Side A - excerpt

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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Side A features Heartbeats, a composition Nielsen originally made for a radio soundtrack.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.

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

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five excerpts of pieces made on the buchla music easel, summer 2024

Summer Easel (five excerpts)

Tracklist

01. Philippe Neau - Chants Vibrations
02. Far away Nebraska - Come partire in un giorno di primavera
03. Federico Durand - La edad del bosque
04. anthéne - Ash fall
05. Olli Aarni - Kimaltava lätäkkö
06. Civic Hall - The trembling line II
07. Michael Santos - Magenta Dayline
08. James Osland and Andrew Heath - The Things You See

390. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Spirit Radio - Doctrinal 
02. Natasha Pirard - Celestial Flirtation
03. James Murray - Ragwort
04. Seaworthy & Matt Rösner - Hidden Paths, Animal Tracks
05. Rhucle & morimoto naoki - Wasuremizu
06. Michael Santos - Sun Mazing
07. The Humble Bee & Offthesky - Senses
08. Ghost and Tape - Ikoj
09. Daily Rituals - Wild Dusk Singing
10. Old Amica - Altappen
11. The Lifted Index - Your Brother is the Blue of the Sea

392. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

https://www.stefanogervasoni.net/index.asp?page=catalogue&id=136&cat=vocal

for: mixed choir
detailed instrumentation: S.A.T.B. (at least 24 singers)
duration: 12'
commission: FIMS Fribourg - Festival International de Musiques Sacrées
first performance: 6.7.2024, Fribourg, Eglise du Collège St-Michel, Nederiands Kamerkoor, Peter Dijkstra (conductor)
publisher: Ricordi
catalogue number: 142824

The World Grown Dark (2024) - NKK, Peter Dijkstra - live, FIMS Fribourg 6.7.24

Neige Noire - Convulse EP

https://fxbip.bandcamp.com/album/convulse

Art and music: François-Xavier Vigneault-Marcil

Mastering: Jake Fields

Neige Noire 1

RIYL: Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, Eleh, Duane Pitre, La Monte Young, Eno, Larajji, Iasos

Available directly from Imprec.com & Imprec.Bandcamp.com

Agartha, Personal Meditation Music is a 7 CD boxed set, originally released on cassette in 1986, at the height of New Age, as an aid for meditation and alignment. Bringing to mind 20th century composers like Eliane Radigue, La Monte Young or even Brian Eno's Shutov Assembly, the time-stopping, enveloping, electronic music contained in this series sounds eerily modern, mysterious and moving. Characterized by deep analog drones, rising overtones, floating frequencies surfing on sine-waves and intervals with mystic modulation, this is truly moving, vibrational music.

In Agartha, the individual notes of each Harmonic Triad proceed in a fashion that is neither improvisational nor chance-based, nor is it generative. Instead the music flows outward as if being transmitted— or channeled — from a place outside human consciousness. There is a profound sense of cosmic depth expanding ever outward as the music fills the listener with waves of emotion, and a palpable somatic response is felt, although there are subtle differences with each unique Triad. 

Each disc is individually packaged in original replica sleeves and housed in a
heavy duty cardboard clamshell box. Digitized and remastered by Jessica Thompson. Liner notes include extensive instructions for use from the original text and an essay by library music scholar David Hollander.

The original edition of Agartha, Personal Meditation Music, featured one track
30 minute track per tape repeated on both sides. Subsequent editions had unique Side B tracks on all but two of the 7 volumes. We have included all tracks in this boxed set.

Meredith Young-Sowers - Agartha: Personal Meditation Music (1985) - 7 CD Set - Music For Meditation

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A decade is a long pause… how the world has changed since…

Longtime friends and collaborators, iconic ambient composer William Basinski and sound artist/composer Richard Chartier return to LINE with 'Aurora Terminalis', their first new work together since 2015’s ‘Divertissement’ LP (Important Records, US).

From an unexpected sudden burst of sound jaggedly spiraling outward, the tumult fades and shockwaves slide into lulling haze of a melody. Background nuance—nearly imperceptible—and foreground romanticism ripple near each others’ edges. Then, rhythmic and liquid, an erratic drifting over a clouded void... an 'un-still' life... a slow tracing.

'Aurora Terminalis'… a fading gauzy signal for a finality.

Basinski and Chartier have previously released two collaborative works on LINE; Aurora Liminalis (2013) and Untitled 1-3 (2008, an expanded reissue of 'Untitled' originally on Spekk, Japan, 2004), as well as the archival Bandcamp exclusive 'Something from the Pink House' a live improvisation recorded in 2004.

William Basinski's archival album 'The Clocktower at the Beach (1979)' was released on LINE in 2023.

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composed & recorded by Basinski & Chartier 2024

William Basinski: Voyetra 8 + loops
Richard Chartier: electronics, field recordings, processing, mixing

Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space

cover image: detail of 'Glass Eye', 2024 by James Elaine (acrylic and house paints, razor cuts on canvas, 62 in x 92 in)

© 2025 LINE

William Basinski published by Musex International (BMI)
Richard Chartier published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd

Aurora Terminalis (excerpt 2)

Last year in September I released the album ‘Quiet Rooms’ on the British label Whitelabrecs. The tracks on this album were a kind of self-healing process to refocus on home life after a long absence caused by working far away. At that time I was making a lot of improvised music and recording many ideas and sketches. After selecting the tracks for ‘Quiet Rooms’, some ideas, feelings, blurred images and unfinished tracks remained, which later became a solid base for ‘All Our Yesterdays’. Over the course of 2024, more recordings were made and - voilà - a new album was born.

'All Our Yesterdays' is probably a bit more introspective, exploring the spaces between the notes in a much deeper and broader way. So each track is quite transparent in atmosphere and sound, with piano notes, electronic textures and strange sounds drifting in and out. As always, all was recorded mainly at night in dim lighting to focus on what's important to me and my music. ‘All Our Yesterdays’ could be seen as a metaphor for missed moments on the one hand and great moments with the people you love on the other. Deep contemplation with a sense of serenity and balanced stillness - some things don't change...

The cover picture was taken in autumn at a nearby lake, when everything was already prepared and waiting for winter.

Tracklist:
01. All Our Yesterdays / 02. A Change Before A Choice / 03. The Silence Within Us / 04. Until It's Time / 05. There Are Ghosts Around You / 06. Half As Far Out / 07. Beyond Paradise / 08. Anything At All / 09. Before Night / 10. It Takes Confidence (To Let The Music Speak) / 11. The Inner Sea / 12. Fragments Of Love / 13. Never Gonna Let It Go / 14. I Could Sleep For Hundred Years

Written and produced by Polaroid Notes
Recorded between Nov 2023 and Dec 2024

Limited edition CD and digital download @ https://polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com/album/all-our-yesterdays

Release date: 22nd February 2025
Büro für Erdrotation Spin 042

Polaroid Notes - Snippets of All Our Yesterdays (Album)

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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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