𝓇𝑒𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓈𝑒𝓈

• 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

https://www.nts.live/shows/post-geography/episodes/post-geograph-2nd-december-2021

Igor dyachenko - new nature p1 (exhibition cut')
Igor dyachenko - new nature p2 (exhibition cut')
Igor dyachenko - new nature p3 (exhibition cut')
Held - Land To Rehabilitate
Felisha Ledesma - Golden Mirror
LXV - disneylanders
SAD - Akpai Song
JJJJJerome Ellis - Fountain #3
extensities -2 line
Ahnnu - Passing through a horizontal slit
Ye Ye - Entropee
Nexcyia - Apex
S-Z-2 - Untitled (A1)
John Wall - v02 [ III ]
Ulla - Limitless Frame
R Hajile - bookworms
Oddnex - Koleso 2
tau contrib - thripSwarms
OL - Expert Sleeper (pitchdown)
Nmesh - t e l e p a t h 
WZRDRYAV - heavy clouds

Post-Geography w/ Igor Dyachenko NTS 021221

Jonnnah live at Positive Education Festival 2021

Tracklist:

SUCKDOG - Beasts Of The Night Gather Together
9T Antiope - Gloaming Meadow
M.E.S.H. - Kritikal & X
SUCKDOG - Number Of The Priest
Scorn - Light Trap (Scorn Mix)
Samuel Kerridge - Transmission 2
Cocktail Party Effect - Loner
Ziúr - I Vanish
yeule - Headache (Grouper Cover)
Enaune - Lõpro
YL Hooi - Stranger
Coti Meets LoFi - Be
Daughters - City Song
Maria W Horn - Stramonium
dj bingo - I extract, therefore I am
Chris Carter - Rehndim
Heta Bilaletdin - Anaksa
From Nursery To Misery - Aeroplanes
Rojin Sharafi - Baadaabaad

EOS Radio - Linda Lazarov - Nov 2021

The 20th Amulet is carried by Verge, the alias of experimental electronic musician André Gough, based in Belfast. Having debuted with a consummate release on the eminent Avian imprint in 2017, Verge has displayed impeccable artistic focus from day one, continuing to uphold and refine his talent with the album 'Impermanence' released on VEYL in 2020, 'Vignettes' on Perfect Aesthetics and 'Fluid Motion' on Aura Dinamica in 2021. The sound of Verge fuses many echoes of industrial, experimental techno, ambient, and other influences, assuredly rising above genre boundaries and presenting music that's much to admire.

Amulet of Tears 020: Verge

Music: @verge7

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 020: Verge

https://www.nts.live/shows/post-geography/episodes/post-geography-24th-march-2022

Post - Geography 240322

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]

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. 

~ 

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 

• 

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]

https://www.nts.live/shows/posh-isolation/episodes/posh-isolation-4th-august-2022

Posh Isolation w/ kenneth cockwhore - 040822

Chilean dj Diamin based in Berlin boiled a fresh new mix for our monthly #normcoreattitude on Noods Radio

Running the newborn label Tecnologias Elementales , her particular cartography of electronic music explores the roots of techno, focusing on how these
sounds intersect with bleep, breakbeat, electro and acid.
From 2014 she is also part of the foundation of the Djs collective Family Affair in Buenos Aires, which is still active and influential on the local scene and beyond.

The second hour being run by the trusted affiliate Aitch coming from the long Milan residency in the legendary Macao Milano and fresh of long live sessions with Cortex of Light trio

NormCore Attitude 31 w/ Diamin & Aitch

@malcolmpardon aka Peder´s bff and bandmate in @roll-the-dice presents PMx 3. A no frills mix that showcase what Malcolm does best: great tunes that shouldn't work together but somehow makes so much sense when presented in context.

Malcolm will play his solo live debut show at next months Semibreve festival and is also just revealed as one third of Swedish supergroup Dead People.

Tracklist:
1. Cocteau Twins - Bloody And Blunt
2. Leon Vynehall - From the Sea It Looms (Chapters I & II)
3. Ian Dury - My Old Man
4. Jockstrap - Neon
5. Rico - Ramble
6. Miguel A. Ruiz - Transparent
7. Massive Attack - Hymn Of The Big Wheel
8. Jean-Claude Vannier - La Horse
9. Daft Punk - Something About Us
10. Nico - These Days
11. Gang Starr - Full Clip
12. Talking Heads - Mind
13. Divide And Dissolve - Denial
14. Spiritualized - Electric Mainline
15. Alice Coltrane - Going Home

PMx 3 - Malcolm Pardon

Underground hero Bill Converse returns to Dark Entries with Take Parts, perhaps his most muscular and floorfocused work to date. Converse has honed his analog craft since the early days of the Midwest rave scene, absorbing lessons from luminaries like Claude Young and Traxx. His skill as a producer has been established with releases on labels such as Dark Entries, Fit Sound, and Obsolete Futures, and his prowess as a DJ has been witnessed on floors the world over. On Take Parts, Converse peels away the layers of acidic gauze that have characterized much of his work, revealing his sharp grasp of dancefloor dynamics and DJ functionality. While the 808’s, 909’s, and 303’s are on full display, Converse does not indulge in retro-fetishism; he channels the future forward impulse of the originary rave ethos. Tracks like “Stroke” and “What You Have” pit seasick chords and analog squelch atop funky but unsettling loops. The flurry of 808 snares on “Measurement (Of What?)” nods towards both footwork and jungle, but feels ultimately planted in a world of Converse’s own. With the acid-electro masterpiece “Take Apart”, Converse implores us to both join him in this new world and reconfigure the one we’re living in now. The 6-tracks on Take Parts present a new focus for Converse, and will excite DJ’s and thrill dancers.

Bill Converse
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/billconverse
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063718346773

Dark Entries
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/darkentriesrecords
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DarkEntriesRecords
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkentriesrecords/

Take Parts

PREMIERE: Bill Converse - Take Apart (Dark Entries Records)

Whipnotiq, a sorceress of unique sounds from emotive to oddball, often within the realms of electro music and beyond. Based in Long Beach, CA, Miranda Calzada is a classically trained musician who has been honing her DJ craft at LA undergrounds for over a decade. By curating Neptunian Influence, an electro-leaning mix and event series, she brings forth sounds which incite “bright companion clouds and dark vortices.” Neptunian Influence features both established and up-and-coming artists from around the world. Neptunian Influence hosts an annual party in conjunction with Movement in Detroit - not to be missed if you're going to the festival!

WHIPNOTIQ [SONS OF TRADERS BACK AT MUTANT] [11.10.2022]

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]

tuned to various biomes and phonographies 𓆏
> www.pablodiserens.studio
> co-founder @forms-of-minutiae

Pablo Diserens (they/them) is a field recordist, musician and artist devoted to non-human realities, attentive listening, and possible forms of interspecies coexistence.

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.

pablo diserens — live at kwia [fom04]

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