upeksä

The rhythms of sleep are unknown to the sleeper. Usually, only with interruption, or dreams, or through wakeful observation, are we made aware of them. And even then, only somewhat. On this cassette, Zenxen uses his research into the cycles of sleep and rest to explore and recreate the phenomenon of neural oscillations. 

The tracks sound as if they’re composed of water, vapor, and dust. Trails of percussive events and simple melodic gestures accompany low end sculpting that moves like water, vapor, and dust. Like a tour of the body’s rhythmic structures, these are the waves within, crashing on interior shores. The electrical activity of the brain’s neurons are measured in hertz—cycles per second. Using a range of sampling techniques, Zenxen recreates alpha, theta, and delta waves to construct sonic models of the brain in various states.

Collaging other compositional elements into the works, such as field recordings of whispering voices, and the rise and fall of cicadas, Zenxen forms a tapestry that resembles autonomic processes, like a breath, or a secreting gland. Lullabies in one sense—these tracks were composed for an overnight drone event in the artist’s hometown of Berlin—in another they are intensely awakening, serving as activations of specific frequency windows. 𝐼𝑛 𝑊𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠 is a sonically cavernous descent, down into the brain’s most mysterious and rejuvenating depths.  

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Zenxen [ˈzɛn ˈdʒɛn] is an interdisciplinary ambient project from Benedikt Ellebrecht, combining academic studies in sociology, literature, and philosophy, time spent playing in post-punk bands, and ongoing participation in the underground electronic music scene in Berlin, Germany. 

Starting with experimentation with sample-based techniques, Ellebrecht has developed Zenxen into a digital musique concrète. He processes and reassembles field recordings from his immediate physical surroundings as well as drawing from virtual spaces such as the internet and videogames. As Zenxen, he has self-released 2 EPs and regularly performs live. 

Ellebrecht also contributes sound design for theatre and performance pieces, including at Ruhrtriennale Essen 2016 and at Staatstheater Darmstadt 2019 in collaboration with Niels Wehr. And in 2017, he co-founded the multimedia label No Disk (https://www.instagram.com/nodisk_/) with Joel AS (Arad Acid).

In Waves

Zenxen - Mesh Of Nodes (ENMX16)

Track from my album 'Open Heart' on Pulse State

https://thejaffakid1.bandcamp.com/album/open-heart-pulse-state

Last Stand

Cassette ltd 200. Also digi filez if needed.

Vanligt Folk - Swedish Dad (iDEAL227 CS)

Recommandé si vous aimez Sister Iodine, Black Dice, U.S. Maple…

Release party à Petit Bain à Paris le 30 mars 2022 dans le cadre du festival Sonic Protest.

OFFICINE - CIELCIX (from iDEAL226 LP/CS/Digital)

Extrait live / Le Mesjpleck / 25-03-22 / Dunkerque

Par delà l’espace et le temps, les humains ont évolué de manière inattendue au gré de leur environnement, engendrant de nouveaux êtres : ectoplasmes, métahermaphrodites, ou entités se nourrissant d'ondes delta... Autant de formes de vies extraordinaires reflets de la musique organique et futuriste de cet habitué des mondes sonores parallèles, et des musiques imaginogènes.

https://nulsidecouvert.bandcamp.com/album/nouvelles-mutations
Artwork : Jean Turner
jeanturner.org

(NSD03) Poborsk - Nouvelles Mutations - 01 Kidtoplasme

Track #3 from the new LP 'Emerald' by Kostadis on Orila, Agios Anthropos and Untitled-1: 

A dense and healing journey through the bowels of mother earth - Tako Reyenga (Music from Memory)

An artist that doesn’t cease to amaze and a true pioneer of the Greek experimental scene, delivers a transcendental future-proof album - Janet Davis

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Kostadis - Sensual Pill (ORL34)

Joachim Nordwall &
Coppice
Gabi Losoncy
Kevin Drumm
Tim Barnes & Jeph Jerman
John Duncan

Commuication is the Key
CD (E235)

entracte.co.uk/projects/joachim-nordwall-e235/

Release date: January 2019
Limited edition of 100 copies
Mastered by Jacques Beloeil
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Challenge, stimulation, creativity.
Admiration. Inspiration.

Communication is the Key

Joachim Nordwall (E235; 2019)

Sonata Per Eterna ( by Marta Zapparoli 2018-19 )
This is an extract from “Sonata Per Eterna”.
 It is a text-piece in which the meaning of some combinations of words are connected to selected radio waves and natural radios phenomena which I recorded in different countries over the world in the past recent years. This piece is inspired by my personal romantic idea feed it also by scientific notions about the journey of the soul after death to perpetual motion in the universe......." 
The release will be out in 2020

"Sonata Per Eterna" Extract From Release2020 ( to my father Giuseppe aka GiZap))

A foretaste of the upcoming Album, winter 2021 (-OUS Records).
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Mastering by VFBM 
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Immersed in an amniotic atmosphere, we are invited to bathe in the atemporality of the world before birth.

Against a liquid sound background, horizontal sounds intervene that cross space at full speed, stretching time in their course. The speed with which they intervene has the effect of an arrow shot in the direction of a distant future, which brings us back to a linear, horizontal, narrative, historical time, that is to say, to the ordinary world perceived as a successive sequence of events.

The transparency and weightlessness of crystalline sounds act like seraphically elements that connect the fantastic and earthly worlds. At the same time, anecdotal sounds that remind us of specific moments in our lives cross our mind -- liquid, metallic, soft, subtle sounds -- and dense drones mingle to create an experience of their own, each one embedding itself in the personal experience of the listener.

From the beginning we were immersed in this atemporal amniotic atmosphere and then there was the birth, the irruption into the world, history began. We plunged into time to look for the origin, to deepen the story, to understand.

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