Geoglyph

A2. Reduct

Standing On Shoulders

Ese Sabor

This is Nathan McLaughlin’s latest installment of his Echolocation series. Following releases on Digitalis and Gift Tapes, #5 also continues the organic and thoughtful work of his duo Loud & Sad. Focused on tape loops, layers of delay, and some chordal forms, each piece is meticulously and methodically built, with each sonic element given its due. This sense of pacing and care given to every moment is a crucial element of McLaughlin’s work, and it’s deeply attuned here. The pieces reflect the environment in which they were composed, tight-knit and rural; they mass like storm clouds, and then are barely there, leaving just the fluttering of a distant echo. Stretches of silence, and windblown expanses. Rich chords swell into deeply contemplative passages that are gradually stripped away. A gorgeous, hushed set of tape music.

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"Echolocation #5 extends McLaughlin's exploration of the elegiac and the dirge, adding some crunchy, roiling passages as well. Often McLaughlin's loops gather, in small enough increments to avoid overt, ham-fisted drama, a strong sense of the ominous. These tensions, as well as the fine structural drift McLaughlin is patient enough to permit, make the Echolocation series a fluid one, without a start or an end. Echolocation #5 should be heard as an installation in a big-hearted work, issuing from a musician with an immense gift for subtle music. They are sent from a recondite artist who may well disappear before you receive them, so there's no time to waste." - Jesse Goin / Crow With No Mouth

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Mastered by Eric Steiger
Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery and N. McLaughlin

NTR017 - Nathan McLaughlin - Echolocation 5 "A1 5.1"

On the long-awaited Exaptations, Toronto-based composer Nick Storring presents two highly textural, side-long pieces. On “Field Lines”, originally composed for Yvonne NG Peck Wan‘s dance piece, Magnetic Fields, a certain fragmented, uncertain openness is conveyed: a series of brief, dreamlike clearings are vignetted by pregnant silences or various levels of waking or sleeping states. Storring plays with a variety of tonal instruments that swell and tumble along while being nipped at by expressive percussion. Organic clusters develop within event-based sequences, stretching attention across multiple timbres and rhythms. On “Yield Criteria”, shifting drones move about like independent layers of ice on a lake in the dead of winter, slowing crumbling, sliding, and cracking in perfect harmony. Storring has written for dance and other interdisciplinary settings, and here he brings the delicate resourcefulness of a skilled accompanist, as well as a narrative sense that belatedly, profoundly blossoms.

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Field Lines:

Composed and recorded October 2013 - May 2014 for Yvonne Ng's dance piece, Magnetic Fields, which premiered in May 2014.

Nick Storring / various percussion and found objects, vibraphone, glockenspiel, balafon, chimes, hand bells, toy pianos, thumb pianos, voice/whistling, electric (NS Designs NXT4) and acoustic cellos, electric bass, electric mandola, violin, hammered dulcimer, Hohner Pianet T, Yamaha CP60M, Hohner Clavinet D6, flutes, harpsicle, strumstick, guitalele, steel pan, harmonica, melodica, pitch pipes, hulosi

Special thanks to Yvonne, Marie-Josée Chartier, Mairead Filgate, Luke Garwood, Christopher Willes. Thank you to Germaine Liu for the use of her vibraphone, and John Farah for the use of his Pianet.

Yield Criteria:

Composed and recorded February - June 2014.

Nick Storring / NS Designs NXT4 electric cello, electric bass, electric mandola, thunder tubes, Yamaha CP60M, toy piano, harmonica, duck call, voice, hand bells, glockenspiel

Elements were used in Eva Kolcze's film, All That Is Solid. Thank you to Eva, Spencer Barclay, Jason Doell, Brandon Valdivia, and Bryan Bray.

Processing and manipulation performed on the above sound sources (and the sound of a blank, chemically-treated 16mm film sound-strip) using combinations of the following: transducer speakers on various resonant chambers, instruments and surfaces; talkbox; spring reverb; recordable cassette walkman; various speakers; (contact) microphones.

Special thanks to Nicole Cultraro for her violin and kalimba, her support and inspiration, and patience with my process. Thanks also to Andrew Zukerman.

Gratitude also to all who listened and offered feedback.

Artwork and layout by E. Lindorff-Ellery
Printed by John Fitzgerald at Fitzgerald Letterpress, New Orleans

NTR042 - Nick Storring - Exaptations "Field Lines"

Everything is Permitted: Olivia Block (10/12/21)

Welcome to Slowlife! 
Next up is Cate Hops, who, curates the Soundsystem Culture Events in Berlin. There you can find a mixture of Bass, Tekno & more Experimental Music.  For our Podcast she spinned some pretty chilled bassy Tunes.
Here's the Tracklist:
Sam Binga – Cloch Na Rón
2. Karma & G. Goodz – Shortwave Step
3. Pugilist & Mystik – 2 Steps Backwards
4. Bluetrain – Bubble Up
5. Stillhead – Mastermind
6. Unknown Artist – Tortuga Dub (ECHO Ltd001 LP)
7. Dub Across Borders – Dua Margu
8. Sun in Capricorn – Sad Incitiation
9. Passive Sound feat. Arran – Silence is an Answer
10. Om Unit – Treading Earth
11. Dub Rosin – A Rocket in Dub
12. Beat Pharmacy – Vagabond
13. Abu Ama – My Allah Protect Me & You From the Fire
14. Azu Tiwaline feat. Cinna Peyghamy – Tight Wind
15. Flynn Rider – Up Sunny Hill
16. Bhed – East
17. Jah Schulz – Dub Mistake

PamB Sound Adventures 21

Adventures 21: #4 by Cate Hops (Soundsystem Culture // Berlin)

D-Club Radio - Sevenbeatz (Décembre 2021)

A2 Rave Industries - Nenuphores2b Clip

Jozef Green - Lounge Dust (Original Mix)

Glittery and senseful selection is awaiting you in the 5th edition of the swarming mixtape series, building up a manifold audio journey from Oliver Torr, a multigenre multiverse persona of czech experimental electronic music scene. Breathtaking uphill ride won’t leave you cold, same as Oliver’s artistic work.

Oliver Torr is a Europe based composer, sound designer and sound artist. Since early age, he has been pursuing various activities revolving around sound, improvisation, art and music. He also has had a rich history of instrument building, working at Berlin’s Patch Point, and Prague’s Noise.Kitchen.

@user-221041418

Tracklist:
Thaiboy Digital - Im Fresh (OT drone edit, unreleased)
Tempelhof bottles and then solos and food and windKlahrk & Kavari - Rib
TTristana - Reboot (interlude)
Kronom - Mirrored Speed
OT & Elvin Brandhi - trl_eLLf_m33t1ng01
Krabs - Badgyals Gon Like Dis
Zavoloka & AGF - LISHCHYNAc (AGF Remake) 2022
binaural protesters walk
Logos - Marsh Lantern
Let Troika Better Your life (NETSPECTRE OST) (unreleased)
Paper mangles (unreleased)
X-opia_112007____102021 (unreleased) + shawty shawty
NLGNE_DEMO01 (unreleased)
St. Grimes - ST
MAX DAHLHAUS - STYMIED CYCLE (NAJIB REMIX)
OT & HEXEN - RANDELSAMPEL
AWOO - live now (unreleased)
Citytronix feat. Klahrk - ID (unreleased)
sbahn_interview_apfelsaft

Standing On Shoulders

moog music