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Taken from the album 'taking into account only a portion of your emotions' released as CD and Download

taking into account only a portion of your emotions

pinkcourtesyphone 'Reference Point Intermission 1' (EMEGO 236)

Sfär "Ur sprickorna / Ett halvt liv" (Excerpt)

This piece was made for the opening of the Radio Belgrade Electronic Studio on March 2 2018. 

This is my 1st recording of the real-time improvisation with EMS Synthi 100 + my computer setup.

Computer setup was based on the TouchOSC interface, Pure data patch and Ableton live. Improvisational dialogues between Synthi and computer were done through a dynamic interactive interface on my tablet and tweaking of the Synthi sounds live and playing with their parameters. I haven't used Synthi's sequencer (or a computer sequencer), but rather variety of key triggers, joysticks and envelope shaper trapezoids.

Due to a wide frequency range, it's not advisable to listen to this recording through a laptop speaker or similar.

This is my first use of the modular synthesizer in live performance and/or composition.

TV recording of the whole event: https://youtu.be/9tUwHGweUxY
(simultaneous performance in 2 studios of the Radio Belgrade with audience, live TV and radio broadcast)

Radio Concert No.1

https://soundcloud.com/vaagner

https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/surging-waves

memento mori [Vaknar]

Remastered from the original analog master tapes. First in the series of LP Boxets that documents the birth of Roland Kayn cybernetic music

Matrix (excerpt) - taken from Roland Kayn "Simultan" 3LP Box, Die Schachtel

arbitrary09: Andrea Neumann / Mads Emil Nielsen - Refound 10" Vinyl + DL (September 2018)
http://arbitraryproject.com/Refound

Andrea Neumann / Mads Emil Nielsen - Refound - 2

snf06 : richard francis "combinations (3)" part 6

One of the weirder hydrophone recordings I've taken, all this sound happened after I tried skipping rocks.

Hydrophone recording, South Saskatchewan River

purchase lp: www.secondeditions.org
release date April 12 2019

Malte Cornelius Jantzens Album

006 - Eva-Maria Houben - Erwartung 1 und 2 (excerpts)

This CD features recordings of a now lost sculptural work that was originally commissioned in 2016 for Colour Out of Space festival. The work consists of over 100 empty computer cases, fitted with 16 customised and automated DVD drives. Between 2016 and 2018 it was exhibited in Brighton, Athens, Croydon, Oxford and Rennes, on each occasion being reconfigured into a new form. The most ambitious of these being at Detritus Festival in 2018, where a new and larger version of the work was constructed at the Onassis Cultural Centre from used computer sourced in the city. The work was sadly lost in transit between France and the UK, returning to the global trade in e-waste which its production initially sought to intervene in, so all that remains are these recordings. 

The CD is released in an edition of 150 in an oversized 7" sleeve accompanied by a 16 page risographed booklet featuring photographs and scans of the sculpture, essays by Danae Stefano and Stephen Cornford, and a letterpressed backpanel.

Stephen Cornford - Constant Linear Velocity [excerpt]

Opening tracks from my debut album 'Waking, She Heard The Fluttering', released April 5 2019 on Room40 https://alexandraspence.bandcamp.com/album/waking-she-heard-the-fluttering

***
"Her sense of field is broader. it is as if she is trying to capture a whole landscape of sound entire... Sound is sound. It is sometimes exciting, often enigmatic, rarely open to verbalisation. ...we ought to spend more time with Alexandra Spence, with our ears simply and honestly open."
- Brian Morton, The Wire

"Throughout, there’s a real flow to the otherwise disparate sounds, sending any objective significance (such as traffic, a news reader or church bells) into purely subjective, introspective realms. It is topped off perfectly by the closing piece, ‘Sky And Sea Were Indistinguishable’, whose cautious tones are left free to roam beyond ‘the field’. They arc beautifully across the listening space and ultimately fade so slowly that their end is indistinguishable, sealing the communion between artist and listener."
- The Quietus

Waking, She Heard The Fluttering

Begin / Bodies In Place

Francisco Meirino  "GHETTO PHASE IV"

From: Francisco Meirino, "Three Realizations for Ensembles" CD


https://misanthropicagenda.bigcartel.com/product/francisco-meirino-three-realizations-for-ensembles-cd

http://www.misanthropicagenda.com

https://misanthropicagenda.bandcamp.com

Three Realizations for Ensembles

Francisco Meirino  "GHETTO (PHASE IV)"

Penultimate Press is pleased to present A Sunset for Walter, the first duo release from long-time collaborators Jérôme Noetinger and Anthony Pateras. Having worked together in a number of different collaborative contexts over the years, the pair used Pateras’ 2018 residency at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart as an opportunity to develop a major durational work for Steinway piano and multiple Revox tape machines. Presenting four excerpts from a three-hour concert, the LP’s opening moments immediately establish its distinctive sound-world: an austere sequence of octaves slowly sounded by the piano gradually develops into passages of fragmentary lyricism as Noetinger’s tape manipulations dilate the sonic space with rumbling sub-bass, distant echoes, and hints of uncanny backmasking.
 
A Sunset for Walter was conceived as a loose tribute to the piano works of Walter Marchetti, particularly the slowed-down subaquatic expanse of Nel Mari Del Sud. As Marchetti described his own work, A Sunset for Walter is ‘music without beginning, or end, or development’, where the lack of obvious structural divisions creates something like an endless present. But where the monochrome surface of Marchetti’s work – in its willingness to descend, in his own words  to the ‘pits of aesthetic poverty’ – often approaches total stasis, A Sunset for Walter is calmly immovable in its overall texture but perpetually changing in detail, as the performers respond intuitively to each other, their instruments, and the environment. Noetinger’s tape manipulations range from nearly imperceptible shadowing of the live piano to anarchic bursts of rewinding tape, floating wisps of feedback, and dreamlike concrète interjections of children’s voices and splashing water. Pateras’ piano performance moves from single pitches left hanging over a backdrop of silence to almost Messiaen-esque sequences of complex chords and arpeggios, all sounded within a temporal framework that seems to follow internal rhythms of breath and bodily movements.
 
Caught in this hall of mirrors, the listener is often unable to distinguish the live piano from its tape-manipulated reflection. Like the sunset of the title, here outlines blur into a crepuscular haze, as fleeting effects of light and shade catch our attention just as they disappear.

A Sunset for Walter

Jérôme Noetinger and Anthony Pateras - 19h39 / 19H46

a first play with the fancy synthesis rungdivisions module, a great pairing of a clock divider and a rungler circuit. it's really great to have this rungler circuit opened up and available for any kind of input/clocking. here it's inside a dusg/ssg feedback patch, it receives clock from a dusg eoc and data from a noise source. voices are pinged twinpeak and mmf-1 filter, delay from d0.

gnurvid

From Fragments III — Collected Resonances from Radiophonic Æther now availble only on bandcamp.

Fragments III — Collected Resonances from Radiophonic Æther

D'une couleur oubliée

This is one of 3 tracks that were made solely by using the analogue synthesizer EMS Synthi 100. For each track, there was a single patch and the material was recorded live in one go. Rhythmical synchronization of the material was done by using the Synthi's sequencer. Simple live manipulations included putting a pin or two in and out and switching on and off the mixer channels. Additional panning of each individual channel was done on a computer. These tracks demonstrate the effect of extremely simplified musical material produced by using the not-so-simple sound tool (for the reference, try figuring out and programming a Synthi 100 sequencer:)). Tracks are named by the number of sequencer steps used in that piece. Recorded live at Electronic Studio - Radio Belgrade.

2019

From the album STEPS: https://svetlanamaras.bandcamp.com/album/steps

Svetlana Maraš©All rights reserved
©SOKOJ

Excerpts from The Henning Christiansen Archie / The Box release, SAVE THE NATURE —– USE FLUXUS, The Box Gallery parking lot, Los Angeles 2LP

Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen 
Bjørn Nørgaard 
Mai Dengsøe Hansen 
Paul McCarthy 
Mara McCarthy
Chiara Giovando 
Mark Harwood

In November 17, 2019 a six hour performance was undertaken in the car park of The Box gallery in Los Angeles as a part of the Henning Christiansen / Ursula Reuter Christiansen exhibition THEY WON’T SURVIVE WITHOUT THE BIRD SONGS .  Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen, son of Ursula and Henning, developed a timeline for the performance which was essentially designed to encompass a contemporary community of like minded artists that spans generations and continents harnessing and continuing the work instigated by Henning during his lifetime. The resulting performance included archival recordings taken from the H.C. Archive, which houses a vast collection of compositions, scores and correspondence of the late Christiansen. 

This limited edition 2LP collects edited highlights from the day capturing the unique and somewhat unsettling atmosphere provoked by a diverse range of performances.

Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen developed a new action where he performed a sound piece on iconic instruments of Henning’s alongside recorded sounds of his father. Father and son re-united again in performance.  The New Sound of the Living Dead.

Bjørn Nørgaard presented two new iterations of some of his historical actions; Homage to Henning and Joseph, Manresa, a piece he first collaborated on with Henning Christiansen and Joseph Beuys at Galerieleri Schmela in Düsseldorf in 1966, and The Cake, a live construction of a monolithic yet impermanent sculpture meant to decay over time. Mai Dengsøe Hansen performed EURASIENSTAB fluxorum organum op. 39, a piece for organ that Henning scored and used as the soundtrack for the film Eurasienstab, with Beuys. 

The BOX gallery founder Mara McCarthy, along with her father Paul McCarthy and Chiara Giovando performed Knock Harder, a 20 min. improvisation that loosely recalls Knocking, a sound scape Henning used repeatedly throughout many of his own compositions. Chiara and Mara can be heard singing and playing a selection of small instruments, while Paul methodically slammed the back door of the gallery with a piece of scrap 2x4 pinewood – a kind of dedication to the monotony of Fluxus. 

Mark Harwood, the founder of the expansive experimental independent label Penultimate Press performed an improvised musical protest incorporating fire, rhythm and chaos alongside field recordings of the civil unrest in Chile that he collected occurred just prior to the opening of this exhibition. Harwood’s contribution speaks to Hennings political activism and dedication. 

Throughout SAVE THE NATURE —- USE FLUXUS all came together to celebrate these great artists and to embody the same spirit of communal collaboration that has so thoroughly been a part of both Ursula and Henning’s lifelong endeavors.

SAVE THE NATURE —– USE FLUXUS, The Box Gallery parking lot, Los Angeles comes as an ultra deluxe set. 2LP’s held together with a printed rubber band, 4 large full colour double sided art cards documenting the performances, a substantial booklet/catalogue about the exhibition and a large poster featuring a drawing by Paul McCarthy made during the performance. This is a co-presentation by The Henning Christiansen Archive and The BOX gallery and is limited to 500 copies worldwide.

SAVE THE NATURE —– USE FLUXUS, The Box Gallery parking lot, Los Angeles

Anything to do with crisps (especially Tyrells) gets our resounding support here at OTO. Two of the most mischievious experimentalist in our community - Louie Rice & Luciano Maggiore - share with us an extended piece cyborg text piece that acts as an instructory rhythmic prompt to munch on the salty snack. Florian Hecker has experimented with similar computer voicings before, but there's not quite anything comparable to this gloriously dry, candid and obscene opus. Concrete poetry for the flaccid digital age (and for fans of crisps).

"58 minutes of music assembled using recordings of an online digital voice synthesiser reciting an exhaustive list of permutations of the words NO PA PA ON. Pauses in speech are punctuated with a bass tone and could act as a prompt to eat a crisp.

NO PA / PA ON is a performance series that started in Cafe OTOs project space and is often mispronounced."

Text generated using
https://textmechanic.com/text-tools/combination-permutation-tools/combination-generator

Synthesised voices generated using
http://onlinetonegenerator.com/voice-generator.html

Additional audio material generated using
http://onlinetonegenerator.com/frequency-sweep-generator.html

Synthesised voices and low frequencies to eat crisps with

TR040 - Luciano Maggiore & Louie Rice - 'Synthesised voices...' [sample]

Come Along

Ned Lagin's Seastones is a pioneering electronic composition interweaving metaphors from nature, science, art and music and the origins of music. Reflecting the technology, science, modern art, new ecological awareness and optimism of the times and culture, Seastones embodies the history of electronic music by taking full advantage of tape music, analog synthesizers and computer technology to create pieces that are dynamic, rich and deep.

Originally released by the Grateful Dead's Round Records in 1975, Seastones' reputation as a gem of electronic music was further enhanced by the celebrity of the musicians who contributed to the source material. Seastones musicians include Ned Lagin (processed piano, clavichord, organ, prepared piano, electric piano, synthesizers), Jerry Garcia (processed electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, voice), Phil Lesh (processed electric bass), David Crosby processed electric guitar and vocals), Grace Slick and David Freiberg (processed vocals), and Mickey Hart and Spencer Dryden (percussion).

This new LP presents two crafted Seastones sets (Sets 4 and 5, 18 tracks) drawn from the entire Seastones composition and contains gorgeous extended processed vocals by Garcia, Crosby, Slick and Freiberg, and beautiful abstract instrumental passages by Lagin and all.

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