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"musica assoluta" (marzo 2021)

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Fantaisies tracks (courtes) series no. 154

creation: 2021/09/18

These sets/mixes/live performances/podcasts... were uploaded to SC
between 0_/2021 and 09/2021, except for the following, older ones:

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[TO BE COMPLETED]

Happy listening!

* Soundcloud time: 1 year = 12 - 23 months.

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Tradacoustic series no. 68

Music, mostly recent, a few days, a few months...

creation: 2021/09/24

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Taken from SBKT040: Yen Tech - Assembler

Release date: 28th May 2021

With Assembler, his second full-length album, Yen Tech re emerges in ecstatic and primordial new form -- a multi-layered and interwoven work that blends futuristic production, meta-science fiction, and anthropic critique into a dizzying array of next scenarios -- a maze-like vision of our technological and exponentially oracular, full-stack future.

This imagined future becomes a construct or place in itself; one in which the record buzzes and swarms; a mechanosphere of towering melodic vocal samples and sound design - all narrated by Yen Tech's unnerving, diaristic vocals - as he channels the form of post-human techno cretin, whispering hyperbolic ASMR to no one in particular. We follow this character from one disorienting experience to the next as he recites a stream of indecipherable neologisms and hyper-descriptives, the existential residue seeping from every line. In the end though, a strange, uneasy beauty comes into focus; the metamorphic lyrics and musical euphorias revealing Assembler as a type of elegy: a wet glass reflection of the failures of what we are and were - and a jubilant celebration of what we may become.

"I imagined Assembler as a type of self imposed simulation, an invisible boundary that the narrator has to navigate out of to move forward. It was a way of looking at how we may carry the issues and failures of the past with us into the future. The psychological baggage of history, the guilt of geotrauma, the addictive melange of technology all become dealt with in this stage of acceptance and recovery. I wrote the album with this in mind, a process to find the slimy pearl of who we are" - Yen Tech

All music and lyrics written by Yen Tech
Produced and arranged by Yen Tech
Vocals by Yen Tech
Additional vocals by Katy Townsend
Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Artwork and vinyl design by Johannes Schnatmann

Assembler

Yen Tech - Kernel

Honest Labour

Honest Labour (feat. HforSpirit)

CC025 - 05 - Dragonfly Pond

Pas d'Une

Caster rilet

осень вошла в моё сердце

autumn came into my heart

The Fox

A track from Ignatz & De Stervende Honden's 'Saturday's Den' LP

IGNATZ & DE STERVENDE HONDEN - You Can't See Me

Quite consciously I post this song to the 1.1. of the new year. With this love song, written in three languages, I want to make a small contribution that the year 2019 will lead to more attentiveness towards nature and the people among each other. 
At the same time it is also my little musical gift to all SoundCloud users who supported me in my first year of membership so respectfully and appreciatively with my music projects.
With the lyrics and the musical arrangement I try to express how I understand love: tender, graceful and beautiful, generous, passionate, deep and full of gentle power and strength in giving.   

Lyrics: If you want * Si tu veux * Wenn Du willst

In English:

If you want, I'll always be there for you.
If you want, I'll always be close to you.
If you want, I can kiss you everywhere full of love, 
Full of tenderness,
and intimacy 
If you want, I just will love you forever.
limitless, until eternity
Yeah, just you, no one else, I'm ready

In French:

Si tu veux, je suis toujours là pour toi.
Si tu veux, je suis toujours près de toi.
Si tu veux, je t'embrasser partout plein d'amour, 
Pleine de tendresse avec intimité 
Si tu veux, je t'aimerai pour toujours.
Sans limites, jusqu'à l'éternité
Oui, juste toi, rien d'autre, je suis prêt.

In German:

Wenn Du willst, bin ich immer für Dich da
Wenn Du willst, bin ich Dir stets ganz nah
Wenn Du willst, küß`ich Dich überall voller Liebe, 
Voller Zärtlichkeit und Innigkeit 
wenn Du willst, werde ich Dich unendlich lang lieben
grenzenlos, bis in die Ewigkeit
ja, nur Dich, niemand sonst, bin bereit

If You Want  *  Si Tu Veux *  Wenn Du Willst

A small excerpt from a recent Expanded Cinema project by Dani Kirby ( Keyboards/Voice) and Mat ward (Bass), presented Live at MONA FOMA festival 2021 in Hobart, Tasmania. 
Project Synopsis/Media release....

The Smiling Madame Beudet
Germain Dulac, 1923

Kirby/Ward present the the latest chapter in their ongoing investigation both the history of sound in the era of silent cinema and the pioneering role female artists played (most often overlooked) in the avant garde. They have written and will perform a new score for voice, piano and bass to accompany Germain Dulac’s ground breaking 1923 film The Smiling Madame Beudet.
The Smiling Madame Beudet is credited as the first Feminist movie. The protagonist Madame Beudet is trapped in a suffocating marriage with her only escape being music and the fantasy that she lives in a different world. Her husband is domineering, boorish and frequently pretends to shoot himself (sometimes in front of guests) to taunt and belittle her. Far from portraying Madame Beudet as a victim it casts her as a heroine who, rather than submitting to a life of cruelty, seeks to assert her desires and free herself from the bonds of domestic misogyny.
Dulac uses groundbreaking cinematic artistry to embellish and add detail to both the narrative and the investigation of sexism and gendered roles through techniques such as super-imposition, ultra contrasting of focus, slow-motion, repetition of shots, abstraction and extreme camera angles. These techniques powerfully enforce the Dulac’s desire to show both the oppressiveness of the situation and the absolute need for an imagining of a better life.
The compositional approach focuses on highlighting the sub-text and philosophical underpinnings of the film with emphasis on the meta-narrative behind the protoganist’s story - which is a timeless critique of marriage, gender and sexism. Cinematically this is expressed through Dulac’s focus on Madame Beduet’s internal world as she moves between the disparity of escapism and reality. It is her complex voice and thoughts, as a metaphor for the broader issues of the film that Kirby/Ward bring to life through a dynamic score that incorporates multiple genres ranging from ultra minimalist melody all the way to deafening sub-bass drone.

The Smiling Madame Beudet LIVE Dani Kirby/Mat Ward

Mario

Invention N°8 « On a Spring Air » for Piano
My new improvisation / composition recorded this evening in my Home - Studio on Monday, March 1, 2021. Piano Bösendorfer
Music and Art-Painting by Franck Douvin.
Franck Douvin © 2021 Piano Inventions
Thanks for listening. Hope you'll enjoy!
Link on YouTube : https://youtu.be/WX-z-19tjHE

Invention N°8 « On a Spring Air » for Piano

Marco Lucchi : synthesizers, piano and mix down
itwasthewires : modular synthesizer

3 marzo 2021

"Le Roi du Monde" (w/ *itwasthewires*) - Manu

Elissa Poole, Baroque flute
Douglas Perry, viola
Richard Sacks, vibraphone

The Disposition of the Forms in Space

I compose concert music including solo works, chamber music and orchestral pieces.

The Disposition of the Forms in Space

Linda Catlin Smith