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This is the second collaborative soundtrack from Shane and James created for Ears Have Ears, the previous being 'Her Golden Threads Burned for The Birth of Daylight'. The work was put together over a stay at Shane’s place in northern NSW and combines studio, home and field recordings to create it’s varied sound worlds. Like their previous soundtrack it combines the two’s complementary skills across composition, sound treatment and synthesis.

Listen back to the full program here - https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears/2017-11-30/

EHE 30.11.17 Shane & James - Journey Towards Death

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...and gazing into the void of our confessions....

Exploring The Boondocks On A Kick Scooter

Feeling The Breach Of The Eternal Walls Of Conciousness

Composed, arranged, performed and produced by:
Lutz Thuns & Carlos Vivanco
Artwork by Thierry Desclez 
www.facebook.com/thierrydesclez?fref=ts
www.facebook.com/lutz.thuns.7

Multiverse / Carlos Vivanco & Lutz Thuns

From the EP "The Time is Stretching"
https://zuunzug.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-is-stretching

In this musical piece, there are seven field recordings, three of them are extracts from the work of others artists, and four are from my personal recordings : 
- In a ger(yurt)in Mongolia (Ulziit Sum), 05/19/2017
- At the Mongolian New Year's Eve in Paris, 02/08/2018
- In Le Mans during a thunderstorm, 05/26/2018
- In Le Mans too, an ambiance before a concert... 09/22/2018

Ce morceau contient sept enregistrements de terrain, trois sont des samples, les quatre autres proviennent de mes propres enregistrements: 
- Dans une yourte en Mongolie (province d'Ulziit), 19/05/2017
- Au Nouvel An Mongol à Paris, 08/02/2018
- Au Mans durant un orage, 26/05/2018
- Toujours au Mans, une ambiance d'avant concert... 22/09/2017

The Time Is Stretching

Buy EP

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/laila-sakini-14th-october-2018

Live on NTS Radio - Oct 18 - Laila Sakini

The Funnel is inspired by a visit to the Port Talbot steel works in Wales, various occult writings, the art of alchemy, European medieval and early renaissance music.
Now available to buy on vinyl at:
https://akashicrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/the-funnel

Wojciech Rusin - The Funnel (excerpt)

Midori Hirano - Close to Life
From the album “Mirrors in Mirrors”

Release date: 5th March, 2019
Pre-order “Mirrors in Mirrors” here: https://daisart.bandcamp.com
© Daisart / daisart.info

From the liner notes:

If you stand between two mirrors facing each other, you’re faced with a curious and unique visual sensation – endlessly repeating reflections bounce off one another into an infinite, spiralling prism. Any movement from your vantage point derails the point of focus, and transforms the illusion in real-time before your eyes. Light bends, and with it, colours slip in and out of dominance, in an
Escherism of endless space, despite no change to the dimensions you inhabit in that ever so concrete space between two mirrors.

Midori Hirano speaks of “waning lights” and “edges blending into fog” as some of the sensory indicators inspiring Mirrors In Mirrors – her debut on Daisart – and these Impressionistic sentiments are deeply imbued within Hirano’s delicate, restrained compositions. The hallmarks of modern classical, electronica and ambient are adopted as an assemblage to explore nuanced tones and techniques less dictated by those stylistic underpinnings, perhaps somewhere hovering between – but never too far away – keenly aware of form and
function.

An emphasis upon the piano is an immediate point of reference for placing Hirano’s work within a broader context, but important to point out is the subtle and careful use of synthesisers and effects processing throughout the record – sometimes providing a more detailed background terrain, sometimes taking centre stage. Whichever instrument she turns her hands to, Hirano has crafted a record with enough dedicated focus and space to allow the listener to immerse oneself in her devised temporal expanse, an Impressionistic liminal space of Mirrors in Mirrors.


Written, produced, recorded and mixed by Midori Hirano in Berlin, Germany 2017-18. 
Mastered by Sean McCann of Recital Program.



“Mirrors in Mirrors” comes in a first edition of 200 x 12inch 145gm black vinyl (incl. download) with Pantone printed inner and outer
sleeves designed by Jeroen Wille and Rudd Ruttens [ruttens-wille].

Midori Hirano - Close To Life

the wonderful work of indï : 
https://soundcloud.com/wildsilencez

photo by Elseh
www.flickr.com/photos/187686180@N02

"Nothing Is Ever Truly Gone" by indï & Fiskadoro

https://kitrecs.bandcamp.com/album/kystwerk

A sonic expedition that traces the serrated coastline and briny depths of the North Sea, Kystwerk sees Kit's resident lifeguard and aqua aficionado Roméo Poirier joining forces with Norwegian poet Lars Haga Raavand. Four years in the making, Kystwerk's palette is intoxicatingly vast: a sighing mass in turns opaque and rich with life. Swells of strings and electronics plunge fathoms deep amongst the clicks and whirrs of creatures unknown. Discordant, Copland-esque brass emerges, like some menacing flotsam, and mesmerising tows of piano chords recall the disjointed harmonies of Jonny Greenwood or Murcof. Then, to cement the trance, Raavand lilts and enounces delicately, before he too is swallowed up.

Vinyl and zine releases March 20, 2019. 

All music written and recorded by Roméo Poirier, and all words by Lars Haga Raavand. Artwork by Irene P Tello. Digital mastering by Jonathan Scherk. Vinyl masters by Sam Annand.

Roméo Poirier & Lars Haga Raavand - Vinterens hval [KR31]

'Flor' from the upcoming Release 'Moto Perpetuo' on Marionette.

Written and Produced by Benjamin Kilchhofer and Michael Anklin
Cat. no.: Marionette09
Format: 12” Vinyl (180g) + Digital
Release Date: March 2019

Moto Perpetuo

Bandcamp

Kilchhofer Anklin - Flor (Moto Perpetuo LP)

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/laila-sakini-30th-march-2019

Laila Sakini - live on NTS March 19

Taken from the album 'Simian Angel' released as LP, CD and Download

Oren Ambarchi 'Simian Angel' (excerpt) (EMEGO 264)

Originally broadcast on Ears Have Ears, FBi Radio Sydney. Listen back to the full program here: https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears/2019-06-06/

Iranian sound artist and composer Siavash Amini contributes a stunning soundtrack this week, composed from his home in Tehran. 'The Afternoon Tea' comes from an upcoming subscription series dealing with sonic interpretations of contemporary Iranian literature. This piece is based on a short story by Reza Daneshvar and composed for computer and string ensemble. Within it, you'll hear field recordings captured from the streets of Tehran.

Siavash Amini has released music on Room40, Hallow Ground, Opal Tapes and Umor Rex. He has performed at CTM festival, MUTEKes, Silent Night Prague and few other events in Europe. Siavash is also the curator and co-founder of SET experimental art events and SETfest, as well as SEDA projects in Tehran, Iran.

You can find out more about Siavash here:

facebook.com/siavashaminimusic

twitter.com/capgrasman

EHE 06.06.19 - Siavash Amini - The Afternoon Tea

Originally broadcast on Ears Have Ears on FBi Radio in Sydney, listen back to the show here: https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears/2019-08-01/

In response to our recent announcement about Ears Have Ears ending on 29 August, Forest Swords has made us an exclusive contribution called 'A Joyful Finale', an uplifting mix themed around the idea that "endings don't always have to be sad occasions."

Hailing from Merseyside in the UK, Forest Swords has collaborated with Massive Attack, remixed Björk, was a recent curator in the DJ-Kicks compilation series, has explored multidisciplinary work in the form of Shrine, a contemporary dance piece, and earlier this year he scored 'Ghosts of Sugar Land', a film that won Best Documentary Short at Sundance Film Festival.

Tracklisting:
Alex Zhang Huntai – Pierrot
Ben Vince – What I Can See
Kaitlin Aureliya Smith – Stratus
Quirke – Acid Beth
Anenon – Two for C
Shida Shahabi – Pretty In Plums
Laraaji – The Dance #1

https://soundcloud.com/forestswords

EHE 01.08.19 - Forest Swords - A Joyful Finale Mix

Originally aired on Ears Have Ears on FBi Radio in Sydney. Listen back to the full broadcast here: https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears/2019-06-27/

An exclusive soundtrack by Glasgow based artist Mark Vernon. His clever and striking work often exists on the fringes of sound art, experimental music and broadcasting - centring around the re-appropriation of found recordings, environmental sound and obsolete media. He is an avid collector of domestic tape recordings; audio letters, dictated notes, home sing-alongs, answer-phone messages and other lost voices that he incorporates into his compositions. A keen advocate of radio as an art form, he co-runs Glasgow art radio station, Radiophrenia. His solo music projects have been published through labels including Kye, Flaming Pines, Misanthropic Agenda, Entr’acte, and 3Leaves.

'Elsewhere is a negative mirror' is based around an incredibly intriguing and somewhat menacing voice recording from a Dictaphone micro-cassette bought at a car boot sale. It continues a series of works that marry found recordings from the past with contemporary field recordings of the same location to accrue sedimentary layers of time and blur chronologies.

"On one side, the tape documents the dissolution of a relationship and the aftermath of a separation in a series of text message exchanges read aloud into the Dictaphone for some purpose unknown. Equally puzzling, on the reverse side of the tape the same voice lists a mundane catalogue of company vans and their contact details observed whilst driving down the motorway." - Mark Vernon

EHE 27.06.19 - Mark Vernon - Elsewhere is a Negative Mirror

This originally aired on Ears Have Ears on FBi Radio in Sydney. Listen back to the full broadcast here: https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears/2019-07-04/

An exclusive soundtrack by Utility, a collaborative project of Australian sound artists Austin Buckett and Thomas Smith. Utility explore the tension between the real and the artificial by focusing on the preset nature of contemporary music and media production. They work across multiple forms in both music and visual art contexts by using and contextualising common musical tropes and other production techniques. 

Utility produce commissions and sound design for visual artists and choreographers, release electronic music through independent labels, produce music for rap and rnb vocalists, and perform/exhibit in visual art contexts. They just released this mixtape.

Their exclusive soundtrack Nexus Destiny (Winter Edition) is a mix of the "most emotionally ambiguous arpeggios" from their recent release, Nexus Destiny. 

"This collection exists simultaneously as a sequence of short etudes for listening, and as a library of materials for reuse by other composers, producers and DJs. In its dual function as composition and technical demonstration, Nexus Destiny occupies a musical uncanny valley in which human emotion is captured and stored for the purposes of automation and reproduction. Nexus Destiny is a digital still life that re-performs the 'preset' nature of 'in the box' authorship, while also celebrating the preternatural, hi-definition aesthetics immanent to commercial sound design tools." - Utility

EHE 04-07-19 - Utility - Nexus Destiny (Winter Edition)

http://oystermag.com/oyster-mix-laila-sakini

Oyster Mix: Laila Sakini

FBi Radio's multi-award winning 
experimental show (2011 - last air date August 29, 2019)

Created by Brooke Olsen & Scarlett Di Maio.
fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears