A continuously updated seasonal selection of ambient, modern classical, and electroacoustic works (closed June 7, 2024).

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Field Journal Companion - Spring 2024

TR164 - Taku Sugimoto - G Major... [excerpt]

Waltz In A Dream

Akira Kosemura - Waltz In A Dream

Original Track :
https://soundcloud.com/onokio/sets/evaporating-in-the-datacenter

ᴏɴᴏᴋɪᴏ -  evap_in_data [redux] (Senglar Version)

Haku

Euro Herc, Segnali

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Serbian sound artist, poet, curator, and researcher, Manja Ristić returns for her second release for LINE after 2023's 'Awakenings' (LINE_138). Her new album 'Ma' recalls the incredibly subtle, detailed works of Steve Roden, Francisco López, or Bernhard Günter fused with the adept field recordings of Jana Winderen and the delicate resonances of Toshiya Tsunoda. Two entrancing long form works incorporating field recordings, acoustic instruments, and unexpected found sounds.

> https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/ma 

Ma — depth of the space, of the environment, of relations and mystical interrelatedness. The hidden or obvious void that defines the form and liberates from it at the same time. Ma and the sound? The weight of emptiness and quietness is revealed by unexpected density—the space chants, the chants spread in waves, pulsations, a pellucid spectrum of timbre.

“I hear the water dreaming” echoes in my mind.

Patterns of the forest chorus build pandiatonic clouds, on the brim of sonic hallucinations, we hear the space breathing, vellum of light expanding, beyond our hearing range.

Sounds of Ma deep in the ground, on the surface, underwater, on the surface of the water, in the air, between gravity and the air; Ma between air and objects, tubes and thermal bodies, between the Moon and its reflection; bottom of the silent lake and the stratosphere far beyond our world next to the frozen planet with the hidden ocean.

Ma of the soul caught on the tape.

Nothing is necessary.

Nothing holds everything together.

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List of field recordings and samples:

• Giant anthill in the abandoned forest quarry
• Cricket chorus next to Pohořský rybník lake
• Hydrophone recording of the “silent lake” Stierhüblteich
• Hydrophone recording of the river Schwarze Aist and its various tributaries
• Bowing cymbal under the full moon next to the Schwarze Aist (recorded by Abby Lee Tee)
• Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana—ventilation in the man’s toilet (recorded by Mark Vernon)
• Cassini passing between Saturn and Enceladus Moon (NASA sounds)
• Dad’s boiler
• Breath and broken tape recorder hum extracted from Toru Takemitsu’s tape “Ki Sora Tori” (1956)
• Bowing glass vase
• Two wine glasses gently trembling in front of the fan
• Electro-magnetic field around the broken socket
• Violin

Sounds, composition, images, text by Manja Ristić
Mastering La Plant Studio

MANJA RISTIĆ - Ma - 02 Full Moon Trembles On The Surface Of The Creek

Wun ~ Two | Toucan

не спать/тӱс сиирге ft. p1nkf1re

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Look, I know that many of my opening words often begin with “Today, I am thrilled to share with you a new piece by [so and so]”, but how can I not use the exact same opening line when one of my all-time favourite piano composers reaches out to me to premiere a piece from his newly-announced long-awaited album? This Norwegian musician’s first proper solo studio release appeared on the beloved Sonic Pieces in 2014, which we only later learned to be part of a trilogy of albums. But that doesn’t mean that I spent only the last decade listening to Otto A. Totland – together with his school friend Erik K. Skodvin, the duo has been making beautiful music as Deaf Center, releasing Neon City EP in 2004 on Type. We now see him being backed by Nils Frahm, who not only shares the production credits on his upcoming new album but also releases Exin on his very own Berlin-based LEITER imprint, which he founded with his manager Felix Grimm only a few years ago. This also means that the album was recorded at Frahm’s studio at Funkhaus complex, offering the most beautiful-sounding piano in the hands of the most beautiful-sounding mind. The emotionally charged and sometimes melancholy sound is still present in Totland’s collection of sixteen solo piano pieces, but there is also an upbeat and vibrant tint on a few, including the first single, “Marka”, which follows a classical staccato harmony that I can envision being played on a harpsichord. Yet pieces like “Lys” take me back to that particular flavour of Totland’s sonic tenderness to pull on my heartstrings, allowing me to get lost in those barely audible reverberations of the keys. The piece I’m sharing with you today is called “Rift”, an introspective and sombre reflection in just a few pensive chords.

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Rift

TRACK PREMIERE : Otto A. Totland - Rift

This anthology of historic Italian zampogne bagpipes and ciaramella oboes recorded in Calabria, Campania, and Lazio/Molise and the US, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2024/05/italy-italie-zampogne-bagpipes-italia.html

Zampogne / Bagpipes Italia Vol. 2 – Albatros VPA 8482 

Italy Zampogne / Bagpipes Anthology

Light, as perceived & portrayed by Hollie Kenniff (aka Hollie Evelyn) in a fine-drawn dialogue between a sparse piano and pastel synth tones. The mood is one of profound calm and serenity, with each new harmony patiently and perfectly pulling us gently along. In the soft glow, we hang on to every word, just to await that next whisper of consciousness we all yearn for… Portrait of Light is the Canadian-American vocalist and composer's ephemeral contribution to our 2024 single series 'Pigments'. 🎧 https://moderna.ampl.ink/light

Portrait of Light

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Hollie Evelyn - Portrait of Light

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artist : Dalton Alexander
album : Almost Home If I'm Still Alive
duration : 40.46 mn
date : June 06th, 2024

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 150 copies / green transparent LP / selective UV varnish / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Recorded in forests, fields, backyards, streets, and rooms between 2016 - 2023.

Dalton Alexander - Guitars, Synthesizer, Field Recordings.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Anne-Julie Royer - Vocals ("Réuni de Toutes Parts »).

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Artwork by Margaret Durow
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://daltonalexander.bandcamp.com/

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Dalton Alexander - Spring Doesn't Remember Me

First single off of the upcoming album NINA. 

Violin by Milo Weil. Vocals by Ellyse Wagener. Produced by Brady Moen for Midwestern Records.

Spandrel

Crystal

Stationary Travels is a personal music blog covering ambient, electroacoustic, modern classical, post rock & experimental music.  Outside of ST, I enjoy a variety of other genres which you may see mixed in here as well.  Please feel welcome to follow along on Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress (links below).  If you are an artist and would like to submit something for consideration of promotion or review, you can message me to discuss the details. 

 "He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly" - Martha Medeiros

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each release start with the end of the previous one.
in sounds and visually. 
an exquisite corpse with 100 releases which will make the loop.
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Dalton Alexander - Spring Doesn't Remember Me

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