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We’ve reached book IV in Rupert Clervaux’s series of “Zibaldone” audio diaries, at which point we find him telling a different kind of story. 

“The first three all had very specific themes, while this one feels a little bit looser and doesn’t have just one thematic thrust,” he tells me, which maybe explains why listening feels a bit like annotating. I’m underlining, emphasizing, drawing arrows from here to there, highlighting symbols and noting motifs, realising, questioning, eureka-ing. An impressionistic meaning’s been encoded in and we’re lucky to be given the space to play that most poetic and boundless of all mental games: narrativization. 

There are no wrong answers, but Rupert offers some clues either way. If there’s any cipher here it’s “something like a meditation on the concept of ‘depth’––in all its connotative forms.” Think below the surface, (the) underground, yawning oceans, being ‘down in the dirt’, soil, roots, rootlessness, pulling at the dregs, collapse, profundity, stable and unstable horizons, distance, perspective, intuition, not to mention relative opposites: to be shallow, to be above, to be beyond. 

It’s got me thinking of Bresson’s “Bring things together that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.” His: “Dig deep where you are. Don't slip off elsewhere.” Rupert has realized these—two favourite goals of mine!—here. 

This is music that catches you at your own periphery, gives pause, has you offering a little “huh” to, asking “I wonder why” to. Again, it’s got me musing on another mindworm, this time from New York publisher and multi-sensory reading room Dispersed Holdings: “Feeling-making-knowing feedback loop; cartography of feeling; water as text, read to know the land beneath and around it, and body as reader.” 

Is it ok to offer up these other contexts out of context? I think so, because Zibaldone IV articulates a similarly swirly tone. Like, we’ve got Rebecca Solnit talking through Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” and later calling out to Michael Ruppert a ways away, and “Easy Rider” is playing in the wings. We’ve got Susan Sontag magically contextualizing Mariah Carey with poet Thylias Moss triangulating in order to sketch out (Rupert again) “something a little more interesting than wilful eclecticism or that laboured and patronising kind of pop-savvy.” 

Are we following? Whether yes or no Vanessa Bedoret follows on with a performance of a performance of Moss’s 'Water Road’: to be once or twice removed, via strange transitions, purposeful confusions, and, suddenly, seagulls. We’re on a boat with Ingeborg Bachmann—and how I wish I could actually be! But maybe thanks to this music I can as literature, films, friends, lethargy, coincidences, little mental links, eternal wormholes, lingering notions come together to imagine something better. 

Text by Natalia Panzer 
npanzer.com 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Music by Rupert Clervaux 

with 
Vanessa Bedoret: voice and violin on Thylias Moss #2 
Eben Bull: trumpet and electronics on Mutual Aid and Departure from England 
Isis O’Regan; voice on Departure from England 
Nick Taylor: electronics on Chthonic ’97 
Ben Vince: saxophone and electronics on Chatsworth ’17 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Warm thanks to James Marrs, as always, and Natalia Panzer 

Vanessa recreates and reads an excerpt from ‘Water Road’ by Thylias Moss. Isis reads ‘Departure from England’ by Ingeborg Bachmann (translated by Peter Filkins). This record is dedicated to both poets––with great respect and deep admiration.

02. Simple Food For Our Simple Taste

Music by Duch (Łukasz Jastrubczak)
Recorded in Szczecin in 2018-19
Mastered by Fausto Mercier / soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier
Artwork by Małgorzata Mazur

Titles come from the book „Correspondences” by Tim Ingold

Duch (Łukasz Jastrubczak) / centrumcentrum.xyz

While living in Kraków, Łukasz Jastrubczak played on synthesizer in the band Boring Drug, together with Tomasz Kowalski, Igor Kłaczyński, Jakub de Barbaro, Ewa Polska, Wiktor Podgórski and occasionally with Jasmina Polak. After moving to Szczecin in 2013, feeling a lack of collective energy, as DUCH he began recording looped, overlapping layers of improvised sounds on home cassette equipment. Selected tracks from about 100 cassettes, were compiled on a self-released cassette album "Utah Jazz" (2016) and album "Y" released in 2022 by "Pointless Geometry". Together with Małgorzata Mazur - the author of the illustration for the cover of "Y" - he runs the institution "CentrumCentrum" which is dedicated to social ecology and art. He lives in Szczecin where he works at the Media Art Department of the Academy of Art.

DUCH - Spitting, Climbing, Soaring, Falling / POINT#49

f051 - melon.obi - Dedicated to Touch

https://soundcloud.com/matildatjader

https://www.retreatradio.net/scaling

Scaling #2 w/ Matilda Tjäder (06/10/22)

Cet épisode est consacré au temps, aux minutes, aux secondes, et aux instruments qui permettent de calculer ce temps ; tels que les horloges, les montres, les réveils, les pendules, les métronomes, les cuckoo clock et bien évidement les cloches et tous les autres instruments de percussions. 
Prenez donc le temps d'écouter ce mix. 
Il dure une heure, mais il vous paraitra sûrement plus long car j'ai pris mon temps pour faire les transitions.

BARK PSYCHOSIS - Pendulum Man
IR_ - Aspirations
ODDITY - What Would You Do
LES HALLES - Under The Sycamore Tree
DAVID EDREN - Gamla Krobo
NOVA DONNA - Ritual Mixtape
TISE DRAMA - je pense à toi, tu es loin, chanson d'amour
0-NO - yam000
CAUSTIC WINDOWS - Cordialatron (Rephlex)
GLOBAL GOON - Business Man 
MOTORISTS - Modflock
KUZUNOCOBIT - Traveler
M. DING DING - M. Ding-ding depuis 22 ans, c'est dingue !
THOOL & MARIEKE - Je Sors (Stepping Out)
SIGN LIBRA - Mantidea vs. Furcifer Pardalis
DJ STARTUP - Sodium State Coastal Trail
DEDECO - Jumpin'
THEODORE CALE SCHAFER - Piano 133 bpm 
KALI MALONE - Spectacle Of Ritual
JUANA MOLINA - A00 B01
NIKE√OMITA - Elmo_3.3
LES HALLES - Opening Fantasy
FLORE BALAS - Oh oh oh, Merry Christmas ! (sample)
AFX - Cuckoo

IL Y A QQE CHOSE KI CLOCHE /w Musique Chienne (30.12.22)

Mattias Petersson, Triangular Progressions, LP
Release date - 24 February 2023
Catalogue nr. - HG2202
Format - Vinyl / digital

hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
1. Triangular Progressions I – V     (20:07)
2. Triangular Progressions VI – IX     (16:10)

Credits:
Composed, mixed and recorded by Mattias Petersson (2019–2021)
Mastered by Andreas Lupo Lubich
Artwork by Laurin Huber 

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Mattias Petersson debuts on the Swiss label Hallow Ground with »Triangular Progressions,« a suite in nine parts written entirely in the SuperCollider environment using additive synthesis. The starting point for the evocative piece is a magic number triangle that Petersson invented during his early composition studies and which has been an obsession of the artist for over twenty years, previously forming the foundation of many other of his works. By exploring the harmonic progressions found hiding within the triangle, »Triangular Progressions« at once emits a sense of introspective calm that fosters deep listening and evokes a whole spectrum of emotions, mediating between the abstract and the visceral.

The Stockholm-based Petersson, also known under the moniker Codespira1 and for his long-term collaboration with violinist George Kentros as There Are No More Four Seasons, has been active as a composer of computer music as well as an artist in the realms of live coding and modular synthesis for over two decades. Originally trained as a classical pianist, he also holds a diploma in electro-acoustic composition from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he currently works as an associate professor. Besides his activities as a musician and teacher, Petersson is pursuing a PhD in composition at the Luleå University of Technology. Researching modular systems comprising both human and non-human modules, he is part of the GEMM))) Gesture Embodiment and Machines in Music cluster.

»Triangular Progressions« can be considered a perfect synthesis of Petersson’s academic interests and aesthetic ideas, combining a mathematical approach with artistic rigour. The magic number triangle highlights the beauty of symmetrical properties. By exploring its idiosyncrasies, the composer manages to translate them into engaging sounds. The lush melodies and harmonies of the music at times call to mind the intimate organ and drone works by label mates Kali Malone and Maria W Horn while also maintaining a unique signature sound. The addition of pure sinusoidal waves enables a deep listening exploration of the counterpoint between melodic and harmonic rhythms, chord structures and spectral harmonies that Petersson extrapolates from those magic numbers.

Triangular Progressions

MATTIAS PETERSSON - Triangular Progressions I – V (edit) (HG2202)

@horsemacgyver recorded live at Pleasures Playhouse, Haymarket.

From 24-27 November 2022, SOFT CENTRE expanded into an interlinked program of concerts, raves, workshops and discussions across 6 unique sites in Eora, Sydney. Traversing experimental club music, live A/V performance, new media, lightworks, noise, sound art and movement, UNFURL was a vital cross-city happening, inhabiting churches, an industrial warehouse, abandoned cinema and the Royal Botanic Gardens 🌱

Horse MacGyver | live at SOFT CENTRE UNFURL 2022

HEATHEN EARTH w/ BRIDE -30/07/2023

Drone For David Session

John Luther Adams Canticles of the Sky (RVNGNL48 - 320 - Promo)

Sky With Nameless Colors

Music by Mabe Fratti & Santiago Rodríguez (EvilTapes)
Additional vocals and percussions by Julian Bonequi

Track number 5 of album of "Moot Point - Original Mixes"

Mixed by Santiago Rodríguez
Mastered by Cem Oral, in Jammin Masters

How Did I Get Here Ft. Julian Bonequi - Mabe Fratti & EvilTapes

Craig Leon - Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon

RVNGNL55

Full album available May 10, 2019

smarturl.it/rvngnl55

©2019 RVNG Intl. // www.igetrvng.com

Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon

The Gates Made Plain

Craig Leon - The Gates Made Plain

Improvisation on Ondes Martenot type Ondomo, 
Christine Ott || 2019
http://ondomo.net/

Improvisation Ondomo #1 - 'Feu Sacré'

(Samuel L. Jetson is an alter ego of Ethan Jones)

How Did I Get Here Ft. Julian Bonequi - Mabe Fratti & EvilTapes

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