AMBIENT SESSION

Pour le 20e épisode d'Afraa, Sébastien Forrester reçoit Brandon Juhans (fka Hanz), producteur et sound artist originaire de Caroline du Nord et auteur de sorties remarquées sur Tri Angle Records (2015-2018) et son propre label, Pasty Ltd. : tous deux proposent pour l'occasion un production mix inédit.

Afraa avec Brandon Juhans (Plasty Ltd.) & Sébastien Forrester - 28 Février 2024

Penultimate Press is proud to unveil a global collaboration that embraces the planet we inhabit. One with a combined member and atmosphere of Santiago, Chile, Salsipuedes, Argentina and Berlin, Germany.

El Jardín de las Matemáticas (The Garden of Mathematics) was written and recorded by Alvaro Daguer (Glorias Navales/A Full Cosmic Sound/ETCS Records), Pablo Picco (Bardo Todol/Bolinga Everest Records), Tomás Salvatierra (Glorias Navales) and Mark Harwood (Penultimate Press).

Utilising Chinese drum, ocarina, shakers, flutes, whistles, violin, bells, acoustic guitar, gongs, clarinet, n’vike, harmonium, Korg ms-20, moceño, tapes. owl flute and more, The Garden of Mathematics is an alluring, alien, bizarre, colourful, curious, fascinating, peculiar, romantic and astonishing recording where beauty and unsettled beasts coexist in an exotic exploration of sound and song.

Navigating waters possibly traversed by Angus Maclise, Pygmy Unit and Charlie Nothing, the nine tracks this garden brings forth take the listener on a journey through sound and song via nature and the expansive mind.

The results are a a unique record steeped in a wild mix of folk, ethnomusicology, musique concrete and psychedelia.

El Jardín De Las Matemáticas - The Garden Of Mathematics

doom cat Ⅱ

MGZ (AVC / Half Nagui) présente une heure d'émotions nourries par la récente disparition du site free-mp3-download. RIP !

Fuel For Fiction - MGZ [04.04.24]

https://soundcloud.com/fashiongore
https://www.instagram.com/stories/fashiongore/ 
guest : https://soundcloud.com/deindex

Melancholy & Noise 010 w/ Fashiongore invites de.index (13.04.24)

Shadows Lifted from Invisible Hands
by James Hoff

Shadows Lifted from Invisible Hands is an autobiographical record, comprised of four songs that Hoff refers to as ambient media. Each track is composed from sources drawn from his own involuntary aural landscape, specifically musical earworms and tinnitus frequencies.

Neither sound nor a daydream, the earworm (or stuck song) emblematizes music as a commercial form—immediate, ubiquitous, and persistent. Likewise, tinnitus is inaudible and unscrupulous, manifesting across a spectrum of frequencies at will. The cognitive swirling of these phenomena provides an ambivalent, internal soundtrack that scores a person’s movement through the world.

Those suffering from tinnitus or those who have grown accustomed to the “Tinnitus Effect” in movies will likely recognize the buzzing pitches on the record, but will likely not recognize the songs. Distorted and distilled, Shadows Lifted from Invisible Hands features altered versions of four commercial pop songs: Blondie’s “Heart of Glass,” David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” Madonna’s “Into the Groove,” and Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day.”

Having been haunted by these songs on and off for years, Hoff tweaks the tracks, transposing and recomposing them for orchestral instrumentation. Speaking back to these involuntary echoes, these tracks go to great lengths to obfuscate their sources; to be sure not to simply re-introduce each earworm, as though they were samples. Otherwise, what’s the point? No one needs another stream.

Besides, earworms are not music, although we perceive them as such. They are non-cochlear and exist as an affective force that is neither subjective nor objective, which is to say they are an invasive—and alien—phenomenon. Like tinnitus, they are aggravated by economic, social, and environmental forces as well as emotional states, mental health, and aging. Hoff doesn’t underplay his own struggles with mental health in discussing the record—noting a long history of depression and its acuteness over the last few years, which serve as the backdrop to the composition of this record.

Scratch any pop song hard enough and you’ll find sadness underneath it. Subdermal, the songs on this record evoke a type of ephemeral weariness and despair. By recasting the original songs through their shadowy doubles, Hoff provides a window into the dark core of pop music. At the center of which lies capitalism’s desperate attempt to replicate itself through a cheap high built on echoing refrains. Just below the surface the listener finds a hangover of shadows dancing through the mind.

—

James Hoff is an artist living and working in New York. He has exhibited and performed internationally. He co-founded Primary Information in 2006 to publish historical and contemporary artists’ books.

JAMES HOFF 'Everything You Want Less Time' (SP151)

Ce mois-ci, on invite pas cet énergumène par hasard, de toute façon, le hasard, à ce qu'il paraît y'en a pas ! On l'invite parce qu'il adore les listes, les moodboards, les croquis, tout ce qui lui fait office de garde-fou et lui permet de faire un pas de côté. 
Mais on l'invite surtout parce qu'il a les esgourdes bien ouvertes, qu'on l'aime et qu'il sera dans notre nouvelle Carpaccio Summer Hit qui sort ce mois-ci. Une selecta azimutée, lourde et personnelle. 

Aussi petit message de l'artiste : "la dernière chanson, c'est Lole Y Manuel, un clin d'oeil à mon amoureuse Philomène qui danse le flamenco, elle me fait découvrir des artistes incroyables et chante aussi sur mon prochain album" et cet album c'est un peu tous ces univers réuni ! <3

Carpaccio Sandwich Club S4e7 w/ Paul Loiseau ~ 08.05.2024

No Escape Except Peace w/  Wally & Treglia - 18/05/2024

DECOMPOSE is a show to promote the underground and its concept. Attempting to send a message, breaking stereotypes and frustrating rules. Proving that music and sound shouldnt be pressured into being perfect rather enjoyable and experimental. This show allows various artists to experiment with genres mainly non-rhytmical. this show will include alot of noise, deconstructed, and experimental work. this will be a platform for artists to share their brain chemistry and for listeners to explore.

@Karmasmatik

Tracklist by fifth column:
Craow - B7US2
SPK - Post- Mortem
Cienfuegos - Trabajito
Skander - Remember
FAfglar i Bur âtzâ€" Platt
Hiro Kone X Roxy Farman - MVMNS II
Wetware - All Angles Formed A Bed
Wetware - Silver Screen
Military Position - Poor Fools Tara In Tibet - Motor Dementia
Marshstepper â€" When Misfortune Confounds Us
Collector - Engraved On Both Sides
Damien Dubrovnik - Post Script
Esplendor GeomAOtrico - Expectativas
Geisn't NaÃ-t - Archive 1/3
Vance Orchestra â€" Slow Age Decay Musick

DECOMPOSE ⏤ deköm invite fifth column

New show alert by Charles aka CS/Z. Playing ambient to beatless or experimental.

CS/Z at WAV | 06-06-24

over the last couple of years i’ve been making really really really quiet music to listen to when i do yoga or sleep or meditate or panic. i ended up with 4 hours of music and have decided to give it away.

you can download it for free here: http://moby.com/la1 or stream it for free on soundcloud. or you can get it on spotify, apple music & itunes & deezer & tidal.

it’s really quiet: no drums, no vocals, just very slow calm pretty chords and sounds and things for sleeping and yoga and etc.

and feel free to share it or give it away or whatever, it’s not protected or anything, or at least it shouldn’t be.

thanks,

moby

Free Download

LA11

Sarah Davachi (CA) @sarahdavachi
Thursday June 2, 2016 - Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MAC)
Mastered by @Pheek

WHO: Vancouver, now Montréal-based musician, composer and musicologist Sarah Davachi
STYLE: Minimal electronic and electroacoustic compositions, synthesized ambient sonics of a bygone era, extended drones and harmonic textures
LATEST WORK: Barons Court (2015), Qualities Of Bodies Permanent (2015), neustadt/altstadt EP (2015), Σ = 4 (2015)
LABELS: Students of Decay @studentsofdecay, Constellation Tatsu @constellationtatsu, Cassauna
MORE: Holds an MFA in electronic music and recording media from Mills College in Oakland, California and works for the National Music Centre in Calgary as an interpreter, researcher and archivist of their collection of acoustic and electronic keyboard instruments

Making her MUTEK debut last festival, Vancouver now Montréal-based composer and synthesist Sarah Davachi, turned in a gorgeous sweep of richly emotional electronic harmonics and textures. This is the live recording of her delicate and elegiac set.

Full bio: http://www.mutek.org/fr/fm/podcasts/muteklive/735-muteklive112-sarah-davachi


MUTEKLIVE112 - Sarah Davachi

5 brand new handmade cassette releases from Cassauna in varying editions of 25 - 50 copies each. Letterpress packaging printed at IMPREC using metallic gold ink and a case of Futura type.

1. Florian TM Zeisig "You Look So Serious" 
   The artist spliced a cassette of Enya's "Watermark" album into 426 four second long tape loops and painstakingly reassembled the pieces. The work touches on subjects of mainstream music and popular culture, juxtaposing it and aiming to introduce a discourse on institutional elitism, privilege in the general context of sound/performance art. In the process evaluating its boundaries while staying as close as possible to the original medium.

2. Tom Eaton "Acips" 
    Tom Eaton has been releasing private press New Age albums since the 1980's and is currently the engineer and co-producer at William Ackerman's Imaginary Road Studio. SPICA/ACIPS presents Tom's work with a more stripped down/slowed down aesthetic. 

3. David Burraston "Wagga Ham Shack" 
    Wagga Ham Shack is an extensive, ambient recording of the Wired Lab's  Global Communications Radio Club installation held at the Waga Waga Fusion Multicultural Festival in Oct. 2015. The incredible analog/digital sounds of short wave radio Ham's mix with David Burraston's accompanying synthesizer work to create an incredibly useful ambient environment. 

4. QST "2023" 
    QST is the work of Frans DeWaard and its focus is on beat oriented electronic music. DeWaard abandoned the QST project at some point in the 90's but returned to it once he was able to get the drum sound he was searching for. 

5. Perhaps "V & 4"
    Jim Haney's Perhaps is a pounding, dense re-imagining of their recent album for Riot Season.  Includes members of the Acid Mothers Temple.

Cassauna - New Release 5 Tape Mix - Florian T M Zeisig - Tom Eaton - David Burraston - QST - Perhaps

Recorded at wordless @ Contact Tokyo 
9th February 2019 (22:00~23:30)

thanks to Yone-ko, Contact Tokyo, and all the people who were there.

DJ mix _ 9 Feb 2019 _ Wordless @ Contact Tokyo (22:10~23:30)

Video Club was a special place in Bogota, Colombia, and I made my first ambient mix for them a while back in 2018. But they've deleted their soundcloud so I put it here.  shoutout @lee-on  <3

live recordings + podcasts

Video Club Podcast 026 - Aurora Halal (downtempo mix)

Read our interview with Ario here: https://www.patternsofperception.com/post/a-chat-with-ario

Followers of ambient music will no doubt know Ario as the man behind @astralindustries, the revered label that fuses reissued work with new releases from some of the most exciting artists in the genre. Despite the challenges thrown up by 2020, this year alone has seen AI releases from @multicastdynamics, The Chi Factory and Waveform Transmission, among others, and 2021 already promises to be even more prolific for both the label and its boss. 

Yet London-based Ario is just as much a DJ in his own right, with a sound that evades neat categorisation: drawn to the “deeply ritualistic and primal” side of drone, yet partial to the occasional dance floor set, he is reluctant to get too concrete when discussing his own music. His Patterns of Perception 77 is designed to challenge the listener – built on the belief that, contrary to what many may think, an ambient set is not necessarily designed to soothe and subdue. 

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/arioastral
https://soundcloud.com/astralindustries
https://www.facebook.com/astralindustries
https://astralindustries.bandcamp.com/
https://www.astralindustries.co.uk/

Cassauna - New Release 5 Tape Mix - Florian T M Zeisig - Tom Eaton - David Burraston - QST - Perhaps

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