TR151 - Katz Mulk - Muscle Memory

Dark Skies

Desire was made in dialogue with African, European and pop artists from around the world for Norient Sounds exhibition «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World». The exhibition was hosted by museums and festivals in Germany, Switzerland and the UK (ZKM Karlsruhe, CTM Berlin among other places)

VIMEO: https://vimeo.com/137019344

DESIRE

Degradation Loops was a 16 day composition that gradually and completely 'bit crushes' my 2015 album Yellow Bell. Produced for a group show at the 55 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville gallery in Sydney, a process of sonic destruction unfolds in response to visual artists destroying and reassembling their work, to create new work, and to question the dominance of commercial imperatives within art. Here is a 14'48" time lapse edit of the 16 day composition, 2016.

Degradation Loops_55 Sydenham Rd Marrickville

https://ultraeczema.bandcamp.com/album/dark-arc

Dan Melchior & Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson (Dark Arc A Side)

Vaagner and Vienna Press presents (A Declaration)⁣⁣
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Amethyst⁣⁣
Beton Tåge⁣⁣
Burning Pyre⁣⁣
Body of Intrigue⁣⁣
Canadian Rifles⁣⁣
Civilistjävel!⁣⁣
Ceramic Flowers ⁣⁣
Fortunes Brine⁣⁣
Isorinne⁣⁣
J. Carter⁣⁣
Korea Undok Group⁣⁣
Lisa Lerkenfeldt⁣⁣
Moss Harvest⁣⁣
O. Vaupel ⁣⁣
Rosewater⁣⁣
Սայաթ-Նովա
Sorim Byeon ⁣⁣
Summer Rites⁣⁣

(A Declaration) is a dialogue, a gesture, an affinity.

The chalk on the wall,
the sheer tunic and ribcage,
the gioconda kohl,
the collar, lace, wrist and clasp,

A stage direction.

(A Declaration) is and the opening and closing of a circle wrought by two.

released December 1, 2019

Body of Intrigue & J. Carter - Petrichor

A single 20 minute piece made from fragments of love letters. 
Special thanks to: Tanya Serisier, Lucille Calmel, Kjersti Andvig, Jurgen Ots, Nicola Carr, Jeanette Rhenstrom, Jimmie Peggie, Sarah Lamble, Maud OK, Paula Garcia Stone, James Webb, Marcos Filipe de Neves Ferreira, Malfada, Carolina Cunha e Silva, Flavio Derbekannt
This piece also contains an excerpt from Salomé Voegelin's Text score for writing a love letter.
This work is a longer version of a piece first made for BBC show The Verb, for their episode on loneliness.
Mastered by Simon Scott at SPS Mastering.

Where To Begin (excerpt) - Kate Carr - out April 28

MARJA AHTI, The Current Inside, LP

Release date - May 8th 2020
Catalogue nr. - HG2004
Format - Ltd. Vinyl/digital

https://hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
1.The Altitudes (20:09)
2.The Currents (04:21)
3.Lost Lake (04:25)
4.Fluctuating Streams (06:12)
5.Sundial (04:43)

Credits:
Composition, production, mixing: Marja Ahti 
Voice: Johanna Kalliokulju 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi 
Cover artwork by Niko Karlsson and design by Juri Puhakka

The Altitudes was commissioned by Ina GRM as part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. The work was supported in part by Arts Promotion Centre Finland. Synthesizers recorded at EMS, Stockholm and Ina GRM, Paris. Voice recorded at IAC, Malmö. Field recordings from various locations in Finland, Sweden and Croatia. 

Thanks to Olli Aarni, Niko-Matti Ahti, François Bonnet, Jason Dungan, Jonna Karanka, Laura Naukkarinen and Remo Seeland.

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The Current Inside”, Marja Ahti's sophomore album for Hallow Ground, plays with the theme of currents - connecting and animating movements in the form of air, water and electricity. It approaches sound as a poetic medium, focusing both on the experience of sound as form and energy and on a loosely narrative arc, suggesting a riddle on the relations between the sounds. It implements alternative as well as intuitive tunings, analog and digital synthesis, recordings of sonorous spaces and vessels, electromagnetic fields transduced into audio, acoustic close-ups of elements in motion and other field recordings. Fluently connecting quite diverse sound sources, Ahti's music lingers in a zone between abstract sonorities and vaguely familiar acoustic environments.
The first half of the album consists of ”The Altitudes”, a piece commissioned by Ina GRM for Présences Électronique and Sonic Acts. It was inspired by descriptions of the layers of Earth's atmosphere. Imagining a movement through layers of air, the piece unfolds with a slow intensity, interweaving concrete sounds and closely tuned electronic sonorities. Traversing the altitudes, a landscape of entangled elements, masses and currents emerges. The air around us has weight and it presses against everything it touches. As gravity pulls it to Earth, it is sensed as pressure. The rotation of the planet, the angle of the sun at any new moment sets the elements in motion in a chain reaction. 
The other side consists of four shorter pieces. ”The Currents” opens with a dance of trembling charged movements. ”Lost Lake” extracts resonant tones from a trail of close-up recordings of winter environments, while ”Fluctuating Streams” channels streaming air in different forms. The closing track, ”Sundial”, could be construed as the steady turning of the planetary angle towards the sun, unfolding through fragments of everyday activity against the backdrop of piercing, slowly twisting, suspended tone.
Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a musician and composer based in Turku, Finland. Originally from Sweden, Ahti has been a part of the Finnish experimental music scene for more than ten years in different constellations. She is currently active in the duo Ahti & Ahti with her partner and as a member of the Himera artist/organizer collective. Her critically acclaimed 2019 solo debut, Vegetal Negatives, explored a new formal language and sonic palette inspired by a short text by René Daumal.

MARJA AHTI - Fluctuating Streams (HG2004)

Guest mix for faitiche's radio show on LYL - Temple of Faitiche, Nº20, 27 March 2020 

https://lyl.live/episode/temple-of-faitiche-20/

Hanno Leichtmann – Selbstbespiegelung
Else Marie Pade – Syv Cirkler
Andrés Lewin-Richter – Study No. 1
Fracture Mechanics – Pendentive
Katrine Ring – Den Politiske Håndvask 1
Boris Hegenbart – Wasser Studie
Marja Ahti – Chora
Hideki Umezawa – Still | Steel
Marcus Schmickler – Wabi Sabi (Part 4)
Boris Hegenbart – Wasser Studie
Nicola Ratti – Bn2
Daniel Majer – Tu Lip
Jan Jelinek – Framework 10 (Remix)
Mads Emil Nielsen – Buchla Sketch
Riviera Tape Stash – Strong Arm Baby
Ahnnu – Dovetail
Boris Hegenbart with Stephan Mathieu – S Anode M
David Moss – Terrain 3
James Sey / James Webb – Book Of Imaginary Wavelengths: Book 5
Mads Emil Nielsen – Framework 3 – 3
Andrew Pekler – Tuanahe

https://faitiche.de/blog/2020/03/25/temple-of-faitiche-march-2020

Temple of Faitiche 20 - guest mix

Preview of the album 'Luchtwezen'
SØVN Records, July 15 2020, cd/dl/stream
https://sovnrecords.bandcamp.com/album/luchtwezen
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Constructed by Rutger Zuydervelt, Rotterdam, February – April 2020
Rutger Zuydervelt: church organ (Oude Kerk Charlois), electronics
Berlinde Deman: serpent and vocals (recorded at home, Ghent)
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Many thanks to Lies Klaus, Gilbert van Drunen (Koffie & Ambacht),
Jaap van Gils, Stepping Stone, and SØVN records 
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Rutger Zuydervelt, a.k.a. Machinefabriek , needs no presentation to the ambient and drone audiences. (Hyper)active since the early 2000s, he epitomizes a minimalistic, electro-acoustic approach to these genres bringing together real world and synthetic oscillations. Berlinde Deman is a tuba player, and amongst many other projects member of the unconventional jazz big band Flat Earth Society.

In Luchtwezen, the two are brought together by a common veneration of the physical experience of the creation of sound. Both musicians each exploit on this record an unusual instrument: Rutger plays the Hess church organ of Oude Kerk Charlois, in south Rotterdam (together with some electronics); Berlinde sings, and plays the serpent, an ancient wind instrument, made out of wood and shaped like a snake. The meeting of the two should have taken place, as a matter of fact, in the Oude Kerk Charlois itself, during a live concert organized by Koffie & Ambacht. However, the quick rise to power of Covid-19 forced the duo to turn this get-together (as all musical get togethers during our quarantines) into a virtual one: a studio recording, that you can hear as Luchtwezen .

And yet, by just listening to the record, you may be fooled into thinking that this was a live recording - as we have all thought, because of their intensity, that some quarantine Zoom calls were not happening over a screen, but rather out there, in the real world. The flow is natural, the sound space unitary. The clicks of the organ keys are just right there in front of us. After the first brooding half, we all feel the mysterious, oriental breath flowing from the serpent in the spaces between us. And then, a simple melody sang by the organ reminds us of the feeling of excitement of going to a live concert - where you know that a serpent will dance to the sound of the organ's pipes.

Machinefabriek with Berlinde Deman – Luchtwezen (preview)

Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Leo Flash' Return To The Underworld

HALLOW GROUND 
is a platform for Music and Art that leads to Visions.

It was established in Lucerne/Switzerland by a group of individualists, idealists and first of all artists. We act as publishers, hosts and performers.

www.hallowground.com