Noise is Friction

"Location" is the debut release by @celynjune.
Out now on Relic™ – A new physical audio format, developed by W - I.

Archival info page: blo-om.love/location.html
Buy: blo-om.bandcamp.com/album/location

W - I 04
Artwork by Oli XL

Celyn June - Location (W - I 04)

This piece is composed and performed by Zhongqi Xie at Café Oto in May 2016. It consists of four non-interrupted tracks: 2004, 2007, 2013 and 2014. The musician’s thoughts about music seem evolve along this time line and transform through these four moments. Contrary to Cyplosion (a split with Changcun Wang in 2015), the turning phases in Cryptosion are more smooth, layers of timbre more various, and the human voice sampling more distorted but could be still found. This is a live recording based on electronic heavy beats and elegant sound wall of Musique concrete.

這張三十分鐘的作品是謝仲其在2016年五月底，於倫敦Café Oto的現場演奏錄音，分為前後不間斷的四首曲子：2004、2007、2013、2014。歷史的前進，似乎暗示著藝術家本人在音樂思維上的演化，以及其音樂生涯幾個值得寫下的時點。與2015年的作品Cyplosion（與王長存先後同台的另一現場錄音）比起來，Cryptosion的段落承接更加婉轉，音色的層次有增無減，慣用的人聲採樣雖然依舊清晰，但乍聽下來卻更加扭曲。整張作品在電子節拍的低音基底上，浮現出具象音樂綿延悠揚的姿態；要聆聽這份作品，既需要一份專注的精神，也需要一顆狂暴的心。

Cryptosion

Cryptosion, Zhongqi Xie, EP, 2016

Excerpt of "Anti"

Kinesis is an exploration of the sonic characteristics of spinning objects, both embracing and subverting the processes in which the objects naturally follow. All of the sounds in this piece are derived from the stimulus of an object and the subsequent movement that this produces (the spinning of a coin, a bicycle wheel, motors and the ringing of Tibetan singing bowls), exploring the tensions between the gestural characteristic of the stimulus and the timbral quality of the movement that follows.

Kinesis

this is the audio from a videoart collaboration w. visual artist katrina stamatopoulos (http://katrinastamatopoulos.net/)

materials:
discarded scraps of film
breath, heartbeat, voice, sine tones.

see here for video: http://alexandraspence.net/bodyscan

Made with discarded scraps of 35mm photographic film, flashes of texture move to collect a body of material, whilst the sound waves develop a physicality as they propagate through the space between the viewers’ ears.

... like colours seen / felt when eyes are pressed closed with palms.

bodyscan

Embrace

Tristan - Make It Stick

With only a split cassette release with F/H aka Tristan on the Århus-based @partnersaarhus label behind him, CPH b-boy @piaget1 brings us a smashing new DJ mix featuring a lot of unreleased/upcoming tracks from local artists Tristan, Minais B, Yearling, @dominikadk and @jjjacob, and a few of his own productions. Great stuff coming up from this guy soon!

tracklist:

Tristan – taming a snake in front of a crowd
Muggy Vol 1 – NBA
Mechatok & Toxe – Still Life (The vinyl factory)
Piag3t – Trainingfacilities 
Yearling – Untitled
Minais B – Untitled
Piag3t – track 1010
Minais B – Untitled 
Tristan – Untitled
jjjacob – Nutrient Cycle (ANBA)
Gilli – Alt jeg har set (Disco:wax)
N1L – Centipede Goddess (Ptwiggs Rmx) (Opal tapes)
Mobilegirl – GOODIES 
Serpentwithfeet – Bless ur heart (Tri Angle records)
Shattered form – Enigma
Gabber Eleganza – total Football ( Presto!?)
SOPHIE – Ponyboy (PIAS)
DOMINIKA – Untitled 
Amnesia Scanner – As another life (PAN)
Spinee – Distant promise (PC MUSIC)

PET-MIX-008: Piag3t

The Wind Of ?

The Wind Of?

Keru Not Ever - Tereza

Forever is in multiplicity and mutation. Musician and visual artist Nicola Tirabasso (VISIO), together with Haunter founders Daniele Guerrini and Francesco Birsa Alessandri called for a collective effort in order to celebrate these elements of experience. In opposition to linear notions of time itself. An attempt to let perceptions of future and past bleed together, to establish every moment as an infinite process of consumption and re-generation. A compilation of 33 artists, each contributing in their own peculiar style, adding their own blends to the palette and exposing the lineage of their work. It is precisely to state that the perennial immanence of difference is what constitutes the basis for true unity, that the curators have grouped an utterly diverse cast of contributors, whose output strikes a vastity of moods and textures, and grows out of very distinct intentionalities and backgrounds. Making kin without borders, letting mutual support evolve into a chimeric infinity.

Curated by Nicola Tirabasso and Haunter Records
Mastered by Jo at Tapewave Mastering
Artwork by Katja Novitskova & Kareem Lotfy
Cat. No. HR024 – All rights reserved.
℗ & © Haunter Records 2019
www.haunterrecords.com

Pubblicato da:
Haunter Records
Data di uscita:
4 Ottobre 2019
Copyright P:
℗ Haunter Records 2019

Katatonic Silentio - Eerie

Excerpt from a release with Longform Editions. Listen/purchase the full track here https://longformeditions.bandcamp.com/track/immaterial

// 
Earlier this year I spent a two-month period on residency in Hong Kong. I was instantly drawn to the colour and vibrancy of the city, as well as to certain materials and objects that kept reappearing on my explorations.

Billowy, gauzy construction cloth that covered spiny bamboo scaffolding, the devastatingly-inviting colourful-sheen of single-use plastics, discarded durian husks, the deep blue night-time sky made hazy/dreamy/luminous from neon lighting, lush and vibrant green foliage…

I was thinking about the small variations in the repetition of these materials, as well as the repetition of certain images and sounds.

The phasing on/off flash of orange construction lights lining long stretches of road; the rhythmic phasing of multiple pedestrian crossing beeps heard simultaneously. the overhead circling of the kites (seabirds) in the sky; the below-water circling of plastic bags in the harbour.

For a little while now I’ve been cultivating an obsession with the relationships between sound, material/object and texture. How feeling can inform listening, how listening is feeling, and how this felt-listening can alter our perception of things as we are taught to ‘know’ them. For me listening is acknowledging the intrinsic connections between our surroundings and ourselves.

If we acknowledge the vibrancy and resonance of everyday objects how might this change our actions and thinking around them.

"My hunch is that the image of dead or thoroughly instrumentalised matter feeds human hubris and our earth-destroying fantasies of conquest and consumption. It does so by preventing us from detecting (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling) a fuller range of the nonhuman powers circulating around and within human bodies." Jane Bennett in Vibrant Matter

It occurred to me, whilst writing this and listening back, that not only are materials amplified in Immaterial but certain sounds appear almost material in themselves, such as the squeak of shoes on basketball courts, and the droplets of rain on foliage. These sounds seem not to belong to shoe or court, rain or leaf, but are formed in the entwining to become a thing in themselves. It is this connectedness through sound that I am fascinated with. Through sound unequal forms can be connected: mic distortion disguises itself as crinkling plastic bags that blends into the crackling sound of shrimp underwater.

Sound waves traverse through our bodies and our surroundings, forming knots and vibrations and connections and confusions. In sound material blends with the immaterial and new imaginaries can be made, for me this is a way out.

Immaterial was composed in parallel to these thoughts.
Like silky-soft milky tea tasted alongside a crispy-sweet pineapple bun.
//

All sounds heard on Immaterial (excepting one recording of clarinet) were recorded in Hong Kong between April and June 2019.
Composed, performed, recorded and mixed by Alexandra Spence
Additional percussion by Karen Yu
Mastered by A.F. Jones at Laminal Audio

Immaterial excerpt

Yearling - Resortplex Guide

marble silence

Marble Silence

nueen - Iris

* Announcing CANVAS007 *

Lugh - Re Munus (LP)

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS007
Release Date: 23rd of October 2020

Vinyl and Digital pre-order:
canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/re-munus

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There is grief, exultation and relief inherent in belonging to community. Re Munus reflects on the tone of deep gravity with which the re munisation of the de munised is unravelling. The generations which dismantled their social contract, achieved immunity, revoked solidarity.

Severe circumstances foment collectivity, suffering and empathy, interrupting the ethereal dream of social weightlessness. Re Munus sketches sensations and observations during a time of reorientation, rediscovery of lived sensibility on a relational scale. An encounter with sensations which we had said defined us—the tangibility of which we had forgotten, believed to be confined to the past. There is tension between the physical withdrawal and lived intensity which permeates these works.
’ Lugh

Personal drift. There is a multitude of presences guiding you through this record as a listener, not without their own doubts as to where they are leading you. A murky social space. Time-compressed club experiences within layered acoustic dimensions; consolidated, captured and played back into the same space. I am sitting in several rooms simultaneously. Death metal screams in an Animal Crossing world modelled on our own.

The choral rush of ‘Million Dollar Cowboy’ from Lugh’s Hélico EP (2018) re-appears again in ‘Braises’ and ‘Free Fall’, deeper and re-figured. Sometimes the record also haunts itself—each element heard having been through a process so long and many-staged, it’s as though it has already lived.

These compositions hold within them a flawed attempt to communicate on every level. The desire of language as expressed through music—towards shared meaning. Paradoxically voiced and voiceless, it denies textual, verbal description, instead crying out through the cracks in forming its own liquid tongue. Clone choirs simultaneously rehearse in an open space below. A slow walk through this spectacle. It’s an anguished record as much as it is at times tranquil. The movement between voices detached and embodied becomes playful—often warping them far beyond recognisability.

Beautiful artefacts. Stomach churns in the face of a burnt-out horizon. Cantering & sneezing. Air is driven into the corners and creases of a gold-plated, reverberant structure. The neural network claps to keep itself in time. Gutter Synthesis organ lament; tears of the duffing oscillators. There are moments on this release when tensely divergent fragments are barely held together. The prominent human voice mixing with the heavily re-sampled voice—it’s an incredible lift. Superimposed night and day. Sonic creatures living within the material, sharing time and space. Tenderness and together-ness.

Michael Speers and Olan Monk

Music by Lugh O'Neill

Vocals on ‘Vertiginous Leap’ and 'Free Fall' performed by Marie Requa Gailey

Artwork, graphic and product designed by Zuzana Pabisova

Mastered by Ali Najafi

Underwater recordings from Zuzana Pabisova's underwater sports camera feature on 'El Rocio'

The ‘Gutter Synth’ designed by Tom Mudd features on 'Americans', 'Irony, Chastity, Obedience' and 'Index Veri'

@lu_gh

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Re Munus

Buy DL/LP

Lugh - Irony, Chastity, Obedience

Interlacing of three tracks by Clio Em:
'NCE DRGN 2'
'Borrowed'
'Music Box'

Rhizom I – feat. Clio Em

I'm excited to introduce my collaboration with the incredible musician @dariusz-jackowski-1. This track has been on ice for over two years and forgotten since then. Now it's finally time for it to see the light of day. What strikes me immediately is how good the production is. You've done an fantastic job. Kudos to you, brother!

Prepare thoroughly
Visit the sacred places
Wait
Observe
Feel

X faktor (feat. Dariusz Jackowski)

Following on straight from "Choker", this track was edited from our final jam of our Lockdown Collaboration series, recorded live at home on June 2nd 2020.

Crown Of Light

North

Guesting Bad Habits this month is Århus trio constellation of @yearlingstoned94, @helloworldsss and Bysund bringing gems from their own archives, collected through a discord chat and brought together in an hourlong ride for the adventurous ears out there. Featuring upcoming releases from @petrola-80, @partnersaarhus and Plasmatic. Comment for ID's

Bad Habits 06 w/ Tristan, Yearling & Bysund (LYL Radio 22.01.21)

As related to my experience. May not apply to others.

Social Gatherings

jd.w.mwenso@gmail.com
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Noise is Friction

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