Jaysus Iain, isolating some of the bells must have been enormous amount of work, but it's paid off: Pollock does Les Noces

The tick tick rhythm is a bike wheel? This is very good

Eye Rhyme

Astounding reedit of Prince's 1999. Made by a Frenchbloke known as *******  with the help of Andrew Poppy and the Prince himself.

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Music made from slowed-down bike bells on the Regent's Canal in London.
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The Regent's Canal

The Swim (1992) for organ
performed by Michael Bonaventure
recording from 'Contemporary British Organ Music Volume 1'
SFZ Music (SFZM0410)

The Swim

The piece is dedicated to John Michael Tresh.

Performed by Voce Chamber Choir (United Kingdom) and conducted by  Edward Watkins.  Recording by Linas Paulauskis

Nunc Dimittis

'Double Fiesta' (excerpt) by Meredith Monk, arranged by Anne Denholm
performed & recorded live by The Hermes Experiment for BBC Radio 3 Open Ear concert at LSO St Luke's in June 2018.
Héloïse Werner - soprano
Oliver Pashley - clarinet
Anne Denholm - harp
Marianne Schofield - double bass

Recording uploaded with kind permission from BBC Radio 3
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000h93

Monk - Double Fiesta (excerpt - live performance)

Before After Anything

This album focuses on a derelict and abandoned holiday resort at Laem Thian bay on the east coast of the island of Koh Tao in Thailand. The resort is situated in a small cove that is only accessible on foot via an overgrown path and a walk of several miles - a journey very few tourists bother to make. It is clear at first sight that the fading white building has been vacated for some time. The concrete structure opens out onto a small sandy beach that would have provided an idyllic holiday setting at one time. A number of palm-thatched holiday cottages with dilapidated roofs slide down the hillside. There are signs of vandalism; graffiti decorates the walls, the remains of camp fires, broken glass and other detritus litter the floors - but remnants of the previous occupants also remain. Children’s toys, kitchenware, hand written notes, menus, mattresses, a plastic telephone and four cassette tapes - rusty, caked in sand, weather damaged and corroded by the humid salty sea air. 

There is a haunting quality to the location that left a deep impression on me. The sense of isolation and abandonment it engendered was in stark contrast to the rest of the island, and indeed the rest of Thailand as I experienced it. This feeling stayed with me and in some way it permeated the rest of my stay in the country. It is that feeling that I wanted to convey through this work.
Mark Vernon.
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Mark Vernon is a Glasgow-based artist whose work exists on the fringes of sound art, music and broadcasting. At the core of his practice lies a fascination with the intimacy of the radio voice, environmental sound, obsolete media and the re-appropriation of found recordings. He incorporates these diverse elements into radiophonic compositions for broadcast, fixed media and live performances. His solo and collaborative music projects have been published through labels including Kye, Staalplaat, Ultra Eczema, Entr’acte, 3Leaves, Staubgold and Gagarin Records, as well as a series of small CDR and LP editions on his own meagre resource imprint. Along with Barry Burns Mark produces the Radiophrenia 24 hour radio festival.

The Lost Resort - Mark Vernon - Ribbons of Rust out June 26

"I've been working on material recorded at the former UK Ministry of Defence site Orford Ness on the East England Suffolk coast. 
Since the Ministry of Defence left in 1993, the buildings have been overrun by nature.

The excitement felt by Bletchley Park's wartime code breakers was echoed here too: Britain's greatest scientific brains, along with 400 civilians and thousands of unacknowledged Chinese migrant workers all worked on developing the UK’s first nuclear weapon.

Today the place gives us a sense of what a post-apocalyptic environment might look and sound like. Air ducts once now burst open with the packed nests of roosting birds. There are seagulls 'playing' the atomic weapons laboratories with their cries; baby jackdaws duetting with gravel footsteps; metal stairwells transformed into aeolian harps. " Iain Chambers, Orford Ness.
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About Iain:
Iain Chambers is a composer and producer whose music often deploys field recordings and location sounds as musical material.

Iain's work is heard live in concerts, radio, sound installations and multimedia. His feature-length symphonies of industrial sounds have been commissioned by BBC Radio 3, WDR Cologne and ABC Australia.

In 2019 Iain launched the independent record label Persistence of Sound, presenting new musique concrète and field recordings.

Iain is a founder member of Langham Research Centre, an electronic music ensemble using obsolete Cold War era technology to create new music. The group also create new realisations of 20th century electronic works by composers John Cage, Alvin Lucier and Christian Wolff using an unusual instrumentarium: analogue tape, sine-wave oscillators, analogue radios and phonograph cartridges. LRC perform internationally, and released “Tape Works (Vol. 1)” on the Nonclassical label in 2017.

All tracks by Iain Chambers
Mastered by Nima Aghiani
Photography: Ian Rawes
Design: Kate Carr

Secrets of Orford Ness (excerpt) - Iain Chambers out October 27

Clips from the Guardian books podcast and Radio 4, featuring John Mullan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Johny Pitts, Richard Dawkins, Juno Dawson, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Christiana Figueres, Diana Athill, DJ Taylor and Alex Clark.

Richard Lea – presenter / host – audio reel

Iain Chambers' music explores the hidden soundworld beneath the places and sounds we think we know well. He often uses field recordings in the composition process. Iain is a founder member of Langham Research Centre, British musique concrete composers/performers. He is also a director of Open Audio, a new multimedia co-operative. iain@openaudio.co.uk

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