POETRY BY NOACH ENGELHARD

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* Announcing CANVAS005 *

Michael Speers - xtr'ctn (LP)

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS005
Release Date: 13th of September 2019

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synthetic listening environments :: created with material extracted from field recordings and processed/arranged using software, alongside electronic signals from no-input feedback + test equipment.

most of the source material was generated at my place of work[as a technician]—whilst testing large amounts of audio equipment—capturing electronics’ internal behaviours + using very high levels of amplification on various small capsule microphones, connected to wireless transmitters placed in resonant vessels/spaces and materials of interest
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Northern Irish, London based musician Michael Speers composes and performs music as a temporal and worldly extension of himself and the tools at his disposition. As a percussionist by training, Michael extends his contact and interplay with resonant objects through instrumentalised amplification and feedback, employing signal processing to articulate the almost tangible constitution of sonic material as structural, nearly cellular, microscopic entities. Following his integral presence in C.A.N.V.A.S. performance events since their inception and his recent participation in the Cipher compilation, xtr’ctn is released in September 2019 as a debut solo LP for both the artist and the label.

Dehumanised black metal screams, attributed to seagulls - specifically “recorded in Ramsgate, 06.2017”. It’s the inhuman that concerns us here, or our complex relationship with non-human entities and abstractions. Extracting is a process. By integrating recorded and found sound phenomena, treated as profane and material entities, Michael meticulously arranges sound objects into composition, upholding a fidelity to their emergent properties. Most of these objects become seemingly un-referential, although occasionally you arrive at a near-recognisable sound source or environment, disrupting the invitation towards a total loss of a sense of self.

This is fictional music - it is of and for a world that doesn’t exist. Although presenting sound with sincerity and integrity, without allusion to linear narrative, Michael's materialistic approach is transcended by the sensitivity of his composition. In a sense, it comes after both feeling and expression, as the subdued emotion of a person attempting to reach beyond their own affective limitations. It reaches out without ever really touching anything. Yet for all it’s clinical reduction, there are moments of unhindered emotion which strike harder for their arrival from such a seemingly nonhuman place.

“xtr’ctn” fails in reaching a point of immanent abstraction - a flatline horizon. It arrives instead at the outer brim of a sensory dam, where organic glitches from the extremities of our perception have spread - like sonic cataracts - intercepting the flow of our auditory awareness. In its state of fiction, “xtr’ctn” acts as a flag for the C.A.N.V.A.S. community, pitched as a marker of our enacted existence, weathered though unliving. To follow this signal to its depth is to accept the unknown - you only follow, knowing no alternative.

Mastering by Ali Najafi
Artwork and product design by AALTAR

@michaelspeers

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

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Michael Speers - sul. locus

Excerpt of B2 from

Eks - Echo Courts - C20

Out September 28th on Archivio Diafonico

www.archiviodiafonico.org
archiviodiafonico.bandcamp.com

Eks - Echo Courts - B2 (excerpt)

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NEW FEAR - Voices Of Babylon (Fisky Remix)

A series of bleak, blustery scenes make up Nazanin Noori’s Farce. Noori, who also works as a theater director, conjures glacial storms and buzzing subterranean server farms on this album; but such scenes were far from the artist’s guiding narrative as it was being produced. The two tracks, clocking in at 80 minutes total, were envisioned as an enraged argument (or a "modular heartbreak") unfolding between two groups of people about a pothole in the road, told from the perspective of the road, and then the pothole.

This surreal, mundane plot device is nowhere to be found on Farce in any concrete way. And this is intentional. Noori, inspired by Artaud's concept of the theatre of cruelty, wants listeners to develop their own sensorial world separate from the musician's. When not darkly ambient, the tracks are full of drama and whimsy, as if a spotlight is following a character along a wayward path, into the hands of fate. The emotional hooks in the sound include a sense of desperate desolation, optimistic reprieve, and of course, the sense that ritual repetition is both a curse and a blessing—but they resist obvious imagery. Exactly what kinds of characters or settings get hung on the album's scaffolding is up to the audience. Listening with a hi-fi sound-system is highly recommended.

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Nazanin Noori is an Iranian artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. Her work includes theater and radio play direction, music, and text. She focuses on atmospheric narratives in sound, and works to overcome cultural reliance on sentiment by making dramatic adaptations of non-dramatic texts. She studied theater, film and media sciences at Goethe University in Frankfurt and worked at Deutsches Theater and Schauspiel Hannover. She currently selects Acid Folk for POMP, a sound scenario series on Retreat Radio, and is an artist-in-residence at the Young Academy of the Arts in Berlin.

released August 25, 2020

mastering :: Martijn Comes

all proceeds to Afrorack (Chicago, IL, USA) - www.afrorack.org

FARCE

Nazanin Noori - IMAGINE ALL THAT FALL IN A POTHOLE ON A BEAUTIFUL DAY (ENMX09)

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Mastered by Stefan Konstantinidis at Fabrika Music
Artwork by Ojeng

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SAMPLE HIJACK

Ice_Eyes - "SAMPLE HIJACK"

So excited and happy for launching our new bimonthly regular show on our beloved @ma3azef Radio last night 030920 with tons of fresh fwd facing materials🍊🍯
Can’t wait for our next one💯
Kudos and love to our brother rami abadir, to amazing  jinane_chaaya, and to all Ma3azef fam🍂♥️🙏🏻
See you soon🙈

@FRKTL - Gestalt Approach
Abdullah Miniawy & HVAD - The Dirty Canes Lake
Stasya - Tributo ft. Alada
Baauer - Magic
Las - Trippin
Tadleeh - White Flames on Black Embers (Slikback Remix)
Amazondotcom & Siete Catorce - Shells
Hamilton Scalpel - Cadzow Skrak
ZULI - Trigger Finger (Chevel Remix)
Baauer - Pizzawala
Fiesta Soundsystem - GST Separate
Avbvrn - Residue
Glass - Appointment Scheduling System
Drumskull - Battle Stations
CVN - Cave feat. 没 a.k.a NGS (Dos Monos)
Piezo - Rowina
Xterea - Awe
Azu Tiwaline - Tight Wind w_Cinna Peyghamy
Lil Asaf - Tazfeet (prod. Khadije)
FRKTL - Dread Aversion
Florentino - BONES
@Aeoi - Kelp City
Echo Canyon - YYY
Nick Leon - Rayo
MarcelDune - Asylum Anthem (Jennisek Electro Remix)

Mix for MA3AZEF Radio 3/9/20

releases October 15, 2020
mastering :: Giuseppe Ielasi
artwork and design :: Bill Nace

all proceeds to Junglekeepers (Madre de Dios, Peru ++ Oakland, US) :: www.junglekeepers.com

"Field recording, that cherished technique of electroacoustic artists, gets fresh conceptual treatment with “Eaves Drop” by Horaflora, one of the aliases used by Raub Roy (Oakland, CA). Using a Sennheiser AMBEO binaural headset, he collected a year’s worth of public and private footage, then collaged it with sparse, yet pointed, instrumentation. Straddling diarist and voyeur, Roy evokes and lingers upon questions about field recording in the context of surveillance capitalism—and the purposes of music made in its purview.

There’s kids’ playground babble. The artist striking a piano key on his porch, as a train sounds in the distance. Like rummaging through the NSA’s trash, these sounds are irrelevant to governments or corporations (for now), but fruitful for more generous listeners. The crow caws, the dog barks, the door creaks. And then a firecracker explodes, and you throw off your headphones as it seemed a real firecracker actually exploded just above your right temple.

The realistic yet aestheticized arrangement of sounds in space is where the dynamism of this album lies. There’s a moment of beautiful clarity when we hear a woman singing along to Jazmine Sullivan’s “Bust Your Windows.” Her voice, going along with the song that’s playing in her own headset, cuts through all the noise, making a poignant threat. But then she’s drowned out by some bureaucrat’s intercom as the album flows onward, each cataloged and collaged sound seamlessly shifting into the next arrangement.

Lines between composition and chance blur; the tapping on a snare, the languid strumming of strings could be read as a musician’s self-surveillance. The fact that these are recordings from the Bay Area, where he lives, is not coincidental. Such methods are at the heart of big tech’s empire, and though “Eavesdrop” is not explicitly confrontational regarding such concerns, the album does tap the sense that we, as privacy erodes and mutates, are becoming voyeurs of our own lives."

Eaves Drop

Horaflora - Scrubby Foreland [Excerpt] (ENM06)

AT File is a track that come from the compilation tape "Rapide & Vilain Volume 2" out on Lost Dogs entertainment 

You can buy the tape and listen to the full compil here :

https://lostdogsentertainment.bandcamp.com/album/rapide-vilain-volume-2

AT File

Neu BalanÇ Luxxuryproblems - Altø Sax Edit

V.03.2 International Sound Laboratory: http://blcr-labs.com  EST. 2015 // contact: blcr.labs@gmail.com

NEW FEAR - Voices Of Babylon (Fisky Remix)

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