Excellent. You got the quiet watery feel down to a T. 

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@mark-horrocks: Thank you ! I was pretty happy with this after struggling with the last one !

This comes on automatically when I listen on Soundcloud, and, every time, I'm stunned at how rich it sounds! Great work Nikos!!

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The Shadow Ring - Put the Music In Its Coffin

written 10/26/2023
single session
generative vocal design
i'm moving today,, see u soon,,

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Usurper LIVe Hannah Montanah

Preparations For Tomorrow's Setup At Night 夜は明日の設営の準備

recorded live at benaize on tour w/ nmt & cfolle

Taekwondo Vanlife (Benaize)

Originally for 8 channels. Commissioned by Musiques et Recherches.
“Portrait d’une manifestante” (8 channels) is a sonic portrait of a woman in red caught in the midst of a protest march. The work was commissioned by Musiques et Recherches and premiered at the Festival Espace du Son 2014. Many thanks to Esther Lamneck, Andreas Mniestris and Giorgos Stavridis for the clarinet, saxophone and percussion samples and to Terry Vakirtzoglou, Giorgos Mizithras and Olga Vassiou for their voices. The piece was finalist at the Metamorphoses 2016 competition in Brussels.

Metamorphoses 2016

Portrait d'une Manifestante (stereo version)

Curtis Roads - Point Line Cloud
Digital / CD+DVD
4th October 2019
prestorecords.bandcamp.com/album/point-line-cloud

« In memoriam Ivan Tcherepnin.
Beneath the level of the note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles. Each particle is a pinpoint of sound. Like the quantum world of the quarks, leptons, hadrons, gluons, and bosons, the microsonic domain remained invisible for centuries. Recent advances let us probe and manipulate the microacoustical world. Sound particles dissolve the rigid bricks of musical composition–the notes and their intervals–into more fluid and supple materials. The sensations of point, pulse (series of points), line (tone), and surface (texture) emerge as the density of particles increases. Sparse emissions produce rhythmic figures. By lining up the particles in rapid succession, one can induce an illusion of tone continuity or pitch. As the particles meander, they flow into streams and rivulets. Dense agglomerations of particles form clouds of sound whose shapes evolve over time. Half-life, composed in 1998 and 1999, explores the birth, replication, mutation, and decay of sound particles. The composition is the fruit of a long period of study and experimentation with microsound. The work is divided into two sections: Sonal atoms and Granules. The first version was premiered in May 1998 in the large hall of the Australian National Academy of Music, Melbourne, with sound projection over 28 loudspeakers. »
(Curtis Roads, Half Life Liner Notes, 2019 Point Line Cloud reissue)

P!?028 is the reissue of the seminal Point Line Cloud album by Curtis Roads, 15 years after its original publication on Asphodel. Each piece here revels in the microscopic level of sound that Roads discusses in his book Microsound. He devises rich textures by exploring relationships between tiny sonic shards, juxtaposed, layered and manipulated on the minutest of timescales. If this all sounds terse and scientific, you're right, and wrong, as Roads is equally competent in the theoretical and artistic domains. Often cited by Autechre as an influence on their work, his music doesn't share the grid-oriented rhythmic approach of his more widely known admirers. It does, however, have a level of sophisticated immediacy and dynamism seldom heard in the realm of abstract electronic music. Each track breathes with the vitality of the most assured improvising percussionist. While bound to esoteric processes, "Point Line Cloud" is amongst the most vibrant and sensuous accomplishments of the post-musique concrète canon.

All music published by Curtis Roads (ASCAP)
Visuals by Brian O'Reilly
Bubble chamber image of a collision of a high-energy neutrino particle with the nucleus of a hydrogen atom, courtesy of CERN, Switzerland. Reworked by BLAHO for this reissue.
Design by Peter Segerstrom, BLAHO and Ruben Spini
Cat. No. P!?028
℗ & © Presto!? 2019

Curtis Roads — Half life, part I: Sonal atoms ('Point Line Cloud' P!?028)

Claustro 5.1 (for Huw Mcgregor) 

Derived from the Latin, "claustrum," meaning "shut-in" or "enclosure." Claustro is the third composition in a series of works which explore aural micro-space. A sounding place of improved intelligibility through greater aural intimacy. The work is an invitation to come in and listen out for the thin line between philia and phobia that such places evoke. The discontinuous and non-homogenous nature of acoustic space inspires the arrangement of sound materials here.  Recordings of original sound sources were conducted using a micro multichannel array designed and built in collaboration with Huw Mcgregor.

Claustro Stereo Reduction

Composer, Academic at Leeds Beckett University. MA Sonic Arts Lead Tutor. Music available from Empreintes Digitales. https://electrocd.com/en/album/5984/Nikos_Stavropoulos/Micro-lieux

Claustro Stereo Reduction

Nikos Stavropoulos

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