Name: CÓDEX invites Capablanca (Radio Alhara, 15.05.25) by Ediciones Capablanca
Duration: 1 h

To guide us through the next simulated experience; Passing Notes Radio boss and 1/2 of the great new label ‘Companion', Pjenné [Melbourne, AUS], shows us what a utopian existence can sound, feel and look like.

Follow on as she glides through the stratosphere, looking down on the lush greenery and crystal water that our earth effortlessly inhabits... occasionally looking up into the vast display of distant stars and planets, glittering across the stillness of outer space.

Pjenné beautifully illustrates the phenomenology of nature through tracks which touch on each element, whether that be the ethereality of air, the intricacy of water, the depth of earth, or just the pure warmth flowing through this immaculately thought-out audible narrative.

We couldn’t help but think this would be the perfect soundtrack for the day peace on earth is declared, where humanity sits back and appreciates a new world— where collectively, we love what grows, exists and dies.

This small blue dot is our home… our balanced oasis in the desert of space. Perhaps we need the ability to fly to see a different perspective - and we’re sure this will help.

Close your eyes and drift into your own self.

Enjoy, and thankyou Pjenné 

“SAHASRARA” - The Thousand Petal Lotus

Virtual Utopia 03: Pjenné

Tankwart doing his thing at a recent Horrorscope party.... ;)

"Tankwart is a DJ, producer, and musician originally from Zurich, currently based in Berlin. In his own productions as well as in the music with the band Dâdalus & Bikarus, he explores a sound that extends the concept of psychedelic music across different eras. He seeks sounds that are raw, trippy, and yet beautiful, blending genres like New Wave, Triphop, Acid, and Kosmische Musik. With one foot on the dancefloor and the other in the intimate setting of the basement, he thrives in spaces where music transcends boundaries and strengthens community."

Tankwart - Horrorscope @ Sameheads 10.01.24

Basement Amazement: Benedikt Frey & Menqui @ Klub Kegelbahn 250222

A collage of sounds that were recorded on the 24th of March 2025 (either performed live on location, or played on vinyl) at Ze Dos Bois association, Lisboa, during one of the last N0N PR0FIT nights.
The opening sequence is an unreleased live recording of Violeta Azevedo & Borja Caro, blended with some records I played that night. Among them: Mark - So You Betrayed The Creative Arts For Your Own Personal Ends (wrong speed), The Devil, Probably? (or is it a Hegoa? Both? Worth check both labels anyway...), and the closing song of that Shizuka tape reissue (I think its ‘III’).

CÓDEX invites Capablanca (Radio Alhara, 15.05.25)

NARR Radio takeover with the boss man - Joe Gill!

Joe Gill [13.08.25]

stretching sliding sounds for may’s cafunfo full of love and softness

cafunfo softness

| MOODSHIFT | w/ Miscmeg & Ivy | E2

For the 62nd interpretation of Far Blue, we have the talented duo Javier Salazar who have put together something special. It's one of the more experimental perceptions of the concept, weaving together downtempo, ambient and abstract sounds. Besides running the inspiring Klape Nunsen label, they are amazing selectors when it comes to the deeper and dubby sounds. This mix showcases how subtly they create an atmosphere that makes you float.

"Settled in the studio, we started playing records we felt like sharing. Each of us behind a turntable, doodling without anything specific in mind, occasionally at the same time letting sounds overlap. One of us pressed the record button, and we simply let it unfold, free of knowing where it would lead. We rarely felt so immersed in a recording, selecting each track in the moment. Depth, imperfections and unexpected blends."

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@javrsalazar

Instagram.com/farblue_
farblue.bandcamp.com/

A Far Blue concept by Javier Salazar - 'río'

Hurricane Milton made landfall in the southern United States in early October 2024 as part of one of the most active hurricane seasons on record. ‘Milton’ uses weather data from it to generate sound, offering the hurricane an electronic instrument to play while the ensemble react to the growing tumult, their decisions shaping the piece as they go. They, along with the rest of us, are engulfed - sheltering, listening to the radio, navigating the storm and the devastation as best we can.

‘Milton’ was written between October and November 2024 for The House of Bedlam and performed at the Sound Sculptures concert on the 11 June 2025.

Milton - Emmy Lambert

Title:
Dusk

1: "Dusk Movement 1", 06:24 (00:00) (OctaTrig, Soma Lyra 8, Soma COSMOS)
2: "Dusk Movement 2", 07:30 (06:24) (OctaTrig, Soma Enner, Soma COSMOS)
3: "Dusk Movement 3", 05:15 (13:54) (OctaTrig, Soma Pipe, Human Voice, Soma COSMOS)
4: "Dusk Movement 4", 07:38 (19:09) (OctaTrig, OpenTheremin, Soma Lyra 8, Soma COSMOS)
5: "Dusk Movement 5", 04:54 (26:47) (OctaTrig, OpenTheremin, Soma Lyra 8, Soma COSMOS)

Dates:
01-Dec-2025 (inception), 03-Dec-2025 (finalised), 04-Dec-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Synthesiser programming and concepts by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/album/dusk-2

Description:
Dodecahedrons, frequency modulation (FM) networks, free tuning of hardware synthesisers and the sounds of a forest at dusk all come together in this suit, Dusk.

The title is inspired from that magic time when daylight begins to give way to darkness -- dusk. The insects begin to sing,
the forest becomes alive with other sounds. Dusk is an imagined journey into the forest at dusk.

1: Dusk Movement 1
The sun has set, the wind has calmed down, insects and creatures of the forest come out to sing. A normally quiet time except for the chorus from the forest that is slowly building up. A time to reflect on life. In German, we call it the Dämmerstuendchen, a time to sit in semi darkness as light from the sun fads, complemented by sip of a good Australian red wine with a friend. The nocturnal creatures begin to wake and say hello to each other, the bats, owls and possums. 

2: Dusk Movement 2
A distant rhythm of drums are heard, the Cicadas. The birds from tree tops have their brief say. The crickets decide to join in again. Possums scurry from tree to tree. A sugar glider sweeps past.

3: Dusk Movement 3
A breeze picks up, the din of the insects give way to singing trees.

4: Dusk Movement 4
The wind stirs some more, swirling into the caves, awaking the bats, emerge from the cave, flying into the forest.

5: Dusk Movement 5
The wind dies down. The crickets emerge again, the owls fly past. The trees cover the forest in a comforting blanket. Nocturnal marsupials looking for morsels. All settle back to their nests before the sun rises again.

This project has been on the building books and sketch books for a while now. It all started with someone posting an article on the "Mathematical Tiling and Tessellation" FaceBook group about five side shapes (Pentagon) in nature. I was then curious about networking several of these Pentagons for a tuning system, turns out you can connect twelve of these to form a closed surface called a dodecahedron. A very common musical scale in Western music uses twelve notes equally dividing the octave. I started a music project using a scale based upon twelve notes printed on a paper dodecahedron, the notes you would see as you rotated the dodecahedron, that project is still ongoing. This led on to thoughts about how such a shape could lead to a physical instrument -- more trials, more ruminations during my exercise walks. Now, fast forward to Nov/Dec 2025, the pentagon was reduced to a triangle and the closed surface of the dodecahedron was reduced to an open surface triangulation with one pocket.

Eight triangles, eight vertices. My Push2 midi controller, has eight main rotary encoders and eight columns of note pads. An FM synthesiser at it's core has three inputs, a carrier frequency, modulation amplitude and frequency of modulation. Can you see the pattern? The triangles form the topology of the FM synthesis sound generation, the surface the human machine interface. The Push2 as the prototype.

For the full story, see my facebook page at:
https://www.facebook.com/norman.freund.545/
or my BandCamp site.

Find your self a quiet time to listen to Dusk with a set of good headphones or stereo speakers. Lots of timbre evolutions, small detailed changes and an evolving spatial movement of sound voices.

Dusk Movement 3

another holiday spirit ambient fuzz flip. prob sounds best in 🎧
attempting to do "sonic meditations" with these last few tracks, gonna keep them up the rest of the month when I can. 🪴

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