Performed by and written for Heather Roche.

As if on a hunt for matsutake mushrooms—which can only grow in areas disturbed by humans—the faltering but desired pitches only reveal themselves as a result of precarity between agencies. Heather must allow her instrument to bloom, but dismiss or restrict any promising buds. As a result, the porousness of the instrument and Heather is highlighted; the two become entangled, an ever-transitioning assemblage of plateauing possibilities, encouraging a mode of being that delves into the contextual nature of instability.

...to notice autumn aromas, through...

Broca (Effacer La Mémoire)

New mix that shows our eclectic taste in dance music. Fractal Disco Club in Bratislava was a whole vibe! Huge shout out to the organizers and the people on the dancefloor (in the greenhouse). We had the best time playing for you <3 Picture by Scascnak (@scascnak on instagram)

Voices From Beyond @ Fractal Disco Club

I Want You

MITRA live @ Open Ears Listening Session

FONCÉ is a multidisciplinary artist and organizer of Tanzanian descent, currently based
in Basel. Their creative expressions mirror their processes of Becoming by weaving
together different artistic mediums such as writing, sound production, DJing and
curation. At the core of FONCÉs practices are the poetics of re_membering. They are
interested in transmuting embodied narratives while drawing knowledge from their lived
experiences.
Since 2020, FONCÉ has been a member of OKRA, a collective of afro-descendant
multidisciplinary creatives based in Switzerland. Furthermore, they are part of the
current curatorial team of the biennial Wildwuchs Festival for the upcoming 2025
edition.

Tracklist FONCÉ 4 mental load x mutant radio
Nyokabi Kariuki – folds
NikNak – Escapism
Eusebeia – Passage
Spekki Webu – Vessel (Detached Edit)
Authentically Plastic – Chaosmos
Duma – The Echoes of the Beyond
Aho Ssan – Hero Once Been (feat. 9T Antilope)
Moor Mother – The Myth Hold Weight
Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Old Melody x Harmony Holiday – How on Earth
NDLOVU – time is a loop we will ride forever
XEXA – Dezembro: Toque

NEXCYIA – Bury it Deep Inside Yourself
NKISI – The Truth is Elsewhere
MASAKA MASAKA – extant
tati au miel – justice 4 assata x Mythscience Records curated by Harmony Holiday – it’s
on x KMRU – Peel
FONCÉ – there is joy here
muva of Earth – no one else has your magik!

https://soundcloud.com/jean_fonceee
https://www.instagram.com/jean.fonceee/
https://soundcloud.com/okra-collective
https://www.instagram.com/okracollective/

FONCÉ [22.01.25]

Commissioned by Collegium Novum Zürich, for Sonic Matter Zürich
funded by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

Dedidated in loving memory of Ryan Muncy.

«Seht meine Wunden und an meinen Beinen, die Narben meiner Wunden» (denn wir sind lange gewandert) is a composition for large ensemble that deals with music as spatial art form within the concert format. This work deliberately does not go the way of an installation with a distribution of musicians in space. Instead, it examines the potential of a traditional concert setting to allow music to be experienced as spatial art, which is articulated as such through its formal musical language. It represents a concept of spatiality that is not primarily conceived in material terms: musical space is also and in particular a metaphor for, in the broadest sense, non-linear, de-dramatized gestures of musical gesturing - for a soundscape that does not want to tell us anything. It is simply there. As spectators and listeners we can only witness it.

The formal means by which a music-as-space is created stem from a way of thinking that is influenced by the techniques of digital composition and that seeks to transpose these structures to instrumental-acoustic composition and instrumentation. Specifically, this involves the technique of sampling, which is applied to score excerpts instead of audio files. Because of its harmonic simplicity, 4 measures from Ralph Vaughan Williams' 5th Symphony (3rd movement) were chosen as the ideal source material (see right). These 4 measures form the entire material for the 60 minutes of music.

By copying small "grains" of notes out of a small score sample window and assembling a new score in a long copy & paste process, a kind of musical still frame is created. Like an animated still life, we hear a very short score excerpt from a constantly, ever so slightly shifting perspective. The result is an oscillating sound image that corresponds to a phasing sampler in an instrumental-acoustic way.

The long title «Seht meine Wunden und an meinen Beinen, die Narben meiner Wunden» (denn wir sind lange gewandert) is a quote from Édouard Glissant's "Philosophy of World Relations" (Wunderhorn, 2021). His philosophy is above all also a philosophy of landscape, which recognizes its beauty in the differences and not in the unifying. This composition wants exactly that: through the repetition and the always again newly differentiated perspective it wants to produce a musical soundscape, which we traverse in a long, almost ritualistic procession.

Premiered by Collegium Novum Zürich
Conductor: Gregory Charette

«Seht meine Wunden und an meinen Beinen, die Narben meiner Wunden» (denn wir sind lange gewandert)

MarshMellow

FELT CORO CORO, MIGHT DELETE LATER

Rusty Leaves is a composition fully based on samples created in Polish Radio Experimental Studio.

Composition based on the sample packs made by Ableton available on: https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sounds-polish-radio-experimental-studio/

MarshMellow

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