HER 他 Transmission 052:  Sonja

Welcome back to another Transmission broadcasting from the HER 他 Transmission Mix Series, a weekly mix series showcasing incredible artists from around the world. For the 52nd edition, we bring you a mix from DJ, Music writer, editor, experimental synth player and creator of Bibioteka Records, Sonja.

As a DJ, Sonja enjoys to play with and within genres, touching on leftfield techno and deep house. As a musician, commanding her analogue hardware, She creates and explores improvised, alien and fleeting sets that have a mix of deconstructed drone, ambient, club and noise music. Sonja released her first experimental/Modular EP in October 2020, entitled ‘Grounding’
Please enjoy the mix and remember to support, share, and be kind to everyone!
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HER 他 Transmission 052:  Sonja Tracklist
Orli - Rexxar
Adam Pits - Socket Power
Viktor Udvari - Tatar James
Modular & Xzavier Stone - THEIR IN THE WOODS
FYI Chris - Special Names
New World & Qnete - Doughboy
Sirko Muller - Infinity (umlaut on u)
313 Acid Queen - Interstate (75S Microdose)
Torai - Doppler
DJ Cortizone - Cough Syrup
Khristian K - Birdhouse
Jude Brown - Bad For Me
Booca - Venice
Demian - Tesseract
Patricia - Early Stages of Something
Fitz - And Cut
Pillow Queen - Estrel Nights
Gladio - Wild Horses
Fabio Orru - Butterfly Effect (Matt Hieu Remix)
Aces High - Play House

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HER 他 Transmission 052: Sonja

et - coal

Just a little mess about I did just now with my SP 404 SX
Using samples I recorded and a sample from the DSP Syncussion pack from Dataline
https://dataline.bandcamp.com/album/dsp-syncussion-sy-1
I'm a total noob at the SP, just trying to get my head around resampling and the FX section

Datalingual

EverythingIsTalking

I'll never forget the whites of her eyes_

moonLight_2.0

Ambient

Ambient - boulder city

HannahEric8720instrumental

1 The scene fades in, and we, the viewers, open on an indie sci-fi romance - the palettes are moody, vibrant, yet soft. There is an immediate intimacy felt in the hazy lighting and cinematic pans of the environment. We are in a dream of sorts; It’s a flash back, the viewers introduced to our characters through their memories of past events that were significant. To some, our modern setting is home. to some it is new. We are eased into the world, gently, like waking from a dream, much like our characters.

2 Modern day, they are astronauts, or it is a futuristic urban landscape. The viewer, either way, is alien. This place is both vast in scale and completely overwhelming with industrial detail, yet holds a strange nostalgic feeling in it’s lighting and hazy atmosphere. We follow our characters, specialized in what they do. They are not in love with each other, not yet. But they are in love with this place, it’s scale, the work. They fit with the endless detail perfectly. It is the comfort of being made for something, a seamless, bone deep, knowing of a place and way of life.

3 A more intimate scene, we see how our characters share their lives. Little overlaps that happen inextricably in a compact place like this; overlaps unnoticed even by them. There is a view from a window, slanted blinds and some paraphernalia come into view. No one who lives there remembers who owned what first. At the right time and orbit, the window allows the light from the sun or closest star peek through. During these moments It is a liminal space, delicate. It changes and is impermanent. we, the viewer, watch the environment change around them, watch the characters themselves change, growing toward each other, toward themselves, becoming new. It’s small and sweeping all at once, just like their world, or space. There is likely a poetic monologue about touching hands and the light reflected off hair (or some gay shit like that).

4 Ah, yes. The feelings are realized. It’s love, of course. It didn’t have a name, but it there it is; and it is more comfortable than they realized. Our characters are not at the urban center anymore. Now they watch sun/star light on actual vegetation, in open space. There is a fence they sit on now, no longer the window but the wide sky, different and strange. There are more people here to share with, Families even. A chorus of many. It is filled with diversity of life. Their job has changed and they are afraid they don’t fit as well as they did, but the company and the call of animals makes the fear quieter.

5 The scene shifts forward in time - another small vignette of a moment. It is dark and the stars are out. Long grass or it’s equivalent bends softly to a warm breeze. Rocks and gravel crunch under foot. They are holding hands and there are little lights which float in the air, the same color of the starlight that would peek through the windows all those years ago. One lands on a child’s face, their delight illuminated in the glow. In this moment both the characters and the viewer are reminded of how the past and present collide. The two moments: memories, and present, mingle together sweet and gentle, soft and rolling as the wind in the grass. It is love. It is love, and there is so much to share it with. We watch as hands are clasped. In this moment joy and the touch echo out and ripple. It is a light that reaches across space, resting on what was, what is, and what will come. There is no fear, as the camera pans up and away, the scene on the ground visually mirroring the starlit canopy above as we leave our characters to the reverberations of light and sound.

(Thanks Barnabas for this beautiful write up)

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