Fantastic on the night and a great listen back :)

Recording of OOR_Scintilla's intimate live performance at Edinburgh's Settlement Projects on 20th February 2025, supporting headliners Able Noise during the tour of their debut album High Tide. Also with support by Cowboy Builder. Organised by PX4M. 

Able Noise is George Knegtel and Alex Andropoulos’ experimental baritone guitar and drum duo, based between The Hague, the Netherlands and Athens, Greece. Through the use of voice, tape and alternative methods of playing their instruments, they create a minimal and visual musical performance. https://ablenoise.bandcamp.com/album/high-tide 

OOR_Scintilla are a Scotland based experimental artist duo exploring the material poetics of sound, voice and place. Working improvisationally with numerous forms of resonance across field recording, instruments, electronics + the voice, they produce environmentally-responsive work investigating hybrid and enigmatic territories with reference to ancient folk origins.

Cowboy Builder will perform at this show as a two piece. Slow plaintive music. Warped 2020's interpretation of folk. Harmonies that take a minute to resolve. Backwards sounds. Head nodding beats but half of them are missing.

Able Noise | OOR_Scintilla live at Settlement Projects

For the 70th entry of the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome LA-native @jake-muir. Fascinated by musical intimacy, Muir centers his work around the use of 'found sound', including field recordings, vinyl loops, and shortwave radio clips. These audio fragments are manipulated and welded together to further distance them from their original context. We thought a mix of soft, atmospheric tones would be a meditative way to begin the new year.

Tracklist:
Terje Rypdal - Topplue, Votter & Skjerf
Channel Light Vessel - The Offering
Scott Gailey - Sorgente Termale in un Cantiere
Susumu Yokota - Spool
Tetsu Inoue - Health Loop
Bellows - Untitled / Drag Race ASMR
Vladislav Delay - The Fourth Quarter
Otilo - Serpent
K. Leimer - What We Already Know
Jonathan Scherk - 6
Arturo Stàlteri - La pescatrice di perle
O Yuki Conjugate - 25.02
Soundwalk Collective - L'impossible du possible (Jan Jelinek Remix)
Ross Alexander - Shattering Metals
D. Hansen - Fountain In A Foyer
Journeymann Traxx - Tribe Sesh
Ben Bondy - Nespithe
0N4B - S2
Echium - Adaptive Senses - Reflection
Philip Jeck - Pax
Rapoon - Between The Hours
Mark Van Hoen - A Glimmer Of Forgotten Ancestors

Honcho Podcast Series 70: Jake Muir

May 10th 2020 was the date when the Black Glass Ensemble was scheduled to perform with special guest Colin Potter at The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh.

The ongoing lockdown arising from the Covid-19 pandemic has put all future plans on hold but we wanted to mark the moment nonetheless.

B minor is a musical key associated with patience, and solitude.

All players, along with Colin Potter, have therefore recorded, in isolation, small fragments - notes on the B minor triad - which have been arranged into a brief musical embrace by Black Glass's musical director, Michael Begg.

We offer this in the spirit of patience and fortitude and wish you all the very best in this singular moment.

Stay strong. Stay safe.

Michael Begg - modified weather engine / arrangement
Ben Ponton - 'sferics' / bottleneck / Monotron bagpipe
Colin Potter - processed 12 string guitar
Clea Friend - cello
Aisling O'Dea - violin
Julia Lungu - violin
Jen Cuthbertson - French horn
Neil Cuthbertson - trumpet
Douglas Caskie - vibraphone

B Minor :: patience

Prior to the 20th century, and the emergent dominance of equal temperament, the association of emotions with particular musical keys was common practice. 

The Black Glass Ensemble recently revisited this historical alignment of sound and emotion to offer a brief ‘embrace’ in B Minor - the key associated with patience. 

The initial embrace, featuring the 8 musicians of the Black Glass Ensemble and guest Colin Potter, with whom they had been due to perform prior to the Covid19 lockdown, was well received. Consequently, Black Glass sought to widen the reach of their embrace to other musicians to make a more comprehensive piece of work.

The response was unprecedented. 104 musicians returned 247 individual musical tracks to be mixed into this present arrangement.

The full 38’ 50” minute work, “Be Mine in Patience: an Embrace in B minor” is made freely available in the sole hope that this extended embrace may help in some small way to nurture strength, fortitude and comfort.

Black Glass Ensemble and Friends
Be Mine in Patience: an Embrace in B minor
Arranged and produced by Michael Begg

Cover Image by Ben Ponton, used by permission of Sue Cannon

The Black Glass Ensemble:
Michael Begg
Douglas Caskie
Jen Cuthbertson
Neil Cuthbertson
Clea Friend
Julia Lungu
Aisling O'Dea
Ben Ponton

Contributors:
Tommy Aashildrød
The Alaska None
David Allison
Christopher Alvarado
Mkl Anderson
Carsten Aniksdal
Artificial Memory Trace
Matt Atkins
Nigel Ayers
Simon Balestrazzi
Stephen Bishop
Sergey Bulychev
Matt Burnett
Dave Burraston
Ed Carter
Kim Cascone
Don Clemenza
cl0v3n
Chris Connelly
Dane Law
Thomas Dimuzio
Pablo Diserens
Anthony Donovan
John Duncan
Kate Ellis
Steve Fors
Clive Graham
Scot Jenerik
Jean Johnson
Dan Joseph
Evan Henderson
Robert Henke
May Haliburton
Mark Hand
Jim Haynes
Liz Helman
Jack Hertz
Kathy Hinde
Marc Hurtado
France Jobin
Andreas Karperyd
Katpis Tapes
Fergus Kelly
Julia Kent
Jon Lee
Edvard Graham Lewis
Andrew Liles
Malcolm Lindsay
Marco Lucchi
Patrick Tubin McGinley
Grey Malkin
Robert Mazrim
Radboud Mens
Emmanuel Mieville
Abul Mogard
James Murray
Philippe Neau
Adi Newton
B J Nilsen
Mike Nolan
nula,cc
Aisling O’Dea
Orphax
Mike Orr
Chris Osborne
Daniel O’Sullivan
Ivy O’Sullivan
p_fish_mani
Filippo Panichi
Lee Paterson
PBK
Ben Ponton
Colin Potter
Nicola Quiriconi
Audrey Redpath
Ivan Ristić
Carla Santana
Paul sawford
Janek Schaefer
Second Harmonic Generation
Simon Šerc
Tim Shaw
Chandra Shukla
Clodagh Simonds
Steven R. Smith
Jos Smolders
sp3ct3rs
Julia Spooner
Mayor Stubbs
Bill Thompson
VIVIB
Frans de Waard
Warm Digits
Simon Whetham
Gary Wilkinson
Pete Woodhead
James Wyness
Zach Zinn

Be Mine in Patience: an Embrace in B minor

When ACL first started producing mixes, I knew that I didn’t just want to invite artists and labels. We’ve always imagined ACL as a part of a broader community. As such I’ve often invited mixes from amateurs, from listeners and fellow critics. This mix is one of those. 

We have another special guest mix from Philippe Requena. We have previous featured two mixes from him, Venant le jour and Water Be My Road Now. As on those mixes, Requena moves in a post-genre sonic world, drawing unexpected connections between disparate selections.

You can follow Phillipe Requena on his Bandcamp: https://bandcamp.com/requena


TRACKLIST

1. KMRU - Well
2. Innesti - Moving The Stars
3. Fovea Hex - Don’t These Windows Open ?
4. Fabiano Da Nascimiento - Ilhas
5. Biosphere - Tranoy Lighthouse
6. Meredith Monk - Unison
7. Plod - Aptaxi
8. Moses Sumney - Lucky Me
9. Rhythm & Sound - What A Mistry Version
10. Sarah Davachi - The Pelican
11. Roméo Poirier - Le bématiste
12. Steven M. Halliday - Für Alina Pt 3
13. Arvo Pärt - Even If I Lose Everything
14. Virginia Astley - With My Eyes Wide Opened I’m Dreaming
15. Christine Ott - Comma
16. Hilary Woods - There Is No Moon
17. Golden Retriever & Chuck Johnson - Lupine
18. Léo Ferré - Les Romantiques (Loop)

Paysages, encore

Phillipe Requena presents 'Paysages, encore' [mix]

OOR_Scintilla (Louisa Love and Clive McLachlan Powell) are an Edinburgh-based artist duo working experimentally in sound, music, performance and sculptural production. 

Interested in the material poetics of sound, voice and place, they produce environmentally-responsive audio works exploring hybrid and enigmatic territories. They work directly with the physicality of environments, instruments, objects, electronics, bodies and vocal performance with reference to ancient folk origins, to 'give voice' to overlooked qualities and narratives that resonate specificities of place. 

'OOR' is a sonorous acronym akin to the sound of resonating clay, embodying what the duo define as a practice of 'object oriented resonance'.

https://oorscintilla.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/oorscintilla/
https://www.instagram.com/oor_scintilla/

https://fogtheoryradio.tumblr.com

Able Noise | OOR_Scintilla live at Settlement Projects

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