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 - 2023

Elena Colombi w/Julia Mira 22/03/2021 - NTS Radio

Opal Tapes - Evitceles (Slack's 23/10/21)

We invited yab - @yabzy - from the Brussels based music and sound art collective Fenêtre Ovale - @fenetre-ovale - to compile some of the released and unreleased compositions of its core members. Yab masterly weaves between their catalogue of poignantly digitally synthesized materials morphed with electro-acoustic features. Perfectly showcasing collectively what the group is all about, quoting their manifesto: ''... Through the hybridization of different esthetics, we end up with an common esthetic based around perception and mediation, without any pre-established etiquettes.'' 

artwork: @drgibby

Fenêtre Ovale - LYL Radio #001

Jonnnah live at Positive Education Festival 2021

@ama-54 is a multi instrumentist and a producer based in Germany. His music is a combination of dub, noise, experimental and traditional sounds. Signed on many labels such as Accidental Meetings, Bokeh Versions, Mahorka, Marasm, Helecho Dub, Accents Records, Seagrave… his music stands out by his touch which he named "Arabxo". A two-hour selection with his own productions only.

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Abu Ama - 15 Mars 2022

Every so often, the Amulet reveals something rare, akin to a pearl or a secret. Today it presents BODYXVIII, an artist based in Melbourne, active in the fields of electronic music and sound collage since 2018. The Australian musician's work spans a deep spectrum across techno pulsations to ambient shimmers, all unified by overarching textures as well as attention to completeness and intermixture. Being no exception, the mix was woven together with original sound collages and field recordings. The artist shares it as a token of his own sonic headspace in the present day.

Amulet of Tears 023: BODYXVIII

Music: @bodyxviii

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 023: BODYXVIII

After playing an amazing live performance Left Bank, Tbilisi , Chantal Michelle is visiting us in our wagon and offering some tunes!

Chantal Michelle [19.11.2022]

https://soundcloud.com/placa_fer is a tool to experiment and to connect. Its main intention is to generate a sonic diary, gradually adding layers of information, memories and emotions. 
With an attraction towards storytelling, imperfection and out of control  scenarios, placa's compositions aim to take the listener to concrete places and ephemeral situations with field recordings as its cornerstone. Archiving moments, as if clips were filmed and stored for future reference. 

 "kyo-ka" for Mnemosyne is the sound map of a trip to Japan in late 2019. 

"What was a crucial sound experience in your life?"
When I first listened to my first field recordings with studio headphones I was shocked by the power they had to take me to specific moments and places in life instantly. Even if some years have passed by, they still hold that super power. It is also fascinating how, every time I listen to them, I hear new details and new strong connections are built. The micro macro perception when listening to field recordings has really influenced the way I listen to my everyday context. 

Links:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/fer_placa/
BC: https://placa-0f.bandcamp.com/music

Tracklist:
chengdu
jingūmae
unreleased (field recordings from Narita and Umeda stations) 
daimon
ueno 
unreleased (field recordings from Sumida)
yuki 
unreleased (field recordings from Kyoto) 
nakazakichō
unreleased (field recordings from Shibuya station)

MNEMOSYNE #042 - PLACA

https://soundcloud.com/feldermelder is a composer, musician and in!allation arti! that co-runs the record Label -OUS, and is part of ENCOR.STUDIO.
He's on a quest to create and find dense, intense, intricate and surprising music that contains a transformational attitude.
Besides that in play and create in the following formations.
Musique Infinie ( with https://soundcloud.com/noemibuchi ) 
Duo with https://soundcloud.com/jsartorius
Duo with https://soundcloud.com/bamanya-brian
Duo with Sara Oswald

"What was a crucial sound experience in your life?"
In simple terms, the discovery as a child that I could manipulate and record audio. The Basics.

About the mix:
"It’s an audio collage of things I’ve worked on, random recordings from my hard disc and inspiring music.
The Files list is in no particular order. But contains the names of all audio files used."
Check the full file list here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CoXVVveM3UX/

Links: 
https://feldermelder.bandcamp.com/music 
SC: https://soundcloud.com/feldermelder 
https://www.instagram.com/feldermelder/ 
https://www.feldermelder.ch/ 
https://ousooo.bandcamp.com/ 
https://www.encor.audio/

MNEMOSYNE #043 - FELDERMELDER

https://soundcloud.com/thisismartenot, pseudonym of Simone Gottardi, is an Italian electronic music composer, based in Turin. His compositions, exclusively computer-based, are founded on a minimal vocabulary and instrumental apparatus and, aiming to exploit the entire musical spectrum, they orbit around a solid sound body, which has as its main source a monophonic synthesizer that he developed in Max/ MSP and gives a precise timbre direction with radical aesthetic constraints. The feature that unites his tracks is the dichotomous alternation of claustrophobic patterns that evoke the rigid molecular structures of plastic materials in contrast to freer and more irregular sections where the musical fabric dissolves and opens up to airy and rarefied scenarios.
Martenot launches his own collective and curatorial project called https://soundcloud.com/neanche-per-sogno-records publishing his debut EP called Sfilate Spaziali in September 2022.

“What was a crucial sound experience in your life?”
The experience that changed me first as a listener and then as a composer was when, studying John Cage during my first class in composition of concrete music at the Conservatory of Trento, I was asked to use poor common objects not traditionally conceived as musical instruments, considering any noise produced as a potential vehicle of musical meaning. The result was awful, but it opened me up to sound in all its facets.

Links:
IG: www.instagram.com/martenot_/ 
BC: nxsrecords.bandcamp.com 
SC: https://soundcloud.com/neanche-per-sogno-records

Tracklist:
Queens of the Stone Age - Go With The Flow   
Johnny Mox - Praise the Stubborn 
Nine Inch Nails - We’re In This Together   
Deftones - Minerva
Verdena - Spaceman 
St. Vincent - Bring Me Your Loves 
Kasabian - explodes 
Thom Yorke - Dawn Chorus 
SOPHIE - Not Okay 
Caterina Barbieri - Spine of Desire 
Hecker - Jxean-z Character Generator 
Martenot - Starburst 
Oval - Panorama 
TCF - D7 08 2A 8D 2A 37 FA FE 17 0E 62 39 06 81 C8 A1 49 30 6F ED 56 AD 5E 04   Arca - Xen 
SOPHIE - Ponyboy 
Lorenzo Senni - The Shape Of Trance To Come

MNEMOSYNE #044 - MARTENOT

https://soundcloud.com/missing_ear aka Matteo Gualeni, drummer and sound designer based in Milan, he is also part of the AV duo https://soundcloud.com/baransuofficial. " Missing Ear", a key concept in this project, and interpreted by the artist as the awareness of the listener to actively understand the music in its genuine and purest form. In this way, the act of listening becomes an act of protest against the overstimulation displayed in the digital world. Following this principle, our sound perception is at the core of the creative process, working as a processing tool, and turning itself into the very same instrument.
Matteo’s sonic quest straddles futuristic landscapes enclosed in a post-natural aesthetic, where ambient sounds meet noises and break-glitch rhythms. His main influences span from the harsh experimentations of artists like Objekt, Atom, Autechre to the fine drum work of Steve Gadd and the abstract and fluid sounds of Lee Gamble and Boards of Canada.

“What was a crucial sound experience in your life?”
The crucial experience that I'm still hearing every day has an exact name: Tinnitus (in Italiano it's called "Acufene")
I can definitely say that this situation changed my mind... not because I struggle against that (or so and so) but because that begins me really next to some problems that we every day live.
First of all the noise pollution, the inability to listen, and thus also the way listening has changed. I'll speak about this very soon in a paper that I'll release with Mille Plateaux. I hope this has piqued your curiosity.

Links:
https://linktr.ee/makethesoundtouchable

Tracklist:
Baransu - depths I
Baransu - cygnus X-1
Kangding Ray - nn/peaks
Alva Noto, William Basinski, Martin Gore, David Bowie - Subterraneans  
Albert Van Abbe - Cellar closet
Second Woman - ////\
Klara Lewis · Peder Mannerfelt - Sell Art 
Missing Ear - Heavy Cuts
Bienoise - LCL Open is Porn - Closed is Fetish 
Huerco S. - Plonk II  
Grand River - Mr. Speaker
Surgeon Girls - Clouded Temper  Small Steps

MNEMOSYNE #045 - MISSING EAR

Alma G. Ferrer ‘Mim’ is a culture curator and music storyteller based in Mexico. https://soundcloud.com/mitaminelab, a contemporary sound archive and curatorial project, is one of her outstanding artistic projects. She also works with cultural and artistic projects doing art production and project management. Mim explores the articulation of networks of exchange, collaboration and hospitality through sound, contemporary music, digital archives and radio;  she’s currently exploring new forms of therapy with ancestral medicine, painting and mixed media.

“What was a crucial sound experience in your life?” 
Being a hypersensitive person has been pretty extreme sometimes, I always get mad and anxious with some sounds —like hearing another person chewing or car klaxons and traffic— so music has been always my comfort zone and shelter. Of course living in a city is kinda complex but I truly enjoy the urban sound experiences related with soundscapes of specific spaces and in general with ‘natural’ sound culture (or aural culture).

Links:
http://mitaminelab.org/
https://soundcloud.com/mitaminelab
https://www.instagram.com/mitamine_lab/

Tracklist:
Lo escucho lo pinto - Bandera negra - 2023
Sa Pa - AI-33: Atmospheric Fragments - Studio mix - 2023
Walking @ Mexico City 
Momoko Kamiya - 竹林 - 1999 
Haruomi Hosono - Himalaya - 1995
Sa Pa - AI-33: Atmospheric Fragments - Studio mix - 2023
Wind @ Centro Histórico, Mexico City 
Wind @ Tacubaya, Mexico City 
Japan Blues - Tsugaru Aya Bushi  - 2023
Apichat Pakwan - Nam Ton Tad (dub) - 2021
Hiss Sound - Kenau - 2022
PVAS - Somaesthesia - 2023
El afilador @ Mexico City
Commodo - eyewitness - 2022
Melody Beecher - Careless whisper (jura soundsystem lovers version) - 2023
Walking @ Mexico City 
Lakmé: Act I Dôme épais le jasmin (Lakmé Mallika)
Walking @ Mexico City 
Martyna Basta - Speechless Lately - 2023
Wind @ Centro Histórico, Mexico City 
Richard Pinhas - Dronz 1 - Ketter - 2017
Lagoss - Barranco del infierno - 2023
GConnection - Free Your Spirit 16 Bit Mix - 1993
Walking @ Mexico City 
Groove Corporation - A Voyage On The Marie Celeste - 1995

MNEMOSYNE #046 - MIM

The https://soundcloud.com/appropriate_savagery project was born in 2017 from an attempt by its author to encapsulate and transcribe in his sounds the most visceral emotions of the human race, such as joy, fear, sadness, hatred or disgust. As a result, this project is fiercely interested in the different relationships that unite and divide humans.
This podcast is a collection of atmospheres, past and recent sources of inspirations, which he likes to listen to and which give him the strength to continue his work.

"What has been a crucial sound experience in your life?"
There have been many memorable experiences in the field of music but when reading this question I immediately thought of this one. In 2015 I was producing techno and had little interest in ambient and was unfamiliar with the world of noise in general. Then, a dear friend of mine made me listen to the album "Frozen Niagara Falls" by Prurient, an artist I knew nothing about until then. This album was a crucial discovery in my listening experience since I discovered a whole new musical world in which I recognized myself much more. I questioned the way I wanted to convey emotions in my music for months and then, the Appropriate Savagery project was born.

Links :
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/appropriate_savagery/ 
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/appropriate_savagery

Tracklist :
PGR - Into the Cutting Day
Miki Yui - Whisper
Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker - Opulent Night
Jana Winderen - Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone 
Cheryl E. Leonard - Greater Than 20 Knots
Philip Samartzis + Eugene Ughetti - Radome
Ulla - inside means inside me (Side A)
Palus Somni - Luna Nix II
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Plankton
Ida Toninato - Hymne (Valerio Tricoli Remix)
Phauss - Audiodrome
Kassel Jaeger - Shifted In Dreams
Puce Mary - Anthem of Gratitude
Aviva Endean - Nightwork
The Humble Bee - An Opposite Fall
Claire Rousay - Sometimes I Feel Like I Have No Friends

MNEMOSYNE #048 - APPROPRIATE SAVAGERY

original material composed during a period of creative exchange and inspiring conversations between Zhe Pechorin and her special guest Nocturnal Phase resulting in 1 hour of deep and soulful sound experience

@ernestobellicini
@zhe-pechorin

Zhe Pechorin & Nocturnal Phase 16/07/23

Liam Segal - WU:M001


Fractured vocals, chopped and screwed RnB and lush soundscapes tailored to a heady mix all from original materials 


https://soundcloud.com/liam-segal

WU:M001 - Liam Segal

Valerio Tricoli — Clonic Earth
Format: 2xLP / DIGITAL
Cat.No: PAN 71
Release Date: 24th June 2016
http://p-a-n.org/

The experimental Italian composer returns to PAN with a new LP, titled 'Clonic Earth'. His ongoing output for the label has long-presented his electroacoustic sound compositions where since the mid-'00s, he has utilized analogue live sampling and real-time editing of field and studio recordings by means of manipulation of 1/4 inch tape.

Asides from being a founding member of the Italian avant-rock group 3/4HadBeenEliminated, he has worked extensively with various musicians, choreographers and multimedia artists including Thomas Ankersmit, Antoine Chessex, Werner Dafeldecker, Anthony Pateras, and Robert Piotrowicz.
 
His studio compositions, documented on few records, often explore themes of the internal - represented both by the psychological and the physical - and of the occult, which with the use of spoken text makes them often deeply existential works, self-investigations of the psychological, emotional and irrational horror within.

The new record, 'Clonic Earth' is a perturbing, compelling and eventually mind-expanding work, marked by compositional strategies of exploded narratives, psychological insight and oracular literary references, where questions about the boundaries of spatial perception in the decoding processes of acousmatic music are overturned into existential, metaphysical questions. 

Tricoli's allegorical and philosophical universe takes the form of an unhinged mind's landscape swarming with estranged sound objects, and sometimes reminiscent, in the complexity of details and surrealistic effects, of Hieronymus Bosch’s larger paintings. Compared to his previous works, the content of 'Clonic Earth' explores more synthesized and heavily processed sounds, especially vocals, often appearing in the form of a religious, electrified chanting. 

The record is described by its author as a natural consequence of the internal collapse depicted in his previous record, 'Miseri Lares': "As if all the debris left inside my loudspeakers have been ignited to expand into the ether, to find a justification at the principle of Chaos, or Cosmos alike." 

This movement is expressed by references to the theme of fire as original matter in the Chaldean Oracles which, together with the later work of Philip K. Dick, are the main sources for the vocal/text elements of the composition. Fire, intended as the convulsive principle of existence, but also an ontologically terminal element - hence a representation of the infinite decay and a mean of communication with the otherworldly - serves the author a metaphor for the acousmatic listening experience itself: a borderline perception of sounds eternally fixed in their spasmodic disappearance, which could eventually drag us into a different layer of reality, drastically changing, subverting, or expanding the space in which they are diffused. A ritual, somehow, which may link the listener and the perceptive space that he inhabits with whatever lies beyond the loudspeakers, beyond the vibrating surface of the world.

Valerio Tricoli — I. The Hallowed Receiver (PAN 71)

"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 series of archival sonic mixes that 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 to create a sonic self portrait.

Contact: myalomusic[at]gmail.com

MNEMOSYNE #048 - APPROPRIATE SAVAGERY

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