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For the past five years, Glyn Maier has developed a curatorial agenda for his enmossed label with an emphasis on recyclable and sustainable materials while living and recording within secluded natural environments. His level of dedicated praxis is illustrated with his latest 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑀𝑖𝑥, concluding a dense output of 19 long-form listening cassettes. Capping the ENMX series run, 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑀𝑖𝑥 is a deep distillation of the sonic agenda within the series and the label more broadly. Maier is keenly attentive to pace and spatial context, allowing for time to stretch, interweaving lush field recordings and emotive new age passages. All audio in this mix, just shy of the two hour mark, is culled from cassette recordings of classic 1970-80s field recording series (𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠, 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑠, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑓, etc) with their core utility being to invoke relaxation. Maier’s intentional recycling of materiality is an homage to respect for the environment, and in turn he is rewarded with bountiful environmental sonics to reshape. As the formal attributes of his selection process are in lockstep congruence with his lifestyle and production output, so does this chapter of the label's output come full circle.

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Glyn Maier is a sound artist and field recordist living in Pisgah Forest, North Carolina. Non-city outdoor spaces are essential to Maier’s practice. With a formal education in physics and music composition, Maier’s preoccupations with natural objects, landscapes, and their social histories guide his recordings, which are then integrated into ambient electronic works utilizing organic rhythms and complex timbres. Maier’s abstract synthesis work is deeply informed by sound design, but his larger focus is on the agency of both machine and environment.

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recorded by Glyn Maier
audio finalized by Glyn Maier
cover photo by Osamu Sueyoshi
all proceeds to Carolina Abortion Fund (Durham, NC) - https://www.carolinaabortionfund.org/

Environments Mix

Glyn Maier - Environments Mix [Side B Excerpt] (ENMX-19)

Domicil is one of Harpies Records' active member, and takes over Lyl residency. Between meditation and spirit dream, he builds up a mental experience where unexpected kicks and creatures will surprise you.

ROAZHON PARK /w Domicil

Raw sonic explorations of the tools I am designing at GRM. No external input, no post-processing, live capture with minor editing.
Today, a study from synthetic strings to chaos, listening to John Luther Adams. All artifacts intentional ⚡️

GRM Development Diary 2

The artist from Venice is premiering the album "In Cosmo" on the show, recorded in the Church of Cosma and Damiano on the Giudecca Island, together with cellist Gabriele Tai, guitarist Andrea Sanson, violinist Francesco Zanchetta and electronic musician Enrico Wiltsch.
https://www.nts.live/shows/silvia-kastel/episodes/silvia-kastel-31st-october-2022

Silvia Kastel w/ Emanuele Wiltsch Barberio 311022

01. K Est Un Sociologue

Jean Gabriel Raynaud / Cédric Baravaglio.

Wolcen : Lords of Mayhem (Original Game Soundtrack Extended)

Nowhere

This record is an extension of a foray into trance ritual music.
It's structured as a companion for film, meditation, vision seeking & sound rest.

It's by nature a nature worship record, combing acoustic percussive improvisation, sensory foley, vocalized staccatos, and a specific brew of physical/metaphysical sound relations....mind hush/thought flush/spirit rush/sun rise.

Inspired by an initiation ceremony of the Bwiti/Fang people of Gabon. This collection relays a fragmented branch of timings of this ceremony. Plus proposes alter paths for the sacred (Mougongo) instrument.

Recoded + Restructured + Reflected as a time capsule.

With fullest respect/blessings to breeze the Bwiti understandings through current climate.

Proceeds of this record will be donated to Tata-Yo (Nganga), Ebando.

http://ebando.org/fr/presentation.htm

Words & Music - Mahbunzi Nahgo Pihndi 
("All the Healing Green Leaves of the Forest")

A1 - Awating (11:02)
B2 - Bwicoming (19:28)

Our inaugural 12" coming soon with distribution via Honest Jons Records.

Big shout out to Will @the-trilogy-tapes for the support.

Mahbunzi Nahgo Pihndi - D Ebando (GMV01 ) - Snippets

"Figures / Ground" is a commission for the „Untraining the Ear“ series, produced in collaboration between @savvy-contemporary, @deutschlandfunkkultur and @ctm-festival. For the radio feature, the two parts are interspersed by a conversation in german with Jan Rohlf (Co-founder and artistic director of CTM / Disk agency).
Premiere on 29.03.2019, the piece is from now on available for free on-demand streaming under the following link:
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/klangkunst-abschied-von-den-hoergewohnheiten-figures-ground.3685.de.html?dram%3Aarticle_id=437789

Figures / Ground (extracts - link in text)

'Blues Alif Lam Mim' is available at https://blankforms.org/publication/chorassan-time-court-mirage-blues-alif-lam-mim-2xlp/

Having already unearthed three collections of archival ‘70s recordings by Catherine Christer Hennix, Blank Forms continues our annual illumination of the visionary Swedish composer’s music by turning to more recent work with this first-time vinyl edition of Hennix’s “Blues Alif Lam Mim in the Mode of Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis,” a 2014 piece first released as a CD in 2016.

The double album captures the April 22, 2014 premiere of Hennix's composition by the Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage, her expanded just intonation ensemble, featuring a brass section of Amir ElSaffar, Paul Schwingenschlögl, Hilary Jeffery, Elena Kakaliagou, and Robin Hayward; live electronics by Stefan Tiedje and Marcus Pal; and voice by Amirtha Kidambi, Imam Ahmet Muhsin Tüzer, and Hennix herself. Intended to reveal the blues’ origins in the eastern musical traditions of raga and makam, “Blues Alif Lam Mim in the Mode of Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis” has its roots in Hennix’s 2013 realization of an “Illuminatory Sound Environment,” a concept developed in 1978 by anti-artist Henry Flynt on the basis of Hennix’s own “The Electric Harpsichord.”

As Hennix explains in Other Matters, Blank Forms’ 2019 collection of her writings:

“Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis presents fragments of 'raga-like’ frequency constellations following distinct cycles and permuting their order, creating a simultaneity of ‘multi-universes.’ When two such ‘universes’ come in proximity of each other and begin unfolding simultaneously along distinct cycles, there is a kaleidoscopic exfoliation of frequencies as one universe is becoming two, but not separated—the effect of cosmosis is entrained, binding two or more frequency universes into proximity where their modal properties interact and blend, creating in the process entirely new microtonal constellations in an omnidirectional simultaneous cosmic order with phenomenologically ‘transfinite’ Poincaré cycles (cyclic returns to initial conditions).”

As with Hennix’s best work, the organic unfolding of this quivering drone belies a precision that opens onto the infinitesimal. Upon its mesmerizing ebb and flow, the vocalists incant a devotional poem written in Arabic by Hennix and featuring quotations from the Quran. Also reproduced on the album’s gatefold jacket, Hennix’s reduction of the sacred text to its most elegant formulation invites the contemplator to bring their inner knowledge to the composition for use as a prompt for meditation. Yet the piece offers depth to even the most secular listener willing to immerse themselves in music brimming with such serene intensity.

Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage - Blues Alif Lam Mim Side C

Musician, programmer, researcher, teacher. GRM Member.

Out now: "Mt. Hadamard National Park", Hallow Ground (LP, Digital).
https://hallowground.bandcamp.com/album/matthias-puech-mt-hadamard-national-park

GRM Development Diary 2

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