Name: Foretold by encym in Selection
Duration: 3 min 14 s
Description: Setting up a mood, a hint of something about to happen.

Dropped and spangled  - I like that everything contributes to the overall effect, whilst being hard to seperate

Selection

The thing about France Jobin's music that never fails to impress is that it works on so many levels. Listen to it at the threshold of perception (the way it is mastered) or at very high volume, on headphones or through loudspeakers, and you will hear new sonic relationships, new structures, a new logic every time. Things simultaneously are and aren't as they seem; sounds you hear are and aren't really there.

Montréal sound/installation artist France Jobin has come a long way since her days as a blues keyboardist in the 1980s. In 1999, after a hiatus that lasted a decade, during which she raised two sons, she turned to experimental electronic music of the very quiet, rumbling, abstracted kind, and started performing and releasing music under the moniker i8u. Slowly but with great assurance, she built a much-lauded career and kept on refining her art, ever digging deeper into the core of sound. When the revered LINE label offered her an album (Valence) in 2012, she abandoned her alias and started using her own name.

In her own words:

«The Illusion of Infinitesimal represents another chance to refine the unique essence of each sound and composition, in an effort to better communicate intent without influencing its unfolding, a delicate balance between perfection and detachment.

A parallel could be drawn from particles of matter, which, "as far as we know, are infinitesimal points of zero size, yet they have measurable amounts of angular momentum. Does the concept of rotation even make sense for a featureless speck? Angular momentum seems to be a more foundational concept than rotation itself. The angular momentum, or spin, of a single particle is restricted in strange ways. It can have only certain values, and not all values are allowed for all particles." (1)

Perfection and uncertainty.»

(1) Collage of quotes from Jim Pivarski, "Spin", Symmetry Magazine, March 2013.

France Jobin - 0

A Rework of the track "Si" by Nils Frahm for Nils' Screws Reworked project 2014.

http://reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

Nils Frahm - Si (Sleep Orchestra Rework)

Setting up a mood, a hint of something about to happen. 

Foretold

derivata quarta

Troisième tir pour ce merveilleux anniversaire et cette belle communauté des Beat Battles. Bon anniversaire pour cette 100 ème.
https://discord.com/channels/1075579383781261322/1367755558328991814

LE BEL ÉBOULIS

AUMELON # 2

Brief experimental mix on vinyl. Somewhere around 1999. (You can tell what I was trying to do.)
If I could remember the vinyls I was using, I would list them.

"The Needle Scratching Upon This Gramaphone"

shaku krell improv

A track produced for the 600th Naviar Records Haiku Challenge; 7 days in which to write and record a piece in response to the haiku posted. The haiku, 'thinking of us, the sound of wind, among the pines' made me think of the 'us' as several voices carried in the wind through the forest, so I used solely voice samples for the track.

Us the Wind Among the Pines (naviarhaiku600)

HVAC Variations #1

‘exultavit’
Travel stories.
2021 semi-live performance.

"I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate" - Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer).

Tools :
- Lyra-8 > Afterneath > BlueSky.
- BeatStep Pro > ADX1.
Logic: Sculpture, Drum Kits.
Recorded, mixed and mastered with Logic Pro.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Tannhäuser Gate [travel stories]

TRANSMISSIONS   XX51

Ghartedsa

Blue.Hour explores the high contrast colors created in the landscape during “l’heure bleue,” the period of twilight each evening when there is neither full daylight nor complete darkness. Directly following the ‘Golden Hour,’ know for its diffused yet powerful light, the Blue Hour retains the diffusion but lacks the strong light source giving this period of the day an especially melancholic and meditative atmosphere.

Blue.Hour is presented here in stereo with some compositional elements added to make it more suitable for home listening.

Yann Novak - Blue.Hour (Excerpt)

The sound of Logic Moon has graced the airwaves on esteemed labels such as Whitelabrecs, Archives and Ambientologist, among others.

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

Latest: "Clique Plaisir" on BC: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/clique-plaisir

"Crown Shyness" by encym & Wodwo: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/crown-shyness

Foretold

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