Common Tonalities is an exploration of Southeast Asian tuning systems and scales through modern music technologies for the creation of new music.

Presenting 20 new tracks from 20 musicians around Southeast Asia — from a series of workshops led by Khyam Allami.

Learn more about the project here: https://www.goethe.de/prj/nus/en/art/cmt.html

Drago Katzov – MIGRATORY

Rani Jambak – Fosarune

Elisha Tiga – Bayutara

Septian Dwi Cahyo – Enggung

GRFTPS016
Tom Leclerc & WILD - Ôme
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamp
https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/me

Ôme

A3. Tom Leclerc & WILD - Douzeka [GRFTPS016]

FRKTL is the solo experimental music project of interdisciplinary artist and composer Sarah Badr. FRKTL's work pays particular attention to the narrative and sentient qualities of sound, often drawing inspiration from sources in ancient mythology and literature. As a classically trained multi-instrumentalist, FRKTL uses live sampling and improvisation, vocal manipulation, field recordings and generative rhythms to compose and create emotive, immersive explorations of sound. Her sound piece lives in different spaces of the exhibition, producing a looping soundtrack that surrounds other pieces and amplifies the sensorial qualities of the exhibition. The circular temporality of sound also enables a delicate and welcoming suspension of time by blurring our sense of a beginning and an end.

Second mutation soundtrack by FRKTL

Forces - Chaosmosis (IM097) https://chaosmos.is

Second track ‘Chaosmosis' from the upcoming album ‘Inertia’ out on https://www.soundcloud.com/infinite-machine on 1st of July.

’Chaosmosis’ is also a web animation, which u can view at the address: https://chaosmos.is  (only laptop/desktop works) 

The generative animation is programmed with Three.js library and with two different 3D models of Russian shipwrecks sunken in the Gulf of Finland in the 18th century. The Finnish Maritime Museum generously published those models online for free of use.

The whole album is inspired by the philosopher Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi’s 'Futurability' book and the way it deals with the systematic failure of Neo Liberal Capitalism and the current inability to resist it.  

The 'Chaosmosis' webpage project is a poetic rendering of the failing structures of current hegemony. The sunken imperialistic war and cargo ships of the Russian empire has of course political connotations of this current moment, but they can also be seen as more abstract remnants of the past. Disappearing and rotten forms.

Forces - Chaosmosis (IM097)

Active volcano recorded from the top, at the edge of the crater, during the night. 

Recorded by a DoubleMS Setup by Schoeps, CCM41+CCM8+CCM4 (in a Cinela Windscreen),
an AB Setup by DPA Microphones, 2 x 4006,
and a Geofon by LOM Audio.
On a Sound Devices 833 recorder.
Original recording in 192kHz, 24bit.
This sound has been edited and mixes the different sources.

GPS: -19.530189, 169.445493
Recorded on 6th of November 2022, between 6:30pm and 8:30pm.

Tanna Island

Volcano Mount Yasur, Tanna Island

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pacific breaks

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Nusasonic is a multi-year project that plunges into a broad spectrum of experimental sound and music cultures in Southeast Asia, enabling dialogue within the region, with Europe, and beyond.

Adopting a multi-perspective approach, the project is collaboratively created by Yes No Klub (Yogyakarta), WSK Festival of the Recently Possible (Manila), Playfreely/BlackKaji (Singapore), and CTM Festival for Adventurous Music & Art (Berlin).

Nusasonic is an initiative of the Goethe-Institutes in Southeast Asia.