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14-08-2015
Location specific live sound performance in the installation 'The Garden Which is the Nearest to God' by Taturo Atzu on the roof of the Old Church in Amsterdam.

Zeno van den Broek is fascinated by the experience of sound in and around the Oude Kerk. A significant contrast is noticeable between the noisiness in the immediate surroundings of the church and the silence within the church. The platform of Taturo Atzu adds a new layer to this contrast. A live performance, constructed from recordings of the environment of the church, the silence within the church and organ sounds, reveals the contrast between silence and noise, and the new position of the rooftop platform.

Come Closer is a public program on the rooftop of the Oude Kerk. In the midst of a city in motion, Come Closer offers a moment of reflection. From August 13 until September 6, every Thursday Friday and Saturday evening special guest speakers share a new perspective, a unique story or a performance with the public. High above the city in the open-air, a sort of contemporary hagenpreek (open-air sermon), Come Closer invites you to listen, look, experience, think collaboratively and to speak up.

Come Closer - Oude Kerk - live performance

Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Love Song

Machinefabriek - Verlaat (excerpt)

Streifenjunko: Everything we touch is electric

Taster of the new album by Richard Skelton, entitled 'Four', forthcoming on digital via Aeolian Editions.

Richard Skelton ~ Four (Excerpts)

For our fourth instalment, Richard Skelton and Phantom Limb Publishing are bringing us a psychogeographical mix.

British musician and sound artist Richard Skelton has been exploring the natural world, its cycles of life and decay and our relationship with landscape and human-constructed spaces with experimental atmospheres. Skelton has just published his latest album, Border Ballads (Corble Stone Press). After spending the last two years living in the rural northern edge of the Scotland-England border, a boundary demarcated by various watercourses, this hinterland topography has informed a series of musical recordings, twelve miniatures fragments of a larger whole, such is their unity in tone and timbre. 

For this mix Skelton shares that this mix is loosely constructed around absences, vacancies, and dereliction. The image of a deserted church, now falling into disrepair, located deep in the north Cumbrian interior: I pass by the building on a regular basis as I traverse the labyrinthine back roads between Scotland and England. Fittingly, therefore, all the music in this mix is sourced from vinyl — the ever-present sound of cracks and pops attesting to a kind of degraded materiality.

Perhaps predictably, the first recording that came to mind was Nico’s ‘No One Is There’ — a favourite song with a haunting melody, and my selection moved out from there, looking for records that had similar resonances, regardless of their provenance or genre. I was therefore interested to discover overlaps between the Baroque inflections of Boismortier’s ‘Concerto for 5 Tenor Recorders’ and the synthetic swells of Vainqueur’s ‘Elevation’, or the howling sonorities of Gareth Davis’ clarinet and Jandek’s cracked harmonica. 
The whole mix is held together by the rich field recordings of Joshua Bonnetta’s ‘What Lies in It’, which itself is a document of a Californian ghost resort, Salton Sea. In turn, various segues are made with Alan Lomax’s recordings of human voices, many of which crackle and blur with their own disintegrating physicality. These are various documents of (primarily North American) languages and dialects: Blood (00:50, Stoney (07:50, Beaver (17:48, English (25:45 & 36:00, Achumawi (48:45)and Nenet (54:05). Given this proliferation of languages, in the end, Nico herself has gone — vanishing through the cracks in her own song to leave only its refrain, looping eternally.

Tracklist:
00:00 Joshua Bonnetta — What Lies in It (Shelter Press)
01:05 Tirath Singh Nirmala & Richard Youngs — A2 (Untitled) (HP Cycle)
05:40 Stephen Vitiello — Shake (Farpoint Recordings)
19:05 Baby Ford — New York (Rhythm King)
19:37 Gareth Davis & Steven R Smith — Westering (Important)
23:46 Jandek — Harmonica (Corwood Industries)
29:06 Félicia Atkinson — The Owls (Umor Rex)
36:35 Nico — No One Is There (Refrain) (WEA)
39:00 Musica Dolce — Concerto for 5 Tenor Recorders in D Minor (Adagio) (Grammofonfirma BIS)
40:30 Vainqueur — Elevation (Version 3) (Chain Reaction)
50:10 Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang — Orcus Pellicano (Editions Mego)
55:00 Joshua Bonnetta — What Lies in It (Shelter Press)

Richard Skelton - No one is there, August 2019

First song! Check out the video on YouTube!

Deimos

Best heard with headphones

Process:
I decided to use the given recordings, loaded them in Cubase and split / replicated them to create parts of more or less the same length. I wanted to remain the feel of a fieldrecording, but a treated one. So I worked on the parts separately with delay, grungalizer, filters, etc.  After that I stretched the total to 4 minutes. I loaded the output again in Cubase and used the  UAD- Moogfilter and a reverb on it. 

Parts:
Earth (0:00)
Air (1:05)
Water (2:22)
Fire (3:00)

Picture: all rights reserved VandB

This project begins April 25, 2013, and ends April 29, 2013:
Disquiet Junto Project 0069: The 4 Elements
This is a shared-sample project. Its theme is “The Four Elements.” The goal is to create a new piece of music by employing the following four source recordings, each of which is intended to represent one of the elements: earth, water, air, and fire. (Alternately, you can record your own source audio for any or all of the elements.) Your track should be be divided into four segments of roughly equal length, one for each element. Any two consecutive segments may overlap, but only briefly, up to three seconds. You can manipulate the source audio in any way you choose, but you cannot add any other source audio.
Earth: www.freesound.org/people/ABouch/sounds/174938/
Water: www.freesound.org/people/aesqe/sounds/39901/
Air: www.freesound.org/people/Bosk1/sounds/144083/
Fire: www.freesound.org/people/suonho/sounds/3202/
Deadline: Monday, April 29, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your track should have a duration of between two minutes and five minutes.
Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.
Title/Tag: Include the term “disquiet0069-4elements” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.
Download: Please consider employing a license that allows for attributed, commerce-free remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).
Linking: When posting the track, be sure to include this information. Of course, edit/omit the source-audio text, should you decide to produce your own source recordings:
More on this 69th Disquiet Junto project, which involves creating a single piece of music from samples that represent each of the four elements, at:
disquiet.com/2013/04/25/disquiet0069-4elements/
More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
All the source audio is from Freesound.org. The earth sample is by ABouch, the water by aesqe, the wind by Bosk1, and the fire by suonho:
Earth: www.freesound.org/people/ABouch/sounds/174938/
Water: www.freesound.org/people/aesqe/sounds/39901/
Wind: www.freesound.org/people/Bosk1/sounds/144083/
Fire: www.freesound.org/people/suonho/sounds/3202/
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Elemental re-formation [disquiet0069-4elements]

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