Drone/Transience/Relax

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Buy vinyl / CD editions, or digital album:
balmat.bandcamp.com/album/projections-of-a-coral-city

Coral Morphologic and Nick León’s 'Projections of a Coral City' marks a series of collisions between distant worlds: the organic and the artificial, the Eocene and the Anthropocene, sea and cement—and even, perhaps, ambient music and activism.

Coral Morphologic are the Miami duo of marine biologist Colin Foord and musician J.D. McKay; since 2007, they have used a variety of multimedia projects to generate environmental awareness of marine biodiversity—most notably Coral City Camera, an underwater webcam streaming live from an urban reef ecosystem in PortMiami. Their citymate Nick León is a linchpin of South Florida’s contemporary leftfield electronic scene, with releases for Tra Tra Trax, Future Times, and NAAFI, and credits on records by Rosalía, GAIKA, and Iceboy Violet, among others.

This collaborative project dates back to 2022, when Coral Morphologic mounted a monumental projection-mapping installation on Biscayne Boulevard. For five nights in late November and early December, macroscopic films of corals played out across the exterior of Knight Concert Hall. The installation was, on the one hand, a glimpse into a possible future, imagining how the city’s skyline might appear if unchecked global warming and rising seas led coral reefs to colonize the built environment. But it also represented a look back into the deep past, a reminder that Miami is literally built from marine limestone mined from the Everglades. Its concrete foundations began life, eons ago, as a marine ecosystem—the same ecosystem that may one day reclaim them. As above, so below.

As an album, Projections of a Coral City is a suite of interconnected movements spread across two sides of vinyl. The tones are watery, the mood elegiac, the colors a washed-out pastel. Forms that appear static on the surface gradually open up to reveal hidden depths teeming with microscopic movement. You might detect resonances with other aquatically minded works—Jürgen Müller’s Science of the Sea, Harold Budd’s liquid piano compositions, even the slow-moving melancholy of Dr. Roger Payne’s Songs of the Humpback Whale. But ultimately Projections of a Coral City creates the impression of a world unto itself—a hauntingly beautiful space at the meeting point between sorrow and hope.

Coral Morphologic & Nick León - Projections of a Coral City

Cosmic odyssey of fractal & radiophonic exotica. Circuit-bent devotionals dovetail into pixelated mists; diaphanous lifeforms lurch through psychoactive caverns; cybernetic miasmas dance and dissipate. It’s music both placeless and perplexing, undulating and uncanny, hieroglyphic transmissions echoing from the depths.

At the Centre of the Labyrinth / Holographic Ambient

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To mark World Oceans Day 2021, we partnered with Concentric Records, TBA-21-Academy and Ocean Archive for a full day of broadcasts based on and inspired by sounds from the oceans.

 The incredible Ocean Archive is a sound library of the seas and harbours of the world, from Galapagos to the North Atlantic. It includes many types of whale, fish, earthquake, seismic explosions, methane seeps, tectonic plates and deep water drilling.

 The artists invited to make broadcasts based on this archive are Jake Muir, Izabel, Beluga, Carl Michael von Hausswolff / Dark Morph, Baby Vulture, Terrence Dixon, Jana Winderen reporting live from the seas, and finally Refuge Worldwide programmer Richard Akingbehin.

World Oceans Day - Baby Vulture

1991 - 1991 (self titled album) Available through Astro Dynamics -http://astrodynamics.bandcamp.com/album/1991-2

1991 - Tangerine Lidl (Infinity edit)

unreleased song by Malibu from;

UNITED IN FLAMES W/ MERELY & MALIBU 11.09.21
CRACK MAGAZINE SUNDAY MIX: MALIBU 12.09.21

Malibu - Nobody Here

#78 Pîrvu - CRN17

Support via Bandcamp: https://ninapixel.bandcamp.com/album/voice-figures

"Voice Figures" release has been inspired by the research of Margaret Watts Hughes and her eidophone tool for visualising specific frequencies, geometrical & natural forms produced by vibrations of the human voice.

"At first, when directing the voice against the semi-liquid mass upon the centre of the disc, there is a feeling as if some impassable barrier were encountered and that it would be as easy to move a mountain with a push of the hand as to set that colour heap moving by the action of a note." (Margaret Watts Hughes)


I performed a variation on this experiment based on recording multiple singled frequencies generated by tuning forks, frequency generator and gong, which resonated on the metal surface and inside the soil. I captured reverberated metal surface, secondary resonation through the soil and oscillation of the bowl. The experiment is accompanied by recordings of water, coffee beans, my voice and string recordings in varied pitch and velocities.



released April 4, 2022

Everything sounds better after the mastering from Andreas Bonkowski at Magic Window

Voice Figures

velvetmist

Pospulenn - Frozen Beach

Enchanted Oasis

Dive into the emotive ambient landscapes of Jo Johnson, a true maestro in the genre. With releases on Bleep43, Mysteries of the Deep and Further Records, her music is a captivating blend of emotion and beauty. We finally bring you the long-awaited showcase of an artist who has been on our list for a long time...Enjoy.

Thanks a lot to https://soundcloud.com/werkhouse

JO JOHNSON on the web:
Bandcamp: https://jojohnson.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jojohnson.tinysilences/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/werkhouse

UNRUSH on the web:
Bandcamp: www.unrush.bandcamp.com/
Hardwax: www.hardwax.com/label/unrush/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_unrush_/?hl=de
Facebook: www.facebook.com/unrushme/

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria

Tracklist:

01 Arovane - ypaal (Quiet Details)
02 CV & JAB - Aion Info Point (editions basilic)
03 Martyna Basta - Glass (STROOM)
04 Ana Quiroga - London Fields (Modern Obscure Music)
05 Cate Brooks - Hindsight (Clay Pipe)
06 Material Object - Enter (Editions Mego)
07 Illuha - Mukaemizu (12K)
08 Midori Takada - KI-KI-KI (MSCTY_EDN)
09 Kuniyuki Takahashi - Ai Iro (Music From Memory)
10 Plant43 - Surface Transport Announcement (Plant43 Recordings)
11 Jo Johnson - Don't Stand In The Way (Castles In Space)
12 Grant Aaron - live at No Way Back 2023 (unreleased)
13 Marcus Fischer - One (self-released) cont.
14 Hilary Robinson - Reak (wiaiwya)
15 Marcus Fischer - One (self-released) 
16 Loula Yorke - it's been decided that if you lay down no-one will die (Truxalis)

081 - Unrushed by Jo Johnson

From the album "Another Song of Civilization"
$10 cassette
Available here: https://goatytapes.com/#!/tape/another-song-of-civilization/

Darrell DeVore - Music For Electronic Keyboards (c. 1980) (excerpt)

@coralmorphologic and @nickleon’s Projections of a Coral City marks a series of collisions between distant worlds: the organic and the artificial, the Eocene and the Anthropocene, sea and cement—and even, perhaps, ambient music and activism.

Coral Morphologic are the Miami duo of marine biologist Colin Foord and musician J.D. McKay; since 2007, they have used a variety of multimedia projects to generate environmental awareness of marine biodiversity—most notably Coral City Camera, an underwater webcam streaming live from an urban reef ecosystem in PortMiami. Their citymate Nick León is a linchpin of South Florida’s contemporary leftfield electronic scene, with releases for Tra Tra Trax, Future Times, and NAAFI, and credits on records by Rosalía, GAIKA, and Iceboy Violet, among others.

This collaborative project dates back to 2022, when Coral Morphologic mounted a monumental projection-mapping installation on Biscayne Boulevard. For five nights in late November and early December, macroscopic films of corals played out across the exterior of Knight Concert Hall. The installation was, on the one hand, a glimpse into a possible future, imagining how the city’s skyline might appear if unchecked global warming and rising seas led coral reefs to colonize the built environment. But it also represented a look back into the deep past, a reminder that Miami is literally built from marine limestone mined from the Everglades. Its concrete foundations began life, eons ago, as a marine ecosystem—the same ecosystem that may one day reclaim them. As above, so below.

As an album, Projections of a Coral City is a suite of interconnected movements spread across two sides of vinyl. The tones are watery, the mood elegiac, the colors a washed-out pastel. Forms that appear static on the surface gradually open up to reveal hidden depths teeming with microscopic movement. You might detect resonances with other aquatically minded works—Jürgen Müller’s Science of the Sea, Harold Budd’s liquid piano compositions, even the slow-moving melancholy of Dr. Roger Payne’s Songs of the Humpback Whale. But ultimately Projections of a Coral City creates the impression of a world unto itself—a hauntingly beautiful space at the meeting point between sorrow and hope.

Projections of a Coral City

Coral Morphologic & Nick León - Deep Call (Single Version) // Projections of a Coral City [BALMAT09]

Miami producers Nick León and duo Coral Morphologic share an hour of aquatic-inspired ambient sounds, marking the release of their new project "Projections of a Coral City". 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/nick-leon-coral-morphologic-10th-april-2024

Nick León & Coral Morphologic 100424

C1 snippet taken from Rex Ilusivii - In The Moon Cage - Offen Music 001 2x12"

Release date: 23.6.2015
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=83083
http://www.offenmusic.com/


Rex Ilusivii - Moon Cage Annex 01 (snippet)

Thomas Köner | Novaya Zemlya | live | Skálar Sound Art Festival 2012
More info: http://www.skalar.is/skalar-sound-art-festival-2012/

Thomas Köner | Novaya Zemlya | live | Skálar Sound Art Festival 2012

Our first-ever mix master @daniel-r-12 returns with the long-awaited second component to his first cowboy mix for the Editorial "Sad Cowboys And The Sound Of Their Guns"

Tune in and Turn Out!

Listen to Part 1 here:

https://soundcloud.com/editorial-magazine/sad-cowboys-and-the-sound-of-their-guns

artwork by Claire Milbrath

Like what you hear? Try listening to something completely different, but also wonderful at Daniel's techno & ambient record label @sonidoisla

Sad Cowboys And The Sound of Rain ~ Daniel Rincon

Glacier Tuning Of Aether

Idea isn't original, but results are quite lovely. Got the idea from the slooooow Bieber.

I do make my own original music though, so have a listen and see if you hear anything you like:
http://xihilisk.bandcamp.com

'Still Alive' from Portal, slowed down 800%.

To end this year we would like to tell you how lucky and grateful we are to be surrounded by such wonderful people. 

This recording is a memory of that moment when the right person was at the right place at the right time.
Please enjoy Maayan’s chillout set during our Ferien auf Sardinien last summer in its full length.
CDV and SIC gift for this wonderful past year together.

Artwork: Alessandro Baldoni
Download: www.sleepiscommercial.com/download/podcasts

Dreamcast 044

#044 Maayan Nidam - Recorded At Ferien Auf Sardinien

https://soundcloud.com/nts-latest/malibu-010620

Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek (Malibu Cover)

"Yore" LP: 
https://shop.world.limited/album/yore-2

https://evenings.bandcamp.com
https://evenings.world
https://world.limited

Yore

Softly We Go

Invisible Empire Beneath the Waves

Balmat is a label with a cloudy outline.

Jointly shepherded by Albert Salinas (@wooky) and Philip Sherburne (@psherburne), two friends living in Cardedeu, Catalonia, and on the Balearic island of Menorca.

Bookings: mario@lapsusagency.com