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When Mike Terrill starts making music, he works…fast. In just the last five years, he’s been a part of over 100 projects/recordings. But on Relativity, the latest release from his project Fires of Denmark, Terrill took his time; unable to perform due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he locked himself in his studio and made sure every detail was perfect.

 

Born, raised, and still residing in Rochester, MN, Terrill has played every role possible in a small music scene on the up-and-up: fronting bands, backing other artists, recording, producing, mixing, booking and promoting shows…the list goes on. And though Med City lacks a large music industry presence, Terrill has scored wins that would be impressive on any musician’s resume: opening slots for national acts like Owl City, Dessa, and Caroline Smith, commercial music placements for brands like Caribou Coffee and Mayo Clinic, and even a song on an episode of This American Life.

 

But it’s in Fires of Denmark’s soundscapes where the musical jack-of-all trades feels most at home. On Relativity, due out in October of 2021, recorded during a week-long stay at the Frank Lloyd Wright house in Wisconsin, Terrill and his backing band The Technical Imperfections (comprising, amongst others, his life partner Sheila Terrill and BFF Nick Truxal) lay out a captivating sound. Driven by hypnotic beats and pulsating basslines, Relativity pairs the influence of Jonny Greenwood’s synthesizers and guitars with those LCD Soundsystem's drum machines. Over the course of nine songs, the album delivers an eclectic listening experience, replete with analogue synth slow-jams, meditative piano chords, and festival-ready singalongs where Terrill’s reverb-soaked vocals ruminate on time’s relentless march forward. 

 

With his best work yet in Relativity, Mike Terrill is ready to take Fires of Denmark as far as it will take him. And whether that path leads to a sold out release show at Rochester’s The Castle, slots at Lollapalooza and Coachella, or just a jam session in his basement, Mike Terrill will just keep on doing what he’s always done.

01 Negentropy (Intro)

We are back with Brazilian philosophers Gabriel Tupinamba and J.P. Caron from Círculo de Estudos da Idéia e da Ideologia, an institution with the task of investigating the political thought and collective organizational practices called for by the return of the communist hypothesis. They give us a primer on the institution and their meta-structural organizational practices. 4 sound pieces made out of the CSII archive of recordings. One per individual. J.P. piece was composed and mixed by himself, text: Gabriel Tupinambá- Freeing thought from thinkers, mastered by Sanannda Acacia.

SD31 - w/ Gabriel Tupinamba and J.P. Caron - It Takes Some Structure to Make Negativity Productive.

This episode is firstly a summary of the theoretical and narrative contents in the 6th part of the CCRu Writings, named "Sarkon". The episode features the musician and philosopher Jean Pierre Caron, talking about time compression, granular synthesis and time processes related to artistic practices. 

The episode builds off Caron's paper "On The Transcedental Aesthetics of Time-Stretching" and relates to CCRu deep and speculative exploration of time systems.

The Ghost Lermurs of Madagascar | #05 Time Compression, Abstraction and the Micro-pause 09292022

I CAN ONLY KNOW WHAT I AM NOW KNOWING---- I CANNOT KNOW WHAT I HAVE KNOWN OR WHAT I WILL KNOW

negentropy

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)

GOVERNO DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO
SECRETARIA ESTADUAL DE CULTURA E ECONOMIA CRIATIVA
FUNDO ESTADUAL DE CULTURA apresentam:

Circuitos Sônicos
por Artur Seidel (@artur-seidel) e Bernardo Girauta (@girauta)

Nessa pequena websérie, em formato podcast, investigamos um pouco da cena contemporânea do experimentalismo nas artes do som e da música. A partir de diálogos com integrantes de alguns selos do Rio de Janeiro, procuramos documentar essa cena, conhecer algo desse universo e seus circuitos, além de adentrar um pouco da densidade conceitual e estética apresentada pelos selos.
A cada episódio, visitamos um selo, retratado por uma conversa e uma mixtape produzidas por nós.
Nesse segundo episódio recebemos Jean-Pierre Caron (@j-p-caron), do selo Seminal Records, que surgiu em 2014 e que é formado atualmente por, além do próprio Jean, Sanannda Acácia (@operatorcrusty) Henrique Iwao (@henrique-iwao) e Matthias Koole.

Link para conhecer o trabalho da Seminal Records:
http://seminalrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/SeminalRecords
http://www.instagram.com/seminalrecordz/

Lista de faixas da mixtape:
Carla Boregas - Senhores de uma nova guerra [Boregas/Miazzo, 05/2017]
Quasicrystal - Verge [There's No Such Animal, 10/2018]
Thelmo Cristovam - 01 [Trombone, 10/2014]
Stefan Prins, Peter Jacquemyn, Matthias Koole - 04:46 [Mármore e Murta, 05/2015]
J.-P. Caron/Marcos Campello - 3. [Oco, 09/2014]
ruínas - sobre-vida, metástase [órfãos, 06/2020]
Yersiniose - Francis Bacon's Sphynx [Traços e Nervos, 10/2020]
Em Extinção - Outro Tempo [Nereide, 07/2018]
Marco Scarassatti - Rios Enclausurados 1 [Rios Enclausurados, 04/2015]
Lucas - anutesilverbox + am [Panasonic, 08/2017]
Raquel Stolf - coleção de murmúrios IV/V + acidentes da fala [tradução] [FORA[DO AR], 10/2019]
Bella - Embrulho [Facies, 03/2016]
Henrique Iwao - primeiro tempo e acréscimos [O Brasil Não Chega às Oitavas, 06/2014]
Thiago Miazzo - Sem título [Boregas/Miazzo, 05/2017]
b-Aluria - Bruegel [caos com nome, 08/2018]
Aquiles Guimarães - Larmes canines de l'amour (aria dramatique) - Jacques Aboyer [A vida dos nossos animais, 04/2019]
Natural Nihilismo - ___________________ [Live in NF, 01/2020]
Henrique Iwao - quatro mil cento e oitenta e um [Éter 2, 12/2014]

#EditalCulturaPresenteNasRedes #CulturaPresenteNasRedes #CulturaPresente #SececRj #GovRj #QuarentenaCultural

#2 - Seminal Records (com J.-P. Caron)

Frequent contributor Taylor Adkins joins me for a discussion of one of his favorite and once of the most influential works from Sigmund Freud, Beyond The Pleasure Principle.

Taylor Adkins - Beyond the Pleasure Principle

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