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The Field Between: Music and Anti-Music

This artistic manifesto explores sound in the liminal space between music and anti-music—a generative field where the "unheard" insists on being felt rather than understood.
Music as Architecture: Music is framed as humanity's system for creating order and meaning from sonic chaos. It organizes, names, and classifies sound, offering maps and directions through auditory experience. Music builds bridges of meaning, structures time into comprehensible sequences, and domesticates temporal flow so it "makes sense." Fundamentally, music expresses gratitude for the recognizable, providing belonging and comfort through shared patterns and familiar structures.

Anti-Music as Invitation: Contrary to negation or rupture, anti-music is a profound expansion of sonic possibility. It doesn't destroy—it invites. This is an invitation to perceive differently, to embrace the unmapped and un-coded as valid artistic territory. Anti-music offers "foreignness not as exile, but as adventure"—a chance to be a stranger in one's own sensory experience. It presents the sublime: beauty in what escapes comprehension, abysses that aren't empty but full of strange possibilities "without baptism." Where music domesticates time, anti-music offers time without domestication. It expresses gratitude for mystery itself.

The Fertile In-Between: The work's core focus is the vibrant field existing between these poles—not a void but a charged space of becoming where the "inaudito" (unheard) insists, overflows, conspires, and expands. This recognition acknowledges that understanding is also limitation; every definition closes secret doors. Each act of comprehension loses infinite other readings.
Intuitive Reconnection: The practice seeks to reconnect with pre-lingual perception—sensing vibrations the body intuits without understanding. "In this not-understanding, I reconnect." This return to the un-codified is the core artistic act.

Unified Philosophy: Music and anti-music aren't opposing forces but symbiotic partners coexisting in the same sonic space. The work celebrates both the understood and its beyond, residing in what anti-music reveals: a "fenda linda"—a beautiful fissure in the fabric of the known, from which new ways of hearing and being emerge.

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Human Space Machine - Ornithogallum EP

A1 - DRMSH1
A2 - SFR5
B1 - RN2GLM 
B2 - RN2GLM - Eduardo De La Calle Response

Ornithogallum EP

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Kohl "The Inquisition", from the album "Learned Ethics / Imposed Ethics"
Cassette & Digital © 2018 Umor Rex Records
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Kohl is the dub-based project of New York City artist and musician Nathaniel Young. With Kohl, Nathaniel focuses on enveloping melodies and sounds that are often contrasted with subtle and evolving minimal textures and the rhythmic patterns generated from them. The resulting music is contemplative and warm, invoking reflection while maintaining a sense of motion/evolution. The Kohl project is an outlet for personal transformation; it is Young rewiring his understanding of morality and ethics. Interpretations of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, ‘good’ and ‘evil’. Musically, Learned Ethics / Imposed Ethics is a fine collection of ultra-textural ambient pieces with minimal changes like "The Possibility Of The Infinite", slow tempo tracks like "Moral Supposition", the dance-floor focused "Resolution (Empathy)", and "The Inquisition", which displays Kohl’s signature dub-techno style.

Recorded and produced in summer 2016, NYC by Nathaniel Young. Vocal portions on tracks 3-4 contains dialogue between Nathaniel Young and Warren Mark Way.

Mastered by Dino Spiluttini in Vienna
Design & photo by Daniel Castrejón

Learned Ethics / Imposed Ethics

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READ > inverted-audio.com/premiere-cabasa-defective

‘Defective’, is a seven minute ritualistic trip where Cabasa brings together a vocal snippet of Zeta 3’s 1991 debut album, warped Kpanlogo drum samples, boomy kicks, and snappy hats joined by vocal samples samples which sound like taken from an African ritual.

Uncle Sigmund's EP

Cabasa - Defective [Eclipse Tribez]

Full stream of "Lullaby" from SN005 - Violent Light EP

Aos’ boundless love for music is apparent in everything she does. As a producer, a DJ, and an event organizer with Seattle’s secondnature and TUF collectives, Kayla Waldorf’s vision eschews traditional categories and genre boxes in favor of an ecstatic spontaneity. Her DJ sets are well known for their playful energy and narrative threading between many different styles. Violent Light is Aos’ first offering on secondnature’s own label, and it captures this playful essence.

The title track’s stomping groove (complete with rave whistle) sets the tone, while Lullaby and What/Why move into headier territory composed of dusty synths stabs and clouds of vocal effects. Finally, secondnature’s own Fugal delivers a remix that flips What/Why into a rolling depth charge.

Violent Light will be available in stores in October 8, 2018 via ReadyMade Distribution, and on secondnature’s Bandcamp

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Violent Light

Aos - A2. Lullaby [Full Stream]

KCZEP002 - Kaczmarek - 7777 (Antigone Remix)

REVIEW > inverted-audio.com/review/howes-cold-storage

With numbered tracks and a succinct title, @john-howes 'Cold Storage' seems without reference, a series of sounds seemingly left to speak for themselves. Yet at its finest moments, the album points towards hidden depths, wells of inchoate meaning that speak volumes without saying anything at all.

Tape 08 - Howes - Cold Storage

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Kontinum - Aimless
Ultima Thule [CIR091 / Circular Limited]

Produced by Jonas Wernicke aka Kontinum
Mastered by RStudioMastering Seville
Pictures by Jean Perl
Released by Circular Limited from Seville, Spain
Release Date : October 17th. 2019

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PREMIERE : Kontinum - Aimless [Circular Limited]

Artist: Various Artists
Title: kumugyĭ
Reference: LR058
Format: Digital
Release Date: 13/01/2020

Bandcamp: https://lettrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kumugy-digital-lr058
Beatport: TBA
iTunes: TBA
Juno: https://www.junodownload.com/products/kumugyi/4907877-02/
Traxsource: https://www.traxsource.com/title/1500462/kumugyi
Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.fr/albums/B08RRSBFX7
Clone: https://clone.nl/digital/item4907877.html
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7zGoBH7Ey24cuaUN0SvY9K
Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/196678192
Youtube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFlZesO7I14uTmmSDnxOl7APfTMOgheqQ



01 Sanjib - Serrena
02 Oreste - She
03 Varell - Burn The Shadows
04 Data Domain - Soul Hunters
05 Vardae - Mantra
06 Sanjib - La Contemplation Des Tribus
07 Adhémar - It Has To Be Dark To See The Stars
08 Autumn Tale - Liquid Reminiscences
09 Cirrus - Blue Sahara
10 Diapasøn - Planet Rhythm
11 RTNH - It Seems Like I Have To Dance Alone
12 Faco - Lutto
13 Raiju Manah Ft Private Grief - Skyline
14 Spectral Perception - SP021


Mastered by Vincent Villuis at Ultimae Studio (ultimae.com/audio-mastering/).
Cover photography: Philippe Fontana.


"kumugyĭ" means "5" (for 5 years of Lett Records) in Aka-bo language. Aka-bo was an Andamanese language who has now disappear.

Lot of love to all the artists who appears on this celebration.

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