Such a good mix. Most of these tracks are very hard to find digitally. I've been spending quite some time trying to buy/download 395/20, without success

Would love to purchase this. Such an awesome mix

KATELYN CLARK & MITCH RENAUD, Ouroboros, LP
Hallow Ground
Vinyl / digital, catalogue nr. HG2406
Ltd. vinyl / digital
Release date: 04.04.2025

On Katelyn Clark and Mitch Renaud's »Ouroboros,« astronomical and astrological phenomena, concepts and symbols such as the Great Year or the Eternal Return serve as the starting points for sonic explorations and experimentations. Focusing on a uniquely tempered range of frequencies, from low-end drone rumbles to airy pipe swirls, the duo develops a minimalist and highly evocative sonic universe on their debut album for Hallow Ground.

Working as composers, improvisers and curators in Canada's vibrant experimental and early music scenes, Clark and Renaud began developing »Ouroboros« through extensive improvisation with a reduced setup. Clark, who has worked extensively with historical keyboards since her studies in Amsterdam and Siena, played a small pipe organ modeled after a 14th-century instrument while Renaud brought a modular synthesizer and his interest in feedback systems to the collaboration. Later, the duo further refined their artistic dialog and the sonic interactions of the two instruments through the shared space of a two day recording session in Vancouver. Subtle crackling, acoustic beating and other (psycho-)acoustic effects in five pieces document this encounter, giving the music a profound physicality while hinting at the bodily presence of the two collaborators.

Just as the cyclicality of natural phenomena or the repetition of planetary movements is both a scientific fact and of the cultural imaginary, the sound worlds of »Ouroboros« are fundamentally rooted in time and space while transgressing the idea of a »here and now« through their conceptual links to geological and planetary time. The interplay of portative organ and modular synthesizer, which merge fluidly and in ever-changing ways, leads to a kind of circularity, a timelessness, a no-time. At the same time, the movements and subtle changes undermine the idea of repetition in the negative sense. After all, the Eternal Return, as Gilles Deleuze writes in regard to Nietzsche, is not the return of the same but a repetition of repetition. The only constant is change, the production of new intensities, of new forms of life – and of new frequencies.

Credits:
Music by Katelyn Clark and Mitch Renaud
Recorded and mixed by Aaron Klassen at Monarch Studios in Vancouver
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu (Schwebung Mastering)
Artwork by Laurin Huber

Ouroboros

Katelyn Clark & Mitch Renaud - Ouroboros (HG2406)

“Free the organ from its dependence on the church and remove it from its sacred immobility.”
“…a phenomenological approach that involves experiencing the limits of sound objects.”  - Pancrace Manifesto

“The talented Pancrace ensemble reminds me of David Munrow and the Early Music Consort.” - Charles Curtis

Music for spatialized midi controlled pipe organ “Organous”, Silbermann pipe organ (1778), Voices, Bird Calls, Baroque Violin, Rattles, Ventilators, Whistles, Uilleann Pipes, Gaïda, Sheng, Rhombus, Pouet-Pouet, Pi Synth, Kastle Synth and AM radio. 
Pancrace is an ensemble comprising French, British and Austrian performers. 

The members being Prune Bécheau, Arden Day, Julien Desailly, Léo Maurel and Jan Vysocky. 

Pancrace has “a unique, fully formed vision that combines improvisation, composition, eclectic instrumentation and a church’s massive pipe organ” (Sarah Hennies).

Pancrace’s latest double LP “Papotier” is the third panel of a tryptic after “Pancrace” (2017) and “Fluid Hammer” (2019). The ensemble knew at some point from their previous LP they would have to go back to church and repent confronting a Silbermann 18th century baroque organ with their custom made modular midi pipe organ : the “Organous”. 

After nearly 18 months of lockdown the quintet finally met in Bouxwiller Alsace a few miles away from Dangolsheim where Pancrace first formed in 2015. During a residency Pancrace had full access to the Protestant church with its humongous Silbermann pipe organ famous for its “human voice” stop. Ironically the album title “Papotier” came up before the covid era. Ironic because a “papotier” is a mask or to be very specific a grotesque face carved in wood, initially rigged to the lower part of the organ casing. There are only very few of these fancy oddities left in France and around the world. 

After months of feeling gagged during lockdown having a “papotier” as an amulet was somewhat liberating and greatly contributed to opening up the Pancrace sessions to the exploration of human voice. Relearning how to breathe, listening to the human membrane, questioning the nature of air all within the confined space of a 14th century church were the essential acts that compose the pieces. One can consider this album as a phenomenological investigation into voice articulation trying to emulate the birth of a vocable like von Kempelen's speaking machine who also used rudimentary organ modules to mimic human babbling. Essentially understanding what a mouth is to us to the point where, when all the pipes are blowing, they make a hell of a noise.

Melville

Bruce Cockburn's 'lovers in a dangerous time' reimagined & recorded live to cassette using a sampler & FX. Live at Mighty Niagara Film Festival - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jil-8nsgQY

'Fragile Bodies'

i didnt expect that

Sphene

Live performance as part of TIME AS A SONIC GESTURE - a durational concert for headphones by Jacqui O'Reilly.

The very start of the recording features a live variation on first track (The Frequency of a Leaf) off my forthcoming album.

From Jacqui "The concept for Time as a Sonic Gesture, emerged in response to Katelyn Geard’s work, I Have Something to Say, (exhibited in GRAPHITE, at DRAW Space, April 2024). This work was described as a drawing ‘soft as a whisper’ in its reach beyond two dimensions.  Time as a Sonic Gesture plays with this notion of persistence of vision, to instantiate time as a trans-disciplinary gesture of collective presence in the making and sharing of art. Throughout the evening local guests artists Laura Altman and Alexandra Spence will improvise with O’Reilly and play solo, to unfold an experimental and immersive soundscape performance."

TIME AS A SONIC GESTURE is curated by Belinda Yee (@belindayee) as part of an ongoing series of performances looking at the relationship of drawing to sound. Photography by James Peter Brown.
https://drawspace.org/past-exhibitions-and-events/jacqui-oreilly

Live at DRAW Space March 2025

@o0one8

1 A FAERY BURIAL (CAWEIN)
2 WHEN WE 2 PARTED (BYRON)
3 THE OLD INTRUDER
4 THE BAN
5 Я УЛЕТАЮ
6 I SEE HOW THESE SURVIVE (CAWEIN)
7 I FRY [SELL OUT MIX] (DOWLAND)
8 FODDER
9 CONFIDENT PILOT
10 THE OPENS LEFT [ACOUSTIC VERSION]
11 WE HAVE FAR TO GO (CROZIER)
12 BLUEPRINT
13 ВЕСНА
14 YOU HAVE ALL YOUR HOMEWORK TO DO
15 18 (TOLKEIN)
16 ECLIPSE MANTRA
17 SOAK UP THE SALT (MARLOWE)
18 MY MIND DRIFTS BACK

0018-A FAERY BURIAL

@morejerom

Alessandro Cortini - Scappa
Dr.Casper Darling / Control - Darling / Control
Tim Hecker - Boreal Kiss pt.1
Subsided - Kendo
Roberto Musci - Improbably Musica
Vanity Productions - Luxembourg Garden
Jesse Faden - Control
Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight (Orchestral)
Alex Casey - Alan Wake 2
Dewey Martino - Pipopapipo
Boards of Canada - Nothing is Real
Anna Peaker - It Would Be In A Dream
Mona and Max - Max Payne 2
Susumu Yokota - Azukiiro No Kaori
Special Guest Dj - waiting fot the stars to change
haruka nakamura, urara - Light Song
Night Springs - Alan Wake
Gal Go, Tom Grey - COAST
a b - sugar br (ft. bighead)
Dr. Casper - Darling / Control
7038634357 - Sugar Armor

NOODS RADIO #18 Life as Collage / yusk invites jerom [27 Apr 2025]

A question echoing through space and time — “why does it hurt so bad?” by https://instagram.com/moonspire.music holds pain gently, wrapping sorrow in cinematic beauty.

moonspire - why does it hurt so bad? - sped up

sex.wav

Beyond / Below 42 by @brianfoote of @peakoil and @kranky. Received February 2021. 
Photo by Brian

"really just the same as always: tried to make the best mix i could, and am lucky to have friends float me unreleased[*]. thanks for the invitation"

casino versus japan ‘a pink night for snowmen’
lila tirando a obsoleta ‘amor marinero ft. luz oscura’
hoavi ’the argument’
e=max ‘weekend closing’ *
sage caswell ‘bird song (alt mix)’ *
cristopher el truento ‘cry'
if.then.else ‘395/20’
twin jude ‘lvl bay blu’
otilo ‘serpent’
protman ‘1’
lithops ‘uni umit a2‘
avalon kaolin ’square in a triangle’ *

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