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The Brooklyn composer and video artist combines music from Kenya, Indonesia, Brazil, New York and more on a globe-spanning Fact Mix.

More info and tracklist here: https://www.factmag.com/2021/05/31/britton-powell-fact-mix/

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Fact Mix 810: Britton Powell (May '21)

Taken from the album 'Piano Muisc 1-7' released as LP, CD and digital.


Editions Mego is proud to welcome Powell to its roster with a bizarre and strangely emotive new LP of synthetic computer works entitled Piano Music 1-7.

Via his own Diagonal Records imprint, his work on XL Recordings and, most recently, the opening of audio/film platform A Folder [afolder.studio], Powell has firm footing in the contemporary electronic landscape. During a wry and obstinate musical life he has twisted myriad synthetic forms into shapes that explore and expand upon the districts of post-punk, techno, noise + computer music, and in the the last year alone he has released four albums of hi-def abstractions, each inspired by a formalisation of music proposed by Iannis Xenakis. 

As an extension of this intense period of work/research/play with stochastic functions [using probabilities to compose music], various processes emerged that Powell then began to apply to more traditional musical events. Where ordinarily in his work the probabilities and relationships are used to define parameters such as wave-shape, folding, FM, filter modes etc., he now began to use them to create musical formations and visual scores that could be played back using any software/MIDI instrument [one of these can be seen on the rear cover of the LP release]. While mapping out this cartography of relations, he used a basic Grand Steinway sampler as a placeholder instrument; the longer the process went on, though, the more he began to embrace the acoustic properties of the synthetic piano and make it the bedrock for this new constellation of work. 

Piano Music 1-7, subtitled ‘Music for Synthetic Piano and Assorted Electronics’, consists of seven different synthetic islands strung together into a single composition. All were composed using the aforementioned processes that allowed Powell to play a piano, even if he never learned to do so with his hands. After all, ’In writing electronic music,’ Robin Mackay once wrote, ‘you also have to direct the invention of new tools.’

At times the piano skips gleefully over shadowing synthesis, whilst at others the synthetic sheets swarm and envelope the keys. The interplay between the two create a fantastical alternate reality, a cosmic machine in which time is eroded, shrunk and expanded, like a wax upon which operations and relations are inscribed or engraved. Many of the pieces express a playfulness or optimism verging on vitalism, as bundles of piano notes dance and interpolate with a never-repeating range of electronic gestures. The feel is of a brightly coloured flower-bed in various stage of bloom. This interplay of the [artifical] acoustic and the electronic builds on the pioneering processes developed by David Behrman in works such as Leapday Night, and Piano Music 1-7 could also be posited as a modern take on Conlon Nancarrow’s investigations for player piano. Similarly, the razor-sharp sonic properties and unfolding of non-human events recall the computer works of Xenakis and the surgical precision of Mego mainstay Florian Hecker.

Recorded in late 2020, these new Powell works propose not just a bold and bright vision of electronic music but serve also as a map with which, for 35 minutes at least, we can navigate our way out of the current milieu. As the artist himself remarks in the sleeve-notes, ‘. . . What emerged from this fog or soup [for me] were ideas and processes that felt affirmative and life giving — sensations I had always hoped to convey in my music. Perhaps the optimism or positivity I felt at these musical events unfolding, these clusters and knots tumbling in different directions across time, can also be felt by you.’

Music for Synthetic Piano and Assorted Electronics

Composed and recorded by Powell, 2020
Mixed by Powell and Tobin Jones at The Park Studios, London
Mastered by Russell Haswell

Art direction by Guy Featherstone
Photography by John Cronin

Powell 'Piano Music #1' (EMEGO 301)

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"Spectral is a collection of tracks using either the Buchla 296 or 296e
Spectral Processor. It was fun taking it into different sonic universes to see 
what it would reveal. Enjoy!" - Todd Barton, 2022

TODD BARTON - SPECTRAL ( excerpt)

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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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7" vinyl

Antoine Hubineau: Scillions (arbitrary15)

From Lisa Lerkenfeldt

Recorded in Naarm, ’Shell Of A City’ reframes the architecture an instrument, in a concrète procession.

Durational contact recordings of a highway’s substructure reveal an unearthly resonance.

The continuous physical phenomenon is gently processed to explore the fringes of electroacoustic practice with a contemplative urgency.

The 40 minute arrangement pairs two channels of site-based improvisation into a time-altering minimal structure.

Many people wrote to me to say ‘A Liquor Of Daisies’ tape was a tool they used for rest. How precious. ‘Shell Of A City’ follows in its path.

I carve out space for listening to the discrete and lesser noticed.

Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Shell Of A City

“La perspectiva racional” is Ex Continent’s first full release. It is an artistic result after a creative hiatus. 2015 and 2016 were spent on musical and personal introspections that resulted in this album. The multiple scenarios and moods layered in the work constitute an exercise. Contained within, there is a struggle to connect with the vital need to seek cosmic and mundane answers (while trying to avoid any filters) and an attempt to connect with the critical complexity of the multiple realities of the present. “La perspectiva racional” genuinely feeds off internal and external changes. Taking the role of perceiver and projector while trying to understand reality vs. perception, attention can be linked (by chance or not), to multiple routes through different bits of essential information. How do we relate to this information and how do we associate or disassociate ourselves from it?


Recorded in Barcelona in 2016, this full-length release is presented on digital format via anòmia. A cassette edition will be released via Hospital Productions (NYC) this month.
 
 
Tracklist:
 
01 Fórmula Base  02:22
02 Contingut Com A Sediment  01:53
03 Forma  03:14
04 Contingut  05:38
05 La Perspectiva Racional  04:08
06 Contagi  03:03
07 Parlem De Perspectiva  01:48
08 Adaptació Al Medi  02:09
09 Humanització  05:42
10 Col.lapse  04:06

Ex Continent — la perspectiva racional

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