French sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Kassel Jaeger (François Bonnet) presents: ‘A New Century, French Experimentations (1999-2005)’.

From the blanket mountains 
The hands I used to gather balance 
Are drifting further than the crows call

Tracklist:
00:00-07:00 Andy’s Car Crash - Formes - Eres (Pandemonium, 1999)
00:00-11:50 Laurent Dailleau - Little Odyssey - Supersternal Notch (Sonoris, 2001)
11:27-16:30 Cheval De Frise - Fresques Sur Les Parois Secrètes Du Crâne - Fresques Sur Les Parois Secrètes Du Crâne (Ruminance, 2003)
16:20-21:35 Command.com - OP.comp - VA Télétravail (Adénoïde, 1999)
21:35-28:30 Osaka Bondage - μ - Volume 3 (Shambala, 2001)
28:15-32:05 Celluloid Mata - Barbarous Coasts - Sables (Ant-Zen, 2001)
31:50-36:30 Julien Neto - Voy - Le Fumeur de Ciel (Type, 2005)
36:30-41:20 Sebastien Roux - Les Heures Claires - Pillow (Apestaartje, 2005)
41:00-48:25 Pierre-Yves Macé - Faux Jumeaux - Faux Jumeaux (Tzadik, 2002)
48:20-53:20 Léo Delibes - Sous le Dome épais (Duo des Fleurs) - Lakmé, 1883

https://kasseljaeger.bandcamp.com/ @kassel-jaeger

Outhouse Mix: Kassel Jaeger

I’ve got another delicious treat for you this morning courtesy of NAHAL Recordings. If you’re still not familiar with this French label, curated and operated by Frédéric D. Oberland and Paul Régimbeau, allow me to remind you of the duo’s very own project, FOUDRE! for which I have run this track premiere of “Black Swan Theory I“, as well as this “Chimères (pour ondes Martenot)” from Christine Ott, and Oberland’s “E Quindi Uscimmo A Riveder Le Stelle“. Right… So you can say that I’m a fan… Today we’re introduced to Matthias Puech, who previously released with Hands in the Dark, Hisolat, and Obsolete Future, migrating over to NAHAL for his latest exploration of emptiness, an album, appropriately titled, A Geography Of Absence, “sketching cartography of the invisible, as introspective as unpredictable, in a unique sensory whirlwind.” At the heart of this composition are two Eurorack modules made by 4ms – the Ensemble Oscillator, which features Phase Modulation and Wave-Shaping alongside its FM and Additive Synthesis functions; and a Tapographic Delay, manipulating audio into “complex rhythmic structures, meshes of organic textures, and lush harmonic mille-feuilles.” The sound is raw, dark, and full of disquiet, raising the goosebumps along tepid flesh. Slowly guiding you down the empty corridors of lost and forgotten, Puech revives all your senses and enticing for more. Today I am featuring the opening track to his seven-piece LP, hoping to get you excited…

"A researcher in theoretical computer science and an engineer at GRM, Matthias Puech constructs a dialogue between synthetic music and field recording, capturing sounds that surround him and creating his own sonic language with the help of synthesizers he designs and develops. Playing with time, space and matter in an approach similar to that of musique concrète, Puech combines ambient and noise, floating sounds and electroacoustic experimentations, thus shaking up our listening perspective, which finds itself walking through a parallel universe, strata after strata, sequence after sequence."

A Geography Of Absence

Hollow

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TRACK PREMIERE : Matthias Puech - Hollow

MIKE MAJKOWSKI - FOUR PIECES
https://mikemajkowski.bandcamp.com/album/four-pieces
limited edition of 100 hand-numbered vinyl copies / Fragments Editions / 10 Dec 2021
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A1 - Spark
A2 - Spin
B1 - Drift
B2 - Dive

Recorded, written & produced by Mike Majkowski
Berlin, 2020 - 2021

Mastered by Marta Salgoni

FOUR PIECES - album preview

Raw sonic explorations of the tools I am designing at GRM. No external input, live capture with minor editing.

Showcasing a novel modulation system of my invention, recently implemented, that opens up possibilities going far beyond traditional CVs, LFOs and envelopes; in fact, I don't know anything quite like it 😳 The future of GRM Tools, however remote, will be interesting 🚀

GRM Development Diary 9

Whazzuwuz

A collage of sounds from http://www.andrewpekler.com/phantom-islands/ – an interactive website that charts the sounds and histories of islands that were once found on nautical maps but have since disappeared.

Phantom Islands are artifacts of the age of maritime discovery and colonial expansion. During centuries of ocean exploration these islands were sighted, charted, and described – but their existence was never ultimately verified. Poised between cartographic fact and maritime fiction, they haunted seafarers’ maps for hundreds of years, inspiring legends, fantasies, and counterfactual histories. Phantom Islands – A Sonic Atlas interprets these imaginations in the form of a map of speculative sounds from 27 phantom islands around the world.

Phantom Islands (Collage)

Mysteries of the Deep, Chapter C. Space in the Sun by Sébastien Robert.
Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

Akio Suzuki constructed the Hinatabokko no kukan (Space in the Sun) in 1988. This space consists of two huge parallel walls, in between which the artist can sit all day and purify his hearing by listening to the reflected sounds of nature. This space leads the artist to discover a new method of listening. Suzuki himself comments, "Sound, which had been conceptually imprisoned in various spaces, is freed to circle the world."

Tracklist:
1. Af Ursin - De Tweede Persoon  
2. Taj Mahal Travellers - August 1974 (I)
3. Adham Shaikh and Tim Floyd ‎- Estuary
4. Coil - The Mothership & The Fatherland 
5. Waveform Transmission - V 2.0-2.1
6. Zoviet France - Ascend A Fall
7. Tomaga - The Whitest Light 
8. Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda - Do Ko Ka Ra 
9. Ligovskoï - Thessalonians 
10. Andrea Belfi - Syncline 
11. Ultrafog - Trace
12. Matthias Puech - Un incontro notturno
13. Basses Terres - Unreleased
14. Pariah - Pith
15. Tim Hecker - In Mother Earth Phase 
16. Terre Thaemlitz - Subjective Loss, Day 83
17. Matthias Puech - Sculpté au fond de la fontaine, un visage d’enfant
18. Material Object - Earlier Reflections (E. Honda Remix)
19. Basses Terres - Unreleased
20. Exael - Bundle

https://soundcloud.com/sebastienrobert

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter C

Mysteries of the Deep C - Sébastien Robert | Space in the Sun

Recorded at Waha Festival 2019
Covasna, Romania
painting by Victor Fota

Waha Festival 2019

Echo of Species 07 - Mondkopf (FR - In Paradisum / Hands In The Dark)
Live at Médiathèque Musicale de Paris

@mondkopf

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Mondkopf's words about his participation:
"In 2019, I received a proposal from the Médiathèque Musicale de Paris for a concert during a "Music and Nature" cycle. For the occasion, they offered to come and search their collection of records to find material and offer a live in the form of my choice. I chose to focus at the beginning on the recordings of whales and other cetaceans, and then I drifted towards the forest, where I heard all kinds of birds and wolves. All these animals have in common a very singular language, with an impressive number of frequency variations. By focusing on it, I really heard conversations as complex as that of humans. So I used this material to create a kind of animal choir, which would sing with my own tools and for the public. I had spotted a piano in the room where I was to play, and on the day of the concert, I decided to improvise on it to accompany wolves, owls, and other night animals. The live I offer for Echos of Species is a second recording of this live made at home, with better recording conditions. I kept the live piano of the first performance at the end because I doubt that I would have managed to recreate this moment :) Good listening and be kind to the planet !"

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To know more about the artist:
Paul Régimbeau, aka Mondkopf, is a household name among the edgiest international festivals such as ATP, LUFF, Bozar or CTM, post-industrial warehouses of northern Europe, industrial parties (Berghain in Berlin, Kaos in London) as well as more solemn atmospheres of churches, museums (BAL, Pompidou Center in Paris) or auditoriums (Philarmonie de Paris, Lyon’s Auditorium). Mondkopf has put forward his talents as a live artist, giving his melodic ambient music a power and a rager inspired by extreme metal. After a long period of solitary evolution, he has developed in this last years multiple collaborative projects, with Charlemagne Palestine, Saaad (in Foudre), Autrenoir, Oiseaux-Tempête, the Japanese black metal band Vampilia and the noise American artist Pete Swanson (in VMO), Libanese guitarist Charbel Haber (in Good Luck In Death). After co-founding In Paradisum records in 2011, he has been running since 2018 the record label Nahal Recordings with Frederic D. Oberland, gathering a community of outsiders around a shared passion for live improvisation, the mix of rock structures and sound synthesis, and cinematographic atmospheres.
 
Wire Magazine described his last album, They fall but you don’t, as the "the only music that fits that once promising and much abused term power ambient: massive sharp-edged drones, slow lightning cracks of guitars, Tangerine Dream synths curling around one another, everything glowering with an inner intensity that still feels closely reined in". Indeed, while  Mondkopf’s music has long been rather dark, heavy and abrasive, his trajectory testifies for a profound attachment to a sound that associates harmonic flourishment with experimentation, which doesn’t come as a surprise when you learn that he grew up listening to Tangerine Dream, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Morton Feldman, Brian Eno, Ash Ra Temple or even Vangelis. 

You can support Mondkopf here: https://handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/how-deep-is-our-love

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Credits:
Mondkopf
Live at Médiathèque Musicale de Paris

Music by Mondkopf
Modular system, voice, effects, and piano played by Mondkopf
Recorded & mixed by Mondkopf
Field recordings from:
Songs Of The Humpback Whale (1970)
Jun Kawabata - Mind Migration (Voyage To The Whale) (1992)
Jean C. Roché - Chouettes Et Hiboux
Dan Gibson - Night On a Wilderness Lake (1982)

Thanks to Damien Poncet and all crew of the Médiathèque Musicale de Paris!

https://mediathequemusicaledeparis.wordpress.com/

🌳1x tree has been planted to balance the carbon footprint of this upload (Project Povos da Floresta).

Echo of Species 07 - Mondkopf

Demo of the Ensemble Oscillator, the picture shows the settings used, modulated by random voltages from an E 102 and Turing Machine, going through a Z DSP with the wonderful SSSR Labs card in the second bbd mode.

Demo 01

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