This track, included in the EP “A Momentary Convergence of Differently Paced Trajectories”, is Maurizio Ravalico’s personal take on “Fear of Mapping”, one of the tracks on “No Fiction Now!”, the debut album of his notorious trio Fiium Shaarrk.


Credits:

Drumkit - Rudi Fischerlehner
Electronics - Isambard Khroustaliov
All additional snares, all samba instruments and field-recorded sounds - Maurizio Ravalico
Produced and mixed by Maurizio Ravalico
Track's image: detail from a collage by Katrin Plavcak

You can buy Maurizio's EP here:
https://maurizioravalico.bandcamp.com/album/a-momentary-convergence-of-differently-paced-trajectories
Or ask your local retailer if you live outside of the UK.

Listen to the original Fiium Shaarrk track here:
http://not-applicable.bandcamp.com/track/fear-of-mapping

Fear of Mapping (Maurizio Ravalico's Left Handed Marching Army version)

"Der dritte Stand" is a new trio from Berlin with Matthias Müller on trombone, Matthias Bauer on doublebass and Rudi Fischerlehner on drums and percussion. Their debut album will be out on March 11th, 2022.

Der dritte Stand - Umstand

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I Have Forgiven Everything

Short excerpt from music written as the soundtrack to Anne Hanning’s new film ‘Khoisan Medicine’, showing at ‘What Will They See Of Me?‘ in the Jerwood Space as part of the Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards from the 12th March 2013.

Khoisan Medicine (excerpt)

"Being inside this cyclotron of atomized information from my own vantage point produces a palpable sense of vertigo. A feeling that it could be anything in any order by anyone at any time for any reason. Everything pointing in all directions quaquaversally but arriving at no destination. And its effect is a cancellation of affect. A feeling like Baudrillard's screen stage of blank fascination has reached its terminal phase and all previous depths are collapsing into an endless vista of dazzling surface play." Eric Lumbleau of Mutant Sounds http://www.theawl.com/2012/11/the-rise-and-fall-of-obscure-music-blogs-a-roundtable

The piece employs a computer model of a penguin, some cellular automata and hierarchical concatenative synthesis to manifest and interrogate this ‘mal d’archive’.

Paul Hession - Drums
Isambard Khroustaliov - Computer

Artwork by @greatartbot

Anything In Any Order By Anything At Any Time For Any Reason

Rutger Zuydervelt works his magic on Fiium Shaarrk's kaleidoscopic 15/8 original to stunning effect :-)

Original Track

Fiium Shaarrk - Krypton Tunning (Machinefabriek Remix)

Opening track off the new album 'We Are Astonishingly Lifelike', out on Not Applicable, 10th March 2017. http://www.fiium-shaarrk.com/ http://www.not-applicable.org/

Fiium Shaarrk - Conundrums

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01 – Arthurs / Ohlmeier / Khroustaliov – NK, Berlin 
02 – Ohlmeier / Bown / Arthurs – North Sea Jazz Festival, Amsterdam 
03 – Arthurs / Khroustaliov – NK, Berlin 
04 – Arthurs / Ohlmeier – North Sea Jazz Festival, Amsterdam 
05 – Ohlmeier / Khroustaliov – North Sea Jazz Festival, Amsterdam 
06 – Arthurs / Bown – North Sea Jazz Festival, Amsterdam 
07 – Ohlmeier / Khroustaliov / Arthurs – NK, Berlin

Tom Arthurs – trumpet / flugelhorn 
Ollie Bown – autonomous electronics 
Lothar Ohlmeier – clarinet / bass clarinet 
Isambard Khroustaliov – autonomous electronics

Software assistant @ North Sea Jazz Festival – Roy Carroll

North Sea Jazz Festival performance recorded by Roy Carroll. 
NK performance recorded by Isambard Khroustaliov.

mixed and mastered by Isambard Khroustaliov. 
artwork and design by Vadim Charles.

In ten milliseconds, the sound made by a musical instrument as captured by a computer constitutes a few hundred samples of numerical data, enough to determine the frequency spectrum of the sound. Stitched together in quick enough succession, these sonic snapshots become frames in a kind of auditory cinema, with the data contained in each frame and the context of subsequent frames forming, over longer and longer time scales, an assemblage that can be used to try to define, computationally, what is ‘in’ the music, music being something that is in our heads, not in the air.

In 2010, Ollie Bown, Sam Britton, Tom Arthurs and Lothar Ohlmeier, were invited by NonFiction to play a concert at the North Sea Jazz Festival. Several factors conspired to make it an experiment in live autonomous and interactive software performance-by-proxy: the large geographical divide between participants, a buildup of previous work in live autonomous electronics, the fact that neither Sam nor Ollie could actually make the date of the show and the demands of a commission that required new and original work to be presented.

Long Division explores on-stage interactions with elementary computational autonomy, things that are built but that act. Objects are already actors: for a traditional musician, the physical restrictions of the instrument alone, or along with the social conventions of performance practice, shape what they produce.

Programming computers with dynamic behaviours that respond to sound invites us to engage with the emergent qualities of cause and effect that take us from one split-second frame of experience to the next. Our crude agents are not virtual musicians, but they are still participants. We have no precise goal, no ‘blueprint’, for the machines we have built; they do what we tell them and we try to tell them to do things on their own, without us knowing exactly what it is they should really be doing. In trying to capture it, we embrace the deceit; the meaning of ‘autonomy’ slips between our fingers and all we can do is try to catch a glimpse of it in a certain light.

This is a document of the ever-evolving choices arrived at by these four individuals in the summer of 2010: choices focusing both on aesthetic challenges as technical ones, in a converging spirit of performance and software development.

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Ohlmeier / Khroustaliov / Arthurs – NK, Berlin

Skunk cob and burnt mat, Videogram of hey, The bear needs a bike, have a nice day.

N4 Comedown

Leverton Fox - N4 Comedown

Excerpt from the upcoming album 'Hypertide Over Kiribati', out on Not Applicable, 6th September 2019.  
Lothar Ohlmeier - Bass Clarinet
Rudi Fischerlehner - Drums
Isambard Khroustaliov - Modular Synthesizer & Computer

https://not-applicable.bandcamp.com/album/hypertide-over-kiribati

Hypertide Over Kiribati

'Schärme' is the second track from the forthcoming album 'Hangkerum', that documents the new trio of Arthurs Khroustaliov Sartorius.

"Everything in 'Hangkerum' happens in the domains of subtlety, nuance and detail, and sometimes it’s difficult to understand who does what in the mix of timbres and textures or where compositon stops and improvisation starts."

Tom Arthurs - trumpets
Isambard Khroustaliov - electronics
Julian Sartorius - drums and percussion

Clean Feed Records CF539CD
Recorded at Studio Zatter, Bern, 9th December 2018 by Isambard Khroustaliov
Mixed and mastered at Coda to Coda, London by Isambard Khroustaliov and Will Worsley
Produced by Arthurs, Khroustaliov and Sartorius
Executive prodution by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul
Design by Travassos

Hangkerum

Schärme

Arthurs Khroustaliov Sartorius - Hangkerum - 02 - Schärme

The duo of Alex Bonney and Chris Sharkey, who convened under the banner of 'Session Fries' for their eponymous debut album, delve into the realms of chilli fermentation for their latest release 'Gochugaru'. Recorded live at New River Studios it's a healthy feast of Michelin star proportions which will also leave a pleasant heat induced tingle in your ears ...
Full release available here: https://not-applicable.bandcamp.com/album/session-fries-gochugaru

Gochugara - Session Fries Live @ NRS, extract

Leverton Fox remix of Inch-Time's track 'Stapedius' from his recent album 'Myth and Impermanence' on Mystery Plays records: http://mysteryplaysrecords.bandcamp.com/album/myth-and-impermanence

Stapedius (Leverton Fox Remix)

She spent a fortune on lipstick on me
A pig was impaled beneath the floorboards
The palace retainers turn face-to-the-wall
My daughter Maud fell to the ground in fear
We left his name carved in a corner stone
In the face of death he experienced desire
They threw the switch on the Radnorshire hillside
Serpents slid from the folds in the curtains
A shaman was peddling The Book Of The Dead
Sinking into the vertiginous mire
Through the mist of a pavilion of lies
This is my private beach
This is my Jetsam


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