Fantaisies (Sets) no. 34

creation: 2022/07/28

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
... truer than usual.
made public early, before it's filled with 20 tracks, no particular reason

20 sets, then it's on to no. 35

awesome music without a beat, like a painting or a drawing, a large one ; )

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Spread your Wings II

𝓇𝑒𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓈𝑒𝓈

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

pablo diserens — tidal dwellers

mathieu bonnafous — le bras du glacier

HER 他 Transmission 089: Sam Eckhardt

Happy New Year everyone and welcome back to another Transmission broadcasting from the HER 他 Transmission Mix Series. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who made 2021 special and has continued to support HER throughout everything that has been happening since we threw our first event in Taipei back in late 2019. 

Before officially welcoming 2022 into our lives, we want to deliver a special edition New Years Eve HER Transmission, and for this we have invited Sam Eckhardt.  

Sam is a writer and archivist based in Naarm [Melbourne]. She is part owner and operator of the record store Lulu's; a shop that focuses on music and writing from the Australian underground and like-minded contemporary international movements. Her mix for HER incorporates works taken from, amongst more conventional sources, privately produced cassettes, CD-Rs, and her own extensive archive of live recordings.

In addition to her work at Lulu's, she is currently working on an English language history of the Japanese experimental rock band Hikashu.

Please enjoy the mix and remember to support, share, and be kind to everyone!!

HER 他 Transmission 089: Sam Eckhardt
Castings "Entremes"
Bide Garage Concert "Performance No. 4"
Regional Curse "Sensual No More"
K. Leimer "Field Characteristics"
Th Duo "Scarborough Fair [Live At The Yurt]"
Terre Thaemlitz & Bill Laswell "Insectodial Regression"
David Casper "Green Anthem"
Ghostwriters "Slow Blue In Horizontal"
Inoyama Land "Fuku-Ura"
Tim Coster "Windjammer"
Ann Annie "cauline"
Skyline "Beacon"
Francis Plagne & Andrew Chalk "From A Narrow Window"
Haroumi Hosono "25 Dec.1983"
Kanjirou Matsuo "Without Wind"

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HER 他 Transmission 089: Sam Eckhardt

Published on @audiovisualsatmosphere [cassette / digital - 2022]

Originally conceived and shown as a sound installation, "dusk — dawn" invites the audience to listen to a city from dusk to dawn by embodying a figure who wanders from one acoustic encounter to another. What happens to the urban soundscape once its human population is asleep? Putting the emphasis on the little heard sounds of a city, this field recording composition allows listeners to dive in buildings’ drafts, bats’ calls, empty train stations’ ultrasounds, singing escalators, talking swans, humming electrical junction boxes, and
birds’ dawn choruses. Documentary at times, surreal at others, the piece proposes an electroacoustic excursion by mixing and processing a set of sounds recorded at night in the city of Berlin during the lockdown and curfew period of spring 2021.

Recorded and composed by Pablo Diserens
in Berlin, Germany — June 2021

Recorded with Sound Devices MixPre-6 II, Sony PCM-D100, LOM's Usi Pro, and LOM's Geofón

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval

Pablo Diserens – dusk — dawn [AVA99]

Icarus blue w/ 

00:00:00 ~ Delawhere

00:59:30 ~ Edn Hak 


Icarus Blue is a sonic utterance of rich, fragmented aural chronicles and radio intermissions from far-flung corners of the universe. Exploring the wayward, moody and melancholic realms of music and audio. Expect all things charismatically peculiar, mind-bending and delinquent. A cross-dressing of styles, periods and sonics, Icarus Blue is a true blue cocktail of Occult Exotica.

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ᕙIcarusᕗ blue 040 w/ Delawhere & Edn Hak - Netil Radio 2022-03-27

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Originally aired on Noods Radio live from Mickey Zoggs

Tracklist>>> https://noodsradio.com/shows/s-drift-31-may-22

[Noods Radio] s.drift 31.05.22

Hybrid live set aux Ateliers Jeanne Barret pour l'évènement de @lylradio le 13.11.2021. Marseille. FR

Saphira - Hybrid live set at Jeanne Barret 13.11.2021

Hụp Áp Hụm-Abaotime&knot-dot (Cái Chữ Là 0 Live Show)

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. 

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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 

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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]

CS/DL : f-o-m.bandcamp.com/album/upstream-ensemble

@forms-of-minutiae and TBA21–Academy present "upstream ensemble", a communal happening and aqueous sound piece initiated and composed by field recordist, artist, and f–o–m co-founder Pablo Diserens (@pablodiserens)

During the 2022/23 digital residency hosted by TBA21–Academy’s Ocean-Archive.org, Pablo Diserens launched an open call inviting members of its online platform ocean comm/uni/ty (and external enthusiasts) to venture into the world and record aqueous sonic encounters. The aim of this collective liquid attuning was to gather sound recordings from various wet ecologies while stimulating listening and field recording gestures regardless of any previous experience.

Recordings from 35 contributors were woven into the long-form sound composition "upstream ensemble" which navigates between the multiplicity of the water cycle as a sounding body. The work moves upstream through oceans, rivers, pipe networks, ponds, and glaciers while investigating the continuous flow of water and the environments that surround it. Listeners encounter drifting habitats trickling with the songs of sea lions, dolphins, blue whales, humpback whales, Arctic terns, and algae photosynthesis – as well as with the invasive hums of submarines’ sonars, boats, and naval industries. With "upstream ensemble" some of the world’s aqueous fauna, flora, geologies, and technologies mingle into a synchronized motion that documents the sonic articulations of these wet zones.

In resonance with Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening practice and inspired by Rachel Carson’s exploration of the intertidal zone in her book "The Edge of the Sea", this project contributes to an ever-expanding list of works that propose a focus on listening as a way of engaging and existing with the planet’s waters. By stimulating shared listening and attuning practices, Pablo Diserens aims to develop a sense of interconnectedness by blurring the boundaries between species as well as environments. Experiencing aqueous biomes both individually and collectively acts as a way of rethinking our relationships with the world. Despite these being mostly solitary experiences, Pablo believes that field recording and listening are communal and environmental practices that form gateways for earthly synchronicity and world mapping in time and space. Thus listening in turn can become a political act that sparks emotional bonds with the world and its biotic communities.

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concept: Pablo Diserens and Fiona Middleton (TBA21–Academy)

composition and mixing: Pablo Diserens

with sound contributions by: Alëna Korolëva, Alexandros Maragkoudakis, Bence Kovács-Vajda, Christopher Dean, Cyane Findji, Damian Pace, Elise Rigot, Eliza Collin, Fiona Middleton, Francesco Previtali, Ilù Seydoux, Irene Mansoldo, Isabel Val, Jakob Köchert, Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy, Joana Moher, Katy Lewis Hood, Kosmas Phan Dinh, Kseniya Lushnikova, Leo Maassen, Ludwig Berger, Mat Eric Hart, Mathias Arrignon, Matty Yeomans, Mélia Roger, Moritz Zeisner, Nikos Sotirelis, Nina Blume, Ocean Networks Canada, Pablo Diserens, Sem Zeeman, Slavek Kwi, Surrealich, Thibault Noirot, Varoujan Cheterian.

all profit of the release will be donated to the Blue Marine Foundation.

listening with good speakers or headphones is recommended as the piece features a large range of frequencies (notably blue whales' subsonic calls).

cassette mastering by Mathieu Bonnafous

graphic design by Cecilia Murgia

cassettes pictures by Camille Blake

duration: 30’29’’ — C60
piece repeats on both sides — limited edition of 100
published by forms of minutiae & TBA21–Academy — fom09 — 2023

special thanks to all the contributors, Fiona Middleton, Markus Reymann, Michal Kucerak, Petra Linhartova, TBA21, Madelyn Byrd, Diane Barbé, Lou Croff Blake, Thom Lucero, and Mélia Roger.

pablo diserens & the ocean comm/uni/ty — upstream ensemble [fom09]

"waterlilies in fontiform" [framework editions, 2023] 🪷

Such an honor to be part of framework radio’s seasonal issues with a new piece of fontiform music! 

> listen/download: frameworkeditions.bandcamp.com/album/framework-seasonal-issue-14-summer-2023

Thought as a continuation of the work "for scarpa's fountains” [forms of minutiae, 2020], the composition "waterlilies in fontiform" weaves field recordings made in, on, and around the Tomba Brion in San Vito d'Altivole. Designed by the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa in the 70s, this burial ground materializes as a garden guided by a multitude of lines made of concrete, metal, marble, and glass. Yet as one wanders in this peculiar landscape, one soon realizes that concrete isn’t the tomb’s primary material, water is. As if submerged, the graves are encircled by basins interconnected by a network of fountains, rivulets, and pipes. Water striders, sporadic frogs, vibrant fish and tapestries of waterlilies glide over sunken pyramidal stepped edges, echoing ruins of bygone architectures. An aqueous rhizome at the heart of the garden which steers us through the whole sanctuary. The composition brings listeners into the various materialities of the space and the underwater hums of the fontiform network's machinery. Moreover, subtle algae photosynthesis, muffled voices of human visitors, and the garden's avian inhabitants infuse with life the architect's carefully organized matter. Ambiguous feelings arise as if perched in equilibrium on the crests of the tomb's multifarious structures. The piece ends with openings (both geographical and temporal) as the uncanny murmurs of the flowing waters are joined by the drones of another (temporary) Venetian fountain, Claire Tabouret's sculpture "Deux Baigneuses'', before fading into the vespertine soundscape of a small Portuguese village. A midwife toad calls in the darkness, bells resound in a valley, as Brion Tomb’s architectonic specter lingers in the flowing waters.

> Note: Tomba Brion is also the resting place of Scarpa himself, who shared that "the place for the dead is a garden".

> Recorded in the Tomba Brion in Altivole (april 2022), Palazzo Cavanis in Venice (april 2022), and in Peneda-Gerês National Park (may 2023).
Recorded with Aquarian H2a-XLR hydrophone, LOM Uši Pro, LOM Geofón, SoundDevices MixPre-6 II, Sony PCM-D100.

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waterlilies in fontiform [framework editions]

Live Session #1 SOM / Eugene Nx (test mix

@layla-rutherford reminds us of her imperial production and composition skills in this majestic rework of talented trio @hejira. Taken from the I Don't Belong To Anyone Reworks EP to be released via Lima Limo Records on 31st March.

Read more & Buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2017/03/28/premiere-hejira-i-dont-belong-to-anyone-lay-rework/
Listen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bMCTwj-BhUw

Listen On YouTube

Hejira - I Don't Belong To Anyone [Lay Rework] (STW Premiere)

<a href='http://www.espaces-sonores.com/stphane-marin-eng'>Stéphane Marin</a> presents a weekly series of fifteen short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout East Asia. This series for Resonance Extra forms part of a wider project, 'Each Morning of the World', which invites sound artists, composers and recordists globally to share their own specific point of listening, either through a raw field recording or original composition.

In this episode, 'Moganshan Lu Pile Driver' Terence Lloren. 

"My favourite recording from my time in Shanghai, and one that's representative of my experience of the city during the past decade. It was recorded at M50, an old factory complex that had been converted into artists' studios and gallery. 

I was showing my friend around that day and there was this tremendous sound. Each thump rattled the glass in the old windows and shook the ground. We explored a little and found a high vantage point to witness the reinforcement of the bank along Suzhou Creek, with a new row of piles not 30 meters from where we stood. 

We stood there mesmerized with the violent rhythm. Notice the echolocation-like effect of the hits bouncing from the glass buildings across the river. Creating space with a non-visual medium."

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[Terence Lloren] (http://www.bivouacrecording.com)

Terence Lloren is originally from Virginia, USA, but has lived in Shanghai for the past thirteen years. When he is not out in the field recording, he runs a record label, Bivouac Recording, showcasing experimental musicians. He releases shis own material through the label also. The projects are *audio documentaries* that focus on capturing non-visual aspects of humanity like culture, language, and biophilia.

Resonance Extra - 24/7 sound art, radio art and global music. Listen on DAB+ in Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, London and Norwich or via http://extra.resonance.fm

East Asia PhoNographic Mornings #18 - Terence Lloren 'Moganshan Lu Pile Driver' - Sunday 10th May 2020

<a href='http://www.espaces-sonores.com/stphane-marin-eng'>Stéphane Marin</a> presents a weekly series of fifteen short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout East Asia. This series for Resonance Extra forms part of a wider project, 'Each Morning of the World', which invites sound artists, composers and recordists globally to share their own specific point of listening, either through a raw field recording or original composition.

In this episode, 'Bayankhongorijn Khukh Nuur' by Patrick Franke. 

"In 2013 I took part in an expedition to Central Mongolia. I was focussing on sound recordings to clarify the taxonomic status of some species based on bioacoustics or even to make first ever recordings."

Amongst other places we went to an alpine area surrounding the lake Bayankhongorijn Khukh Nuur. As days during expeditions are usually very packed, time for recordings of the general soundscape or even enjoying that just by listening is very limited. Thus, this excerpt of an one hour recording is a rather rare exception.

My aim was to document the soundscape of this particular spot after capturing vocalisations of most of it's inhabitants discretely. Furthermore this recording of a sparsely populated habitat should scrutinise Bernie Krauses 'acoustic niche' theory which is mostly based on data from densely populated habitats."

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[Patrick Franke] (singwarte.info) is a freelance ornithologist and sound recordist based in Berlin, Germany.

Resonance Extra - 24/7 sound art, radio art and global music. Listen on DAB+ in Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, London and Norwich or via http://extra.resonance.fm

East Asia PhoNographic Mornings #19 - Patrick Franke 'Bayankhongorijn Khukh Nuur' - Sunday 17th May 2020

https://f-o-m.bandcamp.com

publishing platform for sonic ecologies and experimental music.

artists are invited to produce sound topographies that point to specific (or imagined) environments.

co-runned & curated by @pablodiserens & @mathieu-bonnafous

> demos: we encourage submissions by women, trans, non-binary and BIPOC artists.