Experimental producer Anything Pointless delivers his debut for Salmon Universe Records. Active for many years in Turin, he now lives and works in London. 

An expansive and uncompromising series of sound-art landcapes, his release Shape Time Divide uses a single sound or 'real' instrument for each piece as a starting point, and makes use of granular technology to expand, stretch and move digital air in unexpected ways. Like many intriguing artists, just when you feel you might have understood the process it takes you on new and exciting turns. 

Conceptually the album revolves around time. Anything Pointless says the idea is “that time doesn't change. You can't go back, or forward, or speed it up and yet music is essentially that. Shaping time and dividing it.”

The album was made at his home in London, a main inspiration being Tim Hecker’s ‘Konoyo’. He was looking for a new way to compose, with a completely new creative process. Mainly focused on sample processing and recording, but this time making use of Max patches and modular synths, where his earlier work was more digital synth, VSTs and midi driven. 

In particular, the process involved recording acoustic sounds (representing the past) but processing them (eluding to the future). “It also involves perception, especially how everyone perceive time, but sound and reality and therefore themselves.”

All music created, mixed & mastered by Anything Pointless

https://salmonuniverse.bandcamp.com/

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Art by Nick Castonguay
Graphic Design by Kristian Spears
Mastered by Cristobal Urbina at See You Mastering
Organized by Thom Speakman
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts

Racine - Orris

It is a great honor to invite the experimental composition duo ARIGTO @arigto bring us a 30-minute immersive journey, like a relaxing space fligh, deep and mysterious, forgetting the passage of time.

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full interview: https://sh1mm3r.com/019-ARIGTO

*019 - ARIGTO

Kosma Műller – violin
Kamil Babka – viola
Anna Szmatoła – cello
Aleksandra Słyż – modular synthesizers

Recorded in Poznań, 2021
Composed and mixed by Aleksandra Słyż
Artwork by Pola Maria
credits
released March 10, 2022

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@johanjoeker

The 37th release of katharsis is the debut EP "Blå Forandring" by Danish artist Johan Jøker, coming out on November 17th. The title of the EP, which translates to "blue change" signifies the artist's intention to create a sonic backdrop for the effects of current climate changes on the vast ocean, which he achieves through collages of samples and field recordings mixed with the melancholic pads and abrasive stabs of his synths.

Across the five tracks, the artist aims to depict various perspectives and aspects of the climate crisis, including collapsing glaciers, the overconsumption of modern society, and fish polluted with plastic, but concludes the EP with a romantic and yearning depiction of the sea on the final track "Vandkorn". When showcased live, the performance takes on an almost ritual character as Johan Jøker brings a jumble of elements connected to contact microphones including washed-up buoys, an electric kettle and a bowl of water as well as a hydrophone.

All money coming in on this one will be donated to oceana.org/ <3

Artwork by Alberte Spork
Mastering by jjjacob

Johan Jøker - Fremtidens Fjernvarme

Lyrics
I text you twice you don’t respond 

I make sure you never feel alone

You tell me time when you are down
So why can’t we wait till now

You cut your hair all on your own
You text before my cells blown

I make time and sacrifice 
But you never really realized 

Let’s separate our differences 
And live on like zombies 

While tearing apart each other brain
We realize that we are the same

But it doesn’t matter now that your gone

The Shadow Ring - Put the Music In Its Coffin

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