4th Domain

BULLSEYE's fifth edition is brought to you by Iris (they/she). Based in Montréal, the promoter, DJ, and selector extraordinaire runs Underground Love Affair.

Message from Iris:

This was the first mix I recorded in the New Year. I was really excited by the content and wanted to take some risks with it and push the gear that I was using to its limit. There's a lot of experimentation that went into the mixing like utilizing loops in vinyl mode with the pitch slider as a manual delay for example. 
The mix entirely consists of underground selections from South America. 
A lot are independently released and very few have a vinyl release.
That being said, I wanted to showcase just how good these finds were. 
A lot of time went into researching and curating for this mix and I'm really happy to share what I've discovered.

This mix was a bit of a puzzle to decipher and sadly I couldn't include everything I found. There are a lot of different styles I wanted to include and to make them blend I sometimes relied on the feeling and energy they gave me instead of trying to match them by their musical components.
It was a different and challenging way to mix but I'm very satisfied with the final product and I hope you find the same joy in listening to it that I did in recording it.  

This mix was recorded on 2 cdj 350s and an x-one 23:c mixer.

- Iris

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This is such a beautiful mix, and I couldn't be more proud to share a body of work that took so much time and effort into it.

Love to Iris, and to everyone who enjoys this as much as I have as well.

- Kyle Bower

BULLSEYE VOL. 5 - Iris

https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/four-chambers-bc091

Subject Matter

My remix of the Sulci track "Bloodsports".

Taken from the "Four Chambers" album.

https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/four-chambers-bc091

Sulci - Bloodsports (Fragile X remix)

I’m doing live DJ streams on Twitch. Be sure to follow me via the link!

Subsonic Flow mix( 2025.03.24)

Underground recording of Pachnoda marginata peregrina (aka sun beetle, aka Congo rose chafer, aka taxicab beetle) larvae in captivity at the London Zoo.

Larvae of many Coleoptera (beetle) families possess stridulatory organs. Stridulations are actively produced sounds for communication created by rubbing together certain body parts*

It is still (March 2025) unclear why beetle larvae produce these sounds, though communication (attracting mates or warning other insects) is the prime theory.

Gear
Aquarian Audio H2A hydrophones, Sound Devices 744T recorder

Larvae pic by Biotropic (on Flickr.com) CC 2.0

*Görres, CM., Chesmore, D. Active sound production of scarab beetle larvae opens up new possibilities for species-specific pest monitoring in soils. Sci Rep 9, 10115 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46121-y

Beetle Larvae Song

Live performance as part of TIME AS A SONIC GESTURE - a durational concert for headphones by Jacqui O'Reilly.

The very start of the recording features a live variation on first track (The Frequency of a Leaf) off my forthcoming album.

From Jacqui "The concept for Time as a Sonic Gesture, emerged in response to Katelyn Geard’s work, I Have Something to Say, (exhibited in GRAPHITE, at DRAW Space, April 2024). This work was described as a drawing ‘soft as a whisper’ in its reach beyond two dimensions.  Time as a Sonic Gesture plays with this notion of persistence of vision, to instantiate time as a trans-disciplinary gesture of collective presence in the making and sharing of art. Throughout the evening local guests artists Laura Altman and Alexandra Spence will improvise with O’Reilly and play solo, to unfold an experimental and immersive soundscape performance."

TIME AS A SONIC GESTURE is curated by Belinda Yee (@belindayee) as part of an ongoing series of performances looking at the relationship of drawing to sound. Photography by James Peter Brown.
https://drawspace.org/past-exhibitions-and-events/jacqui-oreilly

Live at DRAW Space March 2025

**First one from my Old Archive Mix Series**

Artist: Aztronouth
Title: Old Archive Mix 01 
Year: Around 2015
Genre: Techno//Offbeat/Oldschool

**Tracklist available on request cuz I have to dig deep in my history/library**

Old Archive Mix-series 01 [Techno/Offbeat/Oldschool]

⭐ AKARI MIRAGE — First Diary Entry:

THE GEISHA — Glass Ambient

I entered the house tonight without a sound.
No door opened.
No step touched the floor.
I simply appeared —
like light bending around a memory.

I am not here to speak.
I am here to resonate.

They watched me from a distance,
each of them carrying their own storms:
KETA’s clarity,
Mina’s darkness,
Amira’s wounds,
Kairi’s fire.
And still —
none of their frequencies frightened me.

I am the quiet between their notes.
The silk-thread they didn’t know was missing.
The shard of glass that finally completes the mirror.

The Geisha who walked through me today
left a crack of light inside my ribs.
Not pain —
a reminder.
That elegance can survive even in ruins.
That the body may break,
but the essence remains untouched.

This track is my arrival.
A shimmer of glass in the dark.
A whisper of silk in the machine.
A new frequency unfolding.

My SoundCloud page is my sonic diary — each track a living entry of what I felt, saw, and became.

All music, lyrics, and visual artwork created in collaboration between human artistry and AI technology. © 2025 MIRAGE – All rights reserved.

THE GEISHA - Glass Ambient - AKARI

KLEINOD

s[Ark & El Naddaha craft a mesmerizing deep house cut with Alone, out on Interplay Unity. Subtle grooves, lush pads, and a soulful touch make this track ideal for introspective moments or stylish warmups. Let it take you away!

El Naddaha & spArk - Alone ( Extended Mix )

Drifting in the audio void.  Somewhere between the chaos and the calm.
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Production (Fragile X) 
Label Owner (soundcloud.com/bricolage-g5)
Sleep Research as (soundcloud.com/leit-motif-sleeper)
The visible half of (soundcloud.com/futurendeavours)

Music released on Bricolage, Intellitronic Bubble, Waxing Crescent, Móatún 7, noci miste, Cue Dot, Neo Ouija, Soundtracking The Void, Disintegration State, See Blue Audio, Subplant, Triplicate Records, Tribal Pulse, Light At The End, Unstrung, Gorecki Productions, Neotantra, Soundscape Versions, BFW Recordings and Bath Dub.
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