Recorded May 28th 2015. Modular live performance at Mutek. 


RICHARD DEVINE presents DISTURBANCES (US) 
NOCTURNE 2 :: GLEAMINGS AND BEAMINGS
Thursday, May 28 - Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

Modular synth master Richard Devine’s music moves like a slightly unhinged force, in rapid clicks and metallic thrums or funk addled scattering beats. An Atlanta-based producer with full length releases on Warp, Schematic, Sublight and Detroit Underground in the past 15 years, as well as an accomplished sound designer and maker of synthesizer kits (among soundtracks and samples, he’s built an expansion pack for Moog Music’s Animoog app), Devine made huge professional inroads in the digital realm, yet recently felt called to the modular and analog in his own music. Constantly reconfiguring his own hardware systems, Devine creates music by processing layer after layer of sounds derived from hip hop, pop, field recordings and electronic tracks; and in 2013 released his own official sample library, The Electronic Music Manuscript, through Sony Creative Software. Performing live, he’s equipped with an enviable arsenal of sounds and the ability to manipulate them to his experimental liking, constructing a sonic experience that’s never the same twice. MUTEK 2015 marked Devine’s first live modular set in Canada and the premiere of his “Disturbances” live patch, custom built for organic on-the-fly songwriting, from abstract ambient compositions to rhythmic bombardments.

Presented by Moog Audio - www.moogaudio.com


Richard Devine - Disturbances- Live Modular Set - Mutek 2015

An Umbral (Threshold in spanish) is a limit between two states. It’s the frontier between sound and silence, inside and outside, light and shadow, pleasure and pain. The umbral is an intangible, incorporeal line defined by the perception of a subject that hovers on the passage between two antagonistic states. The umbral can be jumped, defied and it's in this almost ludic experimentation that errors are produced. Unexpected, mysterious events and ruptures on perception´s continuum that enrich the universe of the perceived. 

Enrique Casal aka Qik presents Umbral, a nocturnal album that had it’s own ripening process, nourished from the silence of the night. Pushed by an experimentalist approach, the ten tracks on the record were born from a compulsive search and shaping of combined acoustic and electronic sounds, field recordings, material from audiovisual live performances and analogue and digital synths. The result is an intimate collection that explores the limits between dub techno, ambient and sound experimentation. 

A milestone in Qik´s musical career, Umbral marks a major leap forward in the artist´s musical vision, one that has mutated over his 10-year presence in the electronic music scene in Argentina. A unique figure known for the duality of his intense techno live sets and his noise-driven experimental performances such as the ones carried out alongside his audiovisual collective Tekhne A/V.

Umbral

AMR009CD QiK - Umbral (Preview Clips)

total impro over Elektron Rytm, no fx, no edits, recorded live
improviosacion tocando Elektron Rytm sin pattern programados, sin fx, sin edits, grabado en directo de una sola primera pasada.

Gleeetch

Carlos Shaw AKA Frecuencia infinita Live 2000 Energy Rave Day Buenos Aires Argentina

Mas en : www.soundcloud.com/ENERGY101-1FM

Carlos Shaw AKA Frecuencia infinita Live 2000

Testing Novation Peak. Panel tweaking, infinite arp.

Peak Ambient Arp R1

Second Woman is the collaborative project featuring Turk Dietrich of Belong and Joshua Eustis of Telefon Tel Aviv. 

Josh and Turk have been friends for over 17 years, having met in New Orleans in the late ’90s through mutual friend and future collaborator, Charlie Cooper. The duo have been working on music together on and off since that time.

The concept of Second Woman began with the idea of taking tropes from footwork, dub, house, and techno, and twisting these ideas into something kaleidoscopically liberated from the grid. 
Their work first materialized with two LP’s and an EP on John Elliott and Peter Rehberg’s Spectrum Spools. 

Second Woman tweak the perception of time and space within the audio field into something ASMR-inducing and ultimately satisfying to listen to. Both Josh and Turk experience ASMR in response to certain rhythms and sounds, and effort was made to incorporate these triggers into the music, hopefully for other people to experience as well. 

With Instant / Apart, Second Woman present their complete signature sound as well as a new, more measured dimension to their work.

Instant / Apart

Second Woman - Instant I

All sounds including drums 2600V. Depeche Mode tribute sound set available from Arturia. 

Patches used:

No Disco:
DM kick1
DM snare2
NoDisco Seq1 125bpm
NoDisco Seq2 125bpm
NoDisco Bass2 
Puppets Bass Sweep
JustCantGet lead1

Just Can't Get Enough:
JustCantGet Chirp
DM kick1
DM snare3
JustCantGet bass
NewLife bass
JustCantGet lead1

Big Muff:
Muff Bass 140bpm
Muff Arp  140bpm 
Muff Mallet2 140bpm
Muff noiseperc 140bpm
DM kick2
DM snareHP2
Muff lead1
Muff lead2
NoDisco Bass2
Muff toms

Any Second Now:
AnySecond Bass
AnySecond seq 87bpm
DM kick1
DM snare2
DM handclaps
DM tom

New Life:
NewLife Intro Lead
NewLife Intro Lead2  
NewLife Intro Lead3
NewLife Verse Lead
NewLife echoNotes
NewLife reverbNotes
DM Snare1
DM Kick2
NewLife bass 158bpm
JustCantGet bass
Muff NoisePerc

Depeche Mode Speak&Spell Tribute Arturia 2600V Sound Set Demo

A portrayal of Mekas’ latest ambient excursions, Entropy is his first solo album, and it marks a highlight in the career of a producer whose artistry continuously reshapes its standing ground. This time in search of more introspective depths of his music, the album reflects a side of Mekas that he has been keen on exploring for some time now, bringing to light new layers of his sonorous identity.

Slowly evolving atmospheric motifs blended with a subtly designed sound palette have been merged by Mekas into nine carefully composed immersive tracks. A precise balance supports the artist’s musical configuration in this album, a distinct work that has been inspired by the paradoxes of today’s world.

Aula Magna Records
Artist: Mekas
Title: Entropy
Format: Digital
Catalogue: AMR012
Release date: 04 July 2018
Mastering: Enrique Casal
PH: Iara Vilardebó
Artwork: Santiago Merino
www.aulamagnarecords.com

[AMR012] Mekas - Entropy (Preview Clips)

Weeks of isolation have provided an abundance of time to search for and listen to music, so I put together two mixes of tracks I found interesting along the way. You will find all of the artists links in the track listing and hopefully when a moment catches your ear you’ll take the time to show them some love either by buying their music through Hardwax, Bandcamp or donating directly to them via Soundcloud. 
I have been fortunate to be stranded in the Sonoran desert during this bizarre time and feel a specific empathy to the Native people struggling here. Therefore any donations to my Soundcloud will be sent to the Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund. 

Take care of yourselves and others around you. 
(Part II. coming soon)

T.
photo by https://www.instagram.com/cornelia.thonhauser/

 
1. Ruff Cherry - Keeper
https://soundcloud.com/ruffcherry
https://wellstreetrecords.bandcamp.com/album/carousal-ep-wsr-rc1
https://hardwax.com/17228/ruff-cherry/carousel-ep/

2. PWCCA - LEPTON 
https://soundcloud.com/oscarmulero
https://warmuprecordings.bandcamp.com/album/physical-laws-lp-wu61d
https://hardwax.com/24370/pwcca/physical-laws-lp/

3. AD Limited - Sometimes I Don’t Know
https://soundcloud.com/alexidelano
https://adlimited.bandcamp.com/album/a-a-s-sometimes-i-dont-know

4. Polito - Wallis Axiom 
https://buttersessions.bandcamp.com/track/wallis-axiom
https://hardwax.com/82645/various-artists/come-together/

5. Cari Lekebusch - In Sthlm We Dwell
https://soundcloud.com/carilekebusch
https://h-productions.bandcamp.com/album/in-sthlm-we-dwell-hyb020

6. Otodojo - Underground Lake 
https://soundcloud.com/otodojo
https://acidcamp.bandcamp.com/track/underground-lake
https://hardwax.com/26937/otodojo/a-sound-place/

7. DVS1 - Evolve
https://soundcloud.com/dvs1
https://dvs1hush.bandcamp.com/album/hush-01

8. Vakula - Techno Game 
https://armarecords.bandcamp.com/track/d1-vakula-techno-game
https://hardwax.com/23498/vakula/techno-game/

9. Dj Sodeyama - TEST PTTRN 41 
https://soundcloud.com/arparecords
https://hardwax.com/24735/dj-sodeyama/pttrn-ep/

10. Schatrax - Into The Stars 
https://soundcloud.com/schatrax
https://schatrax.bandcamp.com/album/2501-ep
https://hardwax.com/82197/schatrax/schatrax-25-1/

11. Border One - Samachi 
https://soundcloud.com/borderone
https://knowledgeimprint.bandcamp.com/album/samadhi-ep
https://hardwax.com/24723/border-one/samadhi-ep/

12. Truncate - Concentrate (Truncate Rework)
https://soundcloud.com/truncate
https://truncate.bandcamp.com/track/concentrate-truncate-rework
https://hardwax.com/70586/truncate/remixed-part-1/

13. Dj Sodeyama - TEST PTTRN 42 
https://soundcloud.com/arparecords
https://hardwax.com/24735/dj-sodeyama/pttrn-ep/

14. Conforce - Embrace 
https://soundcloud.com/conforce
https://conforce.bandcamp.com/album/time-dilation-ep
https://hardwax.com/67613/conforce/time-dilation/

15. Mix Mup - Copa Jams 
https://soundcloud.com/mmup
https://hardwax.com/69179/mix-mup/after-the-job/

16. Significant Other - Mike’s Gone Back To Manchester
https://soundcloud.com/significant0ther
https://oscillasound.bandcamp.com/album/club-aura
https://hardwax.com/25061/significant-other/club-aura/

Peak Ambient Arp R1

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