Name: Neolithic Sunshine by Matteo Nasini
Duration: 12 min 32 s
Description: Wind instruments from bones of prehistoric animals of thirty thousand years ago were scanned and reprinted in ceramics in order to listen to these extinct sounds. this piece is a composition recorded using these musical instruments inspired by the ancient rites of birth and fertility.

Full of dreamy textures and languid melodies, XOOMIN is a soundtrack for drifting off into the abyss, but in the hands of Alloy Sea (a.k.a. Mor Elian), that journey feels downright playful. Although the Berlin-based producer is best known for her dancefloor-focused creations, 2020’s Petrichor (a 50-minute composition that officially debuted the Alloy Sea project) showcased an unexpected talent for abstract soundscapes and arrhythmic jitters, hinting at ambient techno but ultimately offering something much more adventurous.

XOOMIN—an album that was specifically written for Paralaxe Editions after label founder Dania Shihab reached out to Elian about working together on a new Alloy Sea release—ventures into similarly ethereal waters as Petrichor, but it’s also brighter and more colorful than its predecessor, its gleaming FM synth improvisations flanked by scuttling rhythmic bursts and the occasional wonky bassline, not to mention celestial snippets of Elian’s own voice. It’s not pop, but it’s not quite ambient either, floating instead in a nebulous (and sneakily fun) zone that borrows from new age, IDM and the weirder corners of bass music.  

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Music by Mor Elian.
Mixed by Rhyw.
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux.
Design by Oficina de disseny.
Printed at L'automatica.
Text by Shawn Reynaldo.

Alloy Sea - You stepped outside

"Spectral is a collection of tracks using either the Buchla 296 or 296e
Spectral Processor. It was fun taking it into different sonic universes to see 
what it would reveal. Enjoy!" - Todd Barton, 2022

TODD BARTON - SPECTRAL ( excerpt)

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ecolagbohrsac2021 - 'Neol Ocu Syg Gwrysol'

My first patch exploring the Blukac Endless Processor module to create intertwining drones. The endless processor resynthesises audio you feed into the inputs to create infinitely sustained sounds.

In this case, I ran my single-stringed Diddleybow through the BoredBrain Injectr with a little bit of drive and the cab sim enabled and captured different notes and timbres into each layer to build up a droning chord in each of the two channels. Channel volume is being modulated by the Instruo Ochd and Ochd expander to create movement.

The Endless processor's outputs are routed through the Make Noise QPAS stereo filter with resonance set to 40%. Cutoff frequency is also modulated by the Ochd with a slow LFO. Smile pass outputs are then routed into the Intellijel Sealegs to add some reverb and vinyl crackle.

I thought I'd experiment with the BoredBrain Injectr's envelope follower, so I routed that to the QPAS's mystery input so whenever I pluck the diddleybow, a short envelope triggers a filter ping of sorts to create the underwater bubble sounds.

Modular sessions — Endless tide

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head to my Calix Portal ode to the future

written and produced by Mira Calix 2018

Instrumentation: Mira Calix - electronics/Daniel Pioro - Violin/Eloisa Fleur - Violin /Oliver Wilson -Viola/Clare O'Connell - Cello/ Kathryn Thomas - Flute/ Stuart King - Clarinet Bflat and bass/Sam Wilson - Percussion

Duration: 7.18

published by Mute Song

In 2018, Merck is celebrating its 350th anniversary. The theme of their celebration is “Always curious - Imagine the next 350 years.” This winter i took up their challenge and collaborated with 6 human beings in utero. Working with sonographer Rick Miles, i went about scanning the participants who ranged from 13 to 32 weeks gestation. This was followed by a process of sonifiying the data we collected, using the human movement to generate sound within a given set of parameters. Based on this material, I composed two pieces of music for an ensemble of classical musicians. 16 weeks - also available for free download on the poratal and this piece. Ode to the Future, is based on melodies generated by all the participants. Here i composed freely, taking inspiration from not only the data but the experience of the collaborative process, the privilege i was afforded by the generosity of the parents involved and the experience of working with such a great team of musicians and scientists. Along with the compositions i wanted to visualise my process: (ultra) sound - picture - data - music - picture. i created a sound and light sculpture, one that can be performed, inspired by the ripple tanks of my school days. The first time i remember 'seeing' sound. The acrylic, glass and light sculpture, is filled with water, becoming an instrument for gestural waveform play.

Ode To The Future

Wind instruments from bones of prehistoric animals of thirty thousand years ago were scanned and reprinted in ceramics in order to listen to these extinct sounds. this piece is a composition recorded using these musical instruments inspired by the ancient rites of birth and fertility.

Neolithic Sunshine

http://www.recitalprogram.com/dreams-of-india-china/
Limited LP Edition of 500
12-page color booklet with essays and photographs
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R59 - Rip Hayman - Dreams of India & China LP excerpt

From TRACED, Sonic Pieces, Pattern Series, 2017

Boundless Informant

The music of Naarm/Melbourne composer Lisa Lerkenfeldt channels a unique wavelength of foreboding, interstitial electronics, incorporating strategies of musique concrete threaded with veiled currents of melody and hypnosis. Recent recordings for Vienna Press, Longform Editions and Aught Void have demonstrated different depths of process and finesse but her latest, Collagen, captures perhaps the most complete and complex manifestation of her craft to date.

Drawing on a disciplined palette of peach wood combs, contact microphones, piano, strings, and feedback, the album moves in low, looming arcs, ascending to strange purgatories of opaque atmosphere. Lerkenfeldt cites a core aspiration to “elevate the everyday,” transforming common objects into otherworldly sound sources, which colors Collagen with a beguiling tactility, like vibrations traced in sand. The tracks shift in frequency and feeling, alternately heady and bodily, acoustic and synthetic, isolated states of static, light, and undertow skirting the outer rings of ambient, noise, and modern composition.

Although each piece exists in its own rare air the composite panorama they present is striking in its sweep and subtlety. Lerkenfeldt's muse seems one of evasion as much as evocation, navigating negative spaces for their subliminal whispers of dread or beauty. It's an aesthetic both ascetic and exploratory, minimalist mirages of resonance, texture, and gravity skewed through the pensive glow of room tone.

But Lerkenfeldt is too versatile an artist for purist restraint, which Collagen demonstrates dramatically in its closing cut, “Champagne Smoke.” A quivering bowed eulogy ebbs under a flickering film of distortion, slowly swelling in sorrow until suddenly the screech goes silent, revealing a murmuring phantom haze hidden beneath the strings, like a specter lost in an abandoned house.

14 Gestures associated with this album will be performed in experimental film and online viewing room of graphic notation at 14gestures.com from 29th July to 29th October, 2020.

Collagen releases on Shelter Press in LP / DL format on August 21, 2020. LP mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer at D+M, designed by Bartolomé Sanson with art by Lisa Lerkenfeldt, housed in reverse-board inner and outersleeve, including a 16 pages limited edition score book.

LISA LERKENFELDT 'The Weight Of History'

Taken from the album 'Ingrid Live at Flykingen' released as Digital.

Neolithic Sunshine

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