obscure

Melodische Abfahrt

From the upcoming Album "Vegetal Negatives"
Release Date 29 March 2019
Hallowground.com
HG1901
Vinyl / Digital

”Let us unfold the animal outward: the bronchia will become a thick foliage, keeping its respiratory function, but in reverse, naturally (CO2 absorption), reversed also concerning color, from the tint of calves’ lungs to its complementary cabbage green. The digestive system will become roots, maintaining its role of drawing in nourishment from the outside environment. […] for each animal form there exists a corresponding vegetal form. The man who would find his vegetal negative and unite with it would restore the integrity of the cosmos.”

Vegetal Negatives is a game of sonic mutations, mimicry, inversions, and association inspired by a text called "On pataphotograms", by the French writer René Daumal – a quasi-metaphysical essay that toys with breaking the conceived separateness of natural forms through poetic imagination.

Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a Swedish-born artist living and working in Turku, Finland. She has been an active part of the Finnish experimental music scene for more than ten years. Now arriving at her debut LP under her own name, Ahti explores a new formal language and sonic palette that ventures far from the path of her earlier work.

The four electroacoustic compositions on the album combine and arrange field recordings, electronic feedback, Buchla and ARP synthesizers, bowl gong and harmonium, textures of detailed acoustic sound, and sustained tones with gentle microtonal beating into a precise musical narrative. She juxtaposes recordings of rooms and empty vessels, natural and artificial climates, spontaneous and staged events. Ahti draws upon Annea Lockwood's ideas about associative movements between sounds based on shared characteristics and sonic energy. Her approach to field recordings is neither diaristic, documentaristic, nor purely acousmatic, but rather it starts out from somewhere in between these notions: the sounds hover between abstraction and the deeply familiar, moving into a realm of poetic metaphor where they are set in relation to each other, fleetingly mirroring or shadow-dancing. Acoustic environments mutate into synthetically derived shadow forms.

The opening track, "Coastal Inversion”, moves from a seemingly familiar seascape into an ocean of wavelike synthetic staccato patterns, turning itself inside-out on the shore, before diving back into a sea of resonance. ”Rooftop gardens” arranges a series of largely unprocessed field recordings into a dream-logic sequence of upward movement towards the clouds. On the other side, ”Symbiogenesis” brews a slow evolution of wet, airy and earthy sounds and resonant friction. The closing track, ”Chora”, imagines a meditative space of breath: filter resonance posing as organ pipes against a backdrop of breezy industrial hoovers merges halfway with a harmonium improvisation that foregrounds the frictions of the wooden instrument itself, just before filtering out into resonant harmony.

Tracklist:
A1) Coastal Inversion (12:14)		B1) Symbiogenesis (07:22)
A2) Rooftop Gardens (05:44)		B2) Chora (10:47)

Credits:
Marja Ahti: composition, production, field recording, Buchla 200 and ARP 2600
Recorded at EMS, Stockholm, WORM, Rotterdam, and on locations in Greece, Alaska, Finland and Sweden.
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Designed by Ruth Stofer

Vegetal Negatives

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MARJA AHTI - Symbiogenesis (HG1901)

Daniel Ruane - Tengu EP
Format: Dubplate / Digital
Cat.No. MNDUBPLATE01
Release Date: Physical 11 April 2019 / Digital 19th April 
Purchase here: meinenacht.bandcamp.com/album/tengu-ep

"Tengu is Meine Nacht's first venture into label territory, the debut EP comes from Daniel Ruane. Daniel's previous releases have been recognised for their mind bending, intellectual approach to 3D sound design and glitchy stop start methods.

The title track could be regarded as the frantic soundtrack belonging to an anxious generation. There's defiance within its warped and frightened structure; a passion for tearing down walls, dissecting normative systems and glitching madness that floats on the periphery of insanity.

It opens, full of optimism, with visions of an otherworldly utopia, before transcending into a manipulated fucked-step. Twisted rhythms, organic/robotic hybrids and mutant grooves, delivered with extraordinary accuracy, birth a form of experimentalism that is at home on the dance floor.

IV (CF_BD) shines a searchlight on a computerised battle. These are Ruane's biological impulses in mechanised form. A dextrous, rhythm provides a loose template for controlled chaos as lairy bass pressure, overdriven kicks and difficult rhythms treat the track like a statue of Perseus being carved out of stone".

Mastered by Declared Sound
Artwork by Thomas Murray

@daniel-ruane-2

Daniel Ruane - Tengu (MNDUBPLATE01)

On March 11, @spa_recordings , a recently founded Cologne-based label, publishes Safe Needing Attention. Ahead of the compilation’s release zweikommasieben.ch’s readers are invited to exclusively pre-listen to one contribution of the release: “To Resume” by @no-translation aka Emma Palm.

Check our website for more details: https://www.zweikommasieben.ch/en/pre-listen-no-translations-to-resume-on-spa/

Pre-Listen: No Translation – To Resume (Spa's Safe Needing Attention compilation)

Fractal 808s 190808

from the "Alone In The Dark" compilation 
https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/alone-in-the-dark

Glochids - Rust Pipe

From "A Sacrifice Shall Be Made / All The Wicked Scenes"
VINYL LP/DIGITAL out 05.06.2020

Preorder: https://mondoj.bandcamp.com/album/a-sacrifice-shall-be-made-all-the-wicked-scenes

Piotr Kurek - Paper Tigers (MONDOJ11)

Scattered

TR082 - Michael Speers - 'Voice'

[@noish] is a sound artist, bio-hacker, and researcher based in Barcelona. In their work, they explore the fields of more-than-human composition, hybrid music and bio sonic systems, through the construction of bio-machines that translate the interaction between biological agents and musical algorithms into musical form.

This is a session of sonic explorations based on randomness, unorthodox musical scales, and yamaha dx7 synthesizer presets.

"Exploraciones sonoras a través de aleatoriedad, escalas musicales no ortodoxas y presets del sintetizador yamaha dx7.
Gracias a Ege Gonul por el emulador en supercollider del yamaha dx7 por http://egegonul.com".
 
more noish: noconventions.mobi/noish

♥ 19 - Noish - Dxxx7

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