Bored Lord live recording from Pride Saturday 06.29.24 @ Bar Part Time

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Bored Lord Live @ B.P.T. 06.29.24

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

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Erzklang [Preview Clip] (ENM-14)

Recorded live on July 7, 2024 at Thee Stork Club in Oakland, CA

Heaven Like This - a celebration of Music, Love, and Life!

– Matt + NFS (Cone Shape Top), Space Ghost, Sangsih, DJ Patrick

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Alpha State with Keith Fullerton Whitman @ The Lot Radio 06-16-2025

The last song is a live performance by Rim Banna: "Going up the Mountain (Ya Tali'een el-Jabal) is a traditional Palestinian song dating back to Ottoman or British occupation times. Palestinian women are going up the mountain on their way to visit their men behind bars. Whilst singing, they play with the lyrics, so that prison officers don't understand the subversive message they are trying to convey to their men." May Allah have Mercy on her soul <3

Going up the Mountain

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Tune into Coby Sey's show on a Monday afternoon for a masterful selection of his own tunes alongside favourites and influences. Sedated hip-hop, drone, ambience and other glacial and sludge sounds. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/coby-sey/episodes/coby-sey-21st-july-2025

Coby Sey w/ The Garbage Man 210725

NFS and Matt all vinyl b2b at Dog Gallery in SF
07.05.25

DJ NFS + Matt Live at Dog 07.05.25

For Episode 49, NFS & Matt share selections from the first six releases on our label Cone Shape Top Imprint.

Check out all releases here: https://coneshapetopimprint.bandcamp.com/music

Tracklist: 
Christopher Robin Duncan & Joel St. Julien - Live at Cone Shape Top,  August 23 2023
Catalina Africa - Cicada 12
Anna Luisa Petrisko & Sara Gail - Space onto Space
idhaz - Woman in My Dream
Sadie Greyduck - Our Lady of Fatima Solar Phenomenon
Tom Marsi - Test Test Audio
DISH - Teapots
llloyd - Band Practice Acid
Sholeh Asgary - Cicada 06
Jonathan James Carr - Muted Dream
Juliana Huxtable - Belle Alliance 
Hair and Space Museum - Seventh Head
Amma Ateria - Cicada 01
Agnes Martian - The Third Axis
arboreal - untitled
Raven - Sapphire & Steel
Sachi's Mirror - Heat Resonance

CONE ZONE Episode 49 CST Imprint Special | Broadcast Date: 6.16.25

Hiroyuki Onogawa - VIII
Costin Miereanu - Jardins Désertés
Lamin Fofana - Nightside Black (PHASE4.ZIP Limited Club Editions)
Conna Haraway - Freon
Seth Price - New Notion of Life
Ose - 29 h 08 mn
Buffalo Daughter - New Rock
Herbert - 100lbs
DJ Frog - Engine
SVN - Dub 3
Wrecked Lightship - Reeling Mist
Frontier - Journal D’un Curé De Campagne 
F7 - My Cloud is a House
Khotin - Loss Day
Plein Soleil - Plasma Dub
Yoshinori Hayashi - Downstream
E L O N - Western Pacific
chaircrusher - Complete Sentences
Valentina Magaletti & YPY - One Hour Visa
Angel Hunt & Lou Venturini - GlassayFroot
Axine M - B.T.M.Y.S.
62nd Cell - Porch Bretheren (Bonus Track)
Sensible Soccers - Ulrike
Eric Douglas Porter - Uncle Perm’s Fish Frying Tardis
Mert Seger - Shapiri
Nicolini - Bank Needs Your Money Dub
DJ Who - Watch Me
The Human Aerial - Direct Action
SW. - SKYnetOPENwindow
Piezo - Sfango
Wee DJs - Insp
Milan W - Astra
Gabriel Hops - Duku
Lovefear - Economy of Ascent
Vital Excursions - In the Swim

Do/While with Wonja & The Globule | September 10, 2025

This is an all-vinyl DJ set recording from a set I did at Scissor in Oakland, CA at Thee Stork Club

Tracklist:
Raw Silk - Just In Time & Space (Dub)
Cabin Fever - The Bomb is Mine
Eddie S. - The Spell
Eric Johnson - Melodic Gruv
Gabriels - Love & Hate In A Different Time (Kerri Chandler 623 Again Mix)
Cherie Lee - Love Me Or Leave Me (Club Dub)
Joey Musaphia - Untitled (In And Out Of My Life)
D-HA & Mad Mike - Work Me
G. Marcell - Dance With Me
Dj Luck and Chris Bum - Dreams
DJ Duke - Heard
Mariah Carey - Fantasy (Sweet Dub Mix)

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