Maps and Diagrams - Occupying Space

A new mix to help with dream recollection..

Please support all the artists and a special thank you to the Disquiet Junto and Naviar Haiku communities.

STAN MAGENDANZ – A MOMENT OF YOUR TIME PLEASE
INGVAR TAUTRA – SINKING
LANDFOOL – INTERNATIONAL
MOONLIGHT DISCORD – NAVIARHAIKU508
NADIR – FORGOTTEN GAMES
SO WET'S WATER KINGDOM – WASH
SAMUEL WALLNER – WALKWAY
NOOSA SOUND SYSTEM – YBFTT (SUSPENSION)
NIGHT NOTE – NIGHT SIESTA
SCAPE ONE – MEASURED DREAMS
FIONNLAGH – THIS STORM WILL PASS (LOGIC MOON REMIX)
ANALOC – BLINK
PLANT 43 – SURFACE TRANSPORT ANNOUNCEMENT
KAZENOYOUNA – EYES THAT SEE FAR
JUPI-TER – ISLANDS
DEP7 – SLOW MOONLIGHT
ADRIANO – NET RUNNER
DAVID KARRO – IONOSFERA KOSCHITZKY
HXJKT – TROSKLAR
NADLEEHI – TECHNOPHOBIA (LETHERIQUE REMIX)
PIERRE CHARLES – DISQUIETING POLYRHYTHM
ZENBYTES – DISAPPEARING MOUNTAIN PEAK

Where Horizon Sparks

Forgotten Dreams

Regulator Incident

CD available directly from Important Records - imprec.com 

Strange Times is a virtuosic realization of contemporary
electroacoustic soundscapes composed and performed by Stephen
Ruppenthal and Gary R. Weisberg. With masterful employment of electroacoustic techniques and tools, including the original 70's Buchla Music Easel Ruppenthal used in the Electric Weasel Ensemble, these two artist create an essential, psychedelic, electro-acoustic experience.

Strange Times is a hallucinatory journey into our epidemic-ridden
times through a collection of startling sonic landscapes. From epic
acoustic journeys into re-imagining myth to the phantasmal soundscape world of the Bardo, Strange Times is not for the innocent or delicate listener. Time turns elastic, and folds in on itself; you are approaching the event horizon of a black hole. The only way to make sense of any of it is to mentally rewind; speed up or slow down the voices in your head in random attempts to find your way through this electroacoustic aether. Strange Times explores the ability of sound to alter consciousness, creating sonic environments, mental and physical states where one can allow the experience of listening to become transformative.

Stephen Ruppenthal (Berkeley, 1949) San Francisco Bay Area new music trumpeter, electroacoustic and text-sound composer, Stephen studied electronic music and composition with composer Allen Strange, and ethnomusicology with Lou Harrison, and holds a Masters of Arts Degree in Contemporary Musicology, writing the first comprehensive treatise in English of Sound Poetry, “History of the Development and Techniques of Sound Poetry in the Twentieth Century in Western Cultures.” Stephen was a founding member, along with Don Buchla and Allen & Pat Strange, of the Electric Weasel Ensemble, and more recently, with Brian Belet and Pat Strange, of SoundProof, and is known internationally for his live electroacoustic performances, and writings on text-sound
composition. Stephen has been composing and performing electroacoustic works for Buchla instruments since 1971. Flamethrower, a 2017 CD of electroacoustic works for trumpet and flugelhorn, by Allen Strange, Brian Belet, Bruno Liberda, and Elainie Lillios, and performed by Stephen is currently available from Ravello Records. 

Gary R. Weisberg, composer-sound designer-digital audio artist was
born 1951 in Brooklyn, NY. At age 2, Gary was exposed by his mother to the music of Brahms, Khatchaturian and Rimsky-Korsakov. He also had a fascination with dinosaurs. He first picked up a musical instrument in 1972, playing free- jazz improvisation on flute and alto sax. Gary moved to San Francisco in 1976 and was involved in a loosely knit collective of jazz and experimental musicians and artists, operating a small performance space called The Blue Dolphin. He studied music, computer programming and electronics at San Francisco State University, graduating with a degree in Electronic Music Composition. He spent two years building a modular analog synthesizer, and began composing electronic music and text-sound compositions for art/ photography gallery openings. From 1986-1994, Gary maintained a MIDI project studio for the production of his own music, as well as sound and music for TV/Film/Video productions. Since 1994, Gary has been composing PC-based experimental electronic music, as well as pieces
for electronic and acoustic instruments, occasionally performing with other composers and collaborating with visual artists. He currently resides in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley.

1. Post - Apocalyptic Biscuit (Ruppenthal)

Dark fidelity hifi (aka Rick Jones) is a producer, post production mastering engineer, sound tech and club promoter from Manchester who forges his own sound, mixing styles from jungle to ambient and IDM, where lush walls of production bounce against twisting beats and progressions. He has put out some beautiful music over the years since 2018 under this moniker on labels as Bricolage and Waxing Crescent Records and his own Bandcamp page. 

Tracklist:

1 Inflight
2 Chicago River 
3 Tender Tension
4 Pulser Star
5 Insect Climber
6 Lift [Out Of The Grey]

https://www.darkfidelityhifi.net/

https://darkfidelityhifi1.bandcamp.com/music

socials:

https://www.instagram.com/darkfidelityhifi/

https://www.facebook.com/darkfidelityhifi/

streaming:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3owYpb8Ix9Qj3qqZAc3fuZ

https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/dark-fidelity-hifi/1213458328

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLnw9IopGSHpMDdtbgQ_BDQ

@richard-jones-215 @bricolage-g5

Dark Fidelity Hifi >>

INDEx Live #18 - Dark Fidelity Hifi

We are living the dawn of artificial intelligence and it's a wave we can't stop. I've been intrigued by this idea throughout the majority of my life, yet I cannot fully express in words the fear I now feel at its gates.

From Hollywood to Japanese animation, the majority of sci-fi infused dystopian atmospheres to this concept..yet all of it felt so far fetched and out of my lifetime; (and although never seemed impossible) at the time felt something exclusively for enjoyment purposes...yet, here we are.

Don't get me wrong, the aesthetic is just right, I will always be entertained by experiencing a vision of some future; something that is an evolution of life at the moment, yet honestly, as much as I'm inspired by it, I cannot help but feel a bit xenophobic on this matter (as a normal 21st century person should feel, I might add..)

Anyways..one particular monument of this theme is 'Ghost In The Shell' (1995) by the genius of Masamune Shirow, which offers insights on the first instances of silicon-based sentience. 'The Power Of A Shell Is The Power Of Its Ghost' is an ambient piece I've composed inspired by this theme.

The Power Of A Shell Is The Power Of Its Ghost

An improvised field recording set on aquatic life and death in the age of the Anthropocene. It combines underwater recordings of singing glaciers, pulsating aquatic plants and water insects with spatial resonances from hydropower dams and reservoirs.

Live on the river Bille, Floating Transmission, Hamburg 2023
Festival curated by Julia Nordholz
Photo by Antje Sauer

Troubled Waters (Field Recording Live Set @ Floating Transmissions 2023)

What is a perfect day? Being out in the countryside? Meeting good friends? Doing nothing and daydreaming? Listening to your favourite music? Reading books? Or all at once?

Polaroid Notes explores this question with its new album "Soundtrack For A Perfect Day". Cosmic layers of sound that circulate around individual motifs and images, accentuated by deep, warm piano sounds and melodies. Complemented by ancient sound waves reminiscent of magical electronic instruments such as the Ondes Martenot or Theremin.

An album as if for a movie yet to be made, set somewhere in the sunny south in another world of its own. It's up to your imagination.

The photos were taken while travelling through the Provence.

Tracklist: 
1. Cosmic Country Line / 2. Gold Fields / 3. Weightless / 4. Patterns / 5. Sound Of Today / 6. Vintage Things / 7. Soul Side / 8. Turn / 9. Lazy Heaven / 10. CCL (Reprise)

Recorded during the year 2023
Written and produced by Polaroid Notes

Download and limited edition CD available @ https://polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com/album/soundtrack-for-a-perfect-day

Release Date: February 11, 2024
Büro für Erdrotation Spin 037

Bandcamp

Polaroid Notes - Snippets Of Soundtrack For A Perfect Day (Album)

Here’s my remix of Site Nonsite’s track Creative Life Store. It features on Site Nonsite’s newly released Remixed album, featuring new interpretations of songs from his Japan EPs series:  https://soundcloud.com/sitenonsite
You can purchase the cassette version and digital album on Bandcamp here: https://sitenonsite.bandcamp.com/album/remixed

Site Nonsite - Creative Life Store (Karen Vogt's High As A Kite Mix)

Echo Bay

Album FLOOD out July 2018 on Fabrique Records.
https://janairmert.bandcamp.com/album/flood

FLOOD Pt.1 (standing on breaking ice)

Experimental Electronic/Electroacoustic/Sound Art/Ambient

FLOOD Pt.1 (standing on breaking ice)

Jana Irmert