found you via lola ajima and i'm glad i did :-)

Ce morceau est absolument incroyable et génial ! Rien n'est comparable à ce morceau , c'est absolument fabuleux !

Recorded on a Kenyan Beehive (called "ruche kenyane" in France), with the beekeeper Dominique Hardouin for the project "Essaim" (Swarm) presented in 2021
www.felixblume.com/essaim

Contact Microphone Aquarian H2a
Original Recording in 96k 24bit
Recorded in April 2021
Sound Ref: FR-210409T15
Assistant: Arthur Thomas
A production by DDA

Beehive contact microphone

A solo guitar piece dedicated to Catherine Lamb. She is a constant source of inspiration. 
Thanks, Cat!

For Catherine Lamb

This is a stereo excerpt of my multichannel installation "Zijlijn / Linea Lateralis". The installation is an exploration of the underwater soundscape of the North Sea. For this piece I recorded at the southern (mainly coast of Belgium) and northern (coast around Bergen in Norway) borders of the North Sea. 

The North Sea is the busiest and therefore loudest sea in the world. The installation researches the difficult relationship between biological sounds and man made noise. 

"Zijlijn / Linea Lateralis" was awarded an honourable mention by the 2021 Sound Of the Year Awards in the "Composed with Sound" category. 

More information about the piece can be found here:
http://stijndemeulenaere.be/zijlijn.html

Zijlijn stereo Excerpt

pf Explore Ensemble
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Nov 2020, @ BBC Maida Vale

Sentimental drifting music

Noctiluca

Each Morning of the World #04
South American Phonographic Mornings #03/20
Puerto Saavedra ~ South Chili
Lafken Kürüf  de Julie Rousse

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The piece - Lafken Kürüf - has been composed from recordings taken in the south of Chile in 2015. Mixing various sounds of the wind and the ocean, as well as glimpses of voices, those emblematic sounds from my stay there are composed in a short piece transcribing the powerful sonic landscape that has accompany me during the three months spent in the Mapuche Lafkenche community of Traïtraïko Leufu. The noise of the wind on the rooftop of my house and the rumble from the Pacific Ocean close by kept me from sleeping at night as i would imagine it coming out from its bed, like in the Mapuche Lafkenche mythology.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Crédits
de l’album South American PhoNographic Mornings
ce titre est sorti le 6 mai 2018
Credit photo : © Julie Rousse 2018

Lafken Kürüf

LAFKEN KÜRÜF

iamnotawhale

blue

"I first played with Derek Bailey in a quartet with Christine Jeffries (voice) & Jonny Dyani on bass. Thereafter we played mainly as a duo. I had frequented the Little Theatre Club since the late 1960s & was a member of FREE SPACE along with Trevor & the second generation of improvisers, but have no recollection of this gig…...!

The AMAZING BAND was Mal Dean’s creation, & I was privileged to be amongst the last personnel & play on the last recordings prior to & after Mal’s demise. Sadly Mick Brannen is also not around to enjoy the release of The Last Amazing Band recordings."

---

The AMAZING band were:

Mal Dean / trumpet 
Mick Brannen / alto sax
Radu Malfatti / trombone
John Russell / guita
Marcio Mattos / bass
Terry Day / drums

---

Recorded circa Early 1970s . Mixed & mastered by Yadley Day

TDA019 - Derek Bailey, Trevor Watts & Terry Day at Little Theatre Club

LISTEn or BUY: https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/bow-down-thine-ear-i-bring-you-glad-tidings

Among the musicians whose work closely reflects the reduced forms in experimental music, perhaps the most interesting is Cristián Alvear, a Chilean guitarist performing formally radical post-Cagean music, as well as Laurent Peter aka @dincise, a composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer, one of the key figures of the eclectic scene in Geneva. The numerous projects in which they participate prove their strictly defined artistic vision and active involvement in networking the music community, so it’s appropriate to consider them as transitory elements between several scenes on different continents. They have collaborated, among others, with Ryoko Akama, Cyril Bondi, Michael Pisaro, Sarah Hennies, Seijiro Murayama, Taku Sugimoto, Lance Austin Olsen and The Pitch.

Bow Down Thine Ear, I Bring You Glad Tidings is a good example of the refinement of the style developed by Alvear and d’incise in recent years. One can observe here how their musical language and range of instrumental techniques in the use of guitar and idiophones got crystallised.

The classical form of a musical piece organized in time and characterized by a set of elements that create a coherent narrative is replaced here by the primacy of repetition, pitch, precise articulation and reverberation. Sounds seem to be clearly rooted in specific acoustic spaces, which allows the space itself to be treated as a real instrument that adds another layer of meaning. Repetitive sound sequences operate in a similar way to the metronome, determining an obsessive rhythmic pattern, a kind of matrix on which all the details are inscribed. The static structure of the pieces allows the music to function as a sound sculpture - breaking time constraints in favour of continuous duration and acting in a multi-perspective way. This material, does not promise any solution, but strictly accompanies the listener and tries to close itself in the continuous present.

At the same time Bow Down Thine Ear, I Bring You Glad Tidings is a clear dialogue with the work of Henry Purcell. The title of the album is a reference to the anthems written by the British composer (Z11, Z2) and the titles of the pieces refer to his sacred songs (Z192, Z342). Apart from a skillful attempt to decontextualize the lyrics (biblical or rooted in the tradition of baroque religious poetry), we can see here not so much an attempt to give the music a metaphysical character, but certainly Alvear and d’incise tend to replicate a similar mode of listening, as in the case of Purcell's compositions - meditative and at the same time oriented to all elements of the musical situation. 


released October 5, 2020

Cristián Alvear: guitar
cristianalvear.com

d'incise: percussion (2 series of "tuned objects"), post-processings recorded in a different space
dincise.net

Recorded at Insub.studio, Geneva, May 2019
Processings recorded at La Senne, Bruxelles, May & September 2019
Edited & mixed by d’incise

Cover art by Nick Hoffman
www.pilgrimtalk.bandcamp.com

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
www.abdonoval.com

Words by Paweł Szroniak
www.rozkurz.tumblr.com

Photography by Leontína Berková
www.leontinaberkova.com

Released by mappa as MAP020 in 2020

MAP020 / Cristián Alvear & d'incise - Who can from joy refrain?

Live looped performance with Buchla Music Easel and TC Electronics Ditto x4 Looper.

Reverse Etude 1

zoom live recording at Arboretum Festival, August 19th 2017

arranged for 11 strings
Forest Strings Ensemble

Carissa Klopoushak
Marc Djokic
Andrea Armijo Fortin
Heather Schnarr
Hilda Cowie
Marjolaine Lambert
Marlena Pellegrino
Thaddeus Morden
Raphael Weinroth-Browne
Sonya Probst
Paul Casey

ERE [ 11 string arrangement ] (2017)

Loïse Bulot is a visual artist and composer. She builds a dream world through electroacoustic and mixed compositions, performances, drawings,  multidisciplinary projects in general.Poetically exploring the complexity of unheard phenomena, microcosmic worlds, of the indiscible in her musical practice, she also develops her projects around phantasmagoria, light and darkness in her luminous installations and her drawn and projected performances.... more -----> www.loisebulot.com

CREATIONS RADIOPHONIQUES

http://www.radiogrenouille.com/antenne/actualites/mahayuga-par-loise-bulot/

http://www.radiogrenouille.com/antenne/grille/radia-300-ekina-degull/

Noctiluca

loisebul

Recent comments

Related tracks