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Wave Track #7 comes to us from St Celfer, a Korean-American sound artist and musician who splits his time between Sao Paulo and Seattle. His track, Fifty One, wastes no time announcing itself, beginning with a sequence of machine-like, harsh sounds that rise in volume before slowly giving way to a melancholic rhythm, interspersed with soft tones that combine to create a nostalgic, almost cinematic quality. In just under three minutes, St Celfer manages to elicit a strong yearning for elsewhere, a sensibility that encapsulates–and communicates with–the other works presented in Infrasonica’s Wave #7. We hope you enjoy listening. INFRASONICA.ORG

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Fifty One (Super Happy Fun Land)

This mix was made by Joseph Sannicandro (A CLOSER LISTEN) for Secret Thirteen, originally published in December 2014. 

Read more about the mix, including tracklisting: 

http://secretthirteen.org/joseph-sannicandro-a-closer-listen-mix/

https://acloserlisten.com/2015/01/10/acl-mix-for-secret-thirteen/#comment-127414

Secret Thirteen Mix

Secret Thirteen Mix 139 - A Closer Listen

She came with this freshness of the mind and....the path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

https://soundcloud.com/oneinstrument
https://soundcloud.com/grandriver

All tracks in the following mix are made with one single instrument

1. La Gigante Rossa - Moog Sub 37 Tribute Edition [One Instrument]
2. Ataxy - Waldorf Blofeld [One Instrument]
3. Wanderwelle - Roland Juno-106 (Exp#2) [One Instrument]
4. Ruhig - Roland Juno-60 [One Instrument]
5. Andrea Porcu - Korg Electribe A (EA-1) [One Instrument]
6. Farceb - Korg MS-20 Mini [One Instrument]
7. Serena Butler - Roland Alpha Juno 2 [One Instrument]
8. Svart1 - Fender Stratocaster Vintage (70’s) [One Instrument]
9. Kujo - Metasonix D-1000 [One Instrument]
10. A Beautiful Place - Fender Jaguar [One Instrument]
11. Abismal - Dave Smith Instruments Pro 2 [One Instrument]
12. Kuf - Korg Polysix (Exp#2) [One Instrument]
13. KYLN - Tom Oberheim SEM Pro [One Instrument]

Grand River mixes One Instrument

Mysteries of the Deep is delighted to present its second album by Portland, Oregon-based musician and multimedia artist William Selman (@wselman), entitled “Naming Before Names.” In a world that demands categorization of everything around us through taxonomies, genres, and strict schemas, Selman’s album aims to explore the spaces between categories. His goal is not to offer concrete explanatory gestures, but rather, to create a deliberate space for suspension and ambiguity. These eight compositions conjure a world in which humans are asked to stand on the periphery, observing their surroundings from a vantage of curious wonder, rather than clear definition.

Selman draws from distinct sonic realms, however, citing David Berhman, Maggi Payne, and Alvin Curran as influences. He says, “I like the way these artists use simple forms to ground dense compositions with an approach to composition that is improvisational and collage-like.” In line with this sentiment, the album’s quality is uncannily natural. Many of Selman’s field recordings, collected over a twenty-year period, find a home here, adorning a landscape that’s as visual as it is sonic; we hear hydrophone recordings of tide pools and summer lagoons, grasshopper wings in a lava field, broken humidifiers and sandstorms alongside moments of intentional instrumentation. Light vibraphone gives way to slow hand drum movements. Textured synths add viscosity without extracting us from the ecological world. It feels inaccurate to say the album’s occasional rhythms are constructed; rather, patterns seem to arise organically out of the aether. In Selman’s universe, there’s a sense that everything exists in primordial unity, untouched by the human imprint that insists on fragmenting the world into recognizable parts. 

Written, produced, and recorded by William Selman in Portland, Oregon Jan 2018 - Feb 2020
Bass guitar on "A New Old Firmament" by Steve Wade
Special thanks to Paul Dickow and Marcus Fischer for percussion and the time-share vibraphone
Additional mixing by Oliver Chapoy at Ohm Sweet Ohm, NY
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio, NY
Photography by Candace Price
Words by Taylor Bratches

Naming Before Names

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MOTDLP006 - William Selman - Bubble House In Shallow Depth

Echo of Species 13 - Felicity Mangan

@felicity-mangan
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This episode - ‘Marsh’aphonics - features selected tracks by Pauline Oliveros, Knud Viktor, Olli Aarni, Vlad Dobrovolski, Heidrun Schramm, Native Instrument (@native-instrument), Marja Ahti (@marjaahti), Andrew Pekler (@pekler), Lag Os (@lag-os), HMOT (@hmotology) and Tomoko Sauvage(@tomokosauvage).

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Felicity Mangan's words:
"Wetlands such as small ponds, marshlands, swamps and lakes provide habitats for many of the
world's existing, new and endangered aquatic and terrestrial species.
During the recent lockdown situation l have taken long bike rides inside of the Berlin borders
discovering many tracks along canals, rivers and wetlands inhibiting an amazing biodiversity of
lush flora and fauna during the spring season. I also recently discovered that the name Berlin
roots from previous West Slavic inhabitants berl-/birl- "swamp".
Inspired by these local biotopic explorations I have created a mix featuring my own music that is
influenced and populated by wetland species while including many other artists I have
discovered who have created music inspired by aquatic phenomena or the voices of species
that habitat these wet landscapes."
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To know more about Felicity Mangan:
Felicity Mangan is an Australian sound artist and composer based in Berlin, Germany since 2008. In different situations such as solo performance, collaborative projects with other musicians or installation, Felicity plays her found native Australian wildlife archive and other field recordings, either through a stereophonic system or often via hand-made speakers made with piezo transducers and found objects – exploring the timbre and forms of found and self-recorded animal voices while mimicking biophonic patterns to create minimal quasi-bioacoustic environments. 

Felicity has recently played in collaborative projects Native Instrument (Shelter Press, Entr’acte) presenting electro-acoustic bug beats with vocalist Stine Janvin Joh and Plants and Animalia with Christina Ehrl Shirley – grafting live and pre-recorded drones produced by remnants of plant biochemistry together with modified animal voices. Felicity has also released a solo publication on Longform Editions titled Stereo’frog’ic, a play on the word stereophonic –  presenting a sound piece, crafted from found recordings of frogs, insects and other ‘vocal’ animals wavering about in a stereo field. Felicity has presented projects in many different settings from galleries, gardens, clubs and festivals throughout Europe. Including National Gallery Denmark, Technosphärenklänge CTM/HKW and Sonic Act Academy 2020.

You can support the artist here: 
www.felicitymangan.org

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

Echo of Species 13 - Felicity Mangan

EJ Mañana w/ N.I.B & Omit Salem

TR095 - Nemeton / Rafael Anton Irisarri - '...spin into nothingness'

“This week…I have been mostly listening…to doom jazz, post-post-punk and ‘90s afro cosmic era.

A cabinet of curiosities, inorganic matter, penguins, frogsies, and the not so completely oblique.”

Damaged Goods 1 FINAL SENT

Damaged Goods w/ Mike BC 29/11/20

Endurance @joshua-stefane mix for Free City Radio

00:00 Hirotaka Shirotsubaki @infection
Summer Ends 
[Perfect Days for Suicide, S/R]

07:05 Hideo Nakasako @sako0219
R0011740 
[S/R]

14:20 Miki Yui @miki-yui
Dancing (swamp) 
[Aperio!, Hallow Ground]

17:30 Endurance 
FS02 
[unreleased track]

Free City Radio broadcasts every Wednesday at 11h on @radiockut in Montreal and is hosted by Stefan @spirodon Christoff. Photo by Joshua Stefane.

Endurance - Free City Radio mix

Mysteries of the Deep is a New York-based record label, podcast, and event series — focused on ambient & experimental music in various forms. Mysteries — as fans lovingly call it — is concerned with exploration of unknown realms, and its focus, in addition to showcasing a dynamic spectrum of electronic music from foremost artists in the field, is to thoughtfully engage its audience. 

Conceptualized in 2011, Mysteries began as a podcast series that, now in its eleventh year, has hosted an array of mixes and original works. The project has since evolved, expanding into a curated global event series and record label.