After hearing his amazing modular / ney flute / vocal track 'Yemen Türküsü' for the 'To Yemen With Love' compilation, I became interested in recording something with Cengiz Arslanpay. Our first collaboration was with British composer Robin Rimbaud on a remix entitled 'Stop The War'. And now we have a second recording together, entitled 'Yek Nefes', which freely translates as "In The Same Breath". (Michel Banabila, May 2021)

Cenigiz Arslanpay: ney flute
Michel Banabila: balafon & sampler

Yek Nefes

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with Cengiz Arslanpay: Yek Nefes

Another Surprise of Love: Finale

We return with a new installment of our cd series dedicated to the latest electronic experimentation.
This time we have the pleasure of having Synalegg who has given us an album full of complex rhythms and melodies.

In the artist's own words:
This album can be considered as the last part of an algorithmic trilogy that I started with Computer Series and then Violynt Tropiqs.
The first one was purely computational, the second one was a reconciliation. hArm0nii tanD3m is a collection of remixed computational proposals.
A collaborative tandem with the computer in the lead to execute the program and my intervention afterwards to exploit and remix the captured combinations, ideas, moments.
Sometimes the computer's contribution is the majority (lytUrgii, dytt0, sErp3Ntine), sometimes the scenario and the staging of the captured elements becomes the backbone of the tracks (sisYph3, wat3rl0oh, uBba).
This attempt at re-appropriation was a way for me to create another music that finds its essence in computer otherness.

This wonderful album will surprise you with the variety of new concepts that Synalegg introduces.
I hope you enjoy the trip as much as we have enjoyed the production.

Synalegg - Dytt0

https://10.pcmusic.info

10 x 10

A. G. Cook

Finn Keane

Ö

GRRL

Kane West

umru

Datalord

ultra caro

BOPPLES

Dux Content

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Written for Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri's film "AMOR" - premiere in Venice Film Festival 2023
Stefilm and Era film production

Nocturnus  1

A track from puppet theatre performance "Sesytė Elenytė ir Joniukas aviniukas" (Kaunas State Puppet Theatre, 2024, directed by Milda Mičiulytė)
Voice - Dominyka Budinavičiūtė

Žolynas Nedygo

Hearing constantly registers the most prominent sound events around us in the moment and focuses on them. We hear everything else around us, but it often remains on the margins of our attention. This work is like an attempt to listen in a noisy city, not to individual events, but to the sonic whole. It's as if, when taking a photograph, you don't turn up the brightness and let everything spill out. To close your eyes and not understand what you are listening to and what you are hearing. 

Premier: Lithuanian National Philharmonic 
Vilnius 2024 02 10

Performed by Kristina Morozova (violin), Monika Kiknadzė (viola), Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Modestas Pitrėnas.

Recorded by LRT Klasika

De-focus

The Mill

Reibou

As a continuation/mutation on the scissors theme, I decided before making any compositional processes that I would use 1/4" reel to reel tape and a razor blade as a fundamental medium. I had a few audio files from Pierre which were short but had a common key, so I realised a good place to start would be to create tape loops using Pierre's samples, a razor blade, a splicing block, a chinagraph pencil and some splicing tape. My main machine for playing the tape loops was an Akai valve reel to reel recorder.

I have a reel of tape in my collection which has passed its sell by date by a long shot, the magnetic oxide flakes off with very little friction. The idea of using tape loops which physically deteriorate is obviously associated with William Basinski and his 'Disintegration Loops'. I didn't want to avoid this fascinating process for the sake of avoiding any artistic mimicry, so I thought of other ways to incorporate the ideas of decay into my piece.
I reversed Pierre's samples before transferring them to tape, so when a tape loop was formed, the audio would be reversed and then as the loop played and the result recorded back into the computer, the loop would crumble and decay. Then when several minutes of decaying audio was recorded onto the computer, I would then reverse the whole recording to render Pierre's sample 'forwards' again, but now the decaying or 'disintegration' process has been reversed.
There are two main loops in the piece which use this method, both are made of Pierre's samples. They start off as sparse, broken and crumbled fragments and then eventually build and replenish to become more complete and recognizable, the process is very organic sounding. The tape loops then became the backbone of the piece, they determined the key and mood, the meter is loose and vague however.
My next step was to continue with the decay theme but this time using my favourite vintage digital delay pedal. The pedal allows a 4 second delay which can be set to decay over a fairly long period of time. I used the pedal in this piece to create a continuous electric guitar improvisation. Using the tape loops of Pierre's samples as a 'drone' to follow, I improvised sparsely, building up more intricate cyclic patterns note by note. As the pedal loops, notes crumble and fade into the distance, and new notes are constantly being added, so the building and the decaying is a seamless process which is complemented by the reversed decaying of the tape loops.

Other sound sources in the piece include a small Romanian melody harp and location recordings. The guitar improvisation was also captured to reel to reel tape, and then played back out of the internal speakers of the Akai machine and captured both directly from a line out and with a microphone. To get away from the confines of my studio and to exploit the drama of spring, I took various machines into my garden to recapture the recorded improvisation in a real environment. My set up was surrounded by hedges where birds and insects go about their daily lives, contributing to cycles of birth and decay.

Stephen Wilkinson/ May 2009
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Relay is an online music project devised and curated by musician John Lambert (aka Chequerboard). Explore the project in full at www.relayproject.com

Hedged In by Bibio

Kelios ištraukos iš albumo Domantas Razauskas, Saulius Petreikis ir styginių kvartetas. 

Albumas pasirodo CD+LP pavidalais 2020.02.14. Įsigyti galima koncertuose, Muzikos salėje Knygų mugėje ir www.gme.lt.

Domantas Razauskas, Saulius Petreikis ir styginių kvartetas

DR, Petreikis ir Styginių kvartetas - ALBUMO ERZIKLIS

Jonas Jurkūnas is a composer keen on discovering and exploiting very different layers of musical creativity, from academic to pop and incidental music. Genre-wise, his creative portfolio includes chamber and orchestral pieces as well as electronic music, multimedia and interdisciplinary projects. Stylistically, his music finds itself in the neighbourhood with minimalism and new tonality. Very often he uses simple sound patterns, pulsating with rhythms, as his creative start-up while searching for new or already forgotten timbres and expressions. These are the minimalist strategies which the composer weaves into his music together with experimental or club-style electronics, ambient stylistics, as well as elements of jazz, pop or even romantic music. Since 2008 Jurkūnas is a member of electronic music collective “Diissc Orchestra”.

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