This Mixtape is a compilation of tracks produced by the participates of the 'Take it from the bird - creating music inspired by the Superb Lyrebird' workshop I lead for Unthinking / Unlearning - an online laboratory and residency, a part of the Year of Germany in Russia 2020/21 and collaboration between Klammklang label, Sound Studies and Sonic Arts (M.A.) at the Universität der Künste Berlin and Sound Art and Sound Studies (M.A.) at HSE Art and Design School, Moscow.

‘The Superb Lyrebird’ is an Australian Native bird, which is capable of mimicking natural and synthetic sounds from its natural environment — Participants created their own music sampling biorhythms and timbres from an animal sound open-access archive.

Track list:
Alexandra Kopelyan - In a Bittern Voice
Isa sO.any - Myai
Alexey Berezhnoy - Flat ES Ecosystem
Anton Anishchanka - Bear Habitat
Ira Afanaseva - Dogs in the yard
Lera Elagina - Kozhuhovo Birds
Masha Alexandrova - Fin 
Ystalost Dimecres - Untitled.

Take it from the bird - creating music inspired by the Superb lyrebird U/U workshop mix tape

“Out of Our Hands” brings together Alvin Lucier and Jordan Dykstra who, through the hands of Ordinary Affects, have created debut recordings of two new compositions. Pressed at RTI for maximum fidelity with a full color printed inner sleeve. 

These companion pieces have similar orbits as they were not only both composed in Middletown, CT (where Alvin and Jordan lived for a number of years), but are about Middletown, at least from a starting point. Alvin’s piece — a homage to the location of the house in which he recorded “I am sitting in a room” back in 1969 — continues his study into slow-moving glissandi and carefully crafted beating patters by interweaving three string players within a minor third (voiced by two vibraphonists). The result is entrancing, almost psychedelic, and opens space where one didn’t expect. Like much of his previous work, it is conceptual and process-based; once the wheels get turning they go on and on, giving the listener time to approach the piece, sit with it, and then move back inward.

Alvin Lucier - Corner Church And High (final Mix)

“Distant Water Exotic Landscape” is a generative audio and visual installation that explores the micro and macro perceptions of environmental cycle system through the transformational and transmittable materiality of water. It invites audience to (re-)consider the interdependencies among human, water and technology, as well as the liminal boundaries between natural and artificial environments.

The installation creates an imaginary landscape on coloured paper, where the black ink is constantly washed out by vaporised molecules of the water collected from various sources such as a local river, rain, spring, and imported bottled water. A pair of headphones is given to each viewer one at a time as live recodings reveal the energetic activities behind the formation of landscapes. Two types of microphones are installed behind the paper: a hydrophone inside the water bottle — to magnify the movements of liquid water and its vaporised steam, and a pair of electromagnetic sensors — to capture the electric flow consumed by the water vaporiser.

The duration of forming a piece of “landscape” and its energy consumption is precisely controlled: each piece is made of one distinct source of water ‘transforming’ on one piece of paper, within 7 hours of completed vaporisation. In this sense, new landscapes are created on a daily basis until the end of the exhibition.

A 31:28 soundtrack titled “Distant Water Exotic Landscape - Post Installation Studies” is comprised of recordings originating from 2 different exhibition spaces and various formational phases of different landscapes. These digitally recreated soundscapes transform the physical event into reimagined energetic phenomena that are led by unnatural laws in the digital environments. They are presented through constantly shifting listening angles and time frames. Meticulous streams of environmental information are articulated by active listening, constantly forming newly-emerging fragmented realities.

*This recording has been modified and split in half to accommodate the cassette format.

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released August 5, 2022

Archive Officielle-024, 2022
Duration : 31:28 Min
2 tracks, First edition of 50 copies

Sounds and production by Aloïs Yang
©2022 Archive Officielle

Recorded & Presented by SONICA
Festival, Ljub ljana, Slovinia, 2020,
oiioiooi’20, Sdalt Wehlen, Germany.

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Distant Water Exotic Landscape - Post Instalation Studies (Archive Officielle - 024–album Preview)

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Wink!

this is a very similar patch as Untitled VI, except that now there are three voices instead of one: SMR, piston honda (which is also in the rosie efx loop from time to time, which is a bad habit/crutch that i lean on way too often) and e350. SMR is droning and fluttering into clouds, while the piston honda and e350 are both hitting an optomix before going into rings for some reverb. there is also a field recording churning in the background inside the disting, which i am randomly and manually controlling the playback speed on. 

i could listen to this for hours (and did)

Untitled VII

“To lose one's self to the act of listening, to become fully that which is attentively experiencing the music.”-  Daniel M Karlsson

A loss of self features renders of two drones in just intonation of indefinite duration. Daniel M Karlsson has made the code for this music freely available via his website which can be downloaded, modified, and listened to using the open-source program SuperCollider at - danielmkarlsson.github.io

C60 XK15

Daniel M Karlsson - A loss of self (excerpt)

Taken from the album 'I, Mustard Mitt' (ALT61).

Buy here: https://alterstock.org/product/i-mustard-mitt/

Pheromoans - (I'm A) Paper Towel (ALT61)

Taken from 'It's Worse', out on Cafe OTO's digital label Takuroku

TR083 - Shakeeb Abu Hamdan & Sholto Dobie - 'Slows O'er'

Enshrouded in high-pitched static and elusive fumelike oscillators come "Sundowning", a new mini-album signed by Preston Weippert's most prolific alias, aka Volunteer Coroner. Co-founder of the Colorado-based Trust Collective label, Weippert's music vectors a collection of desolate murals often painted with industrial-grade fuel. A low-resolution picture of oil fields burning from your window seat. Closed eyelids against the sun, into the red.

“Loss as gain- forever in blood”

EN17

Recorded during the Summer of 2020
Volunteer Coroner is P.W.

Pheromoans - (I'm A) Paper Towel (ALT61)

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