Brood

Jose Macabra Soundtrack 3d video Kimatica Transcendence National Gallery

taken from the forthcoming 5LP / 5CD box set "Electroacoustic Works" celebrating Iannis Xenakis' 100th anniversay on May 29th, 2022. 

Newly mixed by longtime zeitkratzer sound engineer Martin Wurmnest, mastered by Rashad Becker.

Out in January 2022

IANNIS XENAKIS - Mycenae Alpha

Limen

Resurgence

Snippet of a vocal improvisation in collaboration with Bea Xu, Porscha Bennett, Reyhan Yusuf, & Tobi Adebajo as part of ACE funded project: Amplified Voices: Reclaiming Sacred Music. Recorded by Cleo Savva at the Heritage Arts Centre, Mile End.

Amplified Voices Sessions: Improv

Your Glowing Face. 
My Blood Is My Voice
- Lyrics by Tobi Adebajo

Your Glowing Face

"Kalpa (recurring dreams)" is a limited cassette edition and digital release by O C E A N I 
oceani.bandcamp.com 

The EP, born from the collaboration between sound artist Abo Abo and the musical collective La Licorice, features three reworks of original tracks from the collective's debut album “Dialoghi difficili (automatic behaviors)”, where Abo Abo reinterprets and manipulates La Licorice's materials through various sound synthesis and processing approaches. 

The process of deconstruction and reconstruction gives new form to the elements, resulting in fresh compositions that maintain an organic connection to the collective’s debut album while embracing Abo Abo's current sonic vision. Each track is a stage in an evolving listening experience; beginning with impact, moving into immersion, and eventually following a more consistent rhythmic line. 

The fourth track, "Kalpa", available exclusively on cassette, is a completely original composition that marks the next evolution in the collaboration between Abo Abo and La Licorice. "Kalpa" brings to life a sonic landscape, a dreamlike vision that features a narrating voice.

releases February 20, 2025 

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Attraverso l’interno si scorge l’intero: Composed by La Licorice and Flavio Pezzullo, rework by Daniele Carcassi  

Les Amoureux: Composed by La Licorice and Giovanni Fumiani, rework by Daniele Carcassi  

XIV: Composed by La Licorice, rework by Daniele Carcassi  

Kalpa: Composed by Daniele Carcassi, La Licorice, Francesco Piazzi 

Mastered by Luca Abbati 

Artwork by Simone Doria, reinterpretation of the artwork “Flussi/intermittenze” by Andrea Castorrini 

Tape dubbed by Zano / Mattia Boni 

Released by Oceani (OC009)


XIV (rework)

A rousing, rallying and practical speech by Omar Barghouti, one of the founders of the transformative Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement: 

“In the face of the world's first televised genocide Palestinians are not begging
the world for charity. We're calling for meaningful, impactful solidarity. And before both, we are demanding ending complicity as a profound ethical obligation. . . 

The unprecedented grassroots solidarity pressure globally has significantly increased the isolation of the US-Israel genocidal axis. Social, racial, climate, gender, LGBTQI+ justice movements, trade unions, progressive Jewish partners, academics, artists, students, writers have all mobilised like never before to stop the genocide but have yet to reach that critical mass of people power.”

Listen to the whole speech for the peaceful forms of advocacy and mobilisation offered by BDS, to end complicity in Israel's genocide.

“If you hate violence, end oppression. 
If you hate oppression, end complicity. 
If you love freedom, justice, dignity and equality for all, as we do, end all business as usual with Israel’s system of injustice. 
We need your full and urgent support to help stop the genocide.”


BDS recommends the following peaceful forms of advocacy and mobilisation, to end complicity peacefully and strategically:

1. Pressure policy makers to endorse a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel, ban the import of products and companies operating illegally in the occupied Palestinian territory and withdraw all UK investments from companies implicated in illegal settlements.

2. Support peaceful disruptions, sit-ins, occupations, targeting government buildings, as well as corporate enablers of genocide and apartheid, especially arms manufacturers, investment firms and institutions, media, universities and cultural spaces that may be complicit.

3. Support declaring your community, union, cultural space an “apartheid-free zone”. Refusing to accept funding, institutional relations or sponsorship from Israel or its complicit institutions.

4. Support trade unions blocking or disrupting arms shipments to Israel.

5. Escalate strategic boycotts and divestment campaigns targeting companies that are complicit in Israeli crimes

6. Help pressure city councils, universities, churches, cultural institutions to adopt procurement and investment guidelines that exclude companies implicated in grave human rights violations, anywhere. We cannot push for Palestine specific resolutions in universities and city councils. Let's push for a general guideline to exclude all oppression, and then we can go with our list of companies involved in Israel specific oppression and call for excluding them.



“In the face of the world's first televised genocide Palestinians are not begging the world for charity. We're calling for meaningful, impactful solidarity. And before both, we are demanding ending complicity as a profound ethical obligation. . . 

The track is downloadable. Please share and educate.

OMAR BARGHOUTI BDS, DHANGSHA SONIC LECTURE 2

La Señora Elle

SPECIAL INTERESTS program vol 4.
Finnish 7"s.

Bizarre Uproar
Grunt
Pain Nail
Unseen Noise Death
Cloama
Cold.Once.Turning.Dust.
Order.
Strom.ec

SPECIAL INTERESTS RADIO vol. 4

vinyl:   https://honestjons.com/shop/label/Mana      
digital: https://manarecs.bandcamp.com/album/de-leon     
info:     http://manarecords.com/004 

Gamelan and capoeira in dub. The collective behind this doesn’t like to talk much but their music is beautifully conversational. De Leon is the most organic and percussive of their shifting identities, developed on their Aught project in small-run, clear-shell cassette tape releases over the last few years.

They've appreciated a cult interest for their takes on outernational rhythm, field recording, and the tension and relief on the knife-edge of dance music; all delivered with an impressive commitment to anonymity and clarity of vision through cut-and-dried aesthetic minimalism.

These six pieces of music seem formed from wood, metal, air. Dramatic, balletic flourishes and tightly woven interlocking patterns are embedded in slowly changing and "live" atmospheres. The shadow of a hand over the mixing desk makes gradual adjustments to alter the pressure and dimension of the space.

A number of tracks first appeared on De Leon's set for Blowing Up The Workshop in February 2016.

Mastered and cut at D&M.
Distributed by Honest Jon's, London.

Art by Gustavo Eandi

De Leon

De Leon - B1

Site specific piece recorded in Teufelsberg (The Devil's Mountain). 
Minimal editing, recorded inside the largest radar reflexion beacon situated in Grunewald (West Berlin) for future 8.1 piece.
This piece is  Brood's sonic representation of the history of this man made mountain and N.S.A. spy base.

2010

The Devil's Mountain

SPECIAL INTERESTS program #1 (corrected version)
obscurities of Japanese noise

selected cuts from:

1) BUILDING OF GEL "coffee" tape 
Self Abuse Records SAC-014 1996

2) AKI-MEKURA "LTD" tape 
SMMania Records 046

3) RIKU (title in japanese) tape 
Good Microphone Records 003 1993

4) SINNER'S CRIME "s/t" tape 
Cat Move, CM-010 1995

5) LOVE & SINCERITY (title in japanese) tape 
Taboo Music, tab-012

6) COLLOID promo demo 1994 
Natural Apathy Organization, nact-006

Special Interests program #1 - obscure japanese noise from 90's

Germany small edition release obscurities

1) Militia Act demo 1 (protest productions) 1994
2) G-Hörsturz "Welcome To Therapy" demo 92 (self released)
3) Stahlnetz "Widerstandsgruppe Günther / Schmidt " tape (campaign) 1989
4) Krachgau "Hirnholzschraube" from Feedback, Factories & Noise compilation (Bawler 1995)
5) Psychologische Abwehrfront - split with Tem Oph Ab (Innere Erde Gemeinschaft) 1998
6) Yggdrasil "lebensbaum" demo 1 / 1995
7) Wolverine "chapter" tape  (loki foundation) 1995
8) KDF "Total World White Death Action 1,999" tape KDF 1995

SI-radio02: Germany small edition noise/pe obscurities

The Ministry of Defence in the UK has developed mind control methods using a sonic weapon.  The Department of Science Technology lab influence thoughts and control dreams of their adversaries.  The sound waves infiltrate the brain to disrupt normal thought patterns and lead the victim to execute actions decided by the government.

the largest organization in the world that openly research mind control weapons and torture methods is the United States of America government. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41077339

My question is, if you were dealing with a government that developed mind control and used this technology to engineer behavior in a subject, would you not disclose this openly to the public to save the millions of innocent lives that are at stake? How could you possibly control and use mind control


Aural mind control is known to be effective for espionage campaigns against ally and adversarial states.  The sound waves operate at a frequency which uses alpha and gamma waves.  Espionage operations using speakers and audio are known to have existed since the 1980s.

Voice impersonation has become a technology of surveillance and cybercrime. There are many video files on YouTube of apparent online video tutorials in regards to voice synthesis. Other software, such as smsMachine have been used to create new voices and sound alike.

These people were no expert in voice synthesis. But if you watched the video of them saying “hey”, you could hear what sounded like them saying “hey”. Their voice quality wasn’t perfect.

Sonic Mind Control Weapon Conspiracy Theory [keto432]

1. Putrefier / Ethnic Acid "Prevail Against" tape
track "Time Can't Tell" (edit)
Birthbiter/JFK 1987

2. The Moralunary Class "Liber XXX" tape
track "Os Abysmi Vel Da'ath" 
Extreme 1985

3. Browning Mummery "Obiter Scripta" tape
track "Confessions" 
1985 Extreme Music
Australian experimental artists who started back in 1983 and one of the early original Extreme label artists. 

4. Psy.Phalanx "All our sins remembered" tape
track "Ikon of Hazard" + "Carnal Laceration" 
Extreme 1985?? 1986??
Tape was re-issued 1994 by Irre Tapes, but original Extreme version came out long before. It doesn't have date information. 3 member project from Australia including Ulex Xane.

5. White Hand / Nails ov Christ
"This is So -mix4" +  "One Blood One Land -mix 5"
Industrial Warfare
Possibly 1987 or so??
Los Angeles based industrial/noise with guy who operates Banned Productions label. This tape includes different mixes of White Hand songs on a-side and collaboration with Nails ov Christ on b-side with additional spoken word piece pulled from documentary.
Year of publication is assumption. Most White Hand stuff was done in mid 80's but can't find dates on this release nor any information online.

6.  Victor/im "Force" tape
Korm Plastics / V 1986
track: "Mobiles Befragunskommando"
German project operating (as far as I know) only between 1986-1987. During couple of years of activity, there came bunch of Victor/im tapes as well as his label simply called V, published works of Grey Wolves, Irritant, Nails ov Christ, Con-Dom, Vandal X, Ethnic Acid.

!! Expect extensive tape hiss on this program !!

SI-radio03: 80's industrial noise / power electronics / postmortem obscurities

Brood is the sound worship duo formed by Jose Macabra and Sammie Joplin (Mothax). 
Brood started its journey when they met at London College of Communication whilst both were studying B.A. Sound Arts and Design. 
It is a noise/industrial music project that explores the subconscious and hypnotic trance state in sound form. Hypnagogic exploration draws themes from innate contradiction within the worlds society expressed through a mix of soundscapes and improvised sonics. The band started in 2008 when they decided to unite forces to create a collaborative improvisation group that would generate a new concept in music and performing arts, mixing old and new techniques to deliver a melodramatic and aggressive journey that would immerse the public in an unforgettable experience.
Their first single “Filth Me Tonite” and first album “Your Mother” are now available.


Jose Macabra, is an artist, sound designer, producer, video director, radio DJ/podcast maker and curator. 

Jose teaches Sound Arts and Music Production at the London College of Communications, UAL and other educational establishments. His work nourishes many influences, from the industrial and noise panoramas, together with a legion of related genres such as ritual and the darker flavours of techno, blended with sound art, soundscape, art brut and experimental music.
 
Jose has worked with and for Kimatica Studio, Persona Collective, Ernesto Tomasini, Ron Athey, HR. Giger, Sally Mann, J. Milo Taylor, Nicola Serra, Christian Duka, Martin Delaney, Eraldo Bernocchi, FFIN DANCE Company, Rum Luck Theatre Company, Persona Collective, UCL, UAL, SAE Institute, HMPPS Belmarsh and Unite the Union, to name a few.
 
Jose Macabra has performed in art establishment venues, including Barbican, Tate Modern, National Gallery X, Oxford University, Tate Liverpool, BFI, The Photographer's Gallery, Waterman's Centre, The Museum of Consciousness, Camberwell College of Arts, London College of Communication and Kent University. Works involving Jose's music and sound design have toured significant festivals in London, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Hamburg, Athens, Brussels, Milan, Barcelona, Lisbon, Manchester, Liverpool and other cultural centres.
 
Jose's research interests include Electronic Music, Field Recording, Noise Music, Industrial Music, Improvisation, Sound Art, Performance Art, Queer Studies, Ritual Art Practice, Collaborative Practice, Altered States of Consciousness through Sound, Horror, Darkness, Film, Surrealism, Automatic Writing and  Spatial Audio.

Jose Macabra Soundtrack 3d video Kimatica Transcendence National Gallery

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