i love the smell of rain(feat. distant lights)

My first attempt at what I think of as "minimal ambient".

From The Near Distance

Pleased to share the 12th episode of the Digital Sound Residency hosting British multi-instrumentalist Lucy Railton with ‘Medieval Sui’, an ambiguous, intimate piece conceived during a period of stay in Venice while sheltering from torrential rain, dramatic tidal shifts and surreal opulent encounters. 

Lucy Railton is a cellist, composer, and curator whose practices originate from a deep dedication to the physicality of sound. Her works span electroacoustic practices to field recordings, exploring the realms of resonance, psychoacoustics, synthesis and microtonality. 
Since 2018, she has released albums on imprints like Modern Love, Editions Mego, Portraits GRM, PAN, ECM, SN Variations, Shelter Press and Takuroku.

In November 2023, Lucy released 'Corner Dancer' via Modern Love, immaculately articulating the breadth of her artistic range, drawn from a nearly 20 year career as a soloist, writer and collaborator. 
Following her 2018 solo debut ‘Paradise 94’, and countless collaborations - recently in duo with legendary EMS co-founder Peter Zinovieff and in trio with Kali Malone and Stephen O’Malley, plus appearances on recordings by Beatrice Dillon, Ellen Arkbro, Laurel Halo and Petter Eldh - Railton’s diverse musical circles bleed into each other, revealing vulnerable and compelling emotional facets through a fluid mix of composition, and pure expression. 

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Lucy Railton - Medieval Sui

Tetsu Inoue - Kaze

My musical practice has recently focused on unconventional approaches to guitar performance, prioritizing texture and gesture, relying on abrupt transitions, sharp attack, feedback, and timbral shifts effected by manipulating pickup toggles and switches. Superaero explores the liminal space between intent and accident, sourcing recordings of my guitar improvisations and glitch sounds that continue to inspire me: static from broken cables, clicks, pops, sharp percussive attacks, abstract, fractured grooves, and angular rhythms permeate this sound world. Deliberately invoking the “superaero” pursuit of maximum efficiency against resistance found in cycling, every gesture, texture, and digital artifact in this work was sculpted for expressive immediacy and forward momentum.

Superaero

Earth, from Planetarium, for organ and electronics. Electronics created in RTcmix.

Earth

Poem for Pauline (2012, revised 2017) by Madelyn Byrne

Poem for Pauline is a remix of Poem of Change by Pauline Oliveros and was originally created in honor of the composer’s 80th birthday.  Poem for Pauline invites audience members and performing musicians to improvise or to simply listen and meditate on the sounds.    The original piece (Poem of Change) was done in 1992 and uses audio archives from World War II, combined with the composer’s voice (singing and speaking), and her accordion playing.  Pauline poses a series of challenging questions, “ Can we give up war?” among them.  Twenty-five years later, Pauline’s queries remain all too relevant.   

I choose the sound of rain to be a sonic backdrop in this piece for a number of reasons. This particular rain sample was used in my composition Arrival, an audio-visual piece with artwork by Lily Glass.  Arrival was part of the DVD SoundingOut! --  a project that Pauline supported, helped to organize, and for which she wrote the liner notes.  Secondly, the rain provides a background level of listening while the other sounds provide the foreground. This is my homage to Pauline’s concept of focal and global listening.  Lastly, like a gentle rain, Pauline’s work has been consistently and peacefully making life-affirming changes throughout the world.  

Poem for Pauline was created with the permission of Pauline Oliveros.

Poem For Pauline (revised, 2017)

made at home today on the modular synth, with a quick bounce out to soundcloud. big shout out to my friend mike Dobler AKA Arrowbang for inspiration.

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Released May 2018 on Weighter Recordings. - www.weighterrecordings.com

Composed by Matt Sargent
Performed by Bill Solomon

Matt Sargent - "Ghost Music" (excerpt)

Bridges of Königsberg is:
Chris Burns
David Collins
Peter J. Woods

From the upcoming Mendacity tape on 4GRE
http://4gre.org

Superaero

Jerod Sommerfeldt