"The piece is a sonic web of works recorded by Via App mainly over the course of 2020 and 2021 that maps and digs into sites of collective and personal psychic terrain traversed during the pandemic and correspondent dimensions opened by it."

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https://soundcloud.com/viaapp7
https://viaapp.bandcamp.com

SI055 - VIA APP live

Will Guthrie - drums, percussion, microphones
Rudolf Eb.er - electro-acoustics, microphones

LP on Fragment Factory

rudolfeber.bandcamp.com/album/h-i-l-t
willguthrie.bandcamp.com/album/hilt

Rudolf Eb.er & Will Guthrie - HILT (excerpts)

Saru are very pleased to announce that Trichromatic Moiré, a new double CD featuring realisations of a graphic composition by Thomas Martin Nutt, is now available. 

Martin’s work with the physicality of interference takes place within the beating patterns of a multi-sensory field, a Moiré, and to celebrate his wonderful compositions, SARU invited a number of artists from around the world to realise his work.

The release features interpretations by Tetuzi Akiyama, Harriet Butler, Sarah Hennies, Ryu Hankil, Ko Ishikawa, David Lacey, Sally Ann McIntyre, Will Montgomery, Joseph Clayton Mills, Shirley Pegna, Rie Nakajima & Marie Roux, Samuel Rodgers, Lo Wie, and Keiko Yamamoto.

www.sonicartresearch.co.uk

Sarah Hennies

James K - NTS MIX August 2019

‘Explorations in non-Western communal healing practices: a Sound & Scent collage’

Featured SCENT MIX:
Rose and Vanilla. Rose is good for the soul and heart spaces, for harmony, peace, love and tranquility. Vanilla is good for revitalizing your energy towards emotional growth as well as pleasure and helps to create an uplifting space and improve concentration. They connect to the heart, throat, sacral and crown chakras. 

-As part of my year-long artist residency at ISSUE Project Room, I have been exploring what a communal (Nigerian) diasporic healing practice looks like, sounds like, smells like and feels like. I will be sharing a sound and scent collage of my inspirations and musings in regards to my exploration in performance art rituals and the five elements of nature. 

More here about the residency: https://issueprojectroom.org/artist/rena-anakwe

Excerpts from some of my inspirations-
-Dr. Nnedi Okarofor at the Aké Arts and Book Festival in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHRMWc0w6BA
-Dr. Jacob Olupona interviewed in the Harvard Gazette in 2015 by Anthony Chiorazzi: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/10/the-spirituality-of-africa/

Montez Press Radio [September 2019]

Explorations in Non-Western Communal Healing Practices on Montez Press Radio

All I Want Out of a Red Box Body Unsolved

Wish You Were Here Mix

Theodore Cale Schafer ”Play This at My Funeral (Excerpt)”
die Reihe “Psychic Loneliness Excerpt 1”
Claire Rousay “Dice in Santa Fe”
Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan & Alex Twomey “Bird” 
Matt Carlson “Are You Interested in the Reunion of Winners”
die Reihe “Psychic Loneliness Excerpt 2”
Alex Zhang Hungtai “Sculptime”
Nick James Scavo & Rachelle Rahmé “10 Badly Built Audio Worlds” & “Diametrics of Suspension In Relation to Unbuilding (Excerpt)”
Lucy Railton “The Critical Rush”
Network Glass “5:12”
sohshie LAN “Happiness”
Jeff Witscher “Cats or Dogs or Birds”
Madalyn Merkey “191010-1h-53m.mp3”
Travis Woolsey “Do Not Psychologize Me (Excerpt)”
Daryl Seaver “Twenty Regards for a 21st Century Adult (Excerpt)”
Eric Frye “Scene 7”
Asha Sheshadri “Looting Index"
Daryl Seaver “Twenty Regards for a 21st Century Adult (Excerpt)”
Sun Araw “Everywoman (Excerpt)” 
Daren Ho “BSEase”
Helm “Milwaukie Houndogs”

Wish You Were Here

Performance
Friday, July 19th, 2019

ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Friday, July 19th, ISSUE and Harvestworks present acclaimed New Zealand-based artist and musician Michael Morley presenting Music for The Never Quartet, a new piece exploring the sonic possibilities of the acoustic guitar as a pure resonant amplifier of sound. Perhaps best known as one third of the Dead C, an enduring free rock unit that has pushed the proto- and post-punk templates to exhilarating points of disintegration for the past three decades, Morley has also recorded music as Gate, the Righteous Yeah, the F—k Chairs, and Sun Valley, as well as under his own name across a range of genre.

Michael Morley’s Music for The Never Quartet is a performative installation for a quartet of bowed acoustic guitars placed on solid wooden furniture. The guitar bodies amplify the bowed strings, which the furniture further amplifies, creating a lush and generous sound field. The quartet modifies the collective sound with the addition of wooden blocks, bowls, and rods placed atop and underneath the instruments. The audience is encouraged to move around the space to experience the sound from multiple vantage points. However, Morley explains that “remaining in one place allows for the shifting time signatures of the different vibrating strings to wash [over] the listener.” The audience is also welcome to record the performance on their mobile devices to be played back as loops during the installation.

This is the fourth year in an ongoing program collaboration between ISSUE Project Room and Harvestworks, two organizations that are committed to supporting the creation and presentation of experimental performance practices while sharing resources.

Michael Morley is a New Zealand based sound artist and visual artist. His work across a range of genre confirms his abilities as an artist, composer, improvisor, performer, and producer. Responsible for over 100 audio releases from 1985 to 2019 as: Gate, The Dead C, The Righteous Yeah, The Fuck Chairs, Sun Valley, and many other collaborations and solo recordings. The development of Music for The Never Quartet has come from a thirty year exploration of the guitar and of sound as art. The focus of the acoustic guitar as the nexus of an examination of sound comes from a desire to provoke and create experimental music that challenges the status quo of the hierarchy of rock and popular musics and allows for a reimagining of the idea of performance and composition.

Michael Morley: Music For The Never Quartet - LIVE at ISSUE / July 19th, 2019

EMPTY EDITIONS presents Mein Corona, a new single from legendary Hong Kong-based provocateur and pioneer of Cantonese industrial noise music XPER.XR. His first official release since 2006, Mein Corona is an ecstatic, darkly humorous, and ultimately hopeful document of life amidst the ongoing global Coronavirus pandemic. A singularly twisted interpretation of The Knack’s 1979 hit single “My Sharona,” Mein Corona embeds lyrics that allude to Chinese bat-eating and state conspiracy within a densely layered aural brigade of whip-cracks, sirens, shattering glass, and stock TIE Fighter screams. All, of course, set to the instantly recognizable and perversely infectious guitar riff of the original song. The single follows in a tradition of unexpected reimaginings and wayward covers—think Merzbow covering Christmas classic “Silent Night,” or Tori Amos’s version of Slayer’s “Raining Blood”—situations where the original is subverted entirely to great effect. Although Xper.Xr’s own discography is already studded with a number of bizarre renditions of existing tunes—from Prince’s “When 2 R in Love,” to interpretations of children’s nursery rhymes—Mein Corona might just be the strangest and most timely one of all. Developed spontaneously, and certainly not originally intended for proper release, this single was recorded in a series of feverish, ad hoc studio sessions between Xper.Xr and Alok Leung, and features saxophone provided remotely by the great Parisian improviser Jean-Luc Guionnet. 

Mein Corona unfolds as an absurd and truly unorthodox version of the 1970s radio hit. Xper.Xr carries the song’s original melody in karaoke fashion—a buzzed delivery that vies for presence amidst an overwhelming backing track and general anarchic confusion. Guionnet’s laser-sharp, siren-like saxophone playing functions as a kind of back-up vocal contributing to the atmosphere of sustained mania and malfunction. Within this carnivalesque universe of sound, Xper comes across as an unhinged bandleader directing a chorus of short-circuiting televisions—an aural metaphor for the affective space of our own quarantine-addled, compulsively media consuming, remote moralizing, and online shopping selves. Xper’s musical response to the pandemic is inflected by a perspective and sense of humor which is characteristically Hong Kong: a kind of self-lacerating relative of 無厘頭 (mo lei tau). An absurdist type of grassroots humour which delights in grotesque exaggeration, verbal nonsense, and illogical performances, 無厘頭 originated (at least in part) as a cathartic outlet for Hong Kongers widespread sense of existential futility as colonial subjects. This irreverent spirit is found throughout Xper’s work, especially as he has challenged conventions of deference and “good taste” within the realm of avant-garde music. With this tact on full display, Mein Corona is a brazen and confounding attempt to find a kind of optimism (even if that optimism is simply the ability to still create) amidst the confusion, adversity, and paranoia of the global pandemic: a much needed antidote to an atmosphere of official dread and grey seriousness which has suffused our everyday lives. 

The release was inspired by The Knack’s “My Sharona” written by Berton Averre & Doug Fieger (1979), produced by Empty Gallery and Xper. Xr., with Saxophone by Jean-Luc Guionnet and additional arrangement from Alok Leung. Midi-sequencing, recording, mixing, and mastering is by Alok Leung at Lona Records Studio, Hong Kong, April 2020. Artwork is by Xper.Xr and Michael Yu. Special Thanks to FeastOn. 

All proceeds of “Mein Corona” will be doubled through a matching grant from Empty Editions and donated to the Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at the University of Hong Kong.

Mein Corona

XPER.XR - Mein Corona

made this mix of my productions last summer
just found the file so here it is :)

all my music is on my bandcamp"
https://bergsonist.bandcamp.com

Bandcamp

100 % Bergsonist

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Michael Morley: Music For The Never Quartet - LIVE at ISSUE / July 19th, 2019

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