Secret Garden is a morning live listening session of ambient music, dilated soundscapes and distensive vibrations, immersed in the green and vibrant surroundings on the banks of river Po, in Turin.

In this episode: Atoloi
@atoloi

Recorded on August 28th 2022 at Imbarchino, Torino.

Secret Garden 023 x Piedicavallo Festival | Atoloi

Hey there listeners and friends!

A month ago, we were saying goodbye to Nobu and the wonderful company we enjoyed at Paral·el. From .apart, we Javi and ameeva wanted to have a detail with the people who make this community and circle something beautiful and pure.

Music is the origin of these experiences and it is exactly what we want to give you. We still don't know how or when, but .apart will take the first step as a record label with an album made by us both. Studio sessions have been happening during the year, and without knowing yet if what you can listen to here is gonna be part of the release or not, we thought it would be a good idea to just share it with you. In some way preventing them, from being forgotten over time.

We wish you pleasant listening, hopefully with some introspection and healing in it. In the link below you can download the individual tracks in case you want to save them in the bag :)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nfn8ff9e36lg5cg/AAB4NvQT2vy_-9NYSIk4MRm8a?dl=0 

Big hugs and see you soon <3

primeras piedras

Grief, it is something some of us know first hand and most of us will eventually know at some point in our lives. It is an inescapable reality of living, of loving, and caring for something so much, the reality of losing it initiates a transformational process of our being and psychology. It is a painful reminder that life is, in fact, temporary and the choices we make while we still can, matter. 

From a scientific perspective there is a lot we now know about the grieving process. Research shows that the dimensions of space, time, and perceived closeness all impact how we feel pain.  We feel it when we lose people but it also extends to other things we have a closeness to. Activists have caught on to this idea and used it to protest climate inaction - laying dead in public spaces, gathering for red processions, and even holding funerals for dying glaciers. 

This serves as inspiration for this year’s mix, using sound to explore the process of grief in relation to some of the remotest places in the world. It is intended to show the frigid beauty of our polar regions and the processes surrounding this vast mass of frozen life; changing faces with the rising heat, slowly moving and shifting from solid giants to melting objects.

As they break away from us and their fate is streamed across the world to reach our devices, do we feel a shiver down our spine at the news of their slow icy death? Can we draw a connection between their lives and our own?

Our ability to feel grief beyond our immediate connection to people is in some ways more about our ability to know the true closeness and value of something outside our own small world. This knowledge hinges on the way we come to understand our closeness, and the way that it is being communicated to us. 

The reason I do this Strange Rituals series is because sound is a powerful mode of communication, and it can help bridge connections to other states of being. Although this was one of the most challenging topics to grapple with in this series, it is also one of the most important. 

Grief can be painful to confront but I chose it for this mix because it can also invoke a motivating state. My hope is this small action can raise awareness and challenge the ability of our perception to exist & feel beyond the immediate, confronting climate anxiety head on, going through the process and taking action in the best way we can. 

Researchers to follow on insta: @heidisevestre @iceypete
Please support something: https://juststopoil.org/ or https://extinctionrebellion.uk/donate/

Tracklist 
Stéphane Marin & Ludovic Medery - Phonokainôsis 
Jana Winderen - Interview With Carlos Duarte
Lionel Marchetti - Portrait D'Un Glacier (Alpes, 2173m)
Peter Cusack - Ice Bells
Aphex Twins - Parallel Stripes
Julianna Barwick - inspirit 
Bethan Kellough - 16 Lines of Flight
Biosphere - Skalbrekka
Sciama - Selui
Daniel blinkhorn - recording opposite a glacier in a small fjord
Loscil - Black Tusk Descent
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Glacier
Daniel blinkhorn - recording iceberg fragments from shoreline
Donato Dozzy - 12H.4
Maggi Payne - Arctic Winds
Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (ILUS) - Freezing
ILUS - Ablation
Tomas Jirku - Entropy8
ILUS - Drone
ILUS - Bubbles
Soundwalk Collective - Khandroma
ILUS - Crevasse
ILUS - Milk
Drew McDowall -  Agalma III (Beacon ft. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe)
Jez Riley French - glacier heated
Charles Curtis - Unfinished Song
Oliver Coates feat. Malibu - Them (Prologue)
Oskar Jakob Tomala – Sub Space Aeternitatis
Jonathan Fitoussi - Anagram
Shackleton - Nowhere Ending Sky
Sciama - Aquet
ILUS - River
ILUS - Pond II
Ali Wade - Elongation
Tomas Nordmark - Exit
Aboutface - We Think We Sway We Rumble Im Numb My Base Shrieks Its Time Now We Will Tumble
Ludovico Einaudi - Elegy For The Arctic

Strange Rituals Vol.7 - Grief

I'm happy to finally share this journey, streamed on Radio Raheem during the latest UNIT episode.

For this one i decided, instead of mixing in the ‘classic way’, to create a sonic environment of more than 40 tracks; warping, ripping, and drawing details and frequencies from each one of them, creating 30 minutes of submerging sounds flow + one final credits track.

It’s probably one of my personal favorite works/experimentation i've ever done; sooo hope you'll enjoy it as i did while working on it.

Thanks to Ivo, Federico and Riccardo for the invitation <3

See you,
Matteo

ARTISTS PRESENT IN THIS SONIC JOURNEY:
1991 (Axel Backman)
Alio Die & Zeit 
Amok 
Andrea Borghi 
Angelo Bignamini 
Arktau Eos 
Atoloi 
Aural Holograms 
Blackhouse 
Empirical Sleeping Consort 
Enrico Piva
Étant Donnés  
Fabio Perletta 
Gaspare Sammartano 
Giovanni Lami 
Halo Manash 
I.corax 
Ibrahim Maalouf 
Lapis Niger 
Musica Coordinata 
Nàresh Ran 
O Yuki Conjugate 
Salò 
Sokol Movement 
SPK 
Stelvio Cipriani 
Third Ear Band 
Vasilisk 
Zoviet France

Hybrid Sonic Exploration for Unit @ Radio Raheem 12.10.2022

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Kato De Vidts ft. J. Noon - Pillars

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Released by efja from Brussels, Belgium
Release Date: December 14, 2022

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Booking and Infos: atoloi.music@gmail.com

Devotee to Soundscape Ecology and music researcher, Atoloi is the main project of the Mi- lan-based Matteo Ghiringhelli (1997), which explores sound through a mellow amalgam of layers of echoing synths, processed field recordings, and self-created samples; all mixed in a lysergic experience of heavy-grained noises and evocative instrumental compositions.

Not sticking only to club-oriented sonorities, instead, his productions and mixes search for other depths, in which the listener can get lost in a dense "no boundaries" journey between the worlds of dance and meditation.

In a career path alternating dance-focused releases and more intimate ambient/field recording explorations, his music space fluidly through variegated environments such as sweaty clubs or festivals and musicology-related performances in museums or deep listening dedicated spaces.