Second track of my EP: Some / Most / Moist. 

Naïve, ambient piano playing. Distortion creeps in. Field recordings accompany this mysterious work.

Available here: arnodee.bandcamp.com/album/some-most-moist

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Mark Taylor, Birmingham, UK

Professional music and sound design for all media since 1994…

TV // Live Theatre & Multimedia Events // Radio // Advertising // Film // PC games

Always interested in providing music and sound design for projects around the Birmingham area and across the world.

All of the composing, arranging, performing and recording is done in my own private studio. In the last 30+ years, I have provided music and general sound design for productions all over the world – USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, UK, Panama, Ireland, and mainland Europe.

New Album now available
LampenFauna
https://jonathanridley.bandcamp.com/

Influenced by the night time / noise / coffee / art / science / the quiet hours / the mind / sunlight / blankets /... Associated with: 
https://soundcloud.com/two-two-records
https://soundcloud.com/dredcollective
https://soundcloud.com/under-my-label
https://soundcloud.com/summer-karma
https://soundcloud.com/crackling-claps


Groups:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/experimental-mind
http://soundcloud.com/groups/emotive-thoughts-in-endless-space

Contact me for questions / collaborations / label offers via soundcloud messaging;

Artists I like in no particular order: Aphex Twin, Burial, Autechre, Squarepusher, Four Tet, Extrawelt, Floating Points, Actress, Moodymann, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Amon Tobin, Mount Kimbie, Ben Klock, Mike Dehnert, Peter van Hoesen, Matthew Dear, I-F,  Caribou, Cobblestone Jazz, Martyn, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Carl Craig, Robert Hood, Derrick May, Jeff Mills, Robert Owens, Zomby, Joy Orbison, Flying Lotus, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Erik Satie, John Cage, Debussy, Chopin, The Doors, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Lou Reed, Jimmy Hendrix, Radiohead, The Velvet Underground, Stanley Kubrick, Tarantino, David Lynch, Jean-luc Godard, Paul Thomas Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Beaudelaire, Kafka, Flaubert, Arthur Rimbaud, James Joyce, Camus,  Haruki Murakami, Yasunari Kawabata, Jack Kerouac, Louis Paul Boon, Jotie T'Hooft, Hugo Claus, William S.Burroughs, Aldous Huxley, Braque, De Kooning, Kupka, Malevitsj, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Bacon, Koons, Gursky, Chagall, Hausner, Kalmakoff, Khnopff, Böcklin,  Dali, Picasso, Moholy-Nagy, Oelze, Kalmakoff, Miro, Ensor, Matisse, Magritte, Kahlo, Rothko..
(Exactitude is not truth.)


Mirror Shards can be interpreted as the result of all the artistic development based on the self-interests of composer/percussionist/improviser Joe Formanek, such as amplified micro-sound percussion instrumentation, electroacoustic laptop-drumset improvisation, experimenting with recording and mixing techniques, free improvisation, modern electronic music, and composing with field recordings just to point out some salient ones.

Another way Mirror Shards can be interpreted is to consider its strict yet unique conceptual and technical approach to creating music.

Conceptually, there are four principle disciplines being exercised with their own techniques and aesthetics while complimenting the others : improvisation, composition, electroacoustic techniques, and, what Joe has invented, the concept of auto-history. The innovative concept of auto-history can be understood as a methodology to improvisation and composition that keeps constant sonic contact with the artists former self, thus the music being not only a composition of a single moment but of several moments throughout the artist’s life, allowing a new kind of reflective insight into the time-based evolution of the artist’s personal development.

Technically, employing an electroacoustic apparatus (aka Mirror Shards), which is at once a laptop-drumset using digital signal processing and a history-database DJ station. With a massive collection of recorded improvisations and compositions organized onto a database, all of which are at a fingers touch during a live improvisation and in the studio, the most distinctive characteristic of Mirror Shards is the quality of improvising with the history of one’s self. The experience of “driving” the apparatus is a surreal encounter with one’s previous stages of artistic development, forcing a critical reflection and interaction with one’s past.

Another interpretation could be on how Mirror Shards is rooted in similar disciplinary mindsets as musician/composer Anthony Braxton, Steve Lehmann and Vijay Iyer, tackling the age old question of combining improvisation with composition.  After many years of honing conventional and especially unconventional skills as a drummer and as an electronic musician, Joe demonstrates an exercise of concepts, such as the interplay of time and non-time based styles, traditional and extended instrumental techniques, field recordings, micro sampling, and sophisticated software resampling.

This is a highly collaborative project and has been involved with Francisco Lopez (composer), Chris Formanek (composer), François Ducat (film director), Hervé Perez (sax, composer), Elm Records Collective., and Mangoest Records.

 

fredricson is Japanese electric musician.
and member of ''remigai'' and ex-''tigerMos''

semi-determinate granular drone 
improvisational neo-aesthetica 
sonic expressionism 
psychologically interrupted found sound


Some/Most

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