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Feat @hellosulci

AV @ https://youtu.be/SCU4jXhbqLo?si=GFnp0xhweUERe5HG

The latest @fragilex album brings new meaning to the term “labour of love”. It’s an album that’s been in the works for quite some time. The album is inspired by a long term obsession with fractals and their never ending possibilities.

The original production process on the “Curves and Calculus” album began back in 2018 and in the 7 years since its original inception it has morphed and splintered in many directions to allow all the parts of the puzzle to fall into place.

The finished article is a musical maze, brimming with all manner of corridors and pathways to explore. Pulling in inspirations from every angle of the electronic spectrum and integrating them into a mesmerising journey full of colour, serenity and warmth.

We enter and end the trip in an ambient mood but along the way there’s a nod to the psychedelic aspect that is so often associated with fractals, when we take on a trippier tone as the tracks burst into life through twists of intricate drums and flashes of glowing energy and shifts in motion. Mirroring the boundless nature and expansion of infinity.

All the shapes we experience come lined with effervescent melodies, glitchy sonic backdrops, glassy textures and a constant propulsive motion. Always kinetic, looking for the next move, like the fractal.

“Curves and Calculus” is an audio landscape that is constantly evolving. No real beginning, no real end. A symphony of infinite equations. 

Tape and digital
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/curves-and-calculus-bc093

Fragile X (feat Sulci) - The Nature Of Motion (from the "Curves and Calculus" album)

Curves and Calculus

Clouds Are Not Spheres

We are delighted to announce our forthcoming musical adventure with a mate who, like us, enjoys connecting tea with electronic music.

Based in the south of England, Scape One (Kurt Baggaley) is often recognised for his futuristic electro and experimental idm styles. He also uses the pseudonym Tau Sagittarii for his ambient space music made for armchair astronauts. Plenty of tea was used in the making of this music so here is a carefully crafted selection for you to enjoy with your favourite cuppa.

To enhance your listening experience, we recommend accompanying the mix with GABA teas, allowing you to connect with the music on a deeper, clearer level of awareness.

Sounds by @scape-one
Photo by @artyom-zanko

#10 Teacast with Scape One aka Tau Sagittarii

This is a recording of what we believe is a culverted stream below Fallenbrunnen in Friedrichshafen. We noticed this almost as soon as we arrived there, the night before we played at VOD-Festival (19 July 2025), right across the street from Kulturhaus Caserne, the festival venue. The recording was incorporated into the live show, a hidden sound from somewhere almost beneath our feet as we played.

If you know more about the history of this, particularly the name of the stream if it has one, let us know.

Fallenbrunnen

“Like a Bird”, recorded live at IKLECTIK × Waterloo Festival, St John’s Church, Waterloo, London — 12 July 2025.

The original album version appears on Quiet Pieces, released 30 May 2025 via Soft Echoes.

Photo by Colin Hickie.

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Like a Bird (Live at IKLECTIK × Waterloo Festival, St John’s Church, London, 12 July 2025)

For the 603rd haiku from @naviar-records. 

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku603-insect-tremolo/

insect tremolo 
soberingly cools the heat 
of farmland roads

by: Kogetsu Eguchi

Kogetsu Eguchi (1825-1867) was a Japanese poet active in the late Edo period. Together with Kazan Watanabe, he authored the haiku book Tōke shunchō.

The heat of farmlands roads (naviarhaiku603)

umbra

Slow Emotional Piano Improvisation intuitively attuned to a live audience during a performance.

Serenade of Hope

"This little mix is a documentation of a magical summer in my house. I've had friends stay over during an intense long heatwave, and these tracks have been sketched out while hanging out drinking aperol spritzes and chilled wine, and after my friends have gone to sleep. It's a combination of sketches, short jams, almost finished tracks and repurposed bits. 
For those wondering who I am, I am a guy operating, quite comfortably, from the shadowy underbelly of the european experimental techno scene since the early 2000s. I was talked into releasing an EP on 030303 Records in 2014. Since then I've put out more stuff on Analogical Force, Love Love Recs, U.T.T.E.R., Furthur Electronix. 

I’ve gotten reports that both Autechre and Aphex Twin have DJ:ed my tracks, which is perhaps my biggest (second hand) achievement so far, since they are known for quite different styles of music.

Big thanks to Giovanna Elia for inviting me, and to anyone listening, buying my records and/or playing them out."

VERBS Files: Rolando Simmons | live

Empty Space is an artistic platform based in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. We explore the interactions of physical media, their characteristic formal languages, and their modes of functionality. To achieve this, we focus on projects that experiment with various art forms, aesthetics, and crafts. Our goal is to create works of art that challenge conventional modes of production and reception.

To bring each project to life, we collaborate with different artists, blending their distinctive approaches and methods into something new. Depending on the medium, many of our productions are conceived as one-of-a-kind pieces or one-time performances.

Empty Space operates as a non-profit association, with all revenue either supporting the artists or being reinvested in future projects.

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