Nothin Remains Except Change

ǝɯǝɐ -Deep Abyss

Living Room n°54 ~ @andriy_k

q. pls introduce yourself
a. My name is Andriy Kostyukov, dj, producer and co-curator of Motsion audio-visual collective.
From my perspective, I can introduce myself as a music enthusiast that works in the fields of experimental and bass music.
I'm originally from Kyiv, now based in Prague.

q. is there a story behind the mix?
a. It’s a deep listening story about light, melancholy, wind-blown leaf supported by favored Ukrainian and worldwide experimental communities.
The leaf is bleeping, leaping…

q. what's the best way to enjoy your mix?
a. Just stay in one place, try to feel your body, feel your body deeply as the mix gives you the deepest sound characters and tunes, close your mind and just look around your whole life.

q. describe a favorite object in your living room...
a. I love my sofa because it’s the perfect place to take a rest and dig for some music.

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
a. For the last few days I am preparing a new live performance for the upcoming summer season, especially for off-ICKPA concert, which is on the 21st of June in Arkaoda bar (Berlin).
Also writing new tracks, as usual, beloved trip routine.

Living Room n°54 ~ Andriy Kostyukov

MUSIQUE INFINIE, Earth, LP
Hallow Ground
Vinyl / digital, catalogue nr. HG2401, EAN: 0602343041797

Tracklist:
1. Creation (14:25)
2. Destruction (12:53)

Credits:
Composition and production by Musique Infinie
Mixing and mastering by Suoni Speziali
Photos by Jean-Marc Avila
Design by Laurin Huber
Essay by Laurin Huber

Supported by Popkredit Zürich and Kanton Zürich.

Earth

Musique Infinie - Creation (HG2401)

TNM003 - Tele / Delta / Luc - 15/12/14
https://klausmuzik.bandcamp.com/track/luc

Session #5 - NKNWN

Noods Radio ~ Avon Moot w/ DJ Gregoryan (05.05.24)

LP and cassette tape available directly from: IMPREC.com

LP is pressed in a hand numbered edition of 300
(White copies #'d 1-100. Black copies #'d 1-200)
Paste on covers screen printed by Monoroid
Mastered by Tom Eaton at Sound &amp; Substance
Produced and designed by John Brien at Imprec

Florescere&nbsp;by Jonathan Bousquet is a powerful debut exploring a tapestry of electronic textures, compositional structures, and themes. Bousquet demonstrates a unique ability to forge a cohesive sonic world, employing a diverse array of techniques and sound sources.&nbsp;Florescere&nbsp;is a thoughtfully crafted album revealing itself slowly through rich harmonies and memorable melodies, rewarding repeated listening.

From the opening chimes of Recurrence, the album invites listeners into a multi-layered musical narrative, exploring the dualities of movement and stillness. The second track, How to Make an Exit, investigates form through themes of resolution, entrances, and exits. As the album progresses, Divisible Machine examines how time is measured and how personal perception can alter these measurements, expanding or contracting them.

Listeners are then drawn into Enveloper, a soundscape that evokes a sense of omnipresent time and presence through overtones and an electronic choir. The title track, Florescere, marks a new beginning beyond the constraints of place and time, characterized by jubilant sequences and a resolute low end. The A-side concludes with And the Void Becomes Eloquent, a cyclical composition where repetitions gradually move toward their undoing. The work concludes with a profound sense of rest and ethereal pause on the B-side track, Being, Becoming.

Available on black vinyl, white vinyl, and cassette tape, Florescere features six tracks on side A that blend intricate rhythms and lush textures. Side B presents a 30-minute drone piece, offering a contemplative journey through ambient soundscapes.

Designed by John Brien and mastered by Tom Eaton, each detail of Florescere reflects Bousquet's commitment to crafting a unique auditory and visual experience. With striking letter-pressed sleeves by Monoroid, the album is a tactile delight.

Bousquet - Divisible Machine - From Florescere LP

Cassette available directly from Imprec.com

Lee Ranaldo and Rob Menard have been friends and collaborators for years and this split cassette release on Important Records' Cassauna label amplifies their unique musical personalities and sonic compatibility. Both artists contributed over 30 minutes of music making this a pair of mini-albums on one tape. 

Ranaldo plays Farfisa, electric guitar, tres, marimba, bass and bells, taking the listener on a lyrical, hazy, ride full of life, time and echoing riff shimmer. Massive vibes from author, artist, Sonic Youth gtr slinger. 

Rob Menard (Ascension Sound), delivers a mini-album of washed out, minimal lo-fi astral guitar and feedback drones. Menard founded the 20 Guitar Circular Wall Of Angelic Sound and practices vibrational frequency healing.

Rob Menard (Ascension Sound) - Above The Precipice - from split cassette with Lee Ranaldo

LP available directly from Imprec.com 

On this new LP Harry Bertoia shows why he may have been the first industrial musician. Bertoia often referred to his sound sculptures as a "collaboration with industry" and on this new LP Bertoia is intentionally creating heavy, rhythmic music he described as "mechanized," "mechanical" and "factory like." 

This first edition is packaged in a full color sleeve with metallic inks. Mastered by Tom Eaton at Sounds & Substance. 

Recorded in 1971, percussion and repetition emulate the pounding rhythms of machinery on this unique pair of conceptual Bertoia compositions. Bertoia utilizes innovative performance techniques to create new sounds unheard in his ouevre. Even in the busy factory of Bertoia's mind, distant stillness rises up as Bertoia exhibits the massive amount of control he possesses over his many looming sculptures. 

"Mechanization" is just one of the many sonic directions Bertoia took while composing and recording between the late 1950's and his death in 1978. He documented all of his ideas and directions in notes accompanying the hundreds of tapes discovered in his barn. 

This first edition of 500 is printed using metallic inks. Mastered by Tom Eaton at Sound & Substance. 

Bertoia's recordings are as much a celebration of sustained tones, intervallic relationships, healing vibrations, deep listening and shimmering harmonics as Indian Classical music, singing bowls, The Well Tuned Piano or Benjamin Franklin's glass armonica. Through these rich harmonics and pulsing pure tone, Bertoia was able to more clearly articulate his inner spirit than he could with sculpture alone – a point he made himself many times in interviews. 

Harry Bertoia first came into artistic prominence in the late 1930s and his sculptural, ergonomic chairs, produced by Knoll Furniture beginning in 1952, were soon modernist furniture classics. Inspired by the resonant sounds emanating from metals as he worked them and encouraged by his brother Oreste, whose passion was music, Harry restored a fieldstone "Pennsylvania Dutch" barn as the home for this experiment in sounding sculptures which he had begun in the 1950s. Bertoia was an obsessive composer and relentless experimenter, often working late into the night and accumulating hundreds of tapes of his best performances; Oreste, too, would explore and record the sculptures' sounds during his annual visits to his brother's home in rural Pennsylvania.

Learning by experimentation was common for Bertoia and he mastered the art of tape recording, turning the Sonambient barn into a sound studio with four overhead microphones hanging from the rafters in a square formation. He would experiment with overdubbing by performing along to previous recordings, sometimes backwards, constantly improving his methods while also honing his performance skills. Bertoia was a careful editor of his own work and only chosen recordings remained, each with a date and carefully considered observations written on a note included with each tape. Through these pieces of paper a greater logic can be uncovered, a careful approach to composition, ideas, feelings and forms. The story of Sonambient barn collection will slowly be told through the release of recordings from the archive as well as installations and performances built from Bertoia's own recordings, lectures and a book.

Find out more at Sonambient.com