Heard this piece (the comlete one ) the first time at the DeGEM concert at Akademie der Künste in Berlin absolutely stunning...

A l'invitation du festival Les détours métaphoniques, Aveyron.
Composition sur le thème des bacchanales créée en Juillet 2021.
Citations : 
Pastoral symphony - gramshi (from Marcel Cellier L'albanie Folklorique)
psalterion (HurryKen production)
David Lynch's twin peaks
Remerciements :
Eva Genniaux
Choeur de l'atelier voix de Claire Bergerault (ricercare GMEA 2019) 
Liselotte Emery (cornet à bouquin et flûte)
Ma famille, mes Amis pour leurs rires
Loco pour son souffle

MuriatiS

Fog Factory (excerpt)
10:19 Min.
Commissioned by  SEAMS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in Sweden) enabled with support from The Swedish Arts Council.
Premiéred in October 2020 at the ”Echoes Around Me Festival” in Vienna. Karl Sczuka Price 2021.

Special thanks to Elektronmusikstudion EMS, Stockholm, Almgrens sidenväveri, Textilmuseet Borås.

Fog Factory (excerpt)

january 17th, 2022
Featured on "Distance "EP" by Arco5
https://arco5.bandcamp.com/album/distance-2

Garso

30 May 2023

To get good recordings of birds you have to come close. On way of achieving this is to work with concealed microphones. It’s not easy to predict where the target bird/s will be, and I regularly fail in my attempts, but occasionally I succeed. I scouted a semi-open sandy area – a former tree seed orchard –  where I had encountered lekking Black Grouse last year, and hid a small stereo lavalier microphone overnight in the crown of an isolated small pine tree. One by one the Black Grouse males arrived in the late evening hours and immediately began displaying around the small pine tree.  

Umeå commune, Västerbotten County (63.39 N, 19.54 E)

Primo-EM172s

01_01.05

In the middle of the Black Grouse lekk

Tobira

Mukaemizu

‘It’s been decided that if you lay down no-one will die’ is saturated with bittersweet tension, created through skilful repetition, mutation & extension of a single tumbling arpeggio, Yorke’s chosen voicings alternating between hard and soft, light and dark, under and over.  

She says of the track: “It’s about overwhelm, the times when I’m consciously slowing down, trying to hold space, yet everything is still rushing in." 

The title is a twist on some lines from a piece written by mythopoet, Robert Bly:

“When someone knocks on the door, think that he’s about
To give you something large: tell you you're forgiven,
Or that it's not necessary to work all the time, or that it's
Been decided that if you lie down no one will die.”

Loula Yorke - It's been decided that if you lay down no-one will die

Bluebottle

La PEna de'l stablo descuadrado Vs. El arándano Tóxico con latencia en el entrecejo

Original Track :
https://soundcloud.com/senmove/la-pena-del-stablo-descuadrado-vs-el-arandano-toxico-con-latencia

SenSen - La Pena De El Stablo Descuadrado Vs. El Arándano Tóxico

Dave Bessell Chromatic Lightning Cage DiN84

Release date 15th March 2024
Limited to 250 copies Digipak CD

This new release from synthesist Dave Bessell sees him completing a quartet of albums loosely based on the Greek philosophy of the Four Elements, namely Fire, Water, Earth and Air. There’s certainly no doubting that “Chromatic Lightning Cage” with its vivid cover is referencing Fire but this personal odyssey started with the concept of Water on his inaugural solo album, “Analogue” released in 2010. This was followed by “Black Horses Of The Sun” (DiN47) - Air, and “Reality Engine” (DiN62) - Earth.

Bessell has also released three collaborations with Parallel Worlds on the DiN imprint as well as being part of the synth supergroup Node. It is interesting that whilst the Berlin School inspired sequencer riffs of the latter dominate the soundstage Bessell largely eschews this approach on his own albums. Rather on this and his other DiN solo releases he explores interesting harmonic progressions with a series of interlocking delicate arpeggios. This is most evident on the opening track “After Hours” as well as the beautiful closing piece “Elegy”. Elsewhere Bessell blurs the line between guitar and synth using his stringed instruments as controllers for his modular systems. His music has always had an element of the soundtrack to it and this is certainly highlighted in the track “Ariel” which has a mystical, unearthly quality to its soundscapes. Bessell has noted that the ghosts of Amon Tobin and Nils Frahm wander through this album at times which is certainly an intriguing thought.

Always one to push the boundaries Bessell has included a QR code in the Bandcamp download version of the album that opens up an augmented reality vista from the cover image. Lovers of Electronica, Downtempo, Ambient and Soundtracks will find much to admire in “Chromatic Lightning Cage” and this new album once again showcases the unique talent of this highly individual musician.

 
 01 After Hours   05:43
02 Forest Under The Sea   03:41
03 Darkening Air   07:17
04 Dream Of The Red Chamber   07:10
05 Ariel   05:01
06 Unheimlich   08:36
07 Nightshade   08:55
08 Moths   09:34
09 Elegy   06:31

Total Time :  62:46

Chromatic Lightning Cage

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Chromatic Lightning Cage by Dave Bessell (DiN84) Demo Mix

experimental/improvisation, prepared electric guitar, violin, electronics, coding.

Fog Factory (excerpt)

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