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The 36th release of katharsis is the EP “be there” by Belgian artist leop4rdi, coming out on September 4th. Throughout its six tracks, the artist shows off his unique blend of granular synths, etheric vocals, emo guitar riffs, and smashing rocky drums. This infusion of his cute kitsch vibes with obscure spiritual icons and cryptic intelligence results in a unique aesthetic represented on the artwork created by label boss jjjacob.

The EP is the second full release by the Brussel-based artist, following his stellar EP “a process of learning and understanding” on the magnificent label and collective Soul Feeder in January this year. His alternative approach and very personal style shine through on “be there” as well, the titles of the tracks representing intuitive associations from the artist's mind. With the announcement comes the premiere of the final track "Out Of My Skin", a beautiful sonic journey of emotive acoustic guitar, bit-crushed vocal wails, playful synths, and powerful percussion.

artwork & mastering by jjjacob

Be There

Out Of My Skin

premiere: leop4rdi - Out Of My Skin

track taken from the new DFHF album [ faith and popcorn] released via waxing crescent records 8/12/23 https://waxingcrescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/faith-and-popcorn track tells the tale of been chained to lifes tree, working for a sweet suburban dream, blue eyed kids, fast cars but slow dreams..I think the video tells the story perfectly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-UY09WTVWE                                                GIGS  morgans,old trafford ,uk 26/11/23...gullivers ,manchester,uk 30/11/23 ....pdt club night ,stretford,uk,27/1/24.  https://www.electronicsound.co.uk/label-profile/waxing-crescent/

suburban hollow by Dark fidelity hifi

DEUTSCHER TEXT FOLGT

Acousmatic composition, February 2024

Gesang der Sterne was premiered on September 7th 2024 at the Supersonique Festival in Marseille, France - with a large acousmonium with 36 loudspeakers.
Performance and interpretation: Sarah Ouazzani

Published by Musique moléculaire label on the CD "Lautgedicht", August 2024

https://musiquemoleculaire.bandcamp.com/album/lautgedicht

Program Note
Stars have had their sights set on me for quite some time. 
In 1989, I set to music the poem Crazy without you by the American poet Anne Waldman in which a whole series of stars are described in their various colours. In 2006, L1014 for percussion was created, inspired by Reginald Smith-Brindle's percussion composition Orion M42, and in 2022, the electro-acoustic work Albireo, which was inspired by the vastness of space. The piano composition Beta Lyrae (2023) and the electro-acoustic composition Jezero (2024) - named after a Martian crater - both received their astral titles in retrospect. And now Gesang der Sterne (Song of the Stars)! 
Since 2020, a NASA team has been working on making space tangible with the help of music. In what is known as data sonification, elements of an image are assigned pitches and volumes. Whether this process does accurately reflect the actual sound of the Milky Way can only be guessed. In space, there is nothing that can carry sound. There is absolute silence there.
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Akusmatische Komposition, Februar 2024

Gesang der Sterne wurde am 7. September 2024 beim Supersonique Festival in Marseille uraufgeführt - mit einem grossen Akusmonium mit 36 Lautsprechern
Aufführung und Interpretation: Sarah Ouazzani

Veröffentlicht vom Label Musique moléculaire auf der CD "Lautgedicht", August 2024

https://musiquemoleculaire.bandcamp.com/album/lautgedicht

Programmnotiz
Sterne haben es schon seit längerem auf mich abgesehen. 
1989 vertonte ich das Gedicht Crazy without you der amerikanischen Poetin Anne Waldman, in dem eine ganze Reihe von Sternen in ihren vielfältigen Farben geschildert werden. 2006 entstand L1014 für Schlagwerk, das von Reginald Smith Brindles Schlagzeugkomposition Orion M42 inspiriert ist, und 2022 das elektroakustische Werk Albireo, bei dem die Weiten des Alls als Anregung dienten. Die Klavierkomposition Beta Lyrae (2023) und die elektroakustische Komposition Jezero (2024) - benannt nach einem Marskrater - erhielten beide ihre astralen Titel erst im Nachhinein. Und nun Gesang der Sterne! 
Ein Team der NASA arbeitet seit 2020 daran, das All mit Hilfe von Musik erfahrbar zu machen. Bei der sogenannen Datensonifikation werden Elementen eines Bildes Tonhöhen und Lautstärken zugewiesen. Ob dieses Verfahren dem tatsächlichen Klang der Milchstraße gerecht wird, lässt sich nur vermuten. Im Weltraum gibt es nichts, das den Schall tragen könnte. Dort herrscht absolute Stille.

Gesang der Sterne

a track by marco Lucchi reworked by Mean Flow

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maggio 2024

Mean Flow & Marco Lucchi - Esatonale [7]

HIERA Picra (Version by Orage & Senglar) 

Senglar (https://soundcloud.com/senglar) > electronics 
Orage (Arçon de Nièze) > guitars & electronics

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Original piece > https://soundcloud.com/c-g-tellemake/tom-pauwels-finished-2019 

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HIERA Picra (Version by Orage & Senglar)

EX ABRUPTO 
Sortie de résidence - teaser (recording excerpts). 
Résidence pour la préparation, et la mise en place de la pièce EX ABRUPTO, composée par C.Guiraud, à La Maison des Musiques, Bruxelles, juin 2024. 
Composée pour le Trio Erämaa. 


Erämaa Trio is : 
Akiko OKAWA . Viola 
Cédric DE BRUYCKER . Bass & Contrabass clarinets 
Quentin MEURISSE . E-keyboards 
Christophe GUIRAUD . Electronics


Video teaser version (HD available), here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_mSoymyTEM
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EX ABRUPTO - Sortie de résidence (june 2024) - recording excerpts (with Erämaa Trio)

Fortieth Cime show on @radio80000

w/ @ambiguouslimbo

Artwork by Tom

Cime w/ ambiguous limbo on Radio 80000 (May, 21st, 2024)

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Youtube video of the performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUf5Ca6_wk0

commissioned by Ensemble Proton Bern as a part of Protonwerk No. 13

live recording of premiere 23. April 2024 - Dampfzentrale Bern

Ensemble Proton Bern 

Conductor- Gregory Charette
Alto flute, piccolo - Bettina Berger 
Oboe - Martin Bliggenstorfer 
Basset horn, contrabass clarinet - Richard Elliot Haynes
Bassoon, Contrabassoon - Elise Jacoberger 
Harp - Vera Schnider 
Piano - Coco Schwarz
Violin - Maximilian Haft 
Cello - Jan-Filip Ťupa

Recording and mixing - Joël Cormier

Program note: 
“Stained light” is a part of an ongoing attempt in my work to uncover sensations and emotions from my own childhood. It can be both nostalgic and dark, as I try to remember how sensitive I felt to everything as a child – to the weather, to the energy of people around me, to the sounds of the world. In the piece, I try to create fragile spaces in which small details can affect the whole system, uncovering layers of sweetness or of darkness. There is something always under the surface, like a hidden song, half-remembered, heard from a distance.

Stained light | for ensemble proton bern (2023-24)

Live performance; Zaal 100, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 10 October, 2005. Recorders, Andreas Boehlen. Piano, Allan Segall

Nocturnes for Piano and Recorders (live performance)

contact: isaac.blumfield@gmail.com

Isaac Roth Blumfield is a composer from Saint Paul, Minnesota, currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He writes experimental music for acoustic and electronic instruments which explores resonance, materiality, and memory through expanded sonic approaches towards instruments and objects. His music looks for the strange spaces between subjective and unconscious experience, exploring uncanny places between beauty, pain, and strangeness.
His music has been influenced through  through work with performers such as ensemble sonic space basel alumni, Schallfeld Ensemble, violinists Austin Wulliman and Chris Otto, line upon line percussion trio, Ensemble Modern, Barcelona Modern Ensemble, guitarist Francesco Palmieri and Jamie Monck, and Quartetto Maurice at programs such as the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, the Banff Centre for Creativity, Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, New Music on the Point, Valencia International Performance Academy, Ticino Musica Festival and Freie Universität Berlin im Sommer.  
His music has been broadcast on Swiss Public Radio and supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Fondation Nicati - De Luze, and the Hirschmann Stiftung. He graduated with his Bachelor's degree in composition at New England Conservatory in Boston and a Master's degree in composition at the Hochschule für Musik FHNW in Basel, Switzerland and is currently pursuing post graduate studies at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. His primary teachers have included Stratis Minakakis, Timothy McCormack, Caspar Johannes Walter, Svetlana Maras, and Clara Iannotta. He is currently a PhD candidate at Harvard University, studying with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku.

Stained light | for ensemble proton bern (2023-24)

Isaac Roth Blumfield

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