Traditional Electronics

Ambience

Inspired by minimal drone music in general, the subtleties of an oscillator, filter, reverb, or any sound source.

"Sonic wallpaper", sleepy, meditative...

"Repetition is a form of change."
http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

Minimalis Fabrica - Music For Sleep

Meditation 2

Sound documentation of the installation "Et Stykke for Lys og Piano" by Joakim Blattmann. Shown at Steinkjer Rådhus (Steinkjer City Hall), Steinkjer, NO, November 2012. Max/MSP jitter programming by Ricardo del Pozo.

Et Stykke for Lys og Piano (Documentation)

Video Teaser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8EG5TeiTos

The third volume of 'Ambient Archives' comes with music by Robert Farrugia, Alonefold, Stabilo (Speaker Gain Teardrop) and Warmth. From subtle distorted synth lines to heavenly guitars, intense drones and misty field recordings, in a new collection. 

Tracklist:

01. Robert Farrugia - Thaw                      09:07
02. Alonefold - Sing With Me Drifter            06:14
03. Stabilo (Speaker Gain Teardrop) - Abeja     08:28
04. Warmth - Time As a Reward                   09:44

Written and Produced by Robert Farrugia, Alonefold, Stabilo (Speaker Gain Teardrop) and Warmth.
Mastering by Zzzzra.
 
Archives15
Archives / 2015

Warmth - Time As A Reward

01. Mick Chillage - Over Ingia
02. Off Land - Redshift [11:30]
03. Autumn of Communion - Leaving Island [16:57]
04. Lorenzo Montanà - Bloom [31:48]
05. Aythar - Astronautica [42:48]
06. Jacob Newman and Devin Underwood - In the Air [51:19]
07. Motionfield - Luftrum 9 [57:54]
08. Bill Laswell and Bernie Worrell - By A River (For Peter) [66:30]

Carpe Sonum (Label Mix by Jacob Newman)

Late 1970s electronica from the Soviet Union / Estonia: four years after prog rock band Mess disbanded, Estonian musician Sven Grünberg released a remarkable album entitled “Hingus” in 1981. The 23 minute title track invites us into a fascinating, futuristic world of sound, laced with Far Eastern tonality, embellished with a church organ, extremely rare synthesizers and extraordinary percussion effects. The other two tracks, no less superb, are more in the stylistic tradition of the Berliner Schule / Berlin School (Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream). Out October 21, 2016 (CD/vinyl/digital)

Sven Grünberg - Hingus (1981) (snippets) Out October 21, 2016

Taken from the upcoming album 'The Epiphanies' by Bill Seaman...

The Epiphanies...

Composing memory
The backs of my hands
Headlights slowly turning, illuminating the branches
Skin (slow)
The folds of eros
Slow motion in darkness
Quietly touching
Slow moving fog
A quiescence of obsolescence
Dark wet trees and angled lines of light
The collapse of time
Hidden memories and breathing
Luminous silent stasis
An epiphany of epiphanies

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Seaman – Piano, non-location recordings, ebow guitar, DX7IIE, mellotron, samples, sample arrangements and Ableton Live abstractions. Production.
Owen Sidney Richardson — Contrabass and Electric Bass guitar library 
Craig Tattersall  — Synth Bass library  
Robert Ellis Geiger  — Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn library  
Jonas Braasch  — Horn library 
Ciompy Quartet – Violin library 
Daniel Howe – Distant Guitar on 14
Design by Daniel Crossley
Photography by Nieves Mingueza
Mastered by James Plotkin

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I often work by making libraries of particular kinds of sounds or asking people to contribute a library. With the contributed library I often give the players simple verbal instructions, or sing notes I am interested in including. With the piano, I sit down and do a series of improvisations. I then go though these and edit my favorite parts, building a series of fragment libraries, some with little or no abstraction, some greatly abstracted with Ableton Live. I compose in a very sculptural manner with Ableton, dragging things in from the libraries and trying things out often exploring chance related juxtapositions. I often shift the time and transpose individual samples to make them work with the other material. I build up structures, cut/copy/paste complex layered sections, erase sections that are not working, loop things, and slowly construct a track going though many iterations. I often later cut away at the built up tracks, and edit the piece down, further articulating a structure. I often finish with having between 20 and 50 tracks. In the final set of passes I fully articulate the psychoacoustic space, working with panning, eq, distortion, delay, abstraction, and reverb. I further edit and structure the parts that begin to “work”. Along with the piano I make Libraries of DX7IIE sounds, electronic beats, mellotron, electronic micro-rhythms, non-location recordings from noises found on the internet, orchestral abstractions, midi instrument libraries— violin, cello, woodwinds, and I also employ highly abstracted piano. Additionally I build libraries of ‘abstract’ guitars, playing alternate instruments through synthetic and or real amps. This overall method allows me to work very quickly and intuitively. In this case, the music is more sparse than many of my other recordings.

The Epiphanies started with some long titles like An Epiphany Related to the Back of the Hand. I later came to the notion of just titling the album The Epiphanies, and making the titles shorter. When I searched the title I was excited to see that James Joyce had done a series of short poems with the same overarching name. - Seaman 2017

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- Special Thanks – Craig Tattersall, John Supko, Daniel Crossley and Fluid Audio

- This album is dedicated to the memories of Rick Tear, Ranulph and Aartje Glanville, Otto Piene and David Bowie.

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www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com
www.billseaman.com
www.nievesmingueza.com

The Epiphanies

Bill Seaman - An Epiphany Of Epiphanies

Lingua Lustra - Truth Rings Like A Bell

Out today: 
First of the new Limited 25 Series Edition CD, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 25 copies. 
Handmade artwork, each hand numbered.
Brown kraft wallets with black envelopes.
Photo's, transparent bag. 

Order: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/truth-rings-like-a-bell

Track list:
1. Bolshoy 13:52
2. Polieleiny 07:18
3. Lent 11:00
4. Hymn Of The Rose 11:26
5. Paean 09:37

Written and produced by Lingua Lustra autumn 2015 

"Truth Rings Like A Bell is the reflection of a special interest i've always had in bells, gongs, bell-like sounds. On this recording i've used a series of large bells, treated them in different ways, staying close to the original overtones they produce. This mixed with homemade fieldrecordings, analogue synths and mutated vocals completed the atmosphere i was looking for, my tribute to the bell."

Mastered by Early Reflections
SHM CD053

Lingua Lustra - Truth Rings Like A Bell (Album Preview)

from 'S/t' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den294
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/nanookofthenorth]

Following a stunning recent Boiler Room performance, Nanook of the North take a deep sonic and conceptual trip northbound on their enchanting, eponymous debut album, via Denovali Records.

Nanook of the North are Stefan Wesołowski and Piotr Kaliński (also known as Hatti Vatti) - two acclaimed Polish musicians whose simpatico merging of compositional roles are blended as seamlessly as their use of acoustic and electronic sounds. Recording sessions broadly found Stefan playing violin and piano parts with additional synth touches and Piotr taking care of electronics, more synths and the final mix.

Upon being invited by the Sopot Film Festival next to their hometown of Gdansk to perform an improvised score to a film screening, the duo chose Robert J. Flaherty’s classic 1922 silent movie of the same name - ‘Nanook of the North’. Keen to maintain and nurture the initial ambient essence of the film, the duo travelled to Iceland where they recorded the album in Reykjavík and later mixed it in Greenland.

Despite the icy expansive isolation captured from the movie, the album is also transferrable in scenario and evocation, equally omitting the dangerous allure of dystopian cityscapes, or even the 80s sci-fi horror menace of Maurice Jarre, Howare Shore and Jay Chattaway.
 
‘Nanook of the North’ runs the gamut of images, scenarios and atmosphere akin to scenes in a film. Opening with a window into the unknown, the mood carries from the darkly foreboding, ‘Siulleq’ into the dank, dread-filled kosmische of ‘Tulleq’ over the slow nocturnal drive through a techno metropolis of ‘Afternat’ to the gargantuan foreboding awe of ‘Qulingat’, which seems to suggest the story is far from over.

Stefan Wesołowski is a violinist and composer best known for work with Jacaszek, his score to the BAFTA-nominated, Oscar-shortlisted Marlon Brando docu-film ‘Listen To Me Marlon’ and for his rapturous, critically acclaimed album ‘Rite of the End’.

Piotr Kaliński (also known as Hatti Vatti) - is one of the Polish underground's most vital figures. Renowned for for his analogue-focused sounds, this experimenter/explorer has been on a decade long excursion through vast and heterogeneous modern electronic realms.

Previous praise for Stefan Wesolowski:

        “Haunted, cavernous and horribly satisfying” Uncut

        “Awe-inspiring music that soars through dread, sorrow, joy and every emotion in between. A stunning and poignant inward journey” XLR8R

        “Instrumental evocations of loss and Decay, and monumental progressions through cavernous spaces. Wilting melodies are hemmed in by resonant menace, dissipated through drifting clouds of bowed tones or punctuated by ominous percussive thuds” The Wire

        “This is spiritual music; we hear this in the deliberate pacing, the yearning of the violins, the harmonic highs - but also in the droning lows, the earthly electronics, the tactile immediacy of the interface between heaven and earth” A Closer Listen


Previous praise for Hatti Vatti:

        "The record sees the producer combining a vast array of samples with his set-up of hardware and other tools, creating a record that covers numerous sounds, operating at times between ambient and bass-heavy genres such as footwork and juke” The Quietus

        “Hatti Vatti is an underground hero amongst an intricate scene. A musician with fine tact and attention to detail, pared back to its barest essentials. Well-crafted and listenable" The Ransom Note

Nanook of the North

Nanook of the North - Arfernat

Simply a minimal drone, subtle sonic wallpaper.  "Repetition is a form of change." ... an oblique strategy ... http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

Inspired by minimal drone music in general, the subtleties of an oscillator, filter, reverb, or any sound source.

Thanks for taking the time to check it out...

Minimal

Shaping Change

Simply a minimal tune, some sonic wallpaper. "Repetition is a form of change." ... an oblique strategy ... stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

Inspired by minimal drone music in general, the subtleties of an oscillator, filter, reverb, or any sound source.

Thanks for listening...

Graining Gibbous

Simply a minimal tune, subtle sonic wallpaper. "Repetition is a form of change." ... an oblique strategy ... stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

Inspired by minimal drone music in general, the subtleties of an oscillator, filter, reverb, or any sound source.

Thanks for listening...

Clavinet Wavetable

Simply a minimal drone, subtle sonic wallpaper. "Repetition is a form of change." ... an oblique strategy ... stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

Inspired by minimal drone music in general, the subtleties of an oscillator, filter, reverb, or any sound source.

Thanks for listening...

Chord Harmonics

https://gapfield.bandcamp.com/album/bits-in-the-valley

Thanks for listening... :)

Bits in the Valley

Gapfield - Axiom Meta

Path (Album "Prana Symphony" 1995)

Vaade (Dokumentaalfilmist "Mets meie südames" 2001)

babylon market mix vol.2

november 23rd, 2019

...i’ve carefully been going through my music collection these last couple of months and gathered a selection of cozy and authentic home tunes ~ love is all and times are all right, happiness is happening...

...follow the moods with New Apt., Michel Banabila, Ly Cheng, Quentin Pistol, Anne Laplantine & F.S. Blumm, Tò Trips, Prins Emanuel, Tommy Guerrero, Roman Flügel, Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek, Boozoo Bajou, Biosphere, Emily A. Sprague, Maria Somerville, EERA, Bunny, Suuns, Exploded View, Brian Eno, The Space Lady, Woo, Meitei, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Monster Rally & Mira Cook, The Doors, Wilburn Burchette, Bo Hansson, Clutchy Hopkins & Fat Albert Einstein, Gitkin, L’Eclair, Skeletons, John Abercrombie, Sauveur Mallia, Lionel Belasco, Sophia Loren, Mariah, Lena Platonos, Nightfall In Camp, Blonde Redhead, Anna Domino, Shy Layers, Efdemin,  The Vernon Spring, H Hunt, Laurence Guy, Lawrence, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Tomemitsu,  Bob Marley & The Wailers, Contact Field Orchestra, Toshio Matsuura Group, Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra, Shuta Hasunuma & U-zhaan, Susso, Trio Surdina, Benedetto Ghiglia, Rachel Sweet, Homeshake, J.J. Cale, Lô Borges, Nicolas Godin, Les Hommes, Mehmet Polat, Pierre Bastien, Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon, Mort Garson, Pierre Dutour, Huerco S., Michael Brook & Daniel Lanois, The Heliocentrics...

...artwork by Marc Chagall - bercy enbankment (1953)...

...according to eastern spirituality, self-realization is the knowledge and embodiment of our true nature or the higher self beyond the ego... 

...happy birthday dad, I love you...

all right

Minimalis Fabrica

Detuned and Drifting

Music from cartoon "Klaabu Kosmoses" (Tallinnfilm, 1981)

Sven Grünberg - Teema "Klaabu Kosmoses 2"

Sven Grünberg - Teema "Klaabu Kosmoses"

ambient & electronic music ... soundscapes, tones, melodies, textures, field recordings