In greek mythology the titan Mnemosyne (Μνημοσύνη) is the personification of memory and mother of the Muses. This new series of archival sonic mixes wants to celebrate Memory, as it covers the most important role in creativity, progress and life itself.
By presenting a different vision of it on each episode, participants will distill memories and ideas that formed their projects, using a variety of audio materials, ranging from finished songs to extracts of performances and jam sessions, to interviews and field recordings, and so on, to create a sonic self portrait.

MNEMOSYNE - 2020

TenEbRaL wAy

(experimental cortex abuse)

Etheric Box djset is an exploration of our various emotional states, from melodic delights to glitchy turmoil, passing by innocent nostalgia, and groovy break-beats. 


> Played during a secret party, somewhere, someday.

Playlist (not in the right order) :

TechDiff - Metro Holograix
Rob Clouth - Silica
Igorrr - Excessive Funeral
Igorrr & Ruby My Dear - Alain
Tenebral Cortex - Lost Between Dimensions
Igorrr - Biquette
Igorrr - Melting Nails
Igorrr - Pavor nocturnus
TechDiff - Blister
Venetian Snares - Szamár Madár
Bluetech - Mezzamorphic
Molchun - Deconstructed Cocktail
Interior Conflict - Scorpio's Dilemma
pencil — Idole
AFX - Mangle 11 (Circuit Bent V.I.P. Mix)
AFX & Squarepusher - Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid
Clonepa - Canary Part II
Clonepa - Walls
Clonepa - Organ Concerto No 1 Revered Mortality 
Tusk Mite - D-u
Tusk Mite - tetraburst
Tusk Mite - cold-warm
Ruby My Dear - Karoshi

Etheric Box - Post-Corona Set

Life Itself Is The Crisis

I'm K-Owl Bitch

Bongalong

Sorry, I only speak Ableton

@underchangeover is the project of the Italian-Scottish musician Adriano Iiriti, now based in Lugano (Switzerland). 
Trained as pianist Adriano immersed himself in the electronic world giving life to his first self-produced album, ‘Moving’.  
The idea of 'Moving' was born in a moment of radical change as an act of courage to leave one’s own safe zone to face the unknown after several accomplishments made through piano and field recording. The key words were: coherence, transformation and audacity. The title refers to the possibility of creating something that detaches itself from it's roots, but doesn’t forget them: the composer’s background still influences the melodic nuances that get stuck within the electronic machines. 

“In the surrounding world the music already exists”  

What was a crucial sonic experience in your life?

In 2016, I visited Rock Werchter Festival in Belgium, and, as longtime fan of Joy Divison, I had to see perform New Order. Listening for the first time live “Love will tear us apart” broke me into pieces. From that day all my life has changed, rebuilding myself towards my music.

Links:
https://underchangeover.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/underchangeover/
https://www.facebook.com/underchangeover/

MNEMOSYNE #001 - UNDER CHANGEOVER

London based electronic music producer @Hypercube-audio (born Rodrigo Passannanti) universe focuses on experimentation with extensive use of software effect plugins, audio editors and sound processors within the computer environment creating dense digital audio environements.
Since debuting in 1996 with a full-length Album (Earobics) on Hypnotic / Cleopatra (US) known for top acts like F.S.O.L. , Loop Guru and many more, 
HYPERCUBE has been producing and releasing numerous recordings under different names. 

"What was a crucial sonic experience in your life?" 
My first ever musical approach was with a Farfisa organ in the late 70's ,  later on i was able to play my first monophonic analog synth, a Roland SH09, and I started experimenting and recording on tapes. The album that changed my concept of music was Computer World by Kraftwerk.

Links:
https://hypercube-audio.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/hypercubeaudio/

Tracklist:
00.00: Electro magnetic fields experiment with a Telephone pick-up coil placed on a monitor running various waves 
(SC link: https://soundcloud.com/hypercube-audio/hypercube-emr)
00.33: HYPERCUBE LIVE (MIX PART 1)
38.30 : London city  Binaural recording 
42.30 : HYPERCUBE LIVE (MIX PART 2)
56.30: Neural cortex sound output captured by an Emotiv EPOC Brain to Computer interface. 
(Youtube video: https://youtu.be/GXEJWwp54zw)

"Here we celebrate memory, the most precious gift of life, the only root of dreams, inspiration and knowledge"

MNEMOSYNE #002 - HYPERCUBE

https://soundcloud.com/rdopwolkenscheidt is a niche electronic music project from Copenhagen, founded in the windy Danish winter of early 2015. The music is inspired by cinematic and storytelling-centred approaches to songwriting and draws on a variety of genres, including downtempo, psychedelic rock, ambient electronica and synthwave. Thematically, the songs deal with tropes from literature and film, such as space exploration, dream theft, time travel and psychedelic drug use. The full-length debut The Unexpected Death of a Time-Traveling Friend was released in April 2017, followed by the post-apocalyptic EP Music for an Empty Metropolis and the cyberpunk-themed LP Quantum Computer Deep Dream in 2019.

"What was a crucial sonic experience in your life?"
In my early teenage years I took classes in contemporary music composition. As a part of that class, we went to the rehearsal of a Frank Zappa piece for symphonic orchestra, including an 8-person rhythmic section, where we could sit in the middle of the orchestra during the entire rehearsal. This was an extremely fascinating and influential sonic experience.

Links:
https://wolkenscheidt.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/wolkenscheidt/
https://www.youtube.com/user/Klonkruster222

Tracklist:
[Radio Samples, Undated]
Ørdop Wolkenscheidt - The Floater (Ørdop's Exosphere Rework) [Unreleased]
Ørdop Wolkenscheidt - The Fly (2006, live recording, performed by Sinfonietta Dresden)
Live Session (1) ANOMAL & Ørdop Wolkenscheidt (2020)
Ørdop Wolkenscheidt - The Train to Nowhere (2016)
Ørdop Wolkenscheidt - Mother's Melancholy Marmelade (Bonus Track, 2015)
[Amateur Home Tape Recording of Gershwin's Summertime, Unknown Origin, Undated]
[Lo-fi and field recordings, 2017]
Live Session (2) ANOMAL & Ørdop Wolkenscheidt (2020)
Sweetwater Horizon - Inaccessible Utopia (2014)
Intro to the Podcast 'The Scoreless Thriller' (2020)
Ørdop Wolkenscheidt - Interstellar Taxi Girl (2020)
[Recording of Sidney Boy's Choir, Undated]
[Lo-fi piano recording, 2015]

MNEMOSYNE #003 - ØRDOP WOLKENSCHEIDT

From the history of experimental music, we know of a number of ways to circumvent the traditional sound of the guitar – an instrument that has grown into a symbol of rock machismo and obsessive virtuosity. @gosheven chooses the strategy of an alternative tuning, adverting to the Pythagorean scale, Italian Renaissance masters and the minimalist tradition of La Monte Young. His intimate, diary-like songs run their serene course toward a looming apocalypse, shrouded in a mist of bittersweet melancholia. Gosheven undermines and bends the status of the European musical tradition, sidesteps the staleness of contemporary tuning and draws inspiration from other, more or less forgotten systems. A personal story unfolds on the background of history, narrated by an epicene voice addressing every single attentive listener.
Gosheven is also the founder of the @decolonizeyourmind collective an open society of musicians founded in 2018 presenting the inexhaustible treasures of non-Eurocentric tuning systems and decolonizing our listening habits

"What was a crucial sonic experience in your life?"
The sounds of the remaining nature is the most crucial inspiration for me, no matter what they are: bird calls, frogs, insects etc.

Links:
gosheven.net/
gosheven.bandcamp.com/
www.instagram.com/gosheven_music/
www.facebook.com/goshevenmusic/

Sound sources:
-Una Corda (made by David Klavins in collaboration with Nils Frahm)
-Old Viennese Ehrbar piano

Nature around the Budapest studio building:
-cicadas that are almost present everywhere due to the rapid climate change
-a few harsh sounds of local Asio otus owls
-long scifi like sound is from the highest point of the Velence Hills, coming from the wind hitting the metal cables of the transmission tower

The percussion instruments played were both from Java and Bali: a small traditional kendang made of jackfruit wood and a Sundanese celempung made of very thick bamboo.

Near the end a guitar sketch of a future Decolonize Your Mind Society composition

MNEMOSYNE #004 - GOSHEVEN

A Cheeky Bite (K/Owl/Alien/Lazer/Baby/Rysavy)

https://soundcloud.com/smael-cormack is a British sound artist living in rural Somerset.
His work focuses on gathering and weaving found sound with acoustics.
His use of electro-acoustics creates a delicate atmosphere, immersing the listener in a web of sound that subtly shifts and scatters.

“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
 
Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow. 

"What was a crucial sonic experience in your life?"
My earliest memory of sound is perhaps the most vivid. I'm not sure I believe in the accuracy of early memories, but this single memory hangs in my psyche with great persistence. I am sitting near to the top of the stairs in my childhood home, I am perhaps six years old. Where the stairs bend to meet the top floor there is a small landing with a grandfather clock. This clock is shrouded in fascination for me even now. I am trying to copy the chime that rings on the hour with the strings of my classical guitar. Finding this simple note brings me endless joy. 


Tracklist:
Shoreline (Self Released) 
The Sunday Project 12.04.20 (Self Released) 
Sea Margin (Unreleased) 
Spheria (Unreleased)
 Looping Finch (Maple Finch - Handstitched)  
Hikikomori (Unreleased) 
Sister On The Shoreline (Early Sketch) 
Simulated Birch (For Muriel - Self Released)
 Leading Stairs (Unreleased) 
Three Tape Loops (Unreleased - St Andrews Grand Piano) 
Fallow Keen (Ammil - Krysalisound) 
 
Links
https://www.ishmael-cormack.com/
ishmaelcormack.bandcamp.com/music 
https://www.instagram.com/ishmaelcormack/
https://www.facebook.com/IshmaelCormack

MNEMOSYNE #005 - ISHMAEL CORMACK

..none of the tracks are mine in this mix..

larva

ULTRAVIRUS pres. siq~1  👻

https://ultravirus.bandcamp.com/album/siq-1

Cat No: VIRUS04 
Release Date: 30.10.20 
Curation: Thorsten Hertog @thickowens
Artwork: Simon Villaret @simon-villaret
Mastering: Ben Cilauro @businesssman [trax 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13] 
Format: Digital / CD

Tracklist___
1. 1800trix - Chicken Nex On The Grapevine @genie4
2. Hypercube - Gastric Hallucinations @hypercube-audio
3. Synergetix - Everyone is Born a Genius 
4. Eek - e c rush radiance farm>> @user-111471615
5. Terminal 11 - Overload @terminal11
6. Drojji - Althorun @drojji 
7. Rzeng - ~1.1x10(-8)@rrzeng
8. CHANEZE - BUQRĀTIS
9. mvd0æ - Apariciones @mvd0ae
10. Tenebral Cortex - False Iterator @tenebralcortex
11. Gooooose - Pattern Recognition @gooooose
12. NIKE√OMITA - B_asdfghj5_2 [edengate] @nike_vomita
13. Makinist - New World Celebration @user-153161389
14. Network Glass - whscr19 @networkglass
15. anndunham -1 2 3 o M6f - Put em in a Quadruple Bag Natasha @anndunham

siq~1

siq~1 ✷

In the weeks before his upcoming three track EP on Gabber Noir, C Mantle graces us with a ten ton block of pure originality in the second Gabber Noir Archive.



Tracklist:

1.  C Mantle - Fret Net (Digital Distortions)
2.  C Mantle - Tekne (Acre Recordings)
3.  C Mantle - [untitled] (unreleased)
4.  C Mantle - Liepaja (Gabber Noir)
5.  C Mantle - 10,000 Fingers of Dr T (Spacebar Sentiments)
6.  C Mantle - A Likely Story (Acre Recordings)
7.  C Mantle - Hiroko (Myszyk)
8.  C Mantle - Trinity (Gabber Noir)
9.  C Mantle - Nabuka's Grotesque (Myszyk)
10. C Mantle - Kone (unreleased)
11. C Mantle - Praxic (Earthlings) 
12. C Mantle - Bidirectional Thoroughfare (unreleased)
13. C Mantle - [untitled] (unreleased)
14. C Mantle - Hinxton (Gabber Noir)
15. C Mantle - We Care Because They Don't (Anti Social Network)
16. The Wee Djs - Hull3 (C Mantle Rmx) (Acre Recordings)
17. The Wee Djs - Timeline (C Mantle Rmx) (Acre Recordings)
18. C Mantle - I Used to Know You (Acre Recordings)
19. Nymate Association - Systems Online (C Mantle Rmx) (Subgrade)
20 C Mantle - Sine Wave (Bandcamp)

Gabber Noir Archive 0002 - C Mantle

"Here we celebrate memory, the most precious gift of life, the only root of dreams, inspiration and knowledge"

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MNEMOSYNE is a label & a series of "archival mixes" that wants to celebrate memory.


Contact: mnemosyne.rec[at]gmail.com

MNEMOSYNE #002 - HYPERCUBE

Myalo // MNEMOSYNE