Occulto presents Montreal poetry and electroacoustic duo Cloud Circuit (Jeremy Young & Deanna Radford) in collaboration with projectionist Frau Lelli, with support from Berlin based voice and sound artist Alessandra Eramo. 

Recorded and mixed by Rabih Beaini. 

Live at Morphine Raum
Köpenicker Str. 147
Hinterhof 1.Etage
10997 Berlin

Cloud Circuit finds inspiration in communication gli//tc;hh()h, brok()n spee?()-eech, and contact lost. Its motors are the grey areas of connection, those lost threads, dropped signals, failures of technology, and outages at the edge of night. In performance, Cloud Circuit’s approach is collaborative and improvisational; its sound composed, dissected, and refracted. Deanna Radford channels her poetry as deconstructed word events, Jeremy Young plays sine tones in flux and amplified surfaces. They have shared the stage with David Grubbs, Ora Clementi (crys cole & James Rushford), Sam Prekop, Flying Hórses, skintone, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Paul Dutton, Lea Bertucci, Vito Ricci, Sarah Pagé, Kee Avil, Greg Davis, Eliza Kavtion, and more. Cloud Circuit’s début EP, Bur sting brea k’r, came out via Montreal’s Archive Officielle Publications in 2020, and their début full-length LP, recorded at Hotel2Tango with Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, will be released in 2024.

Cloud Circuit Live at Morphine Raum, Berlin (2023)

Composed and performed using sine waves and electronics by Jeremy Young, Rutger Zuydervelt, Nicolas Bernier.

Mixed by Jeremy Young
Mastered by Guillermo Pizarro at Vitória Régia Studios
Artwork & layout by Rutger Zuydervelt
Published by Flag Day Recordings (Edition of 300)

Purchase here: 
https://flagdayrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/associated-sine-tone-services

Associated Sine Tone Services (ASTS) is a new conceptual collaboration between analog oscillator wielders Jeremy Young (Montreal, CAN), Nicolas Bernier (Montreal, CAN) and Rutger Zuydervelt (Schiedam, NL). This record was entirely generated using sine wave oscillators and an array of electronic filters, stacks, and processing.

Although this project initially started with a bouquet of material put forth by Young to start, each track would eventually coalesce around the vision and momentum of one of the members individually, creating pocket productions that make the album in full, a diverse compendium of creative approaches to analog sound design.

Eschewing the codes and lexicons of “library music” here—despite the tongue-in-cheek reference to a canonical analog tape audio box in the artwork and graphic design, and the cheeky name of the project itself—the trio opted rather for a pop-melodic approach, which elevates each artist’s creative voice and personality. This is music, over sound design, contrary to what listeners might expect from an album entirely built from sine waves and the analog fidelity of vintage studio tools.

Like navigating a strange dreamstate, the score feels moody and cinematic at times, flowing melodically and rhythmically in moments accompanied by velvety textures and dense timbres with tertiary twinkles and artifacts occasionally vying for the listener’s attention. Hilariously, this entire endeavor was actually drafted in a dream by Young in 2023, in which this exact trio was on stage in a dark underground club, all dressed in lab coats, adorned with their signal generators creating music together. The following morning, Young got to work on an initial bank of oscillator loops and sent both the audio and the proposal to Bernier and Zuydervelt.

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Three tracks from Masses (We, Here & Now, 2025)
https://wehereandnow.bandcamp.com/album/masses

Jeremy Young is a member of various projects, including the poetry_sound duo Cloud Circuit, the electroacoustic modern classical trio Sontag Shogun, and library music waveriders Associated Sine Tone Services. His long-evolving solo practice makes use of a sine and square wave oscillator system, 1/4″ magnetic tape, filtered radio and EMF signal, and foley-inspired sound treatments from amplified surfaces and objects.

Working out of his home studio, “Studieau Royale,” his arsenal of monophonic oscillators takes the place of keyboard-format synths and instrumentation. Rather, because each machine only emits a single frequency at a time, every note he plays (both live and in-studio) must be tuned by hand and by ear, and employed by voltage attenuation. It’s tubes, magnets, and pure electricity. It’s in this highly personal tai chi of bodily coordination that Young has built through haptics-sensitive praxis and a deep listening ethos, which anchors his McLuhan-esque credo that the tonal content of a musical work is equally as meaningful as the auditory medium on which it was recorded, edited, and played back.

JEREMY YOUNG performing oscillators & tape. recordings taken between winter & spring 2024 at studieau royale in montréal, qc xxxcanadaxxx

COLIN FISHER guitar & electronics on B3
SÉBASTIEN FOURNIER mixing
JACK CHUTER mastering
HARIS KITTOS visual artwork
WE, HERE & NOW stratford, on

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A3 "Dark Corners II"

A1 "Skyline of Condos"

B3 "Gravity Wave" (feat. Colin Fisher)

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