trapped in a broken tape ت

Theodore Cale Schafer (@theodoreschafer) and Angelo Harmsworth (@angeloharmsworth) are old friends who met through their involvement the Santa Fe, New Mexico underground. With Schafer currently residing in New York City and Harmsworth in Berlin, the two came together for a special collaborative performance in our NYC office.

This performance can be listened to in its entirety and purchased as a digital edition at nights.ninaprotocol.com, with 100% of the proceeds going to the artist.

Nina Night - 008 - Theodore Cale Schafer & Angelo Harmsworth (Clip)

JEROME Mixfile #969 - Infant

https://soundcloud.com/infaant
https://linktr.ee/infantinfant
https://www.instagram.com/infantinfantinfant/

JEROME Mixfile #969 - Infant

The musical landscape explored by Forster is shaped by the convergence of two intentions: one driving towards a subtle rhythmic order, and the other residing in the ravenous sonic tension between volume and intensity. "Demeter" is the result of the compromise between compositional intent and radical improvisation. Recorded in a single live session and independently released digitally at the end of 2022, this EP marks Forster's debut (Davide Luciani and Mitchell Keaney). 

Currently based in Berlin, Luciani and Keaney have spent the past two years crafting a project that harmonizes their respective approaches to music and performance. The duo employs drum machines, live audio post-processing, and advanced synthesizer techniques to construct a unique sonic realm guided by their visceral interest in change rather than a specific aesthetic. 

Stray Signals is proud to present the reissue of this stunning debut, a concentrated showcase of stylistic and sonic strength. The reissue is comprised of 50 audio cassettes and digital album, featuring the initial four tracks released digitally on side A and the complete live session from which the EP was derived on side B.

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Originally self-released in December 2022. 
Reissued by Stray Signals the 29th December 2023.

Davide Luciani: Electronics
Mitchell Keaney: Electronics

Mixing and mastering by Davide Luciani

Demeter EP

Live set (Side B)

An array of commonplace metal objects - chains, pans, a bicycle, a chair - recorded by Ross Alexander at home in Berlin during the pandemic comprise the source material of 11 𝑮𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔. Functioning as a temporal and mnemonic exploration into the nature and conception of “home”, the album evokes Alexander’s earliest memories and broader hauntological perspectives of post-industrial England:

“Growing up in South Yorkshire in the 1980s and 90s was an existence haunted with the ghosts of a heavy manufacturing industry which once thrived in the region. On both a visceral and sensorial level it might be considered equally as impossible to escape the nostalgic stories of mines and steelworks as it was to escape the smell of molten metal in the air drifting from the Don Valley.”

The improvised metallic scrapes, bangs, and bowings recorded by Alexander were further abstracted in live performances using granular sampling techniques, creating a new and extrinsic world to which subconscious thoughts can flee, sonically and contextually. The results are both dreamy and unpredictable, fusing the immediacy of acoustic percussion with the billowing resonances imbued by granular synthesis.

“On tracing back through distant memories of my formative years for sound-objects which represented to me the essential idea of ‘being from’ as opposed to ‘being a visitor’ I related to a pervasive association with the sounds of metal and metallic objects, mostly in respect to how certain structural properties relate to haptic and resonant nature and the manifestation of those properties as sonic results. I feel this is the result of growing up in a place where heavy industry, or at least the remnant of which, was central to society, community and everyday life.”

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Ross Alexander is an artist, producer and curator based in Berlin working in the context of expansive trans-disciplinary practice and non-individualist ideals. His broad ranging body of work as an artist has encompassed music, performance, sound art, visual arts, installation, radio art, digital media, augmented reality, intervention, social practice and education. Ross has presented and performed at such institutions as ICA London, Transmediale Festival, Nyege Nyege Festival, Documenta Kassel and Martin-Gropius Bau Berlin.

As a curator and organizer his experimental and diverse practice has seen him work with Transmediale festival, Maerzmusik, Glastonbury Festival, Cashmere Radio, Nyege Nyege Festival Uganda and extensively with his own Salon Oblique production collective.

rossalexanderpayne.com
instagram.com/o0rossalexander0o
rossalexanderworks.bandcamp.com
mixcloud.com/rossalexandermix

11 Gates

Ross Alexander - Piece 2 (ENMD-04)

STRUMA+IODINE PREMIERE 
THESOSUNG - "Residues of the past" 

To support the artist, buy it here
https://paulebhart.bandcamp.com/album/thesosung-ii

Artist: THESOSUNG
Title: THESOSUNG II
Label: THESOSUNG 
Catalogue: THE02
Format: CD
Release date: January 18th, 2024

Recorded, Processed and Mixed by Paul Ebhart between 2021 - 2023 at Joanelligasse, Petraschgasse & during a residency at  Westbahnstudios          

Mastered by - Wouter Brandenburg 

Sophia Stemshorn (Violin) - 1
Christopher Schulz (Git.) - 6
Luis Hackbeil Krüger (Git.) - 5
Hans Nikolaus Schmidt (G.Piano & Trumpet) - 4
Chiara Bartl Salvi (Vox) - 4

Artist Links:
https://soundcloud.com/ebhardy
https://www.instagram.com/ebhardy/

S+I PREMIERE: THESOSUNG - "Residues of The Past" [THE02]

mixed media collaboration with becky chung
digital release mastered by jack callahan

vito ricci - found piano noise (web1)

The signal is strong, send to all. Widegaze, post-beat, freneticisms and hoover – Body Motion plugs in sideways to decode one layer of cogent reality at a time. Parallel paradigms, monthly on NTS1 
https://www.nts.live/shows/body-motion/episodes/body-motion-26th-january-2024

Body Motion w/ aircode 260124

make believe

V/A - Shrine
Spivak - Alpha Centauri Blessings
William Brittelle, Metropolis Ensemble, Jenn Wasner, Eliza Bagg - Alive in the
Electric Snow Dream: VII.Los Angeles 2091
William Brittelle, Metropolis Ensemble, Jenn Wasner, Eliza Bagg - Alive in the
Electric Snow Dream: VI.Pure Sacrifice
James Massiah - Gigolo
Apulati Bien - Precog
Lou Reed, John Cale - Smalltown
Haich Ber Na & Oliver Torr - Sarco
Zulu - All You Need Now
Ishi Vu - sANCTUAry, it mUST happeN AGain!
Jonny From Space - Live
Vanessa Bedoret - Ballad
Five or Six - Another Reason
Florence Sinclair - snow bunny
Armand Hammer - Woke Up and Asked Siri How I’m Gonna Die
Gip, Shawny Binladen, Jwles - L’Argent
Chanel Beads - Ache
Fred Frith - Unterwegs (for Roman)
VISIO - Landslide
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale

OB0478 — Spivak

<3motional_m.AI.nframe> w/ Artur M Puga - 23/04/2024

FORSTER is a project between Mitchell Keaney and Davide Luciani

Live set (Side B)

Forster

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