Nice, makes me think of the relation between sound, noise & music. Like!

early experiments with the intellijel plonk module. here's the plonk looped by the phonogene and sent into a rossum morpheus filter. that's it for the patch. reverb provided by a pcm81.

august 08, 2017 (tapping, rolling, loop)

Coming in mid September is an absolutely lovely, pastorally infused, first album from Enofa (Ross Baker), entitled, “Arboretum”. Ross had released a collaborative album with us a few years back under the name, Middlemarch. His partner on that “Wolf Hall” release, Dimitris Avramidis, also contributes to this new effort as well.

For Ross, nature, and the inspiration derived from walking among the trees in the park and nature preserve near his home, plays a large part in the overall tone of this one long beautiful track. Like the Arboreta, which are regularly crafted to contain a range of contrasting shapes and colours, which gives them a very unique look and atmosphere,  this wondrous soundscape of sorts, incorporating field recordings, moody guitars and synth, and electronic treatments perfectly reflects the calming and mysterious feel of the long and languid  glorious English days of the moment. Wind chimes…the crackle of leaves underfoot….the light, swirling wind in the treetops…the sun breaking through the clouds…put this album on and you will find yourself strolling there as well!

TRS078 will come in two very limited, physical versions. The first, deluxe handmade version comes in an edition of just 50 copies. Each of these comes in the form of a collaged, stamped and hand worked vintage art deco, tri-fold photo folder, w/original photograph. Within each are collaged, vintage arboreal prints, dried leaves, and other arboreal ephemera. Each folder is extensively hand artified, and comes strung with a stamped tag made from an antique British cigarette card. Each comes with an attached, stamped black envelope containing a factory pressed CD, held on with an obi strip.

There is also a hand made standard version of Arboretum in an edition of 50 copies. These come in hand worked and altered, black digipaks, also with factory pressed discs.

This release is also available physically at our website, or digitally and physically at our Bandcamp page here…and here…

http://timereleasedsound.com/

https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/

Enofa..."Arboretum"  Track II

"Wooded" is taken from "Paths", the new album by Darren Harper.

Limited edition cassettes and CD's in hand made packages available here:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/paths

“A micro-world of textured electronics and voltage; a simple wind chime singing in a breeze” 
Created with a modular synthesizer and effect pedals, Paths is an account of missteps and error, a process of understanding; an unfolding. A discovery of oneʼs voice...a reflection of nature.

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darren harper's latest work is a joyous collage for all seasons; a delicate record that soothes and refreshes the spirit.

kaleidoscopic chimes and playful bells tumble against each other. twinkling notes drift down in little flurries, then melt away as sunlit chords push aside the clouds.

low, thrumming bokeh echoes bring distant mountaintops intimately close, then curve down into hushed forest floors, winds whispering through leaves overhead. tiny layers of loops and quiet delays, jumbled melodies, sparse crackling branches, and somber swells invite contemplation of these fragile spaces.

each moment is cherished, each song reveals new life: ephemeral, yet enduring. the ice breaks, slowly gliding away as the river shakes off its long slumber.

never obscuring, always revealing; these intertwining paths abound with the hopeful promise that spring is coming.

-- joshua saddler

Releases August 23, 2019

W/P by Darren Harper 2018/19 
Mastered by Porya Hatami 
poryahatami.com

Darren Harper - Wooded

From the album Luft, released on 08/08/2019 on Eilean Rec.

For full album:
https://michaelcutting.bandcamp.com/album/luft

Seeking Safe Harbour

Recorded and mixed by Chris Smith at Kluster Rooms Studios, London.

Nineteen-oh-nine

Composed, produced and mixed by unusual shapes
Coverart by Loes Modderman
Masteret by Emil Thomsen
Out on interCourse: https://intercourseintercourse.bandcamp.com/album/phase-contrast
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5xAaOG9X8ilhncfhgOWsDu?si=NIqjS6uwQPOiKc52LS_Aig

Hypocapnia

https://soundcloud.com/smael-cormack is a British sound artist living in rural Somerset.
His work focuses on gathering and weaving found sound with acoustics.
His use of electro-acoustics creates a delicate atmosphere, immersing the listener in a web of sound that subtly shifts and scatters.

“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
 
Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow. 

"What was a crucial sonic experience in your life?"
My earliest memory of sound is perhaps the most vivid. I'm not sure I believe in the accuracy of early memories, but this single memory hangs in my psyche with great persistence. I am sitting near to the top of the stairs in my childhood home, I am perhaps six years old. Where the stairs bend to meet the top floor there is a small landing with a grandfather clock. This clock is shrouded in fascination for me even now. I am trying to copy the chime that rings on the hour with the strings of my classical guitar. Finding this simple note brings me endless joy. 


Tracklist:
Shoreline (Self Released) 
The Sunday Project 12.04.20 (Self Released) 
Sea Margin (Unreleased) 
Spheria (Unreleased)
 Looping Finch (Maple Finch - Handstitched)  
Hikikomori (Unreleased) 
Sister On The Shoreline (Early Sketch) 
Simulated Birch (For Muriel - Self Released)
 Leading Stairs (Unreleased) 
Three Tape Loops (Unreleased - St Andrews Grand Piano) 
Fallow Keen (Ammil - Krysalisound) 
 
Links
https://www.ishmael-cormack.com/
ishmaelcormack.bandcamp.com/music 
https://www.instagram.com/ishmaelcormack/
https://www.facebook.com/IshmaelCormack

MNEMOSYNE #005 - ISHMAEL CORMACK

A visit to Rome’s 16th-centry Villa d’Este provokes feelings of circularity, cycles, connections. Cardinal d’Este not only sought to revive and surpass ancient Roman architecture and design, his villa was literally made from the past: marble and statues from the ruins of Emperor Hadrian’s nearby 2nd-century villa provided an ample supply of antiquities. But it’s not just the recycling of 1500-year-old materials and ideas that gives Villa d’Este its overwhelming sense of eternal return. Its complex system of fountains, water jets, canals and pools is a feat of engineering, providing a constant flux without the need for any pump. 

Cycles of additions, modifications and imitations have never stopped. Abandonment and degradation seem always to be matched by renewal and renovation. Ivy and moss have advanced in layers, overgrown and flowing. Twentieth-century copies of ancient Roman fountains have taken the place of ‘real’ statues sold off to sit in museums. Like a spiral slowly unravelling, the villa has never stood still. But it’s the invariable, but everchanging, stream of water that most strongly signals the villa’s rhythm of succession. Its climax at The Fountain of Neptune is overwhelming, and it’s here that one might find some present-day meaning from this cascade of sounds, shapes and ideas from almost 2000 years ago.

Meanwhile, at the beginning of the 21st century’s third decade, quotidian life goes on even though the connections between us have suddenly and simultaneously expanded and diminished. After decades of excess and misbalance, COVID-19 is sweeping across the globe but still managing to discriminate. Everything is upside down but the bottom is still the same. The loop narrows at the same time that it increases the breadth of its grasp. Scale is everywhere and local, all at once. Seasons shift. Disequilibrium uncurls. Fairness is still unfair. 

In the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, life endures despite grim reports of our daily tally. We’re drawn into a 5-kilometre radius under a ‘lockdown’ intended to reign in the virus. Time and space stretch and meld. Boundaries blur and sequences bend. Familiar is new and strange is normal. Circularity, cycles, connections. Meta and micro. A daily walk on drawn out paths. A treadmill in its groove. A school bell rings familiar tones but echoes on its own. The big and the small. The loud and the quiet. The seen and the unseen. The haves and the have-nots. And the hopeful call for The Great Reset.

David Evans, August 2020

Credits:
Recorded, composed and mixed by David Evans
Mastered by John Lee at Phaedra Studios
Art: Louise Kellerman
Design: Kate Carr

We must all act together now (excerpt) - from Waiting for The Great Reset - David Evans out Oct 27

"I've been working on material recorded at the former UK Ministry of Defence site Orford Ness on the East England Suffolk coast. 
Since the Ministry of Defence left in 1993, the buildings have been overrun by nature.

The excitement felt by Bletchley Park's wartime code breakers was echoed here too: Britain's greatest scientific brains, along with 400 civilians and thousands of unacknowledged Chinese migrant workers all worked on developing the UK’s first nuclear weapon.

Today the place gives us a sense of what a post-apocalyptic environment might look and sound like. Air ducts once now burst open with the packed nests of roosting birds. There are seagulls 'playing' the atomic weapons laboratories with their cries; baby jackdaws duetting with gravel footsteps; metal stairwells transformed into aeolian harps. " Iain Chambers, Orford Ness.
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About Iain:
Iain Chambers is a composer and producer whose music often deploys field recordings and location sounds as musical material.

Iain's work is heard live in concerts, radio, sound installations and multimedia. His feature-length symphonies of industrial sounds have been commissioned by BBC Radio 3, WDR Cologne and ABC Australia.

In 2019 Iain launched the independent record label Persistence of Sound, presenting new musique concrète and field recordings.

Iain is a founder member of Langham Research Centre, an electronic music ensemble using obsolete Cold War era technology to create new music. The group also create new realisations of 20th century electronic works by composers John Cage, Alvin Lucier and Christian Wolff using an unusual instrumentarium: analogue tape, sine-wave oscillators, analogue radios and phonograph cartridges. LRC perform internationally, and released “Tape Works (Vol. 1)” on the Nonclassical label in 2017.

All tracks by Iain Chambers
Mastered by Nima Aghiani
Photography: Ian Rawes
Design: Kate Carr

Secrets of Orford Ness (excerpt) - Iain Chambers out October 27

from https://oberlin.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-a-corridor

Live In A Corridor

Market Song (album-dl see info)

Secret Tongue

Soon: Hiraeth by tarxun and Siavash Hakim out Nov 5
Latest:
Oblique by Corder & Yantis out Sept 17
Sounds of Mmabolela - Nikki Sheth - out Sept 3
The Yearning - Liz Helman
A Long Wait - Paula García Stone

Secrets of Orford Ness (excerpt) - Iain Chambers out October 27

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