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"White Lies" by Max Frost

Jorden Under Stille Vand

Taken from the upcoming album 'Little Things' by Dalot & Sound Awakener...

'Little Things' is the first full length collaboration between Vietnamese sound artist Nhung Nguyen (Sound Awakener) and Greek sound artist Maria Papadomanolaki (Dalot). The album marks the completion of a 1.5 year-long exploration of common threads and interests between the two artists most notably the quotidian, the minute and the unnoticed often found in the fringes of big cities, busy landscapes and trajectories. It starts from ground-level interactions, field recordings of soundwalks in parks, on the streets, hydrophones in rivers and contact microphones on bridges and delicately moves to the ethereal; building up atmospheres of dreamsequences that differ from track to track. 

‘Little things’ was created by a process of exchange and extraction of draft ideas between the two artists. The creative and personal connection was deep which results in a sense of intuition and mystery throughout the album. Each track has undergone iterative transformations until its final stage, with each artist peeling off layers and sculpting textures and moods prompted by words, memories and places. While, ‘Strangers in the city’ places the listeners in an urban junction, still with their eyes closed, ‘all that fall’ contemplates on the beauty of fallen leaves, autumnal afternoons and the smell of rain. In pieces like ‘a good day to be alone’ the two artists create feather-like motions resembling invisible drizzles of emotions, solitude and dreams filling up an empty, quiet room on a sunny morning. Elsewhere in the album, as in ‘sailing’, darkness supersedes lightness in a long dive into unknown waters. 

The album creates a journey for the listener; a journey of changes between the two artists’ lives; the changes in seasons, life-events, ordinary moments  and creative processes that affected the perspectives and emotional states within which this album was produced. Rainer Maria Rilke has written that ‘the only journey is the one within’. In ‘Little Things’ the two artists offer an adventurous exploration of internal landscapes through sound and memory, the light and shadow encountered within. Nguyen and Papadomanolaki embark in a musical dialogue in an effort to create a new common dialect between them, a place where they can feel both familiar and lost. 

Music: Dalot & Sound Awakener
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Little Things

Strangers In The City

Dalot & Sound Awakener - Strangers In The City

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/23/ursula-k-le-guin-hymn-to-time-janna-levin/

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Astrophysicist Janna Levin reads "Hymn to Time" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Replicas' by Gideon Wolf...

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Constructed over 2 years this album has been slowly pieced together, reshaped, scraped, re-written and made again before becoming the album you are listening to now.

Replicas’ is a dark journey into a past, present and future that is personal, and reflective of wider concerns shaping this island(s) we live on.

At points angry and born out of frustration and angst for the times we are living in, this album goes back to my roots; a council flat in South East London, freedom, degradation, concrete, community, rich, poor, the melting pot of cultures, music, and people.

As cultural lines have been drawn in a different way through gentrification, a poverty divide similar to those of the 80’s and the b word, I have found myself struggling to accept my own place as a working class composer, father and human.

This album I suppose you could say is a meditation on the urban sprawl I grew up in, getting older, and my place in a community that feels like it has lost its way. - GW

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Music - Gideon Wolf
Mastering - James Plotkin
Design - Daniel crossley
Alex Taylor - Violin, Electronics
Gabi ‘Moog’ Matzeu – Moog, Juno, SH101
Steph Patten – Cello
Yoon-Ji Kim – Violin
My family (also in no particular order) Rachel, Reuben, Neath and our latest addition Nova.

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www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Replicas

Gideon Wolf - Profit

~ IIKKI 008 ~

music : Aries Mond
photography : Dmitri Markov
album/book : Cut Off
duration : 37.55 mn
date : March 2019

edition : 
vinyl : limited to 300 copies hand numbered 
cd : limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) hand numbered
book : limited to 500 copies hand numbered + hand stamped

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pre-order : February 18th, 2019 / official release : March 18th, 2019

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Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Dmitri Markov
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :

https://www.ariesmond.com/
https://soundcloud.com/aries-mond
http://www.dcim.ru/
https://www.iikki-books.com/

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Aries Mond - Cut Off (album preview)

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/16/zadie-smith-reads-frank-ohara/

Zadie Smith reads "Animals" by Frank O'Hara

Mount Carmel

Call

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/31/helen-fagin-walt-whitman/

101-year-old Holocaust survivor Helen Fagin reads Walt Whitman

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/05/31/spell-to-be-said-against-hatred-jane-hirshfield

Amanda Palmer reads “Spell to Be Said against Hatred” by Jane Hirshfield

Artist Debbie Millman's narration of her wondrous illustrated love letter to the garden: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/07/24/debbie-millman-love-letter-to-my-garden

VISUAL AND TEXT

Debbie Millman reads her love letter to the garden

So, sad and emotional to end Limp Pumpo Second Life Raves! This is my 4th and final one. So, I had to go extra extreme with the set. <3 God bless everyone and visit https://smile.rip & https://phonk.rip

Last Limp Pumpo Rave EVER mix!

Au micro de ZQSD #77 : Jika, Walou, Ianoo et Deez

Enregistré le 24 septembre 2020

Au sommaire :
- Microsoft : le rachat de Bethesda, le Game Pass et la Xbox Series X
- Hadès : de l'Enfer au Paradis
- Crusader Kings III : le meilleur jeu d'Histoire

#77, Microsoft, Hadès et Crusader Kings III

Recorded for Brain Pickings in the midst of a pandemic. Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/10/02/the-big-picture-ellen-bass/

Photograph: Amanda's son Ash, photographed by his mom.

Amanda Palmer reads "The Big Picture" by Ellen Bass

In 1968, Dr. Bernie Krause was leading a booming music career. A prodigiously talented musician and early master of the electronic synthesizer, Krause was busy working with artists like the Doors and the Beach Boys and performing iconic effects for blockbuster films. Then Warner Brothers commissioned him to create an album incorporating the sounds of wild habitats, so he headed into Muir Woods with his recording equipment. What he heard changed his life and triggered a fifty-year odyssey.

Then and there, Krause decided that he wanted spend the rest of his life recording and archiving the music of wild animals and wild places. He quit Hollywood and began traveling the world. The soundscapes he recorded were full of epiphanies about the origin of our own culture and music, about the profound connectedness of creatures, and about the unseen tolls of human activity. Previous wildlife recordings isolated the calls of individual creatures, but Krause recorded habitats as a whole. He soon proposed a new theory of ecosystem functioning: that each species produces unique acoustic signatures, partitioning and occupying sonic niches such that the singing of all of the creatures in a healthy ecosystem can be heard, organized like players in an orchestra. 

Today, Krause’s astonishing archive contains sounds made by more than 15,000 species. It is, as The New Yorker aptly put it, “an auditory Library of Alexandria for everything non-human." Fifty percent of the recorded habitats no longer exist due to habitat destruction, climate change, and human din. We spoke with Krause about the beauty of and perils facing wild music, the extraordinary science of soundscape ecology, and how sound impacts the welfare of animals. The music in this episode is from Wild Sanctuary (www.wildsanctuary.com).

Amanda Palmer reads "The Big Picture" by Ellen Bass

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