A selection of VIA artists still with us in spirit (2010-2015).

Actress, ADULT., Andy Stott, AraabMuzik, Austra, Brenmar, Blondes, Bored Lord, Cakes da Killa, Container, Deafheaven, Death Grips, Demdike Stare, Donato Dozzy, Eartheater, Egyptrixx, Extreme Animals, Four Tet, Freddie Gibbs, Gangwish, Gatekeeper, Ital & Halal, Ivies, Jimmy Edgar, Jono Mi Lo, Juliana Huxtable, Kelela, Kingdom, Laurel Halo, Le1f, Light Asylum, Lower Dens, Lunice, Matrixxman, Majeure, Matthew Dear,  Mykki Blanco, Normaling, Oneohtrix Point Never, Patricia, Pharmakon, Richard Devine, Richard Pinhas, Rivka,  Sasha Go Hard, Shawn Rudiman, Slowdanger, Smurphy, Spinn & Rashad (RIP), Total Freedom, Tin Man, Troxum, Underground Resistance, UNIIQU3, Vessel, Wolf Eyes, Xanopticon, Xeno & Oaklander, Zebra Katz, Zombi



VIA HALLOWEEN MEGAMIX 2015

FALL/WINTER 2015 PLAYLIST

Grooves

D E M O is an umbrella of ideas and meanings that we have chosen to interpret and express through many mediums. Demolishment of the old and rebirth of the new. These are the sounds we came up with. 

Float (demo)

Ken Ueno, extended vocals; Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Gil Rose, conductor

On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific Hypothesis (2008)
Commissioned by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.

This piece was made possible by a grant from the JebehiahFoundation: New Music Commissions. 
It is dedicated to Rob Amory

The composing of On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific Hypothesis represents my first attempt to reconcile the multiplicity of my being a "classical" composer and "experimental" improviser. It is one of the most personal pieces I have composed to date.

In a manner akin to the way some contemporary visual artists make site-specific works, many of my works derive their structural aspects from considerations of the special instrumental skills of the performers with whom I have collaborated, in a manner I term "person-specific.' First, I imagine the sounds and then worked them out with collaborating performers to realize these sounds on their instruments. Then, I analyze the sounds using software in order to derive parametric data that will inform the structure of the music. (I am also inspired by the way contemporary architects use modern materials and computer-aided strategies to create structures that are more organic than what was previously possible).

On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific Hypothesis is person-specific to myself. As a vocalist, I specialize in such techniques as: overtone singing (straight bi-tonal style), throat singing (a style with laryngeal straining), multiphonics, circular breathing, sub-tones and extreme high register. During the composition of this piece, I subjected my singing to the aforementioned process of analysis, deriving harmonies (e.g. acoustic resynthesis of my vocal multiphonics) and orchestrational strategies from the analysis of my singing.

To further engage with my personal history in this piece, I employed two other strategies. First, the title of this piece comes from an article on computer science written by another Ken Ueno (I found it doing a "vanity" search in Google). In usurping the title of a work by my doppelganger, I thought of Borges' story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius in which an encyclopedic reference to a fictional universe begins to infiltrate reality. Second, the piece begins with a boombox playing a recording of my voice from when I was six. When I was six, my favorite object was a tape recorder. I used to walk around documenting my mom yelling at my brother, as well as sounds I made vocally (some evocative of sounds I still like to make today). By incorporating these recordings in the beginning of the piece makes it a kind of recapitulation of performances from my childhood over thirty years ago. My plan is to make another version of this piece thirty years from today by incorporating vocal sounds I can make today mixed with those from my childhood. My greatest hope would be able to make two more iterations of this process during my lifetime.

On A Sufficient Condition For The Existence Of Most Specific Hypothesis

Taken from the upcoming album 'Punish, Honey'.
Released Sept 15th via Tri Angle Records.
2xLP, CD & Digital. 

Vessel - Red Sex

the moon baby - .Don't Get Upset With Eachother.

the moon baby - .Leave The World Behind.

the moon baby - .Bae Sick. (prod. Wise Blood)

the moon baby - .Flawless (Redux). (prod. Wise Blood)

The official music video for "You Tell Em" by Zebra Katz x Leila
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CV_sZuNRyc

Buy: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id992302016

You Tell Em

Compilation featuring:

Yaeji / slowdanger / Ivies / Good Dude Lojack / Ondo / Tom McConnell / Telavision

Walking in Circles - slowdanger

Debut track from AUSTRA. Out November 16th on ONE BIG SILENCE in North America. 

01 BEAT AND THE PULSE

Written, produced, performed by LIGHT ASYLUM. Record at Vacation Island studios Brooklyn, N.Y. 2010

Dark Allies

Order "The Way Things Fall" in The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/adult-the-way-things-fall

Walking in Circles - slowdanger

MISC RECORDS