him.saint Maxi Radio April 12th, 2025 20:00-21:20 

Free version - ruts dc + terre thaemlitz
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - The Milky Sea
Ex-Easter Island Head - Weather
Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause - Axonic
LDS - mfäg
DJ Python - Coquine
Barker - Fluid Mechanics 
MAP 71 - The Future Edge
Jlin - Mansa Musa
Milan W. - Blue Heron
Xiu Xiu - Clowne Towne 
Able Noise - To Two 
Ex-Easter Island Head - Norther 
YHWH Nailgun - Tear Pusher
The body, intensive Care - Cartography of Suffering 
Contrafacta - Blast Palace (live April 6th, 2025 rewire)
Diamanda Galás - My World Is Empty 
Pariah - Conifer 
rリiチcャhーaドr_d - The Day Of Night (Silent Hill 2 ver.)
Sealionwoman - Wise Woman 
Guided By Voices -Echos Myron

him.saint - Maxi Radio April 12th, 2025

I will play music inspired by my work as a drummer/percussionist in the field of experimental music as well as some nostalgic picks harkening back to my early 20s that everyone will be familiar with. 

him.saint / 12-04-2025

LIMIT (2025)
composed by James O'Callaghan
performed by Paramirabo and Ensemble Hopper:
François Deppe - conductor

Jeffrey Stonehouse - Flute, Pan Flute
Gwénaëlle Ratouit  - Clarinet
Cédric De Bruycker - Contrabass Clarinet
Pamela Reimer - Synthesizer, Piano
François Couvreur - Electric Guitar
Krystina Marcoux - Percussion
Moran Le Bars - Percussion
Hubert Brizard - Violin
Victor Guaita - Viola
Viviana Gosselin - Cello

Recorded 10 April 2025, Le MOM, Liège

Audio recording: Patrick Delges
Audio mixing: James O'Callaghan

Programme note
LIMIT was composed for two ensembles with whom I have long artistic relationships, Paramirabo from Montréal, and Hopper from Liège, and it was a great pleasure to be part of their joining forces for the first time. Looking at the instrumental forces of the commission, I saw a lot of potential for a noisy, distorted sound world - with electric guitar, synthesizer, and two clarinets, whose closed-tube construction emphasizes odd harmonics in the same way that distortion creates wave-folding. And so, built around the idea of distortion, square waves, and odd harmonics, I wrote the piece as an homage to two genres of music close to my heart: industrial music and musique concrète. The piece was premiered in Belgium, so I wanted to give a special nod to one of my favourite groups from there who ended their activity this year after more than 30 years: Front 242. The piece also gives nods and sometimes direct quotations from works by Einstürzende Neubauten, Depeche Mode, Nitzer Ebb, as well as Pièrre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry.
The piece was composed partly during a residency at the Centre Henri Pousseur in Liège, and I wish to thank Patrick Delges for his technical assistance during the residency and the production.

LIMIT - Paramirabo + Ensemble Hopper, François Deppe

"Orison" is a work for ondes Martenot and electronics commissioned and performed by Daniel Áñez. It was irresistible for me to associate this early electronic instrument with science fiction and the idea of extra-terrestrial life, and so the work takes on a quasi-narrative, atmospheric character addressing these themes and their relationship with spirituality, the idea of the metaphysical 'other,' and personal feelings of alienation and otherness. Besides being an incredible ondist, Daniel has a virtuosic fluency with synthesizers and effects pedals, and so the work incorporates a significant signal processing component, which Daniel implemented. The work also features a vocoder during a brief sung passage. The work premiered in 2024 at the Electric Eclectics festival in Meaford, ON, and this studio recording was realized by Daniel Áñez and James O'Callaghan in 2025.

Orison - Daniel Áñez

Recorded July 24th , 2025 @ home in The Hague

Svreca - Utero (Felix K Reinterpretation) 
Skee Mask - Panic Button
Vromo - Tamme 
su01 - USP007 - B1
Merkelbach & Nathan Homan - Swinsung
OSSX - ADVIL TEETH
Batu - Meridian 
Exit To Tomorrow - 900 
Telegrama - Caldas 02 
DJ AGITATED - DNTSTP 
[KRTM] - Strangers Killing Strangers 2
JakoJako - Evaneszenz
gyrofield - Rorschach (ft. Flo State) 
Jah Shaka - Mad Professor - Creation Dub
Lindenberg Support - KD 101 Dub
Andrea - Kjone 
Trudge - No Motivation, Meaningless

him.saint -  mid-ish sorta beginning of end of summer mixtape

@christian-s-smith

him.saint (Christian Streit Smith, b. 1990) is a percussionist, producer, dj, & landscaper based in The Hague.  Christian grew up in Cincinnati, and has lived in Canada and Switzerland before moving to The Netherlands in 2016. He has been playing percussion since he was 10 years old, and while he was originally trained classically, he now works in the ever expanding field of experimental music.  Since 2020 he has self-released a solo full length album, a project with composer Jesse Broekman called 'Contrafacta' on Moon Villain, and next month he and his Basel based ensemble Gyre are releasing an album of music by Argentinian composer Santiago Diez Fischer on Another Timbre.  As a dj, the last years have seen several appearances on Maxi Radio in Leiden as well as making mixes for his soundcloud an average of once or twice per year, and in November he will begin a 4 show residency at Stranded FM in Utrecht called 'C. Smith's Midwest Meltdown' which will conclude in Summer 2026.  him.saint is his moniker chosen for all electronic dance music including techno, but the Stranded FM shows under his government name will be focused on presenting a wide range of his music taste outside of club and dance music culture. 

For my debut R&D mix I was really trying to compress the experience of a 3 hour set into 1 hour, and to lean into maintaining and building a continuous groove and energy for as long as possible before the final 15 minutes where it goes to some perhaps unexpected places. It was recorded in my apartment in March of 2025 using my computer, rekordbox software, and a ddj-400 controller.  

IG: https://www.instagram.com/christian_streit_smith/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@christiansmithpercussion6472
Bandcamp: 
https://moonvillainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-place-to-sing-at-night
https://christiansmith1.bandcamp.com/album/blue-scatter-lp
https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist:
Sandro Uhl - Sounscape
Sleeparchive - 6
Truncate - Untitled
Rrose X Polygonia - Haima
Al Wootton - When Hempe is Spun
Jerical - Groove On
Jonas Kopp - Ocher System #2
Casual Treatment - Eternity Is Long, Prepare For It
Blenk - Outline
Rene Wise - Mover
Finder - Shifting Sands
Temudo - When I Grow Up
Chlär - Panopticon
Beste Hira - Representing My Brain
Taken - Ice Truck
D.I.E. - Dutch Friends
Doctor Jeep - Cyber Funk
Baalti - Buttons
Chaos In The CBD - Liquid Experience

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Tracklist:
Daniel Bachman - Untitled/Dreamweapon
SWANS - I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull 
Ensemble Pamplemousse - What Do You Want to See Today?
sara plusplus - Coping in Private 
Erica Dawn Lyle - ON FIRE III
Zach Hill & Lucas Abela - Combat Boxes 
Mel Keane - Palms 
Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo - The Magic of the World 
Old Saw - Long Distance Engraving 
KAGAMI Smile. - Growth of A Pearl 
Casimir Geelhoed - Largo (Erosion)
Malibu - Watching People Die
Douglas Farrand & LCollective - double trio - august 2021
Kim David Bots - We Did It 
Sister Irene O’Connor - Light  (John 8:12)

C. Smith's Midwest Meltdown | November 22nd 2025 | Stranded FM

A mental sound map of the forests in Québec's Laurentians region, drawing on my accumulated memories of journeys through the area's landscapes. Here are a few things I can recall crossing my mind when making this music :

A vertical spectrum of green;
a fern-draped understory;
clouds of blackflies;
the song of a wood thrush;
a distant chainsaw;
a crumbling stone wall enclosing a nonexistent field;
my t-shirt sticking to my back;
the electric buzz of cicadas;
a rusted out pickup truck;
the drifting haze of a forest fire some miles north;
a sense of impending loss;
the scent of humus;
the scraping of raspberry thorns across my skin.



Laurentian Dérive - Full Album Stream

John Cage's classic Third Construction (1941)

Recorded by Scott Levine in the MMR at McGill University

Third Construction - John Cage

Architek Percussion is a Montreal-based quartet dedicated to the development and performance of avant-garde, experimental, minimalist, and electroacoustic music. Founded in early 2012, they have emerged as dynamic exponents of chamber music, equally comfortable in performing classic repertoire and exploring new terrain through premieres.

In addition to their self-produced concerts in Montreal, Architek has recently appeared as guests of Ottawa New Music Creators, Live@CIRMMT (Montreal), Innovations en Concert (Montreal), Matralab (Concordia University), Pointe-a-Calliere Museum (Montreal), the Schulich Year of Contemporary Music (McGill University), and the Cluster Festival (Winnipeg). In October 2013 they toured the Maritimes, performing and conducting workshops at several Universities in the region.

The members of Architek are ardent devotees of premiering new Canadian music, having recently done so with works by Adam Basanta, Eliot Britton, Beavan Flanagan, Nicole Lizée, Christos Hatzis, Nicolas Hyatt, and James O’Callaghan. Their current repertoire includes works for both pitched and non-pitched percussion instruments, and reflects the cultural and stylistic diversity of North American contemporary music.

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Architek Percussion est un quatuor de percussion émergent concentré sur le développement et l'interprétation de la musique avant-garde, expérimentale, minimaliste et électro-acoustique, particulièrement dévoué à la création d'œuvres des compositeurs émergents. Avec une répertoire actuelle comprise d'une mélange d'œuvres écrites également pour les instruments à claviers et pour les instruments à peaux, Architek est capable de montrer la diversité culturelle et stylistique de la music contemporaine de l'Amérique du Nord. Le quatuor a été former à l'Université de McGIll en 2011, où les membres se sont rencontrer pendant leurs études de maîtrises sous la supervision d'Ayiun Huang et Fabrice Marandola.

Basé à Montréal, Architek présente une série de concerts annuelle, tout en restant fidèle aux communautés différentes de la ville avec ses présentations spéciales. En 2012/13 les membres ont présenté des concerts gratuits à McGill (Schulich Year of Contemporary Music), au Vieux Port (en collaboration avec La Musée Pointe-à-Calliere), Christchurch Cathedral (en collaboration avec Concerts Cathédrale Contemporaine), et à l'Université Concordia (Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques). A part des concerts présentés à Montréal, Architek a réalisé des concerts chez Gallery 345 à Toronto, et comme invités spécial à Ottawa avec le Ottawa Choral Society et Ottawa New Music Creators. La saison 2013/14 figurera la participation du quatuor chez le Cluster Festival à Winnipeg, LIve@CIRMMT à Montréal et une tournée des provinces maritimes du Canada.

Architek est fortement dévoué à la musique nouvelle et à la commissionnement de nouvelles pièces de plusieurs compositeurs canadiens où basé au Canada ; incluants Eliot Britton, Kota Nakamura, Beavan Flanagan, et Nicolas Hyatt, tandis que l'interprétation des œuvres des compositeurs canadiens Christos Hatzis, Claude Vivier et Sandeep Bhagwati. Ces pratiques à fait établir Architek comme une pièce importante dans la scène musicale montréalaise, ainsi que celle du Canada.