An array of commonplace metal objects - chains, pans, a bicycle, a chair - recorded by Ross Alexander at home in Berlin during the pandemic comprise the source material of 11 𝑮𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔. Functioning as a temporal and mnemonic exploration into the nature and conception of “home”, the album evokes Alexander’s earliest memories and broader hauntological perspectives of post-industrial England:

“Growing up in South Yorkshire in the 1980s and 90s was an existence haunted with the ghosts of a heavy manufacturing industry which once thrived in the region. On both a visceral and sensorial level it might be considered equally as impossible to escape the nostalgic stories of mines and steelworks as it was to escape the smell of molten metal in the air drifting from the Don Valley.”

The improvised metallic scrapes, bangs, and bowings recorded by Alexander were further abstracted in live performances using granular sampling techniques, creating a new and extrinsic world to which subconscious thoughts can flee, sonically and contextually. The results are both dreamy and unpredictable, fusing the immediacy of acoustic percussion with the billowing resonances imbued by granular synthesis.

“On tracing back through distant memories of my formative years for sound-objects which represented to me the essential idea of ‘being from’ as opposed to ‘being a visitor’ I related to a pervasive association with the sounds of metal and metallic objects, mostly in respect to how certain structural properties relate to haptic and resonant nature and the manifestation of those properties as sonic results. I feel this is the result of growing up in a place where heavy industry, or at least the remnant of which, was central to society, community and everyday life.”

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Ross Alexander is an artist, producer and curator based in Berlin working in the context of expansive trans-disciplinary practice and non-individualist ideals. His broad ranging body of work as an artist has encompassed music, performance, sound art, visual arts, installation, radio art, digital media, augmented reality, intervention, social practice and education. Ross has presented and performed at such institutions as ICA London, Transmediale Festival, Nyege Nyege Festival, Documenta Kassel and Martin-Gropius Bau Berlin.

As a curator and organizer his experimental and diverse practice has seen him work with Transmediale festival, Maerzmusik, Glastonbury Festival, Cashmere Radio, Nyege Nyege Festival Uganda and extensively with his own Salon Oblique production collective.

rossalexanderpayne.com
instagram.com/o0rossalexander0o
rossalexanderworks.bandcamp.com
mixcloud.com/rossalexandermix

11 Gates

Ross Alexander - Piece 2 (ENMD-04)

beautiful contribution by friend and artist Tomé Silva @tome-silva for the 20th edition of ~hush~ on Rádio Paranóia. 
tracklist available on IG. 

Thank you Tomé ~
cover picture by @asiootus

hush ~ 20 - Guest Mix by Tomé Silva

In the early days of Mego prior to it’s transformation into Editions Mego a most unexpected release appeared amongst the radical roster. Out of all the twisted hard drive activity from PITA, General Magic, Farmers Manual etc appeared a very different kind of release. One made from a computer, but one with a softer atmosphere, cloud-like in sonic shape and even containing discernible melodies (!). This was the debut release from Japanese artist Tujiko Noriko which not only launched her career to a larger audience but opened the doors of Editions Mego to a broader range of experimental musical forms.

Noriko’s particular synthesis of electronic abstraction, melody, voice and atmosphere has few peers as sound gently circles her mystical words morphing into a succession of emotive aural experiments framed as songs.

Noriko’s evolution since her debut Mego release has seen further solo works alongside collaborations as well as a shift into cinema, both acting and as director. 

On »Crépuscule« one can hear the influence the film medium has had on her music as visual insignia are invoked in the evocative audio at hand. Instrumental interludes further conjure a film landscape alongside the titles which also reiterate the cinematic form. 

This is synthetic music with a deep human presence. The mind of a human captured wandering the fantastic realms of the internal sphere is exquisitely rendered through machines which usually prompt one to disfigure such humanistic tendencies. The warmth, serenity and dream-like environment that Noriko conjures from her tools is what makes her such a unique and outstanding artist and »Crépuscule« is an epic testament to these powers.

The title »Crépuscule« perfectly encapsulates the somnambulant nature of the music where the nocturnal shifts evoke a broad sense of calm. »Crépuscule I« features a selection of shorter ‘songs’ whilst »Crépuscule II« allows more room for these songs / moods to breathe with only three songs running at broader longer duration. »Crépuscule« allows the listener to view the world through Noriko’s eyes. With her cunning ability to humanise machines a world of calm wonder is allowed to take focus in the frame.

Available as 2CD, digital and double-cassette. The later format by request of Noriko as it was this format she flung her debut mego demo onto Peter in Tokyo many moons ago.

Crépuscule I & II

Fossil Words

Tujiko Noriko 'Fossil Words' (EMEGO307)

Listen back to our first Noods Radio show of the year... ⚔️ 

Featuring recent favourites from Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, Contacto, 500 & Opherings, HEDO HYDR8, AGILITÄT, Jdotbalance, ambent, Coffintexts X Gaby G, TDJ + more.

If-Only on Noods - 12th January 2024

We had Mika Oki playing live from Bussels studio for an atmospheric hour. An immaculate vibe containing ambient rarities, lounge grooves, wild beats and some guilty pleasures. 


Turn on! Tune in! Drop out! w/ Mika Oki (14/02/24)

This is a guest mix by https://soundcloud.com/vlennes on Stegi Radio.

_Tracklist_

Le Motel - Sueños
Braian - El Bolero de Raquel
ROOi ft. Jaijiu - Agite
Galtier - Bruised, but Not Broken
Yilan ft. Ren - Ark
Don Zilla - Shots
Sorcery - Orbature
Felix K - Earth (Deconstruction by Forest Drive West)
C. Coiffure - Tongue Tied
Lara Sarkissian - In The Form Of A Sphinx
Jlin - Holy Child
Raime - Cold Cain
Lurka - Beater (Stenny Remix)
D-ΞR-ꓕꓛΠꓤꓕS - HPNC-0R64-4 - 05 -=4-R`-TLK
Gal Bashir - Pireas Kifisia
BOX CRUISE - XE D# 34 APASS OVER
ANGEL'S CORPSE - OPTIMUM GAS

Ice_Eyes_w_Vlennes_STEGI_RADIO_210224

https://johntgast.bandcamp.com/track/2-nasty-tk5
PT1

JOHN T. GAST - &2 (NASTY) TK 5 - [CLIP]

Auspicious Family - Brittle Undulation
South London Ordnance - Black Acre ft. Brolin - Chris Carter Remix
Gil.Barte - Myxines 
Fresnel Lens - Tethered 
Boreal Massif - Artificial World (A Manmade Catastrophe)
Babe Rainbow - Celebrate
Pablo’s Eye - My Only Guide Is
HVAD - Unsoil
Odia - Unhaaka
Bergsonist - Rights
Scanner + Modelbau - Duricrust
Mya Gomez - Spanto
Kinlaw + Robin Stewart - Earthwork
Jak3 / Trashman + Loretta Aberdeen - Lighthouse
Mya Gomez - CCTV
Phatrax - Heroina
Young Druid - 10 Yen
33EMYBW - Blood Child
FTP Doctor - Aaaah Naja 
Potter Natalizia Zen - Too Much Traffic 
Suemori - Yasoshima Kekete
Rex Ilusivii - Forced March

OB0466 — Observer

Sykurél (02/03/24)

Ce mois-ci nous recevons Sleek Fata de Comic Sans Records pour une heure de Club Delirium entre Indus' aventureuse et post-club en haute résolution. Conçue pour réduire votre flux de pensées et booster vos performances créatives, ce podcast est disponible en UltraAudio™ pour les usagers premium de Palin Gen. Chaque jour est le futur d'hier avec Palin Gen. Bonne écoute.


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@firstepoque
@vinakonda

Geipan #38 w/ Sleek Fata

JEROME Mixfile #222-Bzgrl/Adam Juraszek

https://soundcloud.com/bzgrl

Tracklist:
v1984 - SPfiNAL TAP re-JUVENescence
Henry Vega - Sermon on Files and Vile Springs
Asfast - Drag Shift w/ Soap&Skin x Evelyn Plaschg
Iannis Xenakis - Concret PH
Fawkes - Nemesis
Kelman Duran - Solos
DJ Heroin - Resurrect ft AWRWSW
d-n-e - Tear Down the Shrine
Eternal - Forget + Eaves - Victim (extracts)
Nick James Scavo and Xander Seren - Morphodrophasia
IYDES - Occluded
Valerio Tricoli - La Distanza
MS Blaster - laugh.exe (extract)
Second Woman - ___
Torus - Labyrinth (Water Mix)
L-Vis 1990 - Yeah Yeah 
Kai Whiston - Flembryo
Zean - Mockery
Mana - Crystalline
Ghost Kwini - Void, Separation & Waiting
Yon Eta - Transparant
Inner - Closa
CELES7E - Escalated + Bad Gyal - Nicest Cocky
Ani Klang - Continu

JEROME Mixfile #222-Bzgrl/Adam Juraszek

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