Love the concepts and subjects you are covering, OxfordAmbient is a really nice guy,and I loved the collab with Swinton as well.  Like the feel of the central station. Great job.

a musical TRIFECTA. bravo x 3 .. seriously bringing out the best of all here..so many multiple collabs end up as a watered down soup when this is full flavour. Beautiful sounds, pacing, vocal and feel... again Bravo

This a wonderful piece of work - thank you so much Ilaria and Pete.

PETE SWINTON's  COLLABORATIONS WITH OTHER MUSICIANS PLAYLIST

Hello everybody! Get to the dance, put this on the decks & feel the trouser flapping bass!
Long time this has been in the pipeline, in fact it's such a long time it's only been in the hands of one exclusive DJ Mr. Kris Dee, from Bohemian Ballroom, in Brighton. I've heard he's had his party's worth with this one, and now it be time to share it with the world! Thanks for lending us your ears.
Major love to the band, One Roots, wherever you all may be, and to Prince Fatty for the stellar authentic quality recordings as always!

Feel Alright Dub - One Roots Meet Pillars Of Dub

Live Dub Session!
Pillars Of Dub mixed It's Not The End Of The World by The Spacecakes at Dub Theories at Cosies - Bristol, on March 15th 2014. A really great night. Thanks for getting nostalgic with us.

released December 19, 2015
Julia de Graaf - Guitar and vocals
Sam Moffatt - Saxophone
Jordan Kimpton - Bass
Henri Swinton Stott - Drums
Joao 'Dude' Cabrita - Lead Guitar
Pete Swinton - Live Dub Mix

Dub Of The World - The Spacecakes Meet Pillars Of Dub

A reworking of Wilfried Hanrath's track Portland.https://soundcloud.com/wilwilwil/wilfried-hanrath-portland-an-invitation-for-an-open-collab?fbclid=IwAR3a9yOioCKLO4A1xfnj9LXP2oaP1M4wbG0Pwe4a8wLSwKtCOKL-WnF_4Z8

Wilfried Hanrath - Portland, A Rework by Pete Swinton (Srigala)

Funk Song

Another strange, short piece written for mallets. Hope you enjoy!

The Wrong Birds

I Never Really (Really) Understood Animals

The Mystery And The Enchantment - Walter Fini And Pete Swinton

At the very beginning, there was nothing.
And then! You will hear life blossom in this immensity, these heartbeats that launch the cycle of possible life in the universe.
And then the big bang. that resonates again and again...

Made with MOOG Modular / Multi-tracks
 It's a hell of a piece and doing it on a MOOG Modular V (even in software version and without a "ready-made" sample) is a fantastic adventure and a hell of a job (first draft in 2007 and release in 2019), but I'm happy about it and if it pleases others... it's even better.

Creation Of The Universe

Houses II

The house that was growing, 
while you were cooking,
had too much concrete,
too many doors  and 
too many crevices
to become a home.

It had too many walls,
against which anger and sadness were banging,
without being flushed through the drain.

The silence of long afternoons,
needles knitting by themselves,
chamber pots motionless under the beds. 

There were no blankets woollen enough
to cover the winter evenings
and mornings that followed.

The switched on lights were signals falling through.
Slides of words were bouncing off big heavy carpets
like dust
on the floor.

Words: Manca Klun
Sounds: Alessandro De Oliveira Bastos

Houses II

Music, mixing and production by https://soundcloud.com/peteswinton
Sonopoetry by https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa

pic provided by Pete, woman in Northern Ireland fighting with the British army and killed just after the photo was taken.

Reflecting on modern times, the Milgram experiment 20, the moral dilemma between obedience and subjectivity and nonviolent resistance.

'Till I tell you to stop

Till I tell you to stop. Stop, continue, press and pause, stop. 

Wrong. 2006, 2019, 2036 continue please, I take the responsibility.
Continue please, till I tell you to do so.
Stop, continue, press and pause, stop.

Obedience, the comfort zone of instructions.
A more humane surrounding, UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles reduce 
combat stress. They call it the era of instrumental massacres or
the semiosis of killing.
It’s more humane to slaughter this way. 
Kneel on the necks or get in good trouble. 
Subjectivity.

Continue please, till I tell you to do so.
Stop, continue, press and pause, stop. Kill?
Continue please.'

Till I Tell You To Stop (Ilaria Boffa & Pete Swinton)

Equipment:YAMAHA Reface CP,Cooper Fx Outward V2,Chase Bliss Audio MOOD,Chase Bliss Audio Blooper,Electro Harmonix Analogizer,BOSS RV-5

lukewarm

Music by TOAC https://soundcloud.com/oxfordambient and https://soundcloud.com/peteswinton
Field recording and sonopoetry by https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa
pic by IB, Venice 2020, bracing detail

Sustain poem is part of 'About Sounds About Us' 2019 book of poems.

'Sustain

There is a way to generate 
a multitude of undefined spaces
Sound designs density and sparseness.
It’s in endurance, the iteration of pitches 
processed.
Separate what is spurious and ancillary. 
Disclose the pieces.
Deconstruction over construction.

While I walk
I scan the clumps of dirt.
I wonder about the gram of mud.
Sustain each second
of us.'

Prehension (Pete Swinton   TheOxfordAmbientCollective   Ilaria Boffa)

27Aug20

My naviarhaiku347 submission;
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/08/26/naviarhaiku347-two-voices-that-sound-alike/
:D

Boson Spin - Through clouds of blossoms [naviarhaiku347]

Remix of a composition by me
4 Lieder nach Gedichten von Eichendorff
II. Schöne Fremde
(2017)
the original recording was performed by Anton Brezinka (voice & piano) and Rafaela Seywald (voice & piano)

Fraktalisierung II/2

Let me explain...

This quote of an early natural law somewhere says that when one person is thoroughly in love with another, the other must unavoidably be smitten as well. Francesca’s words in Dante’s Inferno are: “Amor ch’a null’amato amar perdona.” In effect, she is saying: “Love, which exempts none of the loved from loving in return.” She means that if you love someone, you must wait and be hopeful that love will give back to you. Love, which, when one is loved, does not allow that it be refused. But, it may mean to wait forever. And the hesitation of uncertainty in waiting is painful and heart-wrenching.

Another wide-ranging account of Dante’s verse could be: “Love is a strong, unreasonable power outside natural and human laws, which allows one to love another against all odds”. Then again, none other than Shakespeare wrote; “Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds or bends with the remover to remove.” Maybe that captures this sentiment in another way equally just as well. 

Notes for this track:
Harry Verheijen @Hverheij – original music composition & arrangement – performance: guitar.
Female vocalist: Fran. - This is an especially connecting choice, given the source from Dante.

“Amor ch'a null'amato amar perdona” by Hverheij (c) 2020

Amor ch'a null'amato amar perdona

Amor ch'a null'amato amar perdona - Hverheij with Fran

4Dec20

My naviarhaiku361 submission

abandoned farmhouse
off the snow-piled roof
gusts of ghosts

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/12/02/naviarhaiku361-abandoned-farmhouse/

Boson Spin - Gusts Of Ghosts [naviarhaiku361]

You Say

Poetry, Field recording and the More-Than-Human Human

'I use this space to offer an experience of Sonopoetry, the voice of verses combined with field/sound recording and music collaborations.
Writing and composition marked the passage from pre-history to history for human beings. I firmly believe that writing&listening (active care/empathy and full attention to each and every sound from each and every living and non living being) could inform, guide and represent the Posthuman era that I'll call Human Human era -from sapiens sapiens to human human.
The contemporary alliance between the disciplines of Art, Science and Philosophy elicits the conceptualisation of the Posthuman that to me also implies the transition from the Anthropocene to the Age of Art as a driver of thought and vision. I advocate the responsibility to assign a 'more than human' meaning to the Posthuman concept, that's why More-Than-Human Human, in order to emphasise the human core, the genetic connection to bio and non-bio diversity as per the Biophilia Hypothesis.
Are we listening?'

Born 6 January 1972, Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet and sound recordist. 
She has published four poetry collections and she is one of the eight authors included in the North East American Association publication ‘Writing in a Different Language’ Vol XL 2018.
Over the last years, she has been experimenting with field recording, blending her spoken word with sound.
Publications:
Beginnings & Other tragedies/Inizi e Altre Tragedie, 2023, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
https://www.valleypressuk.com/shop/p/beginnings-tragedies

About Sounds About Us/Di Suoni e di Noi, 2019, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
http://www.samueleeditore.it/about-sounds-about-us-ilaria-boffa/

Writing in A Different Language, volume XL NeMLA publications (Northeast Modern Language Association), College of New Jersey, 2018
http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/publications/nis/past/volume-xl.html

The Bliss of Hush and Wires/Periferie, 2016, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
http://www.samueleeditore.it/periferie-the-bliss-of-hush-and-wires-ilaria-boffa-2/

Pete Swinton is a half Hungarian, half Polish man born in London, UK in 1961. Between 1988 and 2003 he lived in Portugal. Since 2015 he lives in Jawa, Indonesia. He began playing guitar in the '70s. He started playing keyboards in the 2000s. He makes Ambient and Experimental music. And a cross between the 2 which he calls Insanbient music. He was using the name Srigala but has now stopped. (To hear the music as accurately as it was recorded and mixed the use of headphones is strongly recommended)

Prehension (Pete Swinton TheOxfordAmbientCollective Ilaria Boffa)

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