Mateo Hurtado Live@Termini Obscuri - The Great Unknown (Sa. 00:30-02:00)

Mateo Hurtado im Modular-Studio (24.11.23)

[14.03.25]
https://soundcloud.com/mitra-17554825


MITRA [Listening Session - Live Set - RES:HIFT @ 4lthangrund]

We’re excited to present a new addition to the IO family: Mitra! 
The live project, consisting of MTRL and Theodora, invites listeners on an unknown and surprising exploration through their own interpretation of electronic music. With their mix, they offer an insight into the landscape of their upcoming debut album „Vivarium“ on our label. Like their debut release, this logbook entry features their own approach to the art of producing alongside other tracks produced by artists of IO.

Mixed by @mitra_sound
All tracks produced by members of IO
Artwork by @mtrl_audio in collaboration with @tenziasounds

Log 030 - Mitra

9’56''

Introductory note

‘in my maze’ is an independent sound composition based on a walk-in 3D installation that I developed in Second Life in 2024. It was inspired by my many years of work with the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse. To me, Second Life is not a game, but rather an artistic medium — a walk-in chat room complete with spatial stereo sound and 3D video. As a composer, builder and performer, I utilise its immersive capabilities in ways that transcend the concepts of commercial metaverses.

Avatars traverse my semi-transparent sound labyrinth, activating location-based sound objects and generating sound sequences that emerge from the situation. Their paths are an expression of their individual freedom to create sound in digital space. As with simultaneous chats, streams and background processes, time becomes fragmented and runs in parallel. Sonic coherence emerges through movement and interaction. 

Transformed swallow calls (natural sound), glockenspiel notes (human musical instrument) and modulated sine tones (digital world) intertwine to form a new tonal topology. Above a fundamental tone of 200 Hz, I construct pure minor thirds (6:5) that do not form octaves, producing audible beats. This is accompanied by my whispered text, 'Ancestralities' – a multilingual, poetic, fragmentary exploration of origin, inherited patterns, and emotional ambivalence towards one's own ancestry. 

By encoding interactive spatial structures as multi-layered sound forms, my maze subverts conventional listening experiences and deliberately sets transgressive impulses in motion. Rather than presenting 'internet music' as an aesthetic of permanent streaming, the composition offers an acoustic cartography of a metaverse in which the perception of time, identity and space can be experienced in sensual, fragmented and ambivalent ways. 

I 'play' my original Second Life installation as though it were an interactive instrument. Its spatial arrangement forms the tonal basis of an original fixed media composition. The labyrinth structure is translated into a rhizomatic network architecture comprising branching paths and an open form with no linear dramaturgy. Like the labyrinth itself, the text fragments reflect inner and genealogical turmoil.

A performance video by the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse documents the audiovisual context of my 3D installation in Second Life (https://youtu.be/4CRTNbabxw4?si=m6OJsFsW7oPFxEeA&t=1255, from 20:08). All the sounds you hear were played in real time by the avatars in Second Life during the performance. This is not a recording or post-production soundtrack.

in my maze (2025)

As the wheel of the year turns and the Northern Hemisphere descends into its deepest slumber, we welcome the return of a beloved annual ritual. For the 13th year, Hypnus Records founder Ntogn presents his Midwinter Mix, a sonic ceremony marking the solstice and the cyclical passage of the seasons.

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MNMT 499 : Ntogn (Midwinter Mix)

method: a special thank you to the Lake Constance gulls and telepathic instruments, among others
narration: thinking of ancient  Egyptian myth:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammit
copyright for the poem, the sonification and the image: jo richter 

lighter than the ink on the tip of my feather
no cosmic reptile will feed on my soul
as blank as a page in my future's ledger
a hologram shard reveals the whole

autumn leaves cover the footprints behind me
winter snow rests undisturbed
the threshold stone lights up to blind me
a dragon lies sleeping unperturbed

customs clearance

Dark Psychedelic Techno Tune by Acröfen.

Acröfen - Lethal Nectar

Inam - Excerpt

Adam Stanović is an award-winning composer and performer specialising in contemporary electronic music. His works employ a fixed-medium (sometimes accompanied by instruments, electronics, film, and animation), with many exploring relations between pitch and noise. In recent years, Stanović’s compositions have received prizes, awards and mentions in just about all of the major competitions in the field. They have been heard in over 400 international performances to date, and released on 11 different record labels. Stanović regularly speaks on matters concerning electronic music. For more information, visit: www.adamstanovic.com

Inam - Excerpt

Adam Stanović (Stansbie)

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