Listening as Doorways to Futures is a collaborative, counter-intellectual sound collage that resists recent cultural and sociological claims that humanity is experiencing the ‘End of Imagination’. 

What if other worlds are out there, but just not visible with the current method of exploration? What if the empirical, data-driven and rigid scientific approach simply does not allow for other systems to be perceived, just as the image-centred world ignores other forms of experiencing? This artistic project aims to counter the claim of a loss of imagination and will exercise sound as a portal to different worlds by conglomerating field recordings from ten participants across the globe who aim to answer one simple question: which sounds open up doorways to futures? 

The project took place in form of two workshops with artists Chloe Kelly and Julian Willming. 
Concept: Julian Willming
Artistic Direction: Julian Willming & Chloe Kelly
Mastering: Julian Willming

We are grateful for the financial and strategic support by the Center of Experimental Humanities at the Open Society University Network and Central European University.

Listening As Doorways To Futures

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-emmanuel-culture

Alluded to in its title, @emmanuel ‘Force Of Nature’ LP draws inspiration from the natural world, influences incorporated within the producer’s regular rave palette. Our pick ‘Culture’ is a great example of the producer’s ability to straddle the divide, blending emotive tones with a weighty percussive structure.

Force of Nature

Force Of Nature

Emmanuel - Culture [ARTS]

Pre-order: https://okzharp.bandcamp.com/album/outside-the-ride

'Outside the Ride' builds on @okzharp's last EP for @hyperdub - a new 7-track record landing back on the label this August. Born out of a 127 bpm Gqom-influenced soundtrack created for a short film, 'Outside the Ride' sees Okzharp moving forward with a new amalgam of speedy music that explores a chimera of South African Gqom, turn-of-the-century techstep and footwork.

On 'Incline Disconnect', acidic leads slither against tense, trance-inducing synth swirls. Frayed, off-kilter drums and fierce 808 accents interlock in an unlikely, seductive soundsystem killer.

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Premiere: Okzharp 'Incline Disconnect'

A January 2024 mix for Radio AlHara in Palestine

Photo taken by Stefan Christoff of a tree in downtown Mexico City.

Track listing 
Artist name / track name

Jordan Christoff - Sun Through the Clouds
A Fish On Land - Lhasa de Sela + Esmerine (Performed at Artists Against Apartheid in Montreal)
Weshida  - 11/8 Balkan (Performed at Artists Against Apartheid in Montreal), an excerpt
Secret Pyramid - Whim (A Vanishing Touch)
Secret Pyramid - Slow Softly 
Midland - Drift In The Algorithm
Secret Pyramid - Broken Wing
the new objective - Over There (Friperietronics Vol. 2 - Archive Fever
Grim Beverage - A Question as to Where
Grim Beverage - Our Time Together is Liquid
Cette lumi​è​re qui surgit des d​é​combres (Jo​ë​l Lavoie remix) (excerpt)

Spirodon 01/2024 mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

Monthly sessions alternating between DJ Nico Motte & Zaltan, the mind behind Paris-based leftfield dance, electronic & downtempo imprint Antinote. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/zaltan/episodes/zaltan-18th-april-2024

Antinote w/ Femme Virile 180424

The classic Architechs mix of Brandy & Monica's - The Boy is Mine. Kick started numerous remixes for the classic R&B track that reverberate to this very day.. This is an absolute monster of a dance floor filler that changed the face of UK Garage forever.

The Boy Is Mine (FREE DOWNLOAD OF A CLASSIC!)

From C60 reissue Baccille - Guèrin Et Médecin 

Originally released by Zimbo tapes in 1982

https://socialharmony.bandcamp.com/album/baccille-gu-rin-et-m-decin

''Fascinatingly obtuse 1982 home-recorded rarity of zoner church organ and metronome esoterica from the Netherlands. It’s hard to guess who these opaque instrumental vignettes were intended for, since they exist somewhere beyond any known contemporaneous trends of experimental tape music, damaged new age, and braindead minimal wave: lonely, fractured, numb, twee, unfinished, and nonsensical...''

Britt Brown (Not Not Fun)

All organ-noises and others by Rik Spaargaren with a little help from Flexible Response hardly produced by MH and HK (1982) 



Baccille - Backdoors

$HRIMP

ZillaKami x SosMula - $HRIMP

from Electronic Gamelan Music / Social Harmony 2017

"The sounds gathered on this cassette are excercises in live polyrhytmic structures and minimal melodic music. They are in no way trying to represent or to imitate traditional gamelan music from Java or Bali. You could look at it as a mere impressionistic view through obvious inspiration. 
No special (micro)tunings were used on these pieces (except on the track 'Gamla Krobo'). All parts were preprogrammed on a number of polyphonic sequencer tracks and afterwards played and modulated in a live manner during the recording process. By seperately modulating each tracks' timing and thus manipulating the overall rhythmic structure of the piece, an effect, closely resembling an ensemble of live performers was archieved. Thanks for listening" David E.

Electronic Gamelan Music

Karawitan (Electronic Gamelan Music)

City Morgue - SINOLA

Dropping more than 2 years after his debut on the imprint, Tom VR’s latest & third record on ‘all my thoughts’ is a 3 track showcase of his evolving style of thoughtful club music. The Manchester-based producer, DJ & label-head introduces the EP with title-track ‘Acheless’ - which fuses arpeggios, visceral pads & glitched-out garage percussion into a euphoric club cut.

‘It Swims Here’, begins with twinkling synth lines before emerging as a hypnotic house track crafted for the final half-hour on the dance-floor with dreamy vocals and whispers weaved throughout. The fast-paced ‘Couldn’t Find The Words’ sets the mood for post-rave reminiscing, blending analog synth bleeps, dubby chords & breathy gasps into a tightly-wound introspective minimal track.

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tom vr - acheless

recording the built and natural environment to induce the critique and imagination of diverse socio-political trajectories

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