I like this! -- with its compelling beats and pulses, slow buildup, interesting sounds and ominous atmosphere, this kept me rivetted to my stereo for seven minutes -- many thanks

https://soundcloud.com/martin-hoogeboom (1954) is an autodidact Dutch sound artist with long standing interests in transcending conventional instrument approaches and the use of non-instrumental organic and homemade sounds. Improvisation and collaboration are an important part of his work.

Some words about the MNEMOSYNE project:
"I was immediately interested in this project because I myself have a fascination for memories and the associated melancholy. Let's not confuse that with nostalgia: longing for a lost past. I am not a man for panta rhei: everything flows. I want time to stand still for at least 30 years. Why did my children have to grow up? Why not stay 3 and 9 for 30 years or longer? Why can't the clouds float low and slowly over the flat Dutch wetlands for 30 consecutive years? And can't I look at that for at least 30 years? My music bears witness to that desire, it is the eternal sounds of nature, sounds of ever-moving time that I save in a few minutes. Time stands still in my sound world. The tapes used in my contribution to the MNEMOSYNE project are recorded between 1961 and 2021. Time captured and stopped."

"What was a crucial sound experience in your life?"
For the first 5 years of my life I lived with my parents in an old dilapidated house in the woods.
Besides the fact that I thought I was the only little human in the world - that was a fright in kindergarten with so many other little humans - the sound of the wind in the fir trees made an indelible impression on me. As a toddler I used to go outside when I woke up at night. Night sounds and the sound of the wind were crucial to my development as an artist. The sound of the wind in the pines is not included. I hear that sound in my head and enjoy the melancholy it evokes. Can call it up anytime, anywhere, but it can only be heard by me.

Links:
Website: www.martinhoogeboom.com
Bandcamp: https://martinhoogeboom.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mhoogebo/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartinHoogeboom
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/people/sixmoonnight/

Tracklist:
1: City 1979
2: Electronic piece 1972
3: De Marke 01 1975
4: DUSK (unreleased 7” single A-side 2017)
5: DUSK (unreleased 7” single B-side 2017)
6: OKAPI 2 (Bandcamp release 2017 with Markus Reineke, Theo Calis)
7: Fair, Laren 1980
8: Soft Weed Factory 1973
9: HOPLA (unreleased 1993 with Joris Goyaerts, Willem de Melker)
10: Ginkelduin 1980
11: LAAGLAND III (alternative version, unreleased 2015)
12: UNDERGROWTH (Bandcamp release 2019 with Boson Spin, Herman Muntzing)
13: THE RAW HOUSE IV (alternative version, unreleased 2018)
14: walking 1985
15: AND WE SING (Bandcamp release 2018 with Michel Banabila, Ulrich Langenbach, Aoki Satoru, Wodwo)
16: GEEL (Soundcloud 2016 with Elly de Waard)
17: Jenny 1987
18: De Marke 02 1976
19: Sinterklaas 1962
20: Erik 1961
21: REQUIEM (unreleased 2017) 
22: GUNTA (alternative version, unreleased 2017)
23: DAY ONE (Bandcamp release 2019 with Grant Basma Horsnell, Juan A. Miñana Osca, Lars Björk, Ed van den Brekel)
24: Train journey 1981
25: ZILT (Bandcamp release 2021 with Ed van den Brekel, Eric Jovet, Ulrich Langenbach)
26: DON’T FOOL YOURSELF / A THIN RED LINE (Alternative mix Bandcamp release 2017 with Theo Calis)
27 Improvisation 1974
28 MAURENBRECHER (unreleased 2016)
29 xylophone 1972

MNEMOSYNE #014 - MARTIN HOOGEBOOM

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Catalog #: GN65
Apr. 16, 2021
LP+DIGI

Matthew Sage is about seeing the big picture, but focused through the most intimate and personal lens possible. Best exemplified on the gauzy, cartographical opus 'A Singular Continent', as well as his impulsively meditative Geographic North debut 'Catch a Blessing', Sage’s imagination yields fully realized sonic suites to worlds both imaginary and referential to his own. 

Now, the Chicago-based composer, producer, label owner, and publisher returns with 'The Wind of Things', a personal and pastoral oblation to the wild and wind-blown waters and mountains, both from Sage’s own memory and writ large. Absent are the processed sounds and filters that have come to define Sage's work; the album finds Sage stripping away the synthesized sounds that alchemied his past work into aural gold, instead favoring an entirely acoustic and natural 
palette.

Sage called upon a myriad of long-time collaborators, who together form the aptly-titled Spinnaker Ensemble (featuring Patrick Shiroishi, Chaz Pyrmek, Nate Henricks, Chris Jusell, Allison Sheldon, Martin Albertz, David Hirsch, Matt Wenzel, and Ang Wilson) to help realize his vision and further the melodic potential of the living and breathing field recordings that permeate the album. Tapping into an intimate sense of self, these field recordings derive from natural places that are significant to Sage. Lakes, mountains, and rivers he grew up boat-racing on and swimming in; tall fields of grass in rural Nebraska near his family’s birthplaces; wildlife on the pond of his in-laws home in Texas; the harbors and beaches of Lake Michigan that he frequents; all serving as places of occupation for these compositions to live in and blow through.

Opener “Cloud Plexus” is a fog-laden float in a calm lake of unrestrained optimism. The serenity soon glissades into “Harbor Dive”, a shimmering and elegant rift of sloshing harmonies. “Launching Mossing Scow” finds its flourish in the flotsam, tinkering with rusted refrains and oblong melodies. The action quickens with “Zephyr: Ponderosa Pollen,” charting a speedy course with only a shoddy sonic sextant as its guide. “Starboard Reach” offers a moment of playful clarity before “Luffing Adrift” and “Sail-Shaped Light,” a murky pool of darkness and light that ripples into the ether.

“Slipping the Mooring/Pond” opens the B-side in an amorphous din of familiar auditory accoutrements that gather into a single, slow-motion blur. “Dazzling Shallow Bay,” “Portside Mark,” and “Tell Tail Tale” play a dreamlike suite of a waterside piano finding its fins and diving below the waves, discovering its blithe buoyancy, and exploring the depths unencumbered by the weight of the world. The hopeful meditation of “Spinnaker on a Southerly” serves as a calm before the (rain)storm that is “Hiked Way Out,” a welcome reflection on past, present, and future maritime melancholia.

The Wind of Things

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M. Sage - "Cloud Plexus"

9 April 2021

V/A LIBRARION Records
Tracklist:
001) Dangerous Beat - Floatage Through Inner Pain (Davor Čihak)
002) The Bane - RužniTužniDužni (Branislav Nikolic)
003) Olja Wagner - Cold Is Not For Pussies
004) Summer Deaths - Sleep (Mihajlo Đorović)
005) Psihokratija - Strast (Krstic Gorjan)
006) No No Instigator - What Lydia Lunch Eats For Dinner (Jura Pura Puričević)
007) Litanije Čaranja - Enter The Sepulchre
008) Bitchslap - Glitter
009) Monosiped - Ljuta majmunica
010) Acoustic Torture Chamber - Transmissions from Hell (Dragomir Krizic)
011) BxOxKx - Everything sucks!
012) King ubu - Polaritet
013) Antitalent - Vortex of time
014) The Ant - Laughing Through The Darkness (Miloš Antić)
015) :dARM - The Conjuring of a Locust Swarm (Human Cross Records)
016) Nekro Batica - Paralyzed (Rise of the Incubator, Part II)
017) Eva Ras - Mirthery (Филип Стојиљковић
018) Misha Mashina & Mashtrakala - Pecanje
019) KSEA - Slumber Movment Pt. 1
020) Dosis Letalis - Weird As Life
021) Ex You - XVII (Lenkes László)
022) .vernacvlaar destrvction. - Sonic Sonic

https://librarion.bandcamp.com/album/22-kompilacija-2016

The Conjuring Of A  Locust Swarm

Land On

A Gentleman's Guide to Entropy

The spike organ or nail chello (sic) is thought to originate from an early middle Europe monastic sect, the Iscariotians. They may have used the instrument to accompany their lengthy rituals contemplating the pain of the crucifixion.  

The Iscariotians are said to have been wiped out by returning crusaders at the behest of emperor Leopold III. Other commentators have suggested that the whole story may have been a constructed  alibi for the defeated crusaders plunder and desecration of the brewery of ..Santa Quaffa...


A possible surviving 'chello' object, made from of lignum vitae and iron, resides in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. Its interpretation is not without controversy with some critics asserting the object is nothing more than a kind of agricultural implement, though this does not explain its cruciform shape and carved decoration.

In 1972 the scholar . Roland de Févin was granted permission to investigate the Rouen Chello, explore its sound making capabilities and make recordings. his theory was that the instrument was to be played by a rosined bow.  Unfortunately de Févin's playing and handling resulted in two of the nails fracturing and so the investigation was terminated after only one day. The single recording de Févin made was never released but it was played to audiences on an European lecture tour he conducted shortly before his death in 1974. 

It has been subsequently alleged that de Févin's  investigation  coincided with the great fire at  Nantes cathedral. This lead to several occultist conspiracy theories, most notably retold in the pulp fiction novel Blood Nail-(Brownie Dane,1975) much of the plot was lifted for the Italian soft core film Sistero Orgasma (1977) where the action was switched away from a monastery to a scantily clad convent.(citation needed) 

On the film soundtrack, the sounds of the Chello were replicated by experimental electronic synthesiser the achoirorium- itself the  subject of intrigue- as its extremely high operating voltages caused the death of its creator  Luigi soon after the recording session.


This recording was made in 1980 by UK avant geographer Forster Iberix who attended several of de Févin's lectures.  He set about building a replica device and making reconstructions of the Iscariotarian mass based on a column of scribbled numbers  which appear reverso  in one of Leonardo da Vinci's codex's (Coded notebooks). The recording was released on an untitled flexi disk issued by cult French label sordide sentimental -who now deny any knowledge of its existence. It does not appear on their official discography.  Improbably- Haringey local studies library, London, has a copy in their archive. The library does not provide any method of playback for the flexidisc and items from the archive cannot be withdrawn -so some subterfuge was involved in me getting this track taped. Whilst the disk was in my possession an inexplicable number of minor disasters befell me -so I can assure you I hurriedly returned it.

disquiet0385
More on this 385th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Audubonus Instrumentum / The Assignment: Imagine a fake instrument, and make music with it — at:
https://disquiet.com/0385/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/
Thanks to Paul Harrington for the Latin assistance.
Subscribe to project announcements here:
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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0385-audubonus-instrumentum/

The Nail Chello (disquiet0385)

Michael Renkel - electronics and guitar
Nicolas Wiese - electronics and feedback

unmixed rehearsal recording (excerpt), May 2020

THE QUIET CUE - Renkel/Wiese - Rehearsal Excerpt May2020

unity.projections[001=>2]  - for accordion and cello (2020)
/live recording/

Branko Džinović (accordion)
Aleksandar Latković (cello)

Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra Hall
10 March 2020

unity.projections[001=>2]  - for accordion and cello (2020)

another djstadtreinigung gem:

djbassreinigung & djkassettenreinigung took it out on each other
in this live notstudiosession recorded at galerie pfund&dollar

voices by skltr/shl/hmn/rc
cut by djstadtreinigung
artwork by djstadtreinigung

st/rn/nst//b

04 Materiaux IV

:dARM is an harsh industrial/powernoise/experimental project from Bosnia and Herzegovina. It  was born in 1989 as an integral part of the multimedia project - neue▲urform /art squad for audio/visual media/. After a major break, the project has been re-activated and has been featured on a large number of international industrial / noise compilations for the past couple of years, as well as a couple of collaborations with similar projects from the region. Project members are also the founders of the Independent DIY label "Human Cross Records".

The Conjuring Of A Locust Swarm

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