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Artist: Jan Jelinek
Title: SEASCAPE - polyptych (OST)
Cat#: faitiche 31
Release: April 28th 2023
Format: LP/DL

One of the most notorious hatemongers in movie history is Captain Ahab from John Huston’s 1956 classic Moby Dick. His manic monologues cast a spell on generations of viewers. Berlin based musician and sound artist Jan Jelinek has now turned the voice of Ahab into a musical instrument.

Faitiche presents Jan Jelinek's soundtrack for SEASCAPE – polyptych, an audio-visual software developed in collaboration with Canadian new media artist Clive Holden in 2022.
SEASCAPE – polyptych is based on image and acoustic source material from Moby Dick. While Holden works on manipulating film sequences, the voice of Ahab plays a central role in Jan Jelinek’s soundtrack. The dynamic volume and tone of the captain's speech control a synthesizer system that turns Ahabs voice into ten abstract soundscapes.

In this production the voice gives the impulse and controls things but is not the sound of spoken word itself that we hear. Only occasionally can snippets of speech be heard so that syllables or sounds are recognisable. Instead we hear compositions made of hissing, soundscapes and eruptive sounds. The atmosphere is dark and sinister. Still every piece has a clear sonic structure and follows an understandable dramatic composition. This music is abstract but not overwhelming. Quite the opposite, SEASCAPE – polyptych is an invitation to listeners to let themselves be carried by the stream of sonic events.
 
Although part of a media art work, the soundtrack can be enjoyed without any of this connecting superstructure. It works with no previous knowledge. But what happens when one does know that it’s the sonic waves of a human voice that is controlling a network of synthesizers?

If you want to hear Ahab, you will hear a choir of Ahabs in every piece of sound. The subliminal threatening as well as the conjuring Ahab. Finally the Ahab who whips up his crew and tears them with him into their downfall. The majestic „on the quay now, waiting and watching“, the oppressive “drawn towards the whirlpools center” - they are all music as well as sonic discourse.

Jan Jelinek: Drawn Toward The Whirlpool's Center

An accumulation of tracks, oscillating between melancholic guitars, lo-fi, ambient and folk music are delivered in the following recording by the Brussels based artist Catherine Danger.

TRACKLIST:
Noel and the Red Wedge - Specimen
Killing sound - Six harmonies
F.S.Blumm & Nils Frahm - Days Two One
Omertà - Air instrumental
Svitlana Nianio & Oleksandr Yurchenko - Untitled 8
Tomorrow the rain will fall upwards - Ay Carmela
The Roger Webb Sound - Moon Bird
Blackhaine - Saddleworth
Dip Frisco - Good Morning
Sharon Cheslow - september son
SKRS - gunshot riddim
Frankeeno - Frankeeno Paura della Morte
Moebius & Plank - Two Oldtimers
Todesangst Ausstehen - LP 12" Autumn '20
Âme de Boue - Souffrance et élégance
Snottebel Es principa - Meitcost Ettal
Lee Hazlewood - My Autumn's Done Come
Dennis Bush - White Light
Mica Levi & Oliver Coates - Dolphins climb onto shore for the first time
KRINATOR - Missa Pro Defunctis
Cosima - Ploia
Basses Terres & Myako - L'Arbre qui parle
Anne Sylvestre - Une sorcière comme les autres

Catherine Danger is a sound and visual artist based in Brussels. In her practice, she experiments with a multitude of textures that are designed to be altered or modified. Recently she released a tape on Simple Music Experience label, Roto Rites Dub, 40 minutes of slow, psychedelic waves, Illbient style. Roto Rites are little incantations, short, magical formulations. Roto Rites Dub is meant to be cut, dubbed, transformed, sampled, recited. In 2018 she created an audiovisual label, 2files4free, with Daya Hallé, a label focused on the combination of sound and visual production, through a multiplicity of artists, hybrid projects and experiments.

@catherine-danger
catherinedanger.bandcamp.com/
www.instagram.com/catherine_danger/
www.discogs.com/artist/9122551-Catherine-Danger

Phormix Podcast #242 ● Catherine Danger

The brand new single from the powerful pair Getdown Services. Out 21st June via Breakfast Records.

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Getdown Services - Come On

The conflict continues....

The aftermath of "The Great Brain Robbery" is underway. The Artificial Intelligence has won the battle but not the war.

"Project : Cassandra" is in development as the humans fight back.

What will the future hold? 

https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/project-cassandra

Part 1 of the saga, "The Great Brain Robbery" is available on Bricolage.

bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-brain-robbery-bc077

Project : Cassandra

The Motherboard

Taken from 'Winter Sun / Fever Dream' (MFM067)
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New Strategies For Modern Crime Volume 2

Complete Rejection

dayaway "rogue wave"
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Lyrics

A rogue wave
Came and took me under
Rolling outta nowhere
Never saw it coming

And when the impact hit
Hazy, dizzy double vision
I didn’t know how far I’d get

Crush crash
Sink my ship
Take me to the bottom of your ocean
I wanna know how deep it is
Crush crash
I’m all in
Pull me down as deep as you can get it
I wanna swim in all of it

My rogue wave
Danger and wonder
Really shoulda known babe
We’d wreck each other

And when the impact hit
Hazy, dizzy double vision
I shoulda known how lost I’d get

Crush crash
Sink my ship
Take me to the bottom of your ocean
I wanna know how deep it is
Crush crash
I’m all in
Pull me down as deep as you can get it
I wanna swim in all of it

I’d follow you under water
Challenger deep and farther
I’d follow you where no one’s been
Up into outer space and
Straight past the constellations
Till all we are is high redshift

Crush crash
Sink my ship
Take me to the bottom of your ocean
I wanna know how deep it is
Crush crash
I’ve been hit
Pull me down as deep as you can get it
I wanna swim in all of it

rogue wave

Tracklist

01. Rime Trails - Air Carvings I
02. Akhira Sano - Mesangial
03. Ambalek - Plateau
04. Danny Clay -  3.15.2022 (dolorosa)
05. Daily Rituals - Soft thunder blue light (hope you like it here)
06. Blochemy - Sien
07. Ned Milligan - Landscape Duet
08. Mikael Lind & Johanna Sjunnesson - Remnants Unveiled
09. Darren Harper - Generative.02~Solstice
10. Far away Nebraska - Il cammino nascosto

379. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Voices from ancient strings

Clean your ears cuz this is dirty. Dance Hall House of the old variety.