Welcome to Ambient Radio Podcast No. 5: Volcano soundscapes and sounds of resilience.
Ambient Radio is hosted by Karin Fink and produced by Riccardo Caspani and Giuseppe Cordaro. Our guests is musician and sound artist Patricia Wolf. She will bring us to Mt. St. Helens and share with us the sounds of a recovering life on the slopes of a volcano. Giuseppe Cordaro shares impressions from Mt. Etna in Sicily.
The podcast also features sound archeologist Paul Paulun - with a contribution on history of field recording.

Ambient Radio Podcast No. 5 : Volcano soundscapes and sounds of resilience

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Part 1 of ‘A Desiccated History of Ideas’.

This recording contains extreme frequencies of both high and low registers. Play as loudly as possible, with care (especially for yr pets).

Cole Peters — ‘Shades Of An Empty Room’

The Bristol sound scientists deconstruct their work.

For more, visit Resident Advisor:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=37

RA.EX037 Emptyset

Silence is an endangered species, says Gordon Hempton. He defines real quiet as presence — not an absence of sound, but an absence of noise. The Earth, as he knows it, is a "solar-powered jukebox." Quiet is a "think tank of the soul." We take in the world through his ears.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/last-quiet-places/4557

Gordon Hempton — The Last Quiet Places: Silence and the Presence Of Everything

RIP Ana-Maria Avram 
1961-2017

Ana-Maria Avram 
"Metalstorm"
Recorded at Studio Ina GRM 12 December 2012
Mixed by Ana-Maria Avram in Bucharest December 2012

Ana-Maria Avram : Electronics
Stephen O'Malley : Electric Guitar

Thanks to François Bonnet for the invitation and, of course, to maestro Iancu Dumitrescu for the presences and visions.

Ana-Maria Avram Soundcloud :
https://soundcloud.com/ana-maria-avram-composer-2

Ana-Maria Avram abbreviated biography

Composer, pianist and conductor.
After graduating from the National Conservatory of Music in Bucharest, she obtained a degree from Paris Sorbonne in 1992. 
PHD in Musical Esthetics at Sorbonne, Paris (1995)
In 1994 she was awarded the Grand Prize in Composition from the Romanian Academy.
She is considered to be one of the most important Romanian composers of her generation.
Her music is affiliated with the spectral music trend.
She represents the Hyper-Spectral music trend in contemporary avant-garde music. 
Conductor with Iancu Dumitrescu of the Hyperion Ensemble - a chamber music ensemble from Romania, based in Bucharest specialized in the performance of contemporary classical music, more particular as the main promoter in Romania of the Spectral Music trend
Her music is spectral, acousmatic, heterophonic and transformational.
She composed over 200 works, music for soloists, chamber
music, music for symphonic orchestra, electronic and computer assisted music.
Avram received numerous commissions for composition from Radio France, Art Zoyd (France), Les Ateliers UPIC (Paris), Ensemble Lucilin (Luxembourg), Ensemble Mozaik (Berlin), Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles (Mons-Belgium), IMEB-Bourges, Bodo Sinfonietta (Bodo- Norway), 
She was awarded at Ars Electronica - Linz in 2000 for the work “Traces, Sillons, Sillages” for ensemble and computer assited sounds.

Founder and President- since 2006- of the Romanian Community of Electro-acoustic and Computer Assisted Music – CREMAC.

Vice-President of the International Community of Electro-acoustic Music – CIME – affiliated to IMC and UNESCO.

She is also founder and Artistic Director of several national and international festivals dedicated to experimental, electronic and spectral music trends:

« Acousmania »- in partnership with Romanian Broadcasting Corporation – six editions, from 2002 to 2006

« Musica Nova » – In partnership with the Ploiesti Philharmonic Orchestra 2002-2004
« Spectrum XXI » - dedicated to spectral music trends and held annually in three European capitals. Since 2006 the festival took place in Paris, London, Geneva, Brussels, Berlin, Bucharest, Mons, East Grinstead.

SPECTRUM XXI was financed by institutions such as Romanian Ministry of Culture, Romanian Cultural Institute, Pro Helvetia, European Agency for Culture, Education and Audiovisual – EACEA towards the program Culture 2007-2013.

In 2010 Avram was elected as “Blodget Artist in Residence” at the Harvard
University, Department of music where she taught composition to postgraduate students. She also sustained numerous workshops, lectures and conferences at Harvard University, the University of Maine, Farmington (USA), Univeristy of Minneapolis-St Paul (USA), Technical University of Istanbul (Istanbul,Turkey), Institute Jacques Dalcroze (Geneva), Centre de Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (Paris), etc…

GRM session December 2012

Ana-Maria Avram "Metalstorm" GRM Session December 2012 w/ Stephen O'Malley

Neljä koetusta pysyä | Four Try-outs in Staying
W & Milka Luhtaniemi | A work combining poetry and sound art.
NOKTURNO Magazine 2019
Whole piece released on the August episode in Nokturno.fi https://nokturno.fi/poem/nelja-koetusta-pysya-four-try-outs-in-staying

Read and listen simultaneously. There are four audio players and four segments in the poem. All parts of the poem include sound, but all parts of the sound don´t include text. Stay or move on as you like.

The fifth issue of this year contains various encounters between poetry and sound art, probing of everyday technological vocabulary and videopoetry in the landscapes of remembrance.
This issue opens with Neljä koetusta pysyä | Four Try-outs in Staying, a work combining Milka Luhtaniemi´s poetry and sound art by W. There are four audio players embedded in the poem, you can read and listen the work as you like.

Neljä koetusta pysyä | Four Try-Outs In Staying

It's been about five months since the emergence of COVID-19. The whole world is in fear and we have no choice but to keep social distance. Many people got transmitted and had lost their lives. We pray for those who past away and we would like to send gratitude and respect to all the frontline healthcare professionals fighting in the dark tunnel.


Today, we would like to send DJ KRUSH's set as a gift to you, to people tired of quarantine, to people that are stressed out, to people fighting with anxiety. Please take a listen!!


We're hoping to see you all at energetic venues across the world after we overcome the pandemic. 


We pray from our hearts that you all stay safe and never lose your loved ones.


In hopes of the end of the pandemic, this is for you all.

"The Beginning Mix"


Team DJ KRUSH



COVID-19発生から約5ヶ月が経過し、世界中がその恐怖に慄き、自粛生活を強いられています。これまでに大勢の人が感染し、そして亡くなりました。亡くなった方へ心からご冥福をお祈りすると共に、未だ終息が見えない中で戦ってくれている医療従事者の皆さんに心からの感謝と尊敬の念を捧げます。


今日は、自粛で疲れてしまった人、ストレスが溜まってしまった人、不安と戦っている人、全ての人たちにKRUSHのDJセットを贈ります。是非、聴いてみてください！


COVID-19が終息したら、今度は熱気溢れた会場で皆さんにお会いしたいと思っています。


皆さんが感染しないよう、大切な人を無くさないよう、心から祈っています。


感染の終息を願い、全ての人に贈ります。

『The Beginning Mix』


チームDJ KRUSH

The Beginning Mix

SIAVASH AMINI, A Mimesis Of Nothingness, LP

Release date - Aug 28th 2020
Catalogue nr. - HG2006
Format - Vinyl with 8-page booklet/digital

https://hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
1) Lustrous Residue (07:59)
2) Perpetually Inwards  (02:58)
3) Moonless Garden  (08:50)
4) Observance (Shadow)  (05:32)
5) A Collective Floundering  (06:48)
6) The Stillborn Baroque  (03:31)

Credits:
All Music Composed by Siavash Amini
Written and Recorded in Tehran 2018-2019
Based on Photographs of Tehran by Nooshin Shafiee
Booklet Photographs by Nooshin Shafiee
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Cover Photo Nooshin Shafiee
Cover design Ruth Stofer and Greenpointless

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Siavash Amini returns to Hallow Ground  with »A Mimesis of Nothingness,« his fourth album for the Swiss label. Following up on »Harmistice« together with fellow Iranian artists 9T Antiope, the six tracks were conceived in close collaboration with another artist and see the prolific composer intensify his interdisciplinary approach. The six tracks enter a dialogue with the photographs of Nooshin Shafiee, an acclaimed artist whose work capturing their hometown Tehran becomes the starting point for one of Amini’s most visceral and haunting records. »A Mimesis of Nothingness« translates the ephemeral situations and melancholic moods of Shafiee’s pictures into suspenseful soundscapes that masterfully navigate between the concrete and the abstract.

Amini met Shafiee while setting up the sound art space SEDA Projects at the Emkan gallery in Tehran where the photographer’s second solo exhibition was shown. Following the suggestion of curator Behzad Nejadghanbar, the two started a fruitful collaboration that would eventually lead to »A Mimesis of Nothingness,« which was written and recorded between the years 2018 and 2019 and which includes a booklet with a selection of Shafiee’s work. The two share an interest in exploring the sensual experience and the metaphysical dimensions of space. »I was fascinated by Nooshin’s approach,« explains Amini who, ever since releasing the album »TAR« through Hallow Ground in 2017, has focused on how our experience of places is shaped by the individual and collective subconscious. »It wasn’t the Tehran that everyone projected into their work, it was Tehran showing itself through tiny and giant overlooked places or objects.«

Amini’s music accordingly does not seek out a specific sonic picture of the city, but rather lets it come alive on its own terms. »A Mimesis of Nothingness« is a disquieting record precisely because it is a quiet one. Working with field recordings, Amini sculpts dynamic portraits that create an atmosphere of tangible suspense that is never fully released. Even when string-like sounds enter the picture as they do on the third track »Moonless Garden« or when the abstract and glacial noise on »Observance (Shadow)« demand the listener’s attention, the six pieces take hold of the subconscious rather than trying to be direct and confrontational. It is sound conceived not as a description, but a circumscription of spatial relations and the eeriness embedded in them. 

»We both saw something decadent or violent about all of these captured places and objects,« says the composer about Shafiee’s pictures. »There is no resolution, just excess. It seems they are eternal remnants of a violent scene, no matter how new or old they were. Never finished, never begotten, a stillborn.« Throughout »A Mimesis of Nothingness,« its ghost roams freely.

SIAVASH AMINI - Moonless Garden (HG2006)

This recording is meant to be heard with headphones.

Please read this review by Marc Weidenbaum of Disquiet: https://disquiet.com/2021/02/17/patricia-wolf-snow-leaves/

Snow Falling On Rough Horsetail and Dead Oak Leaves

Cole Peters is a multidisciplinary artist fascinated by matter, energy, space and time, and the ways in which these elements shape our universe, our environment, and our perception. With a focus on physicality and temporality, his work emerges in compositions that emphasize material properties and processes.

Cole’s work in sound builds on the techniques of musique concrète, field recording, and reductive synthesis. His recent and upcoming recordings examine texture, pressure and time as subjects unto themselves and as scaffolds in an evolving thematic framework drawing on the natural sciences and sensory experience.

Cole Peters — ‘Shades Of An Empty Room’

Cole Peters

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