Sundown


In this collaboration, Radboud Mens and I explore the tension between stasis and movement. Operating within the realm of drone and electroacoustic music, we construct a sonic landscape where sustained tones and microscopic events constantly shape and reshape each other. What initially appears static reveals itself to be rich with detail: tiny acoustic shifts breathe life into apparent stillness, inviting focused and attentive listening.

The album emerged from a process where sound research, improvisation, and sound design merge. Self-built instruments, the search for timbre and texture, and recordings of the learning process itself form the foundation of these compositions. Rather than following a traditional musical structure, the result is a sonic field in which the minimal continually transforms depending on the listener’s perspective. This is a layered and handcrafted album that doesn’t narrate, but questions. Marking A Boundary With The Turning Point is not a boundary. It’s an invitation to listen differently.


released June 9, 2025

All music by Ard Janssen & Radboud Mens
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung
Artwork & design by Ard Janssen

Manufactured by Record Industry
Distributed by Clone Distribution

Spirit Level I

Let me introduce you to my new side project: AWAKINO. An amusement park for electronic experiments – more rhythmical structures, occasional club references, straight from my e-smogplayground studio.

Digital-only, spontaneous, often just sketches – raw and imperfect. Flirting with Synthi-Pop at times – but always a bit weird around the edges.

Here’s the very first EP, uploaded straight to Mirlo – a charming alternative platform beside the big players. Cheers.

https://mirlo.space/awakino/release/beautiful-world-ep

Beautiful World EP

Beautiful World

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From the album The Thing Itself And Not The Myth
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First having read the book of myths,
and loaded the camera,
and checked the edge of the knife-blade,
I put on
the body-armor of black rubber
the absurd flippers
the grave and awkward mask.
I am having to do this
not like Cousteau with his
assiduous team
aboard the sun-flooded schooner
but here alone.
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From Diving Into The Wreck by Adrienne Rich
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An album made from sounds gathered underwater and along many shorelines. It is built from drones played by a synchronised swimming speaker broadcasting into a fjord, many spluttering radios, geese, and morse code.

There Is No One To Tell Me When The Ocean Will Begin -- out Nov 26 on Glistening Examples

cuts of "der kleine freitag" - session (December 19)
every thursday roundabout 8pm
at pfund & dollar / stockmeyerstr 43, hamburg

you`re welcome to join us!

participants for these cuts:

- rita -
- fool -
- kskefk -
- loco motiva -
- caro -

recorded with TASCAM DR-40
released January 12, 2020

TASCAM_08XX

TASCAM_0829

https://ikunixx.bandcamp.com/track/undecided

Bonus track
Free download

Dougga

Undecided

Ikuko Morozumi / "Dougga" 09-Undecided

Léo Dupleix - synthesis, voice
Félicie Bazelaire - double bass
Stefan Thut - cello
Fredrik Rasten - e-bowed guitar, voice

Recorded live by Stefan Thut in Säulenhalle, Landhaus Solothurn on 28th of June 2020


score:

http://fredrikrasten.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Fuse-modulations.pdf

Fuse modulations - excerpt

A collaboration sound project between composers and performers Frederik Croene (DSP and electronics) and Esther Venrooy (Piano and electronics). A very experimental and also an atmospheric album.

Truncate Retrograde

"Alpha Beta Eros" (2020) __/ A composition by Michael Pisaro-Liu (USA)
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Philippe Lauzier (CAN): bass clarinet
d'incise (CH) : electronic, loudspeakers
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Opening this serie, Michael Pisaro-Liu, emminent member of the Wandelweiser composers collective & residing and teaching in Los Angeles, delivered a score where words and (love) letters transform into notes,  revealing in their dialog a delicat conterpoint, two voices slightly appart at the begining get soflty intertwined in the last third. Philippe Lauzier, clarinetist, improvisors and sound artist, from Montreal, precisely fomulated its reading on its intruments while d'incise, obstinate sound explorer and co-founder of Insub, reincarnated the score, and its electronic interpretation, by plugging it into various non-neutral, tenderly distorting, loudspeakers.
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More : http://insub.org/insub-distances/
Video : https://youtu.be/JrA0oXQGxkI
HD audio : https://insub.bandcamp.com/album/michael-pisaro-liu-alpha-beta-eros-insub-distances-1-8
Interview about the piece : https://youtu.be/CnlyVrooKmA
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Insub.distances - a project by Insub.asso & Insub.records - 2020
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Supported by : Prohelvetia ("Close distance" programm) / Fondation Suisa / Fondation Nicati-De Luze

Bandcamp

Michael PISARO-LIU "Alpha Beta Eros" __/ Philippe Lauzier & d'incise (insub.distances 1/8)

studio edit-
live performance: XTRO, 30.10.20 KUUB, Utrecht. (pres. Gaudeamus)
https://gaudeamus.nl/en/events/kuub-concert-xtro/

marmalade sky (studio edit)

Quiet Evenings - Fault (excerpt)

mostly archived work- new sounds will be found at:
www.nicholasmorrish.com

marmalade sky (studio edit)

Nicholas Morrish