Name: Caterina Barbieri - Undular by Ekho:: Women in Sonic Art
Duration: 11 min 19 s
Description: Track submitted to Ekho::Women in Sonic Art for inclusion in the paper 'Ekho:: Toward a Repetitive Sounding of Difference'

These are excerpts from the Schneider TM album "The 8 Of Space", out on Editions Mego as LP / CD / download:
https://schneidertm.bandcamp.com/album/the-8-of-space
Promo: 
ed(at)dense(dot)de

www.schneidertm.net
http://editionsmego.com/release/EMEGO-297

With an extensive catalogue under his belt, one may wonder where this one takes us? The 8 of Space orbits the realm of “pop” more overtly than the project has done for 14 years, residing in the line of works that temporarily ended with “Skoda Mluvit“ from 2006. In the age of scattered streaming listening habits The 8 Of Space champions the classic album format with connected tracks that act like chapters adding up to what could be framed as an 'audio-movie‘. The ‘plot' revolves around a post-dystopian landscape which posits the make up of reality in the future. 

The vessel is electronic pop music but one which takes inspiration from the spirit of a multitude of musical forms absorbed into a trans human sound world where biological & technological elements complement each other (We are NOT The Robots!). The music unifies the analog world of acoustic and electric instruments with electronic & digital possibilities that range from heavily processed acoustic & electric guitars and bass, tube organ, analog modular synth units, acoustic drums and percussion, analog & digital drum machines & effect units, hardware and software processing. Experimental & extended musical techniques build a world of musical elements that is sometimes upside down and mirrored. Electric guitar becomes rhythm machine & modular system, voice becomes sound object & synthesizer, effects are used as instruments, acoustic guitars are being modulated by voices etc. Reality and illusion are getting mixed up. One can hear short moments of longer recordings in the tracks which are snapshots of bigger musical pictures that lurk behind what’s actually audible. Generative music, audio spirals like clockworks create ever changing musical combinations; thrown-in sounds, polyrhythms & cascades based on the concept of chance attributed to the service of the SONG. 

The lyrics are a key component. Holistic, associative poetry acts as interactive trigger points for the mechanisms of existence in times of a paradigm shift that are open to the listeners discretion. Autobiographical elements combine with science fiction and dreams, protagonists shift where the ‘I’ or ‘me’ is not necessarily the voice of the artist, nor even the same person. Alongside a more naturalised voice another protagonist appears represented by a processed voice. This character, named iBot, evolved around the start of the millennium and has appeared on some previous Schneider TM recordings. It can be seen as a post-human, or even a trans-human character, a combination of human & technology, uncertain of the future, which lends iBot it’s melancholic tone. 

In the opening song “Light & Grace“ iBot appears in an advanced form of AI, which managed to hack & hijack a commercial space travel program (eg, Virgin Galactic) to invite those rich, who profited most from the destruction of planet earth, for a holiday trip into space to unknowingly fly them directly into the middle of the sun. In this episode it seems to have developed higher ethics than humanity itself with ambition to save the planet with as much of its cooperative life as possible.“Light & Grace“ serves as an intro / opener for this album to be followed by 7 other tracks featuring different windows of consciousness represented by diverse characters & protagonists. 

All the elements on The 8 of Space, the music, sounds, vocals and artwork fit together as a whole, creating a dazzling electro pop future questioning it’s own certainty. This is experimental electroacoustic pop music featuring glorious melodies dancing along human/machine voices, each track is a small universe that triggers the physical mind and tickles the subconsciousness.

The 8 Of Space

The 8 Of Space (album snippets, eMego 2021)

LIES-043
Gunnar Haslam-Laghi Sotterranei
from the upcoming "Porte Maillot" ep
to be released January 2014

Gunnar Haslam-Laghi Sotterranei (LIES-043)

Track submitted to Ekho::Women in Sonic Art for inclusion in the paper 'Ekho:: Toward a Repetitive Sounding of Difference'

Caterina Barbieri - Undular

antebellum

Next level sounds coming from the Science Ninja Team WaqWaq Kingdom, re-charting dub territory as we know it with their highly addictive post-tribal epic Shinsekai (“New World”).

Driven by Andrea Belfi‘s trimba – a percussion instrument developed and mastered by Moondog – Kiki Hitomi‘s etheral voice twists through a fog of swirling arpeggiators and polyrhythmic textures, all brought together beautifully by bass- and mayhem expert Shigeru Ishihara (DJ Scotch Egg, Seefeel).

Shinsekai

Bird

First part of the Versus remixes curated by Red Bull Studios Paris
Digital out on 23/02/18 via Infiné

https://infine-music.com

Carl Craig Feat Francesco Tristano, Les Siècles & FX Roth - Dominas (Benedikt Frey The Game mix)

Joel & Ivar - Svalöv 8 Juli

Chosen instrument: Dave Smith Instruments Mopho X4
Artist: https://soundcloud.com/cuna1214
Instrument information: https://bit.ly/2ElvxbD

~ Full of things that have never been ~

Cuna - Dave Smith Instruments Mopho X4 (Exp#2)

distributed by bordello a parigi
https://bordelloaparigi.com/shop/musica/keys-voltage-lp/

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Keys - Voltage

Tunes Of Negation - Reach The Endless Sea
Format: 2xLP  
Cat.No. CR10
Pre-order: http://bit.ly/2MYQDkp

As it has become a somewhat common occurrence in his discography, Shackleton’s Cosmo Rhythmatic debut as Tunes Of Negation opens with a song. Its structure and, most importantly, themes, can be integrally traced within his rhizomatic net of creations, consistent with a process that’s regularly wandered through spiritual depths by means of sonic perseverance. Sung by Heather Leigh, the double – cantos continuum of “The World Is A Stage” and “Reach The Endless Sea” deal with time, or rather its illusory, treacherous nature, as well as spiritually investigating ideas of immortality, memory, and grief.

Ultimately, it is a meditation on the non-finitude of life and spirit, and the limits of perception in dealing with it. It could be argued that the whole record, as well as Shackleton’s whole body of work, represents an attempt to break those limits and trespass beyond human experience, incorporating an immense vocabulary of music traditions in order to ditch linear narratives and the established grammar of electronic music.

Shackleton’s usual arsenal of resonating woods and metals, ceremonial polyrhythms and astral melodies acquire a freer, more spontaneous character by the intervention of keyboardist Takumi Motokawa and mallet player Raphael Meinhart, whose symbiosis with the producer generates a truly beautiful and multi-directional flow of energy. The sacral austerity of the music is paralleled by its sheer, seductive, harmonic power, one that draws new trajectories in time and space with its seemingly endless layers of arpeggios, beats, and drones.

For all their complexity and propulsion, these are indeed Tunes of Negation. The title, inspired by a poem by 13th Century mystic Jalalu’l-Din Rumi, is a description of what Shackleton himself hopes to achieve with the music, to “aid transmutation and enter into the light”.

Music written and composed by S. Shackleton except track 3 by S.Shackleton and T.Motokawa. Words for tracks 1 and 2 by S. Shackleton and H.Leigh.
S. Shackleton does the programming, electronics, synthesizers, and all related stuff.
T. Motokawa plays harmonium, keys, percussion, gongs.
R. Meinhart plays mallets and percussion.
Guest vocals on tracks 1 and 2, Heather Leigh.
Artwork by Zeke Clough.
Mastered and Cut by Rashad Becker @ Dubplates and Mastering. 
© Cosmo Rhythmatic 2019

Tunes Of Negation - Nowhere Ending Sky (CR10)

If you wonna know, likle child, be aware while walking to.. - she kept on and on with thad old woman never ending narrative...
... this one is about the Wall, The Hero is behind the. Then by the Walking he passes it through - and by that act becomes da Walk King. This one story is made out of crisp and tingling clear advise.

Walking

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