Name: François J. Bonnet & Stephen O'Malley 'Première noire' (EMEGO 262) by Editions Mego in ambient
Duration: 3 min 17 s
Description: Taken from the album 'Cylene' released as 2LP and Download.

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DAVID GRANSTRÖM, Empty Room - LP

Release date - April 2th 2021
Catalogue nr. - HG2102
Format - Vinyl / digital
Hallow Ground

hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
1) Obsidian 09:22
2) Aeon 10:56
3) Sapphire Visions 04:50
4) Occultations 10:08
5) Transience 04:45

Credits:
All tracks composed, recorded, performed and mixed by David Granström 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Photography by Aron Mattsson
Cover design by Greenpointless

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On »Empty Room,« David Granström works with slow transformations, cyclical and isometric patterns as well as just intonation as a way to create harmonic stability, allowing his long-form pieces to develop their own unique temporal and spatial qualities. A prolific figure in Stockholm’s experimental drone scene and a collaborator of Hallow Ground label mates Maria W Horn and Mats Erlandsson, the Swedish composer navigates through moments of quietude and crushing volume on these five tracks. Sonically and atmospherically, the pieces on »Empty Room« simultaneously call to mind Fennesz’s most meditative work or the physical experience of seeing Sunn O))) live, blending guitar recordings and synthesised sounds with forceful effects similar to those of Mario Díaz de Leon’s Oneirogen project while still being as moving and delicate as Alessandro Cortini’s solo work. The album is marked by melodies and harmonies that are the product of a peculiar working process that turned the composer into an intent listener collaborating with, rather than simply using technology. 

Having been invited by the self-organising artist group The Non Existent Center for a residency to Ställbergs Gruva, a defunct iron ore mine in Sweden’s Bergslagen region, Granström took his guitar as a starting point for his compositional work that heavily relies on real-time sound synthesis. »I seldomly use the instrument as a sound source in the final compositions and rather transcribe and orchestrate the harmonic structures using sound synthesis,« he explains. »On this album however, I chose to include the actual recordings of the guitar in order to extend the spectra between non-referential synthetic sounds and embodied referential sounds.« Working with precise tunings in order to blend the timbre of the synthesis with the harmonic structures of the composition, he created composite sound objects in which the harmonic elements blend into each other. 

Through the re-amplification of synthetic musical materials from the inside of the abandoned mine, his original compositions were enriched with site-specific sound qualities before he further refined them in a singular working process. Granström works with algorithmic and generative processes, using the SuperCollider programming environment and thus blurring the lines between generative and creative forms of composition. »One of the things that I like about this way of working is that it creates a distance between myself as a composer and myself as a listener of the music that is produced entirely by the system,« he says. Granström’s technologically aided eschewing of the conventions of composing doesn’t make the end result any less personal, however. By listening again and again to the newly generated output, Granström simply took on a different role in the process of finalising the music, with the technology and the sounds becoming his co-authors. 

By creating systems that generate music, he gains a new perspective on (musical) time, says Granström. »There doesn't have to be a fixed length to the music at all,« he explains. »And by writing music with this in mind, my focus tends to shift towards writing cyclical structures that gradually change and transform over time.« Simple parts, in other words, that emerge as the five complex wholes that form »Empty Room,« a record that itself seems to take on different forms with every new listen.

DAVID GRANSTRÖM - Occultations (HG2102)

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Cem:
We have been working on this project with Mira for a while. Following Mira’s Curated Playlist contribution we discussed different ways in which music can enrich “the meme experience.” She kindly created this sound piece that is meant to be listened to while looking at memes on your phone.

Mira:
Classical music lovers will acknowledge that all releases of a piece of music vary and are open to interpretation. Pop music lovers are used to cover versions… Monteverdi has done something unusual for the baroque song I rearranged for this project. Commenting on the soprano part in the introduction to the Lamento, he left a note saying the singer should sing “according to her emotions” while the other singers and musicians are to follow the directions of the written score. He inbuilt variation and virality into the piece.
If you open Youtube and search for “Lamento della Ninfa” you will come across thousands of videos by amateurs and professionals alike. Thousands of variations and mutations sing out, some slow, some fast, some delicate, some wild. Despite the age of the piece, it’s still very much alive and viral… with a continuous stream of new releases and uploads… they keep mutating and imitating. And so it is from this particular ancient element of culture, passed by non-generic means that I have shaped a sound collage… cutting and pasting, and fusing, and moving through all these hundreds of variations to create perhaps the most dramatic soundtrack for your meme scrolling…

https://www.art--market.com/product/the-meme-kit

by other means (la ninfa)

B1. Earthen Sea - Spectral Sky

The Last Wave

Burn It All Down

From forthcoming LP "Murmurations" available on Cibachrome Editions April 1st 2022 https://leabertucci.bandcamp.com/album/murmurations

A Vast Interiority - Lea B + Ben Vida

Matt Evans - Percussion
Henry Fraser - Double Bass
Lucia Stavros - Harp
Lester St. Louis - Cello 

Composition + electronics by Lea Bertucci, 2021

Of Shadow And Substance (Excerpt)

Original Score inspired by the Alan Moore collection of short stories

American Light

Sonatine - "Sonatine"
c16, clear cassette with delicate paper j-card.

Out on sinneslöschen:
https://sinnesloschen.bandcamp.com/album/sonatine

SIN-04 - Sonatine - Murakawa's Decision

Music for Raising - long & short form high-flying ambient album crafted for your raising… 

OUT NOW: https://nosdam.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-raising

Music for Raising

Whole, Living

From Keys to the Fields 17: øjeRum "Under Gange"

øjeRum _ Above Dreams Hands Now Flee III

This track was made for VIVA ITALIA - Monochrome Vision 2017

Gaetano Cappella & Enrico Coniglio - Madonna delle Nevi

"Red Velvet Or Nothing" by Belong from the definitive "October Language" LP reissue due out Spring 2018.

"Red Velvet Or Nothing" by Belong

Taken from the album 'Cylene' released as 2LP and Download.

Cylene

François J. Bonnet & Stephen O'Malley 'Première noire' (EMEGO 262)

US-born, Stockholm-based minimalist artist and apprenticing organ tuner Kali Malone gave a special organ performance in TivoliVredenburg's Grote Zaal as opening of Le Guess Who? 2019. The performance was part of The Bug's curated program for the festival. 

We can now share two exceptionally beautiful pieces from the performance: 'Sacrificial Code' and 'Glory Canon III'. Both are deeply immersive and mesmerizing tracks, drawing in listeners with Kali Malone's well-known warmth and timelessness.

Captured on Thursday, 7 November 2019, at TivoliVredenburg's Grote Zaal during Le Guess Who? 2019.
Recorded and mixed by Marc Broer & Philip ten Brink.
Photography by Jelmer de Haas.

Kali Malone - Sacrificial Code

Matu

Braille & Arco5 - Desastre

Composed in 2005, in collaboration by @senglar /Braille and @Arco5
Remastered October 4, 2020

Download the track here: https://arco5.bandcamp.com/track/desastre
Spotify; https://open.spotify.com/album/4jD6whMcDrODQskQBGomQy

Arco5 & Braille - Desastre - 2005

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François J. Bonnet & Stephen O'Malley 'Première noire' (EMEGO 262)

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