In his book 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒, Mark Fisher wrote about the two notions: While the weird is something present where it doesn’t belong—something from outside found on the inside—the eerie has to do specifically with outside space. Something is eerie when there are unanswered questions about agency: Who or what is responsible for the abandonment of this zone? Who or what is crying out in the distance?

Katharina Schmidt’s 𝑇𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, a single, longform track stretching to a near half hour, deftly captures this spatial sense of the eerie. The evolving drone is like coming upon a ruin, circling it, and being drawn inside. There are no surprises, no sudden horrors, just the strange pull of oscillating waveforms that paint a bleak yet soothing landscape.

In certain kinds of listeners, empty, abandoned spaces produce a pleasurable dejection. Maybe this is because spaces where human life is evacuated represent the end result of capital. (It seems to have withered away, but is in fact off to find another shell for its home.) What we’re left with is something new to inhabit, a new infrastructure for freedom. The subtle changes in Schmidt’s recording have less to do with melody and rhythm, more to do with accumulating color and texture of space. And so the half hour can feel like five minutes, or an eternity—time and scale exist differently here.

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After years of playing drums and piano in various bands, Katharina Schmidt's solo work is influenced by indie, experimental, and improvised music. Exploring interests in storytelling, sonic topographies, and generative techniques, her music uses electronics, field recordings, and self-built interfaces alongside acoustic instruments. From sonifications to lullabies, her work is poised between formal experimentation and narratives cued by literature and pop culture, and can be heard in installations, film music, and radiophonic pieces, as well as releases on labels such as Flag Day Recordings, Slaapwel Records, and Focused Silence.

Katharina holds a master’s degree in Sound Studies from the Berlin University of the Arts and hosts resident shows at Cashmere Radio and SVS Radio.

katharina-schmidt.net
katharinaschmidt.bandcamp.com  

artwork by Stefan Lingg
audio finalized by Glyn Maier

all proceeds to The Homeless Period Project (Greenville, SC, US) - www.homelessperiodproject.org

Tennis Courts in the Half Light

Katharina Schmidt - Tennis Courts In The Half Light [Excerpt] (ENMD03)

Somewhere 2 comes from Slovakian artist Adela Mede, author of the spellbinding tape Szabadság that's easily one of the most astounding things we've heard this year. Guided by the potency of her raw vocals, Adela explores folk tradition through a kaleidoscopic buzz of processed electronics, her ineffable vocals shining through in pure lucidity.

Through this mix, Adela continues her exploration of the voice. Repeating vocals chants feed into haunting moments of dissonance, heightening the innate beauty of the unprocessed song that shimmers beneath.

@adelamede

Żegnaj Ziemio Ojczysta - Bogdan Raczynski - Muzyka Dla Imigrantów 
Five Margarets - Ani Zakareishvili - SLEEPERS POETS SCIENTISTS
Soloists - Piotr Kurek - World Speaks 
Ruyina - Katarina Gryvul - Tysha 
Ej okolo Levoči - Puszafalat - Nótázó recepteskönyv
Kyema Mimin - Choying Drolma And Steve Tibbetts
Hubava Milka - Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble
Sail on Sailor - Kristin Oppenheim - Night Run- Collected Sound Works 1992 - 1995
Nová Krajina - Adela Mede - How We Grow
Volanie - Jonáš Gruska - Spevy
Take Care of Others - Nina Pixel - Müggelsee Observations
face A ( best - nation - friendless ) - Oklou  
Afraid - Nelly Furtado - Loose

Somewhere #2 ~ Adela Mede

Autumn wind carried berlin-based selector and Soundartist Lucy Park (Mutantradio) to Hamburg.

After spending a Wednesday evening at the Golden Pudel Club for another edition of 'Aged Pace', time was stretched further within a joint listening in the studios of Hallo:Radio. Lucy's set opens up a sonicsphere where rattles define, horse hair speaks and fingertips whisper.

'isotonik no.12' with Lucy Park

This precious recordings of authentic Chinese classical music on the great Lyrichord label, including the cheng zither, the hsia flute and sheng mouth pipe organ, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2024/02/china-taiwan-professor-liang-tsai-ping.html

Professor Liang Tsai-Ping and His Group – China's Instrumental Heritage – Lyrichord - LLST 792

China's Instrumental Heritage –  Lyrichord / Professor Liang Tsai-Ping and His Group

Silver Moon X mix
February 2024

Airing Feb. 27, 2024.

12 PM in Brussels on Radio Panik
https://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/l-heure-de-pointe/silver-moon-x-mix/

8 PM in Milan, Italy, Feb. 27 on Radio Raheem
https://www.radioraheem.it/schedule

This mix draws from a live recording of the Silver Moon X album launch that took place at the Mercerie performance space in Brussels, Belgium in October 2023. For this set I mixed in excerpts from the live set with Julia E. Dyck and also an opening ambient set by Jean Grünewald (Ottoman Grüw). For the live set in Brussels, which you hear, Julia and I played a Moog synthesizer, bells, while also reading texts from our first album, I also incorporated synth created by my brother Jordan Christoff. For this radio mix I included tracks created by friends around the world and shared over recent months, including many artists that I have collaborated with for broadcasts on Radio AlHara in Palestine, or around community arts initiatives in Montreal. Also I included a couple of tracks that were just excellent. Thank you for listening. – Stefan Christoff.

Track listing 
(Artist name / track name)

01. Secret Pyramid - Bloom Nightly
02. SILVER MOON X - Live at Mercerie in Brussels
03. Lori Goldston & Stefan Christoff - Birds in Trio
04. Midland - You Never Take Me Dancing 
05. Morgan Buckley - Call Incoming
06. Grim Beverage - A Question as to Where
07. Grim Beverage - Joffe
08. Jean Grünewald - Live at Mercerie in Brussels
09. the new objective - B1, detritus, live at ateliers le château (excerpt)

A Vanishing Touch

Silver Moon X - mix

Axel Larsen returns with a special menu : Illbient and Sound-design, with a bit of Jazz and some Dub. Come aboard the Poison Ship for a conspiratorial and hallucinatory trip ! With Camille Sauvage, Bill Laswell, Muslimgauze and many others


Radio Poison w/ Axel Larsen (03/05/24)

Rezo Glonti  - LOW FUZZ x MUTANT RADIO x SHAPE+ [24.05.2024]

Domestic Mind Wandering w/ Artmaillé 28.05.24

Here comes the next Rollercoaster from Martina Lussi, and it`s a very quite one: “It`s a straight forward fieldrecording of the forest close where I live in Lucerne. Tim Shaw and me recorded the Dawn Chorus. Means we recorded in the morning during sunrise when the birds start to sing”

https://lyl.live/episode/rollercoaster-3/

Rollercoaster (08.04.20) w/ Martina Lussi & Tim Shaw

Один акт в четырех действиях.
Голос - Глеб Гаврилов.

Oidípous Týrannos

https://soundcloud.com/whyamimrpink
Graphics: https://soundcloud.com/dusanlilic / https://soundcloud.com/banda-panda

A lover of free and perched figured dating, Why Pink? assumes a big penchant for weird and leftfield synthetic dissonances. Curious, he advocates the mixing of genres against a backdrop of hypnotic moist and granular textures. Present on the Marseille music scene, he also broadcasts his mixes and selections on local radio stations such as Radio Grenouille and Tikka radio, and more recently on one-shot shows with LYL radio, Tsugi radio and the promising podcast series entitled Off-cuts.

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LAYER #254 | Why Pink?

For live streaming, all our archives along with the tracklists, hit our website: http://lyl.live

Broadcasting live from Bistrot Senior (25 rue Sergent Blandan) in Lyon,
La Tour Orion in Paris, Brasserie Atlas in Brussels and Soma in Marseille.

Rollercoaster (08.04.20) w/ Martina Lussi & Tim Shaw

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