Trio for Arturia Microbrute synthesizer, octave violin and soprano violin. (unmastered)

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"Machine funk kraut-a-delia - it's rather lovely!" Andrew Weatherall

You’d be hard pressed to disagree with the seminal DJ and producer listening to  ‘Keep Warm… with the Warm Digits’ (Distraction Records), an album that comes as though arriving from a distant time, where music still only saw limitless horizons and endless sonic possibilities. Warm Digits’ duo Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis’ bewitching debut LP is undoubtedly steeped in the lineage of the 1970s experimentalism of the likes of Neu!’s hypnotic repetition and the open-minded philosophies of Brian Eno, but it’s testament to the pair’s own broad visions that in 2012 these touch stones have been sculpted into a sound that retains a refreshing sense of modern vitality.

Hodson and Jefferis are a trans-Pennines collaborative project – something referenced by the title of the track ‘Trans-Pennine Express’ - with both having history as mainstays of Newcastle and the North East of England’s intimate but ever evolving music community. Though Andrew has since moved to the more traditional cultural powerhouse of Manchester, he retains close links with the region, recently collaborating with old friends, Sunderland’s Field Music, to help them record the unique ‘One Copy’ in the North West’s Lauriston Gallery. It’s an album whose sole copy is owned by the creators as a statement against the free streaming and sharing culture becoming dominant in music and Field Music’s David Brewis returned the favour to his old pal appearing here on bass. Hodson also runs Seed Studios in Trafford and has worked as a producer with the likes of Maximo Park’s Paul Smith and modern folk duo Cath and Phil Tyler among others.

Jefferis for his part comes from a more glitch-electronica background, something that remains evident within the vortex of Warm Digits enveloping sound; previous releases from him have come under the name Cathode for the likes of Expanding Records, Static Caravan and Distraction Records. Combined the pair have taken their previous wanderings to a new level; forming whilst both still living in Newcastle, they developed from a techno-influenced laptop duo into a more panoramic, texturally aware couple after trying their hand at live score work for Canadian film maker Norman McLaren. Rehearsals for this saw the opening developments of what is now a thrilling semi-improvised brew of metronomic rhythms, snowstorm guitar and radiophonic electronics, dual-laptop electro, swathes of no-wave guitar and frantic free jazz drumming. It says much for their openness and mastery of such dexterity that their debut LP easily manages to contain these myriad influences, working them into a cohesive whole.

With previous remix work for Unkle and Maximo Park, existing fans including BBC Radio 6music’s Marc Riley and a newly blossoming live show that’s seen the pair support Goblin and Modeselektor to name just two - their 21st century krautrock hybrid is more than capable of crossing over to the dance floor.  Warm Digits look set to take the centre stage themselves in 2012, with ‘Keep Warm... with the Warm Digits’ set to make them hot property in the months to come.


Trans-Pennine Express

Se trataron de evocar las secciones de instrumentos de la orquesta tradicional, agregando lo "electrófonos". Los sonidos fueron llevados a la máxima distorción, de allí el nombre de la obra.
Fue seleccionada para formar parte de los conciertos de MUSLAB 2015 de obras femeninas. El concierto fue el 16 de octubre de 2015 en Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

ELEKTRONIE II. MUSLAB 2015, en homenaje a las víctimas de Ciudad Juarez.

Ableton feeds notes to Yarns, which outputs to Elements and Tides.
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Performed by Teasips
Composed by Greyghost

SP1R1† F∑∆S† (feat. Teasips)

Welcome to the 23th chapter of the Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics. This monthly released podcast brings you the best and the most diversity Ambient music can offer.

This months set is created by R.A.N. ( Roads at Night ). She brings a glimpse of here interesed in Dark Ambient music. A very divers set with even with a touch of modern classic music. Enjoy.

Bio:

R.A.N (Roads at Night)is the dark ambient, electronic music project of Istanbul born, Berlin based artist Hüma Utku. R.A.N is a journey of slowly contemplating on surroundings. Turbulence and introversion are at the core of the sounds.

Releases: 
Her Trembling Ceased (2015, Partapart Records)(Digital & CD Release)
Remixed: Stories Retold (2015, Partapart Records) (Digital)
www.roadsatnight.com/#!store/c23a8

Mix:

As I was putting this mix together I was heavily inspired by the very recent political happenings in my homeland. This was the initial way of how I projected my own emotions and thoughts as well as showing solidarity with what I left behind. ‘Home’, the new R.A.N track you can hear in this mix is self-explanatory for that matter.

Playlist:

01. Bruno Sanfilippo - Abandoned Carousel
02. Apocryphos, Kammarheit, Atrium Carceri – Immemorial
03. Sephiroth – Wolftribes
04. Sainkho Namtchylak - Naked Spirit/ Northaunt - A Shadow Among Shadows
05. New Risen Throne - Sigh of the Soul
06. Word Clock - A Lack of Language
07. Parhelion - Midnight Sun
08. Abul Mogard - Desires Are Reminiscences By Now
09. R.A.N – Home
10. Leila Abdul-Rauf - Dark Hours Of Early Morning
11. Keosz - Be Left to Oneself
12. Lustmord- Of Eons
13. SAH - Meer

Links:

soundcloud.com/roadsatnightofficial
www.roadsatnight.com/
www.facebook.com/roadsatnight
roadsatnightofficial.bandcamp.com/

Photography and Design by Jeroen Smulders

Circuit Jellyfish Design by NLz

Ambient Sessions # 23 - R.A.N.

Available at http://isotonikstudios.com/novation-x-isotonik/novation-circuit-editor/novation-circuit-patch-store/

Origins Beyond Isotonik Studios Soundpack for Novation Circuit

At The Core

https://jessicapink.bandcamp.com/album/tonight
Chilled out explorations of beats, glockenspiels and synths.

Realignment (full EP Bandcamp)

I Can’t Think Straight

Japanese vocal performer Hatis Noit will release her enigmatic EP Illogical Dance via Erased Tapes worldwide on 23rd  March 2018. The arresting 4-track record creates unique song-worlds with transcendent vocal interpretations that at once deconstruct and recombine Western Classical, Japanese folk and nature’s own ambience atmosphere. Illogical Dance also features Björk-collaborators Matmos, who were so impressed with Hatis Noit’s recordings, they volunteered to edit the lead track Illogical Lullaby. 

Hailing from the distant Shiretoko, a small town in Hokkaido, which is the largest island in north Japan, Hatis Noit’s accomplished range is astonishingly self-taught, inspired by everything she could find from Gagaku — Japanese classical music — and operatic styles, Bulgarian and Gregorian chanting, to avant-garde and pop vocalists. The sounds she created on Illogical Dance, co-produced by Haruhisa Tanaka and Matmos, bring to mind the experimental vocal patterns of Meredith Monk with the attentive production of Holly Herndon.

It was at the age of 16, during a trek in Nepal to the Buddha’s birthplace, when she realised singing was her calling. While staying at a women’s temple in Lumbini, one morning on a walk Hatis Noit heard someone singing. On further investigation it was a female monk singing Buddhist chants, alone. The sound moved her so intensely she was instantly aware of the visceral power of the human voice; a primal and instinctive instrument that connects us to the very essence of humanity, nature and our universe. 

The name Hatis Noit itself is taken from Japanese folklore, meaning the stem of the lotus flower. The lotus represents the living world, while its root the spirit world, therefore Hatis Noit is what connects the two. For Hatis Noit, music represents the same netherworld with its ability to move and transport us to the other side; the past, a memory, our subconscious. It is the same for Illogical Dance, a set of transformative songs that taps into our most primal instincts. 

“The human voice is our oldest, most primal yet most powerful instrument. I use it to describe nature’s many sounds, a language that isn’t logical. Yet it forms a beautiful conversation that isn’t restricted to words like the human language is. I want my music to remind us of that.” — Hatis Noit

Wanting to interpret and mimic the sounds Hatis Noit hears in nature, Illogical Dance is as unpredictable, beautiful and mysterious as the world around us. Each track is made up from multi layers of vocals, all improvised and without words, before being carefully pieced together. Astonishingly no samples are used throughout, even the sound of crushing leaves came from Hatis Noit’s own vocal chords. The result is a stunning array of sound sculptures that see her switching between multiple styles with great ease. From the sweet operatics on Illogical Lullaby, the manipulated vocal loops duplicating electronic production on Anagram c.i.y. to the primordial chanting call to arms of Angelus Novus, a 10-minute odyssey that features whispering and leaves crunching, it showcases Hatis Noit’s full range and introduces a truly original artist. 



After participating in a memorial and appreciation ceremony tailored to the withdrawal of the evacuation area in Fukushima on 31st March 2017, Hatis Noit collaborated with renowned visual artist Nobumichi Asai on a project titled INORI (prayer) which they premiered live as part of an Erased Tapes showcase at Mutek Japan in Tokyo. 

Having recently moved to London and performed a first string of UK shows, followed by a special live performance at the Milan Fashion Week and Mutek Japan appearance, Peter Broderick has invited Hatis Noit to support him at the Jazz Cafe on April 15th. She’s also been announced as part of this year’s Sea Change Festival line-up, and asked to participate in a workshop with the London Contemporary Orchestra.

Illogical Dance

Buy 12" / CD / DL

Hatis Noit - Illogical Lullaby

Maker of violin sounds from 'gosh that is beautiful' to 'oww my ears hurt'. Lead noise in Helicopter Quartet, synthesizerer for CSMA.

Trio for Microbrute & Strings

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