such a beautiful melody...so very warm..so very filled with love

Nice saturated sounds, nice track, beautiful work 😉

I would love to here your music as the soundtrack to the classic modern movie Stalker by Andrei Tarkowsky,your zones and his zone in the movie is a great match.

Resolve

This sketch is based around a horn sample, ran through a fuzzy tube preamp then to a delay. After it was mixed with a field recording of a local forest, along with some granular textures made with a Morphagene

sketch 4.17.22

Photo: fishing net drying poles near Lochinver, Scotland. May 2022.

Breeze

Blippy bloopy experiments.

Modules used
Mutable Instruments Blades Dual Filter
MakeNoise Mimeophone
MakeNoise Wogglebug
Music Thing Turing Machine MKI with Voltage expansion

And a whole lot of Valhalla DSP

Blips

Blipps

Inumercom

‘Floating World’ is an album by US based artist Todd Gautreau, who records as Tapes and Topographies. It was created in response to a collaboration project called Thirty-Six Views of Newland Island with British artist Jonathan S Hooper. The album follows last year’s ‘Amplitudes’ and is another entry to Todd’s discography, alongside music on labels such as Past Inside The Present, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and his own Simulacra Records.

Jonathan S Hooper is a mixed-media artist based in London, who works with paintings, photography, sculpture and film. Thirty-Six Views of Newland Island is an evolving multi-factorial project in which Hooper continues his exploration of ontological concepts of time and space through the landscapes of his native Cornwall. Specifically, the project focuses on a small uninhabited outcrop called Newland Island, which lies just off the Cornish coast in the Atlantic Ocean’s most westerly margins. The project’s title is inspired by Katushika Hokusai’s series of woodblock prints of Mount Fuji, drawing in Hooper’s broader interest in Japan’s artistic heritage. It also adds to the cultural connection between Cornwall and Japan first established in St Ives, in the 1920’s, through the collaboration of master potters Bernard Leach and Hamada Shoji. A collaboration that continued through much of the twentieth century.

A particularly fascinating consideration is that Mount Fuji is an instantly recognisable geographic icon, yet in contrast, Newland Island is unknown to most. This frees the project from the limits of preconception, opening up opportunities to explore further ideas of landscape, and our place within it. Through collaboration with Gautreau (who is based some 5000 miles away), Hooper sought to give creative licence to a composer, in order to encourage another viewpoint. He had first discovered Todd’s music through Elizabeth Alker’s BBC Radio 3 Unclassified programme, and subsequently reached out to invite him to work on a soundtrack, which has now become ‘Floating World’. He sent photographs of his paintings, scans of the polaroids and his studio notes; the work developed organically into a collection of nine soundscapes, in which Hooper sees as independent views of Newland Island in their own right.

Hooper will be working to share this project through galleries and installations and we felt it was apt to assign full creative control over the CD packaging design to these two artists. Todd, also a graphic designer, has pulled together some of the polaroids for the outer and inner sleeves. There is a 16 page booklet included, which contains paintings, further polaroids and text from both artists. This is also included with the digital version of this album.

Written and produced by Todd Gautreau
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Paintings and polaroids by Jonathan S Hooper
Design by Todd Gautreau

https://www.jonathanshooper.com/

floating world - reflections on 36 views of newland island

wlr126 Tapes and Topographies -Floating World - Reflections on 36 Views of Newland Island

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the full ep you find here: https://oberlin.bandcamp.com/album/cold-harbour

or here with beautiful postcard-edition: https://adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/cold-harbour

the video you find here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DotvbxjgCew

Cold Harbour I

The spring is in full swing .. and the light is shimmering in the evenings.

Shimmering May

ÂKÂSHA, for string chamber orchestra performed by Ensemble Allegria on 18 September, 2020, in Oslo, Norway. Recording by Wolden Lyd.

The meaning of Âkâsha derives from a description that I found in the book Raja-Yoga And Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms written by Swami Vivekananda in 2012:

“The whole universe was composed of two materials, one of which is called Akasha. It is the omnipresent, all-penetrating existence. Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out if this Akasha. It is the Akasha that becomes the air, that become the liquids, that becomes the solids; it is the Akasha that becomes the sun, the earth, the moon, the stars the comets; it is the Akasha that becomes the human body, the animal body, the plants, every form that we see, everything that can be sensed, everything that exits; it can not be perceived, it is so subtle that it is beyond all ordinary perception; it can only be seen when it has become gross, has taken from. At the beginning of creation there is only this Akasha. At the end of the cycle the solids, the liquids, and the gases all melt into the Akasha again, and the next creation similarly proceeds out if this Akasha”.

This became a source of inspiration for a new work, exploring continuous interwoven sonic entities of gradually changing timbre based on textile patterns. My intention was to create distinct patterns of timbre, which develop from one noisy material into seven independent timbral layers, later transforming into one monolithic soundscape.

The work is dedicated to Anton Lukoszevieze.

ÂKÂSHA_Ensemble Allegria

Zones

Experimental Ambient Musician / improvisation / Noisemusic / Fieldrecording / Violist

A transcendental sound journey.

Ibukunsunday@gmail.com

Zones

Ibukun Sunday

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