“Still Lives” is the third solo full length by the Finnish composer Marja Ahti, following a pair of releases on the Hallow Ground imprint. As a collection, it may be seen as a series of studies on the liminality of the listening act and an investigation into the physicality of sound. Ahti forges vivid electroacoustic environments from field recordings, analog synthesizers, acoustic feedback, magnetic tape and digital processing, resulting in a set of articulate, prickly, and surprising compositions. In the artist’s words, “These pieces could be conceived of as vanitas paintings of a kind – selections of mundane or archetypal objects, sounds that have their own distinct qualities, but exist only by virtue of being temporary events. From another angle, one could think of them as shrines – objects assembled and set in a particular relationship to each other, charging each other in their given constellations.” Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a musician and composer based in Turku, Finland. Originally from Sweden, Ahti has been a part of the Finnish experimental music scene for more than ten years in different constellations. She is currently active in the duo Ahti & Ahti with her partner and as a member of the Himera artist/organizer collective.

Shrine (Still Life With Glass Bottle, Flower and Microphone)

This is a mixed down composite version of Browser Music 4.

The individual parts and instructions for playing them are as follows:

Open each link below in its own web browser tab or window and press play on each. The four parts are meant to play at the same time but don’t have to start together. You can stop / re-start individual parts and change their respective volumes as you wish. Like the components of a mobile sculpture, each part can be considered on its own or in any combination.

Part One:
youtu.be/4fE2awB7_d0

Part Two:
youtu.be/kT9ZastGvqE

Part Three:
youtu.be/Hzd_ydrGCqE

Part Four:
youtu.be/EpPkit3i8Vg


This is music without development, where nothing much happens (or rather: the happening is evenly distributed throughout). This is also quiet music – perfect for playing in the background on your web browser while you are doing something else on your computer. You can even listen to other music / watch other videos / make Zoom calls, etc. while playing Browser Music in the background.

Bandcamp

Browser Music 4

From the LP GEDULDIG (with Kónni Behrendt), out now on Ana Ott.

Geduldig

Steffen Roth - Geduldig

Excerpts from Sprækker (Cracks) - dance performance / installation, DK, 2021

Release: arbitrary, TBA, 2022

http://madsemilnielsen.dk/SPRAKKER-CRACKS

Sprækker / Cracks - excerpts

This is an Unofficial Mix by me. It won't be released or be available for download. 
 https://carlcraig.net/home

At Les (Christian Smith's Hypnotica Remix) (Main Doors 2025 Mix)

Ritual of Release-396Hz-[Dark Nature Concept]

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Cloud Cover from the album Beauty Data Pollution by Perfume.

Melbourne, June 2018.

Full album available at:  https://perfume.bandcamp.com/album/beauty-data-pollution

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Cloud Cover

Slip De Røde Fugle Fri

From TRACED, Sonic Pieces, Pattern Series, 2017

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From the album Nu Vision available October 9, 2020 on Western Vinyl.
Pre-order / stream: https://smarturl.it/967zgg

Nu Vision

nubo - Nu Vision

Available now via Imprec.com

Akhira Sano's  Penetrating, For Filtration was manufactured on C60 Super Ferro tape for a low noise floor, high output, and an incredible warm sound. Packaged in a purple tinted case with silver shimmer printing. 

Japan's Akhira Sano is a young master of slow, ambient, electro new age music. His compositions are highly organic, growing and flowing with great patience and care. But, like in nature, imperfections and incidentals are allowed to evolve producing sublimely primal and imperfect music. In a world where everything can be made perfect, Sano's work is deliciate, shimmering and electric; abolishing and preserving time simultaneously. 

Sano creates painterly music (he is also a painter) based on the themes of error and constraint. He is a visionary sonic architect who sees his musical structures as incomplete; always unfinished. His debut on Sun Ark Records in 2019 was very well received and his demo for Imprec was immediate and compelling. Lose yourself in these two long tape sides on the second official release from Akhira Sano.

Akhira Sano - Missing Cell - from Penetrating, For Filtration - C60 - Available now

Bookings: MO@MEDIA-LOCA.COM
Electronic composition across music and art contexts.

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Jasmine Guffond