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Stephan Mathieu
To Describe George Washington Bridge (2011)
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Stephan Mathieu "To Describe George Washington Bridge" (Dekorder 051)

a comedown track for the party people and for my party self

Mmmmm

Constant-Pattern Solutions

ANM039 Eric Frye "Constant-Pattern Solutions" Mini-LP Excerpt

http://www.recitalprogram.com/gatherings/
Limited CD Edition of 200
8-page color booklet with essays and artwork
OUT ON JUNE 7th
http://www.recitalprogram.com/purchase/

R62 - Anne Tardos - "Seven-Layer Song" from Gatherings CD

Excerpt of B2 from

Eks - Echo Courts - C20

Out September 28th on Archivio Diafonico

www.archiviodiafonico.org
archiviodiafonico.bandcamp.com

Eks - Echo Courts - B2 (excerpt)

For more on @zulimusic's mix, click here: http://tmxt.es/3oeu

Tiny Mix Tapes Guest Mix

Guest Mix: ZULI - We Are All Anemic

Anything to do with crisps (especially Tyrells) gets our resounding support here at OTO. Two of the most mischievious experimentalist in our community - Louie Rice & Luciano Maggiore - share with us an extended piece cyborg text piece that acts as an instructory rhythmic prompt to munch on the salty snack. Florian Hecker has experimented with similar computer voicings before, but there's not quite anything comparable to this gloriously dry, candid and obscene opus. Concrete poetry for the flaccid digital age (and for fans of crisps).

"58 minutes of music assembled using recordings of an online digital voice synthesiser reciting an exhaustive list of permutations of the words NO PA PA ON. Pauses in speech are punctuated with a bass tone and could act as a prompt to eat a crisp.

NO PA / PA ON is a performance series that started in Cafe OTOs project space and is often mispronounced."

Text generated using
https://textmechanic.com/text-tools/combination-permutation-tools/combination-generator

Synthesised voices generated using
http://onlinetonegenerator.com/voice-generator.html

Additional audio material generated using
http://onlinetonegenerator.com/frequency-sweep-generator.html

Synthesised voices and low frequencies to eat crisps with

TR040 - Luciano Maggiore & Louie Rice - 'Synthesised voices...' [sample]

16 July 2020

Tangled up and rooted in between chilean folklore, gaucho laments and an electric landscape sung by mechanical birds, Ahrre is a record that portrays a vernacular decay, as well as it rejoices in the streams still flowing through it's traditions. The result is a set of impressionist scenes, which make use of the recording quality and the distorting effects of basic digital technology as aesthetic resources. The low-fidelity textures are applied to the sound as virtual varnishes that fuse melody and soundscape into a distant and mysterious fog.

The treatment of sound coming from a recording device such as a cellphone is crucial. Guitar compositions are shrouded in an impending rash, as if coming from inside a layer of decaying sonic skin. There's also a sense of hearing an aloof AM transmission, or an archive of field recordings scarred by the harshness of dust and moisture. The folk traditions that Rambu assimilates and the warmth in his arrangements seem fractured and threatened by the medium holding them, as half obliterated stories in an ancient binary parchment. It's all about substance and texture, at the edge of palimpsest.

The word "Ahrre" is a twist of the interjection "arre!", an hispanic expression shouted by riders to rush horses into battle or racing, but this record is more on the key of whispers. Sometimes drowned in hazy atmospheres, surrounded by electronic neighs and trills, the compositions seem to sprout from desolate land. Ahrre is the work of a craftsman whose might, even though solitary and bruised, appears as an eager ghost handcar returning home through a dilapidated digital railroad.

All music performed and recorded by Martín Bruce
Computer treatments by Nicolás Carcavilla

Limited cassette edition of 35 numbered copies
available here: https://nonlocalresearch.bandcamp.com/album/ahrre

Rambu ~ Barro

LISTEN or BUY: https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/natursymphony-no-1-spring-music

The overlap between the organic and the synthetic is Vlad Dobrovolski’s stomping ground. Digitally organised sounds melt into squalling melodies that grow and stretch over and under each other like the fractal leaves of a fern, spiraling inwards and outwards into a tesseract of connective tissue. “The more carefully you listen, the more you hear,” explains the Russian-born sound artist. “No two moments are exactly alike in nature. The song is always changing. I find myself listening in ways I never have before. The scale of my perception has changed. Small, subtle sounds have become singular events. The space around me seems larger than I had realized.”

“Natursymphony No.1 — Spring Music” compiles fleeting waves of thought and feeling into sonic networks that embody the sinew shared by a sprawling forest, the patchwork quilt of human memory, or the post-organic logic of digital collage. Rays of rising sun and fresh air buoy this audio landscape, brimming as it is with synthetic tones and bitcrushed rhythms emerging from surrounding computer caverns. Field recordings are organized in harmony with processed acoustic instrumentation; gongs, flutes, and distorted percussive rhythms.

Probing our consciousness – or perhaps self and spatial awareness – propel forward the seven opuses of “Natursymphony No.1”, like the experience of an awakening itself. Stemming from an awakening of sorts for the artist himself, suddenly alivened in his ability to perceive his surroundings and create musical ecosystems, the nature to be found in this music is a parallel reality in miniature, with its own dusks and dawns, its own blossoming and extinctions, all delicately nurtured by an artist stumbling into a creator role.

Over two decades, Vlad has explored improvised and generative music, sonic collage, and released solo music under a variety of monikers and in various collaborative projects — such as his cassette tape soundscaping duo with Vasiliy Stepanov, S A D. The “Natursymphony” series comes following his personal landmark album, “Non-Deterministic Polynomial Poems” (@Klammklang). Vlad has also participated in residencies and performances throughout both Russia and Japan. 


released August 18, 2020

Music by Vlad Dobrovolski
www.dobrovolski.net

Cover art by Ramon Keimig
www.instagram.com/ramon_keimig/

Mastered by Alexander Pustynsky

Risograph print by HIBERNANT.NET

Words by Tristan Bath
www.tristanbath.com

Photography by Leontína Berková
www.leontinaberkova.com

Released by mappa as MAP019 in 2020