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By David Fulford and Mark Vernon.

Out now on Gagarin Records. Available to buy here:
https://markvernon.bandcamp.com/album/time-deferred

Followers of the artist Mark Vernon will note a subdued and pensive mood on this new record. Monochrome and sepulchral, these tracks are in a minor key, a key which opens the door to a damp cellar of the imagination. Too-many legged spiders crawl over dusty violins. Time lurches, loops and echoes like excursions on slow motion railways in reverse. Concrète noir sombre séances for non-believers. Tauntological voices from the past provoke us. Half guessed ghosts, magnetic phantoms from funereal-to-reel tape recordings. The sibilant persistence of the deceased evokes the exhausted dread of waiting for a medical test result. Enigmatic messages thrown to the werewolves with nothing but cheap medication and some breathing exercises for support. 

Caution: this record can cause dreamless nights. 

“Psychedelic visions, blackouts and blinding lights reveal an unusual, sick, and feverish musicality... here the gods come back from the dead only to ensure us an existence nurtured by the freezing rays of a black sun.” 

Massimiliano Busti, Blow Up (Feb 2022)

Time Deferred

Athanasia

Long awaited third album from experimental Afghan-American outfit Naujawanan Baidar. Available 7/8/2022 digitally or on limited cassette from Radio Khiyaban (Eindhoven, Netrherlands)

Order: https://radiokhiyaban.bandcamp.com/album/khedmat-be-khalq

Naujawanan Baidar - Dur Nest

Extrait d'une improvisation sur un dispositif de feedback

Feedback n1

written and played on a Nord Rack 1 in real time, recorded onto vhs microcassette.

Nordic 2

CATalysis

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Textures Arc The Points is dedicated to my late teacher Mark Chambers, who was a great composer that often introspect about music. Thank you for introducing me to the world of “Spectra and Pixies” and the world of electronics

Textures Arc The Points was commissioned by the Debris Project; utilizing sound solely from their database.

Engulfed by the many points, as these materials conglomerate within the plane 
Matter as figurative and external

Conglomerates veil the arcs

Meandering through the flow, at times with extreme exaggeration Flow that is never the same
As flow is made up of impermanent elements

Cyclic material that occurs “once”; an ephemeral quality 
Often unfair

Endure with an inner rhythm of
Textures of a phantom-like movement
Veiled by the engulfment of the points

We endure through perception of, not form, but rather

Yielding the flow
And respond to the “through” material

Texture Arc The Points

Performed by Wavefield Ensemble:

Nicholas DeMaison, conductor
Roberta Michel, flutes
Madison Greenstone, bass clarinet
John Gattis, horn
Jen Baker, trombone & 3D-printed vocal tract tube
Dennis Sullivan, percussion
Erica Dicker, violin
Carrie Frey, viola
Iva Casián-Lakoš, cello
Tristan Kasten-Krause, bass

Recorded by David Adamcyk
Mastered by Murat Çolak http://www.muratcolakmusic.com/geryon-sound.html
Filmed by Michael Sinicropi
Edited by Stuart Breczinski
DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, March 2023

Program Notes:

The term "disembodied voice," much like Alice's "grin without a cat," poses an inherent ontological problem. The voice, which is typically produced as a result of purely material processes, now exists detached from its physical source and becomes the sole manifestation of our human essence. Despite the present impossibility, however, our psyche seems to be able to close this gap rather easily.

Being our primary medium for language and expression, the voice can readily function as a portal between our corporeal existence and whatever we might choose to call the rest: a soul, a consciousness, or a persona. The voice can be a placeholder for all the latter, as made apparent in phrases such as “one’s inner voice,” “the artist’s voice,” or “making one’s voice heard.” It is for this reason that disembodied voices have commonly been used to represent human-like entities in many works of fiction, ranging anywhere between ghostly presences to super-intelligent AIs.

“This Person Does Not Exist” was titled after the website with the same name[1], through which Nvidia’s neural network StyleGAN can be used to generate human faces. While the original website reproduces artificiality through AI generated images, I wanted to approach the same uncanny possibility by creating the semblance of a disembodied voice. For this purpose, I designed and 3D printed a small instrument that models the human vocal tract with a trombone mouthpiece attachment. The trombonist, who remains concealed behind the suspended frame drum at the center of the stage, performs this instrument to produce human-like sounds ranging from soft moans to loud, distorted screams. With the use of both pre-recorded and live performances of this instrument, I wish to elicit the presence of a disembodied, artificial voice, and thus underline the reproducible nature of our own human essence.

[1] http://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com

Art: Yugo Kohrogi

This Person Does Not Exist (2023)

Original Track : 
https://soundcloud.com/qubik/kerberos

q_u_b_i_k - Kerberos (Senglar Version)

Fangyi Liu, Dian Qi Xia 電氣夏

Portions Transparent/Opaque (2014/23) 

IC-IIG excerpt recording [6:00 beginning of Portion II]

Ilan Volkov, conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Royal Albert Hall, London
July 24th, 2023

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