This composition is the outcome of a sonic metamorphosis. The original track has been created along with the Elektron Digitakt. The final process is the result of the granular synthesis of Cecilia C5.

The Rise Of A Desire

LAURIN HUBER, Dog Mountain, LP

Release date - July 30th 2021
Catalogue nr. - HG2199
Format - Vinyl / digital
Hallow Ground

hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
1) Raja (04.59)
2) Nickel (05:50)
3) A Town Is Not A Town (04:54)
4) Storskog-Borisoglebsk (07:32)

Credits:
Composed and recorded by Laurin Huber
Mixed by Rolf Laureijs
Mastering by Lawrence English
Artwork by Michael Bodenmann

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»Dog Mountain« is the second release by the Zurich-based producer and composer Laurin Huber on Hallow Ground. After last year’s »Juncture« saw the Edipo Re co-founder work mostly with synthesizers and programmed rhythms, the four tracks are much more restrained, drawing on tape loops and feedback, recordings of acoustic guitar and synthesizers such as the Korg MS-10 as well as field recordings that relate to the overarching topic that informed the making of the record. While »Juncture« had previously aimed at deconstructing the binaries and dualities that shape our lives and thinking, »Dog Mountain« is dedicated to geographical divisions that result from political processes and social constructions. »›Here‹ means one nation, ›there‹ another,« writes Huber in a literary piece that accompanies the record. »Being in sound, such a separation seems odd.« 

While treating the metaphor of the border as a »membrane, registering and translating the vibrations of its surroundings« and thus as something that is constantly (re-)defined, maintained and defended however, the artist also takes into consideration that »one cannot escape one’s standpoint,« as he puts it. The music on »Dog Mountain« may transcend and overcome certain borders, but it does not deny the realities that they impose on each and every one of us – whether in our political lives or in the realm of sound. This is mirrored in Huber’s engaging in the structural and sonic interplay of repetition and difference. Working with slowly evolving and modulating elements that are exposed to slight shifts, »Dog Mountain« puts a focus on the interaction between small elements that together form a bigger whole which is marked by constant evolution and change. 

Opener »Raja« (»border« in Northern Sami and Finnish) starts off with a two-note melody played on an out-of-tune guitar. Different field recordings and synthesizer sounds drop in and out of the mix until the dynamic shifts and Huber starts playing more notes on his instrument, thus increasing the tension. It’s a meditation on minimalism, but also a piece that mediates between notions of what constitutes the difference between noise and music or referentiality and abstraction in sound. After »Nickel« (named after a Russian monotown near the border to Norway) dedicates itself to explore the friction between hissing white noise and melancholic tape loops, »A Town Is Not a Town« (a phrase taken from the documentary »Kiruna – Rymdvägen«) structurally mirrors the experiment of »Raja« with very different sonic means. 

Closing the record, »Storskog-Borisoglebsk« (the title refers to the northernmost land border between Schengen-Europe and Russia) is the longest and most challenging piece, working with both long-form drones and musique concrète elements. It proposes a synthesis of the opposites that are explored patiently and with much attention to detail throughout this record.

LAURIN HUBER - A Town Is Not A Town (HG2199)

"HAVUZ I-II" CS - OUT NOW!!!

https://cloud-chamber.bandcamp.com/album/havuz-i-ii

Istanbul based audio/visual artist Koray Kantarcıoğlu releases his first tape output for Cloudchamber after 2016's Loopworks (Initially released as a tape from Wounded Wolf Press in 2016 and later issued as a vinyl from Discrepant Records.). 

Havuz (means pool in Turkish) is a two part piece made up of seamlessly mixed loops. Like his previous work, Koray manipulates samples he dug from Turkish records and tapes to create otherworldy sound textures. 
This time instead of a computer, Koray composed Havuz entirely on a minimal hardware setup with limited processing options. Result is an intimate, lo-fi sounding record. 

Album art is uses the collaborative work of Koray Kantarcıoğlu and Erdem Ergaz called Duopoly (2013), which combines the two different perceptions of form within a schematic arrangement. 

www.koraykantarcioglu.com

Composed by Koray Kantarcıoğlu 
Between 01/2021 - 05/2021 
Artwork: Erdem Ergaz & Koray Kantarcıoğlu - Duopoly (2013) 
Mastering: Ahmet Türk

Havuz I-II

Koray Kantarcıoğlu - Havuz II (edit)

0,00-0,40 : cozy bar atmosphere ; 0,24-2,08 : sea organ of Zadar ; 1,52-4,14 : traditional band playing for a wedding ; 3,32-5,37 : the locusts & the sea

Déroulé de la bande-son : 0,00-0,40 : ambiance cosy bar quartier historique ; 0,24-2,08 : orgue marin de Zadar ; 1,52-4,14 : groupe traditionnel inconnu jouant pour un mariage ; 3,32-5,37 : les cigales et la mer

thanks to the unknown band!

Zadar (Croatia), 16.07 to 19.07.2021 (montage)

07 Carleton - A Verse

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In Unstable Music To Sleep While You're Awake, Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy has chosen to work with a random mechanism that breaks down the initial samples to rearrange them into building movements.

Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy - Unstable I

From "M​å​nen I Mine H​æ​nder"

Limited edition double cassette now available at

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Paw Grabowski - Vaarbækken

except for leaves

Included in The Wire Tapper 44, the CD compilation included with the August 2017 edition of The Wire.

Badalisc (from The Wire Tapper 44)

Excerpt N°13.a (Dialogues Egoistes)

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