i heard this track on BBC's feature on Brutalism architecture and happy i finally found it here. real good stuff.

love the lush warm pads in this with the deep bassline stabs and the drifting melodies on top, beautiful work.

Love the drifting woozyness , another great track .

I could listen to this all night (and probably will)

This is my original hauntology playlist that I've kept updated since about 2011. I can't bear to take it down!

All tracks written and produced by Chris Sharp.

(c) 2010 - 2022 Chris Sharp. 
(p) 2010 - 2022 Chris Sharp.

All rights reserved. Strictly no unauthorised use.

Places Past

My remix for Raimondo Gaviano's (aka Svart1) new release "Circondati dai Petali da soli moriamo" (Surrounded by petals we perish in solitude)

Mask Of The Slave ‎– MS-070
Digipack CD, limited to 250 copies
Distributed worldwide by Sun & Moon Records
Realized June 2021 

Buy
https://www.sunandmoonrecords.com/
https://maskoftheslave.ro/mirgilus/
https://coldspring.co.uk/

Track 8

If in a plane, a third line crosses two others...

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.

(c) 2013 Chris Sharp
(p) 2013 Chris Sharp

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The Sum of the Angles

Patterns Of Consciousness

Caterina Barbieri - INTCAEB

corruptedunvrs

Free download.

Watch the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdRAN7TTqLc&t=3s&ab_channel=Concretism

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.

Pork

Sid Le Rock vs. Das Bierbeben - Lost In Graser

~ LAAPS 030 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP30]

artist : Tomas Knoflicek
 album : Serendipity
duration : 41.09 mn
 date : August 31th, 2023

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / black LP / pantone / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Music by Tomáš Knoflíček
Guests: Emiko – vocal (2, 3), Hanabi – vocal (2, 5, 6)
Lyrics by Hanabi
Recorded in Ostrava, Cheb and Les Království

Mastered by Ondřej Ježek@jaMor
Artwork by Mickael Zermati
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
Thanks to Ondřej Lasák, Tomáš Slunský, Ondřej Ježek, Martin Režný and Haco

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://sonmi451.bandcamp.com/

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Serendipity

Tomas Knoflicek - Otranto

Available now on streaming now, Vinyl pre-order at http://gezelligrecords.com

Let You Down

'A monument, to one small act of defiance.'

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.

(c) 2014 Chris Sharp
(p) 2014 Chris Sharp

All rights strictly reserved. No unauthorised use.

Telex Ghosts

Our new reactors will provide safe, clean power for decades to come, and are not at all for producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. 

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.

(c) 2014 Chris Sharp
(p) 2014 Chris Sharp

All rights strictly reserved. No unauthorised use.

Magnox


Written and produced by Chris Sharp.
400 kV Crossing pylon photo by Chris Sharp.

(c) 2015 Chris Sharp
(p) 2015 Chris Sharp

All rights reserved. Strictly no unauthorised use.

Of Frisbees and Pylons

@ Green Door w/ Stu
Mastered by Sam Smith 2015
From forthcoming EP 'Fist & Shout'


National Handbag

Taken from the album 'Too' released as LP / CD / Download

Klara Lewis 'Us' (EMEGO 210)

Another taster track from my album 'For Concrete and Country', out now. 

Available on vinyl and download from:

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/170617-concretism-for-concrete-and-country

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.
(c) 2018 Chris Sharp
(p) 2018 Chris Sharp
All rights reserved. Strictly no unauthorised use.

New Governments for a New Nation

Water Mirror

Snow Soup

Pre-order now available from Imprec.com

Harry Bertoia's Glowing Sounds LP contains three versions of the same composition, each transferred at different tape speeds in accordance with the artist's instructions. This is the third LP to be released from Bertoia's extensive tape archive and it's the first, of many, to be released using instructions left behind by the artist himself.

Bertoia wrote the concept for this Glowing Sounds LP on a note in 1975 and slipped it into the master tape case where it sat unread for 45 years. The idea was simple, transfer the original recording at its original speed and two slower speeds. Bertoia noticed that the results, however, were profound. 

Recorded on January 20, 1975 using two large gongs, Glowing Sounds is one of the most powerfully minimal recordings yet discovered in Bertoia's collection. The artist's note left with the tape indicated that it was recorded at a speed of 15 IPS (inches per second) but slowing it down to speeds of 7.5 IPS and 3.25 IPS were quite effective for enhanced playback. Side A features the original 15 IPS recording and the 50% slower 7.5 IPS recording. Side B features a 20 minute, ultra-slow version at 3.25 IPS. 

Long, deep drones and powerful overtones define the sound of this recording. Comparison of the three speeds provides a revealing magnification of Bertoia's gongs, overtones and the artist's inventive approach to performance, composition and recording. 



Bio: 

Harry Bertoia first gained some artistic visibility in the early 1940s, then came into prominence with his sculptural, ergonomic chairs, produced by Knoll Furniture beginning in 1952, which quickly became classics of modernist furniture. Inspired by the resonant sounds emanating from metals as he worked them and encouraged by his brother Oreste, whose passion was music, Harry restored a fieldstone "Pennsylvania Dutch" barn as the home for this experiment in sounding sculptures which he had begun in the late 1950s. Bertoia was an obsessive composer and relentless experimenter, often working late into the night and accumulating hundreds of tapes of his best performances; Oreste, too, would explore and record the sculptures' sounds during his annual visits to his brother's home in rural Pennsylvania.

Harry Bertoia's recently dismantled Sonambient barn collection was an attentive listener's paradise full of warm, expressive instruments that were gorgeous visually and audibly. Nothing could prepare you, even on return visits, for the overwhelming experience of entering the spacious wood and plaster interior where gongs, some of them giant, hung among the ranks of standing sculptures of various metals. Over nearly twenty years of adding, culling and rearranging, Bertoia carefully selected nearly 100 harmonious pieces ranging in height from under a foot to more than fifteen feet. He considered this barn a full experience, sights and sounds comprising not a collection of works, but one piece unto itself. It was here, deep in the woods, that his Sonambient recording work took place.

Learning by experimentation was common for Bertoia and he mastered the art of tape recording, turning the Sonambient barn into a sound studio with four overhead microphones hanging from the rafters in a square formation. He would experiment with overdubbing by performing along to previous recordings, sometimes backwards, constantly improving his methods while also honing his performance skills. Bertoia was a careful editor of his own work and only chosen recordings remained, each with a date and carefully considered observations written on a note included with each tape. Through these pieces of paper a the artist's logic can be uncovered, a careful approach to composition, ideas, feelings and forms. The story of Sonambient barn collection will slowly be told through the release of recordings from the archive as well as installations and performances built from Bertoia's own recordings, lectures and a book.

Glowing Sounds

Harry Bertoia - Glowing Sounds (slowest) - LP -  Pre-Order

Music of a lost future. Since 2010.

Independent musician. Releases on vinyl. Plays live. Remixes sometimes.

Soundtracks for Rook Films, the BBC and Sean Reynard.

All music including drum patterns, loops and sound design written and created entirely from scratch using analogue and digital hardware synths, drum machines, tape bouncing, self-sampling and a lot of processing. I do not use any sample library loops, sample packs, sounds or effects etc.

All music written and produced by Chris Sharp.

© 2010 - 2023
℗ 2010 - 2023

All rights reserved. Strictly no unauthorised use or distribution.

Nice things:

'Brilliant! Concretism is the perfect accompaniment to Scarfolk'
- Richard Littler, Creator of Scarfolk

'Enjoyable well-executed stuff.'
- Simon Reynolds, Retromania

'[Concretism is] one of the most uncompromising godfathers of electronically-fashioned conceptualism from the last half-decade or so.' - Adrian, Concrete Islands

'[For Concrete and Country] is brimful of Sharp's signature sound. The attention to detail, both in terms of music and as an artefact, is the sort of thing that should see you lot in an orderly queue.'
- Electronic Sound Magazine

'How f*cking great is Concretism? An absolute masterclass in electronic music.' - A Farewell to Hexes

'a fackin' synth legend' - Lone Bison

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