An eternity passed as mere minutes, such was the enjoyment while putting this together. Simple setup: guitar through a couple of effects boxes, no amp.

Hope you like it too!

Download now available here: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/rask-evighet-ep

Rask Evighet EP

Rask evighet (Outtake)

Here's an outtake of a live performance recorded in March 2021.

Download this track at https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/rask-evighet-ep

Looped different instrumental voices (guitar and bass), with a minimal-ish "percussion/micro-sample/click" track forming the basis, recorded minutes before the rest of the session.

The unbridled flow was helped along by Pladask Elektris's Fabrikat and my trusty CBA Mood, as well as the Polymoon. These creative pedal designers/builders have enabled me to work in a completely new way. Thanks chaps!

Rive (Peek)

New mix of "Night Drone" off of my new EP, to be released this fall via Bandcamp.

Cover art: Westbourne Grove, W11
Courtesy of www.outoffocusart.co.uk

2021

Night Drone [v2mx4]

Short sound wave. Enjoy!

Glissentar used extensively, believe it or not.

Download from Weeklybeats [http://weeklybeats.com/#/encym/music/tnel-vision]

Tünel Vision

Multi-dimensional submission for the CDR Dimensions. Hope you enjoy!

Full track available via Bleep/CDR on the Dimension Sounds 2014 compilation:

https://bleep.com/release/59646-various-artists-dimension-sounds-2014


I made this tune using simple sample manipulation techniques in Logic and one instance of EXS (for the bass line – also using one of the samples as a basis). 

Basically, the samples led me in this process. So thanks for the many inspiring sounds!

This is obviously inspired by the click/house masters from back in the day: Akufen, Jan Jelinek aka Gramm aka Farben, Mille Plateaux, Pole, as well as DJ Food and other clever sample manipulators.

Samples I probably used:
Antwerp - Fighting Birds - London.2
Antwerp - Fountain in Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross
Ben Houghton - Budapest Street Alarm
Ben Houghton - Hamburg Port
Ben Houghton - Mountain Rocks - Morocco
BenAtWork - Rock Hits Glass Shard- Melbourne
Citizen - Melbourne - Back Down.
Escht - OG
G__D - Basketball Shot
G__D - Keyworth Road Water Pipe
G__D - Metal Work In Backyard
Headgaar - Glass On The Ground
Igor Cvitkovi - Iris Bus Citelis Bus Crash sample - Zagreb, Croatia
Igor Cvitkovi - Iris Bus Citelis Bus Open Hi Hat sample - Zagreb, Croatia
Igor Cvitkovi - Tatra T4 tram FX sample - Zagreb, Croatia
Illumes - Knocking Wooden Toy
Illumes - Pint Glass & Coins
James Bowman - Church Door Handle
Joakim Lartey - Chimey
Joakim Lartey - Single Cicada - 17 Year Cicadas - New Paltz NY
 Joakim Lartey - Tree Frogs (Peepers) - Minnewaska, NY
John Morgan - Haunting Bar - Dalston
Tesselator - Pedestrian crossing clicks, Domain Interchange, 2am.3
Unknown - Skripanje Marina
Vladimir Radinović - Belgrade - Elevator Bass Kick

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Concrète [Outtake]

This is my version of the "missing" Atomos IV.

Thanks to A Winged Victory For The Sullen for their tremendously inspiring work.

Literally all the sounds were made on guitar, either semi-acoustic or acoustic.

Enjoy!

An extended transmission can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/encym/iv-xiv

This was featured in the December Terminal Radio transmission:

https://soundcloud.com/loose-link/va-terminal-radio-transmission-25-edgar-froese-tribute-021315

Atomos IV [unearthed]

Made with an awesome online sound processing device/game, Girl Talk in a Box, using one of my own tracks. 
Enjoy!

More on this 162nd Disquiet Junto project — “Use Paul Lamere’s ‘Girl Talk in a Box’ to gain a new perspective on your own music” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/02/05/disquiet0162-juntoinabox/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

http://static.echonest.com/girltalkinabox/

The clicks happened while playing the track in the device. Sorry about those!

Trip_disquiet0162-juntoinabox

Featuring MurF guitar.

Thanks for everyone's enthusiastic and inspiring comments!

Tou-Ses-Oon

The full version of the above outtake is available through Naviar Records: 
https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/naviar-haiku-19

It was featured on the label's Reform Radio show in Juni 2020: https://o.ello.co/https://www.reformradio.co.uk/play/The_Takeover_Naviar_Records_29th_June_2020 

true tranquillity
hiding underneath creased sheets –
unknowable blue

haiku by Mark Morris medium.com/@purelandhaiku
picture by Ivana Cajina unsplash.com/@von_co

For more information visit www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Naviar Haiku 19

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True Tranquility [Short Version]

This is out now on Etang Brulant's two-part compilation "Live today, Die tomorrow".

Both albums are free to download or you can choose to pay what you wish to donate to the charity 'Secours Populaire Français' via Bandcamp : 
Live today: https://etangbrulant.bandcamp.com/album/live-today

Die tomorrow: https://etangbrulant.bandcamp.com/album/die-tomorrow-2

Because of the situation we are all facing, we decided to give all the money raised to a French charity called 'Secours Populaire Français', dedicated to fighting poverty and discrimination in public life.

You can find more information here : https://www.secourspopulaire.fr/

Live Today,

Charity Donation

Possible Scenario [Out now on Etang Brulant]

Here's a quick live looping improv putting the Chase Bliss Audio Mood through its paces on guitar & bass. Enjoy!
Here's a second version of this track -- a collaboration with Daniel Diaz (https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz):

https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/a-lefkos-sky

Jestiqué

Stuff I've been working on. Beats and noise.
Started with the partly odd-meter beat. Had a play with side chaining on the bass (a found sound from my personal library, from about 10 years ago), and added some recent guitar improvisations.

Enjoy!

More on this 435th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0435: Woodshed Report — The Assignment: Share something you’ve been working on (and respond to what others post) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0435/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0435-woodshed-report/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Sys - F[ai]l 00.00001disquiet0435

This is an excerpt from a live session with https://soundcloud.com/hems on KORG SV-1 and myself on guitar and effects.

Now available through Neotantra on their fine tʌntrə VII compilation: https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/album/t-ntr-vii


Recorded in 2016 at New River Studios, London N4.

Sound engineer: Joseph Martin-Kelly

tʌntrə VII

Fleetingness

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Fleetingness feat. Hems (Live at New River Studios London) -- Out now on Neotantra

A live jam. Guitar & beats.

Pictured: National Theatre, Southbank Centre, London Borough of Southwark, ca. 2012

Enjoy!

Width (Narrowed Version)

A snappy, concise version. Enjoy!

VIsuals: Sunset at Tanner St, view towards the Shard & London Bridge, Bermondsey, South London, 2018.

Arches [Maltby Version]

Late night jam on guitar and various bits and bobs, without much tinkering.

Enjoy!

There's another glitch/crunch version. Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/encym/plus

hearitslate [night version]

This is a shortened preview version. Hope you like it!

The full-length tune is now available for download as part of the "Exhibit A" compilation, which features an array of excellent fellow producers. 

Check it out here: https://aud-art.bandcamp.com/album/exhibit-a

Exhibit A

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"+" [plus] (Snippet)

As I'd set up the start of this recording (using the Dark Star, Mood, and Avalanche Run mostly), I went to the other room to get a phone call. When I came back it was still playing with those lovely textures changing ever so slightly. This is an outtake of that session.

Enjoy!

Autoplay Mush (Edit)

This is an improv with minor editing comprising of three distinct parts. 

This is an edited version; the full track is available from Naviar Records: https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/7-years-of-naviar-haiku

Very simple set-up: Fender Tele --> various boxes --> Logic.

This week's Naviar Haiku: 

slanting rain,
gentle breeze,
no need to return home

This translates into three distinct parts. The "valleys" in the waveform give away where they start and end.

Part I: Skittering clouds, downpours.
Part II: Like wind brushing past, with uneasiness creeping in towards the end
Part III: Major key mood, closing with Koto-ish textures and an abrupt ending

haiku by Zhang Zhihe http://www.silkqin.com/09hist/other/zhangzhihe.htm

picture by Dave Hoefler https://unsplash.com/@johnwestrock

More about this project can be found here:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/12/09/naviarhaiku362-slanting-rain/

Thanks for listening!

2020

Tri-ing (Naviarhaiku362) [Short Version]

A short improv, one pass, one track.

Enjoy!

Bird's Eye View

Flowing one-off guitar improv, on the minimal side, with the MurF & Dark Star featuring prominently throughout. 

Enjoy!

Solstice (Phase One - Abridged Version)

This is my submission for this week's Disquiet assignment.

The two people playing together here are different instances of myself -- the experimental electronics guy of recent years, and the "traditional" guitarist of yesteryear. They had this jam when they met.

Enjoy the duo, and here's some more insight about this project:


More on this 468th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mirror Rorrim (The Assignment: Create a new persona for yourself, and record a duet together), at:

https://disquiet.com/0468/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0468-mirror-rorrim/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Dual(disquiet0468)

Having been started but not finished in 2012, this piece was then picked up and had things added, mixed and released in late 2020.

Enjoy!

New Shores [v.2012]

Came up with a weird alternate tuning and recorded this one-pass improv. Added a slightly downbeat intro from the same session. And a bass track from around 2000.

Enjoy!

(Tuning, low to high: C# A C# G# B E)

Undercast [Edit]

First-listen improvisations on piano patterns n°15, kindly provided by my dear friend Marco Lucchi. Minimal post production mixing/EQing.

Marco's wonderful piece that formed the basis for this can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/piano-patterns-n15?in=marcolucchi/sets/piano-patterns-vol-2

pattern/no pattern (Marco Lucchi x encym)

Various bits and bobs added and taken away again.

Thisness

One-pass improv -- no editing. Lots of Slip in Mood if you know what I mean.

Sensing

Minus

I made this piece in response to this week's Naviar Haiku:

One traveller,
Wakes another traveller,
At the sight of the sea.

Here's some more info courtesy of Naviar Records, who initiated the project:

The Haiku Foundation is always a rich source of inspiration. I immediately fell in love with this poem by Choshi, included in R.H. Blyth “Japanese Satirical Verses“. For those of you who are not familiar with the difference between haiku and senryu: the former tends to be about nature, while the latter refers to some aspect of human nature or emotions. Their structure is similar.

I couldn’t find any information on Choshi online, so here’s what R.H. Blyth said about our haiku of the week:

“We have here a clear example of the difference between haiku and senryu. The sight of the sea in the early morning makes someone wake up a fellow traveller. But what remains in our minds is not the sea glittering in the morning sunshine, but the shaking and awakening of the traveller by someone who hardly knows him from Adam. We feel the kinship of the men through that one touch of nature.”

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 24th February 2021

haiku by Choshi  https://thehaikufoundation.org/book-of-the-week-senryu-japanese-satirical-verses/

See the Sea (naviarhaiku372)

Sombre & jubilant.

Download at https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/rask-evighet-ep

Thanks for listening!

Raks Evighet EP

Sombre/Jubilant (Concise Version)

New EP "Rask Evighet" out now: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/rask-evighet-ep

Abstract sample sculptures, minimal/maximal, weird beats, broken ambient.


Profile pictures above by Walter Lewis

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