KATELYN CLARK & MITCH RENAUD, Ouroboros, LP
Hallow Ground
Vinyl / digital, catalogue nr. HG2406
Ltd. vinyl / digital
Release date: 04.04.2025

On Katelyn Clark and Mitch Renaud's »Ouroboros,« astronomical and astrological phenomena, concepts and symbols such as the Great Year or the Eternal Return serve as the starting points for sonic explorations and experimentations. Focusing on a uniquely tempered range of frequencies, from low-end drone rumbles to airy pipe swirls, the duo develops a minimalist and highly evocative sonic universe on their debut album for Hallow Ground.

Working as composers, improvisers and curators in Canada's vibrant experimental and early music scenes, Clark and Renaud began developing »Ouroboros« through extensive improvisation with a reduced setup. Clark, who has worked extensively with historical keyboards since her studies in Amsterdam and Siena, played a small pipe organ modeled after a 14th-century instrument while Renaud brought a modular synthesizer and his interest in feedback systems to the collaboration. Later, the duo further refined their artistic dialog and the sonic interactions of the two instruments through the shared space of a two day recording session in Vancouver. Subtle crackling, acoustic beating and other (psycho-)acoustic effects in five pieces document this encounter, giving the music a profound physicality while hinting at the bodily presence of the two collaborators.

Just as the cyclicality of natural phenomena or the repetition of planetary movements is both a scientific fact and of the cultural imaginary, the sound worlds of »Ouroboros« are fundamentally rooted in time and space while transgressing the idea of a »here and now« through their conceptual links to geological and planetary time. The interplay of portative organ and modular synthesizer, which merge fluidly and in ever-changing ways, leads to a kind of circularity, a timelessness, a no-time. At the same time, the movements and subtle changes undermine the idea of repetition in the negative sense. After all, the Eternal Return, as Gilles Deleuze writes in regard to Nietzsche, is not the return of the same but a repetition of repetition. The only constant is change, the production of new intensities, of new forms of life – and of new frequencies.

Credits:
Music by Katelyn Clark and Mitch Renaud
Recorded and mixed by Aaron Klassen at Monarch Studios in Vancouver
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu (Schwebung Mastering)
Artwork by Laurin Huber

Ouroboros

Katelyn Clark & Mitch Renaud - Ouroboros (HG2406)

https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/vestige-leit-motif

"The word vestige is rich in nuanced meaning: a trace, a reminder, a residue, a fragment or relic of something that has been left behind, an echo from the past perhaps. There’s a time-stretching quality to this idea and things may not always be as they seem in the moment. As the artist explains, “This album is influenced by the many thousands of connections we have with so many people throughout our lives, big and small. These connections may be ephemeral and transient, or they may be long lasting and fulfilling. That all depends on the nature of the relationships we create and sustain throughout life, but either way we display a bit of ourselves in each interaction we have and leave behind a trace. A remnant. A vestige.”

Across its eight tracks, this concept is explored and imagined in musical form to superb effect. The trademark Fragile X production techniques of swirling and enveloping swathes of sound punctuated by moments of calm for reflection are fully utilised to create a powerful, at times almost theatrical, depiction of our journey through life. Waves crash against the rocks, the shoreline is weather beaten and battered, but then the heavens open and the light pours down.

There's something timeless and mysterious, even mystical, about the audio landscapes of 'Vestige' as there is with life itself. This is also reflected in the track titles. At times the mood can be brooding – 'Anam Cara', for example – while at others tingling with excitement as with 'Welcome Home'. The beatless aesthetic of See Blue Audio is also well represented on tracks live 'Seva' and 'Roots and the Tree of Life'. As 'Veni Vidi Amavi' closes the album, we're left with a sense of the wonder of life and how we are all just microscopic parts in the grand cosmos of existence."

Before You And I Were Us

viki steiri - i want you too in my private dream / pause / axRI (folk song)
sodomahigomorra - hybrid elite
d. towärds - hazy downtempo
b. rupp - please continue
lychen - the abyss
usof - fat belly (ben bondy's version feat. yves & shy)
games - grt
buttechno - angel's break
mosam howieson - final flight
mirror organs - fexofen		
bjarki - puppet parade	
lovefear - pa gossamer	
igor maximilian - Q_q
inferior design - ilion container
aiwa - o ato 1
blue noise - i
eustress - sb5
sseq - take it softer
opheliaxz - halo4k2dj

crossing the rubicon

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/guests-205-xalt-xcess
https://repulsexplosif.bandcamp.com/album/diamond-stars
https://soundcloud.com/xaltxcess

GUESTS

GUESTS 205 – Xalt Xcess

Audio by Formen (Album Version)
Artwork by Formen

Bandcamp

Formenlehre 01b

3DLOOP

https://radiopunctum.cz/shows/guestmixes

Guestmix #201 by ϙue

"nomadic telecast where @optovolokonniy presents a diligent listener with contemporary, mostly non-dance, Ukrainian currents via guided sonic excursions"

Tracklist:
ногируки - вітер 2, 3
mires - kept feels lair
poly chain - hyrax
xtclvr - part 1
comechelet - memória 24°4
zahvat - bouquet for Olha
hena - pidloga
love ♥ laugh ♥ death - t̷e̸m̶p̶o̸r̵a̴r̸y̸ ̸a̴b̵s̴e̵n̴c̶e̶
bb948 - SPRING k p2
tofudj - geo
bsw - miasma06 (live excerpt)
Katarina Gryvul - ulamky lyusterka
undo despot - drifted grand piano
bayun the cat & JD Roberts - an ancient path
john object - Postkardashian-Lebron James (hwoarang remix)
Nastya Vogan - eustasy
ногируки - вітер 6

If you enjoy what we do, please consider donating to us at https://buymeacoffee.com/radiopunctum

ϙue presents Ukraine

2 x 2

Track from NE110 Trailcam – Drumlin Loop
Out on CD and digital July 11th

Shop here: www.northernelectronics.bandcamp.com
Worldwide retail distribution: www.spacecadets.world

”Trailcam is the latest focus project from Toronto-based artist Rita Mikhael, formerly known by the moniker E-Saggila. A bold artistic statement, the project continues to expand the boundaries of her evolving sonic landscape.

Drawing from a lifelong immersion in music ’Drumlin Loop’ opens with a hip-hop-inflected instrumental track before unfolding into more cerebral, textured terrain—offering a sonic journey that is both introspective and unapologetically singular.

Staying true to her ethos of creative freedom, Mikhael defies genre constraints and expectations. Trailcam embodies this restless artistic drive, showcasing her distinctive ability to weave emotional depth into bold, experimental compositions”

Written and produced by Trailcam in Toronto, ON 2024
Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome
Artwork by Trailcam
Design by Dominique Saiegh


Trailcam – Albion Road

This iteration of Peltiform was Nathan Story, Tam Ferrans and Paul Daniels.
 LP3 " TRIPTYCHS" - 25/07/2025.
#FloatingSpirits #Nonima #Mitoma #Dissolved #Apydiagirls #Peltiform

Amberallion

"This little mix is a documentation of a magical summer in my house. I've had friends stay over during an intense long heatwave, and these tracks have been sketched out while hanging out drinking aperol spritzes and chilled wine, and after my friends have gone to sleep. It's a combination of sketches, short jams, almost finished tracks and repurposed bits. 
For those wondering who I am, I am a guy operating, quite comfortably, from the shadowy underbelly of the european experimental techno scene since the early 2000s. I was talked into releasing an EP on 030303 Records in 2014. Since then I've put out more stuff on Analogical Force, Love Love Recs, U.T.T.E.R., Furthur Electronix. 

I’ve gotten reports that both Autechre and Aphex Twin have DJ:ed my tracks, which is perhaps my biggest (second hand) achievement so far, since they are known for quite different styles of music.

Big thanks to Giovanna Elia for inviting me, and to anyone listening, buying my records and/or playing them out."

VERBS Files: Rolando Simmons | live

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