Composed during a whirlwind period of touring and sound engineering in 2019, ???? functions as both a tranquil refuge and as a heartfelt appreciation for the instruments highlighted. Berlin-based Bridget Ferrill crystallizes her professional recording experience and artist residencies into a singular focus on Buchla modular, harp, zither, and viola da gamba. Not merely an exercise in technical mastery, Ferrill's careful arrangements invite us to linger with each instrument; in her words, fulfilling the longing to "listen a little longer, a little slower". Every contour of the instruments is lovingly traced, a warm invite for us to join her in the exuberance of exploring their inner life.

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a new, spectral outdoors
blurred headspace
nervous, metallic pleasure

Mistareez - Trainer Thought

Wave Of Mutilation ('giallo songs' demo)

Welcøme to Anxiety Group
SideA - Botmøther, German Satellite | Side B - Røhrstøck, The Vessel

Limited Edition Transparent Red Vinyl 12"
on https://participantuk.bandcamp.com/artists?from=btl 

releases September 5, 2022 
buy here: https://droneoperator.bandcamp.com/album/welc-me-to-anxiety-group

“There is a German satellite falling to earth!” a woman’s voice urgently announces. “She says, what if it hits me? Welcome to anxiety group.” A dense cloud on the horizon heralds a fresh onslaught from that infamous swarm of free jazz killer bees, a new project from self-described “conceptual kleptomaniac post digital free jazz outfit” DRONE OPERATØR. Riding hard along the line between experimental electronics, blockbuster sound design and the loosest jazz improvisation, this rogue’s gallery of players, headed up by art world provocateurs Paul Barsch and Tilman Hornig, take the fevered pulse of the relentlessly flattened now and note down four key observations which presented together make up WELCØME TO ANXIETY GROUP. Coaxing lively theatricality from a continually provoked altercation between acoustic instrumentation and synthetic sound, each of the project’s four tracks provides a new perspective on what it means to improvise through technological mediation. “Here we are now,” write DRONE OPERATØR. “22 after 2k. mp4 flex to 32bit float. The sax - the heart. The quadcopter - the brain. Duo d'Allemagne not wasting a life time learning jazz standards.”

To open proceedings, our faithful operatør whips up exquisite dissonance with ‘Bot Møther’, smashing together squalls of saxophone and ripples of percussion with the sounds of sci-fi artillery, like an amphetamine-fuelled, midnight jam hammered out oblivious to an ongoing alien invasion. Slowing to a furtive creep for ‘German Satellite’, picking out keenly felt anxiety in suggestive plucks, stuttering clacks and strained wails, their cosmic warning signalling a neurotic climax before settling back into a post-coital skitter, flourishes of keys, both digital and analogue, harmonising with DRONE OPERATØR’s weary welcome to the group. Eschewing the electronic completely for the cacophonous gallop of ‘Røhrstøck’, we’re invited to hold on for dear life during a mad scramble towards the ‘The Vessel,’ a staggering sequence of tumbling synthetic chimes, embellished with peals of ornate sax that flare up and out to illuminate the track’s irregularity, alternately submerged and retrieved through a subtle manipulation of filters. It’s a session that has to be heard to be believed, crammed with as much difficulty and as much revelation as any good therapy should. As DRONE OPERATØR describe: “From iconic spamming to intellectual nonsense. Always never predictable, never not cheesy. Battery life cycles full of joy. You say you like free jazz. We don’t believe you.”

Welcøme to Anxiety Group will be released on Sep 5th, 2022 by Participant, on limited edition clear red vinyl, and digital download via the Participant Bandcamp. The release will be accompanied by a series of films by Drone Operatør, some featuring editing, FX, and CGI by digital artist Darío Alva.

Text by: Henry Bruce Jones
Participant is a record label and creative studio run by filmmaker William Markarian-Martin and conceptual artist Richie Culver

Welcøme to Anxiety Group - Preview - 4 Songs 12" Vinyl - Participant Records, 2022

Life Path #11 Production Mixtape:

All The Little Contexts 
Near The Bottom (The Wildlife)
In A Late Night Deli (Ft. Robbie Trocchia)
City Slicker
The Walls Are Sweating
Low Tide
Take A Pill To Remember God
Sleep Paralysis
The Lake
Big Supplier
Technician
The Fly In My Soup
Drowning Dream
Rock In The Ocean
Dimensions Of Pain
Plastic Memories

All tracks written and recorded by Max Rollins 2021

Life Path #11

https://nknwn.bandcamp.com/album/archv-pax-020-022
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https://soundcloud.com/abji_hypersun for https://soundcloud.com/hasfeldt

https://www.retreatradio.net/open-minded

Open Minded #3 w/ abji_hypersun (02/04/23)

Following on from last year´s set of hallucinatory vignettes for Milan´s Haunter Records on "Jemi" and the dissection of the possible tearjerking sensibilities of self-help twitter bots on 'You'll Always Stay Beautiful' for Bristol´s NoCorner, @Broshuda glides on to casually deliver this glistening and equally heartfelt 7 Inch for Cologne based Imprint RDK Island.

On the A side, a reflection in the half light resonance of evening/dawn envelops the fractal heavily melodic core of 'Face2'. Floating in some ebulliently chilled out existence not that far, but still quite on its own trajectory, from some of Mouse On Mars most absorbing moments. An hypnagogic cityscape, brimming with lives, real and imagined.
On the flipside 'Voices' hypnotic melody-as-dream gives way to a smoldering state of aural unease, borderline anxiety creeping in, an "orchestra" of filtered, fading voices & realities. Gliding as a state unto itself, neither here nor there. This reality's what you make of it.

Bruno Silva (Ondness)

Release: 6th September 2019

Tracklist:
Face2 (5:04)
Voices (5:08)

Broshuda - Face2

tech palms - outta here

@nadia07109

Wind chimes outside of Caitlin and Andrea's house 
Eva Hesse interview with Cindy Nemser
Chimes, can't remember the details
Bell toy at playground, edit 
Dinner bell 
Dinner bell, KeitaroTamura edit 
Voice memo from Jaclyn Miller 
Red Norvo Trio w/ Tal Farlow & Charles Mingus - If I Had You
Walking into wind chimes outside of my old employer's house 
Chimes, can't remember the details 2
Bell toy at playground 
Eva-Maria Houben - Breath for Organ
Tara Clerkin Trio - In the Room
Cedar's wind chime
Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom - Daytime Viewing
Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom's Daytime Viewing performed by Johanna Owen
sohsie LAN - Terrestrial Conspirator
Narrated by Johanna Owen & n

Natalia - chimes

Nine Structures (excerpt)

FREE¸JÅZZ¸Kı̶̧̘̣̳͕̼̫̜̮̬̯ͅLLAH¸BEEZ™ 
conceptual kleptomaniac post digital free jazz outfi† spams the net with experimen†al and free førm quasi-jazz since about 3.2222 years
hello & booking: droneoperatorjazz (a†) gmail.com

Welcøme to Anxiety Group - Preview - 4 Songs 12" Vinyl - Participant Records, 2022

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