I made this piece during the winter months when I spent most of my days alone, digging into archives, collecting some forgotten scraps from old tape loops together and melting them with what felt present at the time, those soundscapes that vibrate most beautifully in deep silence.

It consists of two parts - one corresponding to the setting process, the other to resetting, it tells story of leaving traces and covering them up.

Trace had its very first premiere on May 6 at Rewire festival.

Trace

Ondulation
A travers les échelles
La matière s’agite
Et vapo
-transpire
des fleuves aériens
Nuages
Qui
S’écoulent
Sans précipitation

~ Sound piece I did last year about flying rivers ~
Tried to imagine how their water cycle would sound from inside, at different scales

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Les Rivières Volantes

Art by Nick Castonguay
Graphic Design by Kristian Spears
Mastered by Cristobal Urbina at See You Mastering
Organized by Thom Speakman
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts

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Taken from SBKT055: TRANCE BAND - Entrancing
Release date: 3rd March 2023

'A Seagull's Hymn'
Electric guitar - Felix-Florian Tödtloff
Drums – Will Ballantyne
Bass – KIM KHAN
Chains & vocals – Ican Harem

In a global landscape that increasingly prioritizes individuality over collaborative expression, TRANCE is a distinctive project. Initiated by Chinese multidisciplinary artist Tianzhuo Chen, best known for his work with Asian Dope Boys, TRANCE is as artistically amorphous as its constantly evolving line-up, that fluctuates as it shimmers across borders and time-zones. In 2019, the project was demoed in Beijing as part of a solo exhibition from Chen, a 12-hour durational performance that examined the altered states of living and dying and pondered the sounds, sensations, bodies and spaces that notion might suggest. On hold for three years due to COVID-19 restrictions, TRANCE was eventually premiered in Hamburg at the Kampnagel Theatre last year where it was presented as a surreal three-day ceremony. This time around the Trance Band was made up of Berlin-based noisemaker and vocalist Dis Fig, Indonesia's Gabber Modus Operandi, musician and MC KIM KHAN, guitarist and engineer Felix-Florian Tödtloff, and Vancouver-based percussionist and producer CITY. Chen directed the show, channeling each artist's unique energy into an alliance that highlighted their independent skills while pushing towards ideas that simply couldn't have been realized discretely.

"Entrancing" is a live documentation of that incendiary Hamburg session, powered by the performative fireworks that came from having the project halted for two years before it was allowed to burst into life once more. Just as with previous iterations of TRANCE, the space was terraformed into an alien landscape that allowed the collective to enact a carnivalesque display that was tightly controlled but creatively boundless. Musical u-turns were accompanied by monumental stage overhauls that reshaped a muddy, fog-filled outdoor riverscape into an arena, or a sweaty nightclub. This theatrical impact can't be visualized as clearly on the record, but musical cues do just enough heavy lifting to provide a tantalizing contour. When the alluring electro-acoustic plucks and resonant sustained string tones of 'There's a Ghost in the Lantern' cascade into cinematic drone metal on 'Ylva's Theme', it's impossible not to be drawn into the TRANCE narrative. Sonic stage lights flicker with uncommon intensity as the nebulous group rewrite their collective personal stories into stirring, synergistic poetry.

"Something changes!" KIM KHAN calls out on 'Soft and Black', cutting through warbling synths and itchy beatbox percussion. The track builds quickly, reaching a sizzling crescendo of buzzsaw noise and acidic electronics. It's a stylistic sea change that channels the group's kinetic energy into a rock show, and CITY picks up the message on 'Trance Genesis', adding rapid-fire drums to a barrage of guitar skronk. 'Shaolin Affliction' glues Trance Band's jagged artistic edges to a vintage metal template, gradually dissolving into throaty post-hardcore, while 'My Fortress' brings the show to a powerful conclusion with Dis Fig assuming the role of grunge balladeer, bellowing into the void over cacophonous live instrumentation. Unbound by musical and artistic conventions, TRANCE peers out from the basement, the gallery and the playhouse to forge an expression that's all of this and something new entirely. It's refreshing, witty, exhilarating and most of all, completely unpredictable.

Entrancing

TRANCE BAND - A Seagull's Hymn

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Taru - Interlinked Mode

This mix is made for us by datewithdeath, aka Travis D. Johnson, a composer/producer from Florida who runs the Poverty Electronics label, which is concerned with experimental and electronic music of all kinds, with a non-exclusive focus on the DIY / non-academic / underground.

check out his music and label here:

linktr.ee/datewithdeath
https://povertyelectronics.bandcamp.com/


Tracklist:

1. Klein - "spac audition" [self-released]
2. Afrorack - "Last Modular" [Hakuna Kulala]
3. datewithdeath - "underplay (feat. Diana Gruber)" [Poverty Electronics]
4. Hali Palombo - "Dance 3" [self-released]
5. nondi_ "shadow juke" [HRR]
6. Leslie Keffer - "Seeding" [No Part of It]
7. Fire-Toolz - "Soda Lake With Game Genie (datewithdeath Dub)" [Poverty Electronics]
8. Loraine James - "EVP 3" [self-released]
9. Elvin Brandhi - "kredit krunk" [self-released]
10. Radboud Mens - "Movement" [No Rent]
11. Aphir - "UyU" [Art As Catharsis]
12. Actress - "Jimmy" [self-released]
13. Maral - "setar rock" [self-released]
14. Clouds Without Water - "elm cycle" [Healing Sound Propagandist]
15. Howard Stelzer - "Olive" [No Rent]
16. Connie Kissel - "Woman Made Horrors Beyond Your Comprehension" [self-released]

@datewithdeath0 @bamanya-brian @hakunakulala @hali-palombo @yakui-1 @lesliekeffer @fire-toolz @lorainejames @elvin-brandhi-1 @aphir @art-as-catharsis @actress1 @maral66 @intransitive-recordings @connie_kissel @radboudmens

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