Short extracts from various full length releases, live recordings, mixes etc.

Extracts / Live / Mixes

Performance of 'Directions' graphic score generator devised by Will Parker and Supermundane. 

'Directions' Will Parker & John Macedo 1

Performance of 'Directions' graphic score generator devised by Will Parker and Supermundane.

'Directions' Will Parker & Craig Macartney 1

Short improvised pieces recorded 29th October 2013 at EMS Stockholm (Studio 6) using Serge Modular Synthesiser.

Serge 20131029

Generative audio piece recorded 1st November 2013 at EMS Stockholm (Studio 4) using Buchla Modular Synthesiser.

Buchla 20131101

Dan Hayhurst, one half of Kaleidoscope's audiovisual duo, offers up a collage of sounds from his tape stash. 

Read more: http://www.dummymag.com/features/found-sound-sculpture

Found Sound: Sculpture

Excerpt of a piece for shortwave radio released in June 2014 on cassette by Mantile.

http://mantile.blogspot.co.uk/ 

SWF (excerpt)

Laughing Out, a three track 7" pop single, released by The Tapeworm's Wormhole imprint, released August 12th in a limited edition of 123 copies

Pre-order and further info...
https://touchshop.org/product_info.php?cPath=103&products_id=785

Screenprint of a legendary double-act by Lukas Julius Keijser

Dale Cornish & Phil Julian - Laughing Out (out August 12th)

Phil Julian & John Macedo - 'Cinnery 1' from 'Bind' CD released by Hideous Replica, June 2016. 
http://hideousreplica.co.uk/hr12

Phil Julian & John Macedo - 'Cinnery 1' from 'Bind'

Phil Julian 
Relay
CD (E213)

Release date: March 2017
http//www.entracte.co.uk/projects/phil-julian-e213/

1. Relay (6'43")
2. Coherence I (3'08")
3. Aperture* (5'06")
4. Field (7'39")
5. Coherence II (2'31")
6. Tropic (11'46")

Recorded and mixed 2014–16 in London
except * (ventilation system field recordings,
New York, 2012)

These recordings originated as multichannel pieces presented
at events organised around Goldsmiths University, London, 
by Sandra Kazlauskaite and Tom Mudd during 2015. These have 
been reworked and reconstructed here for stereo.

All the recordings have their origins in repeating patterns or 
sequences which then drift over time or start to collapse entirely, 
either by design or by accident — e.g. poor quality or non-
existent synchronisation between different devices, fluctuating 
or random/unstable voltages, human interference etc.

Edition of 150 copies

Relay

Phil Julian (E213; 2017)

The Two Ronnies, The Pet Shop Boys, Suicide and now Dale 'n' Phil. 6.2.16 marks the first live outing of much new material from these two excellent human beings - and it also marks possibly the only time we’ve seen proper heckling in OTO’s usually library quiet atmos. “It’s not Whitehouse definitely!” someone yells, but what is? We can't repeat Dale's real retort - you'll have to download the whole asymetric out-of-sync software driven half hour yourself for that. “Language is a nuisance” goes one of their ‘songs’, and they’re right, but if we’re going to use it then we for one want Dale Cornish in charge of the dictionary. 

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Dale Cornish / vocals

Phil Julian / electronics

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Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Monday 6th of Febuary 2017 by Shaun Crook. Mixed by James Dunn and mastered by Phil Julian.

Dale Cornish & Phil Julian - 6.2.17

Buy on cassette or digital: http://shop.conditional.club/album/clastics

The doggedly prolific and eclectic Phil Julian opens up a brand new deck of cards on the sublimely crunchy and elastic 'Clastics'.

Austerely described as 'five sets of interrelated pattern based / sequencer derived recordings', Clastics lays down a gauntlet of straitjacket electronics, fizzing and crackling into and out of life. Mutated patterns evolve and decay without a care in the world.

Supremely excited to bring this to Conditional. One for the believers.

Music by Phil Julian.
Art by Renick Bell.

Clastics

Phil Julian - 'EA' (from 'Clastics', CON007)

Another exercise - again, timing and modulation.

Line2

A snippet from a longer patch I recorded and used as source material for the music I produced for Flux Project's recent presentation of Anya Liftig's 'I'm a Groucho Marxist' performance in Atlanta.
I need to weed out old recordings to get some more soundcloud minutes, at which point I'll post the second take, which is a slower variation.

Directed Reflection

Previously housed on a compilation of Noise and Art. For my track I chose Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's brutal and personal self-portrait depicting David holding the artists severed head. 

Originally recorded in 2009 uploaded and available in full uncompressed quality. The original compilation version was sadly compressed down to a horrible 128kbps mp3 version and burnt to disc by the label. This losing most of the frequencies that makes the track interesting.

I believe copies of this CDr compilation are available however I do not have a copy. So please download and enjoy.

David with the head of Goliath

Quiet Sun, Indian Summer; from the 2008 Period.Tapes release These Feathers Have Plumes

Quiet Sun, Indian Summer

John Macedo is a sound artist and performer from London. He has incorporated everything from acoustic instruments and environmental sound to analogue and computer synthesis into recorded works, live performances, film, and sound installations. He has a pluralistic approach which explores and reveals the hidden potential in all sounds, environments and technologies, often in intimate, immersive and intuitive ways.

He has performed around the UK and Europe and has collaborated live and on studio-based works with a wide variety of musicians and artists including Phil Julian, Graham Dunning, Tom White, Yoni Silver, John Butcher, Brigitte Hart, Matt Atkins, David Birchall, Andrew Cheetham, John Edwards, Michael Speers, Cath Roberts, Sue Lynch, Lee Fraser and Adam Bohman amongst others. He has had work released by The Tapeworm, Hideous Replica, Sound Holes, Beartown Records as well as releasing small run and object editions on his own label, The Black Plume Editions.

Phil Julian is a UK based composer and improviser active since the late 1990s principally working with modular electronic devices and computers.

Audio works by Julian (and under the Cheapmachines alias) have been published on labels including Entr’acte, Banned Production, The Tapeworm, Harbinger Sound, Confront Recordings, Staalplaat (Open Circuit imprint), con-v, Beartown Records as well as numerous compilation appearances.

He also runs the Authorised Version label.

Julian has collaborated on remixes, recordings and performances with Tomas Korber, Michael Renkel, Jason Kahn, Daniel Jones, Kostis Kilymis, Tom Mudd, Angharad Davies, John Macedo, Dominic Lash, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dale Cornish, Ryan Jordan, Maurizio Bianchi, Nihilist Assault Group, The New Blockaders and GX Jupitter-Larsen of The Haters as well as being a member of the improvised drone ensemble Signals with Mark Beazley and Chris Gowers and playing as part of Mark Wastell’s improvising group The Seen.

Phil Julian & John Macedo - 'Cinnery 1' from 'Bind'

John Macedo

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