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It is transience's aim to create a temporary suspension of reality where listeners can recenter and reflect with a supportive sonic environment. During the current g3noc1de in G a z a and the surrounding areas, many of us are feeling massive amounts of grief, anger, and all manner of other emotions that it's hard to know what to do with. In Germany, and in particular in Berlin, we're witnessing new levels of state repression on freedom of movement and expression. It's really important during such times to take care to regulate ourselves and help care for one another, so that we can organise and continue the ongoing work of fighting for freedom. 

For this episode of transience we are glad to welcome  to have sound artist + designer, DJ and radio host, MINQ @soundslikeminq as this month's guest. transience host, Lou Drago met MINQ at the ambient floor at Whole Festival 2022, and soon bonded through their shared interests in sound-based mindfulness practices such as Deep Listening. MINQ has been facilitating workshops with the aim to discover what lies at the intersection of mindfulness, movement and sound in QTBIPoc-centered spaces with their research project and workshop series Sonic Utopias | Research Lab. They also have a monthly show on Refugee Worldwide called Sonic Utopias.

To hear more from MINQ you can visit https://soundcloud.com/soundslikeminq

Photography from Micki Rosi Richter <3

Thank you to all of you who are continuing to raise your voices for a ceasefire and to free Palestine

transience #54 with Lou Drago

Olgica is a Serbia-born, Graz-based performer and DJ who is constantly developing her idea of presenting music in different genres and forms - from ambient, dub, broken beats, breaks and uk bass to spherical techno and house - always exciting and highly eclectic. She has been active in the local performance and music scene for years. As part of the Iskra and Interlude team, Olgica conceives and organises event series in Graz and has become an integral part of the Austrian music scene. We are delighted to welcome her. Have fun listening. 

@olgica23

LAF Podcast #054 | Olgica

Recorded in Berlin (Germany)   XX.03.25

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"The maestro takes his seat, glasses on, guiding the light across the hidden corners of his frequency library. Perfectly woven layers drift and evolve — minimal, restrained, dark in tone, brilliant in execution. In the cabin, every mind floats, someone slips in a field recording, blurring the edges between inside and out. The light gently rises, and as everything fades, the birds come knocking at the door."


Madrid-based DJ and producer Alfonso Pomeda, aka F-on (@f-ondj), is renowned for his experimental sound, blending dub, ambient, and experimental music. Founder of the Alpenglühen project and co-owner of Antimatter, he and his team run the club and festival Espacio Perpendicular, curate Barcelona's Mostra Festival and Les Chaos Ambiants, and perform at top global venues like Paral·lel, Vurt, Laut or Gare. His vinyl DJ sets take listeners on a rhythmic, dreamlike journey.

https://alpengluhen.bandcamp.com/

Recorded djset at Perpendicular 2025 (@espacio-perpendicular) - somewhere in the woods. When? Friday 6:00am Where? In the ambient cottage.

Artwork: Javier Marimon - Off Tangent

HOCast #248 - F-on - Perpendicular 2025

underwater aficionado and lifelong friend surfing on what eases his mind

"I’m truly honored and proud to release this mix on the label run by my longtime friends, leopold and simon. we’ve known each other for years and grew up together through music, so being able to share my very first time mix on their label feels quite special to me.

this ambient, dubby and aquatic mix is an immersion in low frequencies that resonate like the heartbeat of the ocean, inspired by the latter that surrounds and soothes me every day. a tribute to the calm and powerful energy of the waters"

recorded in soulac-sur-mer
05.08.25

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@tustance

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Continuum: a coherent whole characterised as a collection, sequence, or progression of values or elements varying by minute degrees.

The setting is Mostra festival, a special gathering in Barcelona that needs no presentation for the lovers of experimental sounds, ambient explorations and avant-garde dancefloor beats. A dark room inside the Fabra i Coats industry complex -now turned a cultural space- is slowly filling up with devote festival-goers. Mostra attracts a crowd of curious listeners and seasoned music enthusiasts, and feels like a bit of a pilgrimage for fans of those deeper and more adventurous sounds. On Thursday during the early hours, there is a sense of reunion, a loving community that finally gets together again to see familiar faces, and a very welcoming bunch greeting the first time comers. 

And Maribel Tafur was soundtracking this magical moment. She stepped up to play the first notes of the festival and start colouring the blank sonic canvas of this Mostra weekend. The Peruvian composer, based in Barcelona, borrows from nature -particularly from the Andes and her family archive- using found sounds and other field recordings, and weaves them with selections of warm pads and ambiences. 

The result couldn’t be more fitting: Maribel welcomed us to Mostra with a soundtrack that channeled the feeling of that warm hug and that invitation to come in and sit down, because we are home. The sounds of water creeks, rustling leaves of fire crackling mixed with comforting soundbeds made for a perfect first stroke for this year’s Mostra painting. 

And we couldn’t be more honoured to share the recording with you today. All the friends that follow this channel know how special Mostra is for us. 

Thank you Maribel and Mostra. 

Artwork by Tony Fibla. 

The Continuum: Maribel Tafur - Mostra 2025

The leaf you lifted

The Sounds Of James  - Nowhere To Go

@hi-vis-dj

~ Tracklist ~

Kristuit Salu - Anata Wo Ai Site Imasu (Merck)
Oval - Cross Selling (Thrill Jockey)
Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba 5 (Drag City)
Raica - Entridam (Further Records)
Area - Everything Thrown Away (Kimochi)
Bellows - B2 (Latency)
Jorge Velez - Heart (Bandcamp self-released)
Clay Wilson - 1RXS (Bandcamp self-released)
4023 - A2 (Jacktone Records)
Ligovskoi - Labiate (Dement3d)
8i11 - Sanguine Cynic (Reserve Matinee)
Catherine Christer Hennix - Equal Temperament Fender Mix (Blank Forms Editions)
Dustin Wong + Takako Minekawa + Good Willsmith - Plastic Skin (Umor Rex)
Iury Lech - Ukraïna (CockTail d’Amore Music)
Ali Wade - Imbolc (Frequency Domain)
Mark Van Hoen - Vessel of Flight (Medical Records)
Sarah Davachi - Wood Green (Students of Decay)
Synth Sisters - Time is Flowing There (EM Records)
Vainqueur - Solanus (Extracted) (Chain Reaction)

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The next Deep Mind Music mix comes from Chicago’s Hi-Vis, who is behind the wonderful deep listening mix series @beyondbelow. I have found a lot of solace in Beyond / Below mixes, each one takes the listener on a carefully crafted journey, filled with poignant emotions and mind-expanding music. 

It was looking to Beyond / Below that in some ways inspired me to expand Deep Mind Music into a mix series. It feels meaningful to create and curate a space for people to put together deeply personal sonic narratives in a deep listening format for them to share with the world.

This mix from Hi-Vis feels like being carried on a soft billowing breeze high above gentle rolling hills. The mix subtly shifts through moods and textures, each song delicately linked to the next. It kind of feels like my brain unwinding and making sense of the tangle of thoughts we end up accumulating through daily life. Gently giving each thought space before setting it down. 

She says about this mix:

“I play sound to heal myself, to learn better how to heal myself, hoping that if I share what I learn, it might heal others too - particularly those who need it most. I want to comfort, but there is always strain and tension that can’t be avoided or ignored. My intention is to summon a psychic space that allows you to drift, to confront discomfort and dissonance openly and without fear, so you can experience even greater relief, or even euphoria. All these songs have had a profound effect on me this way, and I tried to play them similar to how they unfold and resonate in my head. 

Recorded on two turntables, two CDJs and a mixer at my apartment in Chicago. I bought my copy of the last record in the mix, Vainqueur’s Solanus, from my friend Justin Aulis Long. You can hear it’s well worn, but the crackles enhance its aura and I love it all the more.”

I really relate to creating ambient mixes as a space for people to experience emotions in, to observe and then transcend them, and I feel like Hi-Vis has created such a space with this mix for all those who listen to it.

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Deep Mind Music

Hi-Vis ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.6

* fka Empty Signal Transmission *
est. 2017

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