BACK AGAIN....LOVE AND BRILLIANT WORK!!!!!!!!!

great job making the subbass present without it muddy-ing everything else out. Love these fragment tracks

Like an electronic music description of elements forming compounds; DNAs evolving, the cooperation of worker ants, the construction of life.... great imagination..

MTD Mixtape August 2019

Then She Reaches for the Gun was formed in 2021 by Mat Ward. At its essence is sound collage, experimentation and the desire to merge and defy genres. Ward invites musicians, sound artists, poets and anyone interested to send him files to be used, abused and showcased ‘as suggested by the work’. They are not always musical but field recordings, spoken word, engine noises and drunken rants. Animals participate a lot too! The raw material is arranged one phrase asks for the next in an alchemical and intuitive process that will most often feature dozens of tracks weaving in and out of each other, colliding, harmonising, arguing and laughing along the way.

Both the aesthetic and the compositional methods use what Frank Zappa called Xenochrony - the mixing together of separately recorded and rhythmically opposing musical phrases to create polyrhythmic and polytempi compositions.The work also features fragmented story telling with the human voice (in many languages) appearing unannounced throughout the tracks offering up snippets of thoughts, conversations, jokes and existential angst. The absurdity of humanities desperate claim to have any real understanding of its place in the universe is revealed through the recorded follies and genuine emotions of the participants in these works. The project is a celebration of experimentation, chance, diversity and community. It pays homage to all musical tastes and genres whilst maintaining a sense of humour and irreverence that is needed to stay sane in the climate of early 21st Century contemporary culture.

I Am Never Freer Than When I Am With You features the following artists

Humans

Adam Meredith - Ford XD with XF front mods/Voice
Ambient Annie - Electronica/Field Recording/Voice
Andrew Harper - Field Recordings
Angostura Elwar -  2 x Behringer CRAVE analog synths/Yamaha P200 electronic piano 
Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi - Text/Voice
Ariad Music - Clarinet/Percussion/Piano
Axel Weiß - Electric Guitar/Robot Voices
Banalytic - experimental Electronics
Belial Pelgrim - Digital Strings/Electronica
Brendan Corey Benson - Electric Guitar
Carolyn Wigston - Voice
Chicago Word Brigade - Electronica
Dan Hewins - Bass Guitar
Dane Renshaw - Drums/Voice
Dani Kirby - Keyboard/Piano/Voice
Dylan Banks - Intonarumori/Voice
Frank Wilke - French Horn/Trombone/Voice
Garbage Truck Disco - Drum programming/Electric Guitar/Joyous Pop Punk
Glenn Ward - Electric Guitar/Skyhooks
Hakan - Moog Voyager XL
Hverheij- Drums/Electric Guitar/Synth
Johnny Python- Bass Guitar/Drum Programming/Electric Guitar/Text/Voice
JZsuperstar - Electric Guitar/Field Recordings/Keyboards
Lady ElectroTrek - Organ
Libby Laksmi - Jazzy Loops/Synth Bass
Loop(c)y - Electric Guitar
Malo Bernard-O’Meara - Drums
Maxx Black - Guitar/Ukulele
Minimal Drone Girl - Cat Wrangling/Field Recordings
Oberlin - Eurorack/Piano
Paolo D’Emilio - Electronica
Paul Miller - Electronic Percussion/Keyboards/Phat Electro Bass
Phil Bywater - Saxophones/Voice
Raul Mainer - DAW Programming/Heavy Metal
Robert Jefferson - Akai Rhythm wolf/GakkenSX-150 ll/Korg Kaosilator/Percussion
Rosin Dust - Violin/Field Recordings
Sarah Megahertz - Speedway Noise
Scratch Kelly - Beats/Electronica
Stan Magendanz - Electronica
Ten Atmospheres - Field Recordings/Synths
Texmex Shaman - Electric Guitar
The Windscale Blues Experiment - Clarinet/Flute/Saxophones
Timothy Korstad - Demons/Electronica
Thomas Bergheim - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar
Tobias Schmitt - Electronica/Processed Organ/Text
Tuonela - Demons/Electronica
Vartch - Drones/Things/Trousers (not T-shirts)/Voice
Widar’s Spiritual Front - Electronica/Ms Pacman
W:I:L-o’ the-wisp - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar/Electronica
Wivresse - Electronica/Voice
Zanshin - Acoustic and Processed Drums

Mat Ward - Arrangements/Bass Guitar/Double Bass/Field Recordings/Intonarumori/Marimba/Noise/Percussion/Piano

Dogs
Boogie
Brophy
Buddy
Hancho
Jack
Momo
Neska
Poldo
Senna
Shyamsundara
Star

Oily (cat)
And many cows from Milis, Sardinia

I Am Never Freer Than When I Am With You

Breach The Vein

rest/fern

Remastered and reuploaded. From the 2017 EP, "The Mongol Princess"

The EP is now free/pay what you want on Bandcamp-
moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/the-mongol-princess

The Mongol Princess is a conceptual EP/soundtrack by Mood Exhibit. It tells a story of a young, beautiful, and kind princess that died tragically by disease at an early age. She spread love and hope throughout the land during the precious time she lived in her role. This audio tale of her life covers all emotions: joy, passion, pain, mourning, and remembrance.
This 4th release from Mood Exhibit is the most focused in theme and approach. No "electronic" sounds where used in this EP. All instruments including percussion within tracks were performed on keyboard using high quality sampled Asian sounds, with the accompaniment of traditional Mongol vocal recordings.

*this upload has the new image that differs from the original EP/track, and better represents how I interpret the Mongol Princess today

Mongol Princess EP

Mood Exhibit - Death of a Mongol Princess

They sang not with voices, but with the memory of shape.
Beneath the shattered pane, echoes gathered
fragments of forgotten rites,
lit by the flicker of a candle that never cast heat.
Each note a reflection,
each silence a scream caught in glass.
An homage to the room that remembers you,
long after you've past.

Canticles for the Dead Mirror

closing track to the upcoming EP, 'random sidequest restarted'

staverton airport

Sommahommatimahimes

From the rerelease of Newer Unknown Breeds. OUT NOW ON BANDCAMP:
https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/newer-unknown-breeds-expanded-edition

"Newer Unknown Breeds" was at the time a further development in sound for Blink Twice. The album expanded on the techno and electro genre much more than Blink Twice's debut "Other Locations". There was an increase usage of sampling on this collection of material, often with looped effects incorporated to add further density. With the blend of tribal and industrial elements remaining, it serves as an adventurous concoction of experimental rhythmic and darker ambient electronic music.

The underlying theme of "Newer Unknown Breeds" was the observance of mutations (both deliberate and natural) within organisms. Evolutionary results of obscure creatures and their advancement and place in the biological field.

Blink Twice - Rapid Growth

Homkross Harvest

Expect another new track in around a week. 

SIRENS SINGING TO A DARK LIGHTHOUSE

Full album here on bandcamp.
https://hyperlightninghydra.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-hierophant-x

Mercury Knight Laser Saber!

Suddenly found in my closet 10-years-old poem and was very surprised by its content.
Original track by Alexander Bozhday: https://soundcloud.com/somebody-bo/baku-passing 
from "Passing" album: https://soundcloud.com/somebody-bo/sets/passing

CRAZY COMPASS: Penza - Moscow, Russia (july 2019)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/labyrinth-with-somebody-bo

music, photo: Alexander Bozhday @somebody-bo
poem, vocal: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass 

ЛАБИРИНТ

Выглядывая из своего лабиринта
инкогнито-анонимно,
снимаю слепки,
коллекционирую гипсовые статуэтки.
Увлекаюсь Тибетом - 
отстраненно:
нет денег на билеты.

Билеты проданы абсолютно.
Заняты все места
в кинотеатрах
лабиринтов.
Мир тонет в рукоплесканиях
пассажиров,
увидевших краем глаза небо
в окне иллюминатора.

К чему такие траты?
Почем билеты?

Долой сомнения!

...И в лабиринте гаснет свет:
выходим на экран.

---

LABYRINTH

Looking out from own labyrinth
incognito-anonymously,
take off casts
collect plaster figurines.
Fond of Tibet -
detachedly:
no money for tickets.

Tickets sold out absolutely.
All places are occupied
in cinemas
of labyrinths.
The world is drowning in applause
of passengers, 
which saw the edge of the sky
in the window of the porthole.

Why such an expenses?
How much are the tickets?

Away of doubt!

...And in the labyrinth the lights go out:
we exit to the screen.

full

ЛАБИРИНТ / labyrinth (with Somebody Bo)

True False

Negativland - Discernment

We All Live in a taRka Submarine

Underwater vocals & lyrics: Myrh https://soundcloud.com/myrhyum
Music: Mahan Mahan 

Recorded & waterproofed at Pahlavi Sound Studios, in Mama Shadi's basement Los Angeles, CA, USA 08/2019

We All Live in a taRka Submarine

Ninja Step

Fragment 3

AVANT GARDE | GUTTER PROG | GARAGE JAZZ

Some of our art is made on computers, some of it is made by hand. We are particularly interested in that gray area in between where you cant really tell. All of what we create here is one work laid out in segments, all connected. The Mystic Tape Deck universe is vast and explores all manner of adding meaning to our lives, while pondering meaninglessness.

Please consider supporting our project and helping us complete the work. We make books and cds that go with them. We also have a graphic novel and a custom oracle deck in the works. All part of the story.

A Multimedia Puzzle-Story Of An Immortal Being's Struggle To Define And Exert Their Will Upon A Wholly Deterministic And Ambivalent Multiverse, And The Strange Cult Who Loves Them.

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Greetings to you: readers, beaders, seekers, wanderers, wonderers, outsiders, rebels, fantasy gamers, freaks, mythologists, philosophers, appreciators, creators, perpetuators of beauty, coveters of mysterious objects, collectors of counter culture, the curious, the questioners, the unusual, the unique, the star children, the light workers, shadow integrators, diviners, alchemists, hermits, monks and popes, the saviors and prophets, the builders and destroyers of worlds, the old ones, the young ones, the rollers of boulders, the sun orbiters, the morning star dewdrops and twinkle toed dreamers of dreams, you mystic shining beacons, you crossers and denizens of the void, reality shapers, universe makers and underworld freaks.

"A prominent feature of avant-garde music is to break through various rules and regulations of traditional culture, in order to transcend established creative principles and appreciation habits. Avant-garde music pursues novelty in musical form and style, insisting that art is above everything else; thus, it creates a transcendental and mysterious sound world. Hint, metaphor, symbol, association, imagery, synesthesia and perception are widely used in avant-garde music techniques to excavate the mystery of human heart and the flow of consciousness, so that many seemingly unrelated but essentially very important events interweave into multi-level structures and forms."

electronic creations, mutations, machinations

Fragment 3

muterial

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