Polymorphous Pan (44.1kHz / 16-Bit)

Improviser and composer Laurent Peter - one half of Diatribes, co-ordinator of the Insub Meta Orchestra and co-curator of the Insubordinations label - has been a important figure in the Swiss Experimental scene for some years now. This new solo composition, although assembled from studio recordings, conjures gurgling volcanic pools, teeming with myriad amphibians and insects.

d'incise - im/permeability (excerpt)

Sample track from the upcoming album "Grimoire" by our favorite Belgian occultist, Kreng.

Kreng - Wrak

Tracklist, original post and download: www.seeksicksound.com/sss-podcast-122-kreng/

Download

SSS Podcast #122 : Kreng

Abstract 

The audio paper explores the history of an underground London event, The Chronic 
Illness, and its core venue, The Dungeon of Polymorphous Pan, in the basement of 
a formerly squatted bookshop on Holloway Road. The first part dives into a brief 
history of the occupation of the building and Fung Neo’s (the curator) initial ideas and 
meetings with other artists, which led him to organise the first event. In the second 
part, which has the form of an interview with the curator Fung Neo, we will talk about 
the event and the venue in the wider context of London’s squatting scene and what 
role it has played in his PhD research in interlacing fungi and post-internet 
performance art. The third party invites us right to the middle of the very recent 
event, The Chronic Illness XX, where I ask random attendants and key resident 
performers about their experience encountering Polymorphous Pan. The music 
played in the audio paper is a collection of field recordings of acts performed at The 
Chronic Illness XX and an audio extract from video records of performances and 
random rehearsals in The Dungeon Of Polymorphous Pan since 2016. This is the 
shortened version for submission. The extended version will encompass more 
questions for the curator and interviews with attendants and will be featured in a 
radio show on Threads Radio in January 2024.

The audio featured in the paper:

Vit Trojanovsky - Sound Portrait of Polymorphous Pan (London, 2022)
The Seer - field recording of their performance at The Chronic Illness XX (London, 
2023)
Asher Fynn - sound for Ablution, the performance act at Chronic Illness VIII (London, 
2017)
Elixir31012 - field recording of their performance at The Chronic Illness XX (London, 
2023)
Strategy Of Tension - field recording of their performance at The Chronic Illness XX 
(London, 2023)
Xquisite Corpse - field recording of their performance at The Chronic Illness XX 
(London, 2023)
Sin Of The Father - field recording of their performance at The Chronic Illness XX 
(London, 2023)
Corpus Replica - field recording of their rehearsal at The Dungeon Of Polymorphous 
Pan (London, 2021)
Craft Ebbing - field recording of their performance at The Chronic Illness XX 
(London, 2023)

Bibliography:

Anon (2022). ‘Fungal Fetishism Dungeons Polymorphous Pan’ Piotr Bockowski. 
[online] Available at: https://clotmag.com/oped/fungal-fetishism-rotten-performance￾at-the-dungeons-of-polymorphous-pan-by-piotr-bockowski [Accessed 6 Dec. 2023].

Bockowski, P. (2022). Fungi Media: A Post-Internet Performance of Bodily Mutations as an Enactment of Alternative Sexualities. [online] research.gold.ac.uk. Available at: 
https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/31708/ [Accessed 6 Dec. 2023].

Hyphen Journal. (2020). Bockowski – Artaud’s media of corporeal decomposition. [online] Available at: https://hy-phen.space/journal/issue-2/bockowski-artauds-mediaof-corporeal-decomposition/ [Accessed 6 Dec. 2023].

neofung (n.d.). neofung. [online] neofung.tumblr.com. Available at: https://
neofung.tumblr.com/ [Accessed 6 Dec. 2023].

X-Chris (2019). Squatting is part of the housing movement: practical squatting 
histories 1969 - 2019

Audio Paper - The Chronic Illness and The Dungeon Of Polymorphous Pan

1) 9T Antiope – Canvas Blank
2) Venetian Snares – The Hopeless Pursuit of Remission
3) Glasfrosch – Nocturne / Ghost of Stars, Shadows of Dust
4) Ghédalia Tazartès – Un amour si grand qu'il nie son objet
5) Ni Zheng – She is Eyeless
6) Konono No 1 – Ungudi Wele Wele
7) Nine Inch Nails – Ruiner
8] Sam Haycroft – Unchartered Water Feature
9) Sarmat – Arsenal of Tyranny
10) Hrvatski – Atelier
11) Maria Moles – Dance If There Are Seven
12) Optical 8 – Bush Push
13) Hot Troche – Tuyyo Nna
14) Le Grand Sbam – Les lotus ont fleuri, je suis assis à côté d'un éléphant aux oreilles usées
15) Justin Ashworth – Spectrealities I

Radio Earthling 01-07-2024 ʍǟʏɮɛ Ռօȶ Ɛʋɛʀʏօռɛ’ֆ Ƈʊք Օʄ ȶɛǟ?

Zach Rowden in an American musician dealing with the acoustic and performative possibilities of the contrabass. His fierce improvisational approach strips away the raw textural make up of this iconic acoustic instrument, rendering a complex timbral transformation of its sound and a complete obliteration of the listeners own understanding of the sonic potential of the contrabass. Zach’s promising release for XKatedral, “Tasked”, is a brutal harnessing of pyschoacoustic rhythms and microtonality through the minimal instrumentation of contrabass and feedback. 

XK14

Zach Rowden - Fog area

abyssal - fixed media (stereo mix)

VA AA LR is the London based trio of Vasco Alves, Louie Rice and Adam Asnan. Their fearless experimentalism has previously seen them tackle instrumentation as variable as compressed CO2, distress flares and a CItroen. Here, while the tools are in more traditional electronics territory, the music is anything but. From a heap of pulsating speaker cones, whirring dictaphones and a virtuosic cameo by Stevie Wonder the trio forge a gently clattering morass that seems to continually reiterate itself as it develops, ever threatening to collapse into a heap of household waste and bass, but always kept afloat by the lightest of touches. 

abyssal - fixed media (stereo mix)

ni zheng

Related tracks