artist: wodwo
title: veils
catalog: eR012
release date: 16/12/2022

release type: ep
series: eRecords digital series
playing speed: 45 rpm

written and produced by ray robinson
mastered by james edward armstrong
cover artwork by sydney rae
art and design by harry towell
whitelabrecs.com/erecord-series/

eRecords are a series of digital editions which aim to transform the digital format into something that can be experienced in a similar way to a listener’s interaction with a real, whitelabel vinyl record. Each edition includes a special PDF scrapbook including polaroids and liner notes and you will only be able to find out more about the themes and ideas about each record, once you’ve downloaded them.

veils

eR012 wodwo - men in wooden ships

Festival

Aphex Twin - Petiatil Cx Htdui [33rpm]

Brunt2a

Tobira

Nijiriguchi

from Voltiges released on In Paradisum
https://inparadisum.bandcamp.com/album/voltiges

Chute Libre à Babylone

workedb4

Omiya, Saitama City, (JP)
28/01/2024, 11:30 a.m.

A cold winter sunday morning, opening the window of our home studio in the city of Omiya, Japan. We can see our balcony terrace, Japanese pine tree in the garden and the music room of the city’s high school just next to our place.

We don't know how long this tradition has been going on, the sounds of high school brass bands echo through the street everyday and accompany some moments of our daily life in this neighborhood for around 60 years at least. The sounds of brass celebrate our ordinary life and add some pinch of dramatic or cinematic senses in our daily life.　


Microphones : Rode NTG-5 + ZOOM XYH-6 
Recorder : ZOOM H6

Omiya, Saitama City, (JP)  28/01/2024, 11:30 a.m.

I have decided to release the latest tracks I produced with Cor Bolten on my Bandcamp page. Most of these tracks have been part of my DJ sets for the past two years.

Roel Funcken & Cor Bolten - Stark EP

Pre-orders of the EP are exclusively available on Roel's Bandcamp and the full release will be out from March 22, 2024.

▶︎ Pre-order : roelfuncken.bandcamp.com/album/stark-ep

Make sure to join us for the listening party to the Stark EP on March 22. 

https://roelfuncken.bandcamp.com/merch/stark-listening-party

Tracklist :
1. Roel Funcken & Cor Bolten - Stark1
2. Roel Funcken & Cor Bolten - Stark2
3. Roel Funcken & Cor Bolten - Stark3
4. Roel Funcken & Cor Bolten - Stark4
5. Roel Funcken & Cor Bolten - Stark5
6. Roel Funcken & Cor Bolten - Stark6

All tracks written and produced by Roel Funcken and Cor Bolten.
releases March 22, 2024


Artwork is a piece called "Pilf" - Dutch manipulated pour, acrylic, spray paint and marker on a 50 by 60 cm canvas - Roel Funcken (March 2024).


https://www.instagram.com/p/C4D73AoMx8t/

Stark ep

Stark5 by Roel Funcken & Cor Bolten

Temper (For Clarinets & Shaker)

[BD013] 12“ LP & digital
Tomoko Sauvage – Fischgeist (LP)
This is a preview of three songs. You can purchase the whole album (LP & digital) on Bandcamp.

Label: bohemian drips
Release date: October 16th 2020
Genre: Ambient, Sound Art, Experimental

Fischgeist was recorded in a former water tank in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg in August 2019. The nineteenth-century brick building consists of five layered circles, with a spiral staircase in the middle leading up to an exit to a hilltop. Inside, it's humid and cold, the temperature always around 8–10 ℃. The building’s acoustics produce a long reverberation that lasts up to 20 seconds.

‘One day between recording sessions, a man, a passerby, wanted to look inside the building. He told me that it used to be full of fish. For a second I imagined a huge round aquarium with loads of fish swimming around in circles. Then I realized that he meant dead fish were kept there, to be sold on markets during the GDR era. But the image of fish swimming in the space stayed with me.’

In conversation with the space of the water tank, Tomoko Sauvage searches beyond the limits of her self-invented ‘natural synthesizers’: porcelain and glass bowls, filled with water and amplified with hydrophones.

While she continues to develop some of the classic techniques heard on her previous album Musique Hydromantique (Shelter Press, 2017) – hydrophonic feedback (Kinetosis Study) and ‘fortune biscuits’ (porous pieces of terracotta that emit tiny singing bubbles) (Deluge) – here new elements are combined with delicate gestures to make curious noises: stroking bowls’ surfaces to imitate the voices of sea mammals (Metamorphosis), drawing dots and circles by rubbing stones against stones underwater (Exit) …

The underwater amplification of quasi-inaudible sound is even more magnified in the air by the echo of the water tank. Not only tiny bubbles, but also micro-movements of the bones and veins of the hand holding the sonorous objects in the water, are intensely amplified – sounding like a tempest on the opening Deluge.

Sauvage's longtime research into hydrophonic feedback develops with her new obsession with natural harmonics and sympathetic resonance. In Flying Vessels, the percussive notes of struck bowls resonate and turn into feedback loops before decaying, fueled by electric signal gain. Kinetosis Study is a sonic etude on fluid dynamics – the flow velocity, pressure and density of manually shaped water waves directly controlling the aquatic synthesizer's parameters.

August, when the mid-summer Ghost Festival is held, is traditionally known as the Ghost Month throughout East Asia. The spirits of the dead visit their living families, who welcome them with feasts, dancing and music. Miniature lantern-laden boats are released in rivers, to help lost ghosts find their way home.

Animated by formless matter – water, electricity, sound – Fischgeist celebrates a phantasmagoric journey, as the souls of aquatic lifeforms find their way out of the labyrinth of the water tank.

[Tracklist]

Total Runtime: 35:59

Side A (20:36)

A1: Deluge (6:48)
A2: Metamorphosis (6:59)
A3: Flying Vessels (6:49)

Side B (15:23)

B1: Kinetosis Study (12:22)
B2: Exit (3:01)

[Credits]

Composed, performed and mixed by Tomoko Sauvage
Recorded and produced by bohemian drips prior to Speicher festival, Berlin, August 2019 | Binaural recording with a KU 100 dummy head microphone
Mastered by Andreas Kauffelt in Berlin
Cover drawings by Baien Mōri (1798–1851)
Back cover photo by Richard Berger

© Tomoko Sauvage and bohemian drips – all rights reserved
www.bohemiandrips.de | www.o-o-o-o.org

A1 – Deluge

The Berlin based label “bohemian drips” was founded in 2011 by Alexander Meurer and Fillipp Vingerhoets and is specialized in developing, publishing and staging site-specific compositions in settings with distinctive acoustics. The inclusion of the spatial sound in as a compositional dimension forms the basis of this production process: To capture a three dimensional image, those productions are recorded in binaural audio ("Kunstkopf-Stereophonie"). Following this approach, the label organizes a yearly festival for site-specific music in two old water reservoirs in Berlin, Pankow. Since 2016, "bohemian drips" also releases studio LPs.

A1 – Deluge

bohemian drips.

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