Your 2024 Playback

This Mixtape is a compilation of tracks produced by the participates of the 'Take it from the bird - creating music inspired by the Superb Lyrebird' workshop I lead for Unthinking / Unlearning - an online laboratory and residency, a part of the Year of Germany in Russia 2020/21 and collaboration between Klammklang label, Sound Studies and Sonic Arts (M.A.) at the Universität der Künste Berlin and Sound Art and Sound Studies (M.A.) at HSE Art and Design School, Moscow.

‘The Superb Lyrebird’ is an Australian Native bird, which is capable of mimicking natural and synthetic sounds from its natural environment — Participants created their own music sampling biorhythms and timbres from an animal sound open-access archive.

Track list:
Alexandra Kopelyan - In a Bittern Voice
Isa sO.any - Myai
Alexey Berezhnoy - Flat ES Ecosystem
Anton Anishchanka - Bear Habitat
Ira Afanaseva - Dogs in the yard
Lera Elagina - Kozhuhovo Birds
Masha Alexandrova - Fin 
Ystalost Dimecres - Untitled.

Take it from the bird - creating music inspired by the Superb lyrebird U/U workshop mix tape

Thrush Nightingale
recorded
Sikkalahti, Finland 
2am 5th June 2002

This performance is unusual in the almost continuous delivery, rather than separate strophes with intervals between.

nightingale after midnight

Ep-23

Ep-23  Pt. III

Ep-23 Pt. III (full EP on Bandcamp)

Originally inspired by oleanders, the first flowers to bloom in Hiroshima after the bomb, "flowers which bloom from blackened earth and poisoned air" is a piece reflecting on environmental destruction, resilience, and hope through duration, slow transformation, and timbral complexity. The piece unfolds in four stages which create affective sonic environments, each containing an enmeshment of one another. 

resonant earth | blackened earth | poisoned air | flowers blooming

written for Broken Frames Syndicate

premiere date: february 2, 2024 at Harvard University’s Paine Hall, Cambridge MA

flowers which bloom from blackened earth and poisoned air (2023) | Broken Frames Syndicate

From dusk to dawn with two pairs of cranes and one or two single male contenders. In this recording you will hear almost infrasound (80-200 Hz) growls and heavy panting as the males chase each other in the wetland and of course the trumpeting of cranes through the night. An amazing experience to be this close. Huddunge, Uppsala. April 9, 2024.

Mixpre 3ii + Lewitt 440 Pure in ortf

Cranes like you never heard them before!

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~ IIKKI 025 ~

music : Federico Durand 
artwork : Michael Roemers 
album : Té De Flores Silvestres 
duration : 41.59 mn 
date : July 01st 2024

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Federico Durand – 
ARP Odyssey, music boxes, endless tapes, Sony TCM–459V, feedback looper, RE–201 Space Echo, Korg MS-20, Audio Developments AD 145, H1, El Capistan, sampler, Shortwave radio, Moog Prodigy.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree 
Artwork by Michael Roemers 
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition : 
• vinyl: limited to 250 copies / white LP / hand numbered  / selective UV varnish / black inner 
• cd: limited to 150 CD / hand numbered, hand-made / pantone 
• book: limited to 400 copies / hand numbered / embossed / selective UV varnish / hand stamped /

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pre-order : May 28th, 2024 / official release : July 01st, 2024

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https://www.iikki-books.com/
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https://federicodurand.bandcamp.com/

Té de flores silvestres

Federico Durand - Sueño De Una Polilla De Seda

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Recording 4222.	Wetland Night (1).	12th May ’24 – 10.51pm.		10m05.	Near School Garden.		440’s & the MixPre3.  At nineteen seconds the distant Common Cranes begin to call.  They stop at 3m27.  Species present are Sedge Warbler, Common Snipe, Corncrake and Spotted Crake, Bittern, Common Sandpiper and Lapwing.  At around 6m35 some birds fly over.  Rated 9.
Sunday the 12th of May 2024. Woke up a bit late, around 3.45am or so, got ready as quickly as I could and went first to the garden and placed the NT4 (Omni capsules) at the old house at the end of the Nature School garden and pointing up at the big trees.  Made my way to the piece of forest where I had been recording the evening chorus along the new road, set up the 8020’s going into the MixPre, 56db gain, I had this recorder going by 4.30am.  Then onto the meadow at the end of the new road, had it recording by 4.47am.  I missed a little of the start but there was no way to always wake up on time, didn’t know why the phone alarm would not work, it was probably only something simple.  The weather was beautiful and calm, quite cold at only 3C, there was a slight frost on the grass when going back to the house.  Nothing to do while the systems record, only stand there keeping away from the mics but keeping watch, being aware of a rogue shower for instance, and maybe if anyone was around, unlikely but good to keep a casual watch.  Back at the house I soon put the recorder out again, this time outside the door (MixPre & 8020’s) as the sounds in the garden were very nice.  Slept for a lot of the morning, later before lunch I got a text from Andrus saying he was around for a lot of the morning but he knew I might be sleeping.  I would not have minded if he knocked on the door, however we met up and talked for quite a while.   The British people staying at the other house were very good and appeared at the door with the bread and something else I wanted from the shop.  After tea I went to the piece of forest along the new road to record the evening chorus.  Had all three recorders out, the MixPre3 with the MKH8020’s, a gain of 65db.  The NT4 and the X8 and finally the Warm Audio 84’s with the DR100.  I wanted to capture the chink-chink calls at dusk of the Blackbird.  Oddly they didn’t do much of it that evening and the bit that I got was mainly distorted.  Back at the house I noticed that the sounds coming from the opposite side of the river were interesting so I set up the Lewitts and the MixPre and let it record for a while, the first minutes are best, this is where the very distant Common Cranes trumpet, the sound reverberating around the area, taking a few seconds to die away completely.

Wetland Night (1) - 12th May 2024 at 10.51pm - Palupohja

An electronic composition, original sounds created in Pure Data.

Wordless Dialogue (naviarhaiku555)

Gazing The Sun Fading

Shibui is a simple, unobtrusive beauty that expresses original imperfection and intelligent restraint. The track titles are based on various polysemantic aspects of Japanese aesthetics and culture.

Miyabi – elegant, understated sophistication.

Raku – The art of hand-molding ceramics, which allows each piece to have its own unique, rough, uneven appearance and texture.

Wabi – unpretentious simplicity.

Mono No Aware – the sad charm of things.

Iki – an elegant, refined manifestation of beauty that combines seductiveness, composure, and modesty.

Nendouryoku – psychokinesis and telekinesis.

Sabi – archaism, genuineness, authenticity, peace of mind in loneliness.

Sumi-e – monochrome ink painting.

Sayonara is not just a farewell, it is a word spoken when someone no longer expects to meet. It is a farewell forever.

Produced and mixed by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Mastered by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover picture by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

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Shibui

"mais quand je lève les yeux vers le monde
tout me semble trop, trop rempli, trop rapide, trop pour moi
c'est trop ce qu'il faut être, il faut trop être
il y a trop plein d'être peut-être
peut-être que je suis trop plein d'être après tout
et que dans ce décalage, je me retrouve soit en-deça, soit au-dessus
toujours avec une posture, une position, il faut se positionner
il faut une position, il faut être dans toutes ses dimensions
et l'exprimer, le faire valoir" (Nathalie Vanderlinden, extrait de https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/de-branche-en-branche )

Mixtape composée fin août, début septembre 2024, pour N.

Image: www.instagram.com/camille.tsering/

Tracklist:
Grouper - Being Her Shadow
Drekka - Fractured
Les Antonymes - Un temps futur https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/track/un-temps-futur
Grails - Daughters Of Bilitis
Les Antonymes - ArtRose Phosphorescence https://antonindebemels.bandcamp.com/track/artrose-phosphorescence
Fairies Are Back - Leaf Skin https://soundcloud.com/fairiesareback
Les Antonymes - Je suis là https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/track/je-suis-l
Jann Dūne - Birds In The Attic (impro) https://soundcloud.com/nina-sky-w-k-coeur
Douglas Dare - Heavenly Bodies
Fairies Are Back - Cyrp https://soundcloud.com/fairiesareback
Antonin De Bemels - Rêverie Animasque https://antonindebemels.bandcamp.com/track/r-verie-animasque
Grails - Deep Snow
The White Birch - Love Is So Real
Antonin De Bemels - La douceur (first draft)
The White Birch - Breathe
Keaton Henson - Flesh and Bone
Antonin De Bemels - Grotte enchantée https://antonindebemels.bandcamp.com/track/grotte-enchant-e
Ought - Forgiveness
Matt Elliott - 'Confinuum' 9

Mélancolie douce XXVI

A long, unedited excerpt from the dawn section of an unattended overnight recording, featuring Crested Bellbirds performing a series of transpositions of their distinctive but (rhythmically and tonally) variable Bellbird song pattern. (At 20:10 one of them seems to push itself to the highest point of its vocal range.)

The recording was made with a microphone rig comprising four supercardioid microphones in an IRT Cross / double NOS array, in open Mallee country.

In this first stereo mixdown of the four isolated tracks of the fourfold array, because of the original stereo perspective, there appears to be only one main (near) vocalist (not counting those Bellbirds that are obviously much farther away). However, while later experimenting with other stereo perspectives made possible by the four tracks, it became clear that, in fact, more than one main (near) Bellbird vocalist was involved. For a different stereo perspective that reveals this differentiation: https://earth.fm/recordings/winter-dawn-in-mallee-country-with-crested-bellbirds/.)

Recorded respectfully and mindfully on the land of the Meru and Danggali peoples.

Track image credit: Male Crested Bellbird photographed by Indra Bone (South Australia, 2019). Source: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/photos/43977723. (CC BY-NC). Below the photograph is a spectrogram of the recording.

2024.08.11 Crested Bellbirds: Transposition Display. Dawn. Winter's End. (1st stereo perspective)

Dear friends,

It has been a long time since we last released a compilation – our previous one was back in 2020. For the 100th release of our label, we felt it was the perfect occasion to celebrate in great company! We invited many musicians who have collaborated with Dronarivm in the past to create joint tracks with an artist of their choice. The result is 24 uniquely diverse tracks that showcase the vast musical spectrum of the genre we generally call "Ambient."

We are proud to present Illuminations III, a compilation created as a heartfelt thank-you to everyone who has supported us over the years. This includes musicians, listeners, visual artists, photographers, designers, podcasters, reviewers, and everyone who has helped us grow and move forward.

Illuminations III features over two hours of outstanding music from leading ambient producers, and just like any true gift, it's completely free to download. Of course, if you wish, you can contribute any amount you find appropriate. All proceeds will go toward supporting and further developing our projects.

For those who prefer a physical format, the album is also available as a print-on-demand double CDr.

We hope you enjoy this release – a labor of love that took over six months to create. Thank you for your continued support!

Chihei Hatakeyama & offthesky - Illuminations III (free download) - 02 Frost in April

ISTID IV

𝔈𝔵𝔭𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔢𝔯, 𝔞𝔰 𝔞𝔫 𝔈𝔳𝔢𝔫𝔱, 𝔞 𝔐𝔬𝔡𝔢, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔞 𝔇𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔅𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔤.

2024.08.11 Crested Bellbirds: Transposition Display. Dawn. Winter's End. (1st stereo perspective)

𝕳𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕭𝖊𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘

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