A selection of ambient, modern classical, and electroacoustic works for Summer 2020.  

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Field Journal Companion | Summer 2020

c'è in giro da tempo una nuova 'musica assoluta', astratta, che sta fra la cosiddetta 'ambient music' e la 'drone music', nei pressi dei cosiddetti 'soundscape' o, meglio ancora, degli 'innerscape' .. a volte ha tratti più 'cameristici', o addirittura per strumento solista, a volte è più 'sinfonica' .. a volte usa solo sonorità 'sintetiche', a volte invece anche strumenti 'tradizionali' .. ha antecedenti illustri, sia nella cosiddetta musica 'classica', diciamo storica, sia nella 'popular music' e nel jazz .. a quella soprattutto io guardo

https://www.facebook.com/notes/marco-lucchi/musica-assoluta/10155811583217624/

una dedica particolare per Martyn Bates

"musica assoluta" (luglio 2020)

41 Ceremony Journey

Ambient, Classical, acoustic

Drone/Transience/Relax

To mark World Oceans Day 2021, we partnered with Concentric Records, TBA-21-Academy and Ocean Archive for a full day of broadcasts based on and inspired by sounds from the oceans.

 The incredible Ocean Archive is a sound library of the seas and harbours of the world, from Galapagos to the North Atlantic. It includes many types of whale, fish, earthquake, seismic explosions, methane seeps, tectonic plates and deep water drilling.

 The artists invited to make broadcasts based on this archive are Jake Muir, Izabel, Beluga, Carl Michael von Hausswolff / Dark Morph, Baby Vulture, Terrence Dixon, Jana Winderen reporting live from the seas, and finally Refuge Worldwide programmer Richard Akingbehin.

World Oceans Day - Baby Vulture

#78 Pîrvu - CRN17

Support via Bandcamp: https://ninapixel.bandcamp.com/album/voice-figures

"Voice Figures" release has been inspired by the research of Margaret Watts Hughes and her eidophone tool for visualising specific frequencies, geometrical & natural forms produced by vibrations of the human voice.

"At first, when directing the voice against the semi-liquid mass upon the centre of the disc, there is a feeling as if some impassable barrier were encountered and that it would be as easy to move a mountain with a push of the hand as to set that colour heap moving by the action of a note." (Margaret Watts Hughes)


I performed a variation on this experiment based on recording multiple singled frequencies generated by tuning forks, frequency generator and gong, which resonated on the metal surface and inside the soil. I captured reverberated metal surface, secondary resonation through the soil and oscillation of the bowl. The experiment is accompanied by recordings of water, coffee beans, my voice and string recordings in varied pitch and velocities.



released April 4, 2022

Everything sounds better after the mastering from Andreas Bonkowski at Magic Window

Voice Figures

Marco Lucchi : tools

a morph of "Mirrored in me" by Martyn Bates

25 luglio 2016

mirrored

Our first-ever mix master @daniel-r-12 returns with the long-awaited second component to his first cowboy mix for the Editorial "Sad Cowboys And The Sound Of Their Guns"

Tune in and Turn Out!

Listen to Part 1 here:

https://soundcloud.com/editorial-magazine/sad-cowboys-and-the-sound-of-their-guns

artwork by Claire Milbrath

Like what you hear? Try listening to something completely different, but also wonderful at Daniel's techno & ambient record label @sonidoisla

Sad Cowboys And The Sound of Rain ~ Daniel Rincon

It's been so long since i've been able to spend time in my little studio, but I was able to spend the day on Feb 1st, and this is what came about...a bit rough, but it felt nice to play.  

*UPDATE*
I remixed this piece in late 2019, and it now appears on the Meditations 6 compilation presented by Shimmering Moods Records, and has been beautifully mastered by Andrea Porcu
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/meditations-6

Meditations 6

A Way/Within (2019 redeux)

To end this year we would like to tell you how lucky and grateful we are to be surrounded by such wonderful people. 

This recording is a memory of that moment when the right person was at the right place at the right time.
Please enjoy Maayan’s chillout set during our Ferien auf Sardinien last summer in its full length.
CDV and SIC gift for this wonderful past year together.

Artwork: Alessandro Baldoni
Download: www.sleepiscommercial.com/download/podcasts

Dreamcast 044

#044 Maayan Nidam - Recorded At Ferien Auf Sardinien

A Small Journey For the Mind

Brooklyn based avant-garde trio Sontag Shogun presents It Billows Up Remixed, a comprehensive re-imagining of their 2019 multimedia project by thirteen artists across two volumes, available on all digital platforms starting May 15th and 29th respectively.

Their third full length album, It Billows Up, disregarded traditional songwriting and instead aimed to capture the collaborative techniques and modular compositions the band had developed while on the road into a linear narrative. The group extended the margins of their work by incorporating multimedia interpretations of the record in the form of a limited edition artbook and a short film. Designed by artist Thad Hilga, the artbook featured poetry and prose from the band’s network of creatives, while director Joel Schlemowitz assisted in crafting a hazy, romantic, and haunting video accompaniment to the album’s title track. It Billows Up was both an invitation into Sontag Shogun’s process and opportunity for the structure of their performance to be analyzed through separate mediums.

One year later, Sontag Shogun again opens the door to their world, inviting a global cast of friends and creative partners to re-work the already unconventional It Billows Up through new ears and boundless imagination into two juxtaposed volumes.

The first collection expands on the darker, climatic moments of their record. WNNR (NYC), Automatisme (Canada) and Black Pomade (Portugal) mold the album’s title track and “Cages” from two expansively atmospheric meditations into pulsing circular loops. Chicago’s Excepter (Woodsist) highlights and bolsters Ian Temple’s painterly piano against the haunted soundscapes and surreal foley of Jesse Perlstein and Jeremy Young. New Youngbloods signee Zoe Polanski (Israel), Christian Molenaar (San Diego), and Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (Fat Cat/London) balance the tonal structure of the first volume by drawing scenes of swirling serenity from chaotic ambience.

Standing as a cathartic compliment to the first volume, the second collection is a deep outward breathe, allowing the subtly of Sontag Shogun’s original songs to unfurl and blossom. New York cellist Julia Kent (The Leaf Label), Strangerfamiliar (Denmark), Slim Vic (Lamour/Sweden), and Portugal’s Síria delicately paint over and around Perlstein’s soaring vocals across twenty-four minutes of patient, supernal reveries. Montreal based composer Nick Schofield (Youngbloods) draws on Sontag Shogun’s use of field recorded vocal samples in his abridged, tranquil version of “Kienast Dans Un Parc”. The collection is concluded in dramatic summary by Orphax (Amsterdam), framing new luminescence around the album’s original structure in his all encompassing twenty minute remix covering the entirety of It Billows Up.

In its initial form, Sontag Shogun’s It Billows Up sought to piece together the sounds of our waking life with thick barricades of interwoven sonic collages. In its latest iteration, those collages are carefully deconstructed and rebuilt to showcase the world’s inhabited by their visionary friends and cultural colleagues.

It BIllows Up Remixed

It Billows Up Remixed, Vol. 1

Medewi, After the Rain (Zoe Polanski Remix)

Healing Is A Miracle

Oh, Memory (feat. Mary Lattimore)

Track taken from Seabuckthorn's upcoming album 'Other Other'...

Audio: Seabuckthorn
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com
www.seabuckthorn-music.com

Other Other

Meridian

Seabuckthorn - Meridian

「Small Stone」

"In Japan during the Covid-19 lock down we saw a movement. It was created from a woman who raised her voice to say NO via SNS to one of the controversial bills, a revision of the public prosecutor's office law* that was about to go through the Lower House without a fair public hearing. This tiny voice of hers went viral and formed an online demonstration to protect our democracy. It is very rare in Japan for the public to be actively involved in any policies. Alas the bill was temporarily suspended because many finally stood up.

“ When we threw lots of small stones, the mountain got moved a little. However we shouldn’t celebrate yet. We need to be calm and grounded and observe what the government will do.” says Kyoko Koizumi, an actress and a producer whom I respect dearly. Her phrases sums up things that do not change so easily. 


*A proposed legal revision that would raise the retirement age for prosecutors became the centre of controversy this week when it was taken up by the Lower House. Unlike officials in other administrative organizations, prosecutors have wide powers to investigate, arrest and indict anyone, even prime ministers and other high officials. They must remain highly neutral and independent from other authorities and political powers. Since the proposed revision could allow the Cabinet to intervene in the personnel affairs of prosecutors’ offices, many experts fear it could jeopardize the independence of prosecutors and the separation of powers.

「Serene」

The music of Eric Dolphy lives with Breathing.

We never forget the day May 25th 2020 for the world we can freely breath in and out. 

「Two Blue Kites」

June 4th 1989 , it is a very memorable day for me. 

31 years ago I took part in a demonstration for the first time ever in my life. It was a small resistance held in Tokyo. I was with the Chinese people raising my voice out loud in the crowd. I couldn’t do anything but I felt that I had to do something. 

In the beginning of the 90s I was going back and forth between Tokyo and Hong Kong making music. I was offered to make music for a film portrait the night before the Chinese Cultural Revolution called “ The Blue Kite”. The producer of this film invited me to make the music for the film. The film director was banned from making this film in mainland China and he escaped to Japan via Hong Kong. The film was finally completed in Japan. Hong Kong was still in British colony then. This film made my film music career begin. 

June 4th 2020 The Hong Kong government banned the public to organise and attend the candlelight rallies to mark the Tiananmen Square massacre. Despite the harsh policing and the Covid-19 regulation many people (still) defied the ban and tried to attend the commemoration. I was thinking of many of my friends there at the moment.  

I wonder how this little country, Hong Kong, that “brought me up” and “ shaped me who I am today” will be from now. My heart is full of concern for its future.

The film The Blue Kite is still banned in China to this date."

- Otomo Yoshihide



In Japanese / 日本語訳

「Small Stone」

日本では、ステイホームの期間中の5月8日、一人の女性の発言をきっかけに、現

政権がやろうとしていた三権分立をゆるがすようなひどい法案(検察庁法改正案)に対し多くの人々

がSNSを使って異を唱え、それがデモのような効果をもたらし、5月18日国会で

の法案決議を阻止するに至った。

「小さな石をたくさん投げたら山が少し動いた。が、浮き足立ってはいけない。

冷静に誰が何を言い、どんな行動を取るのか見守りたい。」敬愛する女優であり

プロデューサーの小泉今日子が5月19日にSNSで呟いたこの発言は、そのうねり

のことと同時に、しかしそう簡単に現状は変わらないことも表している。

「Serene」

エリック・ドルフィーが作る曲は呼吸とともにある。2020年5月25日は忘れては

ならない日だ。みなが伸び伸びと息ができる世界のために。

「Two Blue Kites」

  6月4日は個人的にも忘れられない日だ。31年前のこの日、わたしは初めてデモに

参加した。東京でおこなわれた小さなデモだった。東京に住む中国人たちと一緒

にわたしも声をあげていた。いてもたってもいられなかったのだ。

90年代初頭、わたしは香港と東京を行き来して音楽をつくっていた。そんな中

1993年、文化大革命前夜の北京を描いた「The Blue Kite」という中国映画の音楽

を作ることになったのが、わたしが映画の世界に入る切っ掛けだった。中国で作

ることを禁じられ、香港経由でフィルムを持って日本に脱出した監督が東京で完

成させた映画で、香港のプロデューサーがわたしを誘ってくれたのだ。当時香港

はまだイギリス領だった。

2020年6月4日、香港では天安門事件31周年の集会が新型コロナを理由に禁止され

ていたにも関わらず、多くの人たちが集まり追悼集会が開かれていた。きっと多

くの友人もそこにいるのだろう。わたしを育ててくれた香港はどうなっていくの

だろうか。「The Blue Kite」は今でも中国での上映が禁止されている。

TR045 - Otomo Yoshihide - 'Small Stones 2 (The Diet May 18th 2020'

Gilberto Bosco "Notizie dall'altopiano"

Cante jondo (July 1st version)

Sinfonia « Full Moon Of July 5, 2020 » for Synthesizer
Composed and recorded on Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Franck Douvin © 2020 Electronic Sinfonias
Thanks for listening. Hope you'll enjoy!
Video on YouTube : https://youtu.be/thIBwGITcD0

Sinfonia « Full Moon Of July 5, 2020 » for Synthesizer

Simple experiments geared towards performance, these pieces were recorded using Monome mlr & Grid, Organelle/Orac, Montreal Assembly CT5, Chase Bliss Audio Mood, and Mutable Instruments' Rings & Clouds.

I hope you'll enjoy!!

Performed/Recorded by D.Harper 6/2020

Mastered by Porya Hatami
http://poryahatami.com/

Poppy botanical by Walter Müller, 1910

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After appearing on our debut compilation, producer and musician Amparo returns to Memoir Music with her new EP, Lost Ghosts. With each track revolving around her close friends and the memories/adventures they've shared, this three song ambient release feels like flipping through a photo album, watching a familiar movie, quietly daydreaming of yesteryear and all that it held. 

🎧 Download / Stream
・https://memoir.ffm.to/lostghosts.pbt

00:00:00 Amparo - Unlisted
00:02:28 Amparo - Midtown Rooftop
00:05:56 Amparo - Scout

🌿 Memoir Music 24/7 Live Stream
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🙌 Follow Memoir Music
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🎥 Video by Matt Newell
・ https://www.cavesrd.com/
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🎨 Illustration by Matt Andres
・https://www.instagram.com/work_the_angle/
・https://twitter.com/Worktheangle

🎶 Mastered by Alex Saltz of APS Mastering
・https://www.apsmastering.com/

✔️ Check out our other channel
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❔ Use our music in your videos
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🌙 Listen/Watch

Amparo - Unlisted

Il beneficio del dubbio

Sounds from Elsewhere - Malu Entu

GRFTPS004
@tetenoise - Sea of tranquility
PRE-ORDER > limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamp
https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/sea-of-tranquility

video for "Stratosphere [part II]" here - youtu.be/xwNqgU8lnpk

"This tape contains string and wind instruments which accompanies tape loops and field recordings.

Tracks on side A are named after moon craters, the seas of Serenity, Knowledge and Tranquility are the craters where Apollo 11 and 12 was landed and so would Apollo 13 if it wouldn’t fail at launch.

Field recording of stratosphere is done with Tascam DR40-x aprox. 45000 meters up under the framework of the project “Exhibition in space”.

Side A is recorded with Elfa 332, Dynacord and Pioneer CT-W
Side B is recorded with Tascam DR40-x and Panasonic RN102

Field recordings:

Side A
Stratosphere at approx. 45000m
Flies on shit (Tusheti, Georgia)
Port (Poti, Georgia)

Side B
Underground station (Rustaveli, Tbilisi)
Stratosphere approx. (8000m-45000m)

#giraffetapes #GRFTPS004 #tetenoise #piano #tapeisnotdead #stratosphere #fieldrecordings #preorder #album

Sea of Tranquility

Sea of tranqulity

B3. Tete Noise - Stratosphere [part II] (GRFTPS004)

Composed and performed by Matteo Mariano 

(2021) http://macrogramma.com

MAGNETIC SERIES – Album – Format: CD, Digital – Releases September 20, 2024

“I’ve always had a deep connection with magnetic tape. Since the end of the ’80s, when I was just a kid, musical experimentation was inextricably linked to that medium, to the tapes that filled my days. Every recording, every edit, every sound etched onto those tapes represented my first naive steps into the world of music. It was a way to explore, to get to know myself and the sounds I could create.

Then, in the late ’90s, the introduction to Minidiscs and, later, HD recording changed everything. Daily interaction with tape seemed like a thing of the past, forgotten in favor of newer, more immediate, and versatile technologies. But that magic, that physicality, was hard to replace.

Over the years, I’ve watched with curiosity as magnetic tape made its return to the tables of ambient and experimental music creators. I realized that many had already rediscovered and embraced this medium, while for others, it had never really gone away. I, on the other hand, was much slower to return. But it was precisely through the works of other artists that I found the drive to immerse myself once again in this dimension, more convinced than ever.

Since 2020, after some attempts to incorporate tape elements into my compositions, I began to explore this path more seriously. I started creating tracks where the use of magnetic tape wasn’t just an accessory, but an expressive end in itself. “Magnetic Series” is not a concept album in the traditional sense, but rather a collection of tracks created between 2020 and 2024, united by a common thread: the manipulation of tape in various forms, from cassette loops to reel-to-reel, from slowed-down/speed-up tracks to entire mix passed through tape.

Beyond the allure of nostalgia and the fun that this medium provides, magnetic tape offers something unique: an intransigence that digital lacks. While digital allows you infinite possibilities, tape forces you to make definitive choices, pushing you into a creative process that permits no compromises. And perhaps it’s this very unyielding nature that makes it so fascinating and valuable.“

Music by: Matteo Mariano (macrogramma.com)
Mastereing: Andrea Porcu
Photo & Desig: Moreno Pirovano
Record label: Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series
Publisher: ROHS! RECORDS

Cat.#: LONTANO-S-CD47
Release date: 20/9/2024
Format: CD, Digital

Copyright © 2024 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

Magnetic Series

Tape in A minor

Tape in A Minor

the complete story to read here: https://soundcloud.com/joaomsousa/ethereal-reach-wodwo-svayam-joerxworkx
......... with heartfelt thanks to Wodwo and Svayam - please check out their music !!!
WODWO https://soundcloud.com/user-364196783-552705040 : guitar, mix
SVAYAM https://soundcloud.com/joaomsousa : Sitar, mix, master
JOERXWORX : Tenor Saxophone

Ethereal Reach // Wodwo / Svayam / joerxworx

ambient/experimental sound artist, lover of nature, wanderer... .

Guitarist in Root Atlas~

https://on.soundcloud.com/TLG4iZoEX8WrgJ54A


Press~

http://makeyourowntaste.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/the-soundworlds-of-darren-harper/

http://experimedia.net/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=1&products_id=8669

http://acloserlisten.com/2013/02/05/darren-harper-passages-for-the-listless-and-tired/

http://textura.org/archives/h/harper_lamy.htm

http://wajobu.com/2013/04/17/review-recent-dronarivm-label-releases/

http://acloserlisten.com/2012/05/09/darren-harper-and-jared-smyth-home/

http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2013/01/20/darren-harper-passages-for-the-listless-and-tired/

http://www.swqw.fr/chroniques/drone-ambiant/darren-harper-passages-for-the-listless-and-tired.html

http://www.textura.org/archives/h/harpersmyth_home.htm

http://makeyourowntaste.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/10-netlabel-ambient-albums-you-should-own-part-1/

http://wasistdas.co.uk/DarrenGimo.htm

http://audiogourmet.blogspot.com/2011/07/review-darren-harper-falls-children.html

http://disquiet.com/2011/02/07/suspended-memory-darren-harper/

http://sethmol.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/darren-harper-suspended-memory/

http://www.futuresequence.com/article/review-darren-harper-whispers/

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