Mads Emil Nielsen: Black Box 3
3: Climbing Plants

arbitrary14, release date: 09 December 2022
https://arbitraryproject.com/Black-Box-3

The third in the Black Box series of releases by Mads Emil Nielsen. The release, which showcases a more sample- and grid-based side of the Danish musician/composer’s work, is part of a sequence of publications with music and audio originally made for theatre, radio soundtracks and more.

Black Box 3 is based on sound pieces produced for Sprækker (Cracks), a dance performance & installation in Denmark, 2021.

LP / CD / DL

1: Installation – 2
2: Untitled (Wind)
3: Climbing Plants
4: Installation – 1
5: Untitled (Branches)
6: Vibrations

https://madsemilnielsen.dk

LP / CD

Mads Emil Nielsen: Climbing Plants (arbitrary14)

Antoine Hubineau: Dissolvè / Scillions
02 / B: Scillions

arbitrary15, 21 April 2023
https://arbitraryproject.com/Dissolve-Scillions

Dissolvè / Scillions by Antoine Hubineau (FR). Derived from the same series of compositions, Dissolvè and Scillions are drawn from modular synthesizer recordings which have been reworked, treated and composed in the computer.

7" / DL

A: Dissolvè
B: Scillions

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https://arbitraryproject.com

7" vinyl

Antoine Hubineau: Scillions (arbitrary15)

Chromacolor (s/t)
01 / A1: Kisses and Wine

arbitrary18, 19 May 2023

https://arbitraryproject.com/Chromacolor

"»Chromacolor« is one of those records that immediately feels like home even though it is hard to locate stylistically. Written and recorded by Hanno Leichtmann in Berlin and Madeira between 2020 and 2022, it draws on rhythmic minimalism as a guiding principle and might call to mind organic, instrument-based ambient music, but also incorporates jazzy moments as well as Annie Garlids multi-layered vocals that permeate through these nine pieces."

LP / DL

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https://arbitraryproject.com/Chromacolor

@hannoleichtmann

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2YrhWinKoQ

Buy: LP

Chromacolor: Kisses And Wine (arbitrary18)

Boris Baltschun: Desert Dictionary

arbitrary16, June 2023

Desert Dictionary navigates sonic territories oscillating between language and landscape, between notation and noise. Voices responding and contributing to a complementary narrative, connecting personal memories, political considerations and psychological effects of a landscape seemingly empty and quiet. Adjacent, beneath and intertwined a modular synthesizer score based on field notes – a synthesized soundscape appearing as imaginary field recordings, at the same time resembling and unalike the place in question.

Recorded in South Africa over a period of three months in 2020 and 2021 - written and produced by Boris Baltschun, 2021-2022.

The Desert Dictionary appears in four iterations – a situation as part of Modern Art Projects South Africa’s collection, a radio play (commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur), a book edition (published by MAPSA), and the present LP.

LP (black)
Edition of 300, inside-out sleeve, printed innersleeve, incl. download code

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Pre-order:
https://www.anost.net/release/BB0E/boris-baltschun%2fdesert-dictionary

https://arbitrary.bandcamp.com

https://www.forcedexposure.com/Labels/ARBITRARY.DENMARK.html

Pre-order: LP

Boris Baltschun: Desert Dictionary - B - excerpt (Mongezi Ncombo)

Antoine Hubineau: Dissolvè / Scillions
01 / A: Dissolvè

arbitrary15, 2023
https://arbitraryproject.com/Dissolve-Scillions

7" / DL

Antoine Hubineau: Dissolvè (arbitrary15)

Boris Baltschun: Desert Dictionary
arbitrary16 (LP / DL), June 2023

https://arbitraryproject.com/Desert-Dictionary

Buy: LP / DL

Boris Baltschun: Desert Dictionary - B - excerpt (Tubatsi Moloi)

Mads Emil Nielsen: Black Box 3

arbitrary14, December 2022
https://arbitraryproject.com/Black-Box-3

arbitrary presents the third in the Black Box series of releases by Mads Emil Nielsen. The release, which showcases a more sample- and grid-based side of the Danish musician/composer’s work, is part of a sequence of publications with music and audio originally made for theatre, radio soundtracks and more.

Black Box 3 is based on sound pieces produced for Sprækker (Cracks), a dance performance & installation in Denmark, 2021. The starting points for these pieces are improvisations recorded with contemporary dancers, in which Nielsen guides the listener through a corpus of synthesizer recordings, everyday sounds and radio archives.

LP / CD / DL

00:00 - 01 - Installation – 2 feat. Victor Dybbroe
01:00 - 02 - Untitled (Wind)
02:37 - 03 - Climbing Plants
04:36 - 04 - Installation – 1
06:32 - 05 - Untitled (Branches)
08:29 - 06 - Vibrations

@madsemilnielsen

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Mads Emil Nielsen: Black Box 3 - excerpts

arbitrary19 | 24 November 2023
CD + DL

Edition of 300
Digipak - Pantone / metallic, 4c print
incl. fold-out insert (text, maps - riso print)

arbitrary presents Terrain Vague – the debut album of Danish group MESMER.

The album is a series of (deconstructed) live-recordings taken from three live concerts. The sounds on this record are taken from two years’ worth of sound research and creative outbursts with inspiration from field trips to the outskirts of Copenhagen. Intrigued by the auditive landscapes of places where nature and culture meet and challenge each other.

Listening to the field-recordings led MESMER to interpret the moods, musical qualities, and inherent energy of the sounds from these areas. Thus, creating melodies, harmonies and rhythmical structures that, together with the field recordings, paved the way for this album.

MESMER consists of the three musicians & composers Emil Jensen, Victor Dybbroe and Anders Filipsen, who have been creating music together over the last 15 years in various groups. MESMER is fascinated by how sound (and its absence) influences us as people and how the different natural and cultural environments create different musical scenarios.

Recorded and produced by Mesmer, 2021 & 2022

Mix: Mads Emil Nielsen

Master: Kassian Troyer

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https://arbitrarymesmer.bandcamp.com/album/terrain-vague

https://arbitraryproject.com/Terrain-Vague

CD + Print

Mesmer - Terrain Vague - 01 _ Intro (arbitrary19)

arbitrary19 | 24 November 2023
CD + DL

Edition of 300
Digipak - Pantone / metallic, 4c print
incl. fold-out insert (text, maps - riso print)

Recorded and produced by Mesmer, 2021 & 2022

MESMER consists of the three musicians & composers Emil Jensen, Victor Dybbroe and Anders Filipsen, who have been creating music together over the last 15 years in various groups. MESMER is fascinated by how sound (and its absence) influences us as people and how the different natural and cultural environments create different musical scenarios.

Mix: Mads Emil Nielsen

Master: Kassian Troyer

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arbitrarymesmer.bandcamp.com/album/terrain-vague

arbitraryproject.com/Terrain-Vague

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Mesmer - Terrain Vague - 08 _ Ode to the Lost Symphony (arbitrary19)

arbitrary20 - CD/DL
26 April 2024

David Moss, Hanno Leichtmann, Hannes Strobl

“Just because Denseland take inspiration from the past, doesn’t mean they're stuck in it. On their first album since 2017, their second for arbitrary, the Berlin-based trio instead ventures slowly but steadily into unknown territory. Hanno Leichtmann and Hannes Strobl’s dub- infused, bass-heavy rhythmic minimalism in combination with lyricist David Moss’s sonorous yet deadpan delivery opens up a space that feels both claustrophobic and infinitely wide.

Like previous Denseland albums, »Code & Melody« picks up on the sparse side of dub-enamoured post-punk, no wave, post-rock, adventurous electronic and improvised acoustic music and blends this with a vocal performance marked by a Lou Reedian cool, a confrontationalism à la Lydia Lunch and, occasionally, an experimentalism akin to Scott Walker. The result is as unique and ambiguous as the record’s title: Musical formal rigour enters into a dialogue with poetic reflections on the beautiful mess that is the human experience.”

Written, recorded and produced by Denseland 2023 in Berlin
Mastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering
Artwork: Denseland and Mads Emil Nielsen
Text: Kristoffer Cornils

Edition of 300 – Digipak: 4c + Pantone / metallic print, incl. download code

https://arbitraryproject.com/Code-Melody

Pre-order: CD

Denseland - Going Up The Going Down (arbitrary20)

arbitrary20 - CD/DL
26 April 2024

David Moss, Hanno Leichtmann, Hannes Strobl

https://arbitraryproject.com/Code-Melody

https://arbitrary.bandcamp.com

Denseland - Four Humans And A Rope (arbitrary20)

Side A - excerpt

arbitrary21 (10" / DL) 
06 September 2024

https://madsemilnielsenchromacolor.bandcamp.com/album/heartbeats

The second in a series of 10” vinyl remix collaboration releases by Danish
musician Mads Emil Nielsen and Chromacolor / Hanno Leichtmann (DE).
10” vinyl: transparent, CYK + Pantone, inside-out. Artwork by Karel Martens.

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arbitrary presents the second in a series of 10” vinyl remix collaboration releases by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen and Chromacolor.

Side A features Heartbeats, a composition Nielsen originally made for a radio soundtrack. The track is derived from loops and granulations of sine waves and pulses from Nielsen’s modular synth, which he later combined with recordings of synthesized bass and layers of organ-like tones.

On side B is a remix by German sound artist and producer Hanno Leichtmann under his Chromacolor moniker. As on the first split 10” (Constellation, 2022), Leichtmann worked with sounds from the original mix, combining it with his Hohner Guitaret, Fender Rhodes and Moog bass. Additional cello tones by Anthea Caddy and vocal contributions from Annie Garlid round out the remix.

@madsemilnielsen

https://arbitraryproject.com/Mads-Emil-Nielsen-Chromacolor

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arbitrary21 - Mads Emil Nielsen: Heartbeats - excerpt

arbitrary21 (10" / DL)
06 September 2024

arbitrary presents the second in a series of 10” vinyl remix collaboration releases by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen and Chromacolor.

Side A features Heartbeats, a composition Nielsen originally made for a radio soundtrack. The track is derived from loops and granulations of sine waves and pulses from Nielsen’s modular synth, which he later combined with recordings of synthesized bass and layers of organ-like tones.

On side B is a remix by German sound artist and producer Hanno Leichtmann under his Chromacolor moniker. As on the first split 10” (Constellation, 2022), Leichtmann worked with sounds from the original mix, combining it with his Hohner Guitaret, Fender Rhodes and Moog bass. Additional cello tones by Anthea Caddy and vocal contributions from Annie Garlid round out the remix.

Heartbeats written & produced by Mads Emil Nielsen in Copenhagen. Heartbeats / Chromacolor Remix written & produced by Hanno Leichtmann. with: Annie Garlid: voice, Anthea Caddy: cello.
Mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer at D&M, Berlin. Artwork by Karel Martens.


10” vinyl (transparent, 45 rpm) + DL
1st edition of 300, CYK + Pantone print, inside-out sleeve, incl. download code

Distributed by Morr Music Distribution 

www.arbitraryproject.com 
info@arbitraryproject.com

www.madsemilnielsen.dk
www.hannoleichtmann.com

Pre-order (BC)

arbitrary21 B - Chromacolor - Heartbeats / Chromacolor Remix

arbitrary21 A - Mads Emil Nielsen - Heartbeats

Label / imprint
Denseland – Code & Melody (arb.20, April 2024)
arbitrary21 (10" / DL) 06 Sept. 2024
https://www.arbitraryproject.com

Updated: https://arbitrary.bandcamp.com

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