Sad and frustrating.  When will we learn.

Reminiscent, for me, of Olivier Messiaen's 'Quatuor pour la fin du temps'. Something terribly real and truly terrible, portrayed beautifully, poignantly, skillfully, in art. A heartbreaking paradox. Messiaen: "The abyss is Time with its sadness, its weariness. The birds are the opposite to Time; they are our desire for light, for stars, for rainbows, and for jubilant songs."

this is an incredible recording but hard to listen to...

FURTHERSET @furtherset
AURAS - OUS036
digital

«On ‘Auras’ I tried to expand my range of timbre, and to create a kind of ‘symphonic’ structure.»  - Furtherset

With his fourth release on -OUS, Furtherset presents an intriguing three-part EP that plots a unique confluence of ambient, experimental electronics and modern classical; three chapters of stratospheric drama and depth that set the stage for his long-awaited forthcoming album.

‘Auras’ begins with the gentle drift of sparks and tremors, moving into delicately wrought, disintegrative currents of sound, before sustaining a sense of elevated physicality, and expanding outwards, reaching for the beyond. Furtherset develops new compositions with the mindset of a writer who approaches the blank page of a new book. Articulations appear, briefly at first, then develop into words, then into sentences, and finally, a compelling story is formed.

Rhythms transition into melodies, harmonics are added almost imperceptibly, creating an abundant filigree of sound. ‘Auras’ is a spiralling work of glitch and slippage, of surge and overload, of stillness and suspension.  

Furtherset’s new music is time dilating and dimensional, creating space and stature, a world which contains dazzling and manifold tonalities. ‘Auras’ illustrates an evolution: «I wanted to have much more clarity and technical precision, to make everything more crystalline». Like the prismatic light of a crystal ‘Auras’ changes as each element comes into focus. Here Furtherset takes the listener on an emotive, mercurial journey, designing a towering universe of evocative sensation and memory. 
Furtherset is the musical project of italian musician and artist Tommaso Pandolfi — class of 1995. His music is an open invitation to immerse oneself into a weightless states of mind. Exhaling growth and inhaling decay, his walls of sound are restlessly built from layered and looped harmonies, shifting modulations and sampled voices. The figures are pushed over the tipping point to where they explode and are then reshaped into melodic cascades.

CREDITS
Music by Tommaso Pandolfi
Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer at vfbm Fribourg
Cover illustration by Tommaso Pandolfi
Graphic design by Jahn Koutrios

This is OUS036

Auras

Circle

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Furtherset - Circle

Dropped two contact mics at the surface of an anthill

Recorded with JrF contact mics in Serrinha do Alambari, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil in Sound devices Mixpre-6 96kHz 24 bits

Ants swarming

Bandcamp link: https://mariamg.bandcamp.com/track/lotsva 

In March 2021, after two silent years of pandemic, I began collecting chants from around the world for my new acousmatic work. Exhausted by the long period of isolation and lack of contact, my artistic goal with this project was to bring together the voices of people from different countries, cultures and religions and unite them in my musical composition. In the promotional video I posted on my social media channels, I asked for audio recordings with a smartphone and received 26 songs that I used as source material for the piece. The audio files ranged from intimate solo recordings made in a bedroom, to polyphonic folk songs and chants professionally recorded in a studio, to songs accompanied by various instruments. As I listened to the recordings, I realized that my task as a composer was to find ways to connect the voices that were recorded in different acoustic environments, with different keys, tempos, and languages, and to create a sound world in which they could all coexist. Considering the time in which the recordings were made and the work was composed, I consider this piece a collective prayer, hence the title ლოცვა (Lotsva).
The first version of the piece premiered in Oslo on September 9 and subsequently toured other Norwegian cities and international festivals. In the meantime, I kept receiving new recordings, so I added a new contribution from a different country at almost every performance. The final version of the piece was presented at Kulturkirken Jakob as an 8-channel sound installation as part of VoxLAB VårFEST.

Contributors:
Annie Björkman, Sweden
Aine Eva Nakamura, Japan
Heidi Skjerve, Norway
Line Souza, Brazil
Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad, Norway
Nigar Gahramanova, Azerbaijan
Åshild Hagen, Norway
Katy Pinke, Israel
Supriya Nagarajan, India
Zosha Warpeha, USA
Silva de Waard, Netherlands
Zoe Perret, France
Verena Merstallinger, Austria
Diego (surname anonymous), Argentina
Tamo Nasidze, Georgia
Falk Rößler, Germany
Ensemble IALONI, Nino Naneishvili, Georgia
Elvic Kongolo Birkebein, Congo
Małgorzata Olejniczak, Poland
David Zurabiani, Georgia
Sajidah Ahmed, Bangladesh
Andrea Silvia Giordano, Italy
Balint Laczko, Hungary
Marija Astromskaitė, Lithuania
Diana Serrao, Portugal
Christopher Manning, US 


Mastering: Balint Laczko
Cover: Midjourney AI
Video: Manuel Madsen (Norsk Komponistforeningen)
Commissioned by: Ny Musikks Komponistgruppe
Produced at Notam

LOTSVA / ლოცვა (excerpt)

"Mesh" (2022-2023) for ensemble and live-electronics, here live-performed by the Nadar Ensemble at the Concertgebouw Brugge on 26.3.2023 (Yves Goemaere, perc & live-electronics; Dries Tack, bass clarinet and live-electronics; Thomas Moore, trombone & euphonium; Nico Couck, e-guitar+FX; Pieter Matthynssens, cello; Stefan Prins, live-electronics, Wannes Gonnissen, sound engineer).

Additional samples from Rainforests in Borneo and the Amazon recorded by David Monacchi for "Fragments of Extinction".

Commissioned by Nadar Ensemble & Concertgebouw Brugge. Supported by the Flemish Community.

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Even though "Mesh" can be performed as a stand-alone composition, it was premiered as part of the evening-length project "Der Wanderer 2.0" which I developed together with the Nadar Ensemble in 2023. In the version presented in the context of this project, the audience is wearing headphones on which part of the soundtrack and amplification is played back, while other parts of the soundtrack and amplification are heard through the loud speakers on stage. This splitting allowed for an extensive manipulation of sonic depth, nearness, distance, foreground, background, blanketing and uncovering. The audience was encouraged to play with the headphones, taking them on and off freely, listening to only one ear, etc., creating their own listening experience.
Of course none of this can be replicatd on this live-recording, in which the soundtrack is rendered to stereo.

Mesh (Stefan Prins, 2022-2023)

New Love Music is a piece for electronics and LED-lights. Its based on sounds from the cither, sinus waves and a choir of friends. 

This is just a short extract of the piece. Whole duration is about 40 minutes.

Photo taken at the premiere performance at 3hd Festival in Berlin, November 2017.

New Love Music [Extract]

A preview track from the forthcoming CD "Scaath Catfish". From the mud of the Illinois River and some chromium dioxide found along the Mississippi.

Scaath Catfish

Catfish Splinter

A new 5 track mini album released on Hibernate Recordings.
https://hibernate.bandcamp.com/album/nia

Charitable fundraising has been hit very hard by the COVID-19 so as part of #TwoPointSixChallenge we plan to release 26 free download/pay as much as you can afford Ep or albums on Hibernate Bandcamp page over the coming weeks. 100% income being donated to charities. All proceeds from this EP go to Medicins Sans Frontiers.

blochemy - Nia (Hibernate) Sampler

For bass flute, bass clarinet, bass oboe and live-electronics, performed by Ensemble Mosaik (Bettina Junge, bass fl; Simon Strasser, bass oboe; Christian Vogel, bass clar)

!!---please listen on good speakers/headphones, there's a lot happening in the <100Hz and >10kHz freq bands---!!

Commissioned by and dedicated to Ensemble Mosaik.
Premiered on 1.8.2020 at AckerStadt Palast, Berlin. 
Recording on 28.7.2020 at Vivaldi Saal, Berlin.
Recording engineer: Arne Vierck, editing and mastering: Stefan Prins

Inhibition Space #1 (2020)- for bass flute, bass clarinet, bass oboe & live-electronics

BYRON WESTBROOK - Electric Blued

Deforestation in Finland has accelerated tremendously in recent years. Most old forests have already been cutted, but also logging growing forests  for the pulp industry is still increasing. When the logging machine comes, the scene is like from a horror movie. Like the sounding too. 

A little piece of old forest that had remain near our home was nearly clear cutted brutally. It took four days to do that, and this recording is from the third day.  A Black Woodpecker cried hearth-breakable during the first day and a Raven pair flew over and over again during all the days of logging. 

This piece is recorded near my bird feeder. The Raven is heard best between 5-6 and from 11.15. The other birds are mostly tits of the woods. Between 9-10.30 a Willow Tit (most likely) is singing weakly it's fall song. In the picture the logging machine is resting for a moment. Enjoy with headphones, thanks!

(MKH8020 ab80cm, SD702, 24/48, +6dB in post, flac)

https://holotna.pic.fi/kuvat/2020/201023_3.jpg

Jan Eerala Finland

The Final Cut - 15/10/2020 - Makholma Forest

Anthéne, the music of Bradley Sean Alexander Deschamps. He is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and also curates the Polar Seas Recordings label. His compositions are primarily created using electric guitar and synthesizers, with field recordings and occasional acoustic instruments. Over the past few years his music has been released on Home Normal, Constellation Tatsu, Past Inside the Present, among other labels.

Anthéne - the slow wave [GRFTPS006]
available for pre-order on giraffe tapes bandcamp exclusively limited edition cassette / digital -
https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/the-slow-wave

Giraffe Tapes - Anthene Live [19.02.2021]

Ploughing aural fields in remote North.

Field recordist, bird watcher and a digitized former darkroom rat living in little Makholma village on the West Coast of Finland by the Baltic Sea - 61N 21E

These recordings are done in AB stereo with omnidirectional microphones. With this technique everything in the field will be equally meaningful, even the silence behind the microphones. That's why you should use headphones!

My recordings are merely like a process than individual tracks, and should be considered in the context of my blog-alike site:  www.baltic.fi

For better quality, the tracks are downloadable as 24 bit flac. For commercial use, please take contact.

You will find my videowork here: https://vimeo.com/holotna/videos 

And pics from the places of recordings: https://holotna.pic.fi/kuvat/


Tekijä on Makholman kalarannan liepeillä majaansa pitävä digitalisoitunut pimiörotta. Intohimona linnut, meri ja vanhat puupurret.

The Final Cut - 15/10/2020 - Makholma Forest

Jan Eerala

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