Beautiful, inspiring, and imaginative work of art

for vocal sextet and toy noisemakers
performed by Ekmeles
recorded by David Adamcyk at Scholes Street Studio, New York
composed, mixed and mastered by Katherine Balch

forgetting

Listening with ancient trees.
Starting our journey to this ancient forest at midnight,scrabbling o ver large granite stones and undulating paths.

A night walk in a temperate rain forest in Dartmoor Devon UK.
Close your eyes and take a sonic journey of deep earthly time  with this ancient tree that's been a silent witness to layers of history.

The sounds you here are after a warm day are  tiny popping  that is the sound of water passing through the cells of the xylem tubes and cavitating as it mixes with air on its way upwards.

I have wanted to capture for years what goes on behind the bark of a tree,I spent hours with this ancient trees at night to escape as much human noise as possible.Using highly sensitive contact microphones and hydrophones,handmade pre-amps and probes  to make audible the inner workings of trees. I first heard the moss layers of the bark as it  hydrated and dehydrated  then the rumble of the tree moving and the popping of the water,and the odd plane going past.

Internal Sounds of a Tree

From the album Exo
Buy: https://scapeone.bandcamp.com/album/exo
Stream: https://share.amuse.io/SxhBXDiR8JS9

Eridani

ORAGE - TAON VII

Purchase/Download:
https://mechanatura.bandcamp.com/album/h-x

LIVE IN DETROIT 08/03/24

ONLINE @ https://mechanatura.com/

໓hนēนx

໓hนēนx{꒒ꂑꏝꍟ}

Res Extensa

Being lies in the out-of-focus.

Electroacoustic Practice Fragment "Out of Focus" 
Composer: Shih-Lin Hung
Photo: Connor McManus
Created on November 1, 2024

Electroacoustic Practice Fragment "Out of Focus"

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 566:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku566-telegraph-pole/
Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

fallen telegraph pole - Naviarhaiku566

sample: Kikiyama - Guillotine World (Yume Nikki OST)

PISS USA - zzzquil

Track from album: Strzał w kolano - "s/t"
POINTLESS GEOMETRY 2024 / POINT#59
Pre-order date: 11.11.2024 / Release date: 21.11.2024

https://pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com
Limited edition of 60 copies / C-35 cassette

Strzał w kolano is Jakub Majchrzak – piezo amplified classical guitar and its preparations.
@jakub-majchrzak-768431408
https://jakubmajchrzakmusic.tumblr.com
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Recorded, mixed and mastered by Szymon Szwarc
RUDAX, Toruń, January-April 2024

Artwork by Ewa Głowacka / Jakub Majchrzak
https://www.instagram.com/ewa.boyka

Track "Pomylono Wklęsłość Z Wypukłością" composed for Canti Spazializzati #15 in Wrocław on October 2023, originally performed in octophony.

Strzał w kolano is a solo project that began with a concert in Lisbon back in 2017 and has recently been revived. The foundation of this project is a classical guitar (tuned quarter-tone) connected via a piezo microphone to separate guitar amplifiers. The signals emanating from the amplifiers are given distinct identities through horizontal and vertical processing or static manipulation within the texture of the sounds themselves.

Conceptually, Majchrzak is captivated by grappling with structures that are unstable, necessary, and unattainable—both controllable and beyond control. For him, composing serves as a method for pinpointing the paradoxes within composition, while improvisation tests the resilience of those paradoxes. It is a way of shaking the structure, acts of self-vandalism performed on the evolving grammar of the piece over time. All this in defense of the digressive nature of musical flow.

Strzał w kolano - Pomylono Wklęsłość Z Wypukłością / POINT#59

made for the naviar haiku challenge n. 567 https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku567-above-my-head/

begging and walking (naviarhaiku567)

composer living in the woods // interested in tiny sounds, leaves, stacks of thirds, and music that jitters // Asst. Prof. of Composition, Yale School of Music

forgetting

Katherine Balch

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