Earth - Atmospheric Ambient Soundscape - Track 05

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Elvin Brandhi - Shelf Life (EP)*OUT NOW*

Format: Digital, Cassette
Cat.No: CANVAS003

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Sickness unto death in an age of commodified well-being: approaching death from the point of view of an actualised virtual eternity. The commodification of daily life and the self, preclude the possibility of reincarnation, we do not identify ourselves as a cycle, a movement, an expression of life itself but as a single product that exists in and for itself.
 
The supermarket social network obliterates the surface of material hybridising, detaining all movement to self enclosed unit reductions, excommunicating mutation. Encapsulated in a fixed identity, packaged and promoted, immune to the infection of outsiders. The social contract of a pre-sealed self, branded with calculated sell by date, sentenced to a shelf life of inter-passive exchange.  
 
Shelf Life compiles this synthetic axis, upon which we bide out time smiling.  
Interrupt user: authorise disk-root conflict[ 
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Elvin Brandhi is welcomed to the index of C.A.N.V.A.S. releases as the first solo release of 2019 and the third commission since the conversion from events series to label in 2018. As a performance nomad whose very practice is simultaneously about engagement with place and a lack of geographic singularity - there could not be a more fitting accomplice to C.A.N.V.A.S.’ effort as a self-publishing artist group to build a collaborative community despite increasing dispersion. This is the solo project of Welsh artist Freya Edmondes - otherwise known for her role as vocalist in father/daughter duo Yeah You - in which performances mesh a collage of electronic sounds with a disruptive stream of improvised vocals. These tracks are as close to studio versions as this fundamentally live practice gets - roaming recordings, sample blasts, club contortions and the ever present voice alchemically infused. In 25’46” of sound, Elvin’s bio-technological monster appears like a Cronenberg body horror - mouths appearing where they shouldn’t - or a living, breathing post-digital Beckett character narrating their own club induced self-destruction. Yet the future shock is fresh - Shelf Life is as fun to listen to as it is completely disarming.

soundcloud.com/elvin-brandhi-1

Mastered by Ali Najafi
Digital Artwork by Firas Shehadeh
Tape Design by AALTAR
In Collaboration with Olan Monk

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

Shelf Life

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Elvin Brandhi - IMBRED WAILE / OCDC

* 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

Rhea

From album Aleksandra Słyż - Human Glory
Listen and buy pre-order (digital / cassette): pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com

Music by https://soundcloud.com/aleksandra_slyz
Recorded in Poznań / Sztokholm 2019/2020
Mastering by Aleksandra Słyż
Artwork and design by Maks Posio / www.instagram.com/mskpsn

Release date: 22.06.2020
Limited edition of 50 copies / C39 cassette

Human Glory

Aleksandra Słyż - MG II / POINT#39

Edition Uno is proud to present a new mix delivered by https://soundcloud.com/igenland.

"-una bellissima serata d'estate duemila
-molta emozione
-ecstasy per la vita"

SCHENGENMIX#4igen(radio Deejay Archivio Del Anno 2000)

Late July Noods Residency guesting Synalegg mix in 2nd half~~
https://soundcloud.com/synalegg

Tracklist:

Ennio Morricone - Fraseggio senza struttura		
Pontiac Streator - Angelus Spit (feat. Mister Water Wet)		
__-_ - Legato Crying - Legato Crying		
Mark_Leckey - In_This_Lingering_Twilight_Sparkle_Side_A		
Glass - Underperform (OOH-sounds re-work)		
Piezo - 01.OX		
Synalegg - Commuters		
adammmmmmmmmmmm -  i...		
Joanna Brouk - Majesty Suites Entrance of the Queen of Winter Dawn		
Speaker Music - Of Our Spiritual Strivings (ft. Syanide)		
Georgia - Walking Around Soho		
Pontiac Streator - Om Ne Ud		
Mark_Leckey - In_This_Lingering_Twilight_Sparkle_Side_B		
UVB76 - Bakara		
Richard-Craig - Dillon-James		
Shelley Parker - LET THE BODY B		
more eaze & claire rousay - Post-op		
Elysia Crampton - Morning Star-Red Glare-Sequoia Bridge (feat. Jeremy Rojas)		
Oiseau Danseur - Face A		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
SYNALEGG - guest mix (1:00:15)		
		


Emptyset - Ascent			
 Pavel Milyakov - Industry machine '87			
Voronoi - Gumbody Flash			
Ryoji Ikeda - Test pattern #0100			
Daniel M karlsson - Gaining traction with the local branches			
Ametsub - Over 6633			
Yvanko, Yab - Hydré			
Yves de Mey - Xylo			
Nebulo - Fata Morgana B			
Autechre - Known(1)			
William Fields - Prospection			
Moxus - Mush Space			
Jpegmafia - Dj Snitch Bitch interlude			
Grischa Lichtenberger - 003 0415 03 re 0112 re 0811 08 lv 1			
Bernard Parmegiani - Hors Phase			
Synalegg - Brèche

OOH-sounds W/ Synalegg - Noods Radio 26-7-20

LARINHA & JLZ
Gwia Ekim introduces its first release called "Club Pack", which was inspired by focus to exploring, producing and deconstructing Global club music combinating with electronic sounds and tools.

Tracks: 7
Bandcamp : https://gwiaekim.bandcamp.com/album/club-pack

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sinew ii

Metaphore Collectif invites @jules-du-coeur from Du Coeur Records - an amateur, anti-normative and anti-institutional music label from Marseille - to tell us about his daydreams, fantaisies and visions through Aphex Twin, Ange Halliwell or Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke.

Michael Speers - sul. locus

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