batrypowr.bandcamp.com/album/un1ty-flute 
Hundred Waters frontwoman Nicole Miglis records and performs experimental ambient as Batry Powr. In the spirit of the genre's luminaries (Joanna Brouk, Larkin, Laraaji, et al) - the 41 minutes of long-form music focuses on two meditations, supplemented with a digital-only remix from Mikey Maleki of Kodak to Graph.

Bonus: catch Nicole on the road with Bonobo internationally in 2022.

03 Batry Powr - Un1ty Flute (Mikey's Zither Mix)

As part of the first batch of tapes of 2022/23, Artetetra is presenting the first four tracks of a split featuring two éminences grises of minimal but highly imaginative audio storytelling. Kinked and Señor Service, who fully deserve the title of bedroom superstars, use their screens and musical tools as gateways and magic wands to dissolve the listener into uncertain and nebulous musical worlds, creating the clever illusion of a narrative. But remember, it's just an illusion! Pure audio préstidigitation for children and adult mammals alike.

Kinked describes itself as leftfield-ritualist of vocal gestures and granular realities. Part of the Riforma crew, he is also known as the visual and text researcher Lapo Sorride; also known as the tenco-grime lyricist Dori Sorride.

Señor Service is the solo project of Umberto Pasinetti, formerly 1/2 of New-Weirdo-Vibes label Pampsychia. Started in 2019 as a tender and humoristic music project, Señor Service feeds on cheeky plunderphonics and dreamy FM synthesis. It is 100% certified as always satisfactory. Until now, he has always delivered.

Delving into Kinked’s and Señor Service’s audio tales always feels like living instrumental coming-of-age adventures where the plot is tangled, multilinear and seldom controlled by actual characters...  

Album Art by NOT399093 (instagram.com/not399093/)
Mastered by Giancarlo Brambilla aka Kuthi Jin (soundcloud.com/kuthijin)

A ReAL BWuoy

Reincanto / Real Bwoy (Split)

Señor Service - Wacky KuiSine

𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 was born in 2022 during a SHAPE+ and Nextones artistic residency in Valdossola, Italy, centered around BABAU's nomination as SHAPE+ artists 2022/23. Initially conceived as a tutorial and tongue-in-cheek artistic text conceived by Babau, 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 was built with a playful approach to music theory exploring the audio, listening and improvisation research of scholars and musicians such as Pauline Oliveros, Micah Silver, Jace Clayton and Jem Finer. These speculations were combined with lighthearted inputs from video game habits and Zen philosophy teachings elaborating a practice of improvisation and composition which sees musical interaction as: 

𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘫𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥/𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴. 𝘖𝘧 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘰, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴. 

From this residency week of interaction with musician Bienoise (Alberto Ricca) and fashion designer/artist Flora Rabitti (Atelier Florania) and a year of further development, the artists have crafted two long tracks in which they mixed computer music techniques with electroacoustic improvisation and sound manipulations which engage with these ideas. 

Influenced by the approaches of computer music pioneers such as David Behrman, Carl Stone and John Bischoff, 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 #1 & #2 were composed starting from two canons written by means of electronic arpeggios that were later expanded thanks to MaxMSP sound extraction patches. The patches took a portion of the initial audio, generating longer and longer sound patterns. From this initial unpredictable structure, the musicians have included further improvised overdubs including wind instruments (alto saxophone and toleat), field recordings, and additional synth lines. 

The result is an immersive two-piece work in which the architectures of the composition change continuously at a slow, unpredictable pace. 
credits
releases June 20, 2023 

𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 1 & 2 were composed, recorded and arranged by Babau and Bienoise in 2022/23 between Milan, Verbania, Bandung and Kuala Lumpur. 

Mix and additional production by Francesco Piro. 
Mastered by Nick Foglia. 
Artwork by Babau. 

The project is supported by SHAPE+ platform, co-funded by the European Union. Realized with the support of Threes and Nextones. 

Thanks to all 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳𝘴 involved. 
"Let just music do its thing" 

𝘖𝘏 𝘓𝘖𝘕𝘎 𝘑𝘖𝘏𝘕𝘚𝘖𝘕!

Babau & Bienoise  - looongplay #1

*excerpted material from sessions w. sam gendel & norns script glut, slewing into a solo bedroom recording using norns script orgnwrms.

GendelGranular -> OrgnWrms

‘Sphinx Nouvelle’ (A New Sphinx, A Sphinx Tale) is Francesca Heart’s fourth solo album following LP Bird Bath. After different musical works dedicated to mercurial underwater epics, electrical biomass sagas, moist demigoddesses’ grottoes, labyrinthine gardens and somber yet alluring feminine muses, the artist crafts ten new tracks inspired by aerial architectures, legendary superhuman creatures and music as the key to open magic portals. 

Produced between Thailand, Italy and Mallorca, and thus reflective of the geographic collages offered by memory and experience, the work’s sibylline title opens up two layers touching upon both the imaginative and emotional growth of the Italian artist. While on one level the tracks non-narratively delineate the hazy story of a sphinx figure unfurling and fleshing out as the musical compositions progress, a second perspective sheds light on how Heart’s expression and explorations have matured generating new ways to empowerment from within the field of musical playfulness and creative intuition. 

Informed by speculative mythologies offered by hidden earthly geographies such as  Atlantis and Lemuria, Heart crafts a new powerful adventure by dwelling on how promethean real-life projects such as the Qatar Raffle Doha and Fairmont Hotels (the Katara Towers) could be reinterpreted as molochian present-day results of human imagination.  Empires of artificial waters that challenge the limits of the possible. These monumental entities are treated as fictional objects becoming important encounters on the Sphinx's journey, through which Heart blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. 

In A Sphinx Nouvelle sound and music are a cocooning background vessel for a vague cinema for the ear; a moving image playing in the theater of the listeners’ mind. As the aesthetic feeling emanating from the album confirms, once again we are not in front of a world built by adult power fantasies. By casting these real-life architectural visions into the background of pop culture’s productions like movies Magic In The Mirror, The Abyss and Nadia The Secret Of Blue Water, Sphynx Nouvelle lets us look at architectures, stories and mythologies with a kaleidoscopic mind. 

Mixing real and fictive histories, worlds and dimensions collide and superimpose like mirages of seashore mists and waterspouts. In the album, the character itself, a mythical anthropozoomorphic creature-monument defies conventional narrative expectations and categorisations, hence becoming the passage to weave together different dimensions and sonic territories.  Despite still consistently resorting to soft synth lines and the organic acoustic timbres of marimbas and bells, differently from previous albums, percussive arpeggios and angular melodies feel more pronounced, making the ten tracks the most dynamic and uptempo productions in the artist’s discography. Despite maintaining most of her musical tropes - multivocal synth progressions as counterpoints of singing creatures, lullaby-inspired pentatonic harmonies and pads filtered through the noise of waves crashing ashore or the filters of underwater listening - the moonlight tide ambiences and sonatas feels like a background on which more stable rhythmical explorations take over to reveal subtle but galvanizing outbursts of musical energy. New age meets seapunk and shoegaze. A dive into a hallucinatory expedition on winged eyes leads to a primordial space via the call of the conch shell.

Credits
All music written, produced and recorded by Francesca Heart
3. ‘Essence Nouvelle’ Conch Shell by Francesca Heart
4. In Alto Mare (Loredana Bertè Cover)
10. BONUS TRACK ‘Water Passages’ Produced by Splash Blade
Cover Art Serena Scozzafava
Liner Notes Luigi Monteanni
Mixing Francesca Mariano
Mastering Polonius
Photography Matteo Strocchia, Marco Servina 
Recorded between January and June 2024 in Thailand, Italy and Mallorca


1. Lemuria Shore Party

2. Sphinx Millenium Bubble Wrap

After a recent output on Moon Glyph, Nicolas Gaunin is back on Artetetra with a new digital EP of tender digital folklore hymns for personal mini-worlds. Known for his composition style centered on interlocking polyrhythms and bidimensional sound fonts advancing the field of a possible 2.0 exotica, in Huti ゲーム Gaunin momentarily abandons his customary musical vocabulary to experiment with an atypical ‘ensemble’ approach: percussions interweave with string samples and synthetic choirs. This change gives his tracks a surprising lyrical dimension. Timbral textures are lightened in place of airy, delicate sound spaces while densely layered arrangements breath through tight interplay.

Inspired by a number of classic essays, novels and mythical texts by the likes of Elémire Zolla, E.R. Eddison and Mircea Eliade, the imagery of Huti ゲーム (Game) is built as a soundtrack of an imaginary videogame, an epic adventure starring the hero Rokoreke Taribaku, alter ego of Nicolas Gaunin (in turn alter ego of Nicola Sanguin). In the land of Huti, inhabited by strange animal-human creatures, Rokoreke must face his nemesis: the gigantic Serpent swallowing everything in its path and trapping the creatures' souls in its tunnel-like stomach. The musical narration follows the hero's quest to defeat the monster and free the trapped critters’ souls, thus making each track a miniature stage-soundtrack expressing fragments of this fantasy world.
The Serpent, a recurrent symbol of eternal return and rebirth in many cultures, becomes the central figure on the EP. Each track suggests the idea of an inner and cosmic battle, in which music becomes a metaphor for the conflict between polarities of any kind. The choice of synthetic sounds and evocative strings amplifies this symbolism, tracing an emotional path that superimposes the mythical seriousness of Rokoreke’s destiny with registers coming from popular culture and children’s tales.

Once again, Gaunin renews his worldbuilding potential by propelling hybrid folk imageries into the 21st century. Huti ゲーム is a sound experience that transcends the concept of a soundtrack, becoming a short immersive and poetic suite, in which Gaunin plays with sounds to tell a story of redemption and rebirth, with echoes of ancient myths and future worlds.


Huti Ghosts

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mÉmora is a program unfolded from a high condensed core,
projected as a fabric of existence.

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