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Xao - Wirehead

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS013
Release Date: 2nd December 2022

Pre-order available at canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/wirehead

‘An overwhelming diet of stimulation. Maximalist sonics reflect/mimic the barrage of media, attention hijack. A cathartic balm with which to come down from the onslaught. To break out of the compulsion loop. Erosion of Attention and Critical Thought. The inability to write or hear a melody.

As more potent stimulus is experienced with greater frequency, the elicited response grows duller. Satisfactory engagement requires stronger, stranger and crueller stimulus. Entropy cascades, form becomes occluded. Dragon chasing. The Earth will implode under the weight of our data. The internet currently boasts the mass of a strawberry.

Wire-heading as a Possible Contributor to Civilisational Decline.
Wire-heading as a Possible Contributor to the Death of Art?
Wire-heading as a form of music making…
DAW addiction, resampling syndrome.

Micro-genres and reissues. A glut of influences, fleeting obsessions; option paralysis fomented. Procedural and algorithmic composition to break the stalemate. The imposition of order becomes freeing. Seeding pareidolia? Freedom through procedure. The altar wine of counterpoint and the modafinil of machine learning. Or a new digital spirituality achieved through enhanced aleatory. Silicon zealotry and the pursuit of the divine online.’

Music by Xao

Vocals on 'I Wed My Shadow' performed by Marie Requa Gailey

Artwork and design by Somnath Bhatt

Mastered by Alex Gordon at Abbey Road Studios

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Xao - Ophanim Plushie

It is time to let go of your fear and doubts. You must learn to embrace the darkness of your soul, for it is a light beacon of hope for humanity. Your soul wants to show itself in its truest form, strength, perseverance, courage and determination of spirit. In this lifetime your soul needs to cleanse and open its feelings for katharsis.

With the double compilation “Infinite Summer: Ekstase & Fantasi”, katharsis celebrates the return of raves and concerts to society after a long period of pandemic shutdown. A magical summer has past filled with a great pallet of emotional material, ready to be expressed. Therefore, we encouraged a collection of artists we adore to channel their imagination of the greatest way to conclude an endless summer night with into a piece of music.

This resulted in a grand assemblage of harmonious manifestations, naturally splitting into two divisions with opposing focuses. In contrast to the first part of the duology “Ekstase”, which focused on euphoric and dancefloor-oriented outputs, this second part “Fantasi” has a more serene and introverted focal point. The majority of the tracks seem to be meant to stop time in deep reflection with a placid sunrise as the backdrop, exemplified by the purgative opener “salomé” by Aestum, but the listener will find occasional rhythmic outpourings like the unhurried clubby vibes on awbluu’s “Rosalyne (Voxen)” or the beautiful melodic “we will get where?” by Beham.

Infinite Summer: Fantasi

s'curled

Infant - s'curled

@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 -  Cryptid

@digitonica 
@ganael1

Ganaël (AT/LU), audiovisual artist and electronic musician, combines experimental techniques with pop cultural elements. Inuenced by IDM, post-club, Hip-Hop and electronica, the amalgamation of genres is at the forefront of his musical work. Releases on Ashida Park, Stayfou and Ane Records. Part of the electroacoustic duo Arpataik with the harpist Miriam Adefris.

For the first show DIGITONICA invites the audiovisual artist and electronic musician Ganaël (Ashida Park, Stayfou, Affine records). A wild mix between (unreleased) Electroacoustic Harp recordings, Hip-Hop, Ambient, BaileFunk, IDM, Noise & much more.

DIGITONICA (she/her) — audiovisual artist, professional pianist, sound designer, singer, and electronic composer.
Having worked in the past with a variety of genres, having an academic background, at the moment is engaged in post-electronics, post-internet, post-club, meta-punk, deconstructed music with an interweaving of academic and pop tradition and a lot of voice manipulation like alien processing. The music has a psychedelic and surrealistic tone, like a living voice coming from the digital environment.
Also creates psychedelic 3D arts.

Model of a young Bark Beetle for the animation lm Brood & Parasite (lm by Ganaël Dumreicher, Martin Eichler, Carla Veltman)

LUNAR PRISM ⏤ Digitonica invite Ganaël

SILO is the result of improvised compositions, created and recorded inside an empty silo in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. This cylindrical empty tank was formerly used in the production of fish meal, the main industry of this small town. Large fishing boats constantly come and go from the fjord, where steep and lean mountains rise up on both sides. The silo is like an encapsulation of the fjord, where all sounds from the surrounding waterfalls, snow blizzards, sea birds, ships, and factory machines are sucked in and thrown around, spiraling in metallic reverberations. Once you have entered through the small hatch opening, all senses sharpen. The light is dim, illuminating the orange dust-covered floors. There’s an obscure smell of rust and fish, and breath turns into steam in the frigid cold air. Every sound, each footstep and movement of the body, is amplified in the soundscape of the silo. The sense of time and space quickly gets lost. The source of that which you’re sensing is ambiguous as the sounds of the synth, the flute, and our voices are woven into each other, blurring distinctions between what is mine/yours/ours.

Flute: Loft Garten
Synth: Mschyen
Voices: Loft Garten, Mschyen
Poem and voice in You Deserve Everything Pt. 1: Temra Pavlovic
Produced, recorded and mixed by Loft Garten and Mschyen Mastered by Loft Garten (Vaa Mastering)

Spring Bodies

The inability to feel pleasure.

Artwork, Written, Mixed & Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis.

Anhedonia

CD / Digital

user-24012015 - raw

RECENT HORIZON by Elysia Crampton is archived as the altered documentation of her lecture "Tethered to the Song: Transsubjectivity, Female Masculinity, and Lacan's Formulae of Sexuation" performed at the University of Gothenburg Dec 17, 2014, curated by Gluey-c.
The work was commissioned for Timur Si Qin's solo show "Recent Horizon" in Berlin, May 2015.
Follow: https://soundcloud.com/eande
PD: Traidor por ser parte de la minoria, eso dicen ellos - Traitor for being part of the minority, so they say.

Image: Jacques Lacan

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