I’ve got another delicious treat for you this morning courtesy of NAHAL Recordings. If you’re still not familiar with this French label, curated and operated by Frédéric D. Oberland and Paul Régimbeau, allow me to remind you of the duo’s very own project, FOUDRE! for which I have run this track premiere of “Black Swan Theory I“, as well as this “Chimères (pour ondes Martenot)” from Christine Ott, and Oberland’s “E Quindi Uscimmo A Riveder Le Stelle“. Right… So you can say that I’m a fan… Today we’re introduced to Matthias Puech, who previously released with Hands in the Dark, Hisolat, and Obsolete Future, migrating over to NAHAL for his latest exploration of emptiness, an album, appropriately titled, A Geography Of Absence, “sketching cartography of the invisible, as introspective as unpredictable, in a unique sensory whirlwind.” At the heart of this composition are two Eurorack modules made by 4ms – the Ensemble Oscillator, which features Phase Modulation and Wave-Shaping alongside its FM and Additive Synthesis functions; and a Tapographic Delay, manipulating audio into “complex rhythmic structures, meshes of organic textures, and lush harmonic mille-feuilles.” The sound is raw, dark, and full of disquiet, raising the goosebumps along tepid flesh. Slowly guiding you down the empty corridors of lost and forgotten, Puech revives all your senses and enticing for more. Today I am featuring the opening track to his seven-piece LP, hoping to get you excited…

"A researcher in theoretical computer science and an engineer at GRM, Matthias Puech constructs a dialogue between synthetic music and field recording, capturing sounds that surround him and creating his own sonic language with the help of synthesizers he designs and develops. Playing with time, space and matter in an approach similar to that of musique concrète, Puech combines ambient and noise, floating sounds and electroacoustic experimentations, thus shaking up our listening perspective, which finds itself walking through a parallel universe, strata after strata, sequence after sequence."

A Geography Of Absence

Hollow

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TRACK PREMIERE : Matthias Puech - Hollow

This is one minute of a recording captured on the evening of April 17, 2021 at Cargill's Soybean Processing facility at 410 C Ave NE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Outside In (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of nature) — at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Soy Protein Processing Plant (disquiet0517)

Today’s cold and overcast day in Brooklyn finds us wanting something warm. Something to heat both the mind and body. Fortunately, our guest for today has provided an auditory tale that is sure to provide both. Francesco Piunti is a masterful curator and head of the Deep Breakfast ambient series. His passion and knowledge shine through each mix he releases both personally and via the artists he taps for his growing platform. Introductions aside, pour a cup of coffee, tea, what have you and cozy up to the sounds of Francesco Piunti.


Tracklist:
Innesti - Nothwithstanding
Halftribe - Nighttime Worlds
Federico Durand - Cedrón
Andrew Sherwell - Chapter V of Shadow & Glass
Anthéne - Lapse
zarr. - Liminal
Innesti - In Letters
Marine Eyes - On This Fresh Morning
Simon McCorry - Flow 01
Carlos Ferreira & deer meadow - Modern Landscapes
Faru - Moment To Moment
Andrew Sherwell - Chapter I of Ash & Bone
Mount Shrine - Held Breeze
Geir Jenssen - Stromboli Dub
Loscil - Refraction 2
Fragile X - Reverie

Francesco Piunti on Soundcloud: @francescopiunti

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Sundays are for... Francesco Piunti

Recorded & played at Montsomnia Festival 2021

Liveset @ Montsomnia Festival 2021

Field recordings from Hackney Marshes taken in 2023/4 with Zoom H4N Pro, Clippy microphones and JrF hydrophones. Form part of the "an (ongoing) survey of Hackney Marshes", a multi-disciplinary study at https://davidstelfox.com/hackney.html

Hydrophone In The River Lea

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15 - 01 - 15 home improvisation

Included in The Wire Tapper 44, the CD compilation included with the August 2017 edition of The Wire.

Badalisc (from The Wire Tapper 44)

Copenhagen city is expanding rapidly and relentlessly into Nordhavn industrial area. They are building tall and dense. Sometimes the noise is deafening.

The Sound of Gentrification

On the eve of the first anniversary of tsss tapes, Francesco Covarino has assembled a mix uniting fragments from all nine of the label's tapes into one exciting journey. Their debut release was the compilation Free Percussion, which includes tracks from Claire Rousay, Will Guthrie, Ted Byrnes, and many others, an impressive catalogue of contemporary sonic research happening in this area. Subsequent releases have brought artists into conversation with each other, prompting new and fruitful relationships, beginning with Masayuki Imanishi and Marco Serrato, Graham Dunning and Edward Lucas, and Danny Clay and Matt Atkins.  But the label's growing discography also includes solo releases from Rie Nakajima and Dominique Vaccaro. Each release has been a fascinating document, and as the label catalogue has grown, I asked Francsco to assemble this mix so that we might share these gems with our readers. Sure to appeal to fans of Dinzu Artefacts, Patient Sounds, and Canti Magnetici.

Francesco explains:

"I wanted to give a short taste of all of our seven releases so far, plus the two upcoming tapes we are putting out at the end of February. I wanted to make a relatively short mix, so that it would not be too difficult to listen to the whole thing until the end."

You can listen to all the complete tapes at https://tssstapes.bandcamp.com

And read more of our interview with Francesco and tsss tapes, including a complete tracklist at:
https://acloserlisten.com/2020/02/01/tsss-tapes-presents-torniama-a-casa-mix/

tsss tapes presents 'torniamo a casa' [mix]

I recorded a ride I took across a rattly wooden boardwalk at Neary Lagoon in Santa Cruz. I rode my bike along the boardwalk to a quiet dock in the lagoon, then took off again, only to stop suddenly. I like the mechanical delay involved with the wheels gong over the loose boards. Bump bump, clack clack.

Neary Boardwalk Ride disquiet0436

Recorded & played at Kulturhof Schloss Köniz.

Hydrophone In The River Lea

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