The finished piece from my previous Hordijk Sketch.  Multi-tracked, musique concrete style editing. Headphones highly recommended or studio monitors cranked up.

Hordijk Phantasma

Izzy Gleicher, flute
Ford Fourqurean, clarinet
Adam von Housen, violin
Thea Mesirow, 'cello
Isabelle O'Connell, piano
Joe Tucker, percussion
Whitney George, conductor

recorded & mixed by Adam Pietrykowski
Elebash Hall, CUNY Graduate Center
New York, New York

No. 1 - Abandoned Places

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Song2 〜おらが町に春が来た！〜

Happy Christmas!!!🎅🎄

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おらが町のラストクリスマス

Andrea Taeggi—Zimní Král (12" vinyl LP)

The music on this record was made using a vast array of rare analog machines Andrea had the chance to work on at the Willem-Twee synthesis studio in Holland (built with the iconic Studio di Fonologia RAI as a blueprint). Most of the percussive sounds come from an Analog Computer, which has been rarely used only as a music instrument (its main purpose was flight simulation). In fact, during the Cold War times it was also used as measurement tool by civil engineers and even by the army. 
To my knowledge, very few artists have given a new context to the such device, which I have found absolutely unique-sounding and gave me enough inspiration to compose a whole new album focused on it. 

At present, no one has ever officially released music recorded at the Willem-Twee synthesis studio.

The music on this record further explores cyclical, minimal and hypnotic concoctions – a particular  investigation focused on unusual rhythms that Andrea had already started on his well-received ‘Mama Matrix Most Mysterious’, released on Type in 2015. Think walls of subfrequencies, snappy rollercoasters of the mind, labyrinths in hyperspace & snakes eating their own tails.

Zimní Král means “Winter King” in Czech and was the epithet given to Frederick V Elector Palatine (king of Bohemia), the last of a legacy to actively support alchemy as a means of studying reality, the self and their inter-reflections.

All music by Andrea Taeggi
https://andreataeggi.wordpress.com

Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M Berlin

Forthcoming on SM-LL Sept 1st, 2018
http://www.sm-ll.com

Dinergy (SM-LL, Sept 1st)

If you’re anything like me, then one of your favourite albums of 2018 was Music and Poetry of The Kesh, released on the Freedom To Spend label. Recorded over two years in the mid-1980s, Music and Poetry of The Kesh in truth was never really designed as an ‘album’ as such. It was a cassette bundled with early editions of the legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home novel. 

The novel described the art, culture, language and ethnography of a fictional tribe of indigenous inhabitants of North California, 500 years from now. On the tape, Le Guin and her friend and collaborator, composer and sound artist Todd Barton, created a detailed, vivid musical identity for these people - the Kesh. 

Listened to in 2018, the sounds of Music and Poetry of The Kesh feel simultaneously ancient and futuristic. Todd designed and built new instruments to realise the Kesh’s music, which were woven among synthesisers and field recordings from the Kesh’s native Napa Valley.

It’s a stunning, singular piece of work, but the story doesn’t end there. Anyone intrigued by Music and Poetry of the Kesh would be well advised to dig further into Todd Barton’s work, starting with Multum in Parvo - a brand new piece Todd composed using the Epoch Modular Benjolin and Buchla Music Easel.

“Don Buchla created a musical instrument that he said had no ‘preconceived ideas,’” Todd recently told the Listen to This website. “He wanted people to figure out how they wanted to interface with it. You see that with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Alessandro Cortini—they’re bringing their own voice to the palette. For my part, I’m obsessed with sound, with the ‘Buchla Paradigm.’

“His approach to synthesis, which was so different from Moog on the East coast, is immediately evident to anyone who has ever touched a Buchla instrument. If you listen to a Buchla, it will start rewiring your synapses.”

Todd honed his craft composing for acoustic instruments - string quartets, small ensembles and orchestras. In the 1970s he was drawn to emergent synthesiser technologies because of their abilities to access tones ‘between’ the standard 12 notes of the Western musical scale, and to have the power to craft music out of glitches and unique sonic gestures that are unplayable on acoustic instruments.

Multum in Parvo is reflective of this approach - it has a definite and logical flow as a composition, but its content is abstract sound sculpted out of pure energy, something only analogue synthesis can offer.

Sometimes sparse, sometimes bristling and jumping with detail, Multum... provides a genuinely multidimensional experience. Listen to it in the dark on your best headphones, you experience your brain moving slowly through a black space where an orchestra of strange, electro-microorganisms seem to swarm, murmurate and disperse, adding their distinct flutters, whispers and calls to an immersive electronic symphony. 

Like the classic Forbidden Planet soundtrack, which Todd was inspired by, or indeed Music and Poetry of the Kesh - Multum in Parvo seems to function as part of some unique sonic ecology, according to its own rules, in its own universe and somewhere just beyond time.

Multum in Parvo is available on CD with artwork by the artist Ursula Barton - Todd’s daughter, named after his great friend and collaborator. It is also available on cassette with Blue Tapes artwork as ‘blue twenty-eight’.

blue twenty-eight: Todd Barton - Multum in Parvo

The Menace Redux

얼마나 いい顔 みんないい顔
How many too many 많이 많이 얼굴
oh baby don’t stop baby don’t stop 
호기심을 자극하는 표정

いくら聴けど 待てど暮らせど
見りゃ見るほど どんだけいい顔　
ピエトロ コロッセオ ミラノ サンマルコ
un bel viso so classic


갑자기 更新 Vエプ通知
止まらぬ動悸 필요 있요 救心
ローマの中心 美の勝利
너의 눈 너의 코 너의 입 全部

Every day 다른 魅力 많다
make fashion hairstyle 
그 눈빛 sexy lady baby
내가 좋아하는 cat’s eye


Baby don’t baby don’t baby don’t stop
生まれたばかりのbaby don’t stop 
マスクじゃ隠しきれな〜い 止まらぬ美貌
이렇게 어떻게 気持ちは永遠


白くて儚いまるで 우유
頭の中拡がる 無限の宇宙
Fall in Heaven 果てのない夜
逆さに落ちてく Oh baby it's you

Baby don't baby don't baby 난 slave  
Born in Heavenのモノホンnative
が地元に凱旋 覆る概念
지금 맞아 바로 マジ おまえが真理


Baby don’t baby don’t baby don’t stop
生まれたばかりのbaby don’t stop 
マスクじゃ隠しきれな〜い 止まらぬ美貌
이렇게 어떻게 気持ちは永遠


妄想ハダ 오늘도 공부하다
Baby, 자기, 여보 보고 싶어
深夜に通知 時差がしんど〜
얼어 죽을 사랑해 

突き刺さる性癖 迫りくる兵役
高まる美意識 アートの始まり
私を止めないで baby
君のことが好きな私が大好き

내일은 더 너를 좋아할것같아
スマン ヨンミン 가족にスタッフ
隣で소리지る小奇麗な女
전부 抱きしめ 가자가자 墓場


Baby don’t baby don’t baby don’t stop
生まれたばかりのbaby don’t stop 
マスクじゃ隠しきれな〜い 止まらぬ美貌
이렇게 어떻게 気持ちは永遠


아름다운 너를 보면
내 마음이 아름다웠던 기억이 나

ピポピポパー

얼마나いい顔 feat. NOPPAL

Slow-moving soul music

http://bluetapes.co.uk

blue twenty-eight: Todd Barton - Multum in Parvo

Blue Tapes

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