LOVOTIC
by SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE
with Charlotte Gainsbourg, feat. Atom™, Lyra Pramuk, Paul B. Preciado and Willem Dafoe
Pre-Order Here: www.soundwalkcollective.bandcamp.com

Double clear vinyl, 180gr. w/ booklet
Analogue Foundation
Release Date: April 1st 2022

Written and conceived by Stephan Crasneanscki, ‘LOVOTIC’ is a concept album by Soundwalk Collective, composed in collaboration with lauded actress and singer/songwriter Charlotte Gainsbourg, Featuring veteran techno stalwart Atom™, rising singer/composer/performance artist Lyra Pramuk, celebrated actor Willem Dafoe, and writer/philosopher Paul B. Preciado, the album will be available from April 1st via the new Berlin-based Analogue Foundation.

Inspired by a relatively new field of research that seeks to explore and develop the possibilities of sexual and emotional relationships – and even love – between humans and robots, ‘LOVOTIC’ interrogates the impulses, ideas, and needs underlying this phenomenon. The project ventures into a future where sex, intimacy and desire are reformulated through the connection of humans, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

In an age of such hybrid entanglement with the machine, human identity requires the construction of new forms of intimacy, gender, and sexuality. At present, however, such technologies are primarily used to produce programs of limited sexual iterations that do not question the preformatted categories of gender and sexual orientation. In contrast, on ‘LOVOTIC’, Soundwalk Collective ask whether the future of sex and sexuality could instead be an exponentially expanding kaleidoscope. Where does the impulse of preference come from? What sets of words from our vocabulary can be communicated to the AI mind to generate a new identity for desire? Could the machine be another technology that brings us closer together?

Sonically ‘LOVOTIC’ is unidentifiable, artificial, and genuinely futuristic, occupying an amorphous androgynous netherworld at the borderlands between biotic and android. Traditional musical signposts are virtually non-existent, instead offering a mercurial, formless sound which mirrors the flourishing of gender fluidity it suggests could be on the horizon.

‘LOVOTIC’ is available as an artist edition double LP pressed on transparent vinyl, featuring a hand engraving on each side. It includes a 16-page booklet containing lyrics and painted artwork, both by Stephan Crasneanscki.

www.soundwalkcollective.com
www.analoguefoundation.com

Lovotic

Empower And Enhance [w/ Charlotte Gainsbourg, feat. Lyra Pramuk]

A few months back I was studying different arpeggiation styles with my friend MACE, and we listened obsessively to Hania Rani’s incredible piece Buka; from there I decided to dive deep into this particularly amazing phrase she has in that piece, and to explore all the ways I could transform it by playing it with synths and resequencing it by using a gridless arpeggiator I made in Max for Live, which you can download at this link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3freuy9c56kuflv/Asynchronous%20Arpeggiator.amxd?dl=0

Mp3 download above, lossless wav download at https://www.dropbox.com/s/id0bgnm6oxyromr/Gadi%20Sassoon%20-%20Solido%20Platonico%20%28Hania%20Rani%20Buka%20Arpeggio%20Study%29.wav?dl=0

Big thanks to Hania and !K7 for allowing me to post this little study.

Solido Platonico (Hania Rani "Buka" Arpeggio Study)

Teaser clip from the half hour long piece "Myrskymielellä", adapted from a 1891 poem by the Finnish national poet, Eino Leino, taken from the upcoming self-titled album by new project "All That We See or Seem". LTD LP + Digital coming end of October 2022.

"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?" This quote from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe sums up the lamenting, primal work that is "All That We See or Seem"; a project conceived between Finland, England and Brazil. The self-titled album consists of two long-form pieces of droning mysticism hailing from the trio of Gruth (concept, production, electronics), Ellen Southern (vocals, field recordings, percussion) and Johanna Puuperä (violin, modular synthesizer, additional vocals).

All That We See or Seem - Myrskymielellä (teaser)

Last year I've hosted a track premiere from Gaspar Claus' release, titled Tancade, appearing later on Headphone Commute's Best of 2021 list, which I also complimented with this studio feature. So you can say that I'm a fan! Now, this Paris-based cellist and composer is back with a new EP, once again, for InFiné. In addition to a piece which previously appeared on the album, titled "2359" and its "Night Blossom Version," which gravitates into an almost dancefloor territory, the release also features two new tracks, one of which I am premiering for you here today. It's one of my favourites and I couldn't just let it pass by. Starting off with a rhythmic staccato that marches toward an optimistic opening it suddenly drops into a melancholic progression of exquisite harmonies which are further picked up by the texture of strings. There is sadness and determinism, slight sorrow and full-on resolve, to keep going, keep feeling, despite all repression that seems to hold back. I can't say for a fact that it's the theme of the melody, but I can say that it's what I feel when it plays. Especially when I play it on repeat. I hope you enjoy!

2359

Amour Constrictor

TRACK PREMIERE : Gaspar Claus - Amour Constrictor

French pianist Vanessa Wagner collects solo piano studies of graceful minimalism and rare finesse for new album Mirrored.

Quickly following March 2022’s Study of the Invisible album, Vanessa Wagner returns with a new collection of work that paints in many colours. The application of shadow in Mirrored evokes haunting poignancy; the care and delicateness of its negative space leaves room for undulating
melodic motifs to ebb and flow; its bold splashes of luminescence are striking and rich.

And while the album collates re-interpretations of works by composers as varied as Philip Glass, Nico Muhly, Moondog, Leo Ferré and Camille Pepin, the potency and effect of the collection as a whole reflects only Vanessa Wagner and the extraordinary breadth of her abilities.

BUY HERE: https://vanessa-wagner.bandcamp.com/album/mirrored

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PREMIERE: Vanessa Wagner - Etude 4 (Philip Glass) [ inFine ]

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Spheres

Tatu Rönkkö - Spheres

It seems French musician and photographer Frédéric D. Oberland might be able to play more instruments than I can name. Mentioned in the creation of his latest album, Labyrinth, are electric guitar, Dark Energy Doepfer, harmonic pipe, critter, Guitari Organelle, hurdy gurdy, pantophone, alto saxophone, duduk and flute, just to state a few. 

With the release due for the 26th October, we were kindly offered an exclusive stream of 'La Part Du Feu', an achingly sparse piece of meandering electronics. 

Read more here: http://straylandings.co.uk/news/premiere-frederic-d-oberland-nahal

Labyrinth

Premiere: Frédéric D. Oberland - La Part Du Feu [Nahal Recordings]

Joanna Brouk - The Nymph Rising, Calling the Sailor

Taken from Origamibiro's LP Miscellany on Denovali Records, out March 26.

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Miscellany

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