Svetlana Maraš - Live performance 2019-2020
Cat #: OUS042
Release date: May 12, 2023
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«The nearly infinite improvisational potential in my performances is a result of tweaking the technology, using it in unpredictable ways, musically exploiting it, and maybe even misusing it.» - Svetlana Maraš

Serbian composer, sound artist and musician Svetlana Maraš has spent years developing her unique setup for live performances. Distinctly defining a live performance as an own form of musical practice that is defined by the sculptural potential, rather than reproducibility, she builds live sets as frameworks for musical expression. The core of her performative practice lies in the accessibility of all layers of what a ‘musical image’ at any given point consists of.

Using micro samples, granular sampling and snippets of one to two seconds, Maraš treats her live setup equivalent to an acoustic instrument. Using tablet controllers running a self-built ‘Touch OSC’ interface and pedals, she manipulates and morphs the material with the mindset of a sculptor, while exposing herself to the audience and the room. Her focus lies on the sound itself: musical structure and qualities, and the shape of the sounds projected into the performance space define which turn she might take next. Maraš explains: «I am interested how sounds fills up the room, how they spread, how near or far they are, how ‘big’ or ‘small’ they seem, how they morph and move.» With the set she played from 2019 to 2020, Maraš had reached an extreme regarding the handling and manipulation of micro samples. -OUS is releasing a live recording of this set as deep dive into the possibilities of live sound manipulation.

Svetlana Maraš is composer and artist active in the field of experimental music. Her work, which she presents internationally, encompasses variety of formats such as live performance, electro-acoustic composition, sound installations and works for the radio. She is the winner of the most prestigious Serbian composition prize «Mokranjac», awarded by the Serbian Composers’ Association. From 2016-2021, she was composer in residence and artistic director at Radio Belgrade’s Electronic studio, where she established numerous programs such as artistic residencies, educational courses and most notably, restoration of EMS Synthi 100. Currently, Maraš is Professor of Creative Music Technology and Co-head of Electronic Studio at Hochschule für Musik FHNW, Basel. 
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releases May 12, 2023

Music by Svetlana Maraš
Recorded at Il Circolo del Frattempo, Zurich, 2019
Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer
Artwork by Marko Vuleta-Djukanov
Graphic design by Rebecca Morganti-Pfaffhauser

This live set was recorded at Il Circolo del Frattempo, Zurich, a co-production between -OUS and MADAM.

The set was additionally performed at:
HEK, Basel
CAN, Neuchâtel
Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin
@svetlanamaras

Svetlana Maraš - 2019-2020-4

pre-orders available now via IMPREC.comIn 1970 Harry Bertoia had been developing his sonic sculptures for over ten years. He had only been composing/recording for two years and the four long pieces chosen for this CD find him starting to arrive at the sonic forms he had been searching for.

Hints Of Things To Come is one of the most unique and melodic pieces discovered so far in the Bertoia tape archive. In this piece we hear him slowly create and articulate a musical riff.  Bertoia builds this phrase patiently until the composition reaches an intense climax where the riff is played heavily and distinctly.

7 ½ & 7 ½ Combined, another historic standout, is one of the earliest examples of Bertoia overdubbing by playing a tape and then performing along to the playback.

This CD is defined by ambient passages, long drones, gongs that sound like whales, shimmering harmonics and the feeling of an artist searching for sounds deep within his own sonic sculpture.

Hints Of Things To Come

Harry Bertoia  "Hints Of Things To Come" CD - release date 12.16.22

Ondulation
A travers les échelles
La matière s’agite
Et vapo
-transpire
des fleuves aériens
Nuages
Qui
S’écoulent
Sans précipitation

~ Sound piece I did last year about flying rivers ~
Tried to imagine how their water cycle would sound from inside, at different scales

Bloup bloup

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Les Rivières Volantes

Night Nurse (acid) [lfo a gogo mix]

it no alright

Tracklist

01. Arovane - Endett
02. Andrew Heath - Belonging
03. Solo Andata - Leaden Sky
04. Memory Scale - A Suivre
05. Thme - Nocens
06. Jon Neher & Michael Scott Dawson - Anther
07. Mi Cosa de Resistance & Ciro Berenguer - Los espejos
08. Andy Cartwright - Mended Environment
09. Francesco Covarino - Nido i
10. Miguel Otero - End of Summer by The Pier

338. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

premiere performance of song/form
by EXAUDI vocal ensemble

December 2022, Kings Place, London

song/form (2021)

By now you'll be aware just how prolific UK-based The Jaffa Kid is. It's obvious just by visiting his Bandcamp page. Release after release of quality breaks, jungle, techno, ambient, and downtempo experiments.

And this debut album for Gated doesn't disappoint, drawing from all those genres across two slabs of wax, underpinned with the Kid's keen ear for electronic music's hypnotic qualities.

These 10 tracks are raw and dancefloor-ready, but still retain that infectious listenability present in everything The Jaffa Kid produces.

Mastered by Francisco Cueto
Artwork by Callin Mackintosh

D1 Free To Travel (Clip)

FLORILEGIO’S MIXTAPE #19
A tapestry of contemporary experimental and underground tracks from Florilegio’s worldwide network of female musicians.
www.florilegio.org
www.freeformfreakout.com/florilegio-mixtape-19/

TRACKLIST:
Azu Tiwaline “Night in Palmtree” The Fifth Dream (IOT Records) 00:06-04:20
Popon “Casajizochan” Bubu (Heat Crimes) 04:01-07:36
Carmen Villain “Silueta” Only Love From Now On (Smalltown Supersound) 07:12-12:26
Meara O’Reilly “II” Hockets for Two Voices (Cantaloupe Music) 11:56-13:39
Bryozone “Ghost Tribe” Eye Of Delirious (Muscut) 13:37-16:59
Ann Eysermans “For Trainspotters Only” For Trainspotters Only (Cortizona) 16:57-21:30
Youmna Saba “Al khayal” Wishah ِوشاح (Touch) 20:57-26:27
Lara Sarkissian “Eternal Repose” …it wasn’t really me (Knekelhuis) 26:19-30:03
Heather Stebbins “You are almost” At the end of the sky (Superpang) 29:55-34:43
Thea Soti “Hesitate to enjoy” ØVER+ (Planisphère) 34:40-42:38
Marja Ahti “Shrine (Aether)” Tender Membranes (Black Truffle) 42:32-54:11
Maria Komarova “While they gathered my ears grew” Synthetic Bird Music (Mappa) 53:39-58:35

FLORILEGIO MIXTAPE #19

free improvisation, processed cornet/electric guitar/electronics.

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Blending ambient textures, world instrumentation, and deep emotional resonance, Major Mysteries is a 20-track instrumental journey inspired by the Major Arcana. Designed for meditation, ritual, and deep listening, it invites you to slow down, breathe deeper, and reconnect with the mystery that lives within.




song/form (2021)

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