~ nervous in spring ~

I got high with a soup dragon and wrote this.

clanger

Created for Azimuth 6, here as a stereo version of the original 32-channel version.

'Based on the introduction of Jean-Paul Resweber's book "The Philosophy of Language", the piece explores the ambiguity between the voice that conveys a message and the voice whose acoustic and musical qualities are heard. It seems that when our attention is focused on the musical aspect of the voice, we forget the message it carries, and vice versa. The back and forth between these different levels of listening leaves the listener free to give it its own meaning, if there is one. And this is precisely the question asked by the original text. '

https://www.azimuthfoundation.net

La philosophie du langage

deadpan robotic

I've Never Been Able To Wedge My Smiles And My Panic Attacks

Healing Song (choir song 2)

「Small Stone」

"In Japan during the Covid-19 lock down we saw a movement. It was created from a woman who raised her voice to say NO via SNS to one of the controversial bills, a revision of the public prosecutor's office law* that was about to go through the Lower House without a fair public hearing. This tiny voice of hers went viral and formed an online demonstration to protect our democracy. It is very rare in Japan for the public to be actively involved in any policies. Alas the bill was temporarily suspended because many finally stood up.

“ When we threw lots of small stones, the mountain got moved a little. However we shouldn’t celebrate yet. We need to be calm and grounded and observe what the government will do.” says Kyoko Koizumi, an actress and a producer whom I respect dearly. Her phrases sums up things that do not change so easily. 


*A proposed legal revision that would raise the retirement age for prosecutors became the centre of controversy this week when it was taken up by the Lower House. Unlike officials in other administrative organizations, prosecutors have wide powers to investigate, arrest and indict anyone, even prime ministers and other high officials. They must remain highly neutral and independent from other authorities and political powers. Since the proposed revision could allow the Cabinet to intervene in the personnel affairs of prosecutors’ offices, many experts fear it could jeopardize the independence of prosecutors and the separation of powers.

「Serene」

The music of Eric Dolphy lives with Breathing.

We never forget the day May 25th 2020 for the world we can freely breath in and out. 

「Two Blue Kites」

June 4th 1989 , it is a very memorable day for me. 

31 years ago I took part in a demonstration for the first time ever in my life. It was a small resistance held in Tokyo. I was with the Chinese people raising my voice out loud in the crowd. I couldn’t do anything but I felt that I had to do something. 

In the beginning of the 90s I was going back and forth between Tokyo and Hong Kong making music. I was offered to make music for a film portrait the night before the Chinese Cultural Revolution called “ The Blue Kite”. The producer of this film invited me to make the music for the film. The film director was banned from making this film in mainland China and he escaped to Japan via Hong Kong. The film was finally completed in Japan. Hong Kong was still in British colony then. This film made my film music career begin. 

June 4th 2020 The Hong Kong government banned the public to organise and attend the candlelight rallies to mark the Tiananmen Square massacre. Despite the harsh policing and the Covid-19 regulation many people (still) defied the ban and tried to attend the commemoration. I was thinking of many of my friends there at the moment.  

I wonder how this little country, Hong Kong, that “brought me up” and “ shaped me who I am today” will be from now. My heart is full of concern for its future.

The film The Blue Kite is still banned in China to this date."

- Otomo Yoshihide



In Japanese / 日本語訳

「Small Stone」

日本では、ステイホームの期間中の5月8日、一人の女性の発言をきっかけに、現

政権がやろうとしていた三権分立をゆるがすようなひどい法案(検察庁法改正案)に対し多くの人々

がSNSを使って異を唱え、それがデモのような効果をもたらし、5月18日国会で

の法案決議を阻止するに至った。

「小さな石をたくさん投げたら山が少し動いた。が、浮き足立ってはいけない。

冷静に誰が何を言い、どんな行動を取るのか見守りたい。」敬愛する女優であり

プロデューサーの小泉今日子が5月19日にSNSで呟いたこの発言は、そのうねり

のことと同時に、しかしそう簡単に現状は変わらないことも表している。

「Serene」

エリック・ドルフィーが作る曲は呼吸とともにある。2020年5月25日は忘れては

ならない日だ。みなが伸び伸びと息ができる世界のために。

「Two Blue Kites」

  6月4日は個人的にも忘れられない日だ。31年前のこの日、わたしは初めてデモに

参加した。東京でおこなわれた小さなデモだった。東京に住む中国人たちと一緒

にわたしも声をあげていた。いてもたってもいられなかったのだ。

90年代初頭、わたしは香港と東京を行き来して音楽をつくっていた。そんな中

1993年、文化大革命前夜の北京を描いた「The Blue Kite」という中国映画の音楽

を作ることになったのが、わたしが映画の世界に入る切っ掛けだった。中国で作

ることを禁じられ、香港経由でフィルムを持って日本に脱出した監督が東京で完

成させた映画で、香港のプロデューサーがわたしを誘ってくれたのだ。当時香港

はまだイギリス領だった。

2020年6月4日、香港では天安門事件31周年の集会が新型コロナを理由に禁止され

ていたにも関わらず、多くの人たちが集まり追悼集会が開かれていた。きっと多

くの友人もそこにいるのだろう。わたしを育ててくれた香港はどうなっていくの

だろうか。「The Blue Kite」は今でも中国での上映が禁止されている。

TR045 - Otomo Yoshihide - 'Small Stones 2 (The Diet May 18th 2020'

Léo Dupleix - synthesis, voice
Félicie Bazelaire - double bass
Stefan Thut - cello
Fredrik Rasten - e-bowed guitar, voice

Recorded live by Stefan Thut in Säulenhalle, Landhaus Solothurn on 28th of June 2020


score:

http://fredrikrasten.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Fuse-modulations.pdf

Fuse modulations - excerpt

Current Mirror

Loop 34 (Bucles)

1986754

17 Aout Iii

LISTEn or BUY: https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/bow-down-thine-ear-i-bring-you-glad-tidings

Among the musicians whose work closely reflects the reduced forms in experimental music, perhaps the most interesting is Cristián Alvear, a Chilean guitarist performing formally radical post-Cagean music, as well as Laurent Peter aka @dincise, a composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer, one of the key figures of the eclectic scene in Geneva. The numerous projects in which they participate prove their strictly defined artistic vision and active involvement in networking the music community, so it’s appropriate to consider them as transitory elements between several scenes on different continents. They have collaborated, among others, with Ryoko Akama, Cyril Bondi, Michael Pisaro, Sarah Hennies, Seijiro Murayama, Taku Sugimoto, Lance Austin Olsen and The Pitch.

Bow Down Thine Ear, I Bring You Glad Tidings is a good example of the refinement of the style developed by Alvear and d’incise in recent years. One can observe here how their musical language and range of instrumental techniques in the use of guitar and idiophones got crystallised.

The classical form of a musical piece organized in time and characterized by a set of elements that create a coherent narrative is replaced here by the primacy of repetition, pitch, precise articulation and reverberation. Sounds seem to be clearly rooted in specific acoustic spaces, which allows the space itself to be treated as a real instrument that adds another layer of meaning. Repetitive sound sequences operate in a similar way to the metronome, determining an obsessive rhythmic pattern, a kind of matrix on which all the details are inscribed. The static structure of the pieces allows the music to function as a sound sculpture - breaking time constraints in favour of continuous duration and acting in a multi-perspective way. This material, does not promise any solution, but strictly accompanies the listener and tries to close itself in the continuous present.

At the same time Bow Down Thine Ear, I Bring You Glad Tidings is a clear dialogue with the work of Henry Purcell. The title of the album is a reference to the anthems written by the British composer (Z11, Z2) and the titles of the pieces refer to his sacred songs (Z192, Z342). Apart from a skillful attempt to decontextualize the lyrics (biblical or rooted in the tradition of baroque religious poetry), we can see here not so much an attempt to give the music a metaphysical character, but certainly Alvear and d’incise tend to replicate a similar mode of listening, as in the case of Purcell's compositions - meditative and at the same time oriented to all elements of the musical situation. 


released October 5, 2020

Cristián Alvear: guitar
cristianalvear.com

d'incise: percussion (2 series of "tuned objects"), post-processings recorded in a different space
dincise.net

Recorded at Insub.studio, Geneva, May 2019
Processings recorded at La Senne, Bruxelles, May & September 2019
Edited & mixed by d’incise

Cover art by Nick Hoffman
www.pilgrimtalk.bandcamp.com

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
www.abdonoval.com

Words by Paweł Szroniak
www.rozkurz.tumblr.com

Photography by Leontína Berková
www.leontinaberkova.com

Released by mappa as MAP020 in 2020

MAP020 / Cristián Alvear & d'incise - Who can from joy refrain?

'Your Cells Branches of Spring ' by @okayvivian is a song taken from the forthcoming Okay Vivian's "Saye" Lp. Album out March 8.

Streaming platforms - https://ffm.to/yourcells

Music written, produced and performed by Okay Vivian.

--

Okay Vivian is the project of Turkish singer/producer Pervin Güzeldere.
Shifting through experimental minimalist compositions to catchy pop elements;
her music combines ethereal silent spaces with heavy beats, scattered vocals,
breaths and whispers.

Since 2018 she has released two singles and an EP. Performed in Ankara, İstanbul and Berlin
with her live A/V performance ‘Wildflowers That Cannot Move But Can Bend And Twist’.

soundcloud.com/okayvivian​
okayvivian.bandcamp.com​
www.facebook.com/okayvivianm/​
Okay Vivian on Spotify cutt.ly/KkjTbuC

Okay Vivian -  Your Cells Branches of Spring

my personal sound collection
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https://soundcloud.com/baraandisa

contact me isabellavaleriebock@gmail.com

live
08/02/2025 Bara & Isa; Struma + Iodine Das Weisse Haus (Vienna, Austria)
06/06/2024 Bara & Isa; Jeopardize Tapes x Enigmatic Serenades Flucc (Vienna, Austria)
15/05/2024 Solo Isa + Verschrin; ritus WP8 Künstlerverein (Düsseldorf, Germany)
09/04/2024 Solo Isa + Verschrin; glistening A4 (Bratislava, Slovakia)
15/03/2024 Solo Isa + Verschrin; TGIF adO/Aptive (Vienna, Austria)
08/12/2023 Bara & Isa; Mini Music Department Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, Germany)
27/10/2023 Bara & Isa; Made Up Realities (Vienna, Austria)
01/10/2023 Bara & Isa; Sad*Crab Radio presents…LIVE Celeste (Vienna, Austria)
03/09/2023 Bara & Isa; Loose Trax Venue MOT (London, UK)
28/07/2023 Bara & Isa; 5Hive Rave (Vienna, Austria)
13/10/2022 Bara & Isa; St. Margaret’s House Chapel (London, UK)
15/09/2022 Bara & Isa; sch:cht as part of Waves Festival, Das Werk (Vienna, Austria)
20/06/2022 The Others; Hilly Fields Stone Circle III (London, UK)
11/06/2022 Bara & Isa; Friends Serene Shacklewell Arms (London, UK)
31/03/2022 Bara & Isa; hey angel Venue MOT Unit 18 (London, UK)
17/03/2022 Bara & Isa; Vaermina EP launch Avalon Cafe (London, UK)
18/02/2022 The Others; Guildhall Basement (London, UK)
29/01/2022 The Others; Windmill Brixton (London, UK)
03/12/2021 Bara & Isa; FC Malina EP launch; Windmill Brixton (London, UK)
05/11/2021 The Others; Hilly Fields Stone Circle II (London, UK)
20/06/2021 The Others; Hilly Fields Stone Circle I (London, UK)
23/11/2019 Cafe OTO Experimental Choir; Áine O’Dwyer Cafe OTO (London, UK)
06/04/2019 Cafe OTO Experimental Choir; Annea Lockwood Cafe OTO (London, UK)
17/03/2019 Cafe OTO Experimental Choir; Sarah Davachi Cafe OTO (London, UK)

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sonic wanderings

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MAP041 Slowfoam - Worlding With Earth
MAP045 VA - Synthetic Bird Music
MAP044 Line Gate - Trap
SKUMAP002 Action Pyramid & Jack Greenhalgh - Mardle: Daily Rhythms of a Pond
046 Adela Mede - Ne L​é​pj a Vir​á​gra
043 Plume Girl - In the End We Begin
039 Forces - Chim​æ​ras
040 Rob Winstone - sifting through heaven
SKUMAP001 Lucie Vítková - Cave Acoustics
030 Symposium Musicum - Symposium Musicum

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038 Nighte - Pin down the dust
036 Kensho Nakamura - Electric Rust
037 Andrew Oda - Back To The Body
031 Baldruin - Kleine Freuden
035 CC Sorensen - Phantom Rooms
034 Alexandra Spence - a veil, the sea
033 Manja Ristić - Him, fast sleeping, soon he found In labyrinth of many a round, self​-​rolled
Grykë Pyje - The Fantastic World of Grykë Pyje
032 Atte Elias Kantonen - POP 6 SUSURRUS

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029 Grykë Pyje - Squirlich Stroll
028 Cucina Povera - Dalmarnock tapes
027 Nick Storring - Newfoundout
025 Lucia Nimcová & Sholto Dobie - DILO
026 Cheryl E. Leonard - Schism
024 Tastin Menu - Stand closer when you have something to say
023 Infant - face first in the entangled

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022 Line Gate - Apex
021 Andrew Oda - SOTTO
020 Cristián Alvear & d'incise - Bow down thine ear, I bring you glad tidings
019 Vlad Dobrovolski - Natursymphony No​.​1 — Spring Music
018 Felicity Mangan - Creepy Crawly
017 Roman Radkovič Collective - Televize
016 Olli Aarni - Mustikoita ja kissankelloja
015 Sarah Hughes - I love this city and its outlying lands
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VA: UŠAMI / Sound mapping camp - Gemer Gothic Route
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007 Catriel Nievas, Sergio Merce - Pampa
006 Diatribes - Sistere
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004 Sarah Hennies: Orienting Response by Cristián Alvear
003 Daniel Lercher & Vinzenz Schwab - Decrecimiento Exponencial
002 Adam Asnan - Carriers, PA
001 Jeph Jerman - 34​°​111'3"N 111​°​95'4"W

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