Following his live performance with us at SOUP Manchester, Glyn Maier of Enmossed has kindly contributed a mix of soothing vapour for our third in the OT series.

All tracks ripped from vinyl 15-35% pitch down, digitally mixed on a train from Berlin to Amsterdam during the hottest day of summer 2022.

GLYN MAIER - OTMIX #3

Paroxysm for Longform Editions by Noémi Büchi.
https://longformeditions.com

credits: 
Mastering by Manuel Oberholzer (VFBM)
@feldermelder
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LE114

Noémi Büchi is a Swiss composer and sound artist that creates electronic, symphonic maximalism. Her music is defined by a delicate synthesis of textural rhythms and electroacoustic-orchestral abstraction. 

Büchi explores the potential of consonance and dissonance, contrasts rhythmic physicality with disruption and playfully emphasizes irregularities, creating an expansive listening experience marked by detail and elevation. 

"My piece Paroxysm starts from a puristic dry rhythmic structure. The second part then goes into a fusion of rhythm and harmony. The question that preoccupied me was on one hand how these two main elements of music relate to each other and what shapes they can create together. On another hand I was preoccupied by how the listening behaviour adapts and changes to the compositional structure and sound events. 

The sound world in this piece is characterised by warm, dense, orchestral and at the same time by very filigree, dry, electro-acoustic sounds. I also used my own voice in interlaced harmonic shapes that are made rhythmic, giving the overall mood an almost sacral character. My voice appears fragmental and tries to assert itself in the complexity of the rhythm. Slowly everything degrades into polyrhythmic structures, with harmonic components taking the upper hand more and more. The listening behaviour is redirected here. The harmonies are repeatedly broken abruptly by the rhythm.

I work across genres in my music. Familiar elements from classical music, jazz, folk and also techno can be recognised. There is nature, and the outside world to hear, made of plastic, metal, wood, water and earth. The subject of matter continues to occupy me in my musical work, and I try to get as close as possible to the physical world through sound.

I’m very concerned about the method of reduced listening. It is a way of listening that focuses on the character of each individual sound shapes without carrying about their sources or meanings. Also, this kind of listening is about specifically picking out the individual elements, distinguishing them from each other, and understanding their relationship to each other. I cultivate a special interest in such listening techniques because on one hand I really appreciate to create structures that make sense to me in a very raw compositional understanding, and on the other hand these kind of techniques teach me to go within and focus with deep conscious concentration. It is very similar to meditation and trains and shapes our whole consciousness, and thus our connection to reality. At the end what interests me precisely how the listening behaviour changes according to the sounding event. I find it fascinating how sound guides us and how we unconsciously adapt our perception to the sound happenings. With deep listening, one can consciously focus on such phenomena and suddenly explore and get to know previously unexplored things about the unconscious. It is as if one gets to know oneself in depth during this process, like in a deep meditation."

Paroxysm

Paroxysm, LE114

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Paroxysm by Noémi Büchi | Longform Editions [November 2022]

https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-maria-somerville/episodes/early-bird-show-maria-somerville-7th-november-2022

The Early Bird Show w/ Maria Somerville 071122

"Far from being an ethnomusicological endeavour, this mix is a subjective take on music as an embodied force accompanying the departure of loved ones." 

Nelly Chevaillier shares an hour of funerary and memorial compositions from around the world, focussing on ceremonies and rituals where grief is channeled through communal and participative performances. Featuring sounds from West Africa, South East Asia, The Caribbean, and Middle East. 

https://www.nts.live/shows/nelly-chevaillier/episodes/nelly-chevaillier-2nd-march-2023

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Cathode Cinema is an independent film screening series located in LA and NYC. Founded in 2017 by Jesus Antonio Rivera, Jonnie Prey, and Christopher Reid Martin, the collective showcases rare contemporary and archival films, short experimental works, animation and music. With curated screenings and live streaming events, Cathode Cinema provides a platform for emerging and established video artists and filmmakers to showcase their work, while fostering a community of film enthusiasts and creatives in the physical and digital space.

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@noemibuchi x Avant Radio

"In this mix I want to manifest my passion, respect and love for all the selected artists, and bring together different worlds of musical genius. The aesthetic commonality that connects all these works has allowed me to enter into dialogue with the artist by including unreleased live recordings of myself. I am interested and inspired to observe how different, similar or even very different musical worlds function, but also to discover the universal commonality, the unique power of music through it, which no other medium in art expresses the way music does.
I'm mainly interested in compositional ideas and processes and I am fascinated by certain happenings in these selected passages. The power of innovation is both startlingly beautiful and almost frightening at the same time. With this mixing work I want to enter and influence this innovative power, by setting sounds, passages or accents in a new way. It triggers an indescribable euphoria in me.
Thank you very much for all this wonderful music, and thank you for listening."

Noémi Büchi is a Swiss/French composer and sound artist that creates electronic, symphonic maximalism. Her music is defined by a delicate synthesis of textural rhythms and electroacoustic- orchestral abstraction. She explores the potential of consonance and dissonance, contrasts rhythmic physicality with disruption and playfully emphasizes irregularities, creating an expansive listening experience marked by detail and elevation.
After her studies in electroacoustic composition, musicology and german literature, she already played at various festivals and was awarded a culture prize of the city of Zürich. Her 2019 debut EP ‘Matière’, released through Light of Other Days, drew widespread acclaim. In 2020, she released a second EP ‘Prismic Passages’ on the Leipzig- based tape label Visible Dinner. -OUS Records will be releasing her debut album ‘Matter’ and its prelude ‘Hyle’ in 2022, as well as the debut album of Musique Infinie, a collaboration between Noémi Büchi and Swiss/Italian composer and installation artist Feldermelder.
She explores the potential of consonance and dissonance, contrasts rhythmic physicality with disruption and playfully emphasizes irregularities, creating an expansive listening experience marked by detail and elevation.

Noémi Büchi - Avant Radio mix n.119

Baptist Goth and Maria come together in the early hours for an early bird special with sacred music, organ drones, folk, and choral work.. 
 
https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-maria-somerville/episodes/early-bird-show-maria-somerville-29th-august-2023

The Early Bird Show w/ Maria Somerville & Baptist Goth 290823

Drifting into a new day with Maria Somerville, live from Ireland's wild west coast.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-maria-somerville/episodes/early-bird-show-maria-somerville-7th-november-2023

The Early Bird Show w/ Maria Somerville 071123

Une nouvelle heure de morceaux de musique doux et amers et de morceaux d'histoires amères et douces. Il y a un oiseau, une parente, une forêt, des enfantes et une clairière, ou des personnes s'affèrent.

Douce-Amère 09.01.24 - LYL radio

Drifting into a new day with Maria Somerville, live from Ireland's wild west coast.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-maria-somerville/episodes/early-bird-show-maria-somerville-4th-march-2024

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@kmos

Limited Edition CD released 29th September, 2020.

Pre-order on Bandcamp.
https://theyouthlabel.bandcamp.com/album/seltene-erden-scorched-erden-yocd9

Seltene Erden - Scorched Erden - YOCD8

Creating electronic cross-genre maximalism.

bookings: danilo@basemental.it

Future Live Concerts

24/08/24 tba
31/05/24 Bildrauschfestival, Basel (CH)
04/05/24 L.E.V. Festival, Gijon (ESP)
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Selected Past 

19/04/24 RKC, Vevey (CH)
13/04/24 MUTEK, Barcelona (ESP)
30/03/24 Festival Variations, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes (CH)
22/03/24 Amalgame (CH) w/ @musiqueinfinie
09/03/24 Currents Festival, Zürich (CH)
12/01/24 Moods, Zürich (CH)
29/12/23 Incandescent Festival (ESP)
01/12/23 Aargauer Kunsthaus (CH)
21/10/23 Fri-Son w/ @musiqueinfinie (CH)
08/10/23 Roma Europe Festival (IT)
30/09/23 Rote Fabrik, Zürich (CH)
23/09/23 LAC, Lugano (CH)
08/09/23 Ars Electronica, Linz (AUT)
01/09/23 Klang Moor Schopfe Festival, Kunsthalle Appenzell (CH)
01/06/23 Kilbi, Bad Bonn w/ @musiqueinfinie (CH)
05/05/23 IGNM Bern (CH)
25/04/23 ABC-culture, La Chaux de Fond (CH)
22/04/23 Outer Festival, Modena (IT)
19/02/23 Perronnord, St. Gallen (CH)
10/02/23 Bad Bonn 
12/01/23 Gare du Nord, Basel (CH)
07/12/22 Stadtkino Basel (CH)
03/12/22 SONIC MATTER, Zürich (CH)
02/12/22 Zentralwäscherei w/ @feldermelder, Zürich (CH)
25/11/22 Linecheck w/ -OUS, Milano (IT)
02/11/22 Kaserne Basel (CH)
13/10/22 Ablette Records, Fribourg w/ Feldermelder (CH)
8/10/22 Trnstn Radio, Fribourg w/ Feldermelder (CH)
7/10/22 Umbo, Zürich (CH)
24/09/22 Festival Fracanaüm, Lausanne (CH)
16/09/22 Strom am Mittag, Kulturhaus Helferei Zürich (CH)
01/09/22 SMEM, Fribourg (CH)
27/08/22 Rümlingen Festival (CH)
12/08/22 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (DE)
29/07/22 Stadtsommer, Zürich (CH)
22/07/22 Floating Notes Festival (CH)
21/06/22 Pavillon Corbusier w/ M@musiqueinfinie, Zürich (CH)
05/06/22 Rhizom Festival, Zürich (CH)
24/05/22 IOIC at Walcheturm w/ @musiqueinfinie, Zürich (CH)
21/05/22 Fashion Show Arienne Birchler, Zürich (CH)
06/05/22 Royal, Baden (CH)
08/04/22 Neubad, Luzern (CH)
28/03/22 Renée Bar, Basel (CH)
18/03/22 Taktlos Festival, Zürich (CH)
11/03/22 Palace, St. Gallen (CH)
02/03/22 Schönegg Varieté, Zürich (CH)
26/02/22 Elbar, Wald (CH)
25/11/21 Sender, Zürich (CH)
23/11/21 Kirche Riehen w/ Thélème (CH)
19/11/21 Fri-Son, Fribourg w/ @musiqueinfinie (CH)
18/11/21 Südpol Luzern (CH)
06/11/21 Festival Klangwelt Toggenburg (CH)
09/10/21 Skaiv, Stockholm (SWE)
02/10/21 Festival Maintenant, Rennes (FR)
23/09/21 Umbo, Zürich (CH)
18/09/21 Immersive Sound Festival, Fribourg (CH)
08/09/21 Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich (CH)
05/09/21 Kilbi, Bad Bonn w/ @musiqueinfinie (CH)
21/08/21 Les Digitales Zürich (CH)
29/07/21 Summer Camp, Rote Fabrik, Zürich w/ @musiqueinfinie (CH)
23/07/21 Festival Hautes Fréquences, Leysin w/ @musiqueinfinie (CH)
25/06/21 Le Salon de Marie&Madeleine, Vevey w/ @musiqueinfinie (CH) 
11/03/21 Zentralwäscherei (CH) w/ -OUS
06/12     Megahex.fm w/ Kashev Tapes, Zürich
27/11        LjudOljud Festival, KMH, Stockholm (SWE)
24/10      EP Release w/ Light Of Other Days, Kosmos, Zürich (postponed)
22/08     Bad Bonn, Düdingen w/ -OUS
18 - 20/08 Artist Residenz, Helsinki, Zürich
16/08      Les Digitales, Basel (canceled)
08/08     Klub Kegelbahn, Luzern
05/04/20     Umbo, Zürich (postponed)
31/03/20       Radio Bollwerk, Bern (postponed)
11/03/20       Kosmos, Zürich
25/01/19      Danse Modulaire, ZHdK, Zürich
18/01/19       Hohlstrasse, Zürich 
13/12/19        Lange Nacht der zeitgenössischen Musik, ZHdK, Zürich
02/11/19        GDS.FM, Zürich, Live w/ molekühl
25/10/19       Bar3000, Zürich
05/10/19       Bend Sinister w/ Claudia Stöckli, Rote Fabrik, Zürich
25/08/19      Kinozwinger/Garage 29, Zürich
24/08/19      Vernissage w/ Alice Gilardi, Zürich
22/08/19      Helsinki, Zürich
10/08/19       Lethargy Festival, Zürich
20/07/19      Gamut Kollektiv, Schalter, Zürich
05/07/19      Kraftfeld, Winterthur   
19/06/19      Barfussbar, Kein Museum, Zürich
08/06/19     Rhizom Festival, Zürich
19/02/19     EXHHIBIT-A-TON, Kein Museum, Zürich
17/01/19      Opulenza w/ Alice Gilardi, Dynamo, Zürich
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