Name: Laurie Spiegel - Appalachian Grove I (1974) by Octaviotl Navatomik in electronica
Duration: 5 min 22 s
Description: from: The Early Guru's of Electronic Music disc 3

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Vladislav Delay, Hetkonen

TR158 - Antonina Nowacka - 'KOGUT 2'

Taken from the album 'Piano Muisc 1-7' released as LP, CD and digital.


Editions Mego is proud to welcome Powell to its roster with a bizarre and strangely emotive new LP of synthetic computer works entitled Piano Music 1-7.

Via his own Diagonal Records imprint, his work on XL Recordings and, most recently, the opening of audio/film platform A Folder [afolder.studio], Powell has firm footing in the contemporary electronic landscape. During a wry and obstinate musical life he has twisted myriad synthetic forms into shapes that explore and expand upon the districts of post-punk, techno, noise + computer music, and in the the last year alone he has released four albums of hi-def abstractions, each inspired by a formalisation of music proposed by Iannis Xenakis. 

As an extension of this intense period of work/research/play with stochastic functions [using probabilities to compose music], various processes emerged that Powell then began to apply to more traditional musical events. Where ordinarily in his work the probabilities and relationships are used to define parameters such as wave-shape, folding, FM, filter modes etc., he now began to use them to create musical formations and visual scores that could be played back using any software/MIDI instrument [one of these can be seen on the rear cover of the LP release]. While mapping out this cartography of relations, he used a basic Grand Steinway sampler as a placeholder instrument; the longer the process went on, though, the more he began to embrace the acoustic properties of the synthetic piano and make it the bedrock for this new constellation of work. 

Piano Music 1-7, subtitled ‘Music for Synthetic Piano and Assorted Electronics’, consists of seven different synthetic islands strung together into a single composition. All were composed using the aforementioned processes that allowed Powell to play a piano, even if he never learned to do so with his hands. After all, ’In writing electronic music,’ Robin Mackay once wrote, ‘you also have to direct the invention of new tools.’

At times the piano skips gleefully over shadowing synthesis, whilst at others the synthetic sheets swarm and envelope the keys. The interplay between the two create a fantastical alternate reality, a cosmic machine in which time is eroded, shrunk and expanded, like a wax upon which operations and relations are inscribed or engraved. Many of the pieces express a playfulness or optimism verging on vitalism, as bundles of piano notes dance and interpolate with a never-repeating range of electronic gestures. The feel is of a brightly coloured flower-bed in various stage of bloom. This interplay of the [artifical] acoustic and the electronic builds on the pioneering processes developed by David Behrman in works such as Leapday Night, and Piano Music 1-7 could also be posited as a modern take on Conlon Nancarrow’s investigations for player piano. Similarly, the razor-sharp sonic properties and unfolding of non-human events recall the computer works of Xenakis and the surgical precision of Mego mainstay Florian Hecker.

Recorded in late 2020, these new Powell works propose not just a bold and bright vision of electronic music but serve also as a map with which, for 35 minutes at least, we can navigate our way out of the current milieu. As the artist himself remarks in the sleeve-notes, ‘. . . What emerged from this fog or soup [for me] were ideas and processes that felt affirmative and life giving — sensations I had always hoped to convey in my music. Perhaps the optimism or positivity I felt at these musical events unfolding, these clusters and knots tumbling in different directions across time, can also be felt by you.’

Music for Synthetic Piano and Assorted Electronics

Composed and recorded by Powell, 2020
Mixed by Powell and Tobin Jones at The Park Studios, London
Mastered by Russell Haswell

Art direction by Guy Featherstone
Photography by John Cronin

Powell 'Piano Music #1' (EMEGO 301)

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Lyrics

うなばらまであと少し 
うなばらまであと少しだけ　
行こう (着こう)
落ちて (うなばらまで)
転がり落ちて (弾むステップ)
落ちていくステップ (弾むステップ)
いびつなステップで (落ちていくステップ)
行こう

転がり落ちて
いびつなステップで
転がり落ちて
いびつなステップで
うなばらまであと少しだけ (行こう)


Almost there to the ocean
Almost there to the ocean
Let’s go (Let's be there)

Falling (Toward the ocean)
Rolling down (Bouncy steps)
Steps of falling (Bouncy steps)
With the awkward steps (Steps of falling)
Let’s go

Rolling down
With the awkward steps
Rolling down
With the awkward steps
Almost there to the ocean (Let’s go)

Colloid

Dango (Colloid Version)

Satomimagae - Dango (Colloid Version)

Born Again In The Voltage

Human Developers

Laying out work that has been widely garnered from a long soft chain of a long-awaited path with a different spatial dimension than before.The repetition expanded and went slightly further as the waves slowly covered in forms of collaborating. Dulcet voices threaten to disintegrate the pieces into upheaval and transmitt into the dynamic participation of mellifluous strims.

Anasisana - Stay (ft. Zhe Pechorin)

Telephone / Georgia - Iceland Sound Connection

Rati to Agusta

Agusta to Gvantsa

Gvantsa to Mio

Mio to Khriantel

Khriantel to Brak

Brak to Archil

Archil to Vilhjalmur

Vilhjalmur to Mariam

The project is based on tighter audio connections between several artists living in different places (Georgia, Iceland). Being inspired by the whispering game Telephone, we are creating a chain of author's audio-works, which responds to each other. We have selected 9 young artists from both countries, who are interested in radio art or sound art. The first artist from the chain produced a sound work that will be shared with the second artist from another country. The following produced work will be like a response to the work and will be shared with the third artist from the chain etc. The artists are having a week to produce the responsive content / audio gesture. The works are part of a weekly program of Community Radio Tbilisi and Seyðisfjörður Community Radio.

The aim of the project was to connect the individual artists through the radio works, shift the passivity of the listeners to more active roles, create and interesting radio content based on experimental approach and support exchange and collaboration between artists and radio stations.

Credits:

Participants:
Rati Eradze – 
Ágústa Björnsdóttir – 
Gvantsa Jgushia – 
Mio Storåsen – 
Khriantel – 
Brák Jónsdóttir – 
Archil Tsereteli – 
Vilhjálmur Yngvi Hjálmarsson – 
Mariam Abashidze,

Concept, curator : Bara Gallo
Coordinator, producer: Þórunn Dís Halldórsdóttir

Community Radio Tbilisi 
@communityradiotbilisi
www.publicartplatform.org/
www.common-waves.com/

Seyðisfjörður Community Radio
@seydisfjordur
mixlr.com/seydisfjordur-community-radio/

Partners:

KAKTUS, art gallery 
www.kaktusdidsomeart.com/kaktus-info/

Menningarmiðstöð Fljótsdalshéraðs, Cultural Center
slaturhusid.is/index.php/is/

Ertkhel

T E L E P H O N E  - Georgia - Iceland - Sound Connection - Rati Eradze - Ertkhel

This is my version of feeling hopeful. I like to overload my brain and hypnotize myself with my own music.

It’s not so bad

Victory and Silence - Cinematic Music (7)

'Hohtokivi' from the Vladislav Delay Quartet album. If you like it, go and purchase it.

Vladislav Delay Quartet - Hohtokivi

ZI.1 - 'Imitazione' (reading by Mara Cimatoribus)*
ZI.2 - Titled
ZI.3 - 'Menschenbeifall' (reading by Anne Tetzlaff)
ZI.4 - Ulyssean Time
ZI.5 - 'Imitaciones' (reading by Rupert Clervaux)**

Available as a 12" with a foldout poster by Coline Cornélis,
and as a download.

Rupert Clervaux: drums, percussion, vibraphone, piano, synthesizers and samplers, 
with Stephen Warrington: piano on ‘Imitazione’, and Eben Bull: saxophone on ‘Titled’.

Artwork by Coline Cornélis.

*translation by Jonathan Galassi
**translation by Jason Weiss

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from: The Early Guru's of Electronic Music disc 3

Laurie Spiegel - Appalachian Grove I (1974)

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Finnish composer Sasu Ripatti returns in late summer with Tummaa, his first album as Vladislav Delay since 2007’s Whistleblower. The new album marks a significant shift in emphasis in this acclaimed musician’s work, reflecting a renewed interest in jazz and acoustic performance: Tummaa is far more organic and live-sounding than anything he’s done before. 



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