The luminous one, “Diamond Ben” Kudler, presents a pairing of challenging computer music on compact disc with a book of sentimentally charged photography for Psychic Liberation’s first print publication: “My Summer Vacation”. The book is a collection of photos taken during the artist’s eventful summer and lingering into early fall of 2021. Kudler pairs each photograph on the release with an audio recording, offering a contextual lead for the listener-cum-viewer. Kudler uses this equality of formats to provide a mildly different image and sound consumption experience from those constantly emanating from digital devices. The photos are accessible, pedestrian, usually only alluding to the difficulty of that particular summer by its’ pairing with the sound design on the CD.
 
Kudler notes : 
“The tracks were recorded using synthesis techniques taken from a few different sources and usually realized with the SuperCollider' suite for sound generation, with the exception of track three, recorded with some software from the MIMIC platform. For those interested in learning more or exploring their own methods of sound creation using ones contained on this CD (as I did with the recordings of many others in order to create these recordings); Maryanne Amacher’s technique of producing DPOAEs (distorted product otoacoustic emissions), Trevor Wishart’s conception of the “waveset” and “waveset transformation” that were further explained by Curtis Roads along with Road’s “pulsar synthesis” are all used on several tracks. Machine learning processes developed at Google that manifested in their Magenta software were used as well. Finally, the MIMIC teams work into synthesis with machine learning, with special help form Mick Grierson and concepts conceived around generative music composition from Roger T. Dean, Jonathan McCormack, and George Lewis were built upon to create several of the tracks.”
 
In Kudler’s work as a performer and a computer music historian (see “Computer Music For Dorks” via the Anomia Soundcloud), the work he has workshopped and developed for over a decade is uniquely interpersonal and idiosyncratic, always generous and open. “My Summer Vacation” acts as another wildly personal chapter to Kudler’s growing sonic and visual vocabulary.

MY SUMMER VACATION

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LUMINOUS "DIAMOND BEN" KUDLER - 12. ANY DOUBTS? (PLIB025)

Margherita Brillada meets Thomas Ankersmit at Oscillation Festival ::: Public Address. He talks about his main instrument, the Serge Synthesizer, the phenomenon of the otoacoustic emissions and his ways of tuning in with the space. This interview was recorded at Zonneklopper, Brussels, on Day 3 of the Festival: Saturday, 30/4/2022,  in the courtyard, with background noises from the soundchecks.

Thomas Ankersmit is a musician and sound artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam. He plays the Serge Modular synthesizer, both live and in the studio. His music is released on the Shelter Press, PAN, and Touch labels, and combines intricate sonic detail and raw electric power, with a very physical and spatial experience of sound.
https://thomasankersmit.net/

Margherita Brillada is a sound artist and electroacoustic music composer based in Den Haag.
https://margheritabrillada.com/

More informations on the festival's program:
http://www.oscillation-festival.be/2022/

Thomas Ankersmit Interview by Margherita Brillada

Live set from our midweek series at @nowadaysnyc 5.25.2022

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Janet's Song

Catalog Junction - Guitar Music

Hamilton Tapes 031

Catalog Junction - Guitar Music Excerpt

Jamie Hudson brings a monthly hour of hyper-terrestial, futuristic sounds straight from the information superhighway.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/sendspaace/episodes/sendspaace-27th-april-2024

Sendspaace w/ Theodore Cale Schafer 270424

Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker have both a long history with Mego/Editions Mego. Individual releases have peppered the Mego catalogue since Haswell’s Live Salvage 1997->2000 cd release (MEGO 012) in 2001 and the debut Hecker release IT ISO161975 (MEGO 014) in 1998.

The individual exploration of sonic phenomena by these two practitioners has resulted in both being highly regarded for their uncompromising approach to sound as matter. Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker came together as a collaborative duo with the now-legendary record Blackest Ever Black, somewhat inexplicably, on the classical imprint of Warner Brothers.

In 2025, Hecker and Haswell return with a new album featuring the two-channel edit produced initially for their UPIC DIFFUSION SESSION #23, performed as a live diffusion across 8-channels at the X100 Festival, Berlin, 2023, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Xenakis' birth.

This record furthers the duo's exploration of Xenakis's UPIC system as the sole instrument. The UPIC is a computer music system that generates sound from visual input. The original intention of the system developed by Xenakis was to make a utopian tool for producing new sounds accessible to all, independent of formal training. One can locate footage of Xenakis and a group of children making drawings for the system in the 70's.

The duo set off experimenting with a diverse array of hand-drawn images to feed the UPIC system including news photographs of disasters and atrocities, "food porn" through to depictions of the natural world and microscopic images of molecular structures (including 'the blackest ever black'). The resulting eccentric audio from these images is claimed by the artists to heighten synaesthesia and is as mysterious as it is baffling.

Throughout UPIC DIFFUSION SESSION #23 frequency clusters move and morph in the most unusual manner, shifting and stretching into shapes that hint at some kind of magical process. What starts out deceptively simple soon unravels into a large array of sonic mayhem. Symbolic jet planes are shredded by a swarm of insects, a metal bowl howls into the void, a tiny tin toy crawls into a thicket with the resolute aura of a black hole. A burning geyser of laser forms liquid shrapnel. This is sound as an alchemical process, a constant chimerical flow into the netherworld and is the net result of the decades long radical investigations by the two artists involved. UPIC DIFFUSION SESSION #23 is a direct, rich and rewarding listen for those willing to invest time into the outer limits.

UPIC Diffusion Session #23

UPIC Diffusion Session #23 (Excerpt)

Haswell & Hecker 'UPIC Diffusion Session #23' (EMEGO316) - Excerpt

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