we're going 𝙁𝙇𝙔𝙄𝙉𝙂,  BABY ! 😀😀😀😀😀

rework of "some form of presence w/ households better sleep"

xoxo


Aircraft
Taiwan - Navy
Grumman (AIDC) S-2T Turbo Tracker
Reg.: 2221
Location & Date
Pingtung - South (RCDC)
Taiwan - June 23, 2007
Caption
An aggressive shark mouth
Photographer
Jason Tu
21   Taiwan
Contact Jason Tu

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but right now (butterfly master chain)

The mixtapes took an unplanned summer holiday, so this one has three sections to make up for that. Normal service should resume shortly. 

This one is quite intense and fairly noisy in places, but this seems apt for the material it’s built from.. 

[ rough content guide ] 

0'00s - 4'10s concrete triggers 

4'10s - 9'20s nighttime strata

9'20s - 14'10s concrete triggers (cont.)

14'10s - 20'40s meat market 

Concrete Triggers

I've rarely use completely generative or random processes in composition, but they can be a useful tool for moving away from learnt patterns or to trigger ideas. My favourite approach is to set up systems that force me to respond to them, to tame wildness or to coax out things the sounds start to reveal.  I used this method for these parts of the mixtape but also restricted the tools, creating focus through creative limitations. I've been selling a lot of audio equipment recently, and this has given me the chance to re-evaluate some bits of kit I haven't fully explored. This section was constructed almost entirely on a Digitakt II with generous use of modulation, resampling and its retro style timestretch. I set up a system where pressing one button would throw 8 layers of field recordings from my archive at me, all looping at random lengths (some so short they approached wavetable synthesis). After some time reshaping them with filters and other distortions I would then launch a new set of recordings, these being processed by the same reshaping I had already applied for some continuity. The recordings were all selected from a small bank so often the same source would appear on multiple tracks but with different processing.  I recorded a long set of improvising with this system and then sliced it up into the structure you hear. (I've been listening to a lot of music concréte recently and this definitely inspired me to be more vigorous with my cuts, letting the shape of the sounds guide my editing decisions.)

Nighttime Strata

This part is a work in progress for something more directly connected to my counterfactual sound research. Through a combination of electromagentic field recordings (using the wonderful SOMA Ether), contact microphones and acoustic sound it imagines a more than human way of sonically sensing the city.  I've worked with EMF recordings on and off over the years but rarely connected them to site. Inspired by Christina Kubisch's Electrical Walks and KMRU's amazing Natur album I'm keen to explore a combination of the audible and inaudible sounds of one place at one time.  What would a future be like where our range of hearing stretched up into the spectrum of wifi networks, security cameras and drone batteries?  I'm in the early questions stage of this work, and this sketch was constructed from nighttime recordings made in Bristol where I captured EMF and acoustic sound at the same time. The composition combines these both as simultaneous layers, sometimes raw and sometimes using audio convolution, where one sound is shaped by the other.  

Meat Market

A family holiday in Burgundy led us to the cattle market at Saint-Christophe-En-Brionnais. This last section collects some sounds roughly captured on a handheld recorder of this intimate encounter with the meat industry.

Summer Trilogy [CounterfactualMixtape #5 JunJulAug 2025]

Actress's 2009 mix of "21st century pillow talk, diss records and Alan Partridge funk" is the next classic FACT mix to get another look.

FACT Mixes

FACT Classic Mix: Actress

Norwegian vocalist Susanna highlights low-key folk and experimental transmissions from faraway places on this magical FACT mix.

For more information and tracklist, head here: http://www.factmag.com/2018/03/19/susanna-fact-mix/

FACT mix 644 - Susanna (Mar '18)

The stylistic tongue-lashings of Leikeli47 meet indie rock super friends Free Kitten on noise-pop innovator EMA's FACT mix.

For more information and tracklist head here: 
https://www.factmag.com/2019/04/09/fact-mix-702-ema/

FACT mix 702 - EMA (April '19)

Season #2 of gear-talk podcast Nuts And Bolts comes to an end with a fourth episode, where host Jessica Sligter meets Maja S. K. Ratkje, at her home in the Norwegian woods. A prolific performer, improviser and composer, technology is a part of Ratkje’s practice across the board.

Chance versus control, working versus broken, throwing away versus fixing. Also oscillators, cassettes, making contact mics, tailor-made plugins, and more, where woven together with many impromptu demonstrations. A dense conversation, fuelled by skill and play.

An immenselysatisfying experience to end our season with. Before season #3 hits, Nuts And Bolts will be publishing their first video-series of artist portraits and gear-tutorials.

Seek us out on Instagram and Youtube, and stay tuned! Nuts And Bolts is hosted and made by Jessica Sligter, and co-engineered by Bridget Ferrill.

This episode was supported by NOPA and Norsk Kulturfond.

Nuts And Bolts S2E4 Maja S. K. Ratkje

Iranian electronic music legend Sote dissolves hardcore music on this fiery selection of all-original material.

For more info head here: https://www.factmag.com/2019/12/02/sote-fact-mix/

FACT mix 739 - Sote (Dec '19)

عزیزم فانک! | اول

می تاخت،
تا به مأمن برسه

ماهر،
پای دامن برسه

توفان
پشت زینش چنگ می‌زد
باد زیر گوشش
نعره و آهنگ می‌زد

دست به خنجر برد، خون شد
به آهن زد، کوه شد

آب به ِمجمر زد، سوخت و
جهنم آبگون شد

جادو جادو جادو شد
جادو جادو جادو شد

می‌خواست،
نقشه‌ی دام بکشه
توسَن،
شیهه‌ی رام بکشه

دست به خنجر برد،
به پیکر زد
به موهاش
جادو

سینه‌اش از غبار و از جنون پر بود

Lyrics: @Sara_Bigdeli_Shamloo

Shezān | شیزان

A mix of classic and contemporary composition from Sarah Davachi that heralds the launch of her new label, Late Music.

More info and tracklist here: https://www.factmag.com/2020/09/14/sarah-davachi-fact-mix/

Fact Mixes

Fact mix 775: Sarah Davachi (Sep '20)

the weather and the land
guitars, mics, pedals and boxes
in the dust of this planet

Summer Trilogy [CounterfactualMixtape #5 JunJulAug 2025]

DSPK