2022-11-28 lunar

After more than two years of silence, Temple Of Joy Records makes the most blissful return with a new tape release featuring a split program from two acid smoldering ministers of The Hague, Unit Moebius and Shitcluster.

Only three dozen sixty-minute cassettes will be available for order on our Bandcamp page in the final days of the passing year 2023, as well as at the release show on December 21st at Berlin's Sameheads club.

Produced and mixed by Unit Moebius & Shitcluster, with artwork by Demented Doggy and mastering by Unit Moebius & Shitcluster.

UNIT MOEBIUS / SHITCLUSTER - TEMPLEOFJOY 006

The deeper I am investigating field recording as both artistic and listening practice, the more I become aware that each recording session is an intrusion into the landscape and that the landscape, whatever historical, biotic, or environmental system defines it – is sentient to my presence.

No matter how considerate my “intrusions” are, an abstract form of communication always takes place, and it largely depends on my ability to maintain this connection, which goes beyond the soundscape and sonic properties of the place. In this sense, my capacity to employ deep intuition and activate a specific neural architecture developed through a compound of skills also defines the recording process and its future aesthetic transformation. Thus, making a field recording fully personalized practice and soundscape composition a discipline of open interpretation, as well as a vast field for misuse and false representation. Regardless of an evaluation system, whether we contemplate an act of listening through scientific observation of one’s cognition event boundaries or through the capacity to comprehend the existential phenomenology of Zulu spiritualism, the possibility that two or more listeners can have the same listening experience is minuscule.

We are all deeply rooted in a diversity of psychological constructs; neural and sensory imprints, memory compounds, cognitive abilities, and many body-mind pathways determining our current psycho-physical state. Therefore, if the field recording practice is based on any form of active listening – it is a discipline based on interpretation.
With that in mind, I am asking: How do we approach the landscape of severe devastation and a dense history of warfare? Knowing that serious ethical and moral consequences are involved in the effort to interpret a particular soundscape.

In the work “ghosts” I am using obsolete instruments – a modular synthesizer built in 1970, a discarded wheelchair wheel salvaged from the Adriatic Sea, and the piano fallen in disuse which belonged to the Austrian conceptualist, filmmaker, improviser, photographer, environmentalist, and writer – Karl Katzinger aka John Tylo (October 1953 – April 2021). Next to these elements of the past and their voices rediscovered, I am incorporating hydrophone and field recordings from several locations appropriating them through the discourse of critical tourism and a culture of memory – more specifically through listening to the inherent memories of environmental devastation due to exploitation of natural resources as well as warfare – in the South Adriatic (Old town Dubrovnik and island of Vrnik), and the Czech-Austrian borderlands nearby of Mauthausen–Gusen concentration camps. 

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Instruments:
EMS Synthi 100
Wheelchair wheel salvaged from the sea
John Tylo’s old piano

Field recordings:
Dubrovnik – Stradun air conditioning units and collection of rubbish containers
Vrnik Island South Adriatic – crickets in an ancient limestone quarry
Adriatic dolphins *hydrophone recording by Robertina Šebjanič
Harrachstal village on Czech-Austrian borderlands – crickets in the abandoned granite quarry
Hydrophone recordings of the river Schwarze Aist
Train coming into Freistadt train station in Austria

All sounds performed, recorded, composed & edited by Manja Ristić
Some sounds gathered at the SHAPE + musikprotocoll residency, July 2023

Hydrophone used for an underwater recordings made by Jez riley French
jezrileyfrench.co.uk

Mastering by La Plant Studio
laplantstudio.com

Bandcamp

ghosts

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/wide-mesh-riforma-somaticae-cloak-of-kings-not399093
https://riforma.bandcamp.com/album/blue-lagoon
https://riforma.bandcamp.com/album/ayont

Wide.Mesh (Riforma) – Somaticae, Cloak Of Kings & Not399093

Mix enregistré lors de la soirée organisée par Troisième Loutre à La Virgule à Toulouse. 
À l'affiche : Maria Violenza, Shitty Shed, Taranta Lanera, Sola et Anita Dynamita. 
16 septembre 2023.

https://www.instagram.com/_anita_dynamita_/

https://www.instagram.com/3e_loutre/

Visuel > https://www.instagram.com/kazeplop/

ᴹⁱˣ_ˢᵒⁱʳᵉᵉ_ᴹᵃʳⁱᵃ ⱽⁱᵒˡᵉⁿᶻᵃ_ˢʰⁱᵗᵗʸ ˢʰᵉᵈ_ᵀᵃʳᵃⁿᵗᵃ ᴸᵃⁿᵉʳᵃ_ˢᵒˡᵃ_ᴬⁿⁱᵗᵃ ᴰʸⁿᵃᵐⁱᵗᵃ ⁽¹⁶.⁰⁹.²³⁾

This month’s set for NARR Radio is a heartfelt journey featuring new releases and timeless tracks that have never failed to move me. Additionally, I’ve included selections from various benefit compilations raising funds to aid people in Gaza: Dreaming Live’s “ENOUGH!,” Maple Death Records’ “Bologna for Palestine,” Theory Therapy’s “Out of Season Vol. 3,” and “IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE” by SARAB | سراب. Join us for an hour of sounds that resonate with deep emotion and a spirit of solidarity.

Doris Dana 9/06/24

(100 veuves)
DalidaCarnage ne sait pas marcher droit et oublie souvent son chemin.
Alors proposons d’autres trajectoires ?
Pour briser et tirer des lignes entre noise, experimental, ambient, électroacoustic et
groovy bass, dans tous leurs états-down ; bien-sûr, on oublie pas la trip-hop. Et on
dit bonjour le bruit ! « bonjour le bruit, bisou.


Bientôt Veuves w/ Dalida Carnage (11/06/24)

Il y a une balade de confinement de https://soundcloud.com/melaine-dalibert au piano
Il y a https://soundcloud.com/ladrache de Bruxelles au chant polyphonique post-punk
Il y a la voix et le synthé ombrageux de https://soundcloud.com/elisaflores
Il y a les mélodies chaleureuses de https://soundcloud.com/fairiesareback
Il y a les ritournelles enveloppantes de https://soundcloud.com/finfilm composées dans le secret de sa voiture
Il y a une reprise par https://soundcloud.com/glabre d'une des plus belles chansons du monde
Et puis quelques morceaux d'artistes qui n'ont plus besoin d'être présenté-e-s, mais encore et toujours écouté-e-s, oui

Mix enregistré le 18 juin 2024

Image: https://www.instagram.com/camille.tsering/

Playlist:
Melaine Dalibert - 'Confinuum' 8
Ladr ache - Op Stilte
Unknown - Three More Times (= 3 times slower Britney cover)
Elisa Flores - As Cold As Warm
Calla - Elsewhere
Fairies Are Back - Cheval de fer
Glabre - The Sound Behind The Silence
Fin Film - It's a C
Clarice Jensen - Daily
Drekka - Sickness Subsides
Janis Joplin - All Is Loneliness
Explosions In The Sky - Remember Me As A Time Of Day
Ladr ache - Trafic de grues
Fin Film - Tripping Without A Trip
Fairies Are Back - Flowers Shall Grow
Low - Shots & Ladders

Mélancolie douce XXV

AFX __ analord series__mixed (the lost mix series)  11/12/17

'Flor' from the upcoming Release 'Moto Perpetuo' on Marionette.

Written and Produced by Benjamin Kilchhofer and Michael Anklin
Cat. no.: Marionette09
Format: 12” Vinyl (180g) + Digital
Release Date: March 2019

Moto Perpetuo

Kilchhofer Anklin - Flor (Moto Perpetuo LP)

The Current Inside”, Marja Ahti's sophomore album for Hallow Ground, plays with the theme of currents - connecting and animating movements in the form of air, water and electricity. It approaches sound as a poetic medium, focusing both on the experience of sound as form and energy and on a loosely narrative arc, suggesting a riddle on the relations between the sounds. It implements alternative as well as intuitive tunings, analog and digital synthesis, recordings of sonorous spaces and vessels, electromagnetic fields transduced into audio, acoustic close-ups of elements in motion and other field recordings. Fluently connecting quite diverse sound sources, Ahti's music lingers in a zone between abstract sonorities and vaguely familiar acoustic environments.

The first half of the album consists of ”The Altitudes”, a piece commissioned by Ina GRM for Présences Électronique and Sonic Acts. It was inspired by descriptions of the layers of Earth's atmosphere. Imagining a movement through layers of air, the piece unfolds with a slow intensity, interweaving concrete sounds and closely tuned electronic sonorities. Traversing the altitudes, a landscape of entangled elements, masses and currents emerges. The air around us has weight and it presses against everything it touches. As gravity pulls it to Earth, it is sensed as pressure. The rotation of the planet, the angle of the sun at any new moment sets the elements in motion in a chain reaction.

The other side consists of four shorter pieces. ”The Currents” opens with a dance of trembling charged movements. ”Lost Lake” extracts resonant tones from a trail of close-up recordings of winter environments, while ”Fluctuating Streams” channels streaming air in different forms. The closing track, ”Sundial”, could be construed as the steady turning of the planetary angle towards the sun, unfolding through fragments of everyday activity against the backdrop of piercing, slowly twisting, suspended tone.

Out on Hallow Ground May 8, 2020

Composition, production, mixing: Marja Ahti
Voice: Johanna Kalliokulju
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Cover artwork by Niko Karlsson and design by Juri Puhakka

The Altitudes was commissioned by Ina GRM as part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. The work was supported in part by Arts Promotion Centre Finland. Synthesizers recorded at EMS, Stockholm and Ina GRM, Paris. Voice recorded at IAC, Malmö. Field recordings from various locations in Finland, Sweden and Croatia.

Thanks to Olli Aarni, Niko-Matti Ahti, François Bonnet, Jason Dungan, Jonna Karanka, Laura Naukkarinen and Remo Seeland.

The Altitudes (excerpt)

Antonin is an artist from Brussels. He makes music, mistakes, mixtapes and masks. All with love.

Mélancolie douce XXV

Antonin De Bemels