Stochastic synthesis is a microsound synthesis technique invented by Iannis Xenakis that uses stochastic processes to create and vary waveforms. I composed all the sounds in this piece using my own extensions to Xenakis's stochastic synthesis algorithms that I have been developing for the last 20 years in the programming languages SuperCollider and C. No samples were used.

It Is Happening Again for computer-generated sound

GRFTPS014
K Nogami - here / there 
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamp
https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/here-there

here / there

A4. K Nogami - Their [GRFTPS014]

jingūmae

https://continuous-tone.bandcamp.com/album/restless-leg

This new release by Continuous Tone is a stereo mix of a live performance presented at Café OTO earlier this year. Kate Carr and Iain Chamber invited Tom to respond to their theme of “Rubbish Music” in which they take discarded objects as source material for live improvisations. The subsequent composition employs a pair of modified kitchen pedal bins as musical instruments; close mic’d, with the lids opening and closing periodically to modulate the sounds passing through and ‘prepared’ with bamboo sticks placed on the speaker cones inside so that low frequencies vibrate the metal lids. 
credits
released November 7, 2022

Recorded by Pedro Subtil at Café OTO, July 10th, 2022
Mixed by Tom White
Mastered by Taku Unami

Restless Leg

Soft Close (excerpt) from Restless Leg (Continuous Tone)

This is an Extract from the Premiere of my new solo performance "Interdimensional Generated Space", premiered in October 2022 at Panke Culture in Belin, as a part of the series (Von Antennenwäldern und Wellenozeanen) . 

A research-intensive piece focusing on the transcendental phenomenon of the Northern Lights. 
The planned performance uses the implement of self-made recordings from the Northern Lights, in combination with self-made crystal radio, plus light, detectors, and motors, to simulate a technological audio-visual version of Northern Lights in the performance space. “Interdimensional” specifically refers to the movement of energy between modes of perception. One part of this energy come from the composed mixture of “natural cosmic voices”; and another part is coming from the electromagnetic forces generated and captured in real time during the performance. The piece make full use of the contrasts of the invisible processes, to create a new experience of space, time, and human scale. 
This is an attempt to achieve a unique sonic dialogue 
between “Natural” and “Technological” world, a reflection on Nature that is imitated by technology in an anthropogenic age.

This project was kindly supported by Musikfonds & Neu Start Kulture
Photo credit : Alex Conu
Live recordings by : Roy Carroll

Interdimensional Generated Space_ Extract Live Premiere@Panke Culture, Berlin 2022

Quartet 
Delphine Dora - piano, vocals
Sylvia Hallett - bicycle wheel, musical saw, hurdy gurdy, electronics
Valentina Magaletti - drums, percussions
Aby Vulliamy - viola

Quartet Dora/Hallett/Magaletti/Vulliamy 01

L'emprunte d'Encyclie

Blagoe Molchanie

GRFTPS020
Carlos Ferreira -In Praise of Shadows
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamp

https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/in-praise-of-shadows

In Praise of Shadows

B2. Carlos Ferreira - The Excluded [GRFTPS020]

The second release of POSITIVLAND by Mancunian artist:

Faff
@ffaf

PSTVLND 002 - 04/01/2024
positivland.bandcamp.com/

Limited ≈200 copies in Black vinyl, 180g.
Very Limited 26 hand-numbered copies, Splatter vinyl 180g
* Release Limited Edition 25/01/2024

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Note from the artist:


Faff’s Scrapbook.ep

This record is a collection of tracks I made from the start of 2019 to the end of 2021. They all exist completely independent of each other. My intention while working on music during this time was to create a time capsule/memory album for me to remind myself of my moments with. I had a lot of different experiences and substantially changed during this time. The early tracks were made by a completely different person than the person typing this. Of the 6 tracks on this EP, only one of them was made with the knowledge that it would be put together with the others and released as one cohesive article.

I wanted to make music again after abandoning it for 3 years. One of these tracks marks the turning point where a projected pipe dream of determined mastery was cracked through by what the speaker cone did when piano roll blocks were placed intuitively for the first time. 

In this .ep, I present:

THE CONCEPT

In its disjointedness, this music has presented itself to me as a scrapbook. It is rough around the edges, vague in its sentiment, and has more of an emotional than abstract association. While brainstorming for visual ideas to package these tracks in, I spat a bunch of words into a GAN and the words might be useful for you to get a sense of the general themes:  “synthesizer drum machine back catalogue emotional syneasthesia-inducing dance music” “vibrant energy synthesiser music record” “faffing about analogue synth music maker colour-changing light experiment” “bedroom studio acid bass sentimental rave artisan” “braindance analogue synthesiser data catalogue metaphysical music” “psychedelic synthesiser contemplation heartfelt breakbeat lullabies” “reaction diffusion rephlex records melancholic analogue music journal” “cerebral rave chromatic anthem dirge synth memories” “tr-808 analogue rave cerebral music energy ritual”

There is a dualistic nature to this EP, as it is a highly organised arrangement of totally disparate tracks. They are all (except one) built inside a DAW, but largely featuring live performance recordings of analogue hardware. The recordings are then processed after the fact. Layers on layers of humanity and machine, analogue and digital, specificity and ambiguity. All of the tracks are also subjectively experienceable pieces of music, but they sit in an objective folder structure on my laptop. Each one also was ignited by a unique occasion, but absorbs new meanings and connotations as time flows through and around them. These polarised paradoxes are key to the idea of this EP. Even to have a concept EP assembled from standalone tracks without any uniting concept is an example of the intertwining of opposites. Visuals associated are DAW architecture, poorly managed cables in thrown-together bedroom studio, piles of photographs printed out, computer folder structure, MIDI information in piano roll/automation envelopes, synthesiser encoders and pots.

Buy it:)!!

Special thanks and love go to Weefween, Robert and Chloe 

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credits
release January 4, 2024

Written, composed and produced in Manchester, UK, by Faff.
Mastered in Groningen, the Netherlands, by Johanz Westerman at Balyhoo Studio Mastering.
Designed in Manchester, UK, by Faff + Weefween + Positivland.
Distributed from Sardinia, Italy, by Desslab.

www.desslab.net
www.positiv.land

Faff - Voicenote (Snippet)

Manja Ristić/Joana Guerra/Verónica Cerrotta, Slani pejzaži

Things That Were

Delphine Dora is a prolific recording artist, improviser, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist from France. She performed in various places in France and many places in Europe. Her music is regularly broadcast in international programs in independant radios.
She works mainly with piano, voice, organ, modular synth and field recordings. Her music displays a pure fascination with sound and straddles the lines between improvisation, modern classical, avant folk, song forms, and electro-acoustic music.

05.04.2024 : TBILISSI (GE), solo + Time Is Away DJ + All Night Flight DJ + Mutant Radio DJ
07.04.2024 : TBILISSI (GE), Ikalto, solo

JAPAN TOUR
27.04.2024 : KYOTO (JP), Annie’s Cafe : solo and duo with Chie Mukai
29.04.2024 : OMIHACHIMAN (JP), Shuyukan : solo
30.04.2024 : OSAKA (JP), Nambaya : solo and duo with Chie Mukai
03.05.2024 : OSAKA (JP), Environment0 : solo and duo with Banetoriko
10.05.2024 : TOKYO (JP), Hikarinouma (Okubo Tokyo) : duo with Rinji Fukuoka + Albedo Fantastica
11.05.2024 : TOKYO (JP), Yellow Vision (Asagaya) : solo + duo Rinji Fukuoka / Masayoshi Urabe
12.05.2024 : TOKYO (JP), Nanahari : solo + duo w/ Ayami Suzuki
13.05.2024 : TOKYO (JP), Con Ton Vivo : Solo + collaboration w/ Mogre Mogru + Archeus
14.05.2024 : TOKYO (JP), Tsubame Studio : Solo & duo w/ Masami Makino
17.05.2024 : NAGOYA (JP), K.D Japon, solo
18.05.2024 : HAMAMATSU (JP), Bar Tehom, solo + duo Aoki Tomoyuki / Harutaka Mochizuki

Quartet Dora/Hallett/Magaletti/Vulliamy 01

Delphine Dora

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