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William Selman’s latest release on his label Critique of Everyday Life co-managed by Chris Miller (aka Gunnar Haslam, Emile Zener) is a slow, sparse unfolding. Forming a kind of enigmatic triptych that evolves, breathes and retreats over the course of 45 minutes, these three arrangements are capable of standing on their own, or working together as a brilliant summation of parts. Intensely cinematic but not overly lush, Saccades finds its power through a meticulous, purposeful construction. 

The term “saccades” actually refers to involuntary rapid eye fixations the eyes make while taking in an image. Selman says, “this constant motion and tracking, trying to make sense of a scene is a metaphor for my inability to focus on anything over the last year. I wanted to make music that structurally broke up itself into episodes that shifted from one similar idea to another, but not directly—instead they shift by fading in and out.” This concept translates well to the sonic result; part of why Saccades is compelling has to do with Selman’s ability to make room for negative space. Silence is an integral part of these arrangements, which lends to a storytelling sensibility. Ongoing tension between the active and passive principles—a moving forward, a stepping back, creating, destroying, yielding—creates hyper visceral tension and almost feels like an affront to our capitalistic, hyper-productive conditioning. 

Each of these three pieces hover around the 14-minute mark, becoming mini universes within themselves. The opening arrangement—the title track—is suspenseful, mysterious, eerie, and wonderfully atmospheric. “Ghost Strata” is filled with field recordings and Selman’s exceptional sound design is apparent throughout: shakers appear in one ear and move around the head, satisfying the senses. Every small sound is made massive, for even the tiniest sounds bounce against the quiet, strengthening their potency. The third and final arrangement feels as if it’s starting in medias res; tension is continued straight away with discordant, metallic tones. However, this tension is dispelled more swi ly than in the previous two compositions; in fact, “Waking Tracing” is a departure from the other tracks, in that it draws more from the natural world. A single field recording acts as the foundation of the piece, upon which Selman overlaid other recordings and sounds to generate a sense of both direct and associative
memories. Hyper natural textures are threaded into an off-kilter atmosphere, inciting contemplation of Nature vs. Machine, or the destruction of the natural as it interplays with the unnatural. But the piece keeps moving, albeit non-linearly, until something is transmuted. Saccades ends how it began: wavering between two zones: one tense and disorienting, one meditative and purposeful. But Selman doesn’t leave us hanging—the release completes itself intentionally, and makes for a deeply rewarding listen.

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
Design by Common Name
Words by Taylor Bratches

Saccades

Saccades (Excerpt)

What it may sound like if we became microscopic and physically transported into another dimension via telephone wires.

K G G - Down The Line (Remixed, Remastered)

 https://soundcloud.com/shark_teeth93

lyrics by Shark Teeth/AudioBake

Do you ever want to
try and hide?
Or maybe die
by suicide?

That's me in there
inside your soul
On which I feed
create the holes

I deplete you
of energy
Your homicidal
thoughts come from me

I'm in your homes
I fill your jails
Replace your dreams
with constant fails

You try to kill me
But become addicted
You're not to blame
that you're afflicted

Religious books
they often tell
Of squalid places
Akin to hell

But they never ever
Mention me
The deconstructor
of all sanity

I am reborn
with every life
To walk beside you
And cause you strife

You'll spend your days
as you will see
to try your best
to get rid of me

I was created
to be unkind
I'm the decay
Inside your mind

I am your world
The one you see
When nothing's left
You're stuck with me

Now I'm your god
I reign supreme
A morbid sickness
I am unclean

I suck you dry
of joy and pride
I'm all you need
I'm a hellish ride

For just a tincture
You'll sell your soul
Returns diminished
You're at death's door

I know
I know
Every word you have to say
Every thought inside your head
Everywhere you're going to go
Everything you're going to do
I'm inside your mind

The Decay Inside Your Mind - Shark Teeth and AudioBake

Indefinite Pitch PREMIERES. Edition 366

Endurance - Transcend

Verb
[MEDS071 | Muzan Editions]

Music by Endurance
Mastered by OVRSCN at Holosuite Mastering
Artwork by Brendan Howells
Layout by Endurance

Released by Muzan Editions from Osaka, Japan
Release Date: September 16, 2022

Endurance

https://soundcloud.com/joshua-stefane
https://endurance010010.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/descending_on_venus
https://www.facebook.com/endurance010010

Muzan Editions

https://soundcloud.com/muzaneditions
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/MuzanEditions
https://www.instagram.com/muzaneditions
https://twitter.com/MuzanEditions

Indefinite Pitch. Yantai

https://www.indefinitepitch.com

Verb

Transcend

Buy & Support

Indefinite Pitch PREMIERES. Endurance - Transcend [Muzan Editions]

Parasites

'For Wind Poetry' releases October, 2022.

https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/for-wind-poetry-2

Wind Poetry

VAK 62 | yolabmi - Reborn (+ Felt)

VA01

Grievance - Io, Te E Il Mare

Chaperone - Blood Smeared Above The Door, We Watch From Windows Before Nailing Them Shut

@vanja-rakic

Our next guest is Vanja Rakic. Born and raised in Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, his diploma says Master’s Degree in industrial design, however, lately you will find him more in the roles of a graphic designer, visual artist, DJ. Spending his formative years in Belgrade and Milan, now living in Amsterdam, his interest in music grew exponentially, being shaped by a mixed bag of experiences gathered throughout space and time. For the last 3 years, Vanja has also been a part of the Garage Noord family. As for the music, Vanja’s friend once described it by saying ‘it is a trip deep inside the belly of the beast.’

Knekelhuis # 95 - Vanja Rakic

JOHNNY JEWEL / THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT

Taken from the album 'Behold' released as LP and Download

Oren Ambarchi & Jim O'Rourke: 'Behold A (exceprt)' (EMEGO 176)

Taken from the album 'Pacific Tubular Waves / Immersion' released as LP / Download

Michel Redolfi 'Pacific Tubular Waves - Inner Tube' (REGRM 014)

Mysteries Of The Deep Podcast, Chapter XXXII. Evening Of Light by Neel.

This is the second part of Neel's hybrid live performance at Innervarnika Festival, Australia.

https://soundcloud.com/neel

Mysteries Of The Deep XXXII - NEEL | EVENING OF LIGHT

Foraged

"Adamance" by Yves De Mey from the forthcoming "Drawn With Shadow Pens" 2xLP due out January 2016.

"Adamance" by Yves De Mey

From album 'TRACED', Pattern 04, Sonic Pieces, 2017

Traced

Post Human

This album focuses on a derelict and abandoned holiday resort at Laem Thian bay on the east coast of the island of Koh Tao in Thailand. The resort is situated in a small cove that is only accessible on foot via an overgrown path and a walk of several miles - a journey very few tourists bother to make. It is clear at first sight that the fading white building has been vacated for some time. The concrete structure opens out onto a small sandy beach that would have provided an idyllic holiday setting at one time. A number of palm-thatched holiday cottages with dilapidated roofs slide down the hillside. There are signs of vandalism; graffiti decorates the walls, the remains of camp fires, broken glass and other detritus litter the floors - but remnants of the previous occupants also remain. Children’s toys, kitchenware, hand written notes, menus, mattresses, a plastic telephone and four cassette tapes - rusty, caked in sand, weather damaged and corroded by the humid salty sea air. 

There is a haunting quality to the location that left a deep impression on me. The sense of isolation and abandonment it engendered was in stark contrast to the rest of the island, and indeed the rest of Thailand as I experienced it. This feeling stayed with me and in some way it permeated the rest of my stay in the country. It is that feeling that I wanted to convey through this work.
Mark Vernon.
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Mark Vernon is a Glasgow-based artist whose work exists on the fringes of sound art, music and broadcasting. At the core of his practice lies a fascination with the intimacy of the radio voice, environmental sound, obsolete media and the re-appropriation of found recordings. He incorporates these diverse elements into radiophonic compositions for broadcast, fixed media and live performances. His solo and collaborative music projects have been published through labels including Kye, Staalplaat, Ultra Eczema, Entr’acte, 3Leaves, Staubgold and Gagarin Records, as well as a series of small CDR and LP editions on his own meagre resource imprint. Along with Barry Burns Mark produces the Radiophrenia 24 hour radio festival.

The Lost Resort - Mark Vernon - Ribbons of Rust out June 26

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Additional release info: 
LABEL: Onset Audio
ARTIST: Yin Yang Audio
TITLE: From The Void EP
GENRES: Drum & Bass
CAT: OA188
RELEASE DATE: 2019-10-25
TRACKS: 9

Check out other tracks on this release:
1.) Yin Yang Audio - Unfolding Reality (Original Mix)
2.) Yin Yang Audio - Everything Becoming Clear (Original Mix)
3.) Yin Yang Audio - Gaian Frequency (Original Mix)
4.) Yin Yang Audio - Ancient Monuments (Original Mix)
5.) Yin Yang Audio - Apparition (Original Mix)
6.) Yin Yang Audio - Iron Flesh (Original Mix)
7.) Yin Yang Audio - Bardo (Original Mix)
8.) Yin Yang Audio - Lucidity (Original Mix)
9.) Yin Yang Audio - Event Horizon (Original Mix)











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