section X from Divisio Spiralis (2019)

JACK Quartet

February 25th-26th, 2021, Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York
Mastering engineer: Ryan Streber
Editing/Mixing: Christopher Botta and Christopher Otto

Catherine Lamb

Divisio Spiralis X (2019)

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"Endless Pit" is the fifth track of Amek's "Vanishing Standards III" compilation. 

Featuring vocals from my main project @niandraz .
Visualizer: https://youtu.be/QUM7u7ANGaE

Vanishing Standards III:
"The third installment of our bi-annual Vanishing Standards compilation series closes the year of our fifteenth anniversary. As usual, we wanted to have as many members of our extended family aboard as possible, as well as welcome new ones into it. Of course, they are in the company of Amek regulars, whom, whenever we could, we tried to inspire to work in new collaborations and configurations. The result is not only the shortest volume in the series but also the first one dominated by atmospheric, yet noisy, tracks that are punctuated with some unexpected heavy hitters."

credits
released December 18, 2023

Mastered by Marius Costache
Artwork by Nikola Kostov

This is amek070.
https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/album/vanishing-standards-iii

погледни / отрази / черни дни / пропадни .

Vanishing Standards III

Endless Pit (ft. Niandraz)

Our initial dialog with Synthia was an adventurous creative endeavour that made us question whether machines could have a soul. This one definitely spoke her mind, and left a fascinating mark on both of us as a wondrous machine––––––woman, a marvelous piece of engineering, an entity trapped in a modular eternity.

Considering that neither of us had any previous contact with such a complex modular system such as EMS Synthi 100, we took a somewhat intuitive approach. This is a fairly raw glimpse of the first days spent in the studio.

Oh, Synthia, we only just met...

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Happy birthday Mark!!!

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Composing, editing, patching & live mixing: Manja Ristić
Live mixing & patching: Mark Vernon
Cover art: Manja Ristić –– segment of the sculpture by Angelina Gatalica made in memory of Serbian painter Nadežda Petrović, erected in 1989 in the Pioneer’s Park, on the occasion of the IX Summit of Non-Aligned Countries.

basne——side B

basne——side A

Pedicel

last years transmission from the Black Lodge

fluid karma ᯓ hope street radio 19.10.23

An improvised field recording set on aquatic life and death in the age of the Anthropocene. It combines underwater recordings of singing glaciers, pulsating aquatic plants and water insects with spatial resonances from hydropower dams and reservoirs.

Live on the river Bille, Floating Transmission, Hamburg 2023
Festival curated by Julia Nordholz
Photo by Antje Sauer

Troubled Waters (Field Recording Live Set @ Floating Transmissions 2023)

Mats Erlandsson and Maria W Horn meet as Dufwa in heavy synthesis wielding insect field recordings sourced from the catalonian countryside.  Dufwa’s debut release, Fältinspelningar från Terres de l’Ebre (Field recordings from Terres de I’Ebre), defies the standard conception one might have about field recording music. By means of intricate digital processing, Dufwa scrapes the natural source-bonding from their collected insectoid recording and sonically stretches them on a continuum between drone, noise and generative music.

Dufwa - Atypi

yet another sketch in supercollider. actually a combination of two improvised recordings, with minimal editing in reaper

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This CD features recordings of a now lost sculptural work that was originally commissioned in 2016 for Colour Out of Space festival. The work consists of over 100 empty computer cases, fitted with 16 customised and automated DVD drives. Between 2016 and 2018 it was exhibited in Brighton, Athens, Croydon, Oxford and Rennes, on each occasion being reconfigured into a new form. The most ambitious of these being at Detritus Festival in 2018, where a new and larger version of the work was constructed at the Onassis Cultural Centre from used computer sourced in the city. The work was sadly lost in transit between France and the UK, returning to the global trade in e-waste which its production initially sought to intervene in, so all that remains are these recordings. 

The CD is released in an edition of 150 in an oversized 7" sleeve accompanied by a 16 page risographed booklet featuring photographs and scans of the sculpture, essays by Danae Stefano and Stephen Cornford, and a letterpressed backpanel.

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