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Plänterwald (feat. Kickphlipp & Schlüsselchen)

Blocking Behaviours concerns the real-time interpretation of two simulations of complex behaviour through an agent-based system. The simulations enforce a way of thinking that revolves around balancing behaviours. An attitude that considers musical output as something that emerges from an interaction with an autonomous system.

The simulation acts as a generative, rule-based system producing output that is subject to different kinds of observation algorithms. The idea is that evolving processes are set in motion where the creator/composer becomes an observer of various developments. The output can not always be controlled in detail but is instead interpreted and further processed. The interpretation involves a mapping between different modes of representation in order to simplify or combine. In Blocking Behaviours the idea is to explore the boundary of generative behaviour, control and and direct access to computer sound synthesis.

Blocking Behaviours premiered during the ICLC (International Conference on Live Coding) in April 2023.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQ1mNvPo9k&t=784s 

https://soundcloud.com/bjarni/blocking-behaviours-iclc-example

Blocking Behaviours (excerpt)

extract from the A-Side of the JOE COLLEY 10inch "Acting As If" released in the Substantia Innominata series in December 2022. 
order it here:   https://www.dronerecords.de/album.view.html?album=21114

press release: 
MECHANICAL RITUALS: 23 years after his EP for Drone Records (DR-28, as CRAWL UNIT) we are proud to release another / new work of conceptual / minimal / object drone artist JOE COLLEY from California.   
We think JOE COLLEY (*1972) is a master of using mechanical object sounds and electronic static, but also strange low fi found found sources and field recordings, creating alienating, surrealistic effects, similar to the likes of SMALL CRUEL PARTY, JIM HAYNES, DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE or even the more experimental side of ZOVIET FRANCE...  
His newer compositions seem always to be filled with electro-magnetic hummings, strange hissing and the pourings of metallic objects as a basis, but you never find the use real instruments, synths, or masses of effect procession. Thus a very own scent of mystery appears, as all of these radiations are not really from this planet, without any "cosmic" connotations..
For the creator, these sounds are connected with unreal emotions of "Being Lost", a mistrust in what may be called reality, and a general feeling of alienation... - you can only wonder how this can result in such beautiful droning expanses.. 
Presented here are over 30 minutes of very best new COLLEY material (entitled   "Limit / Limit"  und "Always I / Always II") => through these drones of strangeness the mind is thrown inside an unrecognizable and confusing realm of broken electricity and something like audible-made atmospheric pressure.. 
Lim. 300 copies with artwork by dutch designer and micro label hero MEEUW, using a special silver print (on reverse board), BLACK vinyl. glossy black inner sleeves.

REVIEW:  "When Joe Colley speaks about his work and even about his life, he shrugs in an awkward attempt to stave off an existential frustration that not only his work addresses but also seems to consume his identity. There are numerous metaphors through his titles that allude to endless failures and a nihilism full of contempt, but Colley also implores a desperate urgency to express these poetics no matter how painful they may be. For three decades now, Colley has been a central and persistent figure in the California noise community. First recording under the moniker Crawl Unit and running the short-lived Povertech label, Colley presented a preternaturally strong acumen of electro-acoustic techniques and abstraction through a vast language of blistered textures, atonal noise, and gnarled drone. By 2000, he dropped the Crawl Unit moniker in favor of his own name with an ongoing discography of damaged yet exploratory electronics. 

Colley returns to Drone Records for this 10" on the Substantia Innominata series, many years after his Crawl Unit "Tuscon Mon Amour" 7." In describing "Acting As If," Colley offers a vague series of descriptors: unheimlich, terror of the familiar, and no faith in what is "real." Within the sustained movements of scrabbling textures, motorized abrasions, and uncomfortable harmonics, such conditions are made manifest and Colley amplifies them into something eeriely sublime. 
All of that held within a self-contained logic that works within and against his deep knowledge of drone-on minimalism, musique concrete dynamics, and the explosiveness of noise culture. His swarming masses, throttled rumbling, and smoldering tension are all encircling and folding in on themselves. Rhizomes of sound that speak poison. Drink up, if it doesn't kill you, it will only make you stronger. "- Jim Haynes / Northern California, 2023

JOE COLLEY - Limit (edit)

The next mixtape instalment is by experimental musician Colin Andrew Sheffield. Born in El Paso and now based in Austin, Sheffield took his passion from being a self-taught drummer in Texas to a total transition to electronic music. For this mix, he’s compiled a captivating selection of experimental electronic music. 

Since the mid-90s, Sheffield’s work has consistently focused on the use of samples: 
deconstructed loops of hidden melodies and textures found in his collection of physical media. Through the re-contextualization of other commercially available recordings, like an alchemist of audio collage, he aims to distil the essential qualities of these works and convert them into new recordings.

Sheffield’s music is full of atmospheric soundscapes, which shift and unfold, offering subtle waves and suspended stillness. From earlier work like First Thus (2005) to the most recent Images (2023), Sheffield's solo projects showcase his ability to explore diverse sonic ranges. One of our favourite records this year, Images, was entirely constructed from heavily edited and manipulated samples from jazz records and represents a true distillation of Sheffield's interests as both a composer and an obsessive listener.

In 1998, Sheffield founded the Elevator Bath recording label, which has been releasing experimental works from a variety of artists from the US and abroad, featuring names such as Merzbow, Francisco López, Susane Drone, and himself.

The mixtape he’s prepared for us, he says, was a lot of fun to compile. I limited myself to selections that are all quite recent or at least no more than a few years old. I tried to represent my tastes in various forms of experimental music and throw in a liberal dose of work from some good friends. There are a couple of brand new tracks in there from forthcoming releases too, so it's a bit of a taster of things to come. Hopefully, it flows well enough and has something for just about everyone. Thanks for giving me the impetus to create this mix!


Tracklist:
Andrew Anderson + Colin Andrew Sheffield	Clarioned -  Elegies
Valerio Tricoli	Mimosa - Hostilis
Concepción Huerta - Trepidation
Adam Pacione	 - Pos. Neg.
Jana Winderen - The Art of Listening: Under Water
Roméo Poirier	- Les grandes lignes
Matt Shoemaker - Pasar Gede
Marta Zapparoli - The resonant sky of Krems
Merzbow - Hat 1046
Susana López	- Drones to Zazeela
Richard Ramirez - Protective Custody 2
Telesurgient - Lifeline
Sequences - Illuminated and Translucent
TIBSLC - Hypertranslucent (2)
Werner Dafeldecker - Neural
Pendant - Dream Song Of The Woman
Electric Capablanca - Capablanca Spin
Felicity Mangan - Digging The Pedospheric Vibes III
Jim Haynes - Variant, number four
Colin Andrew Sheffield - Embers
Kate Rissiek - Floating In Darkness
Jake Muir - Cauldron
Koray Kantarcıoğlu - Agat 01
Rick Reed - Leave a Light on for Tony

Elevator Bath presents COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD Fireside Mix

Elevator Bath presents COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD - Fireside Mix

Fangyi Liu, Dian Qi Xia 電氣夏

Regulator Incident

The fifth edition of the Naviar Haiku Fest took place on the 7th of December 2022 at the iconic Cafe Oto in London. 

The event featured performances by members and friends of Naviar, working in the fields of ambient, electronic and contemporary classical music. Each performance was introduced by haiku poems written and recited by members of the British Haiku Society.

Watch video at https://youtu.be/iNsqWvwGzKk

All sounds recorded and performed by Manja Ristić
Mastering Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Live at Cafe OTO 2022

mvw comp/COMP clip track. 
release date: 27/02/2024

comp/COMP Trailer

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