Sara Oswald & Feldermelder - Dual | Duel
Cat #: OUS038
Release date: July 7, 2023
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«We find ourselves venturing into the depths of a rugged terrain. In our hands, we hold stones and minerals, each possessing its own distinct texture, weight, and sonic potential. It is through the artistic touch and through the musical instruments that these earthly treasures, once dormant, are awaken to life.» — Sara Oswald + Feldermelder

The 3rd collaboration of prolific cellist Sara Oswald and electronic musician Feldermelder evokes captivating sensations that oscillate between impending doom and hope. The albums’ sonic journey is highly immersive, transporting the listener from one cerebral landscape to another. The transformative nature of metallic elements being integrated in sustained orchestral tones weaves the sonic tapestry, resulting in a captivating experience for the listeners. The organic sounding — reminiscent of minerals’ timbres — brings a touch of brightness and a distinctive edge, while the orchestral harmonic structures lend a sense of grandeur and continuity. The origins of this music remain enigmatic, while the tracks of the album gradually unveil concealed aspects and the hidden truth.
One can step into a realm where melodies are reborn, as Sara Oswald’s cello spins tales and emotions burst forth. Nature’s eternal splendor intertwines with the essence of music, as she infuses harmonies with the soul of mountains. Vibrant hues come alive with delicate strokes, and cascading notes resonate with a select few. Feldermelder conjures profound echoes that swirl like ancient whispers of the earth’s primordial past. He sculpts textures, from fragmented glitches to expansive atmospheres, that warp the fabric of reality. The two musicians merge together harmoniously, blending the acoustic and electronic worlds into a transcendent unity. This fusion of contrasting elements adds a unique and intriguing quality to the music. The cello’s warmth merges with pulsating electronic beats, creating a symphony of contrasts and sonic upheaval. Each composition is woven in intricate layers, combining electroacoustic architecture with delicate precision. A subtle balance of chaos and control permeates the music as it meanders through the labyrinth of the mind. The soundscape unfolds like a grand tapestry, distant echoes murmuring like grains of sand.

Trained in baroque cello and advocating improvised music, Sara Oswald is the perfect match for sound artist and electronic musician Feldermelder. She plays solo, composes for film and theatre and collaborates with musicians like The Young Gods, Pascal Auberson, Sophie Hunger and Julian Sartorius. Feldermelder is a polymathic creative whose artistry spans composition, sound design, installation and code. He is co-founders of -OUS and part of Encor.studio, a collective of artists who specialise in creating immersive audio-visual installations. Through his work, he explores the idea of secrecy and its impact on our lives, using music and sound to create a thought-provoking and immersive experience for his audience.

CREDITS
Written by Feldermelder & Sara Oswald 
Produced by Manuel Oberholzer
Mastered by VFBM
Cover Design by Isaak Rickenbacher

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Dual | Duel

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For Scrying the Landscape VII, Elina Tapio and Hannah Pezzack find orgasmic pleasure in the concept of Ecosexuality, a term originated by sex worker advocates, performance artists and environmental activists, Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens. Against colonial capitalism's violent subjugation of nature, Ecosexuals instead treat the Earth "as a lover." Encompassing marriage ceremonies with mountains, crafting sex toys out of organic matter and climaxing under waterfalls, they centre desire and fetishism in order to protect ecological systems. The horniest iteration of Scrying the Landscape yet includes 'Morning Star-Red Glare- Sequoia Bridge,’ from Elysia Crampton Chuquimia’s ORCORARA 2010, an album narrativized through a romantic entanglement with a sentient plume of smoke, dedicated both to the prison inmates fighting wildfires ravaging California and the indigenous practice of prescribed burns. With great thanks to @fourchambers, a creative pornography project by @vextape, for the soundtrack from the film ‘Human Botany’ and the audio tour of the 'Ecosexual Bathhouse' exhibition by art-collective Pony Express.
[Image: Video still from Marina Abramović's Balkan Erotic Epic (Women in the Rain), 2005]

Elevating / Escalating

Scrying The Landscape w. Elina Tapio And Hannah Pezzack [17.03.2022]

Cloistered Anatomy - Part IV

tape loops
pianos
and broken voices,
breathing
then falling
like dust on strings.

VAK60 | The Humble Bee - An Opposite (Fall Snippet)

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Francesco Gennari is trained as a classical pianist and he commits himself to sound exploration through modular synth practice as further evolution of his musical journey. Gennari's origins are with black and white keys, noise-punk bands and DIY instrument building. This stunning debut, titled Frammenti, is the culmination of all of Gennari's interests.

Through simple ideas developed with classical techniques like counterpoint and harmonic expansions, Francesco uses the modular setup as a virtual companion, allowing him to do what he wants while remaining open to what the machine whispers to him.

Francesco’s music charms with minimal rhythmic patterns, sonic manipulation and lush ambient soundscapes comprised of short ideas full of variations.

Highly recommended to fans of Caterina Barbieri, Jessica Ekomane, Alessandro Cortini

Frammenti

Francesco Gennnari - Ardere - From Frammenti Tape - 5.5.23

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“Tabulatura” is a 2008 indeterminate composition for sixteen pre-
recorded guitar parts and computer with custom software. It is
conceived as a system to generate different acoustic patterns.
The “Volume 2” documents eight pieces recorded live at Palazzo
Castagna, Città Sant'Angelo, Italy, in November 2020. The album was
recorded on two-track, directly on hard drive, without DSP and
overdubs.

Emiliano Romanelli (b. 1979) is an Italian musician with a background
in visual art. His work includes sound installation, live performance
and composition. His recordings are published by Terziruolo, Cassauna
and Senufo Editions. Romanelli has been co-founder of the duo Tu
m' (1998–2011).

EMILIANO ROMANELLI - Tabulatura Vol. 2 - Tape

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Mo H. Zareei (mHz) returns to Imprec/Cassauna with Proof Of Identity, an album of pulsating, pattern-based electronic pieces that evolve in ways reminiscent of Steve Reich's early work or Philip Glass' Music In 12 Parts. With Proof Of Identity, Zareei confronts issues surrounding identity and authorship in composition specifically when created by non-Western musicians. He simultaneously tackles orientalism and the normative take on identity politics. 

Artist's Statement: 

More than a decade ago, I made a piece of beat-based electronic music and titled it "Middle Eastern IDM" for a course assignment. After listening to it in class, my professor asked what was Middle Eastern about it. It was only a year after I had left Iran to study in the US, and I didn't know that I could say "I am. I made the piece". So I went back and superimposed a sample of Egyptian protest chants on top of the piece, to make it "sufficiently Middle Eastern".  

What prejudiced conservatism and performative liberalism share is gatekeeping practices that box one in a preconceived state of otherness. While the former overtly regards that otherness as inferior, the latter exoticises it through patronising paternalism. To me, it is especially troubling when exclusionary practices are driven by some form of overzealous "diversity and inclusion" agenda. If you don't fit the diversity box they've made for you, too bad. It's your fault for being "insufficiently diverse". "Poor thing, you've been colonised!", they tell you, as they claim ownership over a collection of frequencies and rhythms. When you look at who gets to decide if something's indigenous enough, you see how decolonisation itself has been colonised.

When you listen to this piece, I'm very happy for you to keep in mind that it was made by someone from Iran. But I might need to clarify that this piece has nothing to do with sufism and the whirling dervishes, the interweaving patterns of the Persian carpet, the poetry of Rumi, or Islamic architecture. And if you hear those moments of "non-western" sonorities, that is because I have constructed this piece from samples of a piece of Iranian traditional music – an overplayed piece that was all over TV and radio while I was growing up Iran, one that I never found particularly inspiring or interesting. Here, I have tried to make it more interesting by completely taking it apart and reconstructing it through my personal compositional techniques, aesthetic preferences, and a wide range of musical influences. So in short, while this piece might not sound like your archetypical Iranian music, I assure you that it is Iranian enough. 

bio

Mo H. Zareei aka mHz is an Iranian electronic musician, sound artist, and researcher, based in Wellington, New Zealand. Using custom-built software and hardware, his experiments with sound cover a wide range from electronic compositions to kinetic sound-sculptures and audiovisual installations. Regardless of the medium, Zareei’s work aims to highlight the beauty in the basics of sound and light production and reductionist audiovisual elements that draw inspiration from physical and architectural principles. Over the course of his PhD, he developed a portfolio of works focused on the intersections of sound art and Brutalism. 

Zareei has presented his work at international venues and festivals such as ISEA (Montreal/Vancouver/Dubai), SETxCTM festival (Tehran), NIME (London), Modern Body Festival (The Hague), ICAD (New York), and NZ Festival (Wellington), to name a few. His installation “Rasping Music" was the recipient of the 1st prize for Sound Art at the last iteration of the international Sonic Arts Award in 2015 (Italy).

Under the moniker mHz, Zareei’s electronic music projects have been published via LINE (US), Important Records (US), leerraum (CH), and Kasuga Records (DE).

mHz - Proof Of Identity (Part I) - Tape

reedshow #6 amkarahoi

core is a feedback loop of the fsh-1 frequency shifter, inside the loop is c0 and mmf-1. modulated by r*s dsg. rhythm and pads itb.

something like a patch diagram: https://imgur.com/6oNm0yH

one output of the fsh-1 goes into the c0 delay (the delay is crucial in this patch, most of the sound gets produced here), the output of the delay goes into a limiter and then back in one input of the fsh-1.
another ouput of the fsh-1 goes into the mmf-1 filter in dual bandpass mode, from there the signal goes again into a limiter and into the second input of the fsh-1.
this is now the basic closed feedback loop, i listen to the mix output of the fsh-1.
by playing around with all the settings i get different tones, again, the delay is crucial here, how much feedback is determined by the limiter and general volume controls or frequency controls of all three modules... now to get a rhythmic patterns going i plugged this "bouncing ball" envelope into the second input of the filter, that is enough to only get feedback at the high portions of the envelope eg i get a rhythmic feedback pattern. variations in tone by manual control of the bandpass settings and the delay time plus occasional tweaks at the limiter section for louder or more distorted feedback. the patch is delicate, i tried to replicate it and i wasnt able to come close to these tones, but other great ones:) enjoy modular synthesis!

fsh1

info: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/klammklang-aseptic-stir
https://klammklang.ru
https://soundcloud.com/as_care

aseptic stir

Klammklang – Aseptic Stir

Crop circle photo found at:
http://shatteringthematrix.com/group/cropcirclesinovation

"The Owl represents Wisdom, Higher Education, Truth, Prophecy, Mysticism, Secret Knowledge (revealed) & Magickal Powers... Yep, definitely sounds like all of us here at Crop Circles in-Ovation!"

headphones and low lights recommended.

mHz - Proof Of Identity (Part I) - Tape

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