"Scrying" is the act of gazing into an object – a pool of dark water, a mirror or painted black glass – with the hope of detecting visions or messages. It's a psychic attunement into one’s second sight, revealing knowledge often concealed. 
Ascribing this ocular practice to the potentially mystical nature of deep listening, Scrying the Landscape narrates sonic fictions, revealing hidden truths, auditory fantasies and deceptive hallucinations.  
Here, we converse with ghosts from the past or cybernetic entities arriving from the future, transversing a terrain that is both virtual and physical, expanding the ear into a speculative endeavour.👂🔮🍂
Broadcast bi-monthly on @mutantradio

Scrying the Landscape – Mutant Radio

Scrying the Landscape w. Elina Tapio & Hannah Pezzack. The uncanny haunts these encounters. ‘Scrying' is the act of gazing into an object to ignite the unconscious mind. It’s a psychic attunement into one’s second sight, revealing knowledge often concealed. Hannah Pezzack and Elina Tapio ascribe this ocular practice to the potentially mystical nature of Deep Listening. In the landscape, through ecologically-charged compositions, they hear sentient slime mould, oceans of language-bearing micro-plastics and cybernetic entities arriving from the future.

Scrying The Landscape w. Elina Tapio And Hannah Pezzack [02.04.2021]

We’re happy to welcome Elina Tapio and Hannah Pezzack with the new show Scrying the Landscape.
Tree roots fuse to the cracks of pavements, spores germinate. In the compost, tracing the spiral bodies of animates, Elina Tapio (@elinatapio) and Hannah Pezzack (@hanapezzack) present a love song to growth and (re)generation. Here, molecularized textures of sound sing back – splintered voices in dissonance utter forms of hallucinogenic glossolalia. The second instalment of 'Scrying the Landscape' features Turner Prize winner, Tai Shani's (@taishani) The Neon Hieroglyph (2021), a composition inspired by ergot, a fungus that grows on rye and other grains from which LSD is derived. [Image: Tai Shani, The Neon Hieroglyph (still), 2021. © Tai Shani. Courtesy of the artist and Manchester International Festival]

Scrying The Landscape II w. Elina Tapio & Hannah Pezzack [28.05.2021]

Scrying the Landscape III w. Elina Tapio & Hannah Pezzack
Flowing, seeping, leaking, cascading, shaping, 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘥. Displaced from terrestrial-based ways of knowing, Elina Tapio (@elinatapio), together with Hannah Pezzack (@hanapezzack), plunges into oceanic depths. Immersed in this alien milieu, the weight and opacity of water transmogrify perception. To the human ear, noises appear muffled, foggy. But sound waves actually travel five times faster underwater than in air. Far from being a silent abyss, waterways are cacophonous: an orchestra of barnacles, sonorous wails and echoes.
The third instalment of 'Scrying the Landscape' features Markus J. Buehler (@profbuehlermit) and Jenna Sutela's (@jennasutela)𝘞𝘦𝘵-𝘰𝘯-𝘞𝘦𝘵 (2021), a sonic toolkit amplifying the emotive molecules of liquids. For 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘤𝘦 (2020) Hannah Rowan (@rowanhannah) utilised a hydrophone to capture ancient air bubbles – pockets of planetary deep time – escaping from melting icebergs. And synthesist Stan Litjens' (@todaysstan) 𝘙𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘵 (2021) is an ambient interlude composed of field recordings; the lull of rocking boats and seabirds.
[Image: Hertta Kiiski (@herttakiiski), 𝘚𝘯𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘭 from the series 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘱, 2021]

Scrying The Landscape III w. Elina Tapio And  Hannah Pezzack [28.07.2021]

Scrying the Landscape IV w/ Elina Tapio & Hannah Pezzack!
For Freudian analysts, dreaming of horses is a sign of a phallic fixation – a symbol of carnal, unbridled desire. In 1973, Peter Shaffer published Equus, a play about a young man whose pathological obsession with the creatures drives him into mania: from erotic fascination to violent possession. Yet for feminist writers like Elspeth Probyn, the act of riding embodies euphoric lines of flight. Stables are distinctly feminine spaces in which women and girls form close bonds with each other, and with their equestrian companions. The fourth episode of Scrying the Landscape is inspired by a trip Elina Tapio and Hannah Pezzack took together to Oostvaarders National Park in the Netherlands. There, the wild Konik horse – descendants of the extinct Tarpan - has been introduced to roam through this fenced territory. Indebted to this re-wilding experiment, the biopolitics of species scarcity and Celtic rituals, they present a soundscape of horse music; pagan folk, experimental noise and Welsh choral singing.

Scrying The Landscape w. Elina Tapio And Hannah Pezzack [29.09.2021]

First up we have Scrying the Landscape w. Elina Tapio & Hannah Pezzack
Glossolalia is the act of speaking in tongues; a spiritual encounter whereby a mysterious entity infects the body with an alien language. For the fifth iteration of Scrying the Landscape, Elina Tapio (@elinatapio) and Hannah Pezzack (@hanapezzack) take the voice as their focus, gathering songs together which activate a neural network of vocal intelligence that is non-linear and non-grammatical. Words devoid of meaning, devotional chants and spliced-up utterances, are harnessed to connect with hidden parts of the world and ourselves, to reveal that which cannot be given an identity. How do we talk about what we don’t see? How do we understand that which cannot be said? The divine is pre-alphabetic; the ineffable that is a priori to signification or the arrangement of a symbolic order. Forsaking direct linguistic capacities opens space for interpreting pressure points; temporal turbulence in phonetic structures, and the attack of vocalisation to articulate that which can not be articulated.
Image: Petru Cruceru, The Nightmare of the Olympian

Scrying The Landscape  w. Elina Tapio  And Hannah Pezzack [11.11.2021]

Welcome long-time favorite selector from Brussels, @rickshiver , who is behind @nose-job - label, party and mix series, well-known among diggers. His mixes always inspire and give this feeling of there'are so many hidden gems out there. The one he recorded for our series is quite dubby and psychedelic, enjoy!

Get the full tracklist at patreon.com/kross_fingers. All the money from it will be donated to volunteers helping people in Ukraine affected by the war.

Stand with Ukraine ✊🇺🇦

KF SHOW W/ RICK SHIVER #11 12/12/2022

Track ID: @kashual-plastik

In the realm of De Kat Memwa series, the musical milieu has undergone a remarkable transformation since 2018. The rare beats and curious chords have evolved into a more intricate and sophisticated soundscape, intent on stimulating an array of emotions and cognitive responses, from tranquil reveries to incisive musings.

Despite these changes, one aspect remains constant: the meticulous curation of guests. Each selector invited to join the series represents a fount of inspiration, overflowing with boundless talent and expertise, all of which I deeply admire and hold in the highest esteem.

So I'm extremely happy that today we have a guest mix recorded by Frank from Berlin. A man of many guises and talents. You may know him as Frans Æmbient or A Method To Exist. In our series, unveils his latest sonic endeavour T.V.S.T. (TV IS TERRIBLE) project in which he constructs a hauntological reality with pearls from the scrapyard. 

Frank is also the visionary mastermind behind the experimental label and mix series Kashual Plastik, a cherished haven for adventurous researchers, outsiders and mavericks alike. 

Moreover, he curates the musical palette at the Arkaoda Berlin, one of the world's most daring and multidimensional venues.

Press play and embark on a safe and inspiring trip into the reality of T.V.S.T.

De Kat Memwa #48 w/ T.V.S.T (Kashual Plastik)

SCRYING THE LANDSCAPE XV w. LA SERPIENTE ‘SEARCHING FOR THE SUBLIME’ [04.10.2023]

A monthly collection of blurred collage, aural experiments, and tonal in-betweens with sound artist and musician Felisha Ledesma. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/felisha-ledesma/episodes/felisha-ledesma-27th-january-2024

Felisha Ledesma 270124

Glasgow-based record label Are You Before graces the airwaves presenting freeform journeys through the sentimental, subtle and strange. Shades of expression for receptive and reflective listeners. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/are-you-before/episodes/are-you-before-2nd-february-2024

Are You Before 020224

Scrying the Landscape w. Elina Tapio, Hannah Pezzack [07.02.2024]

First thing on Fridays - Jack Rollo's here to take care of things.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-jack-rollo/episodes/early-bird-show-jack-rollo-22nd-march-2024

The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo & Hands in the Dark 220324

A mix of leftfield, dub, post-punk and indie sound from Swiss-based artist Eyyes.

EYYES 31/03/24

Session #3 - 2000-2001

XENIA REAPER - Within
TX4 - nodes.bloom
Takeo.K - Far Away Dub 
XENIA REAPER - Sued
Klein - wicked dreams
team sleep - staring at the queen
Kevin - staying
Iceboy Violet, Nueen - Closer
Purelink - Loon E
DJ Birdbath - Kitsch Memory
innerinnerlife - drēm (feat. Aestum)
Xen Model - Core ‎
Lotchek - think_4_a_while
Cousin - tooth 4 tooth
Andy Stott - Passed Me By
Madteo - Vox Your Nu Yr Resolution
innerinnerlife - whats left inside your mouth (feat. dpe0)

#ambient   #experimental   #Trip-Hop   #alternative  

@cacique_form

Introspection #57

St Celfer returns with tracks culled from a series of live shows, each one a showcase for his inventive experimentalism. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 26, 2023

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Qahr, A Buffer Finger Ride (Georgetown Steam Plant, Seattle)

Lover of esoteric trance, folk, drone, pagan choirs, lost mixtapes and weird bangers. Sometime music journalist.    
Bi-monthly show on @mutantradiotbilisi – ‘Scrying the Landscape’ w. @elinatapio 🔮🔪

SCRYING THE LANDSCAPE XV w. LA SERPIENTE ‘SEARCHING FOR THE SUBLIME’ [04.10.2023]

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