Excerpt from my latest sound installation "Incognito - Monologues of the private public self". The work explores privacy in the age of the internet, when presented live records the audience creating a layer of audio CCTV that is the basis of the sound piece.

Incognito excerpt

Third track from FWD19 - Jeremy Keenan 'Scripts'

'Forwind’s twentieth release sees sound artist Jeremy Keenan make his label debut with a half hour of radiant, carefully crafted electro-acoustics'

'Buy' will take you to Bandcamp where the full release is available now.

Scripts

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Taken from the upcoming album 'The Epiphanies' by Bill Seaman...

The Epiphanies...

Composing memory
The backs of my hands
Headlights slowly turning, illuminating the branches
Skin (slow)
The folds of eros
Slow motion in darkness
Quietly touching
Slow moving fog
A quiescence of obsolescence
Dark wet trees and angled lines of light
The collapse of time
Hidden memories and breathing
Luminous silent stasis
An epiphany of epiphanies

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Seaman – Piano, non-location recordings, ebow guitar, DX7IIE, mellotron, samples, sample arrangements and Ableton Live abstractions. Production.
Owen Sidney Richardson — Contrabass and Electric Bass guitar library 
Craig Tattersall  — Synth Bass library  
Robert Ellis Geiger  — Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn library  
Jonas Braasch  — Horn library 
Ciompy Quartet – Violin library 
Daniel Howe – Distant Guitar on 14
Design by Daniel Crossley
Photography by Nieves Mingueza
Mastered by James Plotkin

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I often work by making libraries of particular kinds of sounds or asking people to contribute a library. With the contributed library I often give the players simple verbal instructions, or sing notes I am interested in including. With the piano, I sit down and do a series of improvisations. I then go though these and edit my favorite parts, building a series of fragment libraries, some with little or no abstraction, some greatly abstracted with Ableton Live. I compose in a very sculptural manner with Ableton, dragging things in from the libraries and trying things out often exploring chance related juxtapositions. I often shift the time and transpose individual samples to make them work with the other material. I build up structures, cut/copy/paste complex layered sections, erase sections that are not working, loop things, and slowly construct a track going though many iterations. I often later cut away at the built up tracks, and edit the piece down, further articulating a structure. I often finish with having between 20 and 50 tracks. In the final set of passes I fully articulate the psychoacoustic space, working with panning, eq, distortion, delay, abstraction, and reverb. I further edit and structure the parts that begin to “work”. Along with the piano I make Libraries of DX7IIE sounds, electronic beats, mellotron, electronic micro-rhythms, non-location recordings from noises found on the internet, orchestral abstractions, midi instrument libraries— violin, cello, woodwinds, and I also employ highly abstracted piano. Additionally I build libraries of ‘abstract’ guitars, playing alternate instruments through synthetic and or real amps. This overall method allows me to work very quickly and intuitively. In this case, the music is more sparse than many of my other recordings.

The Epiphanies started with some long titles like An Epiphany Related to the Back of the Hand. I later came to the notion of just titling the album The Epiphanies, and making the titles shorter. When I searched the title I was excited to see that James Joyce had done a series of short poems with the same overarching name. - Seaman 2017

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- Special Thanks – Craig Tattersall, John Supko, Daniel Crossley and Fluid Audio

- This album is dedicated to the memories of Rick Tear, Ranulph and Aartje Glanville, Otto Piene and David Bowie.

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www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com
www.billseaman.com
www.nievesmingueza.com

The Epiphanies

Bill Seaman - An Epiphany Of Epiphanies

Hi All,

We've been a bit quiet on the radio front, as I'm moving country again so no time to put together the interviews.  However, we've been busy with the second release from DePatterning (aka Gary Mentanko of Wist Rec).   Full details below.

Thanks to all who bought the first release from The Laborer  - last few copies available.

Best wishes

Richard & Paul


Artist: Depatterning 
Title: The Community Pasture 
Label:  Analogue Chat
Cat:  AC002
Release date:  15th June 2018
Format:  Limited edition cassette with free download code

Press Release:
Depatterning is the work of Canadian born Gary Mentanko, now living in Wexford, Eire.  Gary will be familiar to those who know his own label Wist Rec, which has been releasing ‘handy music handmade’ from the likes of The Humble Bee, Tape Loop Orchestra, and Loscil since 2009.  This is his first Depatterning project outside of Wist Rec. The title, The Community Pasture, comes from a land-management service provided in the Prairie Provinces of Canada started back in the 1930s, when Gary’s Ukrainian ancestors first arrived in the province of Saskatchewan. 

Side A is collection of 11 songs of pastoral hums and aural traditions with a decidedly synth-ethic featuring snippet of family voices and field recordings from the past and present.  On Side B, there is a 23 minute chat with Gary about the music, his inspirations and the wonder of the early electric age.  

Credits:
Elements of sound: Gary Mentanko
Artwork & Layout by Analogue Chat with special thanks to Craig Tattersall
Mastered by Gary Mentanko
©2018 Analogue Chat
All rights reserved

The Community Pasture

Depatterning - The Community Pasture - Album preview

1.  Dravier - Field Composition #1 (Silent Versions)
2. Jake Muir - Green Eyes (Sferic)
3. Deepchord - Immersion I (Astral Industries)
4. Savvas Ysatis - Alright - Surgeon's Keith 4 Nat Mix - (Tresor)
5. Optom - Item 2 (NV Rec)
6. CynthLab - Barrio Obrero (Self Release/Band Camp)
7. DBR - Third Quater (NV Rec)
8. Shaahin Saba Dipole - Fervor (Shimmering Moods Records)
9. Parallelism - 11 -dB (Shimmering Moods Records)
10. Giuseppe Falivene - Untitled 11 (Shimmering Moods Records)
11. Federico Mosconi - Melody not Melody (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
12. Mind over MIDI - Reversion (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
13. Andrew Sherwell - Ektenia 04 v4
14. Kirill Mazhai - Body Image (Forthcoming Fluid Audio)
15. Kirill Mazhai - N59.957534 E30.323258 (Shimmering Moods Records)
16. Rime Trails - Sanctum III (Shimmering Moods Records)

Shimmering Moods @ Resonance Extra #24

Analogue Chat is an independent record label based in Spain and The Netherlands releasing limited edition cassettes.  
Artists are invited to record sounds from their own ‘medio ambiente’ to tell their personal narrative in the form electronic soundscapes or traditional song structures.

Any demos:  send to analoguechat@gmail.com

Depatterning - The Community Pasture - Album preview

Analogue Chat

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