Live Coding Music

"The CD is scratched.” A saying from the early millennium, it describes the phenomenon of skipping music on a damaged CD, the locked, repetitive groove. For nearly a decade, Fossilized Wilderness has been experimenting with a peculiar modification to CDJ equipment, birthed by long hours sorting through promotional CDs sent to a radio station. In embracing choppiness, a body of abrasive but bright ambient work has been constructed from the refuse of musical commodification.

The CD skip is both rhythm and tone on this LP, but if you expect the monotonous motions of a concept album, don’t: The moods here are just as granular. The six tracks shift from digital euphoria to shoegazing sentimentalism, a balanced mix of terror, plaintiveness, and joy, an impressive feat considering that the scratch of a CD produces potent nostalgia as well as Pavlovian irritation for many—a drive to eject the thing and fix the problem.

For those not growing up with it, the scratched CD is a relic phenomenon, something that happened with an artifact format. But just because it’s an artifact doesn’t mean it’s obsolete. On this LP, Fossilized Wilderness uses a sonic palette of subtly-shifting broken loops to create something new: delirious spectres rising from an ocean of plastic.

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Fossilized Wilderness is Ryan Martin, a pillar of the North Carolina underground music and arts scene. His most active artistic alias is Secret Boyfriend, with numerous cassette, vinyl, and CD releases on labels such as Blackest Ever Black and his own long-running DIY-informed imprint, Hot Releases. 

releases April 5, 2021

mastered :: Nathan Taylor

Fossilized Wilderness - 4 (ENMB07)

07 Carruagem Celeste Parte I - O Arauto

From "Eurosouvenir" (CM-006)

All tracks by Eszaid
Mastered by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering
Designed by Ethan Assouline
Distributed by Boomkat

LP out late October 2018

© Collapsing Market - 2018

Eszaid - Souvenir 1 (CM-006)

Devenir

Taken from:
Serpente - Parada Lp & Download [Ecstatic Recordings, 28/06/19] 

Lisbon-based Bruno Silva enacts pure voodoo with extended, restless LinnDrum workouts that take Prince’s distinctive LM-1 signatures as a starting point for loose-limbed tribal jams that flow with the colour of the Brazilian carnival and the rhythmic psychedelia of hardcore jungle.

The title ‘Parada’ cannily nods both to Prince’s ‘Parade’ album and the percussion of carnival parades, speaking to a plurality of polyrhythms in a tradition of fusion music that seeks to meld myriad forms of communal, ritualistic and ecstatic music - not a million miles from the bare carnival funk of ‘Parade’s’ ’New Position’.

In six parts ranging from extended runs of drumkit-falling-down-stairs to nimble junglist mutations and rapid, darting concisions, Serpente spells out a heavily intoxicating and intuitive sort of rhythmic psychedelia that lives up to a broad palette of influences ranging from Haitian voodoo ceremonies and central African drum circles, through to the Sun Ra Arkestra and Alan Silva’s Celestial Communion Orchestra, via Keith Hudson’s dub transcendence, and the rude modernism of UK rave and virulent styles currently coming from Lisbon ghettos on the Príncipe label.

In attempting to untie and unite these worldly references, an asymmetric percussive friction and hypnotically unresolved tension naturally emerges from Serpente’s flux of machine made patterns. It’s there in the restlessly gnashing, swingeing brilliance of ‘Nivel de Chama’ and the exceptional mix of detuned Linn drums and reticulated jungle breaks in ‘Trama’, while the B-side probes this idea in three subtly agitated, but more space-out ’Símbolo’ parts, and finally with a sublime tension between his twitchy percussive saccades and celestial synth pads in ‘Nivel de Cinza.’

‘Parada’ is pure body music in a minimalist/maximalist way that acknowledges both physical and spiritual needs, and requires a dancing or thinking body in order to properly unlock its purple magick.

BUY!

Serpente - Nível de Chama [ELP044]

Final track on 'Mechanosphere', Cam Deas' debut album for The Death of Rave

Available on CD and download from Boomkat.com 31/10/19
https://soundcloud.com/camdeas

Mechanosphere

Solitude

Cam Deas - Solitude [RAVE029]

Another quick remix (if you'd call it that) of another one of GFOTY's great songs "Tongue." Be sure to check out her soundcloud if you like what you hear. https://soundcloud.com/gfoty

GFOTY - Tongue 😛(ℕ𝕀𝕋𝔼ℂ𝕆ℝ𝔼 𝕄𝕀𝕏)😜

Isohedra is a collection of 6 algorithmically composed pieces inspired by the work of digital artist Caleb Ogg(@iso.hedron)

Chromatic Packing

We are all experiencing very weird times very new combinations of feelings and tension.
WET presents first WET compilation of tension release with sensual deepness from innocent heretic, daniela huerta, polido feat. NM, ulla and perila and zaumne.

Intimate and seductive sonic wet research series with a therapeutic effect.
WET wants to support you. Succumb.

Polido feat. NM – 10 De Copas (Knowledge Dub)

Compuesto mediante live coding e instrumentos tradicionales.
Mezcla y Mastering - Patricio Pretti @patopretti
Guitarra en 1 - Patxi Asdrubat Linares @patxi.al
Voz en 2 - Antonella Rapetti @antospaguetti 
Poema original "ni un segundo" de Anto Rapetti en http://marantira.blogspot.com/2016/10/ni-un-segundo.html
Arte de tapa - Rosalba Cuevas @rosal.de.aqui

2020 - La Plata, Argentina.

02 - Un nido de plumas azules

BYRON WESTBROOK - Electric Blued

Opening track from the upcoming Grøn album "Aldrig mere vinter"

Pre-oder the album here: http://infinitewaves.net/products/678178-grn-aldrig-mere-vinter

Digital pre-order here: https://groen.bandcamp.com/album/aldrig-mere-vinter

Grøn "Blegt forår"

https://soundcloud.com/joanna-oj

Tracklist:
Le Malentendu Lafawndah feat Lala &ce
UPO Michael Speers 
Blocks Art Crime
R-E-S OOH Sounds
Lara Dies Ptwiggs
Palacelike Timescale Of Black SOS Gunver Ryberg
Clock Code Walk
Cluster Drum 3phaz
(Ain’t a) Cop Club Cab
Ruig Pilo
Les mers intimes Catartsis
Generator Club Cab
Jiote El irreal Veintiuno
The beast with a million eyes Digitonica
HAUNT Elvin Brandi
Ripheus Alley Akiko Haruna
Link up Teya Logos & Lvers
Bruises & Polished Turbo Teeth
Build our Bapari
My promises My Cruelty
Tear in rain Elhixir
Ride a cowboy Dana Dentata

Joanna OJ (14/11/20)

A compilation to celebrate the first year of activity… not an easy task: too young to have a clearly defined personality and too old not to have one.

Lots of thoughts crossed our minds, mainly revolving all around the same question: should we try to do something different? And lots of advice came our way: you should! You must! You need to! Let me show you how things are done!

So, this one is not only a combined action taken in Commando Vanessa style, but also a reaction.

We are not looking to be different, we just want to embrace differences.

That’s why this is what it is: a diverse, colorful, exaggerated, intimate, political, sexy compilation.

Just a flow of different music we like.

LET THEM MANSPLAIN!

Deeat Palace - HYSOPE

From the album "NIMP Preset"
Available here: https://bearboneslaylow.bandcamp.com/album/nimp-preset

Oolemba

CNDSD {* _ *} Creative Technologist, Audiovisual Artist and Electronic Music Producer from Mexico City, develops soundscapes with a post-cinematic approach. Her music immerses herself in the vast electronic universe, skillfully fusing a variety of subgenres to offer a unique listening experience.
From Deconstructed Club, Glitch, IDM, Footwork to Sound Collages, through composition and algorithmic execution, CNDSD challenges the limits of hearing and stimulates dance, creating profound audiovisual experiences that have left a trail in the live coding community.
With a career spanning international stages, CNDSD has presented live audiovisual performances at festivals such as Sonart Shanghai, MUTEK in Mexico, Japan, Argentina, Spain and Montreal, as well as at the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) in Korea and Montreal in 2019, Medialab Prado and Medialab Matadero,  Center for Art and Media | ZKM, the International Live Coding Conference, Aural Festival, Vorspiel and Transmediale in Berlin, ADAF in Athens, and more.

CNDSD's compositions are an amalgamation of organic and synthetic elements, creating a dynamic and expressive atmosphere that invites introspection and also explosion. With a master's degree in sound design for immersive experiences and video games and a propensity for experimentation with unusual rhythms and soundscapes, CNDSD embarks on technological eclecticism in the contemporary electronic music panorama.

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CNDSD

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