This track will be released in "Week 4" on a wonderful ambient reworking project designed to portray human life on Mars day by day. 

Please support the wonderful project: https://thediaryofmars.bandcamp.com

A big thanks goes to SLDE for its valuable support.

Story behind the Dust Storms on Mars

It was one of the large and violent dust storms which occur in the vast plains during the Martian spring. They cover large parts of the Martian surface. A brave research team wanted to conduct research at high altitude during one of these dust storms. They flew their space capsule high into the atmosphere. The roar and thunder of the dust storm could be clearly heard and felt. They were still able to make sensational picture and sound recordings. The strain on The Crew and on the space capsule was enormous. 
The research team was able to observe that the wind speeds in the upper atmosphere were much greater than those on the ground. They did not realize until they returned to their space station that they had recorded other, mysterious sounds as well. The origin of these noises could not be cleared up until today. It remains another mystery of the dust storms on Mars. This provides another reason to re-explore one of the major dust storms. But this decision has yet to be made.

Dust Storms on Mars [Flight through the dust storm MIX]

The Dust Storms Of Mars - Flight Through The Dust Storms

This is the first song I’ve made on my new IPad, hope you enjoy 


Faint Match

Used Sonic Pi to live code an improvisation from a rich modular synth sound provided by Steve Meyer (https://soundcloud.com/user-684506476).

Live Code Session (6/24/2023) [from source sound by Steve Meyer]

All  sounds on this early morning exercise are double bass processed by modular synthesizer.
8.21.23

daybreak

RAIN

RAIN (new edit)

MMXXIIIVIXXVTGHTNNG

Omiya, Saitama City, (JP)
28/01/2024, 11:30 a.m.

A cold winter sunday morning, opening the window of our home studio in the city of Omiya, Japan. We can see our balcony terrace, Japanese pine tree in the garden and the music room of the city’s high school just next to our place.

We don't know how long this tradition has been going on, the sounds of high school brass bands echo through the street everyday and accompany some moments of our daily life in this neighborhood for around 60 years at least. The sounds of brass celebrate our ordinary life and add some pinch of dramatic or cinematic senses in our daily life.　


Microphones : Rode NTG-5 + ZOOM XYH-6 
Recorder : ZOOM H6

Omiya, Saitama City, (JP)  28/01/2024, 11:30 a.m.

La PEna de'l stablo descuadrado Vs. El arándano Tóxico con latencia en el entrecejo

https://banabila.bandcamp.com/album/t...
Hand-numbered limited edition cd, and digital, out April 5th.

If you would like to review this release, please mail to: 
https://www.banabila.com/contact-michel-banabila

1. The Unreal Realm *
2. Lineage (featuring Salar Asid) *
3. The Process From Birth **
4. Timeless Tide **
5. Bogus Dominion (featuring Mete Erker)
6. Banabila & Machinefabriek: Inward Spiral
7. Pierre Bastien & Michel Banabila: Ambiance Subaquatique
8. Dave Liebman & Michel Banabila: Night Eyes
9. Mind Shifts *

* Excerpt from a score for Yin Yue's choreography 'Somewhere', premiere New York Live Arts - New York, june 17 - 22, 2024.

** Excerpt from a score for Yin Yue's choreography 'Timeless Tide', premiere BalletMet - Columbus, march 15 - 23, 2024.

All tracks written & performed by Michel Banabila, except
06 written & performed by Michel Banabila & Rutger Zuydervelt,
07 written & performed by Pierre Bastien & Michel Banabila,
08 written & performed by Dave Liebman & Michel Banabila.

A special thanks to Maryana Golovchenko for the contributed sample (vocal snippet in Timeless Tide).

Design / artwork by Rutger Zuydervelt.
Mastering by Marlon Wolterink / White Noise Studio.

Night Eyes with Dave Liebman was previously released as a digital single (june 2023)

Music for Yin Yue commissioned by YYDC, New York, august 2023.
Compiled & produced by Michel Banabila, 2024, Rotterdam.

Salar Asid: kamancheh.on 2.
Mete Erker: tenor saxophone on 5.

The Unreal Realm

The Unreal Realm (album snippets)

Disco Pirata is a journey of joy, it is the triumph of sound in its every day presence in and on the streets of Mexico City
All is known yet unknown
All is heard yet unheard
Disco Pirata enters the Mexican pirate market and hijacks its concept and idea
The cd offers an alternative listening of  all sorts of  sounds and voices of the city, revealing the hidden beauty of “common”
sonority that the ear perceives.It is a vibrant challenging on “the listening”, a reoccupation of  the urban sound map of Mexico City.

PIRATE CD (Disco Pirata)
A project by Félix Blume, in collaboration with Despina Panagiotopoulou and Diego Aguirre.

http://www.felixblume.com/discopirata/

Download the full album on https://archive.org/details/LosSonidosDeLaCiudadDeMexico

Archive.org

Disco Pirata "Los Sonidos de la Ciudad de México - Volumen 1"

for promotional purposes only:
Liza Lim: Ronda – The Spinning World (2016)
for 9 musicians: horn, tpt, tbn, harp, perc, vln, vla, vc, dbass + Smetak instruments (Ronda, Tres Sois, Piston Cretino)
Premiere: 25 February 2017, Ensemble Modern conduced by Vimbayi Kaziboni, Alte Oper, Frankfurt
Programme note: https://limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2016/12/26/ronda-the-spinning-world-2017/

Liza Lim: Ronda (The Spinning World), 2016

Félix Blume is a sound artist and sound engineer. 
His work is focused on listening, it invites us to live sonic experiences that enable a different perception of the surrounding. He uses sound as a basic material in sound pieces, videos, actions and installations. His process is often collaborative, working with communities, using public space as the context within which he explores and presents his works. He is interested in myths and their contemporary interpretation, in human dialogues both with inhabited natural and urban contexts, in what voices can tell beyond words.

Disco Pirata "Los Sonidos de la Ciudad de México - Volumen 1"

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