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Demeures Aquatiques -  extr : 1’21’’ - 1967

Coming Soon: Knower - Slow Emotion

Edition of 40
Mastered by Andrea Porcu

Shimmering Moods Records 2022

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com

Knower - Slow Emotion (album preview)

Site recording of 'Partials' at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, October 13, 2021–December 4, 2021 . 
" ... at stake is an explicit refusal of the pervasive notion that sound, over and above the other senses, is a universally immersive and unmediated experience. Instead, 'Partials' takes off from the knowledge that our sense of sound is always incomplete, differential, phenomenally distinct and materially pliable... " More: www.marinarosenfeld.com/partials

'Partials'

«Φαίδρα» Μαρίνα Τσβετάγιεβα
Θέατρο Προσκήνιο 2020
Σκηνοθεσία: Δημήτρης Καραντζάς 

Φωτο: Ανδρέας Σιμόπουλος

DEERS

Combined DIY hydrophone recordings from the workshop sessions "Something to Say" organised by Lakeland Arts at Windermere Jetty Museum, August 2022. Many thanks to Amy, Ian and the team!

Something To Hear Underwater

ΠΕΡΣΕΣ // Μουσική // 2022

Σκηνοθεσία: Δημήτρης Καραντζάς

Φωτογραφία: Γκέλυ Καλαμπάκα

THE PERSIANS // Soundtrack // 2022

Directed by Dimitris Karantzas

Photograph by Geli Kalampaka

Shipwreck / Πιστοί μες στους πιστούς

from the forthcoming cassette "Toward Zero Death" by Karl Raymar

A sentient chill passes through and awakens a resting body in the cathedral. Faintly heard in its wake are repurposed tape-looped fragments of commercial Halloween kitsch that excavate earliest memories of the season. The sound is eventually lent an atemporal quality by an overlaying of chorused strings, occasional voice, chilly electronic tones, possible magnetic tape EVP. Karl Raymar brings you this personal soundtrack of the season where, as years pass, we more deeply contemplate and celebrate the shift of natural cycles, acknowledge that Death is inevitable but also part of the process in which new things grow; where, with joyful and serious intent, we pay tribute to those we were fortunate to know in the brief window of our lives, an understanding of impermanence to deepen our appreciation of the present moment. Time collapses in the glow of static, leaves redden and decay, souls march through the woods, we light a candle and ring a bell.

Karl Raymar - First Day of Fall

MUSICIANS
John Beckmann: all music
Dämmerungschor: vocals
Recorded at Lux Astralis, New York

VOICES IN NINE PARTS 120

Having recently signed to FatCat’s 130701 imprint, and following closely on from Deutsche Gramophon’s release of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s ‘Last and First Men’ project which Yair co-composed, Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson’s sophomore album ‘Emanate’ is a powerful and stunningly executed extended duration work that utilises a fantastic ensemble cast and continues to explore their ideas of a 'displaced sound’ - combining electronic and acoustic sound sources through both analogue and digital means to create an ambiguous composite work, a music that sounds neither clearly electronic or acoustic, existing instead in some in-between space.

In many ways, the idea of a longform music is unsuited to and out of phase with our times. And yet, there is recent evidence of a reaction against this – witness the rise of the practise of mindfulness and the cultural elements of a ‘slow living’ movement; the huge success of Max Richter’s marathon 'Sleep’ project; and the emergence of an expansive musical niche that draws from drone, electroacoustic and classical traditions and prioritises a more immersive, durational sound worlds - see artists like Kali Malone, Ellen Arkbro, Clarice Jensen, Abul Mogard, William Basinski, Claire M Singer, and labels like Longform Editions and XKatedral. Music here is intended to function not as ambient backdrop to other activities but as a deep listening, intensive immersion.

Aligned with these approaches, Glotman & Erlandsson’s work is suffused with a chromatic density and a tendency towards an edgy darkness that puts it closer to Hildur Guðnadóttir’s ‘Chernobyl’ score or Jóhannsson’s ‘The Miner’s Hymns’. It shares that same brassy, bass heavy weight and glowering, simmering sense of tension as well as a similar, sliding feeling of instability. Its authors cite the influence of  Renaissance vocal polyphony; Giacinto Scelsi’s ‘Pranam II’; György Ligeti’s 1967 piece ‘Lontano’ (heard on the soundtrack to Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ and Scorcese’s ‘Shutter Island’); as well as American composer Ingram Marshall, and Iceland’s Valgier Sigurdsson. Gorgeously recorded, beautifully focused and measured throughout, ‘Emanate’ is a texturally rich, deep spectrum exploration that flows and unfolds almost seamlessly throughout its fifty-minute span to create an energy field which feels simultaneously static and yet continually shifting.

Emanate

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Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson - From Procession To Refraction

The music of Naarm/Melbourne composer Lisa Lerkenfeldt channels a unique wavelength of foreboding, interstitial electronics, incorporating strategies of musique concréte threaded with veiled currents of melody and hypnosis. Recent recordings for Vienna Press, Longform Editions and Aught Void have demonstrated different depths of process and finesse but her latest, Collagen, captures perhaps the most complete and complex manifestation of her craft to date.

Drawing on a disciplined palette of peach wood combs, contact microphones, piano, strings, and feedback, the album moves in low, looming arcs, ascending to strange purgatories of opaque atmosphere. Lerkenfeldt cites a core aspiration to “elevate the everyday,” transforming common objects into otherworldly sound sources, which colors Collagen with a beguiling tactility, like vibrations traced in sand. The tracks shift in frequency and feeling, alternately heady and bodily, acoustic and synthetic, isolated states of static, light, and undertow skirting the outer rings of ambient, noise, and modern composition.

Although each piece exists in its own rare air the composite panorama they present is striking in its sweep and subtlety. Lerkenfeldt's muse seems one of evasion as much as evocation, navigating negative spaces for their subliminal whispers of dread or beauty. It's an aesthetic both ascetic and exploratory, minimalist mirages of resonance, texture, and gravity skewed through the pensive glow of room tone.

But Lerkenfeldt is too versatile an artist for purist restraint, which Collagen demonstrates dramatically in its closing cut, “Champagne Smoke.” A quivering bowed eulogy ebbs under a flickering film of distortion, slowly swelling in sorrow until suddenly the screech goes silent, revealing a murmuring phantom haze hidden beneath the strings, like a specter lost in an abandoned house.

14 Gestures associated with this album will be performed in experimental film and online viewing room of graphic notation at 14gestures.com from 29th July to 29th October, 2020.

Collagen releases on Shelter Press in LP / DL format on August 21, 2020. LP mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer at D+M, designed by Bartolomé Sanson with art by Lisa Lerkenfeldt, housed in reverse-board inner and outersleeve, including a 16 pages limited edition score book.
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releases August 21, 2020

All music by Lisa Lerkenfeldt
Mastering by Kassian Troyer at D&M
Design by Bartolome Sanson
Scores by Lisa Lerkenfeldt

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