Wintery reflections & transitions...this is my contribution to the wonderful 'An Introduction To' various artist's compilation on Soft Recordings.  More info here~~http://soft-recordings.com/

I hope you'll enjoy.

Mastered by David Teboul~http://linearbells.bandcamp.com/
Photography by Peter Nejedly~http://www.flickr.com/photos/peternejedly/



Soft Recordings

A Winter's Path

"Endless Pit" is the fifth track of Amek's "Vanishing Standards III" compilation. 

Featuring vocals from my main project @niandraz .
Visualizer: https://youtu.be/QUM7u7ANGaE

Vanishing Standards III:
"The third installment of our bi-annual Vanishing Standards compilation series closes the year of our fifteenth anniversary. As usual, we wanted to have as many members of our extended family aboard as possible, as well as welcome new ones into it. Of course, they are in the company of Amek regulars, whom, whenever we could, we tried to inspire to work in new collaborations and configurations. The result is not only the shortest volume in the series but also the first one dominated by atmospheric, yet noisy, tracks that are punctuated with some unexpected heavy hitters."

credits
released December 18, 2023

Mastered by Marius Costache
Artwork by Nikola Kostov

This is amek070.
https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/album/vanishing-standards-iii

погледни / отрази / черни дни / пропадни .

Vanishing Standards III

Endless Pit (ft. Niandraz)

stays there
https://dannynotter.bandcamp.com/track/na-li-smo-se

Zagrebački Električni - Našli smo se

Canal Dreams

Caller Burn

Wulf10

CD available directly from Important Records - imprec.com 

Strange Times is a virtuosic realization of contemporary
electroacoustic soundscapes composed and performed by Stephen
Ruppenthal and Gary R. Weisberg. With masterful employment of electroacoustic techniques and tools, including the original 70's Buchla Music Easel Ruppenthal used in the Electric Weasel Ensemble, these two artist create an essential, psychedelic, electro-acoustic experience.

Strange Times is a hallucinatory journey into our epidemic-ridden
times through a collection of startling sonic landscapes. From epic
acoustic journeys into re-imagining myth to the phantasmal soundscape world of the Bardo, Strange Times is not for the innocent or delicate listener. Time turns elastic, and folds in on itself; you are approaching the event horizon of a black hole. The only way to make sense of any of it is to mentally rewind; speed up or slow down the voices in your head in random attempts to find your way through this electroacoustic aether. Strange Times explores the ability of sound to alter consciousness, creating sonic environments, mental and physical states where one can allow the experience of listening to become transformative.

Stephen Ruppenthal (Berkeley, 1949) San Francisco Bay Area new music trumpeter, electroacoustic and text-sound composer, Stephen studied electronic music and composition with composer Allen Strange, and ethnomusicology with Lou Harrison, and holds a Masters of Arts Degree in Contemporary Musicology, writing the first comprehensive treatise in English of Sound Poetry, “History of the Development and Techniques of Sound Poetry in the Twentieth Century in Western Cultures.” Stephen was a founding member, along with Don Buchla and Allen & Pat Strange, of the Electric Weasel Ensemble, and more recently, with Brian Belet and Pat Strange, of SoundProof, and is known internationally for his live electroacoustic performances, and writings on text-sound
composition. Stephen has been composing and performing electroacoustic works for Buchla instruments since 1971. Flamethrower, a 2017 CD of electroacoustic works for trumpet and flugelhorn, by Allen Strange, Brian Belet, Bruno Liberda, and Elainie Lillios, and performed by Stephen is currently available from Ravello Records. 

Gary R. Weisberg, composer-sound designer-digital audio artist was
born 1951 in Brooklyn, NY. At age 2, Gary was exposed by his mother to the music of Brahms, Khatchaturian and Rimsky-Korsakov. He also had a fascination with dinosaurs. He first picked up a musical instrument in 1972, playing free- jazz improvisation on flute and alto sax. Gary moved to San Francisco in 1976 and was involved in a loosely knit collective of jazz and experimental musicians and artists, operating a small performance space called The Blue Dolphin. He studied music, computer programming and electronics at San Francisco State University, graduating with a degree in Electronic Music Composition. He spent two years building a modular analog synthesizer, and began composing electronic music and text-sound compositions for art/ photography gallery openings. From 1986-1994, Gary maintained a MIDI project studio for the production of his own music, as well as sound and music for TV/Film/Video productions. Since 1994, Gary has been composing PC-based experimental electronic music, as well as pieces
for electronic and acoustic instruments, occasionally performing with other composers and collaborating with visual artists. He currently resides in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley.

1. Post - Apocalyptic Biscuit (Ruppenthal)

Our initial dialog with Synthia was an adventurous creative endeavour that made us question whether machines could have a soul. This one definitely spoke her mind, and left a fascinating mark on both of us as a wondrous machine––––––woman, a marvelous piece of engineering, an entity trapped in a modular eternity.

Considering that neither of us had any previous contact with such a complex modular system such as EMS Synthi 100, we took a somewhat intuitive approach. This is a fairly raw glimpse of the first days spent in the studio.

Oh, Synthia, we only just met...

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Happy birthday Mark!!!

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Composing, editing, patching & live mixing: Manja Ristić
Live mixing & patching: Mark Vernon
Cover art: Manja Ristić –– segment of the sculpture by Angelina Gatalica made in memory of Serbian painter Nadežda Petrović, erected in 1989 in the Pioneer’s Park, on the occasion of the IX Summit of Non-Aligned Countries.

basne——side B

"Take one held tone and make it dance slowly"

HI, I used a single Saw waveform playing a C note. I made it evolve using the Mod-wheel mapped to filter frequency cutoff and the knobs and faders of my midi controller mapped to tweak filters and LFO in real time.
Recorded two parallel tracks, one tweaking a square waveform LFO1 mapped to "volume" , the second track tweaking a pulse LFO2 mapped to Filter-Cutoff.



For:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0631-in-a-silent-waveform/

It's Only A Saw Waveform (disquiet0631)

An improvised field recording set on aquatic life and death in the age of the Anthropocene. It combines underwater recordings of singing glaciers, pulsating aquatic plants and water insects with spatial resonances from hydropower dams and reservoirs.

Live on the river Bille, Floating Transmission, Hamburg 2023
Festival curated by Julia Nordholz
Photo by Antje Sauer

Troubled Waters (Field Recording Live Set @ Floating Transmissions 2023)

1. Mardimo - Number 5
2. Maara - Can't Slo Down
3. Son Of Philip - Raleigh Banana
4. Blu:sh - Hits Different
5. Peder Mannerfelt - Big Ball
6. K.C. Stephens - Danny
7. U.R.Trax - I Can't Believe (You're Real)
8. Invexis - Summer Night
9. Erik Burka - Tension Control
10. RNGD - Inner Self
11. Yan Cook - Distorted Memories
12. Absel & Anetha - Boa Dormant
13. Jdotbalance - Precipitate
14. Emdees - Midnight Run
15. Scaler - Loam
16. Nicolas Vogler - The Final Chapter
17. Kr!z - Tidal Wave
18. DJ Wank - Tympanum (E-Runner Remix)
19. James Pepper - Jamm2
20. Dylan Fogarty - Inversion
21. Schacke - How You Blur The Lines
22. Mark Broom - Love Train
23. Acid Warrior - Karzinom

Rustival

Casey Anderson - Techno DJ Set @ Rustival, February 2024

Ritmo Futuro 008 with Crudo invited by Hemolymph @giovanni-olivotto

"Hello everyone,

This month on Ritmo Futuro - Crudo.

Rolling on the edge between the dark side and the bright side of jungle, crudo's selection is a journey into the rough and coarse sound of hardcore. Fast-paced hectic breaks and low frequencies cradling the body create an harmonious dance between chaos and tranquillity.

Enjoy the next hour!"

Originally streamed on www.fritto.fm

Ritmo Futuro 008 with Crudo invited by Hemolymph 10.02.24

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

Guitarist in Root Atlas~

https://on.soundcloud.com/TLG4iZoEX8WrgJ54A


Press~

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A Winter's Path

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