DAVID GRANSTRÖM, Empty Room - LP

Release date - April 2th 2021
Catalogue nr. - HG2102
Format - Vinyl / digital
Hallow Ground

hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
1) Obsidian 09:22
2) Aeon 10:56
3) Sapphire Visions 04:50
4) Occultations 10:08
5) Transience 04:45

Credits:
All tracks composed, recorded, performed and mixed by David Granström 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Photography by Aron Mattsson
Cover design by Greenpointless

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On »Empty Room,« David Granström works with slow transformations, cyclical and isometric patterns as well as just intonation as a way to create harmonic stability, allowing his long-form pieces to develop their own unique temporal and spatial qualities. A prolific figure in Stockholm’s experimental drone scene and a collaborator of Hallow Ground label mates Maria W Horn and Mats Erlandsson, the Swedish composer navigates through moments of quietude and crushing volume on these five tracks. Sonically and atmospherically, the pieces on »Empty Room« simultaneously call to mind Fennesz’s most meditative work or the physical experience of seeing Sunn O))) live, blending guitar recordings and synthesised sounds with forceful effects similar to those of Mario Díaz de Leon’s Oneirogen project while still being as moving and delicate as Alessandro Cortini’s solo work. The album is marked by melodies and harmonies that are the product of a peculiar working process that turned the composer into an intent listener collaborating with, rather than simply using technology. 

Having been invited by the self-organising artist group The Non Existent Center for a residency to Ställbergs Gruva, a defunct iron ore mine in Sweden’s Bergslagen region, Granström took his guitar as a starting point for his compositional work that heavily relies on real-time sound synthesis. »I seldomly use the instrument as a sound source in the final compositions and rather transcribe and orchestrate the harmonic structures using sound synthesis,« he explains. »On this album however, I chose to include the actual recordings of the guitar in order to extend the spectra between non-referential synthetic sounds and embodied referential sounds.« Working with precise tunings in order to blend the timbre of the synthesis with the harmonic structures of the composition, he created composite sound objects in which the harmonic elements blend into each other. 

Through the re-amplification of synthetic musical materials from the inside of the abandoned mine, his original compositions were enriched with site-specific sound qualities before he further refined them in a singular working process. Granström works with algorithmic and generative processes, using the SuperCollider programming environment and thus blurring the lines between generative and creative forms of composition. »One of the things that I like about this way of working is that it creates a distance between myself as a composer and myself as a listener of the music that is produced entirely by the system,« he says. Granström’s technologically aided eschewing of the conventions of composing doesn’t make the end result any less personal, however. By listening again and again to the newly generated output, Granström simply took on a different role in the process of finalising the music, with the technology and the sounds becoming his co-authors. 

By creating systems that generate music, he gains a new perspective on (musical) time, says Granström. »There doesn't have to be a fixed length to the music at all,« he explains. »And by writing music with this in mind, my focus tends to shift towards writing cyclical structures that gradually change and transform over time.« Simple parts, in other words, that emerge as the five complex wholes that form »Empty Room,« a record that itself seems to take on different forms with every new listen.

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Koyil ∞ live

Это первый лайв у нас на Афтапати крюкасте, вторая публикация с мартовского ∞ в Изиче и третий глаз нашего видения того, как можно открыть вечеринку.

Music by soundcloud.com/koyil
Mastering by soundcloud.com/mishasultan
Special thnx to all people in the world.

autoparty: Koyil ∞ live (07.03.2021)

We welcome the year entering the void with @Luis-Miguel-Espinosa , label head of @Art_intelligence_records and @ZyrcadianEditions.

This soigne selection of peaceful and hopeful sounds will make you breathe the purest air in Heaven. 

Listen and love!

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This is an unedited recording of our live performance at the 6th Next Sound festival in Kyiv, in 2018.

We are making this available as a free download and in doing so, urge you to make a donation to a not for profit humanitarian aid organisation that's supporting people in Ukraine. There are many of these all over the world so you should be able to find one near you. In the UK, donations to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), an alliance of 15 charities, will be matched by the government, up to a maximum of £20million:
https://donation.dec.org.uk/ukraine-humanitarian-appeal

Recorded live in concert at Next Sound, Saturday 6 October 2018
http://nextsound.org/2018/

Venue: Closer, Kyiv, Ukraine
https://ra.co/promoters/44245

Unedited stereo recording from the on-stage mixer operated by :zoviet*france: (this is a mirror sound image of what was heard by the audience)

Composed, performed and mixed by :zoviet*france: As with all of our live performances, this was completely improvised

1st edition AAC 320 kbps, released as a free download 8 March 2022

© 2018 copyright control

cover photo: Aerial view of Kyiv Oblast © :zoviet*france:

Live at Next Sound, Closer, Kyiv, 6 October 2018

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Music: Rose Altar

Artwork: @anasisana

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info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/wide-mesh-riforma-not399093-fulvio-castelli
https://riforma.bandcamp.com

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from Martina Bertoni's forthcoming album "Hypnagogia", out on 20th january 2023 as LP / tape / DL

Hypnagogia

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:zoviet*france: - Montag

Recorded live at Wave Gotik Treffen, Volkspalast Kantine, Leipzig, 29 May 2023

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Released as a free download (AIFF 16/44.1) 5 July 2023

© 2023 copyright control

Montag

Live at Modular San Diego 12/10/23. This performance was played on the Prism Circuits Quasar System along with a few guitar pedals including the Eventide Space, Red Panda Raster ll and the Jomox T-Resonator ll.

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Composed and recorded by Lisa Stenberg on the EMS Synthi 100 in studio KSYME Contemporary Music Research Center, Athens, Greece in 2017.
Produced at EMS Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm 2017.

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