Emptiness Reworked, Rewoven

Sequences - The Willows (Shō Rework)

Elvin Brandhi - Shelf Life (EP)*OUT NOW*

Format: Digital, Cassette
Cat.No: CANVAS003

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Sickness unto death in an age of commodified well-being: approaching death from the point of view of an actualised virtual eternity. The commodification of daily life and the self, preclude the possibility of reincarnation, we do not identify ourselves as a cycle, a movement, an expression of life itself but as a single product that exists in and for itself.
 
The supermarket social network obliterates the surface of material hybridising, detaining all movement to self enclosed unit reductions, excommunicating mutation. Encapsulated in a fixed identity, packaged and promoted, immune to the infection of outsiders. The social contract of a pre-sealed self, branded with calculated sell by date, sentenced to a shelf life of inter-passive exchange.  
 
Shelf Life compiles this synthetic axis, upon which we bide out time smiling.  
Interrupt user: authorise disk-root conflict[ 
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Elvin Brandhi is welcomed to the index of C.A.N.V.A.S. releases as the first solo release of 2019 and the third commission since the conversion from events series to label in 2018. As a performance nomad whose very practice is simultaneously about engagement with place and a lack of geographic singularity - there could not be a more fitting accomplice to C.A.N.V.A.S.’ effort as a self-publishing artist group to build a collaborative community despite increasing dispersion. This is the solo project of Welsh artist Freya Edmondes - otherwise known for her role as vocalist in father/daughter duo Yeah You - in which performances mesh a collage of electronic sounds with a disruptive stream of improvised vocals. These tracks are as close to studio versions as this fundamentally live practice gets - roaming recordings, sample blasts, club contortions and the ever present voice alchemically infused. In 25’46” of sound, Elvin’s bio-technological monster appears like a Cronenberg body horror - mouths appearing where they shouldn’t - or a living, breathing post-digital Beckett character narrating their own club induced self-destruction. Yet the future shock is fresh - Shelf Life is as fun to listen to as it is completely disarming.

soundcloud.com/elvin-brandhi-1

Mastered by Ali Najafi
Digital Artwork by Firas Shehadeh
Tape Design by AALTAR
In Collaboration with Olan Monk

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Shelf Life

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Elvin Brandhi - IMBRED WAILE / OCDC

Ifs = Krzysztof Freeze Ostrowski & Fischerle

Source: https://fasrat.bandcamp.com/album/fasrat-compilation-3

Ifs - Candyflipper

Brin - Alone Jazz On Safari

We are joined by philosopher and artist based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil J.P. Caron, to discuss the nature of Generative Aesthetics, Time-Stretching, CCRU, and scale-sensitivity.

Music from his work included here: https://seminalrecords.bandcamp.com/ 
https://jpcaron.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/j-p-caron

Transcendental Time-Stretching w/J.P. Caron(Updated)

AAmotion ParallaX

A series of bleak, blustery scenes make up Nazanin Noori’s Farce. Noori, who also works as a theater director, conjures glacial storms and buzzing subterranean server farms on this album; but such scenes were far from the artist’s guiding narrative as it was being produced. The two tracks, clocking in at 80 minutes total, were envisioned as an enraged argument (or a "modular heartbreak") unfolding between two groups of people about a pothole in the road, told from the perspective of the road, and then the pothole.

This surreal, mundane plot device is nowhere to be found on Farce in any concrete way. And this is intentional. Noori, inspired by Artaud's concept of the theatre of cruelty, wants listeners to develop their own sensorial world separate from the musician's. When not darkly ambient, the tracks are full of drama and whimsy, as if a spotlight is following a character along a wayward path, into the hands of fate. The emotional hooks in the sound include a sense of desperate desolation, optimistic reprieve, and of course, the sense that ritual repetition is both a curse and a blessing—but they resist obvious imagery. Exactly what kinds of characters or settings get hung on the album's scaffolding is up to the audience. Listening with a hi-fi sound-system is highly recommended.

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Nazanin Noori is an Iranian artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. Her work includes theater and radio play direction, music, and text. She focuses on atmospheric narratives in sound, and works to overcome cultural reliance on sentiment by making dramatic adaptations of non-dramatic texts. She studied theater, film and media sciences at Goethe University in Frankfurt and worked at Deutsches Theater and Schauspiel Hannover. She currently selects Acid Folk for POMP, a sound scenario series on Retreat Radio, and is an artist-in-residence at the Young Academy of the Arts in Berlin.

released August 25, 2020

mastering :: Martijn Comes

all proceeds to Afrorack (Chicago, IL, USA) - www.afrorack.org

FARCE

Nazanin Noori - IMAGINE ALL THAT FALL IN A POTHOLE ON A BEAUTIFUL DAY (ENMX09)

We are back with original Xenofeminist Patricia Reed and speculative computer scientist Anil Bawa-Cavia to discuss their text 'Site as Procedure as Interaction'. We confront (with optimism? openness?) this second wave of abject worldings from the poor grasp of reality of GPT-3 to the U.K. outcry with A-levels algorithm debacle. 

Sonification of Anil courtesy of Roc Jiménez de Cisneros a.k.a EVOL
Sonification of Patricia courtesy of Katrina Burch. Yoneda Lemma (a.k.a. You Need a Lemon, sometimes Yoni Dilemma)

Mattin and Miguel do their thing. 

Read Patricia and Anil text (among many other friends of the pod) buying "Construction Site for Possible Worlds", published by Urbanomic in Sept 2020. https://www.urbanomic.com/book/construction-site-possible-worlds/

SD13 - w/ Patricia Reed & Anil Bawa-Cavia - Seize the Means of Complexity

Title track from 'Prozess'

https://faithful.bandcamp.com/album/prozess

https://3ternal-2ilence-1.net/

Prozess / Motu

Prozess

fmvee - who do u love? (QUEESTE006)
queeste.bandcamp.com/album/who-do-u-love

@f_m_v

01 the way you see yourself
02 everythingUneverKnewUwanted
03 thewayothersseeyou
04 Seed Perfuming (LoLo v665)
05 sobbing

fmvee joins Queeste with who do u love?, an EP of fractious songs recorded over a tumultuous four-month period in Los Angeles. Having debuted in 2018 with a set of club contortions touching on jungle and 2-step, the US artist returns with a work of intense self-reflection. Lived experiences are transmuted into an amorphous bricolage of pummelling kicks, synthetic textures, and diaristic details, what they describe as an act of “remembrance.”

Working and living in LA, the “grind” alongside “aspirational partying,” and the confrontation of depression during an intense relationship, informs the EP on levels both sonic and thematic. The slippery rhythm and melodic stabs of ‘the way you see yourself’ embodies a state of flux, also recalling the early experiments of the LA beat scene. Distant jazz drumming fills its peaceful coda before ‘everythingUneverKnewUwanted’ introduces an echo lifted directly from the artist’s life: a trickling courtyard fountain. This first phase of the release finds resolution with ‘thewayothersseeyou,’ a conceptual mirror to its start, and one which carries a notable shift in tone; gleaming percussion has given way to ominous synths.

Despite the EP’s personal nature, collaboration is crucial. ‘Seed Perfuming (LoLo v665)’ is an fmvee original transformed into a cascading breakbeat by New York producer and engineer Loric Sih AKA LoLo, an ecstatic yet familiar form nestled amidst otherwise bruising encounters. ‘sobbing’ follows, a digital-age ballad of original lyrics exploring dependency: emotional, physical, and otherwise. It’s a poignant conclusion to an appropriately hallucinogenic collection, an intoxicating chemistry of love and loneliness conjured through a fine balance of bass, percussion, discord, and harmony.

On behalf of fmvee, a percentage of all profits will be donated to Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition, a community-based organisation that mobilises community members for the health, dignity, and safety of people targeted by the war on drugs and anti sex-worker policies.

who do u love?

fmvee - thewayothersseeyou

"Alan Silvestri - Lorraine's Bedroom (from Back to the Future OST)
The Nits - Walter And Conny
近藤浩治 - Kokiri Forest
New Musik - The Planet Doesn't Mind (12’’)
Ditto - pop
Captain Sensible - Glad It's All Over
Nightfall in Camp - Cada Dia
Pauline Anna Strom - Gossamer Silk
Alan Silvestri - Convening a Coven (from Practical Magic OST)
YES - Astral Traveller
Imitation - Tao, Yao
brotherhood Of Lizards - The Happening Guy
Marica - Jumping Without Thinking
Pep Llopis - La Nau Dels Argonautes
Nintendo Sound Team - Mii Channel
Mountain Tune - Pillars
きどりっこ - なつまつり
Minae Fujii - Area F: Clock Tower (Chip’n’Dale 2 sega OST)
Naoya Matsuoka - Free Voyage

it's a mix with music that somehow reminds me of something magical and at the same time ridiculous. it's like a secret in a pocket, like a joke from childhood. something ordinary and incredible at the same time"

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@kate-nv
https://katenv.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/nv4real/
www.instagram.com/katenvy/

SI018 - KATE NV

Thanks to everyone who listened to // DIFFRACTIONS // Podcast over the years. There will be no further podcasts, nonetheless, please follow us here:
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Several tracks have been re-uploaded with enhanced sound quality. Thank you to those who listened and will continue to do so from the future into the past.