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From the upcoming Album "Vegetal Negatives"
Release Date 29 March 2019
Hallowground.com
HG1901
Vinyl / Digital

”Let us unfold the animal outward: the bronchia will become a thick foliage, keeping its respiratory function, but in reverse, naturally (CO2 absorption), reversed also concerning color, from the tint of calves’ lungs to its complementary cabbage green. The digestive system will become roots, maintaining its role of drawing in nourishment from the outside environment. […] for each animal form there exists a corresponding vegetal form. The man who would find his vegetal negative and unite with it would restore the integrity of the cosmos.”

Vegetal Negatives is a game of sonic mutations, mimicry, inversions, and association inspired by a text called "On pataphotograms", by the French writer René Daumal – a quasi-metaphysical essay that toys with breaking the conceived separateness of natural forms through poetic imagination.

Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a Swedish-born artist living and working in Turku, Finland. She has been an active part of the Finnish experimental music scene for more than ten years. Now arriving at her debut LP under her own name, Ahti explores a new formal language and sonic palette that ventures far from the path of her earlier work.

The four electroacoustic compositions on the album combine and arrange field recordings, electronic feedback, Buchla and ARP synthesizers, bowl gong and harmonium, textures of detailed acoustic sound, and sustained tones with gentle microtonal beating into a precise musical narrative. She juxtaposes recordings of rooms and empty vessels, natural and artificial climates, spontaneous and staged events. Ahti draws upon Annea Lockwood's ideas about associative movements between sounds based on shared characteristics and sonic energy. Her approach to field recordings is neither diaristic, documentaristic, nor purely acousmatic, but rather it starts out from somewhere in between these notions: the sounds hover between abstraction and the deeply familiar, moving into a realm of poetic metaphor where they are set in relation to each other, fleetingly mirroring or shadow-dancing. Acoustic environments mutate into synthetically derived shadow forms.

The opening track, "Coastal Inversion”, moves from a seemingly familiar seascape into an ocean of wavelike synthetic staccato patterns, turning itself inside-out on the shore, before diving back into a sea of resonance. ”Rooftop gardens” arranges a series of largely unprocessed field recordings into a dream-logic sequence of upward movement towards the clouds. On the other side, ”Symbiogenesis” brews a slow evolution of wet, airy and earthy sounds and resonant friction. The closing track, ”Chora”, imagines a meditative space of breath: filter resonance posing as organ pipes against a backdrop of breezy industrial hoovers merges halfway with a harmonium improvisation that foregrounds the frictions of the wooden instrument itself, just before filtering out into resonant harmony.

Tracklist:
A1) Coastal Inversion (12:14)		B1) Symbiogenesis (07:22)
A2) Rooftop Gardens (05:44)		B2) Chora (10:47)

Credits:
Marja Ahti: composition, production, field recording, Buchla 200 and ARP 2600
Recorded at EMS, Stockholm, WORM, Rotterdam, and on locations in Greece, Alaska, Finland and Sweden.
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Designed by Ruth Stofer

Vegetal Negatives

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MARJA AHTI - Symbiogenesis (HG1901)

Ifs = Krzysztof Freeze Ostrowski & Fischerle

Source: https://fasrat.bandcamp.com/album/fasrat-compilation-3

Ifs - Candyflipper

Taken from Keys to the Fields 35:
"2236-2R"

litüus _ 09292014_2236_002

buy the 2018 vinyl edition: https://boomkat.com/products/time-exercises

"Unexpectedly, the closing "Exercise 5" betrays some rare hints of conventional musicality, as cosmic synth drones glimmer and streak across dark skies as the ruined earth shudders, smolders, and collapses beneath.  It is a fitting end to a truly disturbing album, as it feels like I am getting one last glance from space at the final paroxysm of a world where hell has opened up to drag the living into its fiery depths." - Brainwashed

Cam Deas - Exercise 5 [RAVE022]

From tape 'House (Unbuilt), by Belarusian composer Kirill Mazhai. Released October 25 2019 through Moloton. @kirill-mazhai

House (Unbuilt)

Kirill Mazhai - 7th Floor

Taken from the album 'FRACTALS/Brain Fever' released as LP and Digital.

Bernard Fort 'Fractals 1' (REGRM 024)

Loïse Bulot's original octophonic piece, Zenith, has been commissioned by INA-GRM for Akousma Festival 2019 edition in Paris. Here mixed in stereo, this electro-acoustic composition made of piano strings recordings, exponential speed variations, circular movements and attraction phenomenons depicts surprisingly well the complex sun’s gravitational force on the planets.

ITW & Preview: youtu.be/tOgbSpi9gE0


Written & produced by Loïse Bulot.
Commissioned by INA-GRM.

Mastered by Anders Peterson at GS Mastering & Post.
Artwork & design by Benoît Lefeuvre.

Zenith / Serrinha Do Alambari Soundwalk

Loïse Bulot - Zenith

From KR002 Aftelrimpje, Warabe-Uta, Canción infantil, Abzählvers
Available October 6 2020: https://krutrecords.bandcamp.com/
Music by Drywud: https://soundcloud.com/user-100976705-951766155 ~ http://www.drywud.fr/
Artwork by Rufus Mich

Drywud - Rijmelaar

music by monauth*
mixing by mona servo
mastering by asgeir sundan
wine processing by c.u.v.e.
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monauth is mona servo + lolituht

monauth - génodies (extrait)

INDEFINITE PITCH   |   PREMIERE 056

Mickaël Halley - AC333T
Reworks [US014 | UNSE Records]

Composed and mastered by Mickaël Halley
Photography by Mickaël Halley (Analog film / Lisbon, Summer 2020)

Released by UNSE Records from Paris, France
Release Date: November 11 2020

Reworks is a compilation of 4 tracks that are reshaped and compiled on a very Limited Edition vinyl and digital as well. From ambient to downtempo acid-like tracks, each song is made on a hardware set-up only.

"You're Searching For Nothing" & "Music For An Empty Train" were initially edited on my first EP on I Low You Records in April 2020. "Lost Track" is an old recording that was produced in 2018 and edited in September 2020. It was initially recorded for my ambient EP "Panorama" which was edited on Unse Records. "AC333T" is an improvisation on a 4-track tape recorder. It's the only track on this EP with a drum and acid bass-line.

Each track is produced with various modular synthesizers such as Korg MS-20, Behringer Crave, Behringer TD3, Yamaha DX100 and Yamaha MT1X in combination with several effect pedals.

Mickaël Halley
@mickaelhalley
http://mickaelhalley.fr
https://www.facebook.com/mickael.halley1
https://www.instagram.com/mickaelhalley

UNSE Records
@unserecords
https://www.facebook.com/unserecords
https://unse.bandcamp.com

Indefinite Pitch | Yantai
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https://bandcamp.com/indefinite_pitch
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