Jamming with Dual Benjolin. In the first minute, I used a wet Eventide Time, and the rest is just raw Benjolin jamming... I made the mistake of plugging the MixPre-II recorder into a different phase, which produced a 4kHz+ hiss. Nevertheless, I hope the jam will still give some impression about the versatility and unpredictability of the machine. The range function produces long "pseudorandom" loops that create short stepped patterns of variable length and speed (up to 40 seconds). Rob Hordijk explains that it is "a CMOS shift register clocked by one oscillator and receiving its data input from the other oscillator". See more on how to build this analogue machine yourself: https://beepblip.org/2014/11/25/double-benjolin/.

Benjolin Jamming

A site-specific open mic with an emphatic atmospheric composition of field recordings and ambiental electroacoustic sounds. The performance took place under a boulder above Bassin du Réaltor artificial lake near Aix en Provence, France during a sound walk at the Acoustic Commons festival. Latitude: 43.4681866. Longitude 5.3301807. 

Composition by beepblip. 
Produced by Cona Institute http://www.cona.si/ (Ljubljana) / Acoustic Commons https://acousticommons.net/
Festival production by Locus Sonus(Aix) & Bureau des Guides (Marseille)

Remembering a Tree / Water

A generative patch for Voltaže cvrčijo veselo, VCV Rack 2 workshop series.
https://beepblip.org/voltages-chirping-vehemently-voltaze-cvrcijo-veselo-vcv/

Organised by Zavod Projekt Atol.

Voltaže Cvrčijo Veselo #1

Crawl Space #8 | beepblip

Performance at Tresk#5 Festival, presenting local independent music labels, organised by Radio Študent http://radiostudent.si/tresk/content/node/otresku. The topic of this year's festival collaboration and sharing. The curators of the festival initiated collaboration between similar musicians, groups and collectives. Theremidi Orchestra (Simon Bergoč, Tina Dolinšek, Luka Frelih, Ida Hiršenfelder, Tilen Sepić, Saša Spačal, Dare Pejić, Dušan Zidar) was paired up with experimental vocalist and contemporary dancer #it-irena-tomazin. 20th March, 2014 @ Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Recording and mix by Jaka Špiler. Photo by Radio Študent 89,3 MHz. 

Theremidi Orchestra with Irena Tomažin

Modular experiment for oOo Liquid / Water composition.

Liquefaction

Pre-breathing
Live improvisation at Defonija event at Gromka Theatre in collaboration with Jazz Cerkno.

Modular synthesis and live electronics by beepblip
Voice by Ina Puntar

The wind, a planetary organism, has no sound of its own. It produces it when in contact with other organisms. The wrinkled surface of the planet is the wind's vocal cord, like countless needles on a globular soundboard. It catches in taut strings, roars in tubes, whistles through cracks in buildings, blows away tiny grains of sand and rustles on soft surfaces. The rapid and persistent swirling of airwaves circles the land and oceans in less than a day. Every atom in the atmosphere changes its place, every breath in followed by a breath out. The wind moves with the heat and today it has a fever.

⁠—⁠—⁠—⁠—⁠—⁠—⁠—⁠—⁠—⁠—⁠—⁠—⁠—⁠—⁠—⁠—⁠—⁠—
In my small night, ah
the wind has a date with the leaves of the trees
in my small night, there is the agony of destruction
listen
do you hear the darkness blowing?
I look upon this bliss as a stranger
I am addicted to my despair.
listen 
do you hear the darkness blowing?
⁠— Forugh Farrokhzad, The Wind Will Carry Us

Predihanja [Overbreathings], beepblip & Ina Puntar @Defonija

Field recordings for the bimonthly CENSE radio program on Radio Punctum. December 2021 edition curated by Petra Kapš and Polina Khatsenka.

oOo Liquid::: Flux & Mud

A drone patch with matrix mixer and bandpass filters for Voltaže cvrčijo veselo, VCV Rack 2 workshop series. https://beepblip.org/voltages-chirping-vehemently-voltaze-cvrcijo-veselo-vcv/

Organised by Zavod Projekt Atol.
Thanks to Max Frimout for the idea for the patch...

Voltaže Cvrčijo Veselo #4

Nīansa Gathering𓇗::: NiANSA Exploratorium #001 @Krater Abandoned Plants Sanctuary ::: 19 September 2023.

Nīansa Gathering is a community gathered around deep listening, ambient music and live open-air sound events. The Exploratorium series is scheduled to take place at the Krater rewilded urban space, a botanical marvel nestled within the city landscape in Ljubljana and lovingly terraformed by the Krater Collective.

Dark Expanse @Nīansa Gathering𓇗

Live recording from Sound Topographes Festival of Sound Art / Topografije zvoka, Festival zvočnih umetnosti.

Curated by: Nina Dragičević, http://ninadragicevic.com/
Produced by: ŠKUC

Link to the festival: http://www.skuc.org/topografije-zvoka/
Venue: ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Date: 1 October 2017, 8 p.m.

Home: http://beepblip.org/

beepblip::: AMonFM_underground_acceleration

Software Defined Radio (SDR) detects sound by an antenna and converts it with an analog-to-digital device to a data-stream. The process of reading the signal and transformation is mostly inaccurate since it picks up a lot of of interferences, undesired by developers of analog-to-digital protocol. The AMonFM / SDR track harvests such sonic disruption and unclear frequencies caused by physical processes such as electromagnetic resonance. It reveals the unpredictable beauty of analogue sound sources.

Pre:gon zime
http://www.radiocona.si/slo/pregon-zime/
The central concert of sound artists and artists on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the radioCona platform.

Kino Šiška, Komuna Hall
Tuesday, 13 February 2018, 8 to 10 p.m.
The event was aired on radioCona 88.8 MHz and Radio Študent 89.3 MHz.

It was a great privilege and joy to play with Amper-o-mat (https://soundcloud.com/radiocona/amperomat-kriptoplazma), OR poiesis (http://orpoiesis.blogspot.si/), Bojana Šaljič Podešva (https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojana_Šalič), Brane Zorman (http://www.branezorman.si/) and to be a part of group improvisation under the guidance of Boštjan Perovšek (http://www.perovsek.si/en/).
Image by Lev Nussberg, Cross 1962, ink paper

AMonFM / SDR

To this day, this is my most beautiful melodic electromagnetic citation of light installation by Kurt Laurenz Theinert: Gespinst. It was recorded by EM coil detector. The installation was exhibited at the 2012 Lighting Guerrilla Festival in Ljubljana and consists of blinking ultra thin neon lights that emit electromagnetic pulses. More about Theinert's installation http://www.svetlobnagverila.net/2013/eng/gespinst.html.

Image from: https://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/seeing-space/

Electromagnetic Beauty

Underground acceleration was recorded by the use of an electromagnetic coil detector on the JZ train in New York during a one-month artistic residency. The raw sound of the underground is a psychogeographical portrait of the never releasing tension of capitalist accelerationism.

Image by: Eric Fischer / https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/6746574291/in/set-72157628993413851

Underground Acceleration | NYC 2013

Live take at Chill & Grill XVI, 20 July 2019, organised by Synaptic Crew https://soundcloud.com/synaptic-1 in the middle of a magical forest with some house beats and yet again a fantastic experimental floor.

Some of the field recordings were taken at Danube Delta
during Sonic Future Residencies, 2019, organised by www.semsilent.ro

Chill & Grill XVI

Chromodynamics variation from Noise for Strings at Chill & Grill XVI (2019)

Dynamical processes with analogue synths, computer manipulations and textures from field recordings. The dynamics of fluids is ordered by a system of self-organisation. The sounds are not created, they are discovered, much like in modular synthesis, in which the instrument has its own self-organisational logic.

The performance was part of the FriForma series for improvised music, produced by http://kudmreza.org (Nataša Serec and Laszlo Juhasz). The event also encluded the sound pieces of Manja Ristić and Robertina Šebjanič and our group improvisation Sounds from the Earthsea.

oOo Liquid – Foam

The track is from a live performance on the 30th edition of IGNOR – Platform for Literature, Sounding and Performance. It is based on Noise for Strings, Vol.1 album. It also contains fragments of spoken words from my old radio archive and words of wise women I've interviewed over 10 years ago. Special thanks to Duba Sambolec, Cessile, Kira O'Riley, Nyuju Stumpy Brown, Guerrilla Girls, the ladies of Letea. Some of the field recordings were taken at Danube Delta during Sonic Future Residencies, 2019, organised by www.semsilent.ro.

Noise for Strings, Vol.1 (variations)

Excerpt from a performance at Rhiz in the context of Kamizdat label series presenting some of Slovenia’s notable electronic artists to Vienna. Sound artists, experimental electronics, modular / analogue synth enthusiasts and programmers.

Noise for Strings, Vol.2 (variations) [Kamizdat x Rhiz]

beepblip [Ida Hiršenfelder] makes immersive bleepy psychogeographical soundscapes by use of analogue electronics, DIY and modular synths, field recordings and computer manipulations. She is interested in bioacoustics, experimental and sound spatalisation. She was a member of Theremidi Orchestra (2011–2017) DIY sound collective and is currently a member of Jata C (with OR poiesis, Boštjan Perovšek, Bojana Šaljić Podešva, and Brane Zorman) group for bioacoustics and sound ecologies. Her solo albums Noise for Strings, Vol. 1 (2019) and Noise for Strings, Vol. 2 (2020) were published by Kamizdat label. Web: https://beepblip.org/, https://beepblip.bandcamp.com, https://instagram.com/beepblip, https://facebook.com/beepblip.

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