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@okayvivian 
Streaming platforms - ffm.to/yourcells

Okay Vivian is the project of Turkish singer/producer Pervin Güzeldere. Shifting through experimental minimalist compositions to catchy pop elements; her music combines ethereal silent spaces with heavy beats, scattered vocals, breaths and whispers.
Since 2018 she has released two singles, a 7” vinyl and an EP; on labels such as Table Records (Ankara), No Exist (Montreal), Euphonic Recordings (Paris) and IA (Warsaw).
Performed in Ankara, İstanbul and Berlin with her live A/V performance ‘Wildflowers That Cannot Move But Can Bend And Twist’.

All songs written, produced and performed by Okay Vivian.
“Remember [me]” co-written and “Teach Me Love Too Late” co-produced with Exitpink.
“Gözlerinle Korudun Beni” co-written with Alper Yıldırım.
Mixed by Okay Vivian and Exitpink.
Mastered by Exitpink.
Cover art by Okay Vivian.

Okay Vivian - Teach Me Love Too Late

Shout out to @jessikakhazrik for taking over the show

Scavenging sounds from online and on-site detritus, trans-millennial pharmacopoeia of healing and militarised ads and technologies, Jessika Khazrik’s sonic scapes intimately investigate the techno-political premises of the military economies we inhabit or forget. Often born out of vocoded collaborations with alchemical neural networks skewed with hard-edged Arabic rhythms, Khazrik festively uses spaces of congregation—such as clubs, the internet, her house, quarries, and museums—to search for new, locally entrenched universalities that could collectively respond to the dystopias of our current time. 

Having grown up in the Armenian jazz scene in Lebanon, Khazrik’s deep-seated explorations in music, technology, politics and literature was kindled at a very young age. Beginning to perform in the Beirut metal scene at the age of 14, she soon took on DJing a few years later while performing in different settings. Currently, her indisciplinary practice as artist, writer, technologist and DJ ranges from composition to machine learning, performance, visual art, ecotoxicology and history of science and music.  In 2020, she relocated from Beirut to Berlin.

This is a quaint one, mixing music I have been wanting to coalesce into one place since some time: from Zar to Cyber Trance, Rai, Zagharid, Metal, Syriac choirs, Serbian folk, Georgian polyphonic singing, Techno, Trance, ML and unclassified music

Tracklist:

Marina Omelchenko & Organs Ghazaryan - Sireci Yars Taran
Suicide Commando - Death Lies Waiting (SITD remix)
Zoo Holubowska & Julia Giertz - Community of Grieving (Part I)
Orphan Fairytale - Princesse Peignoir & Prince Pyjama
Kosmos Colas - Ecstasy (emotion)
?????? - Lobotomise
Cheb Djalal - Ana Ighrib v1
Keygen Church - Becureg axpallef furde. Cegab ufqua radurrac
?????? - أجمل زلاغيط
Haw - Destlebwo
Mazaher - rekousha
Ghedalia Tazartes - An amour si grand qu’il nie son objet 
???????? - ???????? : (
Jessika Khazrik - Only Distance Has a Name x Artificial Intelligence Is Work
Brioni Faith - Be Here Now
E-saggila - Tilt
Jessika Khazrik - Impeding Voices & Bells
Stasya - Grief (Ode to all Puella Magis)
Alkaloid - Chaos Theory and Practice
Kosmos Collabs - 1body1soul
Futuro Antico -  Ao Ao
Ka Baird - Ebuza
APaul - Melodrama (Original mix)
Dj Arne L II Mirko Milano - Astral
Cheyra - Shafted
Lastrack -  Belsunce Battle Breakdown
Jaclyn Kendall - Gowanus Canal
1NC1n - Trebso
Stranger People - Strange Attraction
Nazar - Clan(Slikback Remix)
Perc - E Mono
Jessika Khazrik - Kushajam’s Recital
Nkisi - Parched Lips
Jessika Khazrik - Trem
Radmila Dimic - Ko t pokida sa grela derdane
Kosmos Collabs - 1body1soul

Ma3azef Radio - 08 [06-03-21] | Jessika Khazrik Takeover

Taken from Jap Kasai (@japkasai) new album OWN ℃, out May 10, 2021, via CHINABOT (@chinabot)

Read: https://bit.ly/3gnwJ1g
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3mYGeVL

Japanese folk, Juke and Footwork meet in a joyful, hook-filled union on Jap Kasai’s newest album, OWN ℃. Using the Japanese concept of 温故知新 (onko-chishin), meaning "developing new ideas based on study of the past," Jap Kasai finds a totally unique expression of Japanese Ondo and Minyo folk music infused with a hypnotic and exuberant modernity.

Mastering by Jap Kasai
 
Artwork by Saphy Vong 

Released by CHINABOT

Premiere: Jap Kasai - やらずぶったくり Yarazu Buttakuri [CHINABOT]

Motion

🔥 THE ELEMENTAL AWAKENING — A Sonic Ritual for a New World

In a time of disconnection, this isn’t just a song—it’s remembrance.
Each track channels one of the five sacred elements — Earth, Fire, Water, Air, and Ether — into a cinematic, soul-stirring experience crafted for the body, mind, and myth.
Blending ancient ritual with future sound design, this series is where spirit meets synth, where movement becomes medicine, and where sound becomes a portal to the primal.

Tuned to 432Hz and laced with hypnotic vocals, tribal percussion, and ambient textures, this is music for modern seekers, breathwork guides, and playlist curators ready to go deeper.

🔥 Curate it if you're ready for sound that transcends genre and sparks a movement.
🌍 Move with it if you believe music still has the power to heal, awaken, and unite.

18. SYNTHTOPIA - "WINGS OF THE WIND" FT. FAYA & QVANTVM (FREEDOM MIX)

He stopped as he was walking.
He looked up.
He stared at the monolithic building, and it stared back.



Inside Out

'Welcome To Axico Industries', out on PLUS100 Records, August 6th. 

Simulated Escape

Phoenix (feat. Brndn)

Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm (Istota & Alegria Bootleg)

Narcissi - Вьюн На Воде (Live At Fields Festival, Mutabor)

From the new LP, Excision After Love Collapses: frktl.bandcamp.com/album/excision-after-love-collapses

Excision After Love Collapses

FRKTL — Haruspex

Thoom is a Lebanese singer-songwriter. Her unexpected melodies set to edgy, electronic dissonance fuse with minimal, age-old arrangements like a guitar and a voice. Sometimes screaming, sometimes whispering, Thoom is a storyteller, often singing about fantasies of love, morality, and human nature. Following two years of live performance and experimentation, Thoom just released her 9-track debut album, Pork.

https://soundcloud.com/thoo-m 
https://thoom.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/thoom_report/

Thoom - Tongue

Taken from @amselysen new album Hypnagogic Surge, out November 22, 2020, via @genotcentre

Read: https://bit.ly/3pAWHjJ
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/36D2aOt

HYPNAGOGIC SURGE by AMSELYSEN is a dense setup of signal interferences, of jacked up, spliced, reconstructed digital snippets, of outbursts whose amplitude overcooks the microphone's defenseless circuitry. Anxious with unreleased energy build-ups, the music is always pregnant with a double quality, something like a dagger made from ice, the possibility to shatter or crumble into a thousand shards combined with the looming threat of clean rupture posed by the blade's edge. Digital distortion is used here to unmask materials, to frontally attack them and expose their shimmering metallic face; pitch-time processing dilemmas get dodged by exploding into the high frequency gleam embedded but hidden in their algorithms. Completely removed from the "Lo-Fi" paradigm seeking warmth or nostalgia, the present degradation-reconstructions result in newly audible chirp figures, the sparkle of aliasing and the descent into the grainy territory of microscopic sound events. From a more panoramic perspective, these tracks are continually transforming contraptions, with looping frames accelerating, doubling, halting or stuttering, overloading, seemingly struggling to buffer, sometimes mixing with immiscible materials to form a glistening suspension of new sound material.

Designed by eurasiandesert
www.instagram.com/eurasiandesert

Mastered by Wim Dehaen
soundcloud.com/wimdehaen

Released by Genot Centre

Hypnagogic Surge

Premiere: Amselysen - Obsidian Shavings [Genot Centre]

* Announcing CANVAS008 *

Various Artists - Apocope (LP)

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS008
Release Date: 12th of February 2021

Vinyl and Digital pre-order:
canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/apocope

Apocope is the second C.A.N.V.A.S. compilation, following Cipher (2019) and featuring another grouping of dispersed artists responding to a call-out under a unifying theme/sky. Where Cipher approached codification, Apocope approaches the cut-off point of a pop operative. An ‘apocope’ is a word truncated—a sound omitted—moulded into a shape that rolls off of the tongue yet carries within it further significance.

Together as C.A.N.V.A.S; Lugh, Olan Monk and Elvin Brandhi invited Alpha Maid, Bashar Suleiman, Billy Bultheel, Hulubalang and Nadah El Shazly to join them in excavating ‘POP’—a boundless yet always personal subject, specific to context and forms of co-existence.

The resulting record created by the group is a warped hypogeum of dissonant intimacies, the texture of the post-POPped bubble strewn into unpredictable hymns of prophetic onomatopoeia. Together this collection of tracks sustains tangible reciprocity between those involved, despite the dislocation of the time during which it was made and the physical distance which separated the artists who communicated remotely.

HYPE! As the commercialization of an essentially positive impulse to exert imbalance. We asked ourselves to what extent we are the subject of the conditions we fight against, which contagions inhabit our receptivity. What involuntarily haunts the creative inventory.

Apocope is a compilation of tracks that approach without reaching their referent. The possible drop-off point of the pop lineage. Idols falling. Apo-Cope, understood also as apocalyptic hope. This title recovers the dynamic meaning of Cope (Kolaphos). Cope is not a capacity to contain a situation, it is a strike, a hit—a resistant attack. A de-fence mechanism as a cutting through the protective infrastructure and allowing the skin to breathe. A collective calling up, throwing off our infatuations.

The joy of pop nothingness falls flat of an exuberant call-out. Instead, it’s a burnt out landscape of post-pop memories. Shells of cars with the windows blasted out and the radio playing a skipping CD on infinite loop or tuning into radio stations still echoing from last year, already forgotten. A pandemic induced surge-out, a farewell to arms. The greatest hits of an only half-remembered era of reducing attention spans and blown out pop hedonist nihilism, a NOW compilation for the elongated annulment of our prospects.

Apocope is a somewhat jaded, stranded, and disoriented but defiant and hopeful gesture, striving to redefine the realm of the possible. This is neither a tabula rasa, a clean-cut break from the past, nor is it nostalgic. Apocope remodels the vernacular to create breathing-space for an era gasping for air. It reveals and reflects the trauma of a generation plagued by cultural stasis and strife, letting out some bruised blood.

We sidle with the cut-off point, the Cope, the Hit that POP’s our bubble, revealing the face disguised by flawless elastic. To learn from the affectivity of ideological oppression we join the hit parade assertively walking in the opposite direction.

Directed by C.A.N.V.A.S. and Elvin Brandhi
Design by Gaspar Cohen with artwork by Elvin Brandhi
Mastered by Ali Najafi

We acknowledge the financial support of the Arts Council in making this project possible. [www.artscouncil.ie]

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

@alpha-maid

Apocope

Harry wants to imagine a world without you

Buy DL/LP

Alpha Maid - Harry wants to imagine a world without you

'Taşın Kanayan Kalbi' by @okayvivian is a song taken from the forthcoming Okay Vivian's "Saye" Lp.

Music video - https://youtu.be/SstQvaBOzWE
Streaming platforms - https://ffm.to/tasin

Music written, produced and performed by Okay Vivian.

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Okay Vivian is the project of Turkish singer/producer Pervin Güzeldere. 
Shifting through experimental minimalist compositions to catchy pop elements; 
her music combines ethereal silent spaces with heavy beats, scattered vocals, 
breaths and whispers.

Since 2018 she has released two singles and an EP. Performed in Ankara, İstanbul and Berlin 
with her live A/V performance ‘Wildflowers That Cannot Move But Can Bend And Twist’.

https://soundcloud.com/okayvivian​
https://okayvivian.bandcamp.com​
https://www.facebook.com/okayvivianm/​
Okay Vivian on Spotify https://cutt.ly/KkjTbuC

Okay Vivian - Taşın Kanayan Kalbi [Video in description]

Is language a false witness? Is promise information? Exploring the techno-politics of the voice, friendship, counter-information and war, Jessika Khazrik’s composition ‘Only Distance Has a Name .x. Artificial Intelligence Is Work’ attempts to ceremonially subvert the premise of AI as labor that extimately auto-denies itself in alchemical rationalizations. This composition was premiered live in 9-channels at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in 2018 as part of ‘The Exhaustion Project’ curated by Abhijan Toto.  

Recently, the voice has been presented as an agnotologically ubiquitous yet impossible biometric, that could exponentially be replicated through resources as easily accessible as seconds of recorded speech. If singularity is denied to the voice as matter, then what is the promised multiplicity abundant under artificial intelligence as a recognitive accumulation that feigns what is being said yet learns and teaches, most often us secretly? This AI-aided performative composition is conceived, laboured up and trained out of these questions.

Through the statement “Artificial Intelligence Is Work”, the second act grapples with AI as a division, distribution and re-arrangement of labor with a cryptographic and alchemical core. Rather than abolishing work as advanced in the endless dream of automation, the increasing spread of AI creates new forms of work and learning i.e., a re-distribution of labor, alienations and a re-organization of knowledge.

If we look at the ethics purported by some strands of machine learning that build its datasets from data shared by users online, collated and re-used in hidden network architectures and inferences without their explicit knowledge or from images collated by surveillance cameras of pedestrians and passers by that happen to be crossing a monitored environment, we see that so far with Artificial Intelligence – and specifically within machine learning, the tautological statement that ‘everything computable becomes work (whether you know it or not)’ holds a greater truth value than ‘work will become obsolescent’. Can an incomputable cryptography exist?
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Jessika Khazrik (b. 1991 Beirut, based between Beirut and Berlin) is an artist, technologist, electronic music producer and writer whose indisciplinary practice ranges from composition to ecotoxicology, machine learning, cryptography, performance, visual art and history of science and music. Khazrik holds BAs in Linguistics and in Theatre from the Lebanese University and a MS in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT where she was awarded the Ada Lovelace prize. In 2012-13, she was a fellow at Home Workspace Program in Ashkal Alwan, in 2018-19, a fellow at the Digital Earth and in 2020, guest faculty at HfK Bremen. While concurrently working as technologist and researcher in different collective and institutional settings, her work has been presented at The Normandy Landfill, the Stanford Research Institute, CTM Festival, the Arab Image Foundation, Kunsthalle Wien, Les Urbaines, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Times Museum Guangzhou, LUMA Foundation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Amnesty International, Center of Documentary Arts and Research at UC Santa Cruz, her house, the internet, secrets and Theater der Welt, among others.

Jessika Khazrik - Only Distance Has a Name .x. Artificial Intelligence Is Work

IA is a Warsaw-based label

Releases - www.ia-label.bandcamp.com

Okay Vivian - Teach Me Love Too Late

IA

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