Study For Radio Play #3

أنا حساب اختبار ضمان الجودة والنص الذي أكتبه هنا هو لأغراض الاختبار، وآمل أن كل شيء يعمل كما هو متوقع.

I’m a QA test account and the text I’m writing here is for testing purposes, hopefully everything is working as expected.

Spasmodular, a.k.a. Spasmodular Sounds from Steve's Shortwave, composes soundscapes featuring radio frequency sounds captured among the shortwave spectrum. In addition to using analog shortwave radios as a medium, various electronic instruments and field recordings are utilized as well during the compositional process. Spasmodular is also affiliated with the experimental electronic collective VCO (Vincent Carlton Oscillator).

Recorded sounds provide a rich and extensive palette of colors and textures.  I like to glean what I can from single short samples of sound.  I particularly like squeaks and creaks.  Lately, I've become enamored with the enormous selection of vinyl records available on archive.org.

experimental musician/soundmaker from Apuliae
Born in 1978

Welcome here to everyone.

I hope what you'll hear inspires you.

For your growth or fall
Through the cathartic world of sounds 
that I try to propose. 

A test area 

A search for meaning 
Of this passage for ours.

Sound as a primordial frequency
Before any acquired significance

If what you hear resonates with your tuning fork
A like and a repost would be of great support.

May your journey be pleasant and constructive
in this sea of instants called life

The eternity of our days.



Quote :

...They taught us that art is about expressing yourself—that you have to have something to say. That's not true—you don't have to say anything at all...

John Cage


TRAMPELFÂD
Laboratory for Contemporary Electronic Experimental Music
 ( LCEEM ® )  
founded    by Max Elzholz
https://www.youtube.com/@trampelfad

Experimental-Improvisation-Sonification-Data Bending-Alchemy-Probability-Computer-Stochastic-Science-Abstract-Generative-Granular -Unpredictability -Aleatoric-Music -Avoid AI 
" ars gratia artis "

Caveat: I explicitly prohibit the use of any material I post for purposes of torture, brainwashing, hypnosis, bedazzlement or any other nefarious activity. This prohibition applies to all governments, corporations, institutions, agencies and individuals. 

“The avant garde is dead. That is its triumph. Let it lie.” - Chris Cutler in “Not As We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology”. (Highly recommended!)

“… there is increasingly less call to exercise an already too rare generosity of aesthetic hospitality.” - Chris Cutler

" Music is one of the great Mysteries. It gives life. It is not a career, nor a business, nor a craft. It is a gift... and a great responsibility. Because one can never know where the creative spark comes from or why it exists, it must be treasured as a Mystery. For the most part I believe creativity chooses you, not the other way around." - John Zorn (excerpt from the liner notes to 'Magick')

“Listen as if you were being told a secret” - Federico Fellini

“Experimental and electronic music was once not-so-benignly tolerated at the margins of western art music, but it has over the last decade or so moved toward a central position as something of the soundtrack of our digital culture. Where it once was merely tolerated it is now more engaged and doesn’t have to apologize to anyone”.  - Douglas Kahn 

"Through technology, voices are amplified and silence is broken. Spaces are shared." – Laurie Anderson

"I frequently hear music in the heart of noise." - George Gershwin

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." - 
Malaclypse the Younger in 'Principia Discordia'

“Let us cross a great modern capital with our ears more alert than our eyes and we will get enjoyment from distinguishing the eddying of water, air and gas in metal pipes, the grumbling noises that breathe and pulse with indisputable animility, the palpitation of waves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of the tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags. We enjoy creating mental orchestrations of crashing down of metal shop blinds, slamming doors, the hubbub and shuffle of crowds, the variety of din from the stations, railways, iron foundries, spinning mills, printing works, electric power stations and underground railways.” — Luigi Russolo in 'The Art of Noises' (L'arte dei Rumori)

Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mesmo)
(New Norberian English)

1. lit. in a state of mesmerism, hypnotism; in a trance
2. in a state of bewilderment or confusion, daydreaming; 'out of it'
3. mind bogglingly awesome, spellbinding, captivating

(1) "He swung that watch in front of her face and she got all mesmo"
(2) "When the teacher called me to the board I had just woken up and was still pretty mesmo"
(3) "The new N64 cartridge is totally mesmo, bro”

Banner: The Hearing Trumpet_Leonora Carrington (detail)

booking/inquiries : tocovervisch@gmail.com
29.10 Les nouveaux sauvages (Vélvélé)
21.10 Supersonic (Vélvélé)
08.07 Pointe Lafayette (Solo)
28.06 Charbon Collectif, Bagnolet
21.06 Chaton indépendant (Vélvélé)
14.06 Non Jazz (Stéphanie Lotion )
08.06 Tour Orion, Milieu Studio (Stéphanie Lotion)
06.06 Plateforme Paris (solo)
04.06 Olympic Café (solo)
29.05 Ground Zero (Stéphanie Lotion)
25.04 Furium, les Nouveaux sauvages ( Stéphanie Lotion)
19.04. Non Jazz, Cantine pas si loin (solo)
25.01 Vanilla café, cmptrmthmtcs (Stéphanie Lotion)
21.12 Pan café (solo)
13.12 Théatre Berthelot, Montreuil, Collectif Coax et Instants chavirés (Stéphanie Lotion)
30.11 La Berge, Saint Aignan, 41 (Stéphanie Lotion)
05.11 Olympic café, Sport National (solo)
19.10 Tour Orion, l'Amorce des consignes (solo)
02.10 Shakirail, dernière de vaagues de chaleur (Stéphanie Lotion)
28.09 Festival l'Ode Mère (Stéphanie Lotion)
20.09 Consulat (solo)
12.07 Sport National Café de Paris (solo)
27.06 Beaux arts Paris (Stéphanie Lotion)
01.06 Le boulingrin Rouen (solo)
13.06 Beaux arts Paris performance avec Margot Bernard
05.06 l'international (Vélvélé)
04.05 Feux avec (Stéphanie Lotion et Vélvélé)
16.04 Instants Chavirés (solo) Quasi
16.03 à DOC performance avec Laure Mathieu 

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12/01/24 Chapelle Port Royal avec Stéphanie Lotion 
13/12/23 Pointe Lafayette avec Velvélé (silence kills concerts)
10/11/23 Zorba, (La sale pépinière) solo 
03/11/23, Café de Paris, Sport National avec France Connect
26/10/23 Supersonic avec Velvélé
18/08/23 Pallistock festival 
11/04/23 Instants Chavirés, solo show

documenting since 2020

new record out now! link below (free to listen, support welcome)

all tracks were living performances, usually with acoustic bass and electronics, sometimes other things like guitar, synthesizers, voice, piano, mixers, fx, field recordings; usually single takes, no overdubs.

please dm or email (asdbmusic@gmail.com) for collaborations, commissions, booking, compliments, complaints, etc. etc.

Handmade (Experimental) (Ambient) Sound (Art)

Velvet Something Superdark is 1/2 of  https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen

Study For Radio Play #3

Climate-Walker