"Thoughts on Manifolds is an album of impossible shapes, anomalous physics and quite unusual calibre." (Electronic Sound)

"An audible statement of an otherworldly architecture - a mind's outlook into one of many futures shaped by Blank Wall Season." (zenevloed)

THOUGHTS ON MANIFOLDS (GEN050) by BLANK WALL SEASON (@blankws) is a feather light, mixed-material showroom of synthetic objects, constantly rolling, constricting, zooming, bubbling, evoking some vast space. Impossibly thin, transparent foil, crisp, ice cold fluids, metal on rubber impacts etching elaborate diagrams and schemes into ambiguous, lush techno-reminiscent chords. The sound arrangement here is akin to a granular breeze, like an alien meteorology, a particle simulation turning into a textural primordial soup. Constantly in acceleration or deceleration, the listener knows every vast saturated pad is seconds away from the rush of a blast-off, almost intolerable G-forces, images flashing in front of one's eyes, bullet-like hard pans. These operations are like a valve being turned, the sudden pressure release causing a stream of some noble gas being set free, or opening a shutter suddenly providing a flicker of light highlighting the contours of some cavernous lost zone.

// About GEN050
/ Blank Wall Season about the album
“Another foggy night, as you step out from the exit of a club, every 'feeling' you had is overlapped with sweat and you are stuck with emotions”
In the album, we hear one sample altering and folding into a wide spectrum of sonic reflections while hazy textures intersect with each other to create a crafted assemblage. Amongst this heap of sounds, you'll find some that you can't get through and realize that they are the ones that matter as it's all a journey within manifolds.

// BIO
/ Kaan Işık aka Blank Wall Season
Blank Wall Season is an experimental electronic music project created by Kaan Işık. He is a composer and sound editor based in Istanbul who explores the relationship between new aesthetics and aspects of hearing in his sonic journey. After studying cinema and sonic arts, he founds his vision in music from eclectic perspectives that deepen his productions. Blank Wall Season blends acousmatic elements with complex textures. He has worked with renowned art galleries and clubs in Istanbul, Ankara, and Berlin by curating event series and expanding his network in art. 
credits
releases August 28, 2022

Recorded, produced and mixed by Kaan Işık
soundcloud.com/blankws
instagram.com/kaanisik_
facebook.com/blankwallseason
linktr.ee/kaanisik_

Designed by Bora Başkan
instagram.com/baskan.bora
cargocollective.com/borabaskan

Mastered by Wim Dehaen
soundcloud.com/wimdehaen

Released by Genot Centre
linktr.ee/genot

Blank Wall Season - Supermarket For Existence

Yung Pope - Octubre (DIGITONICA remix)

https://soundcloud.com/lastrackqlf x Avant

"I’m from Lyon and recently moved to marseille, was born in 1991. I originally studied piano, then moved to guitar, bass and singing. I  came to djing in my late 20s. I have a talk show on lyl radio named Cardioïde in which I interview people, read stuff and things I wrote. I write a lot. I have a dog and I love drinking a lot of red wine. I’m really into quantum physics and space related stuff as well. I try to study philosophy in my free time. 
I love a good movie. I studied communication and graphic design."

Tracklist:
Congress of Owls - Squaring the Circle
Terpotzlan - Acid Monst
Fausten - Phosphorus
Low Khey Feat Catnapp -Good Like It Should
Oxóssi - 4 My Ppl [Missy Flip] 
Alan Johnson - Stillness
City Girls - Twerkulator (Deft Remix)
Flume - Get U
Fausto Mercier - Firmest Fine 
Lila Tirando A Violeta & Sueuga - Residual Self Image (Soul Feeder)
Addison Groove - Dancer
An Arvin - Paticake 
RTR - 606 Roll
Dj Gigola - Gigi Groove
Diessa - next dub, freeze hype mashed w/ Naco - Stand
Ten Pence Criminal - Follow Orders
Blood Of Aza - Queen Mamba
GXi - Strip City
Addison Groove - Brand New Drop (Thys Remix)
Chrome - Blind Dweller

Lastrack - Avant Radio mix n.100

"Veering from fractured hyperpop into deconstructed club oddness and ambience, this album is a restless and rewarding experience that will delight fans of the Orange Milk catalogue and the stranger corners of Oneohtrix Point Never’s discography." (https://soundcloud.com/djmag) 

"Time and time again, we have found ourselves lost in this album. A potent stew of element we’d possible not normally enjoy tumbling in space with sections we wish continued into far longer expanses." (Obladada) 

On Organe Solaire (GEN051) by https://soundcloud.com/amselysen a coherent ensemble is presented consisting of digital, hyperprocessed textures, minuscule sound fragmentations and impassioned, pressing vocal broadcasts. Deceptively, the sound at intermittently even approaches something like a sugary sweet pop production: chord stabs, piano tones, heartfelt howling, energetic kicks, the whole works. The most powerful weapons in the electro-acoustic toolkit are used here: sound events occur on a microscopic scale, sliced, granulated, pitch-bent, resonant, bubbling, stretching - but at the same time have an impactful, cinematic, piercing quality. From the arrangement point of view there is a cryptic multi-centered, restless logic, with the trajectory of all tracks constantly getting out of balance, twisting, self-subverting. The human voice, or the remnants of it, form an important thread through this album; spanning a wide tonal, textural range, the voice material is sometimes vocoded, stuttering, crushed, resampled, fried, totally pushed beyond its limits; but at other times innately performative, assertive - a declaration of intent or active intervention, conveying meaning, communicating something important. Organe solaire follows 2020's murky transmission Hypnagogic Surge.

/ Hakeem Lapointe (https://soundcloud.com/amselysen) about GEN051
“My [Amselysen’s] second full length album’s focus, Organe Solaire, strays from conceptual music and goes on dissecting and splaying a dark but colourful sludge of emotions. A major point source in my compositional approach to the record has been imagining the trajectory of hyper-pop if it evolved with a more pessimistic tendency, with the same bells and whistles, but less shiny and squeaky clean — like the rainbow reflections of tar bubbles.
Organe Solaire, unable to afford being cryptic, doubles down on honest, raw lyricism and is quick to open up, building a comprehensive musical and gestural language that reflects the narratives behind each and every track. They range from slow suicidal ballads, to demented hyper-melancholic pop, to interludes containing heavy narratives, like Discrepancies (for Kellyanne): a heavily filtered piano composition dating from my late teens, also acting as a hope to reach out to a long lost then-best friend.
I did not shy away at referencing personal idols who’ve inspired me throughout the years: The Labour of Love samples Akira Fuse’s Shikuramen No Kahori, a song mentioned in Joji Koyama and Tujiko Noriko’s feature length film Kuro, and matches its theme: gazing at the afterimage of a romance long gone. Post-modern Tsunami, as outlined by “shoutout to Hito Steyerl”, is made to the image of Steyerl’s Liquidity Inc.: in its wave-like structure; in its senseless meme aesthetic; and nods at its conceptual approach, dissecting contemporary culture with economic undertones.
To aid me in my efforts, I have called upon two outstanding collaborators to lend their strengths on the album. I’ve recruited the excellent Ubu Boi, providing tactful compositions and solid vocal performances, and the mysterious 2x|n, a.k.a. Seraphim, for precise sound design and incisive aural interventions.
Delving into romantic torment, drug use, artistic frustrations, struggles with mental illness, Organe Solaire brings forth a fundamentally human experience in the form of raw edges thinly veiled under a layer of gloss.”

Buy & Stream

Amselysen - Discrepancies (for Kellyanne)

Amselysen - Milky Visage

@iseeflame "Vultures & Thorns" [IC006]

The exosphere of old cycle scavengers predate the plunge of the serpent rider back into the abyss. Scintillating through the descent. Drawing back the obsidian arrows – straight through the heart.

In which where their bones of iridescent scales once lay; shall I the same. Wild stallions upon ethaxian plains. Mercenary mechatronic heatseek stampedes hone in on mutant carbon-based cruelties with circlets of red-dot iron sights.

In flames; be fauna, xae, and all flora. Engulfed. Forgotten in transliminality. Within these crystal tears, leads for the keeper of eyes to glisten. Hidden shrouds. Carcass amidst.

“I contemplate the soil as a wayward shadow which
The sun of the living excites (heats) not the dead.”

Ascension: for the moonstone jewels compose the crown of the crescent bride, bequeathed upon spirals of locks. On the thrusted skies, we would get nourished upon the source; the chariot of dawn to bask in the eternal solar ponds; suspended in light.

The phial and the blade.

Vultures and thorns.

art cover by lyfegain
words by E.E

Vultures & Thorns

ICY FLAME - Mist Raven

Thirty-first Cime show on @radio80000 w/ @jusnjjshh

traumesser – sharp-bladed tactics
Vid Edda - Skygge Flakser
Sarahsson - Lime Time
unperson - Spiritual™
Flaty – IP-Elegy
ben bondy – immortal
Nile Koetting & Nozomu Matsumoto - Architecture
Lucy Liyou & Eric Frye - Part 1 & 2
Luigi Ceccarelli - Exsultet
Amber Meulenijzer - Procession
Thomas Ankersmit - Perceptual Geography
Jessica Ekomane - Solid of Revolution (reworked)
Claire Rousay - peak chroma
Meredith Monk - Summer Variation
Metta World Peace - Glomar
Zeze Wakamatsu - Aomori Before Summer
Martyna Basta - Speechless Lately
bela - Fish
Justin - unreleased
Eric Frye - Love Pilled

Artwork by www.instagram.com/alexanderturovsky/

May, 23th, 2023

Cime w/ Justin on Radio 80000 (May, 23th, 2023)

cold

3LIFXXPATH (PROD. REDFYERFLAME)

beat made by damntibi
mix and mastered by me

deliquent prod.damntibi

@bab-u

EE3 is a suggestive succession of strangely assembled pieces of micromondo miscellanea as small bizarre objects and surreal items right for Artetetra’s continuously metastasizing outré wunderkammer. 

A showcase of heterogeneous materials that cover an entire imaginal ecosystem going from the grotesque to the hazy, to the hypnagogic and absurd til the utterly whimsical; often resulting in non-linear audio experiences with humoristic and paradoxical outcomes. Abstract exotica, amphibian footwork, compositional audio-jokes, brutal counterpoint metal, aquatic sci-fi shredding, steel-cold cognitive fado, glossolalia madrigals, metaphysical hip-hop, sunitty conglomerations, abrasive warfare cartoon OSTs. All and all, let’s just call it Quinto Mondo. 

But let's get down to the nitty-gritty: 
STILL NOT MUCH 3 SAY 
NEO°GEO 3.0 
30 TRACKS 
30 IMAGINAL FAMILY SUPERSTARS 
2H OF HAILE MUZAK FROM THE FLOATING WORLD 
FUN IS THE MF GUN 

Compiled and curated by Artetetra 
Illustrations and design by RIccardo Redeghieri 
Mastered by Giancarlo Brambilla

The nitty-gritty

Babau - Into The Gassy Surface

RIP ✝2015∞2023✝
tape label/music community from Prague
https://linktr.ee/genot

Bryce Helm - Close You're Eyes Why Smokeing Weed (GEN053)
Fausto Mercier - Misinput Tycoon (GEN052)
Amselysen - Organe Solaire (GEN051)
Blank Wall Season - Thoughts on Manifolds (GEN050)
Klahrk & KAVARI - Wax (GEN049)
ubu boi & r hunter - A Symbol For Disguise (GEN048)
Giant Claw - Millennium Bug Live 2018​-​2021 (GEN047)
ABADIR - Pause​/​Stutter​/​Uh​/​Repeat (GEN046)
Eilien - Digital Lovers (GEN045)
QOW - Dawafer (GEN044)
Amselysen - Hypnagogic Surge (GEN043)
Euglossine - Blue Marble Agony (GEN042)
adaa - ok im real i think (GEN041)
My Cruelty - The Secret Weapon (GEN040)
Quantum Natives - Silent Night (GEN039/QNR034)
Fausto Mercier - FULLSCREEN (GEN038)
Corporation - Graffito (GEN037)
Mor Air - Life Behind Glass (GEN036)
Ice_Eyes - Individual Drops (GEN035)
r hunter - rrrrrrafael (GEN034)
I am just a Pupil - Classical Classics (GEN033)
Jano Doe - Duranzie (GEN032)
Æthereal Arthropod - Opilio (GEN031)
Laura Luna Castillo - Laminares (GEN030)
Tereshkova - Collapsed Lake (GEN029)
German Army - Terroir Place (GEN028)
21st Century Wolf - City Zen EP (GEN027)
Ten Hyphen Twenty - In-Store Music (GEN026)
woopheadclrms - vs o​.​t​.​O​.​g​.​I (GEN025)
Lišaj - Mezina (GEN024)
Wrong Dials - Hello Brightness My New Sex Friend (GEN023)
Forces - Plastisphere (GEN022)
Bonie Jash - Shirase (GEN021)
AF85 - ハイパーオリンピック (DIAMOND EDITION) (GEN020)
Percival Pembroke - Arpeggiatorworld​+​+ (GEN019)
HDMIRROR - ANTHEMS (GEN018) 
Enchanted Lands - Feed Goals (GEN017)
The House in the Woods - Paralysis (GEN016)
Izanasz - Spectral Cascades (GEN015)
Luna & Tarnovski - Luna & Tarnovski (GEN014)
Ecto Mist - Equal (GEN013)
Aghnie - Club Envy EP (GEN012)
Iku - Fugue (GEN011)
Dane Law - r.bit (GEN010)
Bryce Helm - Persona (GEN009)
Cass. / Dudal / Stijn Hüwels - Silent_Night#4: Dauw (GEN008)
Liminal / Aires - split (GEN007)
HERBARIUM - DIVINE HERBA: EXTENDED (GEN006)
Lišaj - Szara EP (GEN005)
Lee Chapman - Silent_Night#1: bar do thos grol (GEN004)
MB03 - Jackie World (GEN003)
Lee Chapman / Wim Dehaen - Voices & Allusions / Benidorm Hotel (GEN002)
Percival Pembroke - A Course In The Theory Of Drones (GEN001)

Amselysen - Milky Visage

Genot Centre ✝2015-2023✝

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