Based in Littlefield, Texas, Full Spectrum Records is a dedicated publisher of works by experimental musicians and sound artists, with an ear towards idiosyncratic tones, extended time frames, and unique compositional approaches. INFINITE FUTURES is a monthly showcase that allows FS-affiliated artists to highlight their personal influences and aural obsessions.

Listen to Infinite Futures w/ Full Spectrum live on Great Circles Radio - 4th Wednesdays, 12-2PM ET at www.greatcircles.net

Infinite Futures w/ Full Spectrum

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In his book 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒, Mark Fisher wrote about the two notions: While the weird is something present where it doesn’t belong—something from outside found on the inside—the eerie has to do specifically with outside space. Something is eerie when there are unanswered questions about agency: Who or what is responsible for the abandonment of this zone? Who or what is crying out in the distance?

Katharina Schmidt’s 𝑇𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, a single, longform track stretching to a near half hour, deftly captures this spatial sense of the eerie. The evolving drone is like coming upon a ruin, circling it, and being drawn inside. There are no surprises, no sudden horrors, just the strange pull of oscillating waveforms that paint a bleak yet soothing landscape.

In certain kinds of listeners, empty, abandoned spaces produce a pleasurable dejection. Maybe this is because spaces where human life is evacuated represent the end result of capital. (It seems to have withered away, but is in fact off to find another shell for its home.) What we’re left with is something new to inhabit, a new infrastructure for freedom. The subtle changes in Schmidt’s recording have less to do with melody and rhythm, more to do with accumulating color and texture of space. And so the half hour can feel like five minutes, or an eternity—time and scale exist differently here.

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After years of playing drums and piano in various bands, Katharina Schmidt's solo work is influenced by indie, experimental, and improvised music. Exploring interests in storytelling, sonic topographies, and generative techniques, her music uses electronics, field recordings, and self-built interfaces alongside acoustic instruments. From sonifications to lullabies, her work is poised between formal experimentation and narratives cued by literature and pop culture, and can be heard in installations, film music, and radiophonic pieces, as well as releases on labels such as Flag Day Recordings, Slaapwel Records, and Focused Silence.

Katharina holds a master’s degree in Sound Studies from the Berlin University of the Arts and hosts resident shows at Cashmere Radio and SVS Radio.

katharina-schmidt.net
katharinaschmidt.bandcamp.com  

artwork by Stefan Lingg
audio finalized by Glyn Maier

all proceeds to The Homeless Period Project (Greenville, SC, US) - www.homelessperiodproject.org

Tennis Courts in the Half Light

Katharina Schmidt - Tennis Courts In The Half Light [Excerpt] (ENMD03)

копса

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Ecotone Festival w/ Léa Roger & Lucie Gresil @ Kiosk Radio 06.05.2022

release on 16 September 2022 : https://wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com/album/visage-zyg-ne
@roxanem-tayer

Roxane Métayer is a French sound and visual artist now living in Brussels. She composes with the violin, primary wind instruments (ocarina and various flutes), archaic percussion and field recordings, fragmenting and reassembling them with synthetic effects. Nature becomes the backdrop of these wild soundscapes, populated by a phantasmagorical bestiary and an exuberant flora.

Artwork by Coline Llobet
Mastering by Adrien Lambert

Roxane Métayer - Sur Les Ailes, Huit Tâches

Live sessions recorded at Recyclart (Brussels) for the Kitten Rhetorics party, and at the Chinois (Paris) during the Kikkogal night.

https://lyl.live/episode/micro-moistur-5

MICRO MOISTUR w/ Catherine Danger [Live Session]

Long-time friends of GRCR, Full Spectrum Records presents a monthly showcase for their affiliated artists. For October '23 – Lubbock, TX dronesmith Aura Gaze steps ups for his sophomore show, delivering a mix of clear eyed, synthed out jams from friends and favorites.

Listen to Infinite Futures w/ Full Spectrum live on Great Circles Radio - 4th Wednesdays, 12-2PM ET at www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~
1. Pauline Anna Strom “Freedom At The 45th Floor/Quiet Joy” (RVNG)
2. Lucy Liyou “How To Build an automaton” (American Dreams)
3. Celia Hollander “Clearance” (leaving)
4. Cruush “Murmurs Of Solitude” (live on Instagram)
5. Ohma “Between All Things” (Colorfield)
6. Imaginary Softwoods “Yellow Calcite”
7. Salamanda “Drink Wisdom”
8. Ocean Moon “Cloud Garden” (lo)
9. No Death, Rhucle “Twighlight Mood”
10. Jordan Christoff “Love”
11. Carlos Niño & friends “WaterWavesArrival” (self released)
12. Ana Roxanne “- - -“
13. Marine Eyes, IKSRE “San Fransiquito Moonrise” (Past Inside The Present)
14. Lionmilk “I Remain Hopeful” (leaving)
15. Carlos Ferreira, Almanacs “Orbe” (Giraffe Tapes)
16. Suzo Said “Nothing Ends 2018” (Music From Memory)
17. Aura Gaze “Blissendo” (Full Spectrum)
18. Nick Turner “Under Dark Pines” (Full Spectrum)
19. David Cordero “Oma” (Lontano Series)
20. Randall Dunn, Ulfur Hansson “A Cosmic Place / The Great Teachers”
21. Ryan J Raffa “The Benefits Of Getting Lost”
22. Szun Waves “Temple” (Leaf)
23. Grails “Evening Song” (Temporary Residence)
24. Mike Reed “Floating With An Intimate Stranger” (We Jazz)
25. Matthewdavid “Zithertronica” (leaving)
26. Jon Hopkins “Love Flows Over us In Prismatic Waves” (Domino Recording)
27 Outro: Adrian Berenguer spoken word

Infinite Futures w/ Full Spectrum - Program 19: Aura Gaze

Long-time friends of GRCR, Full Spectrum Records presents a monthly showcase for their affiliated artists. 

For their final program of  '23 – Chicago's own Nick Turner takes his sophomore turn, presenting a 2-hour journey through some of his EOY favorites.

Listen to Infinite Futures w/ Full Spectrum live on Great Circles Radio - 4th Wednesdays, 12-2PM ET at www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~
1. J.R. Bohannon - Christmas Time is Here (Vince Guaraldi cover) (Astral Spirits, 2023)
2.  Lia Kohl - sit on the floor and wait for storms (American Dreams, 2023)
3. Powers, Pulice, & Rollin - Magic Meadow Mirror (Cached Media, 2023)
4. Don Cherry & Jean Schwarz - Doussn' Gouni - Part 1 (Transversales Disques, 2023)
5. Honestly Same - Foyer Joyment (Moon Glyph, 2023)
6. Jeremiah Chiu - Rococco Rondo (International Anthem, 2023)
7. Joe Rainey - d.m.ii (Psychic Hotline, 2022)
8. Kalia Vandever - Mirrored Solitude (AKP, 2023)
9. Jessica Ackerley, Kevin Cheli, & Gahlord DeWald - One (Cacophonous Revival Recordings, 2023)
10. Illyas Ahmed - Little Devil (Geographic North, 2023)
11. Daniel Villareal - Daytime Nightmare (International Anthem, 2023)
12. Williams, Kleijn, & Kassinger - For Two or Three Instruments III (Amalgam, 2023)
13.  Hearsay - The Unrelenting Thrum of Progress (Amalgam, 2023)
14. Stephen O'Malley & Anthony Pateras - déjà su (Shelter Press, 2023)
15. P.M. Tumalla & Mike Weis - A Heron Hidden in the Moon (Longform Editions, 2023)
16. Tsuadatta - Returning Home Song (Astral Spirits, 2023)
17. Ben Zucker - This Path Because (A Red Thread, 2023)
18. Chris Abrahams, Oren Ambarchi, & Robbie Avenaim - Placelessness I (Ideologic Organ, 2023)
19. Emily Robb - Bells (Petty Bunco, 2023)

Infinite Futures w/ Full Spectrum - Program 21: Nick Turner

~Tracklist~
1 - Henry Ratcliff: Louisiana from Southern Journey Vol. 3 - 1959
2 - Todd Rundgren: Born To Synthesize from Initiation - 1975
3 - Unknown: Salutation Akazehe from Burundi: Musiques Traditionnelles - 1967
4 - Tiriltunga: Skripalatten from The Sweet Sunny North - 1994
5 - Steve Reich: Clapping Music (Arr. Paul Hillier) from First Drop - 2017
6 - Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Umama Lo from  Mbube Roots - 1967
7 - The Young Tradition: Idumeae from Galleries - 1968
8 - Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares: Pilentze Pee from Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares - 1975
9 - Morton Feldman: Three Voices For Joan La Barbara (Excerpt) from Three Voices For Joan La Barbara - 1982
10 - Grupi I Të Rinjve Të Gjirokastrës: Qerbela Kerbela from Music From Albania - 1993
11 - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers: Sherburne from Southern Journey Vol. 9 - 1959
12 - The Beach Boys: All I Wanna Do (A Cappella) from Feel Flows - 1969
13 - Kenneth Gaburo: The Flow of (u) (excerpt) from Five Works For Voices, Instruments, And Electronics - 1974
14 - Strange Creek Singers: When I Can Read My Titles Clear from Strange Creek Singers - 1968
15 - Grigoris Mathioudakis / Vassilis Kartsonakis / Manolis Kartsonakis: Khelidhonaki Mou Ghorghto from Vocal Music In Crete - 1982
16 - Joseph Shapiro: B’Rosh Hashono from Mysteries Of The Sabbath - 1929
17 - Djur Djura: Azemmur from Voice of Silence - 1982
18 - The Soul Stirrers feat. Sam Cooke: Christ Is All from Jesus Gave Me Water - 1951
19 - David Hykes / The Harmonic Choir: Ascending and Descending from Hearing Solar Winds - 1982
20 - Tuva Ensemble: Oorzhak Khunashtaar-Ool Bile from Tuva: Echoes of the Spirit World - 1992
21 - Ereto Maasai: Leluai from Maigisa: Songs Of The Maasai - 2000
22 - Kecak Ganda Sari: Meganada Attacks Rama from Kecak From Bali - 1987
23 - Sha-Key feat Rahzel: A Head Nadda’s Journey (Excerpt) from A Head Nadda's Journey To Adidi Skizm - 1994
24 - Charles Amirkhanian: Seatbelt Seatbelt from Lexical Music -1972
25 - Sheila Chandra: Speaking In Tongues II from Weaving My Ancestors’ Voices - 1992
26 - Ainu People: Chaku Pikayu from Harmony of Japanese Music - 1991
27 - Ewan MacColl & A L Lloyd: Paddy Doyle from Blow Boys Blow - 1958
28 - Mbuti Pygmys: First Song of The Elima from Mbuti Pygmies Of The Ituri Rainforest - 1957
29 - Old Sturbridge Singers: Northfield from The New England Harmony - 1964
30 - Ingram Marshall: Hymnodic Delays 1 - Bright Hour Delayed from Kingdom Come - 2000
31 - Soeur Marie Keyrouz: Tagaridh from Chant Byzantin - 1989
32 - Perotin / The Hilliard Ensemble: Isaias Cecinit from Perotin - 1989
33 - The United Southern Prayer Band Of Baltimore, Washington, And Virginia: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say from Wade In The Water, Vol. 2: African American Congregational Singing - 1989
34 - Women from Br’ansk: Le Rossignol Et Le Coucou from Woman's Songs From Old Russia - 1990
35 - Bob & Ron Copper: The Birds In The Spring from English Shepherd And Farming Songs - 1964
36 - Compagnia Sacco: Lenga Serpentina from Italian Treasury: Liguria: Polyphony of Ceriana - 1954
37 - Sea Island Singers: Everybody Talking About Heaven from Southern Journey Vol. 13
38 - The Watersons: The Greenland Whale Fishery from Early Days - 1965
39 - Ikoce: Kec (Famine In Uganda 1994) from Music From Uganda Vol. 1 - 1995
40 - Unknown: Gloria from Sicily: Music For The Holy Week - 1984
41 - Copts: Hosanna In The Highest from Coptic Music - 1960
42 - Jim Ringer & Mary McCaslin: Canaan’s Land from The Bramble & The Rose - 1979
43 - Shirley and Dolly Collins: Lowlands from Anthems In Eden - 1969
44 - Vjeko Plišić & Mate Brusić: Ive Kosi Za from Folk Music Of Yugoslavia - 1973
45 - Yi Kum Mi & Cho Kyong Hi: Hoe Sim Gok from Korea: Folk Songs [I] - Songs Of The Kyonggi District - 1988
46 - Leadbelly & The Golden Gate Quartet: Gray Goose from Alabama Bound - 1940
47 - Unknown: Hagishta from Women’s Love & Life - Female Folklore From Azerbaijan - 1996
48 - The Pastels: Goodbye (Acappella Demo) from Bang Goes My Heart - 1955

Infinite Futures

Infinite Futures w/ Full Spectrum - Program 22 - Aaron Oppenheim

Long-time friends of GRCR, Texas' Full Spectrum Records presents a monthly showcase for their affiliated artists. 

Long-time friends of GRCR, Full Spectrum Records presents a monthly showcase for their affiliated artists. This month, label mainstay Gil Sansón kicks out a 2-hour odyssey that spans vintage psychedelia to crystal-pure minimalism.

Listen to Infinite Futures w/ Full Spectrum live on Great Circles Radio - 4th Wednesdays, 12-2PM ET at www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~
Pauline Oliveros (played by Apartment House), “Horse Sings From Cloud” (Another Timbre)
Anastassis Philippakopoulos (played by Jurg Frey), “Song 4 for Clarinet” (Elsewhere)
Graham Lambkin & James Rushford, “Rise of the Machines” (Erstwhile)
A Jurist For Nothing, “Anna Politovskaya” (Self-released?)
Genesis, “Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats (slowed down from 45 to 33 rpm)” (Charisma)
Fuzz/Haf, “#1” (Unreleased - this is a 2010 recording from a free / psych improvised rock duo I had with Leonardo Gil, aka Iguana, currently dormant)
This Heat, “Twilight Furniture” (This)
Robert Wyatt, “Gharbzadegi” (Rough Trade)
Loren Connors & Daniel Carter, “The Departing of a Dream VII” (Family Vineyard)
Gil Sansón, “Robert” (unreleased, playing simultaneously with original recordings by the Situationist International)
Pink Floyd, “Vegetable Man” (Harvest)
Keiji Haino, “Rudra Vina” (from the compilation ‘Tokyo Flashback 4’)
John Cage (played by Apartment House), “Fourteen” (Another Timbre)
Bernhard Günter, John Duncan, “Home, Unspeakable (edit)” (trente oiseaux)
Steve Hackett, “Shadow of the Hierophant (ending)” (Charisma)

Infinite Futures w/ Full Spectrum Program 23: Gil Sanson - 27Mar2024

Long-time friends of GRCR, Texas' Full Spectrum Records presents a monthly showcase for their affiliated artists. 

Long-time friends of GRCR, Full Spectrum Records presents a monthly showcase for their affiliated artists. This month, interdisciplinary artist S Hollis Mickey turns in a 2-hour playlist surveying pastoral folk meditations, quiet hours ambience, and glimmers of the American primitive.

Listen to Infinite Futures w/ Full Spectrum live on Great Circles Radio - 4th Wednesdays, 12-2PM ET at www.greatcircles.net

Check out S Hollis Mickey's April 5, 2024 release 'Cocoon' on Full Spectrum at - https://fullspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cocoon

~Tracklist~Yoko Ono, “I’m Alive”
MIZU, “Interlude (Sunken Citadels)”
Olga Bell, “К​р​а​с​н​о​д​а​р​с​к​и​й К​р​а​й / Krasnodar Krai”
Piotr Kurek, “Harps”
Qoa, “LINQUEN”
Laurie Anderson, “Let X=X”
Natalia Beylis, “New Potatoes”
Foresteppe, “Radonitsa”
MJ Lallo, “Blues for Buddha”
Cleek Schrey & Weston Olnecki, “Prelude : Montgomery (170)”
Yara Asmar, “fish can’t tie their shoelaces, silly”
Mari Boine, “Gula Gula”
Valentin Silvestrov, “Fairy Tale”
Beacon Sound, “Nukahtamislaulu”
Andrew Weathers, “Shout, O Glory! Sing Glory, Hallelujah!”
Olli Aarni, “Tuuli puiden välissä”
Arthur Russell, “Not Checking Up”
Tomoyoshi Date, “水 Mizu (45 rpm)”
Beverly Glenn-Copeland, “Old Melody”
Alex Somers, “Looking After”
V Manuscript, “the perfumed eye”
Björk, “Cocoon”
Celer, “Or Me Or You”
The Caretaker, “I still feel as though I am me”
JJJJJerome Ellis, “Sabi”
Jeremy Dutcher, “Koselwintuwakon”
Ruptured Records, “Are Aquariums Moral”
Aiko Takahashi, “It Could Have Been A Beautiful Evening”
Mossy Kilchner, “So Long! !”

Cocoon

Buy Cocoon

Infinite Futures w/ Full Spectrum - Program 24: S Hollis Mickey - 24Apr2024

Long-time friends of GRCR, Texas' Full Spectrum Records presents a monthly showcase for their affiliated artists. 

Weston Olencki says:
I am a composer, musician, and audio engineer; originally from South Carolina; living and working now in Berlin. I’m currently making work focused around questions of instrumental music and its contexts/constructs, various mediated practices of listening and improvisation, and the technological, material, and cultural histories of vernacular art-making.  My recent music deals with the non-linear relationships and unexpected resonances between experimental sound, geography, historicity, and (mostly American) musical traditions.

Listen to Infinite Futures w/ Full Spectrum live on Great Circles Radio - 4th Wednesdays, 12-2PM ET at www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~ 
Artist - "song" - Album [Label] 
Zeynep Toraman - “Chimes” - In a Dark House [Obscure and Terrible] 
Magic Tuber String Band - “The Hermit’s Passage” - Needlefall [Thrill Jockey] 
Yoshi Wada - Earth Horns with Electronic Drone [Edition Omega Point] 
Gérard Grisey - Les Espaces Acoustiques [KAIROS]
Weston Olencki - “all my father’s clocks” - broadsides [upcoming, Outside Time] 
Eric Wubbels & TAK Ensemble - BREAD (from interbeing) [via SoundCloud]
The Touchables (Ole Henrik and Guro Skumsnes Moe) - “Birdabyalullaland” - The Noise is Rest [ConradSound] 
Tongue Depressor & John McCowen - “Blame Tuning Part 1” - Blame Tuning [Full Spectrum]
Albanian Women's Group From Kolonjë - “Song of Emigration” - Albanie: Polyphonies Vocales Et Instrumentales [Le Chant du Monde]
pent - “trepidation cycles 1-3” - trepidation cycles [self-released]
Tom Mudd - “Brass Cultures C” - Brass Cultures [fancyyyyy]
Jacob Wick - For Ted - feel [Thin Wrist]
Lee Patterson - Egg Fry #2 - [Cathnor Recordings]
Marja Ahti - “Shrine (Aether)” - Tender Membranes [Black Truffle] 
Weston Olencki - field recording made in Jenkinsville, SC 
Bríd Ní Máille - “An Crithir” [Harry Smith archival recording] 
Sholto Dobie - “forest logic” - 23 [Infant Tree] 
Virgil Anderson - “Trouble” - On the Tennessee Line [County]
Tom Mudd - “Pluck Ritual” - Guitar Cultures [fancyyyyy]
Joseph Decosimo - “Trouble” - While You Were Slumbering [SleepyCat]
Jacken Elswyth - “after Dink Roberts” - Six Static Scenes [self-released]
Zosha Warpeha - “when I am real” - silver dawn [Relative Pitch]
Hoboken Sacred Harp Singers - “O for a closer walk with God”
Nick Dunston - “colla voce” - COLLA VOCE [Out of Your Head] 
HARLOW (Jessie Marino) - “The Occasion” - A Host of Possible Dramas and Exchanges [self-released]
Edgard Varèse - Octandre 
Iannis Xenakis - Jalons 
Zdrój - “Baden Baden” - Zdrój [Syf] 
Santa Clara Vanguard Drumline 2012 [YouTube] 
Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat - “Ngejuk Memedi” - Chasing the Phantom [Black Truffle] 
Weston Olencki - “the rocks are different here” - pearls ground down to powder [Full Spectrum] 
Bryan Jacobs - “blocks and birds” - Lost At Sea [self-released] 
Don Zilla - From The Cave - From the Cave to the World [Nyege Nyege Tapes] 
Kevin Drumm - “Hitting the Pavement” - Sheer Hellish Miasma [MEGO]
Gabber Modus Operandi - “Pandang Galaxxx” - HOXXXYA [SVBKVLT] 
Madison Greenstone - “glass horn (acoustic shadows)” - Resonant Studies in Ecstatic Consciousness [Relative Pitch]
Mattie Barbier - “untitled i” - threads [SOFA] 
Ellen Fullman & Theresa Wong - “Harbors pt. 2” - Harbors [Room40]
Henry Birdsey - “seriya limb” - Two Harmonicas in the Jewelers Court [Poole Music]
Roscoe Holcomb - “Moonshiner” - The Music of Roscoe Holcomb & Wade Ward [Smithsonian Folkways]
Sam Salem & Distractfold - “The Great Inundation” - London Triptych [Dfolds]

Infinite Futures w/Full Spectrum - Program 25: Weston Olencki - 22May2024

Philadelphia-based label, Internet radio and streaming A/V sessions. We document the grit. 

Label Catalogue [digi available for all releases via Bandcamp]
GRCR-001 - Jason Carr - Athletic [12"]
GRCR-002 - Tony G - Tous la Part le Même Sort [12"]
GRCR-003 - _moonraker - m_type [12"]
GRCR-004 - _moonraker  - remota instruere [12"]
GRCR-005 - Westov Temple - Messiah Drugs [12"]
GRCR-006 - Dan Trevitt - The Missing [12"]
GRCR-007 - Dan Trevitt / Westov Temple  - 2.2 mi [12"]
GRCR-008 - M//R - Gathering Response Data [12"]
GRCR-009 - Chaperone - P O N D [12"]
GRCR-010 - Mid-Atlantic Death [2x12" label comp] 
GRCR-011 - WOLF DEM - Hydrophobia [12"]
GRCR-012 - THRIVE - Nested Structure [12"]
GRCR-013 - Prefix Moniker  - Plasmas [LP]
GRCR-014 - Chaperone  - Snapback Balaclava [12"] 
GRCR-015 - M//R - Among The Methods [LP] 
GRCR-016 - Heckadecimal - Murder Tape  [12"]
GRCR-017 - Radere - I Do Not Want What I Have [LP]
GRCR-017R - Radere - I Do Not Want What I Have Remixes [DIGI]
GRCR-018 - M//R - Forever Intended [DIGI]
GRCR-019 - WOLF DEM - Chatter From A Dying Planet [DIGI]
GRCR-020 - Westov Temple - What's Left [DIGI]
GRCR-021 - M//R - Slo Cerebral [Cassette]
GRCR-022 - Chaperone / WOLF DEM - Live August 14, 2021 [Cassette]
GRCR-023 - Grant Bouvier & Simon Martinez - Live at Passages [Cassette]