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As a current participant at the Recurse Center in NYC, I’ve had the pleasure of exploring new forms of composition, most specifically in the Python programming language. At first I was focused on writing my library of compositional tools that work with MIDI data, though I was soon introduced to the idea of data sonification through another “recurser”, Edith Viau (MTL), who explores the subject through her Financialist project. Edith seemed to be the only other person at RC exploring the subject already and we soon formed the Data Sonification Group at RC thereafter.
Sonifications of Price consists of two compositions written in Python, mapped to the prices of Bitcoin and Gold, respectively. “Bitcoin” represents the price everyday from 2010-2021 and “Gold” represents the price each month since 1950.
Large and invisible forces run our modern world and often they can feel exceptionally abstract, and even scary within the context of our lives. This work is an attempt to demystify their scale and convey a translation of power.

Sound and art by Randy Riback (soundcloud.com/jungdeejay)
Mastered by Pavel Milyakov (soundcloud.com/buttechno)


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Jung DJ ~ Gold

k - mirrors gonna steal ur soul

shining message

Alliyah Enyo - Echo's Disintegration

when my mind is quiet i drift 2 u *water2wine*

Hi Q

m_memory (with florian tm zeisig)

1st half: https://soundcloud.com/charles-verni
2nd half: https://soundcloud.com/aircode

aircode & Charles Verni (02/07/23)

Soup

An array of commonplace metal objects - chains, pans, a bicycle, a chair - recorded by Ross Alexander at home in Berlin during the pandemic comprise the source material of 11 𝑮𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔. Functioning as a temporal and mnemonic exploration into the nature and conception of “home”, the album evokes Alexander’s earliest memories and broader hauntological perspectives of post-industrial England:

“Growing up in South Yorkshire in the 1980s and 90s was an existence haunted with the ghosts of a heavy manufacturing industry which once thrived in the region. On both a visceral and sensorial level it might be considered equally as impossible to escape the nostalgic stories of mines and steelworks as it was to escape the smell of molten metal in the air drifting from the Don Valley.”

The improvised metallic scrapes, bangs, and bowings recorded by Alexander were further abstracted in live performances using granular sampling techniques, creating a new and extrinsic world to which subconscious thoughts can flee, sonically and contextually. The results are both dreamy and unpredictable, fusing the immediacy of acoustic percussion with the billowing resonances imbued by granular synthesis.

“On tracing back through distant memories of my formative years for sound-objects which represented to me the essential idea of ‘being from’ as opposed to ‘being a visitor’ I related to a pervasive association with the sounds of metal and metallic objects, mostly in respect to how certain structural properties relate to haptic and resonant nature and the manifestation of those properties as sonic results. I feel this is the result of growing up in a place where heavy industry, or at least the remnant of which, was central to society, community and everyday life.”

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Ross Alexander is an artist, producer and curator based in Berlin working in the context of expansive trans-disciplinary practice and non-individualist ideals. His broad ranging body of work as an artist has encompassed music, performance, sound art, visual arts, installation, radio art, digital media, augmented reality, intervention, social practice and education. Ross has presented and performed at such institutions as ICA London, Transmediale Festival, Nyege Nyege Festival, Documenta Kassel and Martin-Gropius Bau Berlin.

As a curator and organizer his experimental and diverse practice has seen him work with Transmediale festival, Maerzmusik, Glastonbury Festival, Cashmere Radio, Nyege Nyege Festival Uganda and extensively with his own Salon Oblique production collective.

rossalexanderpayne.com
instagram.com/o0rossalexander0o
rossalexanderworks.bandcamp.com
mixcloud.com/rossalexandermix

11 Gates

Ross Alexander - Piece 2 (ENMD-04)

Ambient jam recorded 17/08/2025 w/ Isaac Robertson and Leo Turton.

Glare

J'air repris ici dans une toute nouvelle version un de mes premiers morceaux créés au moment où je m'étais acheté, il y a maintenant déjà quelques années, mon piano numérique (Roland FP30) qui m'enchantait à lui tout seul par ses sonorités nouvelles pour moi. Il perd malheureusement beaucoup ici de sa sonorité, car je ne peux le brancher à ma carte audio que par sa sortie casque. De cette première version et de son arrangement d'époque j'ai cependant conservé ici  la partie centrale. J'espère que vous apprécierez son ambiance très rêveuse

un ange passe

Buy/Stream: https://lnk.to/RWVNR01

Rewoven presents “Reimagined 01” — a new compilation that offers fresh takes on some of the label’s most loved tracks, reworked in Chillout, Ambient, Downtempo, Electronica, and Neoclassical genres. The collection features core label artists revisiting their own compositions from a new angle, adding emotional layers and atmospheric depth with soft textures, ambient elements, live piano, and breathtaking guitar work. “Reimagined 01” is all about creative reinterpretation and a more personal, introspective direction — giving a new perspective on past legacy while staying true to the label’s core sound.

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m_memory (with florian tm zeisig)

Arad Acid