The striking first entry into the CUSP label’s discography comes from Cologne-based sound artist Lu Katavist, employing a variety of synthesizer modules controlled with the Haken Continuum. Katavist’s (real name Luka Höfler) approach to the material derived on 'Inburst' has been wholly improvisational, but not in any sense traditional. Rather than acquiring any sort of mastery of the equipment chosen to build the sounds heard, Höfler has opted to adopt an almost automatic writing approach to sculpting the material, which he describes as ‘blurring the lines between creating and listening’.

https://cuspeditions.bandcamp.com/album/lu-katavist-inburst


Inburst LP (Preview)- Lu Katavist (CUSP001)

Night Crime (excerpt)

Preview track from Debris In Lower Earth Orbit - Twinkle³ with Sidsel Endresen LP + CD on CUSP

Sidsel Endresen (voice)
Richard Scott (electronics)
David Ross (Drosscillator, kantele, mbira)
Clive Bell (shakuhachi and other woodwind)

Twinkle³ have teamed up with Sidsel Endresen, Norwegian singer, avant garde pioneer and ECM recording artist. The result is Debris In Lower Earth Orbit, a graceful, yet precarious dance through the weightless slipstream of orbital flotsam and jetsam.

Twinkle³ with Sidsel Endresen - Cosmos And Iridium Embrace (CUSP002)

recordings of toy piano into cocoquantus, guitar pedals, lo fi loop junky and gong resonator. Some mild plumbutter striking gong resonator.

Recordings of a toy piano

Full track available from electrocd.com
https://electrocd.com/en/album/5984/Nikos_Stavropoulos/Micro-lieux

Prix Destellos 2016 
1st Prize Iannis Xenakis International Electronic Music Competition

Attraction or affinity to place. The work is an attempt to construct a meaningful intimate aural space, where texture and spatially defined figures have a broader capacity for action due to their multichannel nature. The recordings of source materials form the beginning of an investigation into capturing and working with spatiality in micro space using bespoke hardware.

Image Photo: Giorgos Siniorakis.

Topophilia (Stereo Reduction Excerpt)

Title Track from Richard Scott's 'Several Circles' (CUSP003)
Available on Double LP + CD in June

Richard Scott’s ‘Several Circles’ is a seamless blend of improvised performances and forensically detailed electronic music that bristles, writhes and grows like some mutated living organism.

Recorded between 2013 and 2015 in both Manchester and Berlin, this vital new album is a combination of instant, improvised performances and highly structured acousmatic compositions that have been, in Richard’s own words, “microscopically edited, constructed, layered and mixed over many hours in the studio.” Far from being a dry, academic exercise, Richard’s music shower the ears with delicious and incessantly changing sound pools.

In recent years, music created using Modular Synthesizers has come to dominate much of the landscape of experimental electronic music, with a glut of archival material from institutes like GRM being reissued and the popularity and accessibility of the instrumentation drawing a new generation of fanatical upstarts all releasing albums entirely crafted on their chosen kit. In this revitalized, arguably over populated scene, Richard Scott’s ‘Several Circles’ arrives as a stark and distinct anomaly, speaking volumes of his mastery of this customized analogue equipment.
The album is a vibrant and exceptional portrait of Richard’s voice as a musician, unencumbered by restrictive themes or fixed compositional techniques, instead offering an all-encompassing view of his practices that, through their very intuition, sound cohesive. It’s an entry in to the already auteristic cannon of Cusp Editions that will surely be held in a pride of place.

Richard Scott - Several Circles (CUSP003)

Opening track from the album, Seven Vignettes. Created from recordings of nine matches, burning.

Seven Vignettes

Nine Lucifers

dead wasps in the jam-jar (ii) (2016)
for string orchestra, objects, and sine waves

Commissioned by musica femina münchen e. V.
Münchener Kammerorchester conducted by Clemens Schuldt
Photo credit: Florian Ganslmeier

dead wasps in the jam-jar (ii) (2016), for string orchestra, objects, and sine waves

snf04 : giuseppe ielasi "even when they speak of space" out dec.15th 2017.

music for whistling, microphone and digital degradation. 
recorded in november 2016 and august 2017. 
to be played at low volume.

www.senufoeditions.com

snf04 : giuseppe ielasi "even when they speak of space" part 1

HF Midi Oto 2

CONTACT 415-351-9424 INFO@RESIPISCENT.COM

Ikue Mori & Christian Rønn
“Chordis et Machina”
RSPT051 Street Date: August 7, 2018
LP $18 list ($12 wholesale)
UPC/EAN: 680569242587

Ikue Mori and Christian Rønn are the superlative electroacoustic duo, well “duo” unless you count the instruments themselves and you should. Rather than contain with rigid composition, these twin masters of unrule remain radically attuned, open to resonance of time and sound, invoking even the personhood of space and object, chordis et machina. You'll soon see, once this music gets loose to join you in your own environ.

No meandering muddiness, the precision and responsiveness of this heady collaboration steps swiftly from fine grit distortions to leaky sinewaves, sweeping from the playfully melodic to the seriously xenomorphic. As prepared-piano hammers against braiding electronics, each possibility unfurls the next. Tossed from the final groove, you'll hike up your needle and want to plunge right back in.

Richard Scott - Several Circles (CUSP003)

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