Alwin Nikolais
Choreosonic Music Of The New Dance Theatre Of Alwin Nikolais
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Choreosonics was the name of the music for the choreography of Alwin Nikolais - a unique theatre exposition that was described in the late 50s as “the new theatre of shape, motion, light and sound.” In 1953 Nikolais attracted people interested in new art to his dance concerts at the Henry Street Playhouse in New York City. In these concerts dancers became colourful motivating sources for sculptural shapes; moving in changing atmospheres of light and sound their relationship carefully integrated into a new kind of audiovisual abstract theatre art. The sounds created for this were not conceived from traditional music points of view but were designed to share and support the total visual dynamics.

Such a creation was possible because of Nikolais’ background as a musician as well as choreographer. At sixteen he was playing piano and organ for the then disappearing silent films, improvising and coordinating music four to six hours daily to the dramatic content of the movie. With this profession obsolete, he turned his skill into accompaniment for dance. Through this his interests led to his study of percussion accompaniment and exploration of new sounds. These ideas were stimulated by the kind of dance accompaniment introduced by the famous German dancer, Mary Wigman. This, in turn, induced Nikolais to study dance and ultimately to switch his career from musician to dancer and choreographer.

Nikolais was soon heralded as one of the leading figures in modern concert dance, he is credited with bringing about revolutionary ideas opening up new vistas for dance and theatre. Nikolais' activities were centered at the Henry Street Playhouse in New York. His work was created there with his assistant Murray Louis; sound engineer David S. Berlin; artist George Constant and members of his Playhouse Dance Company. All of whom had a hand in the final productions. Performances with names like Prism, Cantos and Totem were met with positive critical view for their multidisciplinary achieve- ments. While his collaboration with Harry Partch on The Bewitched established his name alongside another true maverick of American sound design and forward-thinking composition.

Some of Nikolais' dancers were also trained as percussionists who improvised on a curious assortment of sound producing instruments and objects while other dancers worked through the choreography. David Berlin, who assembled and constructed the sound recording equipment, would operate from the sound booth from a window overlooking the stage. Nikolais would direct the experiments and improvising.

Within any performance there would be numerous tests of the original sound and their possible electronic conditioning, including many playbacks of short phrases tested to the dancers’ motion. When the sound phrase proved satisfactory the next cut was started. Sounds were cut down, enlarged, replaced and then the whole piece would be linked together and given final editing much the same as a filming process. Nikolais generally tried to avoid any identification of the sound sources, thus inviting the ear to perceive the sound itself divorced from its initial derivation. This, however, was by no means a final criterion, the ultimate one being the value of the sound to the theatre idea at hand whatever its source or manner of conditioning was. The objects used to pro- duce these sounds were without limit except for practical material size. Within the collection many percussion instruments were used: drums of all kinds, rattles, bells, gongs, cymbals, wooden blocks, etc. Also whistles, tubes, pipes, pieces of wood, alu- minum, steel and tin containers were utilised alongs-ide glasses, elastic bands, coils of wire, etc. The back of an upright piano in addition to a grand piano were also often at hand. The human voice would be used freely, hand clapping, foot stomping and any sound producing device whatsoever that might served a purpose.

Lythic - Alwin Nikolais

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In this compilation we build a beautiful constelation of sound stars, from soft deep glitched feelings to bassy subby reactions :p
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released June 15, 2022

Masters by Tomo20

Artwork by MXHZ
Drawings by Nita Chan

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ꦡꦈꦬꦾ꧀ꦚꦄꦽꦦꦍ - ꧃ꦠꦡꦈ
CALSUTMORAN - KOINOBIONT SERPENT HUNTER
Akira Yamaoka - Fermata in Mistic Air
Traumesser - Conversion Artifact
Hypothermia - Skogens Hjärta
FMSAO, AL-90 - Berega
vtgnike - gulag33
ZutZut - Grupo Jaguar
Seren Realm - here
Glint - Clear Eyes
hp925mp463 ❄ X 艾瑋倫 - 心魔
Muslimgauze - Submit To Sharia
Salem - DieWithMe
MYEN - ANCHORHOLD feat. LUηG
Francois-Eudes Chanfrault - Memories (Redux) 
vtgnike - gulag33
Harsh' - nihilist.
MYEN - CLEARING feat. LUηG
RONCE - FLEAU (STRIPPED)
Konflict - Enslavement Doctrine
Bedhed - empty cars inst.

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Jeremy Shaw, There In Spirit, Konrad Black - Phase Shifting Index (PAN 146)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 146
Release Date: 28 March 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/PSI

Phase Shifting Index is a time capsule record of Jeremy Shaw’s vast original artwork that includes audio excerpts, voiceover passages and music composed by There in Spirit and Konrad Black. Shaw’s seven-channel video, sound and light installation–that premiered at Centre Pompidou in 2020–uses science fiction, documentary, visual effects and synchronisation to induce an ecstatic experience in narrative temporality. Each video details the belief systems of one of seven fictional subcultural groups spread across time that aspire to induce parallel realities that could redirect the evolution of the human species through embodied forms of ritual, ideology and movement. 

"Cross-Temporal Sync" written and produced by There In Spirit. All other titles written and produced by Konrad Black.
Mixed by Konrad Black at Blackprint Studios.
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk, Berlin
Design by Information Office, Vancouver.

Phase Shifting Index premiered at Centre Pompidou, Paris, in 2020 and has since been exhibited in nine international venues including ARoS, Denmark, MONA, Tasmania, MAC, Montreal and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

Jeremy Shaw, There In Spirit, Konrad Black - Ramping

Aired on Echobox on 30/04/25

The fourth instalment of Panorama Experience, a show curated by Hex Key Fantasy & friends

[record order]
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princess elf bar – Does She Love You Better Than I Can?
Merely & Malibu – E22
Tryce, XENIA REAPER – Fighter (Echo Mix)
exael – 5 million miles (exael ambient edit)
Niko Demus & MFM – North Atlantic
500 & OPHERINGS – HIDDEN TEMPLE (WALK ON ICE)
Priori – To See Our Secret Die feat. Sabola
Speaker Knockerz – How Could U (odp flip)
Brick – What You Can't Remember

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Noah B – Nylon
Dina Ayada – Passion (Acapella)
Stonemist – Bifrost
A+A – Eternal September
SWIM – Love
RIP Skype (2003–2025)
RAFFA GUIDO – Famax
JÖST – For You
HVRA – TUDO VOLTA
Summrs – Coke (Acapella)
Kareful – I Loved A Witch Once
maxon – high like me (Acapella)
Async Figure – Evangel
DJ Semitone – Airport Crush
UnoTheActivist – Magic (Acapella)
Yawning Portal – vanished
Neek – Shimmer
Jook – Growing Together
Kareful – Wake Me
Caterina Barbieri – Information Needed to Create an Entire Body
Plastician – Wave Machine
LJC – Blade

Panorama Experience — Kalione & Hex Key Fantasy

Slyenk (Silknife) is a Franco-Chilean artist whose work centers on storytelling through music, blending genres and techniques to craft immersive narratives.

This particular set, titled The Dying Verse, was created as an amalgamation of present emotions, both deeply personal and shaped by the turbulence of current world events. It offers a descent into an unraveling world, expressed through spoken word, classical music, and electronic influences: a collective of voices striving to resist.

KNOW YOUR LOCAL w/ Slyenk

Summer Forever (Addison Rae Edit)

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