There's A Face

Toffee Ghost

The Beacon

STATES started out as a live electronics setup, developed back in early 2016 by Tijs Ham. The first version combined analogue feedback with digital manipulations which resulted in a self-balancing and self-generating chaotic system, capable of producing deep, melodic and textured soundscapes. During a performance, the setup would be played until it would reach a state in which it was generating its own sonic material. The performer would then take a step back, allowing the system to run on its own. Carefully listening to the movements, progressions, noises, drones, and arpeggios until the urge to intervene took the upper hand and the system would be performed and nudged towards a new state of balance.

The STATES setup went through a series of revisions and alternative versions, each playing with the same basic ingredients, mixed up and prepared in various ways. In the summer of 2017, Tijs started to collaborate with Gareth Davis, well renowned for his work with contemporary and experimental music on the bass clarinet. During an inspired series of recording sessions at STEIM, the STATES setup was reinvented once again and lifted up through the spacious and engaging interplay between reed and recursion.
credits
releases June 7, 2019

Recorded at STEIM
In the summer of 2017
Tijs Ham (Electronics)
Gareth Davis (Bass Clarinet)
Artwork by Tijs Ham
Mastered by Jos Smolders at EARLabs
Moving Furniture Records
This is release MFR074
www.movingfurniturerecords.com
https://movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/states

STATES

STATES - STATES (With Gareth Davis)

Matter Of Time

Download

Femtosecond Intervals has been recorded using the Ecdysis setup, combining analog and digital approaches to live electronics. This track will be released as part of a cassette tape box release on the new label Crossfade Tapes. The boxset will feature one Tapage solo tape of 'Ecdysis' material, one tape by Tapage & Espoir titled 'Bumblebee Amateurism' and a solo tape by Espoir titled ' Digging for Oscillation'. The box set will be released this fall...

Femtosecond Intervals

This track will be released as part of a cassette tape box release on the new label Crossfade Tapes. The boxset will feature one Tapage solo tape of 'Ecdysis' material, one tape by Tapage & Espoir titled 'Bumblebee Amateurism' and a solo tape by Espoir titled ' Digging for Oscillation'. The box set will be released this fall...

Tapage & Espoir - Ridiculed Metalanguage

Kit: CS2x, Aparillo, uKorg, iMini, FM2, PO-33, Launchpad, Sonar X1...
Acknowledgement-Field recording: Music from the arcade game, "Booth of Truth" (Tim Hunkin and Sarah Angliss, 2002) at Southwold Arcade, UK.

Truth (XL3)

Harlequin soliloquy

from "Rush" by Trio7d9
                   Direction, Choreography: Trio7d9

                   Athens Festival 2011
                   Festival Heimspie 2010 Dampfzentrale - Bern, Switzerland

Toffee Ghost

Klunks