LastSound

track done in collaboration with Noémi Büchi for Biodiversità compilation. Symbiotic Chants 2022

photo: Jean-Marc Avila [ https://jeanmarcavila.com ]
Mixing and Mastering: Suoni Speziali

Symbiotic Chants

Feldermelder & Noémi Büchi - Chasing Crispr Variants

Teaser for my new album "Theta Cadence"
7" limited edition vinyl + digital album avalaible as pre-order at https://kaer-uiks.bandcamp.com/album/theta-cadence

Theta Cadence New album Teaser

Dissipating

20240211

"premonitions" by @alenakoroleva [fom10]
CS/DL : f-o-m.bandcamp.com/album/premonitions

“Whenever I go, I can't help but notice signs of a looming change. I eavesdrop on conversations of creatures big and small, and like me, they seem uneasy and uncertain about what's to come. Something is in the air, dark clouds gather, winds are shifting course. Amidst the confusion and restlessness, the voices of non-human and human worlds blend in a worrisome symphony. This piece is an ode to anticipation, to the beauty of different forms of life on the brink of the sixth mass extinction. Joining in the chorus are the American toad, northern winds, an old kettle, Mr. Cat, tawny owl, crickets, domestic chickens and pigs, trumpeter swans, honey bees, truck horns, cormorants, seagulls and other elements and critters.” — Alëna Korolëva 

Something is afoot, the Tkaronto/Toronto-based artist and curator, Alëna Korolëva tells us in her new soundscape composition “premonitions”. American toads and water beetles set things in motion before the long-form piece journeys through a multitude of field recordings and non-human voices in a quasi-cinematographic fashion. Korolëva layers and manipulates sounds from the real into a sonic chimaera which mutates concrete ambiances into vaporous surrealities through the modes of collage. A storm blankets the soundscape, things grow quieter. Distant parallels with Luc Ferrari’s "musique anecdotique" come to mind, yet here the piece materializes in an acoustic docu-fiction of some sort, that takes the form of a waking dream. Various scenes, ranging from the mundane to the uncanny, unfold in eardrums exposing an underlying sense of earthly melancholy. A weight lurks throughout while winds, pigs, chickens, and mechanical apparatus weave into a strange agitated tapestry. A kettle whistles, a cat meows – Korolëva sprinkles the gloom with touches of humor and audible senses of home. Trumpeter swans are joined by a trumpeter human; Chayka Chekhov responds to the avian songs in a interspecies dialogue – echoing Jim Nollman’s “Playing Music With Animals”. Environments cascade into a finale droned out by truck horns. Their ringings and animal cries swell in a somber abstraction bearing the weight of a presentiment. “What does the future hold?” we ask ourselves throughout the album as we dissolve in imbrications of positionings, emanating from one another like stacking dolls. Poly-layered, “premonitions” engages in play, in negotiation with the disparate spaces and voices of a troubled world as if it created harmonious discord to decipher the ominous clouds gathering in the horizon.

C30 — limited edition of 60 
duration: 28’56’’ — piece repeats on both sides 
recorded, photographed, and composed by alëna korolëva 
trumpet improvisation by chayka chekhov 
mastered by mathieu bonnafous 
tape production by headless duplicated tapes 
published by forms of minutiae — fom10 — 2024

CS / DL

alëna korolëva — premonitions [fom10]

Euro Herc, Segnali

From the upcoming Fiasko! by Kaboom Karavan

June 2024

Kaboom Karavan - How to put valium in a madmans drink

Winterresse [09.08.24]

as featured on:

Audio Collision with Cadmium Red on WOZO FM 103.9, Knoxville, TN:
#154 74, StC Lives 51-61-74 (December 5, 2021)

StC Lives I

Bandcamp

Walking through the trees as the rain fell, he could hear little but for the tiny pitter patter of raindrops as they touched upon leaves and formed small puddles beneath his feet. It was cold out here in the wild, yet despite being lonely in the middle of nowhere he felt more at home than ever before. Perhaps he was made for the wild places, the wild spaces in the great beyond. He was looking for a mythical creature, a great beast. Blacksiris was his name and they told tall tales of his wicked trips in the murky mountains. 

OL is a producer on whom we have been keeping a close eye. With appearances on the likes of Muscut, FIT Sound and Motion Ward he is well versed in abstract electronics and has a distinctive 'out there' sound which offers as many questions as it does answers. His latest release is for gost zvuk, a label with which he is close.

GIN010

PREMIERE: OL - Blacksiris [ГОСТ ЗВУК]

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

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

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