c'è in giro da tempo una nuova 'musica assoluta', astratta, che sta fra la cosiddetta 'ambient music' e la 'drone music', nei pressi dei cosiddetti 'soundscape' o, meglio ancora, degli 'innerscape' .. a volte ha tratti più 'cameristici', o addirittura per strumento solista, a volte è più 'sinfonica' .. a volte usa solo sonorità 'sintetiche', a volte invece anche strumenti 'tradizionali' .. ha antecedenti illustri, sia nella cosiddetta musica 'classica', diciamo storica, sia nella 'popular music' e nel jazz .. a quella soprattutto io guardo

https://www.facebook.com/notes/marco-lucchi/musica-assoluta/10155811583217624/

this monthly selection is dedicated to Don Cherry

"musica assoluta" (dicembre 2020)

the tracks I made (or which I was involved in) during December

(2020) December works

Ambient goodness

Geopolitics

the tracks I made (or which I was involved in) during 2020

(2020) works

Artist: Anechoic
Original Work: Martyn Päsch
Title: Path Transitions

Format: CD / Digital
Release Date - 8 June 2021
Catalogue: DRSS187
Artwork: Natalia Volkova
Mastering: Juta

Buy on Bandcamp - shorturl.at/nosF6

All CD orders include two Diffuse Reality stickers and digital downloads of the full release.
www.diffusereality.net

Transitions

Martyn Pasch - Path Transitions [Anechoic Remix] | DRSS187

About:
monoscene is an experimental electronic music project by Christoph Scholtes that uses a variety of artistic concepts and sound sources including modular synthesis, tape loops, acoustic elements, and field recordings to push creative boundaries of the electronic music genre. In addition to focusing on live performance and improvisation, monoscene explores production and composition techniques to realize an artistic vision and aesthetic that is deeply rooted in Ambient music. Born and raised in Germany, Christoph now lives in Colorado. He is inspired by the mountains and the local synth community.

Links:
https://monoscene.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/monoscenes/
https://soundcloud.com/monoscene
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjm6UpsYC0Uh9ECU4Cbd_OA

Data Cult Audio 0213 - Monoscene

Today we continue a series of discussions about the basics of Marxism — a method for understanding and changing the world used by many of the great revolutionaries of modern history. Brian and Prof. Wolff discuss rent, evictions and social programs under capitalism. With the CDC’s eviction moratorium set to expire, millions are now facing homelessness because they cannot pay rent. And why do governments controlled by the ultra-rich sometimes decide to institute measures that alleviate the suffering of workers?

Richard Wolff is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work and the author of many books, the latest being “The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself”. You can check out his work at rdwolff.com.

Please make an urgently-needed contribution to The Socialist Program by joining our Patreon community at patreon.com/thesocialistprogram. We rely on the generous support of our listeners to keep bringing you consistent, high-quality shows. All Patreon donors of $5 a month or more are invited to join the monthly Q&A seminar with Brian.

As Millions face a wave of evictions: Marx’s Theory of Rent

A very long mix and the best one out of 5 i made based around words from a swedish meteorologist (Martin Hedberg) who has written a book called “extreme weather”. He is talking about a 1,5 degrees celsius warmer global climate compared to the ice age when the temperature was 3 degrees colder. 25 minutes of a synth odyssey here. I don’t have permission to use these samples so may have to remove it or ask for permission eventually. This track is 25 minutes exactly and is an unmastered wav. file so sorry if you can’t stream this. May upload a smaller mp3 later:)

1,5 C (Ambient Mix)

On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss the war in Ukraine, which continues to rage as the world is engulfed in a crisis that has the potential to reconfigure global politics in fundamental ways. What consequences has the war brought about so far? Which side is winning? How can peace truly be established? The panel discusses these questions as well the consequences of climate change, the far right and COVID, and more.

Please make an urgently-needed contribution to The Socialist Program by joining our Patreon community at patreon.com/thesocialistprogram. We rely on the generous support of our listeners to keep bringing you consistent, high-quality shows. All Patreon donors of $5 a month or more are invited to join the monthly Q&A seminar with Brian.

War Intensifies as Russia-Ukraine Negotiations Open

7 - Conformist - Art Colony (Odonis Odonis Remix)

Marco Lucchi : tape and treatments

morphing the wonderful and emotional finale of "Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem" by Arvo Part

2011 ---> 2020

the complete album
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/album/secundum-joannem

bandcamp

secundum Joannem

Marco Lucchi : synth, tape and treatments

4 gennaio 2020

here too
https://meticulousmidgets.bandcamp.com/track/the-call-of-the-chthonic

The Call of the Chthonic

Marco Lucchi : tape and treatments

'morphing' "Dauggier" and "Quarro" by Boson Spin
https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/dauggier
https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/quarro

7 gennaio 2020

I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim,
Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

H. P. Lovecraft, Nemesis

Spinning bosons

Bandcamp

Boson Spin & Marco Lucchi - Spinning bosons

Zuhé : keyboards, synth and electronics

reworking "So old" by Marco Lucchi
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/track/so-old

gennaio 2020

Marco Lucchi & Zuhé - So Old

Marco Lucchi : electric organ, analog synth and Mellotron

for Naviar Haiku
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/190146715083/naviarhaiku314-buoyantly-we-go

13 gennaio 2020

Hyo-hyo to shite mizu wo ajiwau

Taneda Santoka 

Buoyantly we go / Like the wind, / Tasting water. (Tr. by R. H. Blyth)

Marco Lucchi - Hyo Hyo (Naviar Haiku # 314)

up track

Vanessa Pettendorfer: organ -
Bruno Gussoni: shakuhachi -
Mastering: Alexey Mikryukov

Vanessa Pettendorfer & Bruno Gussoni -  neiger à gros flocons

Bongore

Marco Lucchi : toy harp and Juno synthesizer

1 dicembre 2020

***

Our share of night to bear -
Our share of morning -
Our blank in bliss to fill,
Our blank in scorning -

Here a star, and there a star,
Some lose their way!
Here a mist - and there a mist -
Afterwards - Day!

Emily Dickinson

toy harp n°20 (+ Juno koto)

a rework from Pete Swinton of a track previously released by Marco Lucchi and M.Nomized

for "piano patterns" vol. 2, a project by Marco Lucchi
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/sets/piano-patterns-vol-2

dicembre 2020

Marco Lucchi, M.Nomized & Pete Swinton - n°12

Marco Lucchi : piano

2 dicembre 2020

***



It is necessary now that I should tell what manner of man I am. My name, it matters not, nor any other outward detail particular to me. Of my character aught must be said.

The whole constitution of my spirit is one of hesitancy and of doubt. Nothing is or can be positive to me; all things oscillate round me, and I with them, an uncertainty unto myself. All for me is incoherence and change. All is mystery and all is meaning. All things are «unknown» symbolic of the Unknown. Consequently horror, mystery, over-intelligent fear.

By my own natural tendencies, by the surroundings of my earliest life, by the influence of studies undertaken under the impulse of them (these very tendencies), by all this I am of the internal species of character, self-centred, mute, not self-sufficing but self-lost. All my life has been one of passiveness and of dream. All my character consists in the hatred, in the horror of, in the incapacity pervading all that is me, physically and mentally, for decisive acts, for definite thoughts. I had never a resolution born of a self-command, never an external betraying of a conscious will. My writings were none of them finished; new thoughts intruded ever, extraordinary, inexcludable associations of ideas bearing infinity for term. I cannot prevent my thought's hatred of finish; about a single thing ten thousand thoughts, and tenthousand inter-associations of these ten thousand thoughts arise, and I have no will to eliminate or to arrest these, nor to gather them into one central thought, where their unimportant but associated details may be lost. They pass in me;

they are not my thoughts, but thoughts that pass through me. I do not ponder, I dream; I am not inspired, I rave. I can paint, but I have never painted; I can compose music, but I have never composed. Strange conceptions in three arts, lovely strokes of imagining caress my brain; but I let them slumber there till they die, for I have not power to give them their body, to make them things of the world outside.

My character of mind is such that I hate the beginnings and the ends of things, for they are definite points. The idea of a solution being found for problems the highest, the noblest, of science, of philosophy, afflicts me; that aught might be determined of God or of the world horrorizes me. That things of most moment should be accomplished, that men should one day all be happy, that a solution might be found to the ills of society, even in its conception maddens me. Yet I am not evil nor cruel; I am mad and that as it is difficult to conceive.

Though I have been a reader voracious and ardent, yet I remember no book that I have read, so far were my reading states of my own mind, dreams of my own, nay, provocations of dreams. My very memory of events, of external things is vague, more than incoherent. I shudder to think how little I have in mind of what my past life has been. I, the man who holds that today is a dream, am less than a thing of today.

Fernando Pessoa (originally written in English)

piano patterns n°14

a rework from M.Nomized of "piano patterns n°13" by Marco Lucchi

for "piano patterns" vol. 2, a project by Marco Lucchi
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/sets/piano-patterns-vol-2

dicembre 2020

Marco Lucchi - piano patterns n°13 (minimal phase 13) - reworked by M.Nomized

a rework from Mean Flow of "piano patterns n°13" by Marco Lucchi

for "piano patterns" vol. 2, a project by Marco Lucchi
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/sets/piano-patterns-vol-2

dicembre 2020

Marco Lucchi & Mean Flow - Butterfly Dance (piano patterns n°13)

This is a rework of Marco's track "piano patterns n°9"

https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/piano-patterns-n9?in=marcolucchi/sets/piano-patterns-vol-2

Marco Lucchi and David Smith (Piano Patterns n°9)

Another chapter in my ongoing series of studio ambient mixes (not recorded live, produced over at least a month). This one is extra special for me as the title alludes to the fact that 2021 means I have been working in sound design for a decade. To help celebrate, I designed this new psychedelic journey, and layered it with field recordings from my collection of SFX I have captured going all the way back to my first upload folder from summer 2011. 

The track selection plays out like an anthology of some of the most talented ambient/sound design producers, blending eras and approaches ranging from pillars such as Biosphere, Stars of the Lid, and William Basinski - alongside emerging producers like Green-House and Zeze Wakamatsu. Molding everything together is a constantly shifting foundation of found sounds. The listener begins literally floating downstream as one subtle aquatic effect dissolves into another for the opening fifteen minutes. I also included many of my favorite audio finds including air traffic controllers, vintage game shows, NASA communications, nature documentaries, and religious A.M. radio hosts to list a few.

As a special bonus and thank you: I am pledging a $5 donation for every 350 plays of this mix* to Coalition for the Homeless (based in NYC)(*for the first 10,000 plays).
UPDATE: As of 08.26 $107 has been donated to cover the first 7,500 plays


Headphones highly recommended for this immersive mix. There are links below to support all of the included artists. Thanks for a decade of chilling out with me.

Tracklisting:

1. Intro / Floating down the River  00:00 - 16:30

-R.J. Stefanski "Small Stream near the Boathouse"
-Boards of Canada "Sundown"  00:20
-A.M. Radio snippet (lots of these captured by myself and hidden in mix)
-Zeze Wakamatsu "Concert in a Tortoiseshell"  03:20
-Cholosus "Lexicon Drive" 07:45
-Segue "Aurora"  11:40
-R.J. Stefanski "Powerful Atlantic Surf"

2. Floating in Space   16:31 - 39:00

-Markus Guentner "Keep Your Eyes Closed"  16:31
-audio snippet from "What's My Line" gameshow (circa 1950)
-The Orb "Moonbuilding 2703 A.D."(Wolfgang Voigt Mix) 20:45
-Sun Electric "An Atom of All Suns" 25:00
-R.J. Stefanski "Night River"
-Biosphere "Insolate" 28:45
-R.J. Stefanski "The Birds of Turtle Pond"
-Stars of the Lid "The Better Angels of our Nation" 33:00
-Loscil "Erit" 35:30
-R.J. Stefanski "Cars Passing in the Night"

3. Floating in a Dream / Outro 39:01 - 57:46

-Windy and Carl "Lighthouse" 39:30
-Aphex Twin "Cliffs" 39:30
-Green-House "Parlor Palm" 42:00
-Skee Mask "Dolby" 46:45
-R.J. Stefanski "Subway to Manhattan"
-William Basinski "O, My Daughter, O My Sorrow" 50:40
-R.J. Stefanski "unreleased rain recording 2011"
-Casino Versus Japan "Tropic" 54:30
-R.J. Stefanski "Wind Chime in south west Detroit"

Support artists:

Boards of Canada
https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/

Zeze Wakamatsu
https://zezewakamatsu.bandcamp.com/

Cholosus
https://cholosus.bandcamp.com/

Segue
https://www.segueambient.com/

Markus Guentner
https://markus-guentner.bandcamp.com/

The Orb / Wolfgang Voigt
https://theorb.bandcamp.com/album/moonbuilding-2703-ad-remixes-sin-in-space-pt-1

Sun Electric
https://sunelectric.bandcamp.com/

Biosphere
https://biosphere.bandcamp.com/

Stars of the Lid
https://starsofthelid.bandcamp.com/

Loscil
https://loscil.bandcamp.com/

Windy and Carl
https://windyandcarl.bandcamp.com/

Aphex Twin
https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/

Green-House
https://green-house.bandcamp.com/album/six-songs-for-invisible-gardens

Skee Mask
https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/itlp04-skee-mask-compro

William Basinski
https://williambasinski.bandcamp.com/

Casino Vs Japan
https://casinoversusjapan.bandcamp.com/

R.J. Stefanski
https://rjstefanski.bandcamp.com/

Ten Years Adrift [Studio Mix of Ambient, Experimental, Soundscape & Field Recordings]

This piece was composed to accompany the photo series Night Symphony by photographer Penelope Thomaidi. The series is set in the 19th district of Paris, one of the city's most densely populated areas. This piece uses field recordings from this area and it was meant to be played in a continuous loop.

Check out the photographic work here (and keep the track playing):
https://www.penelopethomaidi.com/night-symphony

Night Symphony

Titled in appreciation of the neat sounding "squeaky gate" call of blue jays. 

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, Gold Tone tenor guitar, tambourine, organ effect on iPad, triangle

The Squeaky Gate

I started creating music on my old PC back in 2002 using DAWs such as Buzz, Fl Studio and Reason. As my artist name suggest I mostly compose tunes that have an ambient edge. My main passion is creating soundscapes, be they soft drifting drones/piano pieces/heavily synth driven, weirdly abstract and classical and orchestral pieces. I mainly compose using apps on my IPad but also make use of whatever instruments I have lying around such as my Pocket Operators, Modal Craftsynth, my favourite is an Early Learning Centre keyboard.

In the past my tracks have been played in BBC Radio Oxford and BBC 6 Music. Over the years I have collaborated with people from all over the world. Please message me if you would like to collaborate 😀

Marco Lucchi and David Smith (Piano Patterns n°9)

TheOxfordAmbientCollective