From the upcoming 
                  
             22/04/2022 

                          Release of        "KaGOSHiMa".


                                                  Label :    .TOST

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O M is G a k a S h

Polish composer Aleksandra Słyż joins Warm Winters Ltd. with A Vibrant Touch, her second full-length album. While her debut Human Glory released by Pointless Geometry explored two distinct approaches and techniques, here she finds her unique path forward: finding connections between acoustic and synthetic sounds, creating rich drone structures, slowly but intensely pulsing and resonating within the surrounding space and within each listener.

“I am very much fascinated by the processes related to the body sensations experienced through sound and its movement. I have always perceived sound as a physical phenomenon, travelling as waves of energy, as vibrations which we can literally feel and physically experience,” she shares. “Therefore, from the very beginning I wanted to use recordings of specific acoustic instruments, which in my opinion beautifully represent the motion itself.” Joining Słyż and her modular synthesizer on A Vibrant Touch is a quartet of musicians playing violin (Kosma Műller), viola (Kamil Babka), cello (Anna Szmatoła) and alto saxophone (Marcus Wärnheim).

The three pieces on the album explore the physicality of sound of these instruments – like the way a finger or bow presses down on the string of a cello, or the air pressure in the saxophone when someone blows inside it – as they intertwine with expert navigation of modular synthesizers by Słyż. Drawing on the work of 20th century spectral composers like Grisey or Scelsi, just intonation, drone music and microtonality for inspiration, the Polish composer uses dissonance, tension and pulse with incredible grace and power.

She opens the proceedings with the patient, gliding and stirring piece “Healing”. “The Ruthless Act” is slightly more ominous and grainy, as the cello and modular synthesizer mimic each other's movements to disorienting effect. The final piece “Softness, Flashes, Floating Rage” is a monumental composition lasting almost 26 minutes, a crowning jewel of the album. Słyż and the instrumentalists are exceedingly patient as the piece slowly unravels into a brutal, heart- and ear-shattering climax. It's a testament to her compositional prowess, that a piece of this length is imbued with so much weight and elegance.

A Vibrant Touch

Aleksandra Słyż – Healing

Ten years ago, Parish Bracha anonymously released his Disconscious album Hologram Plaza, significantly influencing the still nascent Vaporwave scene. He continued producing a number of disparate anonymous projects until Cascade II was released in 2020 on Arca's Mutant Mixtape.

Cascades of Refinement, which includes the single Cascade II, is Parish's debut album released under his own name and his focus on the dialogue between the digital and the organic continues. The techniques that defined his influential early sound have been refined into a flawless hybrid of analog and digital textures which give his post-minimalist compositions an unmistakably personal expressivity.

Classical instruments are mutilated and transmuted into razor-sharp shards of glass suspended on piano wire above warped opalescent metal while never losing sight of their tonal integrity. Much like the impartial juxtaposition Parish employs in his timbral exploration, each composition explores the concepts of beauty and gentleness through and with extremity, violence, and chaos as equal counterparts, with each successive piece refining and relieving the artificial tension between these states. Employing use of the Una Corda, prepared piano, bowed piano, plucked piano, harpsichord, church organ, untuned violin, voice, synthesizers, and resampled field recordings, Cascades of Refinement lies somewhere in the indefinite space between acoustic and electronic and is beholden to neither.

Parish's initial electroacoustic experiments with piano and strings were interrupted by the pandemic lockdown when he was limited to sampled instrumentation and digital processing available on a computer. Out of this necessity evolved an appreciation for the incidental nature of digitally sampled acoustic instrumentation and the unpredictability of its interaction with digital signal processing.

As work on Cascades of Refinement continued and acoustic recording was reintroduced, the focus turned to the tension between recorded and sampled instrumentation, with the goal of integrating the two into a singular indistinguishable material to be warped and shaped together. Each of the four pieces of the Cascade series explores this tension, successively integrating and collapsing their distinction with each piece. 
 
The subtle artifacts of digital processing and incidental mechanical sounds of the acoustic are amplified and given presence alongside the tonal elements of each piece until a point of indivisibility is reached. The sound of a bow scraping along a string or a granular buffer freezing are neither discarded nor hidden, but selected as the ripest material to accompany and structure each composition. Cascades of Refinement is a dialogue between organic and digital, between the mercurial and infinitely reproducible, not as opposites, but as mereologically cohabiting counterparts with equal expressivity.

Cascades Of Refinement

Parish - Cascade III - From Cascades Of Refinement CD/Tape

Kosma Műller – violin
Kamil Babka – viola
Anna Szmatoła – cello
Aleksandra Słyż – modular synthesizers

Recorded in Poznań, 2021
Composed and mixed by Aleksandra Słyż
Artwork by Pola Maria
credits
released March 10, 2022

Aleksandra Słyż - Proximity And Distance

From Lisa Lerkenfeldt

Recorded in Naarm, ’Shell Of A City’ reframes the architecture an instrument, in a concrète procession.

Durational contact recordings of a highway’s substructure reveal an unearthly resonance.

The continuous physical phenomenon is gently processed to explore the fringes of electroacoustic practice with a contemplative urgency.

The 40 minute arrangement pairs two channels of site-based improvisation into a time-altering minimal structure.

Many people wrote to me to say ‘A Liquor Of Daisies’ tape was a tool they used for rest. How precious. ‘Shell Of A City’ follows in its path.

I carve out space for listening to the discrete and lesser noticed.

Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Shell Of A City

voXCS60x

Marta De Pascalis - voXCS60x

Animals Will Sing

After inaugurating sferic with the ’Synthetic Space’ LP in 2017, Echium now leads the way with a remarkably refined, even meticulous grasp of sound design steering away from purely “synthetic space” to imaginary spaces that smudge the listener’s perceptions of artificial and organic texture, tone and spatial dynamics

As part of the next wave of artists innovating within dub techno and experimental ambient zones, Echium looks to loosen up its strictures while playing deep within its unfathomable dimensions, literally urging a dematerialisation of mindsets and musical structures...

Edition of 300 copies on translucent orange vinyl, housed in hi gloss sleeve.
Mastered & cut by Stefan Betke at scape mastering.
Distribution : Boomkat
Vinyl & Digital out March 2020.

A1. Collapsed Senses
A2. Overlapped Fluidity
A3. Considered Instances
A4. Yellow-flowered
A5. Melt

B1. Glacial Rust
B2. Sunken
B3. Multiple Frameworks
B4. Adaptive Senses : Reflection

https://boomkat.com/products/disruptions-of-form

https://sferic.bandcamp.com/album/disruptions-of-form

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Echium - Disruptions Of Form (sferic005) [Preview]

APPX:02

Artist: @vasesound
Album/EP: Variations

Tracklist:
01 Striph
02 Three Trees
03 Gemelos
04 Teser

Music written & produced by Jorge Camacho
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Design by Amos Turner & Ike Zwanikken
Release date: 28/09/2020

Released by: APPX: (Appendix.files) subsidiary of INDEX:Records

Contact: indexrecords@cyborgorgy.com

digis & lathes

APPX:02 - Vase - Variations (previews)

Nikolay Kozlov and Ben Bondy's nebulous collaboration exists somewhere between ambient and electro-acoustic experimentation.

'20 Segment' is out October 2nd.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3cAuIuD

@h09boi
@benbondy

Premiere: Nikolay Kozlov - Binary (feat. Ben Bondy)

art by dalibor cruz


made w/ puredata, resampling using ableton

Aleksandra Słyż - Proximity And Distance

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