Haiku Fes

• 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗣𝗗𝗙 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗹𝗲𝘁 • 

For its third release, forms of minutiae presents ‘possible moistures’ a non-profit compilation of field recordings and soundscape compositions derived from various aqueous environments and their autochthons. 

This gathering is made of 16 sonic encounters collected by field recordists and sound artists across the world. Artists were invited to submit sounds from marine and aquatic-related events, phenomena, geologies, fauna, flora, geographies, and technologies. From the thawing acoustics of Icelandic and Antarctic glaciers to the non-human voices of Australian wetlands, while meeting sea and river dwellers, the listeners embark on a sonic journey across the globe’s possible moistures. 

All proceeds from this release will be donated to the organisation Atelier Bleu - Centre Permanent d'Initiatives pour l'Environnement de la Côte Provençale to support them in their aim to conserve and protect Posidonia Oceanica seagrass species and to accompany ecological transitions on the Mediterranean coastal lands of the Côte Provençale (France) by encouraging eco-responsible behaviour through education, training and awareness actions. They especially work closely with the region’s youth to raise their environmental awareness by offering workshops and activities to discover the maritime and terrestrial environments: underwater snorkelling trails, guided walks, etc. 

This compilation has been made available to the Atelier Bleu as a resource which they can present to the children as part of their educational workshops. 

> more visual and textual info about each contribution available in the PDF or by clicking on them above. 

> Atelier Bleu: www.cpie-coteprovencale.org  

PDF → texts and pictures by each artist - unless mentioned otherwise
cover picture by stéphane marin 
curated by mathieu bonnafous and pablo diserens 
forms of minutiae — fom03 — 2021

pdf & digital

mathieu bonnafous — le bras du glacier

This is a mixed down composite version of Browser Music 4.

The individual parts and instructions for playing them are as follows:

Open each link below in its own web browser tab or window and press play on each. The four parts are meant to play at the same time but don’t have to start together. You can stop / re-start individual parts and change their respective volumes as you wish. Like the components of a mobile sculpture, each part can be considered on its own or in any combination.

Part One:
youtu.be/4fE2awB7_d0

Part Two:
youtu.be/kT9ZastGvqE

Part Three:
youtu.be/Hzd_ydrGCqE

Part Four:
youtu.be/EpPkit3i8Vg


This is music without development, where nothing much happens (or rather: the happening is evenly distributed throughout). This is also quiet music – perfect for playing in the background on your web browser while you are doing something else on your computer. You can even listen to other music / watch other videos / make Zoom calls, etc. while playing Browser Music in the background.

Bandcamp

Browser Music 4

Out on Presque Tout: www.presquetout.bandcamp.com

It is a drenched afternoon in Alto Adige as a storm plunges the Eisack Valley in a thick fog. The sky is cadenced by distant thunderbolts and the soundscape swallowed by cold downpours. Sitting on the flank of a mountain, Hotel Briol faces the Dolomites while overlooking the small town of Barbiano. By a window of the hotel, a radio aerial stands in the rain, its rods plucked by drizzling drops. To naked ears only the showers' white noise prevails, yet within the array of metal conductors lies the discreet music of antennas.

Recorder: Sound Devices MixPre-6 II
Microphones: a pair of JrF C-series (neutrik) contact microphones

the discreet music of antennas (Barbiano, IT) [Presque Tout, 2022]

forms of minutiae presents 'live at kwia’, a fragment of a recorded electroacoustic performance by field recordist and artist @pablodiserens

→ f-o-m.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-kwia

Amid winter, on one of the last nights of 2021, a group of people gather in the welcoming womb of a listening bar. Bordered by tiled walls and embraced by a simulated fog, cradled listeners soon forgo outer fluctuations. From a distance, dogs’ barks and bats’ calls reverberate into the space, Pablo Diserens’ concert has begun. What unfolds next is a weaving of biophonic field recordings with hums of blown and stroke glass bottles. The emerging electroacoustic ecoscape oscillates between animal stridulations and Helmholtz resonances. Wavering wind pulses and mirroring clangs intertwine with ultrasonic drones bringing the audience into oneiric realms. Ants, grasshoppers, and crickets infuse the room with vespertine warmth. Windows ooze with condensation. Winter seems far, as if morphed into a balmy summer night. A new landscape materializes, birthed by the set of frequencies at play. Buccal air gently throbs in and out of the glass vessels in glistening gestures. Pablo blows into their empty bottles one last time before handing the stage to a sizzling underwater mixture of rain drops and insectean accents. 

The recorded fragment stops here, yet, that night, the formed sonic window into this temporary landscape pursued its course. The auditory encounters that followed now only exist in the hazy memories of wintertide listeners. 

~ 

Pablo Diserens (they/she) is a field recordist, musician and artist devoted to non-human realities, attentive listening, and possible forms of interspecies coexistence. In solidarity with a wounded planet, their practice invites people to attune to the present moment in an attempt at rethinking caring strategies and our relationship with the world and its biotic communities. → www.pablodiserens.studio 

• 

performed live by pablo diserens for 'weich', a queer ambient event series at kwia (berlin) in december 2021. 

photograph and design by pablo diserens 
mastered by mathieu bonnafous 
duration — 34'22'' 
tape production by tapedub (berlin) 
performing photograph by Elisa Cucinelli 
published by forms of minutiae — fom04 — 2022

cassette & digital

pablo diserens — live at kwia [fom04]

Maths Balance Volumes follow up their acclaimed 2020 release A Year Closer with a further and sturdier bucket of songs scraped from the dust of being. Haunted, fragile and beautiful, this is music that explores the ghostly zones of its own creation. The loneliness and vulnerability that unfolds with the opening cut Stay lays the way for exploration of sound and song as simple melodic guitar and organ whilst the subsequent and subsequent Janet’s Song weaves these elements alongside the sound pebbles entering a water. 

This is evocative music made thoroughly by humans with the most basic of tools. Unafraid to step away from their screens Maths Balance Volumes stroll with breezy resistance to the current thread of platform regurgitation. 

Tonight flips the song on its side as a barnstorming melange of concrete hustle made from shakers, animals, humans and beelzebub knows what. Egyptian Wedding sounds like Still House Plants if they operated off the depths of a rotating well. Forming a round is a dusty scratchy heartbreaker that encapsulates the hybrid Smithsonian Folkways label approach that only MBV do. 

There is something enormously human about Maths Balance Volumes take on underground experimental music, one far more so than the human pitched music made in the mainstream today. In the 20th Century it was the other way around. What has happened ? I will let you contemplate that. But for me, in this case explicitly this press scribe is chuffed at the consequence of this reversal. Very happy indeed. 

Released June 30, 2023

Maths Balance Volumes - Stay

Track List
1. Introduction to Namaroku (Namaroku Nyuomon) / Compiled by Tamai Kazuo / 1978
 2. Sketches of Nature (Shizen no Sketch) / Kabaya Tsuruhiko / 1975
 3. Masailand / Naito Tadayuki /1981
 4. Timeless / Naito Tadayuki / 1985
 5. Sound Journey (Oto no Tabi) / Fushimi Kazuo / 1970
 6. Refreshing (Sawayaka) / Takano Masaaki / 1982
 7. Singings Insect Voices (Naku Mushi no Koe)/ Compiled by Matsuura Ichiro / 1957
 8. Let’s Play with Nature (Shizen to Asobo) / Nippon Columbia / 1973
 8.5. Sound Effects Library 30: Frogs, Insects, Cicadas (Koukaon Library 30: Kaeru, Mushi, Semi) / Honma Akira / 1976
 9. Stereo Sound Effects Library Vol.2 /Taguchi Ryuzaburo, Nishihara Yasushi, Japan Sound Effects Specialized Research Group (Nihon Koukaon Senmon Kenkyukai) / 1966
 9.5. Sound Effects Record 4 (Onkyo Kouka Record 4) / NHK Broadcasting Effects Group (NHK Hoso Koukadan) / 1962
 10. The New Sound Effect Encyclopedia: Animals, Birds, Insects Edition (Shin Kouka On Daihyakka: Dobutsu, Tori, Mushi-hen) / Victor Music / 1979
 11 Songs of Humpback Whales / Roger S. Payne / 1971
 12. Salat / Koike Sakiko / 1979
 13. Droplets (Shizukutachi) /Takano Masaaki / 1978
 14. Zen Shikantaza / Fujioka Makoto /1971
 15. Northern Birds, Southern Birds (Kita no Tori, Minami no Tori) / Nakatsubo Reiji / 1966
 16 Sound Effects and Mood Music for 8mm Video Fans: Japan’s Four Seasons Winter Edition (8m/m Video Fan no Koukaon Kouka Ongaku-shu: Nihon no Shiki Fuyu-hen) / Nishihara Yasushi, Japan Sound Effects Specialized Research Group (Nihon Koukaon Senmon Kenkyukai) / 1980
 17. Summer Days / Kondo Jo / 1976 (1970)
 18. Surf Break From Jamaica / Asai Shinpei / 1977
 19. Ocean (Umi) / Victor Music / 1983
 20. Spectacular Shooting (Gekisha) / Shinoyama Kishin / 1977
 21. Dawn (Reimei) / Yabu Akihiko /1976
 22. Introduction to Namaroku (Namaroku Nyuomon) /  by Tamai Kazuo / 1978
 23. Training Record for Namaroku Vol. 2 (Namaroku ni Tsuyoku Naru Record Vol.2) / Ishida Yoshiyuki / 1977
 24. Recording Hunting Operation (Rokuhan Daisakusen) / Ishikawa Toshiyuki / 1977
 25. The Animal Military Parade (Dobutsu no Kanpeishiki) / Edoya Nekohachi / 1934

Japanese Pop Natures from 1934 ~ 1985 by Tomotaro Kaneko & dj sniff

Manuel Chittka, Kroccoli

Hibernation

Track included in the LP "Monoliths and Greetings" released on People Can Listen Label (PCLLP024)
@peoplecanlisten

The image for the cover is a painting by the Polish artist Katarzyna Karpowicz, "Monoliths and Greetings", oil on canvas, 110cm X 110cm, 2017.
katarzynakarpowicz.pl/#

Mastering by Optionica: @optionica

Released date: 16/02/2024
peoplecanlisten.bandcamp.com/album/pcll…-greetings

LP on Bandcamp

Kite Comet

Live Session #1 SOM / Eugene Nx (test mix

Alternative

SenSen - Smack Em' InsideOut

weird witches & goddexes leaking 
chaotic tears, sonic soundscapes, deep screams, sweet ballads, demonic psalms
another fierce hour with f*male & queer artists voices to listen

Tracklist : https://lyl.live/episode/canticles-of-ecstasy-6

Canticles Of Ecstasy w/ Mona Servo (06/03/24)

Smxs

Home of sweet experimental slow music, sound and art practice by Nukumori Eugene / Nx -街音の収集 (always welcome demo & collabo for release from Living Room Tapes)　　 

Nukumori Eugene / Nx ﾇｸﾓﾘ ﾕｰｼﾞﾝ / ぬくもりゆーじん is a Hong Kong - Japan Base Sound Artist, Researcher and  Architect. He is joining the sound & art projects around the world beside run his own label  "Living Room Tapes" - the sound & art collective. 

The project often highlights the sounds and arts placed between the nature and city's folklore - deconstructive city street culture and urban suburbia - related to the urban observation research project ~ Research and Practice of Alternative Art Space / Micro-Art Space  

featured projects :  Strange Ordinary Necessities不思議な日用品 / Urban Observational Studies 都市観察学会 / Skmtt /  / HONG KONG SUBURBIA / 3am / Soundscape Saitama 100 / 100音夜行 / Edition 1/f / A TALE OF OUR CITIES / MEIV

Live Session #1 SOM / Eugene Nx (test mix

Nukumori Eugene/ Nx -FRCS

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