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"waterlilies in fontiform" [framework editions, 2023] 🪷

Such an honor to be part of framework radio’s seasonal issues with a new piece of fontiform music! 

> listen/download: frameworkeditions.bandcamp.com/album/framework-seasonal-issue-14-summer-2023

Thought as a continuation of the work "for scarpa's fountains” [forms of minutiae, 2020], the composition "waterlilies in fontiform" weaves field recordings made in, on, and around the Tomba Brion in San Vito d'Altivole. Designed by the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa in the 70s, this burial ground materializes as a garden guided by a multitude of lines made of concrete, metal, marble, and glass. Yet as one wanders in this peculiar landscape, one soon realizes that concrete isn’t the tomb’s primary material, water is. As if submerged, the graves are encircled by basins interconnected by a network of fountains, rivulets, and pipes. Water striders, sporadic frogs, vibrant fish and tapestries of waterlilies glide over sunken pyramidal stepped edges, echoing ruins of bygone architectures. An aqueous rhizome at the heart of the garden which steers us through the whole sanctuary. The composition brings listeners into the various materialities of the space and the underwater hums of the fontiform network's machinery. Moreover, subtle algae photosynthesis, muffled voices of human visitors, and the garden's avian inhabitants infuse with life the architect's carefully organized matter. Ambiguous feelings arise as if perched in equilibrium on the crests of the tomb's multifarious structures. The piece ends with openings (both geographical and temporal) as the uncanny murmurs of the flowing waters are joined by the drones of another (temporary) Venetian fountain, Claire Tabouret's sculpture "Deux Baigneuses'', before fading into the vespertine soundscape of a small Portuguese village. A midwife toad calls in the darkness, bells resound in a valley, as Brion Tomb’s architectonic specter lingers in the flowing waters.

> Note: Tomba Brion is also the resting place of Scarpa himself, who shared that "the place for the dead is a garden".

> Recorded in the Tomba Brion in Altivole (april 2022), Palazzo Cavanis in Venice (april 2022), and in Peneda-Gerês National Park (may 2023).
Recorded with Aquarian H2a-XLR hydrophone, LOM Uši Pro, LOM Geofón, SoundDevices MixPre-6 II, Sony PCM-D100.

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waterlilies in fontiform [framework editions]

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"for 0" is a radio show by usof where the most outward fringes of underground art are welcomed and brought together to create two hours of genderless musical submission.

@stasczekalski on the first hour:
Kensho Nakamura - wat air
hiyori - 祖母の刺繍になれたら
Acte Bonté - Death is a long sleep (J.Haydn cover)
Bravo Tounky - Magicalement
Almond Butyl - Love jazz
吉村晶 - 流れてく数字
5AM - Answer
Jadelain - Contrarian Heart 2
Minoyimn - Her Majesty
Staś Czekalski - Zamek (paszka remix)
koeosaeme - 1520219-44
Jonathan Scherk - B3
Christian Mirande - Beautiful One Day, Perfect The Next (Bike Ride To The Library)
tear - shards
Anne Laplantine - On the Street
Infant - Pebble
uami - good spot 海
Moskitoo - Cement Moment
my nettle - Mn13 chord (bws)
juleryk - 1hctiws_ayjygmo
boy lucid - ooz stars
Sasha Slug - Shark Week
The Motifs - Little Things

"for 0" #34 w/ Staś Czekalski | Rádio Quântica

Taken from SBKT064: sideproject - sourcepond
Release date: 30th May 2024

Following up from work on Björk´s 'Fossora', Icelandic trio 'sideproject' debut on SVBKVLT with their new full-length album 'sourcepond'. Taking influence from the fog-covered wetlands of their native island, sideproject transfigure influences from the low-end frequencies of grime and bass music, and reshape it into a haze of transient-smeared beats accompanied by breathy synths that grow ever wetter till they slip beneath the surface tensions of their harmonic stratum. Compared to previous output, 'sourcepond' opts for a more concise approach to their music, stacking up their influences of experimental electronic, Icelandic punk and contemporary club music, and builds a sound that oscillates between melodic hooks and experimental rhythms. Each track carves through the sensuous material, pulling the listener into the dank sourcepond as though magnetic forces were guiding a bird's beak towards misty horizons.

Artwork by sideproject
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

sourcepond

sideproject - bering strait

out to https://soundcloud.com/comastasis for having me guest on his 'Sleep Deprived' show on https://soundcloud.com/retreatradio

RECORDS I BET YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNO I FUCKIN HAD (VOL. 1)

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States Of Fugue

Zoë Mc Pherson, 'LEARN UR LANGUAGE FASTER feat. Elvin Brandhi' (2020). Courtesy SFX, Berlin.

From ANM047 "Climat Avenir", by Simon Chioini — CD Digipack

Climat avenir ; portrait of unexploited lands, of deserted spaces, of a corrosive and venomous flora. Irked protagonists, roaming livestock, their acidic cries.
Beauty of the blue-green lakes, of the scintillating stars under clouds of bronze. The earth's foundational movement.
Crashing ice. Solar winds.
This work cycle is an imagined world voided of any human presence, or succeeding it. It is a prismatic composition: a vibrant landscape, a topographic map, an exploded geode.
Macro. Micro.

Music composition and mastering by Simon Chioini.
Photography by Violeta Mayoral. Sculptures by Lara Fluxà. Art Direction and concept by Violeta Mayoral and Lara Fluxà.

Climat Avenir

ANM047 Simon Chioini — Réservoir III

—Published across visual art, music & critical thought from 2012-2022
—Other discrete projects, as and when

Zoë Mc Pherson, 'LEARN UR LANGUAGE FASTER feat. Elvin Brandhi' (2020). Courtesy SFX, Berlin.

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