𝓇𝑒𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓈𝑒𝓈

• 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗣𝗗𝗙 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗹𝗲𝘁 • 

For its third release, forms of minutiae presents ‘possible moistures’ a non-profit compilation of field recordings and soundscape compositions derived from various aqueous environments and their autochthons. 

This gathering is made of 16 sonic encounters collected by field recordists and sound artists across the world. Artists were invited to submit sounds from marine and aquatic-related events, phenomena, geologies, fauna, flora, geographies, and technologies. From the thawing acoustics of Icelandic and Antarctic glaciers to the non-human voices of Australian wetlands, while meeting sea and river dwellers, the listeners embark on a sonic journey across the globe’s possible moistures. 

All proceeds from this release will be donated to the organisation Atelier Bleu - Centre Permanent d'Initiatives pour l'Environnement de la Côte Provençale to support them in their aim to conserve and protect Posidonia Oceanica seagrass species and to accompany ecological transitions on the Mediterranean coastal lands of the Côte Provençale (France) by encouraging eco-responsible behaviour through education, training and awareness actions. They especially work closely with the region’s youth to raise their environmental awareness by offering workshops and activities to discover the maritime and terrestrial environments: underwater snorkelling trails, guided walks, etc. 

This compilation has been made available to the Atelier Bleu as a resource which they can present to the children as part of their educational workshops. 

> more visual and textual info about each contribution available in the PDF or by clicking on them above. 

> Atelier Bleu: www.cpie-coteprovencale.org  

PDF → texts and pictures by each artist - unless mentioned otherwise
cover picture by stéphane marin 
curated by mathieu bonnafous and pablo diserens 
forms of minutiae — fom03 — 2021

pdf & digital

pablo diserens — tidal dwellers

Published on @audiovisualsatmosphere [cassette / digital - 2022]

Originally conceived and shown as a sound installation, "dusk — dawn" invites the audience to listen to a city from dusk to dawn by embodying a figure who wanders from one acoustic encounter to another. What happens to the urban soundscape once its human population is asleep? Putting the emphasis on the little heard sounds of a city, this field recording composition allows listeners to dive in buildings’ drafts, bats’ calls, empty train stations’ ultrasounds, singing escalators, talking swans, humming electrical junction boxes, and
birds’ dawn choruses. Documentary at times, surreal at others, the piece proposes an electroacoustic excursion by mixing and processing a set of sounds recorded at night in the city of Berlin during the lockdown and curfew period of spring 2021.

Recorded and composed by Pablo Diserens
in Berlin, Germany — June 2021

Recorded with Sound Devices MixPre-6 II, Sony PCM-D100, LOM's Usi Pro, and LOM's Geofón

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval

Pablo Diserens – dusk — dawn [AVA99]

forms of minutiae presents 'live at kwia’, a fragment of a recorded electroacoustic performance by field recordist and artist @pablodiserens

→ f-o-m.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-kwia

Amid winter, on one of the last nights of 2021, a group of people gather in the welcoming womb of a listening bar. Bordered by tiled walls and embraced by a simulated fog, cradled listeners soon forgo outer fluctuations. From a distance, dogs’ barks and bats’ calls reverberate into the space, Pablo Diserens’ concert has begun. What unfolds next is a weaving of biophonic field recordings with hums of blown and stroke glass bottles. The emerging electroacoustic ecoscape oscillates between animal stridulations and Helmholtz resonances. Wavering wind pulses and mirroring clangs intertwine with ultrasonic drones bringing the audience into oneiric realms. Ants, grasshoppers, and crickets infuse the room with vespertine warmth. Windows ooze with condensation. Winter seems far, as if morphed into a balmy summer night. A new landscape materializes, birthed by the set of frequencies at play. Buccal air gently throbs in and out of the glass vessels in glistening gestures. Pablo blows into their empty bottles one last time before handing the stage to a sizzling underwater mixture of rain drops and insectean accents. 

The recorded fragment stops here, yet, that night, the formed sonic window into this temporary landscape pursued its course. The auditory encounters that followed now only exist in the hazy memories of wintertide listeners. 

~ 

Pablo Diserens (they/she) is a field recordist, musician and artist devoted to non-human realities, attentive listening, and possible forms of interspecies coexistence. In solidarity with a wounded planet, their practice invites people to attune to the present moment in an attempt at rethinking caring strategies and our relationship with the world and its biotic communities. → www.pablodiserens.studio 

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performed live by pablo diserens for 'weich', a queer ambient event series at kwia (berlin) in december 2021. 

photograph and design by pablo diserens 
mastered by mathieu bonnafous 
duration — 34'22'' 
tape production by tapedub (berlin) 
performing photograph by Elisa Cucinelli 
published by forms of minutiae — fom04 — 2022

cassette & digital

pablo diserens — live at kwia [fom04]

CS/DL : f-o-m.bandcamp.com/album/upstream-ensemble

@forms-of-minutiae and TBA21–Academy present "upstream ensemble", a communal happening and aqueous sound piece initiated and composed by field recordist, artist, and f–o–m co-founder Pablo Diserens (@pablodiserens)

During the 2022/23 digital residency hosted by TBA21–Academy’s Ocean-Archive.org, Pablo Diserens launched an open call inviting members of its online platform ocean comm/uni/ty (and external enthusiasts) to venture into the world and record aqueous sonic encounters. The aim of this collective liquid attuning was to gather sound recordings from various wet ecologies while stimulating listening and field recording gestures regardless of any previous experience.

Recordings from 35 contributors were woven into the long-form sound composition "upstream ensemble" which navigates between the multiplicity of the water cycle as a sounding body. The work moves upstream through oceans, rivers, pipe networks, ponds, and glaciers while investigating the continuous flow of water and the environments that surround it. Listeners encounter drifting habitats trickling with the songs of sea lions, dolphins, blue whales, humpback whales, Arctic terns, and algae photosynthesis – as well as with the invasive hums of submarines’ sonars, boats, and naval industries. With "upstream ensemble" some of the world’s aqueous fauna, flora, geologies, and technologies mingle into a synchronized motion that documents the sonic articulations of these wet zones.

In resonance with Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening practice and inspired by Rachel Carson’s exploration of the intertidal zone in her book "The Edge of the Sea", this project contributes to an ever-expanding list of works that propose a focus on listening as a way of engaging and existing with the planet’s waters. By stimulating shared listening and attuning practices, Pablo Diserens aims to develop a sense of interconnectedness by blurring the boundaries between species as well as environments. Experiencing aqueous biomes both individually and collectively acts as a way of rethinking our relationships with the world. Despite these being mostly solitary experiences, Pablo believes that field recording and listening are communal and environmental practices that form gateways for earthly synchronicity and world mapping in time and space. Thus listening in turn can become a political act that sparks emotional bonds with the world and its biotic communities.

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concept: Pablo Diserens and Fiona Middleton (TBA21–Academy)

composition and mixing: Pablo Diserens

with sound contributions by: Alëna Korolëva, Alexandros Maragkoudakis, Bence Kovács-Vajda, Christopher Dean, Cyane Findji, Damian Pace, Elise Rigot, Eliza Collin, Fiona Middleton, Francesco Previtali, Ilù Seydoux, Irene Mansoldo, Isabel Val, Jakob Köchert, Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy, Joana Moher, Katy Lewis Hood, Kosmas Phan Dinh, Kseniya Lushnikova, Leo Maassen, Ludwig Berger, Mat Eric Hart, Mathias Arrignon, Matty Yeomans, Mélia Roger, Moritz Zeisner, Nikos Sotirelis, Nina Blume, Ocean Networks Canada, Pablo Diserens, Sem Zeeman, Slavek Kwi, Surrealich, Thibault Noirot, Varoujan Cheterian.

all profit of the release will be donated to the Blue Marine Foundation.

listening with good speakers or headphones is recommended as the piece features a large range of frequencies (notably blue whales' subsonic calls).

cassette mastering by Mathieu Bonnafous

graphic design by Cecilia Murgia

cassettes pictures by Camille Blake

duration: 30’29’’ — C60
piece repeats on both sides — limited edition of 100
published by forms of minutiae & TBA21–Academy — fom09 — 2023

special thanks to all the contributors, Fiona Middleton, Markus Reymann, Michal Kucerak, Petra Linhartova, TBA21, Madelyn Byrd, Diane Barbé, Lou Croff Blake, Thom Lucero, and Mélia Roger.

pablo diserens & the ocean comm/uni/ty — upstream ensemble [fom09]

"waterlilies in fontiform" [framework editions, 2023] 🪷

Such an honor to be part of framework radio’s seasonal issues with a new piece of fontiform music! 

> listen/download: frameworkeditions.bandcamp.com/album/framework-seasonal-issue-14-summer-2023

Thought as a continuation of the work "for scarpa's fountains” [forms of minutiae, 2020], the composition "waterlilies in fontiform" weaves field recordings made in, on, and around the Tomba Brion in San Vito d'Altivole. Designed by the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa in the 70s, this burial ground materializes as a garden guided by a multitude of lines made of concrete, metal, marble, and glass. Yet as one wanders in this peculiar landscape, one soon realizes that concrete isn’t the tomb’s primary material, water is. As if submerged, the graves are encircled by basins interconnected by a network of fountains, rivulets, and pipes. Water striders, sporadic frogs, vibrant fish and tapestries of waterlilies glide over sunken pyramidal stepped edges, echoing ruins of bygone architectures. An aqueous rhizome at the heart of the garden which steers us through the whole sanctuary. The composition brings listeners into the various materialities of the space and the underwater hums of the fontiform network's machinery. Moreover, subtle algae photosynthesis, muffled voices of human visitors, and the garden's avian inhabitants infuse with life the architect's carefully organized matter. Ambiguous feelings arise as if perched in equilibrium on the crests of the tomb's multifarious structures. The piece ends with openings (both geographical and temporal) as the uncanny murmurs of the flowing waters are joined by the drones of another (temporary) Venetian fountain, Claire Tabouret's sculpture "Deux Baigneuses'', before fading into the vespertine soundscape of a small Portuguese village. A midwife toad calls in the darkness, bells resound in a valley, as Brion Tomb’s architectonic specter lingers in the flowing waters.

> Note: Tomba Brion is also the resting place of Scarpa himself, who shared that "the place for the dead is a garden".

> Recorded in the Tomba Brion in Altivole (april 2022), Palazzo Cavanis in Venice (april 2022), and in Peneda-Gerês National Park (may 2023).
Recorded with Aquarian H2a-XLR hydrophone, LOM Uši Pro, LOM Geofón, SoundDevices MixPre-6 II, Sony PCM-D100.

download

waterlilies in fontiform [framework editions]

23 buffer travel

We are delighted to welcome our first guest @bossschnuffi (Marlene Kager) on @noodsradio. 
Marlene is a graphic designer and promoter based in Vienna. They co-founded the viennese event series ‚dishes‘ in 2021. Since 2022 they’re part of the Hyperreality Family, the festival for Club Culture in Austria and co-curate the festivals program aswell as creating their graphic language. Their current project ‚chochu‘ is gonna take place and will be released in summer 24. 

For this mix bossschnuffi put together their favourites from fall and winter 2023. A rather ambient collection that dips into dub, rap and trance at points. Electronic and experimental music from the Arab region like Postdrone, Abdullah Miniawy and Haykal. But also old school Ambient Trance classics from the 90s. 

tracklist:
Carl Gari, Abdullah Miniawy – Zawaj زواج
Postdrone – Yaa
Cellar Door – Yellow
ARRAK – GANG27v2
Postdrone – Lw Kanf! Beep
Haykal – Sot Ramallah (ZULI Remix)
NITRO – PO METRIC
Sun Electric – Bagatto
Postdrone – بوستدرون رميكس pd - عاصفة x سيد درويش الكترة
Postdrone – AAML
Subsurfing – The Number Readers 
Postdrone – Klot
Honour – The Blood 1 (You’ve Got To Learn To Let It Go) 
Xenia Reaper – 3 OG
Airwaves – Tantric Flesh Dream
Fauna – Soulmates
Carmen Villain – A Year Ago 

@bossschnuffi
dishesvienna
hyperreality.at
chochuchochuchochu

Noods Radio #10 - crying is softer than you think - Bossschnuffi (14/01/24)

NR Sound Premiere #9

Artist: Tadleeh
Track: Seekers
Album: LONE
Label: YOUTH
Release date: 25.03.24
Read the interview with Tadleeh here: https://nr.world/nrsoundpremieres-track-etymology-tadleeh/
Order the digital album here: https://tadleeh.bandcamp.com/album/dribbling-int002 

Follow Tadleeh on 
https://www.instagram.com/_tadleeh_/ 
https://soundcloud.com/user-939167710 

Follow NR on 
www.instagram.com/nrmagazine/ 
@nrmagazine 
https://nrmagazine.bandcamp.com/
ra.co/promoters/120647

Premiere: Tadleeh - Seekers [LONE]

"for 0" is a radio show by usof where the most outward fringes of underground art are welcomed and brought together to create two hours of genderless musical submission.

@stasczekalski on the first hour:
Kensho Nakamura - wat air
hiyori - 祖母の刺繍になれたら
Acte Bonté - Death is a long sleep (J.Haydn cover)
Bravo Tounky - Magicalement
Almond Butyl - Love jazz
吉村晶 - 流れてく数字
5AM - Answer
Jadelain - Contrarian Heart 2
Minoyimn - Her Majesty
Staś Czekalski - Zamek (paszka remix)
koeosaeme - 1520219-44
Jonathan Scherk - B3
Christian Mirande - Beautiful One Day, Perfect The Next (Bike Ride To The Library)
tear - shards
Anne Laplantine - On the Street
Infant - Pebble
uami - good spot 海
Moskitoo - Cement Moment
my nettle - Mn13 chord (bws)
juleryk - 1hctiws_ayjygmo
boy lucid - ooz stars
Sasha Slug - Shark Week
The Motifs - Little Things

"for 0" #34 w/ Staś Czekalski | Rádio Quântica

april 2024


????? - ?????(p.utrippin!)
lovedyvngin - earth 2 
3-03 - biospirals
jean-emmanuel rosnet - les ocres
tibslc - greeech greeech no sunset ever the same
laces - vertoak soft industries (ft. grasps)
xenia reaper - MxB 
990x - animals
jonnnah - the deepest void
tau contrib - CMYL
egoseed - cognate
cash - cloudburst
utrippin! - stara Intld. w. jake hansen
rec - prius lover song
soundworld's guestbook - hi stranger
hans arsen - voices in my headdd
microstoria - fund
???? - (yusk edit)
ashes of piemonte - god on the hill

NOODS #7 life as collage w/yusk april 28.2024

https://bush.tw

Intonal broadcast in collaboration with @mutantradio

Thomas Bush [Retreat x Mutant Radio | Intonal] (27/04/24)

система | system presents the release "Loose Ends" by Ukrainian-based artist Revshark aka Slava Dyadyun:

"The material for the album was created in 2022, the first year of the full-scale military aggression of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, and this greatly influenced the sound and style of the release. Field recordings and sound effects of drones, power generators, and armored vehicles are mixed with wide pads and slow guitar passages, sometimes dark and mystical, filled with noise inserts, and sometimes dreamy and hopeful. The record is completely imbued with a cocktail of moods of these times - uncertainty, a sense of stopped time, as well as nostalgia for a carefree past."
*UA
система | system презентує реліз "Loose Ends" українського артиста Revshark.
Revshark aka Slava Dyadyun:
"Матеріал для альбому був створений в 2022 році, в перший рік повномасштабної військової агресії РФ в Україні, і це дуже вплинуло на звучання та стилістику релізу. Польові записи та звукові ефекти дронів, електрогенераторів та бронетехніки змішуються з широкими педами та повільними гітарними пасажами, іноді мрачними та містичними, заповненими нойзовими вставками, а іноді мрійливими та обнадійливими. Запис повністю пронизаний коктейлем настроїв цих часів - невизначенності, відчуттям зупиненого часу, а також ностальгії за безтурботним минулим."

credits:
All tracks were composed, produced, mixed, and mastered by Slava Dyadyun (aka Revshark).

all rights reserved

Loose Ends

Revshark - Mirage

‘Rejecting Fragility’ - is a recorder of emotions and experiences collected during a year of immigration to Tbilisi, a move that was initiated as a reactive decision to the unconformity towards the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine. It is about the loss of ambition and acceptance of responsibility, as well as the rejection of habitual beliefs and acceptance of fragility.

Delving into new surroundings, the mixtape acts as a postcard that envisions the technogenic bustle of Tbilisi. Similar to ‘Fashion Music for Scammers’, the release takes shape of a diary entry and attempts to record the constantly fluctuating moment of emotional fragility, where the atmosphere within the magical and serene corners of the city’s surroundings switches up rapidly with its concrete coldness, and the deep wormhole that is its nightlife. Hence the DIY, almost field-like approach to the recording of the material featured on the album. Most of the track were produced on an iPad, in which qwa created unique, autonomous ecosystems.

All proceeds from the digital release will be forwarded to hospitallers.ukraine_paramedic & lifeline.ge

Production, mixing & mastering by qwqwqwqwa 
Photography by Sasha Chaika 
Design & creative direction by Mori Mori

qwqwqwqwa - Dynamics

'Flor' from the upcoming Release 'Moto Perpetuo' on Marionette.

Written and Produced by Benjamin Kilchhofer and Michael Anklin
Cat. no.: Marionette09
Format: 12” Vinyl (180g) + Digital
Release Date: March 2019

Moto Perpetuo

Bandcamp

Kilchhofer Anklin - Flor (Moto Perpetuo LP)

See here for more info: http://bit.ly/2tYMSEs

States Of Fugue

Zoë Mc Pherson, 'LEARN UR LANGUAGE FASTER feat. Elvin Brandhi' (2020). Courtesy SFX, Berlin.

recording taken from the album 'on australian shores: listening to birds, insects and molluscs' released on https://soundcloud.com/sonospace

more info: https://pablodiserens.studio/on-australian-shores

periwinkles

tuned to various biomes and phonographies 𓆏
> www.pablodiserens.studio
> co-founder @forms-of-minutiae

Pablo Diserens (they/them) is a field recordist, musician and artist devoted to non-human realities, attentive listening, and possible forms of interspecies coexistence.

periwinkles

Pablo Diserens

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