20190630

We talked with an amazing lineup of guests about all angles of recording in the desert.

George Vlad, Thomas Rex Beverly, Bethan Kellough, Zach Goheen

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165 - Recording Deserts Roundtable

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I think about the work of Mika Vainio almost every day since his sudden and untimely passing on April 12, 2017. 

His work as one half of Pan Sonic and his solo work under his own name and as Ø and Philus were and are incredibly influential to me. It was partly one of the reasons I began working with sound again in 1997 after stopping for almost 4 years, central to the evolution of my own listening. 

His sounds and arrangements were always elusive, otherworldly, unreal, strange, unsettling, often abrasive, and at the same time expressed a sheer unrelenting beauty. They seem to represent a push and pull between states, warmth and cold, silence and fury, future and past, life and death. 

I was fortunate enough to perform with and for him (in the audience) and despite his being a man of very select words, to share conversations with him. The prospect of a new release by Mika always thrilled me. I am still saddened to think that there will not be more of his work to be heard each year. 

These two pieces pay homage to Mika and the subtle and unquiet gifts he gave all listeners.
credits
releases April 20, 2018 

1. Central (for M.Vainio) 44:40 
2. Unquiet (for M.Vainio) 07:10 

formed and recorded April 2017-March 2018. 
track 2 intended to be played as loud as possible.

Centra (for M.Vainio)

Unquiet (for M.Vainio)

Track from the new album Threnody releasing 20 July 2018

Threnody

JUNO

THRENODY: THE STANDARDIZATION OF EXPERIENCE

Created yesterday from original recordings made on location under a bridge in Wester Ross, and in a hawthorn glade in north Northumberland.

It's Been a While

Colour Fields

Pascal Savy - No Ends On The Sides

Solsnu

Stille Natt

broken course

Pip is a duo playing improvised and composed pieces of music, consisting of Torstein Lavik Larsen on trumpet and Fredrik Rasten on guitar. 
Long lasting, blending sounds with a basis in chord structures and harmony is an ever returning element in their music. 
Pip's music also emphasizes small variations in tonal colour, often applying just intonation, extended playing techniques and repeating musical patterns.
Sometimes they include electronic sounds, without leaving behind the core sound of guitar and trumpet as a point of departure.

The duo has existed since 2006, and since then explored many different musical approaches. 
A recuring theme of their exploration has been expansions of the duo instrumentarium, including 
electronics, multiple guitars and different electronic and acoustic keyboard instruments.

Pip released their first official release on the Portuguese label Creative Sources in 2016,
and they have toured in countries as Germany, Czech Republic, England and the Scandinavian countries.

The duo has also worked with artists from other disciplines. They collaborated with choreographer and contemporary dancer Marie Bergby Handeland on the piece Lyden av besluttsomhet, jeg tåler den ikke, which were premiered at the CODA festival in Oslo in 2013, and they have also worked together and performed with the Copenhagen-based live visuals duo of Freya Sif Hestnes and My Lambertsen, called Manuals.

Torstein and Fredrik also play together in the band Oker, with drummer Jan Martin Gismervik and bass player Adrian Fiskum Myhr, and in the quartet Volumes with Magda Mayas on prepared piano and Isak Hedtjärn on clarinet.

Release date: 27. September 2019

Pip: Possible Worlds (excerpt)

From the New Album of Nicolas Tourney, Gnosis (Expérimental Label)

Gnosis

frozen trough
I cup the warm breath
of my horse
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My response to this week's Naviar Haiku challenge, informed by the hot summer we are having down here in Sydney, Australia.

Enjoy!
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Naviar Haiku challenge #312: https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/189860392413/naviarhaiku312-frozen-trough
Poem: Debbie Strange (http://debbiemstrange.blogspot.com)
Picture: Jonathan Knepper (https://unsplash.com/@jknepp)

Warm (naviarhaiku312)

"Liquid Talk" is taken from "Entering and Emerging" the second full-length album by Melbourne based composer and musician Zoltan Fecso. Following up his debut ‘Shimmer Raga’ on Hush Hush Records, Zoltan expands on his distinctive pointillist compositions, continuing to explore simplicity and limitation.

Releases January 29, 2020 

Written and recorded by Zoltan Fecso 
Field recordings from Aulus-les-Bains, Saman and Toulouse, France 
Mastering by Lawrence English 
Artwork by Sotiris Gonis

Pre Order: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/entering-and-emerging

Zoltan Fecso - Liquid Talk

COLOR SQUAD RECORDS 090/ALB026

https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/void-folder

CSR090 - S̸t̀҉͞r̴̢a̵̡͡n͜͠g̀͘e M̡ea̸t̷ - Void Folder -  Sovum - Hlit

This is an excerpt from a live session with https://soundcloud.com/hems on KORG SV-1 and myself on guitar and effects.

Now available through Neotantra on their fine tʌntrə VII compilation: https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/album/t-ntr-vii


Recorded in 2016 at New River Studios, London N4.

Sound engineer: Joseph Martin-Kelly

tʌntrə VII

Fleetingness

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Fleetingness feat. Hems (Live at New River Studios London) -- Out now on Neotantra

A version of the soundscape produced by three balloon-assisted kite tail sound systems for the Air Matters exhibition, Waterman's Gallery, London 2019.

Ascending Composition 1 (For Planes) representative soundscape - Kate Carr

Another experiment with electric guitar loops. The main difference between today's and yesterday's (https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/passing-waves) is that yesterday's was recorded serial, so anything coming from the first loop also appeared in the second loop. That gave it a certain density, but, well, it also gave it a certain density. This was recorded in parallel, meaning whichever looper was recording at a given moment was only recording what was being played by the guitar, not what happened to be coming out of the other looper. This means the density took quite a while longer to achieve, but also that the individual segments are much more distinct, even after density has accrued. Also, the loops are quite a bit longer. Recorded from stereo speakers into a phone (yesterday was from a mono amp), though I'm not sure if the separation is particularly apparent. Major noise reduction in Adobe Audition, and a tiny amount of reverb.

Parallel Normal

Instruments: soundscapes, field recordings, random sessions, synths and samplers, bass and bells, sequencers and DAWs, tapes and tubes.

Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere.

A haven for experimental sound and art development. CA. 2015

Pascal Savy - No Ends On The Sides

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