cinematic Volume 11

Olan Monk - Auto Life
Format: Digital (EP)
Cat. No: CANVAS011
Release Date: 1st October 2021

Watch the video for 'Fameless': https://youtu.be/-xndTe8uWrc

Pre-order Auto Life (EP): canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/auto-life

‘A farewell to idolatry, where culture is absorbed into nature, like a body back into the fertile soil. Written as a 27 club survivor, lamenting the young dead, no longer young and celebrating the spectral presence of iconised peers. Reflexive and self-aware of the problem of over-identifying with the fictional performance of the solo act in various guises or archetypes: the rockstar or trapstar. Auto Life is a practical attempt at a weird re-hybridisation of otherwise seemingly divergent strands of popular music, conflating stylisations usually segregated by genre.

Auto Life was written as a collection of songs for eventual live performance. Recording music is absurd—an act in which you initially perform to no-one. The inclusion of a sample of crowd noise in ‘Fameless’ is the music studio equivalent of a laugh track being added to the soundtrack of a sitcom—unable to give up on disappearing horizons completely and imagining another context for performance in which an actual audience beyond the performer is present.

Autotune Punk—as a music of antagonism that resists from within, bending the lanes of a machine that flattens out the vocal performance to a given scale. I can still express feeling—even angst—but the machine doesn’t care. Refusing its own funeral, emulating the dead—it’s a Rock simulacrum. A renewably performed myth. I broke the spell. I just heard it as it was. The sacred framing of presence makes the pop idol always-already-dead by turning them into a symbol and an image—undead, un-ageing and endlessly reproducible within a commercialist visual culture.

The music which I would grow up listening to would later become a tool towards first facing, maybe later dismantling—or at least bending—the structures in which music was still being written, performed and recorded into existence. My emulation of and interest in pop—and popular—music is not in irony. I love this music—yet I question the context and conditions through which it has come to exist and continues to change shape. Opening up the horizon of pop to a new kind of strangeness, where the familiarity of the pop song disappears into blissful distortions and mixed signifiers towards a world in-between, otherwise unknown’.

— @olanmonk

Written, performed and recorded by Olan Monk

‘Bruised Fruit’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City, additional production and vocals written and performed by Elvin Brandhi
‘Burnout’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City

Tracks 01–07 mastered by Ali Najafi
Tracks 08 and 09 mastered by Jam City

Artwork by Ewa Awe

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

Auto Life

Olan Monk - Fameless

First single from Thoughts on Manifolds (GEN050) by https://soundcloud.com/blankws out on August 28 on Genot Centre on tape & digital.

Thoughts on Manifolds (GEN050) by https://soundcloud.com/blankws is a feather light, mixed-material showroom of synthetic objects, constantly rolling, constricting, zooming, bubbling, evoking some vast space. Impossibly thin, transparent foil, crisp, ice cold fluids, metal on rubber impacts etching elaborate diagrams and schemes into ambiguous, lush techno-reminiscent chords. The sound arrangement here is akin to a granular breeze, like an alien meteorology, a particle simulation turning into a textural primordial soup. Constantly in acceleration or deceleration, the listener knows every vast saturated pad is seconds away from the rush of a blast-off, almost intolerable G-forces, images flashing in front of one's eyes, bullet-like hard pans. These operations are like a valve being turned, the sudden pressure release causing a stream of some noble gas being set free, or opening a shutter suddenly providing a flicker of light highlighting the contours of some cavernous lost zone.

// BIO
/ Kaan Işık aka Blank Wall Season
Blank Wall Season is an experimental electronic music project created by Kaan Işık. He is a composer and sound editor based in Istanbul who explores the relationship between new aesthetics and aspects of hearing in his sonic journey. After studying cinema and sonic arts, he founds his vision in music from eclectic perspectives that deepen his productions. Blank Wall Season blends acousmatic elements with complex textures. He has worked with renowned art galleries and clubs in Istanbul, Ankara, and Berlin by curating event series and expanding his network in art.

Thoughts on Manifolds

Pre-order // Buy

Blank Wall Season - Overlayer (GEN050)

Mirror Chamber is, alike other tracks on the 'Thoughts on Manifolds', an audible statement of an otherworldly architecture - a mind's outlook into one of many futures shaped by Blank Wall Season. On this track the Turkish composer & sound editor Kaan Işık teams up with forces (Infinite Machine, Failed Units), sharpening the edges to the glass shards of the chamber. 

Label statement: "Thoughts on Manifolds (GEN050) by Blank Wall Season is a feather light, mixed-material showroom of synthetic objects, constantly rolling, constricting, zooming, bubbling, evoking some vast space. Impossibly thin, transparent foil, crisp, ice cold fluids, metal on rubber impacts etching elaborate diagrams and schemes into ambiguous, lush techno-reminiscent chords. The sound arrangement here is akin to a granular breeze, like an alien meteorology, a particle simulation turning into a textural primordial soup. Constantly in acceleration or deceleration, the listener knows every vast saturated pad is seconds away from the rush of a blast-off, almost intolerable G-forces, images flashing in front of one's eyes, bullet-like hard pans. These operations are like a valve being turned, the sudden pressure release causing a stream of some noble gas being set free, or opening a shutter suddenly providing a flicker of light highlighting the contours of some cavernous lost zone.

Out on August 28, 2022 on tape & digital on Genot Centre. Recorded, produced and mixed by Kaan Işık. Mastered by Wim Dahaen. Designed by Bora Başkan. Limited edition of 55 C29 tapes with on-body printing pro-dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes. Artist photos by Cem Güven."

Pre-order: https://genot.bandcamp.com/album/thoughts-on-manifolds

https://soundcloud.com/genotcentre
https://soundcloud.com/blankws
https://soundcloud.com/forces-music

Premiere: Blank Wall Season - Mirror Chamber (with forces)[Genot Centre]

@pranchpranch - "Event Horizon" [IC004]

bandcamp/streaming https://push.fm/fl/eventhorizon

Event Horizon

pranch - Submergence

Montréal’s Amselysen returns to @genotcentre with an album of wild vocal mutations and electro-acoustic experiments

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-amselysen-misery-feat-ubu-boi

Organe Solaire

Premiere: Amselysen ‘Misery (feat. Ubu Boi)’

Premiering "Earthless Artefact" by RougeHotel taken from the eponymous album self-released on November 30th via bandcamp

Buy: https://rougehotel.bandcamp.com/album/earthless-artefact

In RougeHotel's words:
"This album was made between 2020 & 2022. After two solo EP and three mixtapes with the rapper Balzacc30, I am really happy to release a new solo 9 tracks. Across 27 minutes, you can hear a blend of dance music, saturated drums, musical instruments with some crunchy artefact fx & a beautiful symphony of sound design. I describe ‘Earthless Artefact’ as a story, following different chapter,
inside a world of struggles and joys."

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/rougeh0tel
https://rougehotel.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/rougeh0tel

Earthless Artefact

bandcamp

[Premiere] RougeHotel - Earthless Artefact (album out now)

#IG51 VA #INTERNETGHETTO 2023 out now
stream / download: https://band.link/internetghetto2023

#internetghetto is a label for adventurous electronic music and a soundcloud channel for music premieres from like-minded artists and labels.
this compilation is our vision of the sound evolving, a snapshot of the never-ending process and experiment with genre-bending, from pop to nothing and back.
Includes tracks by DIGITONICA, Broosnica, WOLS, NWIII, GNAAR, Our.V, DEAD XICE, Sport DJ, RareFlora, low pulse, Lyudmila Severtseva, FUMBATA PHIRI, ellija, New Sylveon, VMRK, Falcon Kid, Lost Armor, ZAKLADKI
Artwork by Gsmgarden
Mastering by WOLS / FMSAO

#INTERNETGHETTO 2023

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Sport DJ - Faster

To be released on Genot Centre on March 19 (tape & digital).
Pre-order now → https://genot.bandcamp.com/album/misinput-tycoon

On Misinput Tycoon (GEN052), https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier returns to Genot Centre with an album full of intricately engineered, futuristic sound explorations. Quirky, syncopated, even grimy melodies emerge between sounds reminiscent of cinematic automatic sliding doors, plasma-filled light cannons and full-spectrum boot-up sounds. The approach is bio-mimetic, elastic, fizzy, accelerating and decelerating, like listening to a process of wringing out an artificial fabric, or rupturing ultra-light fibrous materials in incredible resolution. More than ever, this album is littered with colorful, even contemplative segments: having an orchestrated, playful feeling. But make no mistake: more than mere intermezzos, this only a further dimension of the album's depth, the bright timbres ready to interface with a stroboscopic, liquid, granular counterpoint at any time.

// Roland Nagy (https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier) about GEN052
“I’m constantly watching pixels since I was 5. This album reflects wasted time and digital traumas. MISINPUT TYCOON is a sequel of my FULLSCREEN album from 2019 (also on Genot) - a sonic playground that feels much safer to me compared to my previous works. Also, it's the first album I made without hearing „What would XY think about this track?” in my head. These are my hymns for healing from the digital core - hope it will help.”

// BIO
Roland Nagy (he/him) is a Hungarian sound engineer, ex-media arts student and producer. Ever since 2016 he has released music under https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier moniker on labels like on EXILES, Kaer‘Uiks, Pointless Geometry, Infinite Machine or Genot Centre. His work in the field of electronic music production, while resonating with hardcore digital culture and bouncy rhythmic heaviness, is closely connected to his fascination for natural soundscapes and their fractal nature. In particular, Nagy skillfully manages to depict a violent, tense world populated of minuscule yet grand sound variations, intertwined in a web of apparently chaotic textures. He was part of Shape Platform roster in 2020.

Misinput Tycoon

Pre-order album

Fausto Mercier - sleipnir​/​seeltouch (feat. Ludwig Wandinger) (GEN052)

Here Comes The Reign

Spotify

Heroes Falls

Ein Weiterer Test

Music for trailers, film, or advertising

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randyydominguezz@gmail.com

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DISPLAY 005 
Artist - Know V.A. 
Title - Reification 
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https://soundcloud.com/know-va
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DISPLAY is a new sub-label of @symbols curated by @kidsmpl. The label aims to showcase long form single-track musical explorations. Guest artists are asked to create an original piece with a single constraint: a 10-15 minute run time. The results can be found in digital format as well as on limited-run split cassettes.

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Know V.A. - Reification

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DISPLAY is a record label curated by @kidsmpl which aims to showcase long form musical explorations. Guest artists are asked to create original works with a single constraint: a 10 minute+ run time.

Know V.A. - Reification

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