A Psycho-Acoustic MEGAMIX! Showcasing tracks from all 10 (yes ten!)volumes of Drock Productions acclaimed new-age series Psycho-Acoustic Sculptures.

Listen to the mix here: https://www.mixcloud.com/dirkmarkham/psychoacoustic-sculptures-mix/

Get the full length individual albums here: http://dirkmarkham.bandcamp.com

Psycho-Acoustic Sculptures

From the EP 'Fame is an addiction' released on Mahorka, July 2021

Cascades

Carpet with red pattern

NOÉMI BÜCHI @noemibuchi
HYLE - OUS039
April 15, 2022; digital

«I create my compositions from a symphonic-orchestral viewpoint, where the sounds are my orchestra, and I arrange them in time and space.» - Noémi Büchi

Noémi Büchi’s first EP for -OUS, ‘Hyle’ is a reference to the ancient greek term for ‘matter’ - which is composed of fire, water, air and earth - and only comes into existence when ‘form’ is attached to it. Balancing between the elements of electroacoustic music, neo-classical composition and sound design, ‘Hyle’ unfolds in three compositions that translate ‘matter’ into music. «We all are matter, and music is matter. My compositions convert personal and collective memories between trauma and joy into music that is rooted in the emotional dimension, but also intends to spark intellectual euphoria», she explains.

Consciously returning to the appreciation of harmony,
Noémi Büchi unfolds its musical potential through chordal combinations and reduced musical intervals. Her pieces are written with a classical understanding of compositional forms, structures and textures, which she translates to experimental electronic music. Just as life can be segmented into layers of knowledge and experience, Noémi Büchi composes in layers: she explores the potential of harmonies and dissonance, contrasts rhythmic figures with disruptive moments and playfully emphasizes irregularities, in order to expand our listening habits and create dense moments and harmonic grandeur alike. ‘Hyle’ is a prelude to her debut album ‘Matter’, which will be released on -OUS in 2022.

Composer and sound artist Noémi Büchi explores electronic and symphonic maximalism. Her music is defined by a delicate blend of electronic-orchestral condensations and textural rhythms. She strives for a combination of harmonic and dissonant sonorities, to evoke both intellectual and emotional euphoria. Her 2019 debut EP ‘Matière’, released through Light of Other Days, attracted widespread attention within the experimental music scene. In 2020, she released a second EP Prismic Passages on the Leipzig-based tape label Visible Dinner. -OUS will be releasing her debut album ‘Matter’ and its prelude ‘Hyle’ in 2022, as well as the debut album of Musique Infinie, a collaboration between Noémi Büchi and Feldermelder. 

CREDITS
Music by Noémi Büchi
Mixed and mastered by Manuel Oberholzer at vfbm Fribourg
Cover photograph by Jean-Marc Avila

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Noémi Büchi - Hyle  - 1 - Nothing Is Artificial

Taken from the album Psycho-Acoustic Sculptures Vol. 8

http://dirkmarkham.bandcamp.com/album/psycho-acoustic-sculptures-vol-8

Title comes from the name of an art venue that used to exist on the Spree, near Jannowitzbrücke in Berlin.

A Drock Production, Berlin 2013

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This mix is a compilation of all original musical works of mine, released and unreleased.
An aural journey with some trips slips slides and jumps.
All glitches were carefully chosen.

https://soundcloud.com/onnocollective - Great Fun !

Bio Mix for Onno Collective

Microrama Live session - Albin Renard, Nicolas Carrasco, mod2

Demo created for Emptyvessels 'Foresting' sound pack
https://store.emptyvessel.co.nz/p/foresting-for-tal-sampler-a-collaboration-with-jogging-house/

All sounds excluding percussion from the pack.

Empty Kinetic Foresting

Vercetti Technicolor - Antarctica Echoes (Vangelis Cover)

Transparessence

5 - Pheek, Jos Lok - "Transparence"

Have you ever heard the song of Aurora Borealis? 

Northern Lights in Hailuoto and all the Island is singing ... 
Vegetals, Waves, 
Wind and Graves .

From silence to inside purring, 
Just go inside the Aurora... and the Aurora will sing inside you ... 


-- 

Realization : Anne Lepère 
Production : September 2015, 8'38 
Hai Art Residency  - Soccos
(Hailuoto - Finland)

Special thanks to : Antye Greie, Hai Art and Mushroom teams.
Photo credit  : Marine Drouan 



The Song Of Aurora

A Drock Production, Berlin 2015

Taken from the album Psycho-Acoustic Sculptures Vol. 9

Get the full album here:

https://dirkmarkham.bandcamp.com/album/psycho-acoustic-sculptures-vol-9

Alternate And Repeat

Surely the most hectic track on Psycho-Acoustic Sculptures Vol. 5. Hear the whole album at 

http://dirkmarkham.bandcamp.com/album/psycho-acoustic-sculptures-vol-5

Check out the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yYRSFVVXRU

Search Engine

The pain, loathed by most, loved by some. In reality, it's there, it's a part of everything.

He forgot about it, too many years of numb existence can make you focus on some totally different things.

He is enjoying now that it came back though, don't get me wrong. A pleasureable burn crawls up his body, which makes him remember what it was to be alive.
His nerves, if you can call them nerves, tickle inside him, in a harmony that reminds him of a specific day in the past. A day in which pleasure and pain where merged inside him, just like now. Because of this, he also remembers her, the perpetrator, which multiplies the pain, and therefore, the pleasure.

Nice.

Spectre in Pain

Taken from Psycho-Acoustic Sculptures Vol. 6 - A Drock Production 2010. All parts written and produced by Dirk Markham

Check out the video by Yagama here: https://vimeo.com/214853316

And the full album here: https://dirkmarkham.bandcamp.com/album/psycho-acoustic-sculptures-vol-6

Shadows & Reflections

Digital Ethics

taken from Psycho-Acoustic Sculptures Vol. 4

Digital Ethics

No Music Day

Taken from the album Psycho-Acoutic Sculptures Vol. 6

A Drock Production, Berlin 2007

Title inspired by Bill Drummond: http://www.nomusicday.com/

Get the full album at: http://dirkmarkham.bandcamp.com/album/psycho-acoustic-sculptures-vol-6

See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAzawkRg5Fw&list=SP6F03A5AFAA0CDCB8&index=7

No Music Day

Dirk Markham grew up in Aboyne, a village in “Royal” Deeside in the north east of Scotland (an hour inland from Aberdeen). Dirk has been making experimental recordings and teaching himself every instrument he can get his hands on since his years studying mental philosophy at Edinburgh University in the late 90s. His music is mainly instrumental although occasionally the odd folk-rock song pops up out of nowhere.

While an ongoing collaborative exchange with the Forest Records Collective still provides a strong bond to Edinburgh, Markham has been residing in Berlin since 2004 where he previously worked for Gudrun Gut’s indie label monika enterprise and is now part of the research and development team with the music software and hardware manufacturer Native Instruments. Dirk’s experience working in the music industry has fed into his own music and continues to be a source of inspiration.

Equal parts music fan and composer, as well as producing and promoting his own music Drock is always looking to support fellow artists which he does via his involvement with the Digital in Berlin project which includes a monthly radio show, online magazine and hosting regular events.

Life for Dirk is a musical journey on which he is constantly searching for new sounds, ways of manipulating and controlling them, and cheap keyboards from the flea market. His recent works include the debut album by his electronic side-project Systeme D entitled Systeme D In Full Effekt and tracks on two Second Language compilations, Vertical Integration and Minute Papillon. He recently released the 10th and final installment in his highly regarded Psycho-Acoustic Scultptures series and a collection of electronic compositions under his "Delta" moniker.

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