Name: ... by Chuck_Johnson
Duration: 10 min 14 s
Description: Solo pedal steel and synth preview of forthcoming LP for VDSQ in early 2017.

DJ Set - recorded live at Nowadays, NYC - 16th Feb 2025

(Apologies for volume dips - we had slight sound issues)

Om Unit - DJ Set @ Nowadays (NYC) - 16.02.25

A synapse-popping electro-acoustic soundwalk around Western Europe's cathedrals, chapels and churches, 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒔 skews recognizable sacred soundscapes, proposing a contemporary mythology that muddles the past, present and future. Following on from his critically-acclaimed 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔 full-length, American sound artist Jake Muir familiarizes himself with German and British sonic architecture by studying some of the medieval shadows that still hang over Europe's streets, even as they continue to evolve. Manipulating environmental recordings captured in Germany and England, Muir presents an impressionistic juxtaposition of parallel cultures: the UK's distinctive "change ringing" technique, where a team of bell-ringers play long varied sequences on a set of tuned bells; and Germany's more sober style, with monotonous peals that add rhythm to daily life.

When Muir moved from Los Angeles to Berlin back in 2019, it wasn't just the German capital's damp weather and long, dark winters that came as a surprise. He was immediately struck by the city's anomalous acoustics, and one particular element stood out: the resonant church bells that echo around Berlin throughout the day to mark time, and for 10 minutes on Sundays as a call for mass. Gathering his field recording equipment, Muir acquainted himself with his new home by following the sonorous clangs, wandering from kiez to kiez to capture each church's distinct auditory flavor. And the more material he collected, the more engrossed he became in the history of bell ringing, prompting a deep dive that would shuttle him across Germany and into Italy, Belgium and the UK.

On 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒔, Muir trains his focus on Berlin, where his journey began, and on England, where he encountered the most elaborate bell ringing practice. 𝘌𝘳𝘻𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨 is a hypnotic lattice of sounds recorded all over the German capital: at Parochialkirche, a reformed church in Mitte; at evangelical church St. Matthäus, at Sophienkirche, another Mitte landmark; and at St. Mathias, a Roman Catholic church just in front of the Potsdam Gate. By fusing the liturgical chimes with snippets of local ambiance - traffic, chattering tourists and birdsong, for example -  Muir takes a blurry snapshot of the city, queering its idiosyncratic color spectrum with his various digital processes. Using reverb to replicate the acoustic properties of both the streets and the church interiors, he subtly disturbs the timeline, stretching out brief peals into long, mesmerizing drones and turning garbled voices into ghostly babble.

The environment alters considerably on 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴; Muir uses the same technique and applies it to recordings made at the 1000-year-old St. Oswald church in Oswestry, St. Bartholomew's, Edgbaston and Holy Trinity in Stratford-Upon-Avon, home to Shakespeare’s final resting place. Here, Muir methodically untangles the change-ringing process, linking back to 𝘌𝘳𝘻𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨 with a single bell tone before moving inside the church itself and documenting the ringers' shouted instructions, blending the calls with the bells' mathematical cyclic patterns. Muir memorializes what in 2025 is a dying art-form - a community skill that's disappearing worryingly quickly as young Brits lose interest in the church and its rituals. Unsettling distortions bite into the undulating sequences and underneath the noise, Muir highlights the music's latent euphoria, drawing out its most celestial tonalities.

File under: devotional music.

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recorded by Jake Muir
audio finalized by Glyn Maier
photography by Jake Muir
design template by Joe Bastardo

Campana Sonans

Erzklang [Preview Clip] (ENM-14)

Global Weirding 048 - wind ritual

Priori - Segue
Megabasse - Linda
Derek White - pan-fry
Snoleoparden - Teak80-8GuitarMikroMoog
Klara Lewis & Yuki Tsujii - 2008
Takeo.K and Nadia Hanaan - Solder Flower
Dejing - Dejing 2
Digital Jockey - Realities Are Slow and Indescribable Detailed
Sissi Rada - Sappho
La Fe - Creer
Sebastiano Carghini - street wiser
Howie B - Allergy
Christian Kleine - Sun Star
Aspetuck - The Week is Ours
Sensorama - Zone 30 (Plaid Remix)
Fridge - Of
Myakkah - Within
David Harrow & Pinkie Maclure - Bite the Hand That Feeds You
Nesa Azadikhah - Gorbe Sefata
HWYUIOD - Phantom Cav
Trimmed Limbs - Desiny Collides
Nav Katze - アルカディア
Deeply Dub Productions - Angel Dubs You (Love at Ambientrance)
Ali Omar - Nu Stone Groove
atone - lets get higher in time
Stone - Tiny
Jay Fattorosi - Stargate
Tortoise - Four-Day Interval

Do/While with Wonja & The Globule | August 13, 2025

Global Weirding 049 - Tools of Dawn

Kiosk Outsiders resident Mayss, founder of Dreaming Live — a label and podcast dedicated to uncompromised creative expression, with guest like Mike Banks, Martin Rev and David Lynch — brings an hour shaped by the same ethos: We are students of the Universe of Music. Curiosity is my spiral into that universe, an endless unfolding into sound. To listen without borders, to play without anchors: music unbound by genre, ego identifications, or expectation. Only the moment guides, and honesty is the measure.


Mayss @ Kiosk Radio 23.09.2025

Recorded live at Chillits on Sunday, September 14, 2025 from 4:30am to 6am. Music to dream to.

Track list:

Experimental Audio Research - Delian Lament
Émile Zener - Laguna Cibernetica II-III (excerpt)
Ora - Amalgam
Zoviet France - Soft Helion
Colin Potter - The Knights Are Drawing In
ELpH vs Coil - Dark Start
Lull - Echoed Currents
Core - An Area's Era Aria (excerpt)
Oliveros/Dempster/Panaiotis - Ione (excerpt)
Pinkcourtesyphone - New Domestic Landscape
BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa - Untitled (excerpt)
Richter Band - Sbohem
Nurse With Wound - Funeral Music for Perez Prado (excerpt)
Bass Communion - Piano/Soprano Sax
Jasmine Guffond - Muzak For The Encouragement Of Unproductivity Three (excerpt)
w/ Jeanne Lee - Yeh Come T' Be 
Oval - Feeling
Shriekback - Coelacanth
Ekkehard Ehlers / Franz Hautzinger / Joseph Suchy - Untitled (Soundchambers 1)
Gunter Schlienz - Stillleben
zoviet france - A Long Walk (excerpt)
Carl Stone - Shing Kee (intro)
Pinkcourtesyphone - Reference Point Intermission 1 
Carl Stone - Shing Kee (outro)


Image: The first photograph of the Moon: John W. Draper’s daguerreotype, taken on 26 March 1840 from the rooftop observatory at New York University.

Chillits 2025

It’s dedicated to the lovers. Inspired by the summer of joy and getting loved on the way I needed. Super thankful for the Chillits community, allowing me some space to roam free. And big love to the ones who buoy me, you know who you are. I hope you feel it, t

Cover art is from my dear friend Raffaele's garden 

Chillits 2025 Set list: 

WZRDRYAV - Resource 8.0
Roméo Poirier - Visiona
pent - -u
dj lostboi - THE VOYAGER
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton - ✧LUCKY STARS✧
Harmonia - Ohrwurm
LOG - LOG 1
Frank Ocean - Mine
Naemi - Milau (with Zoe Darsee)
Best Available Technology - 605AM4262015c
The Durutti Column - Lips That Would Kiss
Minnie Riperton - Whenever, Wherever
Madlib - Porto Alegre
Cibo Matto - Sugar Water
Guesch Patti - La Marquise
Minnie Riperton - Close Your Eyes And Remember
Guesch Patti - Blonde
Stereolab - Diagonals
Erykah Badu- Time's A Wastin
Björk - Come To Me (Live NRK U 1993)
Corey Greenberg - Eden
Angel'in Heavy Syrup - Breath of life
Dusty Springfield - No Stranger Am I  (Original Mono Mix)
Pale Saints - Kinky Love

Chillits Sunrise Joybomb

4th annual moody guitar special 🍂

Ulla & Ultrafog - jesses car
Hiroki Okano - Drop
Low Flung - Mud
Sasha Frere‐Jones - Steep
Roy Montgomery - Fantasia on a Theme by Sandy Bull
Loren Mazzacane Connors - Without the Night
Transient Waves - What I'm Shootin' For
Nabihah Iqbal - Lilac Twilight
Kevin McCormick - Sticklebacks
Francisco Franco - Ivory City
Color Of Sound - Help Me To Understand (Finding My Way)
goo - dappled
Ma Chérie for Painting - Eurosports 4
Spatula - King George Island
Windsor for the Derby - Useless Arm
Bélver Yin - Una vida por delante (Candela’s song)
atmosfellix - mist
Tiger Trap - Alien Space Song
Prizes Roses Rosa - I Return To The Bridge
Roomer - 2003
naemi - ciao
Cranes - Pale Blue Sky
Henry's Dress - Title Forthcoming
Th' Faith Healers - Reptile Smile
Belong - Jealousy
Ovlov - Grapes
Car Culture - Nothingburger (Hotline TNT Version)
His Name Is Alive - Darkest Dreams 
A Beautiful Machine - Coming Up
Swallow - Lovesleep
Isabel's Dream - It's Better with You
Ozean - Fall

Do/While Moody Guitar Special | October 8, 2025

Closing set at the end of asia/australia tour. Kyo is an awesome club. great sound and lovely people. Thanks to EJ Missy and Kavan for having me <3 and special respects to Deapmash.

Patrick Bolton - Decisions
JoeFarr -Tape 10
Randomer - No Hook (Original Mix)
Deapmash & Raito - Quantum Vision
Ansome - Dave The Rave 
DamienSchneider - Vermont_BL
Egor Boss - Prism (Thomas Hessler Remix)
Radial - Cosmetics
Oscar Mulero	- Disinformation (Orphx Digital Edit Remix)
British Murder Boys - Dead Sun
Marcel Fengler - Sky Pushing (Dave Clarke Remix)
2ndSun - Control
Benjamin Damage & Deapmash - Solar 909 (Original Mix)
Special Request - Damage (Original Mix)
Deapmash - Dimension
Paul Woolford & Psycatron - Stolen (Original MIx)
The Sheds - Boom Room
Hail Blk - Infinite Blk
Steve Stoll - Drop Zone - Original Mix
Untold - Little Things Like That
Randomer - Stupid Things I Do (New School Mix)
Will Ward - Active Source
J.Tijn - Pick Your Battles
Blawan - Hanging Out The Birds
Kwartz - Black Cromosome (Jose Pouj Remix)
Delta Funktionen - Redemption
D-Leria - Premonition
SCNTST - Frau Tempel
Cassini - Threatless
Jose Pouj - Meta - Original Mix

Barker DJ set @ Kyo, Singapore - 31.10.15

Solo pedal steel and synth preview of forthcoming LP for VDSQ in early 2017.

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