"Presentism" by Cam Deas & Jung An Tagen is out now on Diagonal.

DIAG059 ➜ Cam Deas & Jung An Tagen — 'That (yGrid/C#)'

Jung/Frye - "Phantom Acid" will be out 7. 7.2022 on SUPERPANG (CD & Digital)

Phantom Acid

SUPERPANG

Jung/Frye - "Phantom Acid" (SUPERPANG)

This track is part of the "Tokinogake Night" compilation.
Buy at https://tokinogake.bandcamp.com/album/tokinogake-night-20230916

Jung An Tagen - Für Ester (Tokinogake)

Voice, drums and code culled in sequence organize computerized free space into felt expression. Touching the real, folding the happening into a movable framework Horak and Bell sift through tangential possibilities in a serial production of live algorithmic beats and vocalizations. Steph Horak and Renick Bell’s coming together for a collaborative, conditional album widens the scope of the generative improvisation by superimposing a self over the enclosed circumstances of sound.

The concept of proxemics offers a diagnostic approach to the operable bounded zones of sound. Horak improvises through self-processed vocals meeting Bell who in real-time creates fractured conditions under which they can both engage in a social discourse, a choreography of variable entanglements of allowed freedoms. Horak’s use of an OWL pedal - an open source, programmable effects pedal - converts the voice into a stereophonic mass of sonic possibility. The throat constricts and opens, air compresses and congeals in response to the architectural development of the mouth and lungs; systems of the body and systems of acoustic formation interlock and augment.

The often referenced Criminal Justice Act introduced by the UK government in 1994 defined electronic dance music as a "succession of repetitive beats." The oversight and general misunderstanding of how music is generated are essential components of club culture as a commons of free expression outside of Western progress, acting as an ungirdled blank space. Heat produces kinetic energy, and presents new molecular spatial options for systems of matter. There is a naturally nurtured athleticism that comes with being in conditions of heat. Serial production by design disengages sound from material conditions and works as an acculturation of hopeful potentials, models towards happenings. Depoliticized in its semi-being, live coding takes blank space and recreates conditions within a predictive process towards new politics in a nonspace.


Conditional, 2019.
CON025.
Released 18th October, 2019.
Cassette / digital.
Text by DeForrest Brown, Jr.

Live at Pirate Studios, Bristol

Steph Horak & Renick Bell - Live at Pirate Studios, Bristol (Excerpt)

Kindohm returns to Conditional with Meme Booth, a startlingly focussed collection of ideas notated in characteristic fizzy synthesis and off-kilter rhythms. Persuasively addictive dance music.

Innumerable sine waves grapple for attention atop restless kick drums right from the off, with opener 'Articulator' setting out a blueprint for the movements to come. Elsewhere, the title track cycles through endless permutations of itself, looking for the perfect configuration and finding it over and over again.

The loping mechanics of 'Friend Suggestion' give way to the optimistic mutations of 'Flexbox', its lone synth swerving through myriad timbres. Moments of respite tumble into view, with the modulated waves of 'Unfollowed Silence' allowing a breath-catch before the dismantled recapitulation of 'It Me.gif' turns up to break itself into unhealthy shapes.

Meme Booth exhibits a fresh approach to synthesis and rhythm, resting both on and off the grid as if wrestling with time itself - only to dive off of the top rope and land squarely in the centre of the dancefloor.

Meme Booth

Kindohm - Meme Booth (from CON027, 'Meme Booth')

William Fields returns to Conditional with 'Shackamaxon', a colourful collection of no-messing volleys shaped by Fields' generative music system.

Released 28th January 2020 on cassette and digital, backed with remixes from Vytear, {arsonist}, Renick Bell and Kindohm.

Shackamaxon

William Fields - Ostinato Punch (from CON028, 'Shackamaxon')

The title Nth White Dot is a near-anagram of an enigmatic text message I received from an unknown number while touring this material along the west coast of the US: “Shot t Edwin.”

Releases 26th February 2020 on cassette and digital.

Nth White Dot

RM Francis - Fffffffffffff (from CON029, 'Nth White Dot')

3 Tracks released in the last months
https://parken.bandcamp.com/track/handshake-y
https://pwgen20.bandcamp.com/album/pulsar-scramble-vol-2
https://klangfolger.kupfticket.at/events/remote/
Picture by Milica Balubdžić

Handshake (y)/Untitled/Handshake (z)

"Pulsar Acid" is OUT NOW on SUPERPANG
https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/pulsar-acid
Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/HrG6n9Wc3KE

*Playback on stereo speakers is recommended, otherwise single stems might not be audible*

Composed and produced by Jung An Tagen & Eric Frye
Software by Marcin Pietruszewski
Mixing and mastering by Jung An Tagen
credits
design: Joe Gilmore
released October 10, 2020

Jung/Frye - "Pulsar Acid"

Heinrich Schwarzer's conversational 'Zähler, Figur, Puls 0​-​2' is precise yet playful, sharp yet warm. Terse rhythms and harmonic tones cast long shadows of organic radiance, providing the glue that holds this stellar work together.

The 'Zähler' series assembles a lattice of overlapping triggers and modulations, driving layers of chiming resonances and percussion. 'Figur' allows an unhinged director to take the controls, flowing and tumbling at its own pace while sparks of filtered noise fly. The culminating 'Figur&Puls' series puts ricocheting percussion in the foreground, with mutating delay lines spinning off into the void.

TTT

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