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B1. BASSES TERRES -  Deliæ

VAKNAR 26

Cassettes come housed in printed J-Cards

Edition of 65

Artwork by O.R

Appropriate Savagery - Introspection & Sacrifice, The End Of Your Influence [Vaknar]

Ura - an ounce of glue

Originally broadcast on NTS Radio live 14:00-15:00, Tuesday 29th October, 2019.

Pancrace - CSO (Penultimate Press, 2019)
A Produce - Farming in Arabia (Trance Port/All Night Flight, 1988/2019)
David Yetton - Leather Boots (Thokei Tapes, 2019)
Miaux - Lunar Surface (Ultra Eczema, 2019)
Loopsel - För Din Skull (Amatör Kassetter, 2019)
Boreal Massive - Somewhere in Galicia (Pessimist Productions, 2019)
Carla dal Forno - I’m Conscious (Kallista, 2019)
Karl Lindh - Med Bränsle Av Kärlek (Strange Life/Low Company, 2005/2019)
Entlang - Walking Into Bars (Rose Hobart, 2019)
Razen - Adhista Ayik I (K-RAA-K, 2019)
This Kind of Punishment - Overground In China (Flying Nun/Superior Viaduct, 1987/2019)
Les Milous - Annie Hall (Happiest Place, 2019)
Dj Firmeza - 25 (Principe, 2019)
Beyaz - B (Ana, 2019)

NTS Radio, October #2, 2019

Mysteries of the Deep is delighted to present its second album by Portland, Oregon-based musician and multimedia artist William Selman (@wselman), entitled “Naming Before Names.” In a world that demands categorization of everything around us through taxonomies, genres, and strict schemas, Selman’s album aims to explore the spaces between categories. His goal is not to offer concrete explanatory gestures, but rather, to create a deliberate space for suspension and ambiguity. These eight compositions conjure a world in which humans are asked to stand on the periphery, observing their surroundings from a vantage of curious wonder, rather than clear definition.

Selman draws from distinct sonic realms, however, citing David Berhman, Maggi Payne, and Alvin Curran as influences. He says, “I like the way these artists use simple forms to ground dense compositions with an approach to composition that is improvisational and collage-like.” In line with this sentiment, the album’s quality is uncannily natural. Many of Selman’s field recordings, collected over a twenty-year period, find a home here, adorning a landscape that’s as visual as it is sonic; we hear hydrophone recordings of tide pools and summer lagoons, grasshopper wings in a lava field, broken humidifiers and sandstorms alongside moments of intentional instrumentation. Light vibraphone gives way to slow hand drum movements. Textured synths add viscosity without extracting us from the ecological world. It feels inaccurate to say the album’s occasional rhythms are constructed; rather, patterns seem to arise organically out of the aether. In Selman’s universe, there’s a sense that everything exists in primordial unity, untouched by the human imprint that insists on fragmenting the world into recognizable parts. 

Written, produced, and recorded by William Selman in Portland, Oregon Jan 2018 - Feb 2020
Bass guitar on "A New Old Firmament" by Steve Wade
Special thanks to Paul Dickow and Marcus Fischer for percussion and the time-share vibraphone
Additional mixing by Oliver Chapoy at Ohm Sweet Ohm, NY
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio, NY
Photography by Candace Price
Words by Taylor Bratches

Naming Before Names

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MOTDLP006 - William Selman - Bubble House In Shallow Depth

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Function is an aesthetic exploration of digital audio at an elemental level: a sequence of quantized amplitude values. The entire sonic material in this series are generated through a custom-designed program that takes a mathematical function as input, and based on a set of pre-defined criteria, outputs the function as a digital waveform. Accordingly, each track in this series is named after one mathematical function, where the function itself is used as the only sound-generating engine. These raw sonic materials are then processed through a number of common audio effects, and organized and structured into a compositional form.

Function builds on an ongoing investigation into realization of brutalist aesthetics through sound and audiovisual media. Through a reductionist approach towards its distinctly digital sonic structures, the work embraces the crude limitations of its medium as the primary aesthetic construct. It uses mathematically architected tonal and rhythmic structures to allow for a celebratory exposure of its “anti-beautiful" raw material. In doing so, it projects an uncompromising clarity of structure, a conscious negation of interpolation, and a steadfast refusal to hide the machine’s footprint.

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. His “Brutalist Noise Ensemble” has been featured on platforms such as Creative Applications, Streaming Museum, and Fast Co.

Zareei has presented his work at international venues and festivals such as SETxCTM Festival (Tehran), New Zealand Festival (Wellington), the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver), and New Interfaces for Musical Expression (London), to name a few. His installation "Rasping Music" was the recipient of the 1st prize in Sound Art category of the international Sonic Arts Award 2015 (Italy).

mHz - y = sin(1/x) - from "Function" - Release date: July 3, 2020

Playlist and other information available at: https://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-165-alter-feature/

*Includes interview with Luke Younger (Helm, Birds of Delay)

FFFoxy Podcast #165: ALTER feature

from KR081 : SUMMER OF SEVENTEEN - dto. 
LP / DL out october 23rd 2020
SUMMER OF SEVENTEEN are MONIKA KHOT (NORDRA, ZEN MOTHER), WILLIAM FOWLER COLLINS, DANIEL MENCHE, FAITH COLOCCIA (MAMIFFER), and AARON TURNER. (SUMAC, SPLIT CRANIUM).

SUMMER OF SEVENTEEN -  Porous Aura

Snippets taken from forthcoming release - Wojtek Kurek - Buoyancy [ppt51].
Release date: November 2020 | Tape + digital

Music, Mix, Mastering: Wojtek Kurek
Graphic design: Lidia Wnuk
ppt51

mHz - y = sin(1/x) - from "Function" - Release date: July 3, 2020

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