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#aBreathing #selections - SEP2019

Founded in 2010 in Oxford, the Set Ensemble is dedicated to the performance of experimental music and contemporary composition. All of the members of the ensemble are also composers and they often write for one another, using the ensemble as a testing ground for new ideas, developing and rehearsing pieces together. This process is a collaborative endeavour with the score acting as one material amongst many, directing or shaping actions within a complex field of activity.

This disc contains six such compositions by Sarah Hughes, Bruno Guastalla, Patrick Farmer, Dominic Lash and Paul Whitty, the scores for which are all text- or instruction- based. Running the gamut from tonal instrumentation to fluxus antics, sometimes even within one work, this collection refuses to sit tidily within one strand of contemporary music, reflecting the broad influences and practices of the ensemble’s members.

This album was released in conjunction with the fourth issue of BORE. BORE was founded in 2013 by Sarah Hughes and David Stent and publishes scores that are primarily text-based, but may encompass any form of notation or instruction intended for the realisation of musical performance, staged events, texts, images or objects. The fourth issue of BORE collects a number of scores by members of The Set Ensemble, including Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Patrick Farmer, Bruno Guastalla, Sarah Hughes, Dominic Lash and Paul Whitty.

Sarah Hughes - Fires & Conifers (excerpt)

All sounds recorded around Lac Carillon in Canada (August 2017) and edited in London (September 2017). 

'The Lake' was premiered on Resonance FM on 21/09/17.

With thanks to Ilia Rogatchevski for inspiration and support.

The Lake

from one of my last takes before moving to san francisco.

january 18 mini

180125 / last from brooklyn

Winter

LINE_095 

I think about the work of Mika Vainio almost every day since his sudden and untimely passing on April 12, 2017. 

His work as one half of Pan Sonic and his solo work under his own name and as Ø and Philus were and are incredibly influential to me. It was partly one of the reasons I began working with sound again in 1997 after stopping for almost 4 years, central to the evolution of my own listening. 

His sounds and arrangements were always elusive, otherworldly, unreal, strange, unsettling, often abrasive, and at the same time expressed a sheer unrelenting beauty. They seem to represent a push and pull between states, warmth and cold, silence and fury, future and past, life and death. 

I was fortunate enough to perform with and for him (in the audience) and despite his being a man of very select words, to share conversations with him. The prospect of a new release by Mika always thrilled me. I am still saddened to think that there will not be more of his work to be heard each year. 

These two pieces pay homage to Mika and the subtle and unquiet gifts he gave all listeners.
credits
releases April 20, 2018 

1. Central (for M.Vainio) 44:40 
2. Unquiet (for M.Vainio) 07:10 

formed and recorded April 2017-March 2018. 
track 2 intended to be played as loud as possible.

Centra (for M.Vainio)

Unquiet (for M.Vainio)

Face [Glimpse] (with Oren Ambarchi & James Rushford)

The original version of 'Romantic Threat' from the album 2017 Pinkcourtesyphone album 'Indelicate Slices' (room40, Australia), plus two unreleased "B-sides" for your hazy listening. a surprise BANDCAMP EXCLUSIVE! 

This original version was deemed 'too romantic and positive' for full inclusion on the album so it was reworked and edited down to 2:57 of Negative Mood Music from Los Angeles. Now with over 10 extra minutes of romance.

released June 18, 2018 

formed and recorded by Pinkcourtesyphone / Richard Chartier, mid 2017-2018. 

Richard Chartier is published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music Ltd

Romantic Threat EP

Romantic Threat (original & overextended)by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

Dive

HLER is Heikki Lindgren & Esa Ruoho - an improvised ambient drone duo from Finland.

booking: hlerdrones@gmail.com
to find out what we sound like at gigs: http://soundcloud.com/lackluster/sets/hler 

HLER combines the initials of Heikki Lindgren and Esa Ruoho. It also describes the improvisational creative process of this ambient drone duo from Finland. 
A couple of years ago, Heikki came across a second-hand Peruvian synthesiser. The machine quickly revealed its potential for endless sonic creativity, mainly because Heikki found it almost impossible to recreate the exact same sound twice. He soon introduced the machine to Esa, and together they decided to explore the machine's inherent sonic instability in a live setting.

Each performance follows the same creative process, but with wildly different results every time. Digging in to the Mochika XL's front panel, Heikki begins mining for sound. Esa then processes Heikki's discoveries through his laptop, revealing hitherto undiscovered facets to Heikki's freshly unearthed sonic gems. Then, with the twist of a dial, Heikki introduces something new to Esa, and the whole process continues onwards and upwards.

"We are always surprised by the spaces we find ourselves in, and the directions the sounds take during a performance. We cannot repeat anything in exactly the same way, even if we wanted to! Just turning the Mochika XL synthesiser off and back on, keeping all of the knobs untouched in exactly the same position, leads to a changed sound."

"It has been incredibly rewarding to work as a duo, as the unpredictability of the creative process is so refreshing. Thanks to the unstable nature of the Mochika XL synthesiser and the intuitiveness of Esa’s live processing, each performance is unique. The whole live situation is based on improvisation and the sonic discoveries extracted during the encounter."

File under: organised improvised noise, clicks, hums, drone, "Hey, this sounds kind of like space music from the '70s!", a captured submarine humming in the hangar of a space station, "Are you sure you guys are alright and that the cables work?"

https://hler.bandcamp.com/track/skathi-dusk

HLER: Skathi Dusk

Någonting, allting

Dragon’s Eye Recordings is excited to welcome back Sublamp for his first full-length release on the label in nearly 10 years. Sublamp returns with 'Sister Maps'—a collection of parallel songs, parallel in time but separated by space. Inspired by a three-week tour of recording live episodes of 'Comedy Bang Bang' through 19 cities, Sublamp contemplates the impossibility of knowledge or understanding place when presented with only fleeting glimpses of it. Each track covers the same twelve minutes as if it had been captured simultaneously in six locations across an imaginary city. 

All the tracks on 'Sister Maps' influence each other in subtle ways. Sounds wander between or bleed through into the background, while other recordings maintain isolated independence. While listening to an album is generally a linear experience, Sublamp’s (accidental) choice to flow each song seamlessly into the next complicates the idea of placing works in parallel. The listening experience transforms, like moving through space while a möbius strip of the same twelve minutes repeats around you, or like meandering through an unfamiliar city with only your personal experience available to understand it. 

A city is not linear. A map shows only a space delineated, but not what occurs within that space. The borders of a city exist in both space and in time, which make it impossible to know a place completely. Wherever you are, there is always something happening somewhere else, simultaneously. An experience in parallel with your own.

Sister Maps

Sublamp - Map 01 (edit)

From DIAG049 Not Waving / Jim O'Rourke - Side A / Side B

Side A / Side B

DIAG049 Not Waving / Jim O'Rourke  'Side A'

taken from ET-050
http://www.archive.org/details/ET-050

ET-050 | 1984

Pascal Savy - Their Memories (Excerpt) | ET-050

Emilía /Pollinations [RTE 0010] 


Pollinations is a mini -Album recorded last year at home, as Live Session & rehearsal; included Eyoko´s Remix of Oil Bread! ( from Down to the Sadness River Album)



Photography & Design by Meneh Peh 
Mastered at Rottenman Studios

Pollinations

Emilía / Pollinations - Oil Bread [Eyoko Rmx]

End of Winter (Taishogoto + Alpha Juno 2 + Voice +FR)

Album preview for the new Maps and Diagrams long-player; "Azurescens" is a split-label release from Berlin-based False Industries and Handstitched*

____________pre-order now available

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/azurescens

Long time friends and musical associates Tim Diagram and Yair Etziony have joined forces for a split-label release on their respective imprints; Handstitched* and False Industries are proud to bring you a split-label release in the shape of the new Maps and Diagrams album "Azurescens". 

The album is released in a limited edition CD version of eighty copies and also on a limited edition cassette version of 30 copies, the release will also be available digitally.

Each CD version is individually hand-crafted and features white cotton rag sleeves with hand-stamped, spore-print artwork and an individual collage artwork, unique to each version, each component is packed inside a glassine bag and individually hand-numbered. Packaging, design and assembly by Handstitched*

The limited tape version, released by False Industries features artwork derived from the aforementioned collage artworks. "Azurescens" is Maps and Diagrams latest assignment, a concept shaped during brief moments in time during the autumn and winter of 2018, it's immersed in deeper, acoustical explorations to previous works but retains a certain familiar sentiment found in earlier releases. 

"Azurescens" gives the sonic perception of spiralling out of control throughout it's sixty-nine minute duration but also guides the listener back to a level of consciousness and tangibility. 

All tracks written, recorded and produced by Maps and Diagrams, Roadmap Studios, 2018. Mastered by Manes at Salz Mastering.

thanks for listening 🎧🎵🎹

Maps And Diagrams - Azurescens [album preview]

title track from forthcoming album called echo's verse. vinyl/digital out on may 15th at rbeny.bandcamp.com (na) or dauw.bandcamp.com (eu)

echo's verse

Vardagsrumsmusik 1

Vardagsrumsmusik 2

Live at Nyabinghi

Vardagsrumsmusik 3

Dragon’s Eye Recordings is a digital imprint based in Los Angeles and curated by artist and composer Yann Novak. Emphasizing the elevation of marginalized voices in experimental music, our catalog represents a range of sounds, processes, identities, and practices. Since 2005, we’ve published over 100 works of sound art and experimental music with a focus on ambient, field recording, drone, electroacoustic, and acousmatic music. As an independent label, we work to build community for our artists and listeners searching for somewhere to belong.

Sublamp - Map 01 (edit)

Dragons Eye Recordings