Name: Intra-action 29.05.20 by Erik Nyström
Duration: 7 min 8 s
Description: Recorded live in studio, unedited, for NIME 2020. Intra-action is a computer system for improvisation where listening synthesis agents are capturing behaviours from human performance input and responding to each other.

From KR046 Qoa - Asteroide
https://krutrecords.bandcamp.com/album/asteroide
Qoa is Nina Corti's symbiot through which readings of alien flora, fauna and fable are relayed through swirling layers of texture and melodies. The lore of life on asteroids is mysterious, symbolic and playfully transcendental ~ through music, the rocks tell their story, charmingly and ineffably so.
Artwork by Ernesto Gonzalez
Released November 24, 2021

Qoa - Flora

from Letters Are Weird To Look At 

https://ujbala.bandcamp.com/album/letters-are-weird-to-look-at

Lavabo

Helsinki is a wreck
The cashier, the landlord, the tourist, the bystanders
sixteen varieties of insomnia
honestly, i'm dead,
dead tired

catch the once and for all, in your sleep at night
push through dark's canal
or what is the gate

~

music by Running
vocals by Helena Pulkkinen
art by Eeva-Maija Pulkkinen
mastered by jj
words by Kaitlyn D. Hamilton, text by Running

Dead Tired / Maailman kaukaisin ihminen

Running 'Maailman kaukaisin ihminen'

Pegi Supersaw

Abrasiv Jam

Musician, writer and filmmaker, Sunik Kim follows up ‘The Bent Bow Must Wait to Be Released’  (Takuroku 2021) with their second LP - a deadly serious dismantling of the limits of contemporary computer music, delivered with playful dexterity and a touch of slapstick humour, a la Henry Cow. 

Enlisting General MIDI to create frenetic, vital patterns of dis-organisation made up of gleeful synthetic trumpets, wry orchestral sweeps and brutal key clusters, Sunik Kim explodes a kind of simplistic sound into complex, beautifully uncertain structures. Readers may laugh, but ‘Potential’ is calmer than Kim’s previous offerings. Rather than attempting to overwhelm or stun the listener into subjectivity, ‘Potential’ is ever shifting; regularly breaking form and unfolding, discreetly nibbling at the concept of the Spectacle and un-doing fatally closed systems of cyclic music. 

On first listens we recalled Cecil Taylor’s Unit Structures, Stockhausen’s Gruppen, and even those weirdo attempts at making music from inside the world of Animal Crossing, Lil Jürg Frey. The overflowing ideas of Henry Cow (to which Kim dedicated a fantastically blended mix for the Wire in 2021) never drift too far from view, but contemporary counterparts lay few except for Yorkshire's most eminent polyceleratrix, Gretchen Aury, who we asked to write the liners. Gretchen’s words are unsurprisingly as extraordinary as the record itself, so we’ll close out the call to elicit a Media response to possibly the wildest OTOROKU yet with their words:

“Potential reads as a rare honest response to the disaster capitalist era of the apparent nearing end of the anthropocene, a cyborg music which is not hopelessly psychotic like so much contemporary and especially computer-requiring music, but lucidly possessed with rapture, pain, madness, empathy, ecstasy, torment, fragility; all those vital feelings and incentives which our atrociously depressing times seem engineered to quash and bleed out of us. This sound is a blistering Electro Magnetic Pulse wave of revolutionary hope, exclaiming defiantly that History is not over, that the future is not ‘history,’ that there is still a vast multitude of ideas and identities burning brightly and resiliently, despite the fact that they are inconceivable to the tyrannical Hegemonic axis of global capitalist tech-culture. I ask of you, listener, if you truly wish to plunge beyond The Known, give yourself over in full to this record.”

—

Artwork by Sunik Kim
Layout and design by Jeroen Wille 
Liner notes by Vymethoxy Redspiders
Mastered by Anotine Nouel at Sound Love Studios

All music by Sunik Kim
Track 1 edited by John Wall

—

OTOROKU
18-22 Ashwin Street
Dalston, London
2023

OTOROKU is distributed internationally by Cargo. For any further enquiries about this release, contact abby@cafeoto.co.uk.

Potential

ROKU035 - Sunik Kim - Potential [sample]

The intricate sonic activity behind 'Live at default' testifies to Francesco Corvi's recent post-acousmatic practice. Intense multi-layered textures and rich synthetic soundscapes are fused with micro-sounds. Highly detailed digital noise is made warm and enchanting by the live performance and ambience recordings, and reaches its best character on magnetic tape.

"In my practice software is not conceived as an instrument, neither as a virtual agent, but rather as a dynamic network of interconnected components that exhibit emergent properties by monitoring their own behavior, adapt to changes and alter their own structure. Immersed in this ecosystem of sonic processes, I shape the unfolding of the performance by modifying the software on stage and responding to its behavior. This peculiar form of improvisation possesses a unique performative idiom that cannot be reduced to bodily gestures or human intentions, as the sonic activity itself becomes the medium for conveying the liveness of the performance. This release focuses on how such a feeling of liveness might be translated into a record, placing particular attention on the capturing of the acoustic space of the concert hall and the additional layer of meaning it creates."

Francesco Corvi (aka nesso) is a performer, composer, and multimedia artist. He works with custom digital technologies including live coding environments, adaptive systems, and spatial audio engines,
creating shows at the intersection of computer music, new media art, and deconstructed club. He released music on Superpang, Kaer'Uiks, Genot Centre, HEEL.ZONE, Mossa records, Riforma.

released December 15, 2023

Music composed and performed by Francesco Corvi, live recorded 16.03.2023 at default #3 in Den Haag
Mastered by Francesco Corvi
Artwork by Ran
Cover silkprinted at Papier Gâchette, Strasbourg

Live at default

Live at default (excerpt)

some memories and melodies of anybard, who, as always, is attempting to establish connection with ghosts on the channel. chamber music, demos and walkie talkie singing. 
all music by spellcaster / h hartvig

the shadow channel w anybard w/ Spellcaster

This CD features recordings of a now lost sculptural work that was originally commissioned in 2016 for Colour Out of Space festival. The work consists of over 100 empty computer cases, fitted with 16 customised and automated DVD drives. Between 2016 and 2018 it was exhibited in Brighton, Athens, Croydon, Oxford and Rennes, on each occasion being reconfigured into a new form. The most ambitious of these being at Detritus Festival in 2018, where a new and larger version of the work was constructed at the Onassis Cultural Centre from used computer sourced in the city. The work was sadly lost in transit between France and the UK, returning to the global trade in e-waste which its production initially sought to intervene in, so all that remains are these recordings. 

The CD is released in an edition of 150 in an oversized 7" sleeve accompanied by a 16 page risographed booklet featuring photographs and scans of the sculpture, essays by Danae Stefano and Stephen Cornford, and a letterpressed backpanel.

Stephen Cornford - Constant Linear Velocity [excerpt]

Obfuscation Morphologies - https://ericfrye.bandcamp.com/album/obfuscation-morphologies

Processed phone recordings from 2015 - 2020, synthesis, found sounds.

Obfuscation Morphologies

Bandcamp

Bake

Recorded live in studio, unedited, for NIME 2020. Intra-action is a computer system for improvisation where listening synthesis agents are capturing behaviours from human performance input and responding to each other.

Intra-action 29.05.20

Live Computer Music
Electroacoustic Composition
Sound Installations
Improvisation

Morphogenèse [empreintes DIGITALes]. http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imed_14129/

Intra-action 29.05.20

Erik Nyström

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