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Quantum Spins sounded like a good alertnative sound arts podcast playlist title, at least for starters. I'd been thinking about how to re-present sounds, music, audio, ideas about sonic & vibrational phenomena that I had been listening to or thinking about seriously and now here it is. My aim is to expose listeners to items I've found particularly fertile, inspirational and essential either in that they back up or initialize my own catalytics or genuinely throw a spanner into overly aggregrated or pat systems of how music and information should be organized or presented. This is a depot for highly charged works of art, maybe even a museum but not a venue (I am not seeking submissions nor for what some algorithm deems to be similar nor to have more of the same, not at all). I put here certain works I might have wanted to make if I had had the means or situation to do so and/or things I could never have imagined before. Many thanks to the perhaps yet unwitting (and future unknown) contributors ;)  Leading image from Marta Zapparoli's track is a photo of her recording auroera borealis: photographer Alex Conu.

Quantum Spins (Selected by Jeff Gburek)

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Fantaisie track (courte) series no. 395

creation: 2023/09/20

These tracks were uploaded to SC between 07/2023 and 09/2023,
except for the following, older ones:
. . .

[TO BE COMPLETED]

Happy listening!

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

hk_fantaisies_tracks_395

Regio express

Despite being essential to life on Earth, the magnetic field isn’t something we can actually see in itself, or ever hear. But, remarkably, scientists at the Technical University of Denmark have taken magnetic signals measured by ESA’s Swarm satellite mission and converted them into sound – and for something that protects us, the result is pretty scary.
Sound design & concept: Klaus Nielsen (https://soundcloud.com/maplepools) and Nikolai Linden-Vörnle (https://soundcloud.com/kamikaze_vildsvin)
Image by Crimson Sound (https://soundcloud.com/crimson-sound-483379629)
Read the full story: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Swarm/The_scary_sound_of_Earth_s_magnetic_field

The scary sound of Earth’s magnetic field

Posaune & Audiobearbeitung by Wolfram Schurack

Walfram

A new composition for ELKA organ, Bees and Flies processed.

You Are Never Alone But...

This is an Extract from the Premiere of my new solo performance "Interdimensional Generated Space", premiered in October 2022 at Panke Culture in Belin, as a part of the series (Von Antennenwäldern und Wellenozeanen) . 

A research-intensive piece focusing on the transcendental phenomenon of the Northern Lights. 
The planned performance uses the implement of self-made recordings from the Northern Lights, in combination with self-made crystal radio, plus light, detectors, and motors, to simulate a technological audio-visual version of Northern Lights in the performance space. “Interdimensional” specifically refers to the movement of energy between modes of perception. One part of this energy come from the composed mixture of “natural cosmic voices”; and another part is coming from the electromagnetic forces generated and captured in real time during the performance. The piece make full use of the contrasts of the invisible processes, to create a new experience of space, time, and human scale. 
This is an attempt to achieve a unique sonic dialogue 
between “Natural” and “Technological” world, a reflection on Nature that is imitated by technology in an anthropogenic age.

This project was kindly supported by Musikfonds & Neu Start Kulture
Photo credit : Alex Conu
Live recordings by : Roy Carroll

Interdimensional Generated Space_ Extract Live Premiere@Panke Culture, Berlin 2022

Anna von Hausswolff - Sova

Restitution sonore - projet "le temps des oiseaux"

-Sensibilisation en milieu naturel (les marais du Vigueirat) puis urbain (quartier du Trébon à Arles): Livia Vallejo
-Collectages sonores in situ et montage: Pascal Schaefer

-Musique additionnelle: Anne Pacéo

En partenariat avec le centre social du Mas Clairanne, la LPO
et Cultures du Cœur (dans le cadre de la journée Bol d’Air aux marais du Vigueirat)

Réalisation: 2 SI2 LA
avec le soutien de la ville d'Arles
chaleureux remerciements à tous les participants

le temps des oiseaux

D sTÅhr

Theta

1915 THE ARMENIAN FILES
A project by Roberto Paci Dalò
After texts by Daniel Varujan

1915 is a date that reminds us all of the fragility of our human society and its incredible arrogance: Medz Yeghern (the Great Crime) also known as the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Roberto Paci Dalò after working in the area of image and sound in relationship with fragile human environemnt connected with historical diasporas and dramatic mass-movements (Ye Shanghai, Il grande bianco, De bello Gallico, a.o.) is now embarking into a new adventure that somehow summarizes and brings further his researches and interests.
The project will be starting from these terrible events and through a continues research that sees the beginning of it with a week of radio, exhibitions, and live performances in Italy, Belgium and Austria between April 23 and May 3, 2015.
The project will travel to Istanbul, Beirut (exploring the Arab Image Foundation), Erevan and several other places in order to meet people and collect images, sounds, stories, voices.
It can be the starting point of a digital database, a hub for the development of a constellation of projects and collaborations.

The outputs of the project will include the followings:
- Concerts
- Music-Theatre Performance
- Film
- Radio work
- Interactive sound and video installation
- Publications (book, e-book, record, dvd)
- Exhibitions (drawings, sculptures, maps)

This project is done in collaboration with Arthub and other organizations such as Giardini Pensili (italy), FuturePerfect Productions (New York), ORF Kunstradio (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation), Galerie Mario Mazzoli (Berlin).



1915 The Armenian Files | Live | RAI Radiotre Battiti | 2015 | Part Two

Future Sound of London - The Deseo Remixes

Future Sound of London (FSOL) - Deep Forest - Deep Floresta

Graeme Miller & Steve Shill
The Moomins
FKR090
LP/CD/MP3

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Imagine, if you will, a foreboding homemade electro-acoustic, new age, synth driven, proto-techno, imaginary world music Portastudio soundtrack for a Polish-made animated fantasy based on a Finnish modern folk tale and created for German and Austrian TV, composed in 1982 by two politically driven post-punk theatre performers from a shared house in Leeds!

To even the most perspicacious and adventurous of alternative music fans the genuine bloodline of this previously unreleased record already begins to sound like an entire record collection in one sitting. It would be surprising if this project's ambitious and exotic credentials didn't tick at least one box on your musical matrix and without one drop of unnecessary nostalgic hyperbole this project already sounds like the perfect fantasy record that you've never heard. Alternatively we could just say The Moomins and, for many, things would instantly begin to make perfect sense.

From the same social landscape as Gang Of Four, The Mekons and Impact Theatre Co-operative - armed with a Wasp synthesiser, an ocarina and a cassette of the Robinson Crusoe music taped off the TV, Graeme Miller and Steve Shill used minimum means for maximum mayhem, instilling over 35 years of dreamlike illusory fuzziness and freakiness into the memories of a generation of school age TV addicts waiting for the next 5 minute fix of outernational fuzzy felt folklore. Collected here, all in one place for the first time, Finders Keepers in close collaboration with the original composers finally bring the original homemade micro-melodies and reintroduce them to a musical landscape where fans of vintage electronics, concrète tape effects, pocket percussion and domestic synths are finally ready to be reunited with the magnetic music of Moominvalley.

www.finderskeepersrecords.com

Most Unusual

Future Sound Of London - Cascade (Odyssia Edit)

My Body Is The Forest, The Forest Is My Body is a sound track, which accompanies the video project(phot. Jacek Jaca Wisniewsky),  under the same title, shot in the endangered zone of Bialowieza Forest.
This project searches to understand better the interrelation between the body and the forest through the
similarities which connect both organisms and to make it present to a viewer, aiming at changing the sociopolitical distance between the body of the viewer and the forest bringing it closer together instigating a more intimate relation between the two.
Bialowieza is one of the last remaining parts of the primal forest that once stretched across the northern European lowlands and a designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is home to many rare and unique species of wildlife including being the only area, where the european bison still survives in the wild. It is currently under threat from increased logging, which is the policy of the new polish government. The policy is very controversial and subject to intense debate, which gives a context to this project.

My Body Is The Forest The Forest Is My Body

Future Sound of London Megamix (Mystic Journey To The Future)
3 Hours Longform Mix of FSOL, Amorphous Androgynous and other related Electronic, Ambient, Experimental tracks

Tracklist:
Part 1: Love and Peace for Everybody (0:00 - 61:52)
01. Future Sound Of London - Yo-Yo [The Mello Hippo Disco Show EP]
02. Robert Miles - Children (Message Version) [Children CDM]
03. Future Sound Of London - The Great Marmalade Mama in the Sky [Papua New Guinea Translations]
04. Atrium Carceri - Librarian [Seishinbyouin LP]
05. Future Sound Of London - Bird Wings [Lifeforms LP]
06. Future Sound Of London - Dead Skin Cells [Lifeforms LP]
07. Future Sound Of London - Cascade (Part 5) [Cascade EP]
08. Future Sound Of London - Cascade (Part 1) [Cascade EP]
09. Future Sound Of London - My Kingdom [Dead Cities LP]
10. Future Sound Of London - Max [Dead Cities LP]
11. Future Sound Of London - Antique Toy (End Part) [Dead Cities LP]
12. Future Sound Of London - I. Quagmire, II. In A State Of Permanent Abyss (Mainly I.) [Dead Cities LP]
13. Future Sound Of London - An End Of Sorts (ISDN cut) [ISDN Ltd.Ed. LP]

Part 2: New Lifeforms (61:52 - 95:43)
14. Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea (Blue States Full Length Mix) [Accelerator LP CD2]
15. Future Sound Of London - Cascade (Part 3) [Cascade EP]
16. Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms (Part 5) [Lifeforms EP]
17. Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms (Part 6) [Lifeforms EP]
18. Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms (Part 3) [Lifeforms EP]
19. Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms (Part 4) (Extended with Mixed Beats Ending) [Lifeforms EP]

Part 3: Flash-out - See and Remember (95:43 - 123:40)
20. Future Sound Of London - She Sells Electric Ego (2nd Half cut) [The Mello Hippo Disco Show EP]
21. Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea (Dub Child Of Q Mix) [Accelerator LP CD2]
22. Schiller feat. Maya Saban - I've Seen it all (Live) [Viva Overdrive 2003.10.25]
23. B.T. - Remember [ESCM]
24. Massive Attack - Sly (Eternal Feedback Dub vs. Original Edit) [A Massive Collection LP]

Part 4: Concept 2: Rebirth Of London (123:40 - 179:32)
25. Steve Roach - Chattles [Drifting/Chattles CDS]
26. Shpongle - Crystal Skulls (Western Rebel Alliance Remix) [The Remixes 2003 LP]
27. Shpongle - Doorset Perception [Tales Of The Inexpressible 2001 LP]
28. Future Sound Of London - Ameoba [Far-out Son Of Lung and Ramblings Of A Madman EP]
29. Future Sound Of London - Snake Hips [Far-out Son Of Lung and Ramblings Of A Madman EP]
30. Steve Roach - Drifting [Drifting/Chattles CDS]
31. Shpongle - Once Upon The Sea Of Blissful Awareness (Esionjim Rmx) [The Remixes 2003 LP]
32. Senor Coconut - Riders On The Storm [Fiesta Songs LP]
33. Future Sound Of London - My Kingdom (Part 5) [My Kingdom EP]

Future Sound Of London Megamix

Fort Romeau takes you inside the world of the electronic music experimenters.

UK producer Michael Greene has been releasing music under the alias Fort Romeau since 2012 via labels like Ghostly International, Running Back, and Live at Robert Johnson. But we first discovered his prowess on Tim Sweeney’s excellent Beats in Space radio show in November 2014, sharing a double bill with Jackmaster.

We’re still listening to that set, on repeat, three years later, alongside new favourites and his own releases, which is why we’ve wanted to tap him for our VF mix series for some time.

To coincide with Fort Romeau’s new Emulators EP out on Running Back, he’s selected one of his biggest influences – electronic experimenters The Future Sound of London – for VF Mix 106. Listen to the mix and discover why Fort Romeau has chosen FSOL below.

“Brain Dougans and Garry Cobain have released a dizzying amount of music under a plethora of guises, the most well known of which is The Future Sound of London. I’ve been a huge fan of their output for many years and wanted to showcase some of their lesser known tracks in this mix alongside a couple of stone cold classics,” says Greene.

“Navigating their extensive discography is a bit of a task, and can be difficult to get your head around, so I narrowed my focus down to predominantly early singles, before the group hit the big time with ‘Papua New Guinea’, which ironically marked the end of the group’s dance/rave era.”

For people unfamiliar with the group, check out the debut album Accelerator as it epitomises the early FSOL sound, and for my money is the best UK techno LP of the early 90s.”

Tracklist:

1. The Future Sound of London – Expander
2. The Future Sound of London – Hardhead (original mix)
3. Metropolis – Metropolis
4. Semi Real – People Livin’ Today (Med mix)
5. Metropolis – Hyper Real 3
6. Smart Systems – The Creator
7. Mental Cube – I’m Not gonna Let You Do It
8. Mental Cube – Q
9. Indo Tribe – In The Mind of a Child (First Born mix)
10. Indo Tribe – Owl (I Can See You mix)
11. Indo Tribe – Just Look
12. Yage – Travellers
13. The Future Sound of London – Cascade Pt. I
14. The Future Sound of London – Papua New Guinea (12″ mix)

VF Mix 106: The Future Sound of London by Fort Romeau

Future Sound of London - Pulse State

TORTURE [1997]

Gökçen Kaynatan
Cehennem 
Cacophonic (25CACK)

A key figure during the birth of Turkish rock and roll, a founding father of Anatolian Rock and the studio brains behind the first Turkish electronic pop records, Gökçen Kaynatan's influence runs like the lifeblood through Turkish pop and rock. Having shunned the recording industry early in his career he remained a driving force behind the scenes and on TV screens, spearheading the explosion of synth technology in Turkish music with his pioneering use of the EMS Synthi AKS, the fruits of which would only be shared on stage, never to be repeated television broadcasts, and in archival recordings that haven't seen the light of day, until now! 

Having chanced upon the newly released EMS Synthi AKS in 1972 during a sabbatical in Cologne, Gökçen undertook six months of tuition in order to fully explore every intricacy of the highly versatile portable modular analog synthesiser. As the beating heart of his now self-sufficient custom-built studio it would propel Gökçen’s forward-thinking aural ambitions to a new plain. Making his first entirely synthesiser based public performances in Germany in 1974 he then returned to his homeland to soundtrack the dawn of the Turkish television age as in-house composer and one-man house band for Turkey's first TV channel TRT, signalling the arrival of a new era in Turkish pop and rock. Increasingly dogged by ill health, Gökçen privately harnessed the Synthi to channel his suffering caused by what would later be diagnosed as a brain tumour, dutifully recording and archiving his studio experiments, which would remain in the proverbial can for over 40 years. 

With unparalleled access to Gökçen's closely guarded private vault, Finders Keepers Records presents another first with this previously unheard collection of EMS Synthi AKS recordings that represent a vital yet hitherto missing thread in the development of modern Turkish music. Recorded between 1973-75 this modest compendium comprises two of Gökçen's earliest synthesiser compositions and an updated recording made whilst recovering from brain surgery - arguably some the earliest Turkish synthesiser music committed to magnetic tape, further cementing Gökçen's indelible legacy within Turkish popular culture.

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Gökçen Kaynatan - Cehennem (Hell)

BRISTOL

Descending

Movement 2

Marta Zapparoli is an Italian experimental sound artist, radio artist, improviser, performer, and independent researcher based in Berlin. 
In the recent years her work mainly involves the intersection of the visible and the invisible aspects of physics- seeking to activate all the poetic and conceptual levels. She capture unique recordings of electromagnetic radiation coming from the outer space, Radio Nature (VLF) and electro-smog, radio wave communication coming form the technological world. The relation-connection-dialogue between nature and our technological world  is a central theme in her work. Her main instruments are a vary of antennas,radio receivers,detectors,tape recorders,band machine. She is active in live performances, site-specific, improvisation, site 2003. She is a member of Splitter Orchester in Berlin among other projects.