design, script.
Noemie Decaen: voice and translation.


Link to english translation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TKSAf34whCXZ9a1_Lo6qJYavN3FMaZX6Ioo0DKjKNRU/edit?usp=sharing

AOOI SE2 EP2 Aboutface pres. Pensee Sculpture (French version performed @ Cyrcádia, France 20.05.23)