mmm. love the distortion, and how beautifully it built

man this one is so dynamic! great transitions and control over the elements. thanks for all the downloads, too!

Carl I am a huge fan of your work. let me know if you're ever performing in Los Angeles. This is a gorgeous piece of music. Thanks for sharing with the smm/ambient guitar group.

this is wonderful, love the pitch bending thing going on

flow & ambient

"Collider" is a collaborative track between Christopher Willits, Heathered Pearls, and The Sight Below made using Splice (https://splice.com/) to promote Michael Cina and John Klukas' upcoming show in Minneapolis.

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A stunning intersection of photography and painting amalgamated into something fresh and new, Cina and Klukas present 20 unique and beautiful works resulting in an undefinable medium that can only be described as digitally hand-crafted. She Who Saw The Deep is a collaborative exploration of darkness and light, a seamless combination of the visions of two artists and their personal understanding of what it means to pass through chaos and be reinvented.

Christopher Willits / Heathered Pearls / The Sight Below - Collider

Remix by Norway's Biosphere of the last track produced at Black Knoll Studios in Seattle. This white label 12" titled "Unfurled" is part of a fundraising campaign launched by Ghostly International to replace all of The Sight Below's stolen studio equipment. More info here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-sight-below-s-music-gear-data-stolen

Unfurled (Biosphere remix)

Geoscope w/ Westov Temple.Unlimited data for introspection.
Listen live - first Sundays, 6-8PM ET at www.greatcircles.net

Special guest ~ Carl Ritger [ @c_ritger ]. 3-hour edition of Geoscope focused on music released between 2005 and 2011.

~Tracklist~
WT
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Reprisal [note: not from 2005-2011 but played intentionally...it's part of the story]
Tstewart - Along Blue Eyed Creek 
Jack Rose - Kensington Blues 
Broadcast - Black Cat
Morgan Packard - I Think I  
Burial - Ghost Hardware 
Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Like A Restless Sea

CR
Seaworthy & M. Rösner - Meroo Sedgeland Pt. 1
Solo Andata - Beneath This Stone Wall
Taylor Deupree - A Fading Found
Savvas Ysatis & Taylor Deupree - Listen to the Morning Sleeping

WT
Mohlao - Ambrose
Andreas Tilleander  - Folded Lines 
MLZ - M-Brane
Sven Weisemann - Amirty
Sascha Dive - Deepest America (Samuel Davis Dark Soul Mix)
Millie and Andrea - Black Hammer 
2562 - Enforcers

CR
Bird Show Band - Quintet One
Valet - Babylon 4 Eva
Ilyas Ahmed - As Those Above
Pan American - Dr. Robert Goddard
Burial - In McDonalds

WT
Shackleton - Bastard Spirit
Isomer Transition - Give Me Your Hand 
Function - Reykjavik
Frozen Border - A1 01
Levon VIncent. - Double Jointed Sex Freak
Shackleton - Next To Nothing [Guilaume & The Coutu Dumonts Remix]
Autechre - Tankakern

CR
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Moon
Emeralds - Damaged Kids
Trouble Books & Mark McGuire - Strelka Update
The Caretaker - Past Life Regression

Geoscope

Geoscope w/ Westov Temple & Carl Ritger - 07Jan2024

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Turning Torso - Neurona

Composer and sound artist Carl Ritger [ @c_ritger ] presents a monthly exploration of music – and non-music – from around the world, channeling deep drone zones, environmental recordings, and experimental vibrations. Listen live - 4th Thursdays, 8-10PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~
Chihei Hatakeyama, “Swaying Curtain in the Window”
Lawrence English, “Complimentary Cicada”
Opitope, “An White Drop of Morning Dew”
Tomoyoshi Date, “A Supermarket in the Woods”
Asuna & Opitope, “Column of Air”
Lawrence English, “Chamber”
Tetuzi Akiyama / Ken Ikeda / Chihei Hatakeyama, “III”
Illuha, “Mukaemizu”
Illuha, “Vertical Staves of Line Drawings and Pointillism”
Minamo, “Conceal”
Chihei Hatakeyama, “The Distant Sound of a Bustle”
Tomoyoshi Date & Stijn Hüwels, “Ekki”
Chihei Hatakeyama, “Blue Reminder”
Lawrence English, “Bamboo Shinjuku”
Chihei Hatakeyama & Hakobune, “It Is, It Isn’t”

This Green Earth

This Green Earth w/ Carl Ritger - 22Feb2024

Guest mix for @penttt's Lot Radio show 'Synopses'. All ECM late night zones.

Lot Radio 6/12/24 - Synopses ECM special

Moody cacophonies, sonic dispatches from Japan, crystalline breakbeats that are more environment than rhythm: Jake Muir’s 𝒆𝒏𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒆𝒅, described by Muir as a “(re)mixtape,” is a mind-bending deep dive into the enmossed archive. Besides reflecting the history of the label, Muir’s mix is a production in its own right. A Los Angeles native based in Berlin, Muir is a DJ and field recordist who “sees mixes as a vehicle to explore narratives outside of the album format.” 

In 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔 (2023), where Muir sampled various sources to explore gay cruising culture and sensuality, his more expansive, conceptual approach to the form is illuminated. Mixes are not just a linear succession of tracks with transitions—they’re excavations that also result in the creation of new audio artifacts. Inspired by the psychedelic impulses of illbient, Muir uses DJ and sound engineering techniques to melt down genre distinctions and create alien atmospheres.

From the enmossed community, Muir pulls from artists like bad lsd trips, Angelo Harmsworth, Nick Klein, Tetsuya Nakayama, and Patrick Gallagher to coalesce a super-compendium of the global sonic underground, all viewed through his own unique lens. Muir takes major liberties with processing and effects automation to carve new worlds from the soil of these preexisting works. Some of the tracks and material on 𝒆𝒏𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒆𝒅 are heavily edited, emphasizing specific harmonics or bass frequencies, and some portions contain three or four layers, putting artists in direct conversation with each other. 

This heady approach—using the tools of both mixtape and remix—results in a super textual and dense palimpsest of the enmossed catalog. “Because mixes are more open- source,” Muir says, “it’s easier to express some ideas since there is more material to pull from.”

- Rob Goyanes

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Berlin based sound artist, DJ and field recordist Jake Muir was infatuated with sound from an early age, surrounded by California's buzzing, whirring sonic landscape and his father's collection of beachfront rock LPs. So it wasn't surprising when, as he developed his ear, Muir was drawn to work that dexterously manipulated these elements, particularly musique concrète, field recording and experimental turntablism. He approaches his practice as a listener first, carefully choosing, layering and processing sounds that help him deconstruct and contextualize his lived experiences and influences. Using investigative software methodologies, DJ techniques and the engineering skills he acquired while studying, Muir makes deeply personal sonic art that fluidly traverses genre membranes, encouraging reflection and sometimes prompting psychedelic states.

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Artwork source photo by Jake Muir
Design by Glyn Maier
All proceeds to Cadus (Berlin, DE): https://www.cadus.org

enmixed

Jake Muir - enmixed [Side B Excerpt] (ENMX-xb)

Composer and sound artist Carl Ritger [ @c_ritger ] presents a monthly exploration of music – and non-music – from around the world, channeling deep drone zones, environmental recordings, and experimental vibrations. 

Listen live - 4th Thursdays, 8-10PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~
Svarte Greiner, “Budeie Med Sigd”
Graham Lambkin / Jason Lescalleet, “There And Back Again”
Joshua Bonnetta & Judith Hamann, “Exteriors / Interiors I”
Clara Levy, “Standing Naked In The Moonlight”
Alexander Rishaug, “Høyblokka, 15. Etasje, kjøkken kl 01-31 21.10.2017”
Stefano Pilia / Valerio Tricoli, “I”
Graham Lambkin / Jason Lescalleet, “Two States”
EKG / Giuseppe Ielasi, “(Providence-Middleton)”
Cleared, “53S”
Kate Carr, “the ribs of the disaster”
Lorenzo Abattoir, “Allegro ma non troppo”
Alexander Rishaug, “Høyblokka, Kulvert II, U. etasje kl 11-11 29.10.2017”
Crys Cole, “Valid ForeverrRrrRRrrr… (pt. 2)”
Fabio Perletta, “DALP 5 [Prepared Guitar No.1]”
Judith Hamann, “Humming Suite II - Fragment I”
Giuseppe Ielasi, “I”
James Plotkin / Jon Mueller, “Rooblivon”
Michael Ranta / Takehisa Kosugi, “Part I”
Svarte Greiner, “Bleeding Lights”

This Green Earth-W/ Carl Ritger - 24Oct2024

Great Circles Presents: Some Of This Is Your Fault
Recorded live at GLOB in Denver, CO, May 31, 2024
Featuring:
i.lind [DJ]
Carl Ritger [LIVE]
Westov Temple [DJ]


i.lind - Some Of This Is Your Fault [DJ set]

Carl Ritger - Some Of This Is Your Fault [Live set]

Westov Temple - Some Of This Is Your Fault [DJ Set]

Composer and sound artist Carl Ritger [ @c_ritger ] presents a monthly exploration of music – and non-music – from around the world, channeling deep drone zones, environmental recordings, and experimental vibrations. Listen live - 4th Thursdays, 8-10PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~
U.e., “Drain the House”
Haptic, “In Situ 1”
Asmus Tietchens & Richard Chartier, “fabrication 2.8”
Haptic, “We Too Just”
Tatsuya Nakayama, “Hikihashi”
Manja Ristić & Tomáš Šenkyřík, “Pátek Sobota”
Kevin Drumm, “Gaslight Bill”
Joshua Bonnetta, “The Bay of Broken Things”
Manja Ristić & Murmer, “kaugpääs; antenn”
William Basinski & Richard Chartier, “Divertissement Pt 2”
Alan Lamb, “Meditation On Spring 8”
Ernesto Longobardi & Demetrio Cecchitelli, “21’18””
Tatsuya Nakayama, “Yonakiishi”
U.e., “Song for Hill”

This Green Earth w/ Carl Ritger - 23JAN2025

Composer and sound artist Carl Ritger [ @c_ritger ] presents a monthly exploration of music – and non-music – from around the world, channeling deep drone zones, environmental recordings, and experimental vibrations. Listen live - 4th Thursdays, 8-10PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~
Andy Guthrie, “Eulogy”
Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet, “Little Glass of Sherry (Little Glass of Wine)”
Clara Levy, “Terril 1”
Olli Aarni, “Suontee, 23112021, osa 5”
Jacob Kierkegaard, “Phantasmagoria”
Soundwalk Collective, “Khandroma”
Marja Ahti & Judith Hamann, “The Smallest Division of a Syllable / Vernal Aspects / Burtin Into / Late Bloom”
Francesco Covarino, “Terra A”
Olli Aarni, “Suontee, 23112021, osa 7”
Catherine Lamb, “tone / noise”
Richard Chartier, “How Things Change”
Will Montgomery, “Heygate”
Fraufraulein, “my left hand, your right hand”
Lawrence English, “Raven Songs”
Susan Alcorn & Tom Carter, “Polaris”
Susan Alcorn, “run run se fue p’al norte”
Susan Alcorn, “Broken Obelisk”
Susan Alcorn, “Amazing Grace”

This Green Earth w/ Carl Ritger - 27Feb2025

A live recording of my performance at Crane Old School in Philadelphia, PA. As part of the new event series from Inciting dubbed "The Monochrome Sequence," I shared a bill with Hero/Victim, Metasplice and Demdike Stare. Recorded using guitar, mini-cassette and pedals, the file was imported to Ableton for minor EQ adjustments and editing for length.

Photo by Dan Lisowski.

04.21.2012: Live at Crane Old School

In A Place Of Such Graceful Shapes

Blanketing

Contrail

connecting \\ communicating 
intermediary agent, designer & interviewer

Carl Ritger [FKA Radere; b. 1984] is a composer, field recordist, & instrumentalist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Currently living and working on Colorado’s Front Range, his work composites entropic sonic environments from acoustic sound sources & electronics.

04.21.2012: Live at Crane Old School

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