Spheres 01

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Fantaisie track (courte) series no. 408

creation: 2023/10/31

These tracks were uploaded to SC between 08/2023 and 10/2023,
except for the following, older ones:
. . .

[TO BE COMPLETED]

Happy listening!

* Soundcloud time: 1 year = 12 - 23 months.

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mnemotopia — mnemopoetry — mnemopolitics

Listen Later again

LIGHT

sacramento tech

Cosmic Space Music & Interstellar Journey: Ambient New Age Sounds. Hypnotic Soundscape for Space Odyssey

Planetary Journey

Available at UE Marketplace:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/8d45fd85501c4f999437ca3dff154524


With “Dark Space Ambience” sound library Polysonic Audio brings you a versatile, high quality, dark cinematic ambient sound arsenal ranging from massive, bassy, sub, noise-like drones sound effects, creepy, otherworldly, organic, alien-like soundscapes and tension-building atmospheres, to the eerie, resonating, hair-raising, space horror ambience sounds that will easily find a way into your next movie, game, trailer, video, music track, and more! 
 
Perfect for any production involving dystopian and post-apocalyptic scenes of destroyed futuristic cities, spaceship quests, haunting, eerie spaces and landscapes, huge, abandoned deep space, creepy halls, corridors, tunnels, and devastated, gloomy, dark futuristic areas. This professionally designed sound library will provide you with a vast variety of drones, soundscapes, atmospheres, textures, and space ambience sounds that will bring sonic perspective to scenes and images of a distant deep space full of loneliness, anxiety and tension. These futuristic and sometimes scary sounds will immerse your audience in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic, sci-fi world!

DSA - Dark Space Ambience

Polysonic

DSA - Engine Of Progress

Available at UE Marketplace:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/8d45fd85501c4f999437ca3dff154524

With “Dark Space Ambience” sound library Polysonic Audio brings you a versatile, high quality, dark cinematic ambient sound arsenal ranging from massive, bassy, sub, noise-like drones sound effects, creepy, otherworldly, organic, alien-like soundscapes and tension-building atmospheres, to the eerie, resonating, hair-raising, space horror ambience sounds that will easily find a way into your next movie, game, trailer, video, music track, and more! 
 
Perfect for any production involving dystopian and post-apocalyptic scenes of destroyed futuristic cities, spaceship quests, haunting, eerie spaces and landscapes, huge, abandoned deep space, creepy halls, corridors, tunnels, and devastated, gloomy, dark futuristic areas. This professionally designed sound library will provide you with a vast variety of drones, soundscapes, atmospheres, textures, and space ambience sounds that will bring sonic perspective to scenes and images of a distant deep space full of loneliness, anxiety and tension. These futuristic and sometimes scary sounds will immerse your audience in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic, sci-fi world!

DSA - Dangerous Emptiness

Dark Space Ambience

DSA - Alone In The Ship

Gabado durante las mañanas de octubre 2019. Huasca Hgo. México.
arpa microtonal electroacústica.

Maña Nacida 03

[p*dis] distribution sampler for February 2014


Christina Vantzou - NO2 - Going Backwards to Recover What was Left Behind (kranky)

Dobra voda is a small bay on the island of Silba. A remote beach is situated an hours walking distance from the only village on the island.

This mystical and completely secluded place was once a summer commune, gathering creative minds from Yugoslavia but also from all over Europe. A versatile art scene emerged, the one that preceded Ljubljana's alternative theatre scene, Rijeka's new wave and some of the most influential ex-Yu alternative bands; "[...] The music was coming from every single bush: violins, cellos, saxophones, trumpets, and, of course, mostly guitars [...]."

One of my dearest friends, Natasha Kadin, curator and cultural manager of SEA Silba Environment Art organised a wonderful exhibition in 2018 with found archive photos made by Marijan Blažina, one of the artists from the commune. Croatian multi-disciplinary artist and author Boris Greiner wrote more about this exhibition: www.silba-environment-art.hr/en/blog/boris-greiner-slikovne-poruke-s-dobre-vode/

I visited Dobre vode on a few occasions, but this particular time I wanted to record a sonic palimpsest, built from water memories and other environmental simulacra of this magical little bay. I recorded with hydrophones from various angles, listened to the interplay between water and salt and different geological formations. The movement of the pebbles from the sea bed, water sliding down the rocks and crevices, burying my "ears" under the sea bed but also inside the enormous piles of dry Posidonia oceanica, commonly known as Neptune grass or Mediterranean tapeweed, a seagrass species that is endemic to the Mediterranean Sea. It forms large underwater meadows that are an important part of the ecosystem. The Posidonia has a very high carbon absorption capacity, being able to soak up 15 times more carbon dioxide every year than a similar-sized piece of the Amazon rainforest.

Dobra voda bay is positioned to accumulate dry Posidonia once it is washed ashore. It is absolutely impossible to be still in those clouds of dry seaweed and be completely silent. Even so, I tried.

The sound piece is a mix of 16 chosen recordings placed in a dronesque metaphor of passing time. 

released August 25, 2022

All sounds recorded, edited and composed by Manja Ristić
Recorded during SEA Silba Environment Art Residence 2021
www.silba-environment-art.hr
Hydrophone built by Jez riley French
jezrileyfrench.co.uk
Mastering La Plant Studio Belgrade
laplantstudio.com

Dobra voda

August 25th, 2022

Bandcamp

Fatima Al Qadiri - Asiatisch out now on Hyperdub

Amazon

Fatima Al Qadiri - Szechuan - (Taken From The Album Asiatisch)

long-form audio installation
artistic research
booklet in English – containing aural photography, theoretical discourse on the culture of listening, and more...

sound, text, images: Manja Ristić
editor: Sonja Leboš
sound mastering: La Plant Studio, Belgrade
design: Nevena Vasiljević
proofreading: Mark Vernon
production, publishing, distribution: ELL Studio 2023
artistic research in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research, Zagreb

water memory is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia

read more about the project >>> 
https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/water-memory-mnemosonic-topographies-of-the-adriatic

water memory

water memory – mnemosonic topographies of the Adriatic

Fatima Al Qadiri: Shanghai Freeway (Taken from Asiatisch Released 05/2014) On Hyperdub 

Fatima Al Qadiri: Shanghai Freeway (Taken from Asiatisch Released 05/2014)

Lithuanian musician and sound artist Marija Rasa, aka emer, is a master of texture and tone. In her recent album 'sea salt', she creates a mesmerizing palette of rustles, clicks and clangs, that spiral in freefall. Layered vocals are fragmented and compressed into the most minute of spaces, transmitted directly to the ear as whispered messages.

Her somewhere mix takes a cinematic, expansive approach to composition, with Janet Cardiff's potent narration exerted as a guiding tether. Marija expertly weaves through layers of abstracted ambient and dismantled techno, concocting an undulating pace that stretches moments infinitely, resulting in deep, resonating echoes. As the parts come together, fortuitous sounds create a spine-tingling euphoria, glistening in their warm and blissful transience.

@marija-rasa-k

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Jane Cardiff - missing voice track 03 (excerpt)
nimu - Headache Pill
Kassel Jaeger - Meith
Miguel A Ruiz - Transparent
Jane Cardiff - missing voice track 01 (excerpt)
Best Available Technology - 605AM4262013c
Best Available Technology - Dot Ohm 
Jane Cardiff - missing voice track 01 (excerpt)
Steve Roden - Translations & Articulations
tau contrib -  tthrown
Skee Mask - Daytime Gamer (version)
TEREKKE - Live at Het Bimhuis - Side A
Jane Cardiff - missing voice track 03 (excerpt)
x or size - Empast
Bellows - 01 01
Biosphere - Disc
Kareem Lotfy - Fr3sh
perila - 5 am
Pendant - Des Vieux Temples
Jane Cardiff - missing voice track 03 (excerpt)

Somewhere #9 ~ Marija Rasa

premiered at the Listening Biennial 2023 Belgrade, on July 20th, 2023 –– "Dobra voda, act two" is a continuation of exploring the sound material gathered at SEA Silba Environment Art residency (2021).

the compositional approach of act two moves the focus from holistic listening to the chosen locale toward the phenomenological positioning of oneself in relation to geomorphic bio-acoustics — re-imagined as micro-environment was (consciously) listening back.

little is discussed about field recording practice being an intrusion into the landscape; also, not much attention is given to Nature's intelligence and its system-based intercommunication, which undeniably has means of perceiving our presence.

this work is deeply inspired by the constant movement of the sea.

released July 20, 2023

all sounds recorded, edited, and composed by Manja Ristić
hydrophone made by Jez riley French
mastering by La Plant Studio
supported by SEA Silba Environment Art

Dobra voda, act two

sound art series based on the poetry collection "Stories Untold"

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people were falling in the streets
shivering in agony, for what they saw would hit them
like a bolt, scalding them from within,
the Great War was now inside them

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I am buried
with you, and the others
in the trenches of shame, all piled up
& covered with sickening laughter.
Our eyeballs are rubbed with injustices,
ears deafen by rumble of terror,
hearts numbed with trepidation,
limbs soaked in repugnant lies,
minds bleached by virtual ordure.
They murder, they rape, they rob.
They bury. Me, you,
and the others.
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this 21-minute long sound work is a forest tale about war, re-imagined from the perspective of the land that witnessed centuries of socio-cultural turmoil. tamed nature versus wilderness, contaminated versus protected land, the Iron Curtain belt saw some significant changes – from being a brutal barrier between East and West strewn with mine fields, to becoming a highly protected European natural heritage.

the somewhat tense, suffocating and dark-sounding atmosphere of this piece reflects my feelings on possible relations between former and present conflicts, and alludes to the harsh consequences necro-politics of the past are imposing on contemporary society.

the stunning forest microbiome researched in this work is now part of the European Green Belt, formerly the Iron Curtain borderlands between Austria and Czech Republic. 

released September 14, 2023

sounds gathered during SHAPE+ musikprotokoll residency, July 2023, kindly hosted by Kulturzentrum – Garage Druzba, Harrachstal.

all sounds recorded, edited & composed by Manja Ristić
hydrophone built by Jez riley French
mastering La Plant Studio

for what they saw would hit them like a bolt

Cosmo Vitelli & DJ Sundae head up the monthly hour-long slot for No Weapon Is Absolute, direct from Paris... 
https://www.nts.live/shows/no-weapon-is-absolute/episodes/no-weapon-is-absolute-20th-september-2023

No Weapon Is Absolute w/ DJ Sundae 200923

I wrote this violin sonata around New Years in early 2023, and much of it was written while traveling. I'm proud of how it came out and hope you enjoy it!

The third movement is sort of scherzo-inspired, set in a sort of a joke/stunt time signature, but also still hopefully sort of fun and playful, at least that was the goal.

Home for Now

Violin Sonata In B Major - 3

I wrote this violin sonata around New Years in early 2023, and much of it was written while traveling. I'm proud of how it came out and hope you enjoy it!

The slow movement is a reimagining of a solo piano sonata I wrote the previous year that didn't quite come out right. With the addition of violin it felt a lot "fuller" and am happy with how it came out in this iteration.

Violin Sonata In B Major - 2

I wrote this violin sonata around New Years in early 2023, and much of it was written while traveling. I'm proud of how it came out and hope you enjoy it!

The first movement is in sonata form.

Violin Sonata In B Major - 1

Welcome onto a new year at FR, guided by Lovefear (@lovefear1) through progressive cadences and hues, unfolding a tapestry of misty air and fire wisps.

Artwork by Isidora Amenábar.

FR093 Lovefear (Perth, Australia)

The deeper I am investigating field recording as both artistic and listening practice, the more I become aware that each recording session is an intrusion into the landscape and that the landscape, whatever historical, biotic, or environmental system defines it – is sentient to my presence.

No matter how considerate my “intrusions” are, an abstract form of communication always takes place, and it largely depends on my ability to maintain this connection, which goes beyond the soundscape and sonic properties of the place. In this sense, my capacity to employ deep intuition and activate a specific neural architecture developed through a compound of skills also defines the recording process and its future aesthetic transformation. Thus, making a field recording fully personalized practice and soundscape composition a discipline of open interpretation, as well as a vast field for misuse and false representation. Regardless of an evaluation system, whether we contemplate an act of listening through scientific observation of one’s cognition event boundaries or through the capacity to comprehend the existential phenomenology of Zulu spiritualism, the possibility that two or more listeners can have the same listening experience is minuscule.

We are all deeply rooted in a diversity of psychological constructs; neural and sensory imprints, memory compounds, cognitive abilities, and many body-mind pathways determining our current psycho-physical state. Therefore, if the field recording practice is based on any form of active listening – it is a discipline based on interpretation.
With that in mind, I am asking: How do we approach the landscape of severe devastation and a dense history of warfare? Knowing that serious ethical and moral consequences are involved in the effort to interpret a particular soundscape.

In the work “ghosts” I am using obsolete instruments – a modular synthesizer built in 1970, a discarded wheelchair wheel salvaged from the Adriatic Sea, and the piano fallen in disuse which belonged to the Austrian conceptualist, filmmaker, improviser, photographer, environmentalist, and writer – Karl Katzinger aka John Tylo (October 1953 – April 2021). Next to these elements of the past and their voices rediscovered, I am incorporating hydrophone and field recordings from several locations appropriating them through the discourse of critical tourism and a culture of memory – more specifically through listening to the inherent memories of environmental devastation due to exploitation of natural resources as well as warfare – in the South Adriatic (Old town Dubrovnik and island of Vrnik), and the Czech-Austrian borderlands nearby of Mauthausen–Gusen concentration camps. 

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Instruments:
EMS Synthi 100
Wheelchair wheel salvaged from the sea
John Tylo’s old piano

Field recordings:
Dubrovnik – Stradun air conditioning units and collection of rubbish containers
Vrnik Island South Adriatic – crickets in an ancient limestone quarry
Adriatic dolphins *hydrophone recording by Robertina Šebjanič
Harrachstal village on Czech-Austrian borderlands – crickets in the abandoned granite quarry
Hydrophone recordings of the river Schwarze Aist
Train coming into Freistadt train station in Austria

All sounds performed, recorded, composed & edited by Manja Ristić
Some sounds gathered at the SHAPE + musikprotocoll residency, July 2023

Hydrophone used for an underwater recordings made by Jez riley French
jezrileyfrench.co.uk

Mastering by La Plant Studio
laplantstudio.com

ghosts

LINE_151

Serbian sound artist, poet, curator, and researcher, Manja Ristić returns for her second release for LINE after 2023's 'Awakenings' (LINE_138). Her new album 'Ma' recalls the incredibly subtle, detailed works of Steve Roden, Francisco López, or Bernhard Günter fused with the adept field recordings of Jana Winderen and the delicate resonances of Toshiya Tsunoda. Two entrancing long form works incorporating field recordings, acoustic instruments, and unexpected found sounds.

> https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/ma 

Ma — depth of the space, of the environment, of relations and mystical interrelatedness. The hidden or obvious void that defines the form and liberates from it at the same time. Ma and the sound? The weight of emptiness and quietness is revealed by unexpected density—the space chants, the chants spread in waves, pulsations, a pellucid spectrum of timbre.

“I hear the water dreaming” echoes in my mind.

Patterns of the forest chorus build pandiatonic clouds, on the brim of sonic hallucinations, we hear the space breathing, vellum of light expanding, beyond our hearing range.

Sounds of Ma deep in the ground, on the surface, underwater, on the surface of the water, in the air, between gravity and the air; Ma between air and objects, tubes and thermal bodies, between the Moon and its reflection; bottom of the silent lake and the stratosphere far beyond our world next to the frozen planet with the hidden ocean.

Ma of the soul caught on the tape.

Nothing is necessary.

Nothing holds everything together.

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List of field recordings and samples:

• Giant anthill in the abandoned forest quarry
• Cricket chorus next to Pohořský rybník lake
• Hydrophone recording of the “silent lake” Stierhüblteich
• Hydrophone recording of the river Schwarze Aist and its various tributaries
• Bowing cymbal under the full moon next to the Schwarze Aist (recorded by Abby Lee Tee)
• Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana—ventilation in the man’s toilet (recorded by Mark Vernon)
• Cassini passing between Saturn and Enceladus Moon (NASA sounds)
• Dad’s boiler
• Breath and broken tape recorder hum extracted from Toru Takemitsu’s tape “Ki Sora Tori” (1956)
• Bowing glass vase
• Two wine glasses gently trembling in front of the fan
• Electro-magnetic field around the broken socket
• Violin

Sounds, composition, images, text by Manja Ristić
Mastering La Plant Studio

MANJA RISTIĆ - Ma - 02 Full Moon Trembles On The Surface Of The Creek

CHROMATICS - Girls Just Wanna Have Some

Huerco S. Mix N°20

Hoodrich, Vol. 3

IAMDDB - Running

As the sun returns and the days lengthen, the urge to travel comes again.
This episode we hit the open road in a camper van with our best friends,  flasks of punch and some canned goods.

Love
Billy

Explore more at: www.billycaso.com

Home Comforts

Home Comforts - 04 - Roadtrip

All compositions by Ismael Dueñas
Ismael Dueñas, piano 
Virgine Robilliard, violin
Sandrine Robilliard, cello

Ambient #2

Berlin based cellist and composer Anne Müller, announces the release of her long awaited debut solo album 'Heliopause'. 

Heliopause follows several Erased Tapes releases featuring Anne, including her celebrated collaboration with Nils Frahm titled 7fingers, appearances on Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm’s Collaborative Works, Nils Frahm’s All Melody and his acclaimed soundtrack for the film Victoria, Lubomyr Melnyk’s Fallen Trees, as well as the two bespoke solo pieces Walzer für Robert and Bel Tono for the label’s 5th and 10th anniversary box sets. In fact, a glance at  Müller’s Discogs boasts credits on over 60 releases since she began recording in 2007.

Classically trained at Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts under the renowned cellist and conductor Michael Sanderling, Anne Müller performed as a cellist in many of Berlin’s symphonies for some time before choosing a different path with her music and focussing on novel approaches to classical instrumentation. A profound believer in the power of artistic collaboration, Anne’s skilled cello playing and instinctive composition became extremely sought after.

Following her work with Nils Frahm, an enduring partnership with singer-songwriter-composer Agnes Obel ensued, touring for five years together and featuring on two albums (Philharmonics and Aventine) and most recently, working with multi-instrumentalist Markus Sieber (aka Aukai) on his 2019 album Reminiscence. In between all this, Müller also co-founded the progressive live project Solo Collective along with violinist/singer Alex Stolze and pianist/conceptual artist Sebastian Reynolds, releasing Solo Collective Part One in 2017.

A solo record in every sense of the word, Müller wrote, recorded, arranged and produced Heliopause. The album is named after the boundary where the sun’s wind ceases to have influence. It is ultimately, the border of our solar system. The name struck a chord with Müller since the two voyagers sent on an exploratory mission 42 years ago, recently crossed the Heliopause, entering into interstellar space and losing power from our own sun. Müller recognised herself in this moment, not only approaching the same age, but also breaking new ground; having relied on collaborating with so many other stars and now venturing into the unknown with her first solo statement; “Heliopause marks the end of a long journey but also the start of voyages to explore strange new worlds”

Both as the closing title track and album as a whole, Heliopause crosses these physical and invisible borders throughout, sending the cello as a typically classical instrument to exciting new and uncharted territory.

· pre-order 'Heliopause' on LP/CD/DL: https://idol.lnk.to/Heliopause

Heliopause

Nummer 2

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The Slow Descent Has Begun

Keep It Dark, Deutschland

thesisproject.bandcamp.com/album/thesi…artyn-heyne

Ben Lukas Boysen - editing, zen garden.
Martyn Heyne - guitar, organ.

Composed, mixed, and mastered by Martyn Heyne + Ben Lukas Boysen at Lichte Studio Berlin.
Additional engineering by Matthias H. Franz Hahn. Vinyl cut by Mike Grinser.

Thank You!
Gregory Euclide, Matthias H. Franz Hahn, everyone at Manners McDade, Erased Tapes Records & Publishing, Claudia Gödke, and Karolina Zenobia Heyne.

Dedicated to Frieda and Frau Bellmann.

Thesis 16

& Martyn Heyne - June

To mark this year’s 88th day and as an acknowledgement to these unprecedented circumstances we find ourselves in, Piano Day founder, pianist and producer Nils Frahm releases a collection of eight solo piano pieces titled 'Empty'. 

Stream and download 'Empty': https://idol.lnk.to/nils-frahm-empty

Conceived of just before Nils broke his thumb and composed the similarly intimate solo piano album 'Screws', 'Empty' is a soothing vessel of eight simple and serene pieces originally recorded as the music to a short art film he shot with his friend and film director Benoit Toulemonde. Drifting through emotions from the stark and sobering opener 'First Defeat', to the gently euphoric 'No Step On Wing' and the contemplative but hopeful closer 'Black Notes', with its poignant minute of silence, 'Empty' is a comforting score for these turbulent times.

“When I came back from the hospital with a broken thumb and listened to the recordings, I felt they were unfinished. I decided to put them aside and started to work on my small album, 'Screws'. 

Many many other notes of the piano have been struck since these days, and before we all forget about this, I thought it would be a good moment to share these lullabies with you. I hope they help you stay all strong and calm in these days of solitude – despite the hardship, we can discover introspection and reflection unexpectedly. Who knows what it is good for.  
 
Much love, Nils”

for what they saw would hit them like a bolt

Manja Ristic