The anxiety is palpable, almost medical (as if anxiety were a cure for anything at all!)

Sketch for Construction https://nstruction.co

Isolation Loops

Room Service
by Construction - Nadya Peek and Marko Ahtisaari 
http://nstruction.co 

from the EP We're Great Thanks for Asking (2020) 

Bandcamp: https://nstructionco.bandcamp.com/album/were-great-thanks-for-asking
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5r8I6PfZMUcQPEoRQG0Yof?si=KgcLUMinTee7le9h8GFMOw&dl_branch=1
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/fi/album/were-great-thanks-for-asking-ep/1542829023

Recorded while traveling. Produced by Pat Dillett (David Byrne, Brian Eno, St. Vincent) at Reservoir Studios in New York. Mastered by Guy Davie (Jon Hopkins, King Krule, Four Tet) at Electric Mastering London. 

Cover art by Aiala Hernando and Addie Wagenknecht from the series relationship status:
https://www.placesiveneverbeen.com/works/relationship-status

We're Great Thanks for Asking

Room Service

Katerina's first remix of Construction features generative cover art by Nervous System design studios

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1XqCT0ZZW1YIWAG819X2rT?si=a8WlffnsTnOAHvj2FjS7_w
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/fi/album/nervous-katerinas-tension-remix-single/1592586038

Katerina is a Finnish Bulgarian artist. She runs labels Émotsiya and Kotarak releasing music from the likes of Sansibar and Exploited Body. She’s an active touring DJ and a producer releasing music on labels such as Running Back, Cómeme, Hivern Discs, Tigersushi and Rhythm Section. This is the first remix she has done of Construction. 

“I was nervous when I started making this remix, as I'm always, because I care so much about music and I want to achieve something special. I want people to feel what I'm feeling. w That tension you feel throughout your body when you meet someone that captivates you or those moments of excitement before a really good audience that ultimately strips you of all of your fears,” says Katerina.

ABOUT CONSTRUCTION

Construction is an electronic music collaboration between Nadya Peek and Marko Ahtisaari. Peek and Ahtisaari met at MIT while fabricating on a large CNC mill. The original track Nervous is from the band's second ep WE'RE GREAT THANKS FOR ASKING (2020) produced by Pat Dillett (David Byrne, Brian Eno, St. Vincent) and mastered by Guy Davie (Jon Hopkins, King Krule, Four Tet). It was recorded while the band was working in the evenings at their friends' Nervous System design studios who created the generative cover art for the remix. 

ABOUT NERVOUS SYSTEM

Nervous System is a generative design studio that works at the intersection of science, art, and technology. Drawing inspiration from natural phenomena, they create computer simulations to generate designs and use digital fabrication to realize products. Their studio is located in the Catskills in Palenville, NY.

Nervous (Katerina's Tension Remix)

Nervous
by Construction - Nadya Peek and Marko Ahtisaari 
http://nstruction.co 

from the EP We're Great Thanks for Asking (2020) 

Bandcamp: https://nstructionco.bandcamp.com/album/were-great-thanks-for-asking
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5r8I6PfZMUcQPEoRQG0Yof?si=KgcLUMinTee7le9h8GFMOw&dl_branch=1
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/fi/album/were-great-thanks-for-asking-ep/1542829023

Recorded while traveling. Produced by Pat Dillett (David Byrne, Brian Eno, St. Vincent) at Reservoir Studios in New York. Mastered by Guy Davie (Jon Hopkins, King Krule, Four Tet) at Electric Mastering London. 

Cover art by Aiala Hernando and Addie Wagenknecht from the series relationship status:
https://www.placesiveneverbeen.com/works/relationship-status

Nervous

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Nonlin

Steve Hauschildt - Nonlin

Featuring Marconi Union, Pye Corner Audio, Sigur Rós, Loscil, Boards of Canada + more

Curated and mixed by Digitonal.

Tracklist:

1. Warmth - Monsoon  [The Ambient Zone] 
2. Chris Coco - Wednesday's Child  [ The Ambient Zone] 
3. Shards - Thoughts [ Erased Tapes Records] 
4. Loscil - Equivalent 1[Kranky]
5. Miles Tilmann - Through the Tubes [Loudr]
6. Starkey - Water  [The Ambient Zone] 
7. Boards of Canada - Sick Times [Warp Records]
8. Joey G - Hood Canal  [The Ambient Zone] 
9. stanleystanley - Palace of Steam  [The Ambient Zone] 
10. Pye Corner Audio - Imprisoned Splendour [Ghost Box]
11. Marconi Union - AMID  [Just Music]] 
12. BUNKR - East of Eden [VLSI Records]
13. Kirsty Hawkshaw - Sanctuary (Digitonal mix) [HOT-Q]
14. Sigur Rós - Sleep 6 [KRUNK]

TAZ Podcast

The Ambient Zone // Episode 27

The future is a kind of history that hasn’t happened yet. The past is a kind of future that has already happened.  The present moment vanishes before it can be described. Language, a human invention, lacks the power to fully adhere to reality. 
 
We live in a very short now and here, since the flow of events in spacetime is mostly closed to human comprehension. But we have to say something about the future, since we have to live there. So what can we say? Being “futuristic” is a problem in metaphysics; it’s about getting language to adhere to an unknowable reality. But the futuristic quickly becomes old-fashioned, so how can the news stay news?

Bruce Sterling: https://www.wired.com/category/beyond_the_beyond/ is a futurist, journalist, science-fiction author, and culture critic. He is the author of more than 20 books including ground-breaking science ficiton and non-fiction about hackers, design and the future. He was the editor in 01986 of Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) which brought the cyberpunk science fiction sub-genre to a much wider audience. He previous spoke for Long Now about "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole": http://longnow.org/seminars/02004/jun/11/the-singularity-your-future-as-a-black-hole/ in 02004. His Beyond the Beyond: http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/ blog on Wired.com is now in its 15th year. His most recent book is "Pirate Utopia": https://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Utopia-Bruce-Sterling/dp/1616962364.

"How to Be Futuristic" was given on October 16, 02018 as part of The Long Now Foundation's “Conversations at The Interval” Salon Talks. These hour long talks are recorded live at The Interval, our bar, cafe, & museum in San Francisco. Since 02014 this series has presented artists, authors, entrepreneurs, scientists (and more) taking a long-term perspective on subjects like art, design, history, nature, technology, and time. To follow the talks, you can:

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How To Be Futuristic - Bruce Sterling

Esko Kilpi (1952-2020) is dearly missed by his friends around the world. http://www.kilpi.fi  
Obituary https://www.hs.fi/muistot/art-2000006386370.html

Kuura (Finnish) = Rime (English)

Ambient by Marko based on seaboard solos by @nadya @nstructionco recorded at Reservoir Studios, NYC. Produced in Helsinki, Finland 11.1.2020. Image from Danakosha Ling, Jokioinen, Finland 11.1.2020

Kuura (ambient in memoriam Esko Kilpi)

Loops at home in Helsinki 30.3.20 all things considered.

Sorrowish

Half speed Nagra Ambient remix of blooper piano track by Moia

moia - toivo aka home - Villeh00 Nagra Ambient Remix

Just before sunrise in Akola, Ii at 2am on 13.7.2020.

Music by moia
Photo by https://www.instagram.com/teemukurkela/

Koittaa

Construction. Electronic music and other things made by Nadya Peek and Marko Ahtisaari. 

Visit: http://nstruction.co

Nervous (Katerina's Tension Remix)

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