Guest mixes by -OUS artists for radio shows, podcasts and special occasions.
Find out more on www.ous.ooo
Explore -OUS releases at https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

-OUS guest mixes / radio shows

Continuously updated playlist with music forthcoming or (freshly) released on -OUS. *click* on the tracks for more infos. All music released on -OUS can be found on Bandcamp, via our Distributor Kudos, and through well-sorted online and offline record stores.

https://ousooo.bandcamp.com
https://ous.kudosrecords.co.uk/

Forthcoming & (freshly) released on -OUS

The -OUS podcast series features live recorded performances of -OUS artists and guests we've featured at our events. 

-OUS Podcast No.1: MM aka @iokoi / @annahomler + @xiiisc
-OUS Podcast No.2: @bit-tuner / @furtherset
-OUS Podcast No.3: @noemibuchi / @svetlanamaras
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The -OUS mix series features music released on -OUS, recorded once a year. 

2017: "26:29" by Ink! @ink_ous
2018: "59:59" by Uhuruku @uhuruku
2019: "55:42" by Mana @mmmmaaanna 
2020: "63:39" by Ink! @ink_ous

find all the music here: http://ousooo.bandcamp.com

-OUS Podcasts & Mixes

Sara Oswald & Feldermelder - Dual | Duel
Cat #: OUS038
Release date: July 7, 2023
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«We find ourselves venturing into the depths of a rugged terrain. In our hands, we hold stones and minerals, each possessing its own distinct texture, weight, and sonic potential. It is through the artistic touch and through the musical instruments that these earthly treasures, once dormant, are awaken to life.» — Sara Oswald + Feldermelder

The 3rd collaboration of prolific cellist Sara Oswald and electronic musician Feldermelder evokes captivating sensations that oscillate between impending doom and hope. The albums’ sonic journey is highly immersive, transporting the listener from one cerebral landscape to another. The transformative nature of metallic elements being integrated in sustained orchestral tones weaves the sonic tapestry, resulting in a captivating experience for the listeners. The organic sounding — reminiscent of minerals’ timbres — brings a touch of brightness and a distinctive edge, while the orchestral harmonic structures lend a sense of grandeur and continuity. The origins of this music remain enigmatic, while the tracks of the album gradually unveil concealed aspects and the hidden truth.
One can step into a realm where melodies are reborn, as Sara Oswald’s cello spins tales and emotions burst forth. Nature’s eternal splendor intertwines with the essence of music, as she infuses harmonies with the soul of mountains. Vibrant hues come alive with delicate strokes, and cascading notes resonate with a select few. Feldermelder conjures profound echoes that swirl like ancient whispers of the earth’s primordial past. He sculpts textures, from fragmented glitches to expansive atmospheres, that warp the fabric of reality. The two musicians merge together harmoniously, blending the acoustic and electronic worlds into a transcendent unity. This fusion of contrasting elements adds a unique and intriguing quality to the music. The cello’s warmth merges with pulsating electronic beats, creating a symphony of contrasts and sonic upheaval. Each composition is woven in intricate layers, combining electroacoustic architecture with delicate precision. A subtle balance of chaos and control permeates the music as it meanders through the labyrinth of the mind. The soundscape unfolds like a grand tapestry, distant echoes murmuring like grains of sand.

Trained in baroque cello and advocating improvised music, Sara Oswald is the perfect match for sound artist and electronic musician Feldermelder. She plays solo, composes for film and theatre and collaborates with musicians like The Young Gods, Pascal Auberson, Sophie Hunger and Julian Sartorius. Feldermelder is a polymathic creative whose artistry spans composition, sound design, installation and code. He is co-founders of -OUS and part of Encor.studio, a collective of artists who specialise in creating immersive audio-visual installations. Through his work, he explores the idea of secrecy and its impact on our lives, using music and sound to create a thought-provoking and immersive experience for his audience.

CREDITS
Written by Feldermelder & Sara Oswald 
Produced by Manuel Oberholzer
Mastered by VFBM
Cover Design by Isaak Rickenbacher

https://ous.ooo
OUS038

Dual | Duel

Buy on Bandcamp

Sara Oswald & Feldermelder - 1 - Transpersonal Source

Sara Oswald & Feldermelder - Dual | Duel
Cat #: OUS038
Release date: July 7, 2023
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«We find ourselves venturing into the depths of a rugged terrain. In our hands, we hold stones and minerals, each possessing its own distinct texture, weight, and sonic potential. It is through the artistic touch and through the musical instruments that these earthly treasures, once dormant, are awaken to life.» — Sara Oswald + Feldermelder

The 3rd collaboration of prolific cellist Sara Oswald and electronic musician Feldermelder evokes captivating sensations that oscillate between impending doom and hope. The albums’ sonic journey is highly immersive, transporting the listener from one cerebral landscape to another. The transformative nature of metallic elements being integrated in sustained orchestral tones weaves the sonic tapestry, resulting in a captivating experience for the listeners. The organic sounding — reminiscent of minerals’ timbres — brings a touch of brightness and a distinctive edge, while the orchestral harmonic structures lend a sense of grandeur and continuity. The origins of this music remain enigmatic, while the tracks of the album gradually unveil concealed aspects and the hidden truth.
One can step into a realm where melodies are reborn, as Sara Oswald’s cello spins tales and emotions burst forth. Nature’s eternal splendor intertwines with the essence of music, as she infuses harmonies with the soul of mountains. Vibrant hues come alive with delicate strokes, and cascading notes resonate with a select few. Feldermelder conjures profound echoes that swirl like ancient whispers of the earth’s primordial past. He sculpts textures, from fragmented glitches to expansive atmospheres, that warp the fabric of reality. The two musicians merge together harmoniously, blending the acoustic and electronic worlds into a transcendent unity. This fusion of contrasting elements adds a unique and intriguing quality to the music. The cello’s warmth merges with pulsating electronic beats, creating a symphony of contrasts and sonic upheaval. Each composition is woven in intricate layers, combining electroacoustic architecture with delicate precision. A subtle balance of chaos and control permeates the music as it meanders through the labyrinth of the mind. The soundscape unfolds like a grand tapestry, distant echoes murmuring like grains of sand.

Trained in baroque cello and advocating improvised music, Sara Oswald is the perfect match for sound artist and electronic musician Feldermelder. She plays solo, composes for film and theatre and collaborates with musicians like The Young Gods, Pascal Auberson, Sophie Hunger and Julian Sartorius. Feldermelder is a polymathic creative whose artistry spans composition, sound design, installation and code. He is co-founders of -OUS and part of Encor.studio, a collective of artists who specialise in creating immersive audio-visual installations. Through his work, he explores the idea of secrecy and its impact on our lives, using music and sound to create a thought-provoking and immersive experience for his audience.

CREDITS
Written by Feldermelder & Sara Oswald 
Produced by Manuel Oberholzer
Mastered by VFBM
Cover Design by Isaak Rickenbacher

https://ous.ooo
OUS038
@feldermelder

Sara Oswald & Feldermelder - 3 - Everything Vibrating Is An Illusion

FURTHERSET - AURAS - OUS036
Format: digital
Release: March 18, 2022
Bandcamp: https://furtherset.bandcamp.com/album/auras

«On ‘Auras’ I tried to expand my range of timbre, and to create a kind of ‘symphonic’ structure.»  - Furtherset

With his fourth release on -OUS, Furtherset presents an intriguing three-part EP that plots a unique confluence of ambient, experimental electronics and modern classical; three chapters of stratospheric drama and depth that set the stage for his long-awaited forthcoming album.

‘Auras’ begins with the gentle drift of sparks and tremors, moving into delicately wrought, disintegrative currents of sound, before sustaining a sense of elevated physicality, and expanding outwards, reaching for the beyond. Furtherset develops new compositions with the mindset of a writer who approaches the blank page of a new book. Articulations appear, briefly at first, then develop into words, then into sentences, and finally, a compelling story is formed.

Rhythms transition into melodies, harmonics are added almost imperceptibly, creating an abundant filigree of sound. ‘Auras’ is a spiralling work of glitch and slippage, of surge and overload, of stillness and suspension.  

Furtherset’s new music is time dilating and dimensional, creating space and stature, a world which contains dazzling and manifold tonalities. ‘Auras’ illustrates an evolution: «I wanted to have much more clarity and technical precision, to make everything more crystalline». Like the prismatic light of a crystal ‘Auras’ changes as each element comes into focus. Here Furtherset takes the listener on an emotive, mercurial journey, designing a towering universe of evocative sensation and memory. 
Furtherset is the musical project of italian musician and artist Tommaso Pandolfi — class of 1995. His music is an open invitation to immerse oneself into a weightless states of mind. Exhaling growth and inhaling decay, his walls of sound are restlessly built from layered and looped harmonies, shifting modulations and sampled voices. The figures are pushed over the tipping point to where they explode and are then reshaped into melodic cascades.

CREDITS
Music by Tommaso Pandolfi
Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer at vfbm Fribourg
Cover illustration by Tommaso Pandolfi
Graphic design by Jahn Koutrios

This is OUS036

Auras

Furtherset - Auras

FURTHERSET @furtherset
AURAS - OUS036
digital

«On ‘Auras’ I tried to expand my range of timbre, and to create a kind of ‘symphonic’ structure.»  - Furtherset

With his fourth release on -OUS, Furtherset presents an intriguing three-part EP that plots a unique confluence of ambient, experimental electronics and modern classical; three chapters of stratospheric drama and depth that set the stage for his long-awaited forthcoming album.

‘Auras’ begins with the gentle drift of sparks and tremors, moving into delicately wrought, disintegrative currents of sound, before sustaining a sense of elevated physicality, and expanding outwards, reaching for the beyond. Furtherset develops new compositions with the mindset of a writer who approaches the blank page of a new book. Articulations appear, briefly at first, then develop into words, then into sentences, and finally, a compelling story is formed.

Rhythms transition into melodies, harmonics are added almost imperceptibly, creating an abundant filigree of sound. ‘Auras’ is a spiralling work of glitch and slippage, of surge and overload, of stillness and suspension.  

Furtherset’s new music is time dilating and dimensional, creating space and stature, a world which contains dazzling and manifold tonalities. ‘Auras’ illustrates an evolution: «I wanted to have much more clarity and technical precision, to make everything more crystalline». Like the prismatic light of a crystal ‘Auras’ changes as each element comes into focus. Here Furtherset takes the listener on an emotive, mercurial journey, designing a towering universe of evocative sensation and memory. 
Furtherset is the musical project of italian musician and artist Tommaso Pandolfi — class of 1995. His music is an open invitation to immerse oneself into a weightless states of mind. Exhaling growth and inhaling decay, his walls of sound are restlessly built from layered and looped harmonies, shifting modulations and sampled voices. The figures are pushed over the tipping point to where they explode and are then reshaped into melodic cascades.

CREDITS
Music by Tommaso Pandolfi
Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer at vfbm Fribourg
Cover illustration by Tommaso Pandolfi
Graphic design by Jahn Koutrios

This is OUS036

Circle

Furtherset - Circle

SARA OSWALD + FELDERMELDER - DRAWN
Cat #: OUS033
Release date: June 18, 2021
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Bandcamp: https://feldermelder.bandcamp.com/album/drawn

«The way we approach recording music — starting from an inner and outer void, where there is just acoustical action and reaction — is an attempt to emulate and slow down the fleeting memories that occur during a near death experience. A scintillating recollection that is the essence of who we are, slowed down and enhanced in order to be captured.» - Sara Oswald + Feldermelder

Prolific cellist Sara Oswald and experimental electronic musician Feldermelder present a captivating experience that resembles the suspended timelessness of an embryonic world. The way in which the duo modulate our perception of time, across this EP of three distinct pieces, represents an impressive display of aesthetic power, enabling listeners to experience the here and now in a total, physical engagement, and to travel through endless, transitional states of mind. «Drawn» is a meditation, where process becomes form. 

The first piece ‘Fishes in Histogram Waterfalls’ opens up a time-space where acoustic elements meet electronics; a fragile and organic encounter that nevertheless remains potent and precise. In this Sara Oswald and Feldermelder form resonant clouds of sound that hover and move discreetly. 	

The second piece ‘Volcanic Meditation Walks’ is more rhythmically defined, punctuated by repetitive accents and imbued with an enchanting, longing melody. Interspersed with heavy, phantasmal electronics, the track evokes a surreal passage across a scorched landscape, like a trek at the foot of Mount Etna.

«Drawn» reflects a dislocation of conventional temporality, and with the final piece ‘Short Term Memories’ the duo offer a denouement, where ‘the naked truth of our existence is revealed’, where every moment is again just another shift, another liminal state. Here they embody the perpetual flow of existence, where birth and death form a circle — where the same form never reappears — where every moment is unique. And where memory has its limits, because neither past nor future really exist.

CREDITS
All tracks written by Sara Oswald and Feldermelder
Produced by Manuel Oberholzer
Mixed and mastered by VFBM 
Cover by Manuel Oberholzer

This is OUS033
www.ous.ooo
@feldermelder

Drawn

Volcanic Meditation Walks

Buy digital

-𝗢𝗨𝗦 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗼.𝟯: 𝗡𝗼é𝗺𝗶 𝗕ü𝗰𝗵𝗶 / 𝗦𝘃𝗲𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗮š 
@noemibuchi / @svetlanamaras

The -OUS podcast series is a juxtaposition of live recorded performances by -OUS artists, as well as guests we've been lucky enough to invite to perform at our shows. '-𝗢𝗨𝗦 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗼.𝟯' combines musical explorations by the Swiss electronic musician Noémi Büchi and Serbian sound artist and composer Svetlana Maraš.

The first half of the podcast features a live recording by Noémi Büchi, performed during the second lockdown in winter 2020. Based on a set performed at Bad Bonn Düdingen in August 2020, and developed further during her stay at the EMS (Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm) as guest composer, Noémi Büchi's recording develops two intertwined narratives. Countless percussive sounds form an ever-changing rhythmic landscape that is sustained by full-bodied harmonic, almost drone-like tones. Both layers are treated equally throughout the performance, leaving it up to listeners to decide which one to follow - or to float in-between. 

Svetlana Maraš contributes the second half of the podcast: recorded at 'Il Circolo del Frattempo III' in November 2019, her performance is led by hyper-focussed attention for tonal details and atmospheric ambiguities of sonic textures, scattered musical fragments and manipulated micro-samples. Svetlana Maraš leads listeners through vividly pulsating acoustic sceneries and carefully sculpted compositions by gradually morphing the balances and shifting the ear's focus. Maraš' work is that of a 'sonic huntress', blurring the borders between documentary and fiction. 
-𝗢𝗨𝗦 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗼.𝟯 is available at: https://soundcloud.com/ous_ooo/ous-podcast-no3-noemi-buchi-svetlana-maras

In previous episodes, we've presented live recordings by IOKOI, Anna Homler & Alessio Capovilla, Furtherset and Bit-Tuner.

𝕋𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥
Part 1: Noémi Büchi — 20:43
Part 2: Svetlana Maraš — 19:08

ℂ𝕣𝕖𝕕𝕚𝕥𝕤
Both performances mixed and mastered by Manuel Oberholzer
Cover by Sarah Parsons
Photo of Svetlana Maraš by Irena Selakovic

𝕃𝕚𝕟𝕜𝕤
Noémi Büchi: https://noemibuchi.bandcamp.com/
Svetlana Maraš: https://svetlanamaras.bandcamp.com/
More on -OUS: www.ous.ooo

-OUS on Bandcamp

-OUS Podcast No.3: Noémi Büchi / Svetlana Maraš

63:39 of -OUS// I Heart Noise Podcast by Ink! @ink_ous
recorded in May 2020 for Boston-based label and blog 'I heart noise': https://ihrtn.net/ | https://www.instagram.com/iheartnoise

this hour-long mix features music released on -OUS between 2015 and 2020. explore the catalogue: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
01: SPIME.IM - ZERO9 (from ZERO)
02: Feldermelder - MOD_02 (from Mod Elephants)
03: Sara Oswald & Feldermelder - Insomnia (from Hidden in Kaoris Castle)
04: Hirsch&Eigner - Swoop (from Stalker/Swoop)
05: Simon Grab - Phase of Multiplication (from Posthuman Species)
06: Bit-Tuner - AN 5 (from Arabian Nights)
07: IOKOI - Flexstatic Extended (from Tales of Another Felt Sense of Self)
08: Sara Oswald & Feldermelder - Red and Yellow Prisms (from Hidden in Kaoris Castle)
09: Legowelt - These Phenomena Are Not Well Understood (from Unconditional Contours)
10: Simon Grab - Memory Storage (from Extinction)
11: IOKOI - SOS (from Tales of Another Felt Sense of Self)
12: SPIME.IM - Exaland II (from Exaland)
13: Feldermelder - Another Place (Zavoloka Remix) (from The Sound Of Remixes)
14: NHK yx Koyxen - Universal Gesture (from Parallel Tempo)
15: Tresque - Terapung-apung (from Lensomni)
16: Simon Grab - Neurochemical Behaviour (from Posthuman Species)
17: Simon Grab - Posthuman Wonderland (from Posthuman Species)
18: SPIME.IM - ZERO19 (from ZERO)
19: Jan Nemeček - I Pretend (from Recurrences)
20: Bit-Tuner - Byz (from EXO)
21: Bit-Tuner - Disbander (from EXO)
22: Senking - Jacket Cool Down (from Waiting Alpine)
23: Legowelt - Swiss Fairytales (from Unconditional Contours)
24: Furtherset - Falling Makes Way For Rising (from Drawings of Desire and Hate)
25: IOKOI - Touchreel (Furtherset Edit) (from Liquefy Reworks)

63:39 of -OUS [2020 - I Heart Noise Podcast / label mix by Ink!]

https://juliansartorius.bandcamp.com/album/locked-grooves
https://soundcloud.com/ous_ooo
more @ https://mitaminelab.org

ML645: Julian Sartorius

-OUS presents Noémi Büchi's ' In the Meantime Mix', a collection of material created while working on her forthcoming album on -OUS.

Discover @noemibuchi 's music here: https://noemibuchi.bandcamp.com/
-OUS Podcast #3 w/ Noémi Büchi and @svetlanamaras: https://soundcloud.com/ous_ooo/ous-podcast-no3-noemi-buchi-svetlana-maras
-OUS catalogue: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com/

Mastered by @feldermelder

Bandcamp

Noémi Büchi - In The Meantime Mix

This live experimental podcast recording is a little adventure in music I produced during and right before the pandemic that didn’t find a place on upcoming records, but I still found worth sharing. It's a strange mixture of works for installations and some without a plan in mind.  Some released and some unreleased material.  It somehow marks the beginning of something new. – Feldermelder

Feldermelder is a Swiss musician and sound designer, producer and installation artist.

www.feldermelder.ch

Extended #14 - FELDERMELDER

NOÉMI BÜCHI @noemibuchi
HYLE - OUS039
April 15, 2022; digital

«I create my compositions from a symphonic-orchestral viewpoint, where the sounds are my orchestra, and I arrange them in time and space.» - Noémi Büchi

Noémi Büchi’s first EP for -OUS, ‘Hyle’ is a reference to the ancient greek term for ‘matter’ - which is composed of fire, water, air and earth - and only comes into existence when ‘form’ is attached to it. Balancing between the elements of electroacoustic music, neo-classical composition and sound design, ‘Hyle’ unfolds in three compositions that translate ‘matter’ into music. «We all are matter, and music is matter. My compositions convert personal and collective memories between trauma and joy into music that is rooted in the emotional dimension, but also intends to spark intellectual euphoria», she explains.

Consciously returning to the appreciation of harmony,
Noémi Büchi unfolds its musical potential through chordal combinations and reduced musical intervals. Her pieces are written with a classical understanding of compositional forms, structures and textures, which she translates to experimental electronic music. Just as life can be segmented into layers of knowledge and experience, Noémi Büchi composes in layers: she explores the potential of harmonies and dissonance, contrasts rhythmic figures with disruptive moments and playfully emphasizes irregularities, in order to expand our listening habits and create dense moments and harmonic grandeur alike. ‘Hyle’ is a prelude to her debut album ‘Matter’, which will be released on -OUS in 2022.

Composer and sound artist Noémi Büchi explores electronic and symphonic maximalism. Her music is defined by a delicate blend of electronic-orchestral condensations and textural rhythms. She strives for a combination of harmonic and dissonant sonorities, to evoke both intellectual and emotional euphoria. Her 2019 debut EP ‘Matière’, released through Light of Other Days, attracted widespread attention within the experimental music scene. In 2020, she released a second EP Prismic Passages on the Leipzig-based tape label Visible Dinner. -OUS will be releasing her debut album ‘Matter’ and its prelude ‘Hyle’ in 2022, as well as the debut album of Musique Infinie, a collaboration between Noémi Büchi and Feldermelder. 

CREDITS
Music by Noémi Büchi
Mixed and mastered by Manuel Oberholzer at vfbm Fribourg
Cover photograph by Jean-Marc Avila

Noémi Büchi - Hyle  - 1 - Nothing Is Artificial

Svetlana Maraš - Live performance 2019-2020
Cat #: OUS042
Release date: May 12, 2023
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«The nearly infinite improvisational potential in my performances is a result of tweaking the technology, using it in unpredictable ways, musically exploiting it, and maybe even misusing it.» - Svetlana Maraš

Serbian composer, sound artist and musician Svetlana Maraš has spent years developing her unique setup for live performances. Distinctly defining a live performance as an own form of musical practice that is defined by the sculptural potential, rather than reproducibility, she builds live sets as frameworks for musical expression. The core of her performative practice lies in the accessibility of all layers of what a ‘musical image’ at any given point consists of.

Using micro samples, granular sampling and snippets of one to two seconds, Maraš treats her live setup equivalent to an acoustic instrument. Using tablet controllers running a self-built ‘Touch OSC’ interface and pedals, she manipulates and morphs the material with the mindset of a sculptor, while exposing herself to the audience and the room. Her focus lies on the sound itself: musical structure and qualities, and the shape of the sounds projected into the performance space define which turn she might take next. Maraš explains: «I am interested how sounds fills up the room, how they spread, how near or far they are, how ‘big’ or ‘small’ they seem, how they morph and move.» With the set she played from 2019 to 2020, Maraš had reached an extreme regarding the handling and manipulation of micro samples. -OUS is releasing a live recording of this set as deep dive into the possibilities of live sound manipulation.

Svetlana Maraš is composer and artist active in the field of experimental music. Her work, which she presents internationally, encompasses variety of formats such as live performance, electro-acoustic composition, sound installations and works for the radio. She is the winner of the most prestigious Serbian composition prize «Mokranjac», awarded by the Serbian Composers’ Association. From 2016-2021, she was composer in residence and artistic director at Radio Belgrade’s Electronic studio, where she established numerous programs such as artistic residencies, educational courses and most notably, restoration of EMS Synthi 100. Currently, Maraš is Professor of Creative Music Technology and Co-head of Electronic Studio at Hochschule für Musik FHNW, Basel. 
credits
releases May 12, 2023

Music by Svetlana Maraš
Recorded at Il Circolo del Frattempo, Zurich, 2019
Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer
Artwork by Marko Vuleta-Djukanov
Graphic design by Rebecca Morganti-Pfaffhauser

This live set was recorded at Il Circolo del Frattempo, Zurich, a co-production between -OUS and MADAM.

The set was additionally performed at:
HEK, Basel
CAN, Neuchâtel
Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin
@svetlanamaras

Svetlana Maraš - 2019-2020-4

Rumors Mix for Mundo Urbano
https://mundourbano.blogspot.com/


Tracklist:
Feldermelder - Drone Rec 10. 04.21
Charlotte Simon - Chloé - Feldermelder Rework
Misel Quitno - Spool II
Davide Tomat & Federico Bisozzi - Horn Whales
His Name Is Alive - Because Piano
Julian Sartorius - Fatzikus
Hugo Sonia - No Sinking
UFO - 8 (Dimitri Grimm
Feldermelder - Drone Rec 07.05.22
His Name Is Alive - Tape Slow
Lawrence English - And A Twist
Marina Herlop - shaolin mantis
Feldermelder - Illusionary Digitals
Noémi Büchi - Extracts - 03 REC 0001
Autechre - Live in Helsinki Rec.141118
Misel Quitno - Glück
Autechre - Live in Helsinki Rec.141118
Davide Tomat & Federico Bisozzi - Dryland
Feldermelder - Drone Rec 02.03.22 1
Autechre - Live in Helsinki Rec.141118
Charlotte Simon - Chloé - Feldermelder Rework
Feldermelder - Drone Rec 02.03.22 2
Mica Levi - Love
Charlotte Simon - Chloé

Played some synths and fx piano over it.. and and and

Rumors - Mix for Mundo Urbano - August 2022

@noemibuchi - Matter
Cat #: OUS041
Release date: November 25, 2022
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

"Music gives us the illusion that time is not time, but space. It is then that the music transforms from process to object, which I find a very interesting thought; a materialisation of the sound process. Sound is matter." - Noémi Büchi

Noémi Büchi’s debut album ‘Matter’ captures the tension between growth and decay, consonance and dissonance, mirroring Büchi’s own catharsis through music. Her most personal material to date, ‘Matter’ is an opus of refined, sculpted beauty, one that aims to blur the distinction between ephemerality and physicality. Inspired by late romantic classical music and early 20th century contemporary music, ‘Matter’ is driven by the compositional methodologies of Igor Stravinsky, Alexander Skrjabin, Gustav Mahler and György Ligeti to modern sound forms, adapting and expanding upon their ideas in an awe-inspiring exploration of cutting-edge potency and tactility.

Büchi structures the electronic works that constitute ‘Matter’ in movements, stratifying myriad instrumental parts like the constituent sections of an orchestra. During her work on the album, Büchi engaged in extensive research, obsessively studying specific chords and progressions, and searching for transcendent intonations with resonant properties; complexions of sound with the ability to connect with the listener’s body. Transforming our inner worlds into zones of suspension and levitation, Büchi exposes the listener to intoxicating slipstreams of sound. Prominent voices ascend, tectonic disturbances threaten the foundations, perception and sensation becomes subject to elemental countercurrents and inversions. ‘Matter’ illustrates the fraught pursuit of momentary equilibrium, and makes the fragility of euphoria tangible.

CREDITS:
Written and produced by Noémi Büchi
Mixed and Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer VFBM
Photography by Jean-Marc Avila
Photography / 3D reworked by Mirko Eremita Encor Studio
Graphic design by Alfio Mazzei

BIO:
Composer & sound artist Noémi Büchi creates electronic, symphonic maximalism. Her music is defined by delicate electronic-orchestral forms and textural rhythms. She strives for a combination of harmonic and dissonant sonorities, to evoke both intellectual and emotional euphoria. Büchi has appeared on the Light of Other Days and Visible Dinner labels, and is now an affiliate of -OUS, releasing ‘Hyle’ her debut EP on the label in spring 2022. As well as her solo output, Noémi Büchi is currently working with Feldermelder on their collaborative project Musique Infinie. Their debut album will also be released via -OUS in the near future.

Noémi Büchi - Matter - 3 -  Causes Of Forgetfulness

Noémi Büchi - Matter - 1 -   Elemental Fear

FURTHERSET - THE INFINITE HOUR
Cat #: OUS043
Release date: October 13, 2023
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«I feel a deep sense of loss listening to this music, but at the same time the possibility of going beyond it through sound. It doesn’t want to illustrate anything, but I would like it to be transformative, even of a feeling that sounds like death. It is an elegy.» — @furtherset

'The Infinite Hour' is a shattered elegy synthesized in electronics. Furtherset’s music does not explain, settle or justify, it rather simply manifests the grip of anguish. As a whole, the album’s six compositions resemble the labored breathing of one who mourns a disappearance and fears oblivion. A feeling like having one’s chest weightened by a stone, while still being attentive to one’s breath, and aware of what remains. From this dimension The Infinite Hour arises and transfigures loss into a space that is always extending: the hour is infinite, the melody is circular, and even stasis has its own measure that is exceeded into eternity.

The album was created between 2020 and 2022, in a slow process of writing and continuous refinement parallel to the previous EP, 'Auras'. The compositions found their final form during the mixing process carried out together with Bienoise. They were later named based on references to authors who influenced and are dear to Furtherset: Amelia Rosselli, Vladimir Chlebnikov, Hubert Damisch, Dante Alighieri. Each track, composed with its live rendition in mind, manifests itself to the listener as a possible variant of a path that is never definitive. Their live performance, an increasingly distinctive moment within Furtherset’s work, is a gesture of concentration and extension, where every composition is developed through meticulous variations of each singularity.

'The Infinite Hour' is one possible manifestation of an ever-changing musical landscape, a universe with unmistakable sounds but always on the verge of disintegrating, collapsing, and opening up spaces, times, infinities.

BIO
Furtherset is the musical project of artist and musician Tommaso Pandolfi (1995). His compositions’ distinctive traits are stratifications and recursive shifting modulations, synthetic clusters and sampling, alongside rhythmic and embracing harmonies. The project is envisaged as formal research that follows a path towards saturation and layering, but is always capable of generating voids in which the listener can take their place and fill them according to their own focus.

CREDITS
Written and produced by Tommaso Pandolfi
Mixed by Alberto Ricca (Bienoise)
Illustrations by Tommaso Pandolfi
Graphic design by Jahn Koutrios
Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer at vfbm Fribourg

This is OUS043

The Infinite Hour

New Clouds

Furtherset - The Infinite Hour - 5 - New Clouds

Circulata Melodia

Furtherset - The Infinite Hour - 1 - Circulata Melodia

https://soundcloud.com/feldermelder is a composer, musician and in!allation arti! that co-runs the record Label -OUS, and is part of ENCOR.STUDIO.
He's on a quest to create and find dense, intense, intricate and surprising music that contains a transformational attitude.
Besides that in play and create in the following formations.
Musique Infinie ( with https://soundcloud.com/noemibuchi ) 
Duo with https://soundcloud.com/jsartorius
Duo with https://soundcloud.com/bamanya-brian
Duo with Sara Oswald

"What was a crucial sound experience in your life?"
In simple terms, the discovery as a child that I could manipulate and record audio. The Basics.

About the mix:
"It’s an audio collage of things I’ve worked on, random recordings from my hard disc and inspiring music.
The Files list is in no particular order. But contains the names of all audio files used."
Check the full file list here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CoXVVveM3UX/

Links: 
https://feldermelder.bandcamp.com/music 
SC: https://soundcloud.com/feldermelder 
https://www.instagram.com/feldermelder/ 
https://www.feldermelder.ch/ 
https://ousooo.bandcamp.com/ 
https://www.encor.audio/

MNEMOSYNE #043 - FELDERMELDER

An exploration of music released through -OUS alongside other favourites from Swiss labels and musicians, curated and mixed by Ink!, and originally recorded for the platform www.deedeespicks.com to accompany an interview with Feldermelder and Ink!. @ink_ous @feldermelder

Read the interview here: https://www.deedeespicks.com/chats/-ous-manuel-oberholzer-and-nik-schaerer


Ink! - Swarms of Silence
mixed for Dee Dee's Picks in October 2022

01: SPIME.IM - Exaland VII - -OUS
02: Feldermelder - Wendy's Hollow Path - -OUS
03: Noémi Büchi - Le Souvenir d'une Ignorance Essentielle - self released
04: Jan Nemeček - Foreverness (Piano) - -OUS
05: Jan Nemeček - Saw (Beats) - -OUS
06: Colliding Fields - (circles of) perpetual becoming - Unvague
07: Furtherset - Coda - -OUS
08: Simon Grab & Francesco Giudici - I Leave - -OUS
09: Martina Lussi - Notre Dame Paris (15 April 2019) - ClubCulture
10: Fresco/Sommer - Glas- und Porzellanabteilung (Rundgang) - Gais
11: Sara Oswald & Feldermelder - Fishes In Histogram Waterfalls - -OUS
12: Levent - Pnotion - Daralan
13: Simon Grab - The New Kind - -OUS
14: Yao Bobby & Simon Grab - Tchaka Tchaka - LavaLava
15: Lumpex - Turm - Czarnagora
16: Bit-Tuner - Averof - -OUS
17: Sara Oswald & Feldermelder - Left Eye Distortions - -OUS
18: Svetlana Maraš - VI - self released
19: Yatoni - No Light Factory - Strecke
20: Gray Chalk - Senobi - Unvague
21: Colliding Fields - view from nowhere - Unvague
22: Feldermelder & Julian Sartorius - Friedhof - -OUS
23: Janiv Oron - Yellow Green - Light of Other Days
24: IOKOI - Effective Tension - -OUS
25: Noémi Büchi - Elemental Fear - -OUS
26: Tapiwa Svosve - Sleepwalker - Czarnagora
27: Feldermelder - Forever - FM Rework (Cat Power - Good Woman) - self released

Ink! - Swarms Of Silence (mixed For Dee Dee's Picks)

Julian Sartorius + ET|ET - RLLRLRLLRRLRLRLRLLRLRLR
Cat #: OUS046
Release date: Nov 10, 2023
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com
Watch a recording of a performance at Neubad Lucerne: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ4HRiNTQC4

«RLLRLRLLRRLRLRLRLLRLRLR» is both the title of this record and the score for the four percussionists of the ensemble ET|ET. ‘R’ stands for the right hand, ‘L’ for the left hand. Based on a concept by Julian Sartorius, the pattern is played continuously by the ensemble for the entire duration of the piece, during which Julian adapts the instrumentation used, creating prepared drums from assorted objects, substituting instruments, and even removing specific elements completely. This creates an ever-changing repetition.

CREDITS
Julian Sartorius - drum manipulations

Ensemble This | Ensemble That:
Brian Archinal: drums
Victor Barceló: drums
Miguel Ángel García Martín: drums
Bastian Pfefferli: drums

Composed by Julian Sartorius in collaboration with Ensemble This | Ensemble That

Recorded by Grégoire Pasquier at Studio de la Fonderie
Edited by Julian Sartorius
Mixed by Grégoire Pasquier and Julian Sartorius
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Mastering
Cut by Adi Flück at Centraldubs
Graphic design by Sarah Parsons

https.//www.ous.ooo

Julian Sartorius & ET|ET - RLLRLRLLRRLRLRLRLLRLRLR - 01 - L

SPIME.IM - Grey Line
Cat #: OUS049
Release date: September 8, 2023
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«Just as we are entangled in this systematic chaos, by refining our perception and exploring the subtle gradations that make up the grey, we may begin to understand the intricate variations of reality.» - SPIME.IM

Turin-based audiovisual collective SPIME.IM is thrilled to announce their highly anticipated album ‘Grey Line’. The release explores the intricate nuances of the grey scale within the contemporary landscape, encapsulating the complexities of human experiences and the choices we encounter in an interconnected society. 

With ‘Grey Line’, SPIME.IM continue to carve out their distinct place among contemporary music innovators, balancing between - and deconstructing - various club genres. Each track is intimately connected to a specific gradation of grey, creating a unique musical journey through the nuances of existence. The album also features two exceptional guests: Stina Fors and Lorem. Stina Fors contributes her captivating vocals to the opening track ‘Crystal’, adding a concealed human element to the mix. It is a genuine human voice that assumes the role of an artificial one. Lorem, in ‘Pure’, performs the exact opposite. He utilises trained AI models to incorporate hip hop screamo vocals, bringing a sleek and intense touch to the album, and blurring the boundaries between human and artificial voices. This unique fusion enhances the album’s experimental essence and pushes the boundaries of musical collaboration. SPIME.IM explain: «In an era filled with contradictions and uncertainties, we delve into the emotional landscape we find ourselves in — an interval between the decline of the old and the construction of the new». ‘Grey Line’ offers a pathway to escape the monotony and embrace the richness and diversity hidden within the greyscale, promising to be a thought-provoking and immersive musical experience that allows listeners to explore the nuances of diverse gradations of reality.

BIO
SPIME.IM is a forward-thinking artistic collective that explores the aesthetics of digital reality through transmedia music projects. With a fusion of cutting-edge technology, 3D art, and electronic music, they craft immersive audiovisual experiences that challenge our understanding of identity and corporeality. Their recent collaboration with acclaimed pianist and composer Lubomyr Melnyk and cellist Julia Kent on «The End Of The World» garnered critical acclaim, including a notable performance at the Barbican Centre in London. Additionally, they are set to perform at the renowned Mutek festival in Montreal this August, further solidifying their position in the forefront of the art and experimental music scene.


CREDITS
Written and produced by SPIME.IM
SPIME.IM are Davide Tomat, Gabriele Ottino, Matteo Marson and Marco Casolati.
Mixed and mastered by Maurizio Borgna
Cover design by Francesco Serasso

https://ous.ooo
OUS049

SPIME.IM - Grey Line - 08 - Hint

MUSIQUE INFINIE - I
Cat #: OUS044
Release date: December 8, 2023
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«This album unites our love for a musical essence built on harmonic structures and borderless emotionality.»  — Musique Infinie / @musiqueinfinie

Musique Infinie is a duo comprising Noémi Büchi and Feldermelder, a new collaborative project intertwining two distinct compositional approaches and merging them into a massive core. While Büchi combined her background in classical and electro-acoustic music with a bold approach to composition on her highly acclaimed debut album ‘Matter’ (-OUS, 2022), multi-disciplinary artist Feldermelder has been expanding his artistic practice into unexplored realms for over 20 years. Together, they engage in a challenging, concerted exploration of the elementary forces that unfold between them. 

Their debut album, titled ‘I’, is the product of hybridization, with compositions initially guided by simplicity, then radically expanded and transformed into intricate forms and extraordinary arrangements. The prospect of stylistic classification is transcended through eclecticism, in material that assimilates elements of classical music, jazz, folk and film music into the vocabulary of experimental electronic music. Representing an imposing, enveloping vortex of sound, the pieces that make up ‘I’ create a paradoxical world, both formidable and euphoric. Eschewing calculations and expectations, these works progress through ruptures and recurrence, displaying compositional richness through modes of music production that span analogue, acoustic, and orchestral idioms. In this, Musique Infinie reflect the density of our contemporary world, in all its violence, decadence and fragility, but also its power, its ingenuity and its beauty.

Composer and sound artist Noémi Büchi creates forms of electronic, symphonic maximalism. Her music is defined by a delicate synthesis of textural rhythms and electroacoustic-orchestral abstraction. She explores the potential of consonance and dissonance, contrasts rhythmic physicality with disruption, and playfully emphasizes irregularities, creating an expansive listening experience marked by detail and elevation.

Feldermelder is a polymathic creative whose artistry spans composition, sound design, installation and code. He is co-founder of -OUS Records and an active member of Encor.studio, a collective specialising in creating immersive audio-visual installations. Through his work, he explores the idea of secrecy and its impact on our lives, using music and sound to create a thought-provoking and immersive experience for his audience.


Written and produced by Manuel Oberholzer & Noémi Büchi
Mixed by Maurizio Borgna
Mastered by VFBM
Cover imgage by David Houncheringer
Graphic design by Fichtre & Musique Infinie
This is OUS044

@feldermelder
@noemibuchi

Musique Infinie - 5 - Broken Mind Circuit

NOÉMI BÜCHI - DOES IT STILL MATTER
Cat #: OUS050
Release date: May 24, 2024
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«The new avant-garde isn’t about creating something that doesn’t yet exist, it’s about abandoning and confusing rigid genres. I want to open up, in order to both abolish and reconstruct the musical past.» — Noémi Büchi @noemibuchi

Noémi Büchi’s album ‘Does It Still Matter’ completes a series of releases whose titles - ‘Matière’, ‘Matter’, and ‘Does It Still Matter’ - place the physicality of music in the center of attention. Büchi’s specific sound structures and aesthetic choices question the state of materiality in a world that is becoming more and more fluid and intangible.

From ‘Matière’ to ‘Matter’, Büchi subtly transferred from a focus on substance to questioning the enigmatic core of
being, passing from a noun to a verb, and from a single word to an inquiry. ‘Does It Still Matter’ weighs in on the importance of questioning. Her pieces juxtapose multi-layered analog synthesizer textures, crystal clear sounds and almost brutalistic noises, while they unfold in compositional structures akin to pop songs. Driven by an orchestra of myriad parts, her music creates transcendent intonations that resonate deeply with the listeners’ bodies. A daring blend of complexity and accessibility are molded into captivating sound sculptures that challenge and intrigue listeners alike.

Deviating from conventional time divisions, ’Does It Still Matter’ immerses listeners in a discordant succession of elements, and guides them towards an eternal present that erases the past with each new revelation, while maintaining it through recurring themes that serve as intimate memories. Büchi’s electronic maximalism questions our linear perception of time, offering a glimpse into a world where the past, present, and future converge into a singular moment. Her avant-garde approach rejects predictability, inviting listeners to immerse themselves fully in the present. Everything starts anew at any given instant. Each musical idea exists for one precise moment, rendering the future unpredictable.

‘Does It Still Matter’ unfolds against a backdrop of collective disaster and biocidal urgency, challenging the very essence of time. Büchi explains: «The world appears to have gone mad. It’s all but impossible to reflect on the meaning of avant-garde in music, considering the future in this sepulchral kind of stability of the human condition.» Her compositions resonate like an infernal machine, questioning the instantaneous dissipation of everything. Finally, echoes and fragments of sounds remain, haunting memories like ghostly companions.

’Does It Still Matter’ is an immersive experience that invites listeners to contemplate the impermanence of our world and the enduring power of sound.



CREDITS
Written and produced by Noémi Büchi 
Mixed & mastered by Manuel Oberholzer, Suoni Speziali (VFBM)
Album cover by Mirko Eremita, Encor Studio
Graphic design by Rebecca Morganti-Pfaffhauser

Does It Still Matter?

Window Display Of The Year

Noémi Büchi - 4 - Window Display Of The Year

LUDWIG BERGER - SPECIES LONELINESS
Cat #: OUS051
Release date: March 29, 2024
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«I wanted to revisit the sound worlds of 1970s eco-horror films, a time of growing fears about environmental consequences. Today, we no longer fear the revenge of frogs or insects; we are mourning their vanishing. My music channels the eerie, anticipatory dread of those films into a contemporary lament for what’s been lost and a search for what might still be restored.» — @ludwigberger

Leading up to his first ‘fictional’ album «Garden of Ediacara», which will be released on May 3rd via -OUS,  landscape sound artist Ludwig Berger presents the EP «Species Loneliness».

Building on an extensive and acclaimed body of work in sound art, field recordings, installation and performance, as well as music for film and theatre, the EP «Species Loneliness» and the subsequent  album «Garden of Ediacara» mark a shift in Berger’s creative work. But as he enters the realm of ‘fictional’ music by engaging with environmental emotions, he still relies on his far-reaching practice as a close listener and archivist of unheard sounds.

With «Species Loneliness», Berger explores a yearning for interspecies connection on a damaged planet. The six track EP presents a set of muted songs that are haunted by echoes of eco-horror and eco-gothic films of the past century, while interwoven raw field recordings create the space to breathe. The tracks center around the term of «Species Loneliness» — an ecological form of isolation and solitude. It expresses the feeling of homesickness while being at home, arising from the loss of natural habitats and the decline of biodiversity. Through layers of degraded samples, eco-nostalgia runs through the EP, longing for meaningful relationships obscured in the shadows of the Anthropocene.

Ludwig Berger is a landscape sound artist, educator and musician. In his compositions, installations and performances, he enables intimate and playful sonic encounters with plants, animals, buildings and geological entities. In his musical work, Berger produces sonic eco-fictions with processed and synthetic sounds.  He has composed sound and music for award-winning films and theatre pieces and curated the landscape sound festival ‘Sonic Topologies’ in Zurich. He is also founder and curator of the label Vertical Music, which releases field recordings and experimental music. 

Berger holds degrees in electroacoustic composition, as well as musicology, art history and literature. As a sound researcher and teacher at the Institute for Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich from 2015-2022, he studied the sonic dimension of Japanese gardens, alpine glaciers and urban landscapes, which among other things led to the release of the acclaimed album trilogy ‘Melting Landscapes’, ‘Dammed Landscapes’ and ‘Buried Landscapes’.

CREDITS
Written and produced by Ludwig Berger 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Album cover by Paulin Rogues

Species Loneliness

Cocoon Death

Ludwig Berger - Species Loneliness - 5 - Cocoon Death

Sea of Decay

Ludwig Berger - Species Loneliness - 1 - Sea Of Decay

NHK yx KOYXEN - PARALLEL TEMPO EP
12" vinyl +digital download on -OUS;
Release Date: February 23rd, 2018
order: ousooo.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-tempo-ep

SPIRITOUS, SPINOUS, THUNDEROUS

NHK yx Koyxen walks at any speed and on any surface he desires to trance-scend. His “Parallel Tempo EP” takes a mindful plunge into layers of rigorously murmuring gestures. Speed is relative to size. As they are streched and bent, the planes engage in parallel movement. This is an exploded drawing, unlocked from time.

The Japanese artist and producer NHK yx Koyxen has been unveiling his unique vocabulary through a continuous stream of sound for many years. Performing on electronic music’s timeless DNA, he offers those who step in a resonating space, in which loose objects are bound to embrace each other.

TRACKLIST:
A1 - Parallel Displacement 9:19
A2 - Blue and Purple Horses 4:20
B1 - M 5:01
B2 - Strange Gesture 6:58
B3 - Universal Gesture 3:44

Written and produced by Kohei Matsunaga @nhk_koyxen
Mastered by Matt Colton @ Alchemy
Cover illustration by Kohei Matsunaga / koheimatsunaga.site/
Graphic arts by Mathias Forbach / fichtre.ch

CONTACT:
know@ous.ooo

Parallel Tempo EP

NHK yx Koyxen - M

NHK yx KOYXEN - PARALLEL TEMPO EP
12" vinyl +digital download on -OUS;
Release Date: February 23rd, 2018
order: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-tempo-ep

SPIRITOUS, SPINOUS, THUNDEROUS

NHK yx Koyxen walks at any speed and on any surface he desires to trance-scend. His “Parallel Tempo EP” takes a mindful plunge into layers of rigorously murmuring gestures. Speed is relative to size. As they are streched and bent, the planes engage in parallel movement. This is an exploded drawing, unlocked from time.

The Japanese artist and producer NHK yx Koyxen has been unveiling his unique vocabulary through a continuous stream of sound for many years. Performing on electronic music’s timeless DNA, he offers those who step in a resonating space, in which loose objects are bound to embrace each other.

TRACKLIST:
A1 - Parallel Displacement 9:19
A2 - Blue and Purple Horses 4:20
B1 - M 5:01
B2 - Strange Gesture 6:58
B3 - Universal Gesture 3:44

Written and produced by Kohei Matsunaga @nhk_koyxen
Mastered by Matt Colton @ Alchemy
Cover illustration by Kohei Matsunaga / http://koheimatsunaga.site/
Graphic arts by Mathias Forbach / http://fichtre.ch

CONTACT:
know@ous.ooo

NHK yx Koyxen - Blue and Purple Horses

NHK yx KOYXEN - PARALLEL TEMPO EP
PRIVATE PLAYLIST — 12" vinyl +digital forthcoming on -OUS;
Release Date: February 23rd, 2018
order: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-tempo-ep

SPIRITOUS, SPINOUS, THUNDEROUS

NHK yx Koyxen walks at any speed and on any surface he desires to trance-scend. His “Parallel Tempo EP” takes a mindful plunge into layers of rigorously murmuring gestures. Speed is relative to size. As they are streched and bent, the planes engage in parallel movement. This is an exploded drawing, unlocked from time.

The Japanese artist and producer NHK yx Koyxen has been unveiling his unique vocabulary through a continuous stream of sound for many years. Performing on electronic music’s timeless DNA, he offers those who step in a resonating space, in which loose objects are bound to embrace each other.

TRACKLIST:
A1 - Parallel Displacement 9:19
A2 - Blue and Purple Horses 4:20
B1 - M 5:01
B2 - Strange Gesture 6:58
B3 - Universal Gesture 3:44

Written and produced by Kohei Matsunaga
Mastered by Matt Colton @ Alchemy
Cover illustration by Kohei Matsunaga / http://koheimatsunaga.site/
Graphic arts by Mathias Forbach / http://fichtre.ch

CONTACT:
know@ous.ooo

Universal Gesture

NHK yx Koyxen - Universal Gesture

Furtherset - To Alter and Affect EP
OUS013 — Tape + Digital

CERNUOUS — EUPHONIOUS — VOLUMINOUS 

Furtherset builds monuments that are both solid as stone and ethereal spheres alike. Stacked harmonic figures form voluminous bodies that flow continuously from above. As melodic cascades of synths and sampled voices spill over their boundaries they reveal shifting symmetries, while sonic objects are slung from the stream, float in space and melt into their their shadows below. 

Furtherset's music and live performances are an open invitation to immerse oneself into weightless states of mind. As a representative of the “Italian New Wave”, his approach to musical aesthetics is both demanding and pleasing: the depth and beauty unveil themselves only to those who listen closely. Furtherset was a participant of the 2015 Red Bull Music Academy in Paris and has played some of Italy's most renowned festivals. 

Tracklist: 
A1 This Eternal Vanishing
A2 The Arc of Imaginary
A3 Self Unfinished
B1 To Alter and Affect
B2 Ask Your Existential Core
B3 Drawings of Desire and Hate


Credits:
All tracks written + produced by Tommaso Pandolfi
Mixed by Peppe Petrelli 
Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer
Illustration by Tommaso Pandolfi
Graphic design by Fichtre.ch
www.ous.ooo

To Alter and Affect EP

Furtherset - Drawings Of Desire And Hate

-OUS Podcast  No.1: MM (aka @iokoi ) / Anna Homler & Alessio Capovilla @annahomler / @xiiisc

-OUS launches a new podcast series focussing on excerpts of live recordings and extended versions of works we hold dear.

The first part of this first podcast presents our very own IOKOI transforming - imperfect, impermanent, incomplete; MM is an unfiltered version of her artistic and mostly improvised live explorations. IOKOI will be releasing some new music soon on -OUS.

The second part gives space to an exceptional performance by American experimental vocalist Anna Homler and Gang of Ducks founder Alessio Capovilla, recorded at Superbudda Torino during our event NODO.
As the encounter progresses, the two artists develop an intimate and sensuous athmosphere. A truly mesmerising eery tale, woven into minimalistic soundscapes, told in a long forgotten language.

TRACKLIST
MM — 07:43
Anna Homler & Alessio Capovilla — 21:15

CREDITS
Both performances mixed and mastered by Manuel Oberholzer
Cover by Sarah Parsons

More on -OUS: http://www.ous.ooo

-OUS Podcast No.1

-OUS Podcast No.1: MM / Anna Homler & Alessio Capovilla

SPIME.IM — Exaland VI 
from «SPIME.IM - Exaland» album
 
Cat#: OUS019
Release: May 24, 2019
Format: vinyl LP + digital

Temporary linearity in a lysergic world.

Imagination and reality, science and humanity: SPIME.IM weave their audiovisual tales from the ethereal textures that shape our worlds.
Their album «Exaland» synthesizes reality by combining human expression with technological potentialities in an infinitely changeable virtual world. The seven tracks are defined by razor-like sounds, crystal textures and digital overload, captured in those weightless seconds on a parabolic flight. Just as SPIME.IM’s live performances, this album is a temporarily linear journey through a narrative space shaped by psychedelic landscapes, synthetic colors, mutating objects and transient life-forms.

Bruce Sterling’s «spime» describes the possibility of tracing an object through space and time for the duration of its existence. By juxtaposing his concept with «I am», SPIME.IM are the being that is intertwined between the artificial and the natural.
Affirming digital reality, the Turin-based media art collective SPIME.IM explores the boundaries and possibilities of identity and perception in a world where virtual doppelgängers take on an all-encompassing position.

CREDITS
Written and produced by SPIME.IM @ Superbudda, Turin
All tracks composed by Davide Tomat and Gabriele Ottino, except for Exaland VII: composed by Davide Tomat, Gabriele Ottino and Gup Alcaro
Mixed by Maurizio Borgna @ No Nome Studio, Turin
Mastered by Matt Colton @ Alchemy Mastering, London
Cut by Adi Flück @ Centraldubs, Bern
Artwork by SPIME.IM
Graphic design by Mathias Forbach / fichtre.ch

TRACKLIST
1 - Exaland V - 03:55
2- Exaland VI - 03:54
3 - Exaland I - 02:58
4 - Exaland XII - 02:38
5 - Exaland XI - 04:43
6 - Exaland II - 03:52
7 - Exaland VII - 04:47


https://spimeim.bandcamp.com/album/exaland
@ous_ooo
@spimeim

Exaland

Exaland VI

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SPIME.IM - Exaland VI

Exaland VII

SPIME.IM - Exaland VII

SPIME.IM - ZERO
Download on Bandcamp: https://spimeim.bandcamp.com/album/zero

Cat #: OUS028
Release: June 19, 2020
Format: digital

«There is no way to shorten the present, this big suspension, and now we are forced to face it. We are living in ZERO time, and by definition it does not have a known duration.» - SPIME.IM

Turin-based media art collective SPIME.IM set out the corner points of where they are travelling: from 2050-style breathless machine funk and crumbling glitches, over hyper-charged synthesizers and fluorescent hardcore, to vast and forceful ambient: SPIME.IM’s leaping sound is crystal clear, balancinig human-scale harmonies with digital artefacts.

ZERO is both SPIME.IM’s starting point, and an extrapolation of their razor-sharp debut EXALAND: «When you start looking at something from the end you sometimes find yourself back at the beginning. Zero is at the beginning of Exaland, and it’s the beginning of the world we will create from now on».

By juxtaposing Bruce Sterling’s «spime» concept with «I am», SPIME.IM are the being that is intertwined between the artificial and the natural. Their works are human-machine interactions in sound, moving image and generative graphics. zIn their current audiovisual 360° live show «EXALAND», SPIME.IM interweave sound and image by letting sound parameters influence what manifest on-screen, and treating the camera perspective as an instrument. They have performed at festivals like L.E.V. (Madrid), Club to Club (Turin), Rhizom (Zurich) and Spring Attitude (Rome), among others.


A content by SPIME.IM
Performed and composed by Davide Tomat and Gabriele Ottino
Produced by Davide Tomat @ Superbudda, Turin.
Mixed by Maurizio Borgna @ No Nome Studio, Turin
Mastered by Matt Colton @ Alchemy Mastering, London
Cover image by Matteo Marson
Project Manager Marco Casolati

This is OUS028

Buy + Download

SPIME.IM - ZERO4 - OUS028

-OUS Podcast No.2: Bit-Tuner / Furtherset
@bit-tuner / @furtherset

The -OUS podcast series combines excerpts of live recordings by -OUS artists, as well as guests we've been lucky to invite to perform at our shows. Podcast No.1 featured MM (aka IOKOI), and Anna Homler & Alessio Capovilla. Podcast No.2 combines an excerpt of Bit-Tuner's «Arabian Nights» live performance in Gozo/Malta with Furtherset's extended rework of «Ask Your Existential Core». 

Bit-Tuner's «Arabian Nights» project is based on field recordings from Cairo, as well as samples from tapes bought at local markets and music produced in Egypt's megacity during a residency. The recording presented here was made at «Dorothea.space» - am art space in Gozo/Malta - at a performance night where -OUS artists performed alongside local artists. A live version of «Arabian Nights» was released on tape and digitally via -OUS.

The 2nd part of the podcast presents an extended rework of Furtherset's track «Ask Your Existential Core», originally released on tape and digitally as part of his EP «To Alter and Affect». This extended version was recorded during a residency in Assisi for the Universo Assisi Festival (curated by Joseph Grima). It was performed at the top of Monte Subasio, which lies at the bottom of Mortaro Grande.


TRACKLIST
Part 1: Bit-Tuner — 24:55
Part 2: Furtherset — 19:21

CREDITS
Both performances mixed and mastered by Manuel Oberholzer
Cover by Sarah Parsons

Bit-Tuner: https://bit-tuner.bandcamp.com/album/arabian-nights
Furtherset: https://furtherset.bandcamp.com/album/to-alter-and-affect

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-OUS Podcast No.2: Bit-Tuner / Furtherset

𝘍𝘞𝘋 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤. 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥, 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴, 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳, 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴. 𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘺𝘭, 𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘴 + 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭. 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 🖤 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴.
 To date, -OUS has released music by @noemibuchi (Zurich, CH) @SPIMEIM (Turin, IT), @Feldermelder (Fribourg, CH), @jsartorius (Bern, CH), @Bit-Tuner (Zurich, CH), @Furtherset (Bologna, IT), @jan-nemecek (Belgrade, SR), NHK yx Koyxen (Berlin/Osaka, JP), @senkingmusic (Cologne, DE), Hirsch&Eigner (Cologne, DE /Vienna, AT), @IOKOI (Zurich/Milano, IT), @simongrab (Zurich, CH) and @Tresque (Geneva, CH).

-OUS was founded in 2015 by @ink_ous, @mprfctmprmnntncmplt, Feldermelder and JJ. The label is run out of Switzerland. All releases are distributed through Kudos and are als available via http://ousooo.bandcamp.com

Distributed by Kudos: https://ous.kudosrecords.co.uk/

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