How rare it is to hear a community received with this kind of generosity and attention to detail. A wonder of aqueous precision.

listening to this track, starting when "Jonn Serrie - Starmoods [1984]" (on youtube), hits its 6m40s mark, was such a trip

Thanks for including my contribution! 💙 🫧

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.

cassette & digital

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

Yoro (pt. I & II)

mlinpatz - black sea

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info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/walking-for-two-w-giselle
https://37735i6.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/37735i6

walking for two

walking for two w/ giselle

Ura - plnt11

Artwork- Ash Galka 

Plant is pleased to announce it's next guest,  the Montreal based producer Ura.⭐️

As we fall into warmer months, Ura sets the scene of a moonlit summers night and takes us to revered spaces. Sentimental melodies, tangents of 00’s idm and dream pop motifs peak through into the ever approaching summer solstice. 🌱

You can find a recent EP release with their band goldenstar⭐️, also featuring as a guest on the NTS show 'fifth world' by everyone's favourite host, Ian Kim Judd. 

“music to assist in the enjoyment of living life”

frakkur - ammaelisstrakur 2004
park avenue music - golden hummingbird 2004
chessie - electro-motive 2001
dntel - dumb luck 2007
julianna barwick - unt7 2007
avey tare- abby’s song 2003
pawn - tone sketch 2011
unknown - untitled

Ura - plnt11

We are thrilled to launch 'soak u' podcast with a luminous opening mix by Jimmy Tamborello aka @dntel – a pioneer of electronic music’s most intimate corners. Submerge in the heart-warming selection of ambient, glitchy indietronica & downtempo 🌦️

soak u_1

u_1 - Dntel

shadow garden drawn into summer 
guitar songs, old and new
tears in summer sun
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landing - untitled
felt body - the computer room
sack und blumm - bedroom seven
goo - dappled
ouri - étude du toucher
empress - 2:49
juana molina & alejandro franov - la marca
betty hammerschlag - song for michelle
glint - stylus
sta dormida - when it happens
april magazine - pink hair
zzz - 1
the interstate ten - beauty and matter in the hearts of man
empress - 1:34
pj harvey - the river (demo)
low - standby (edit)
attachment theory - clairo
tibslc - washed ashore

summer feeling dream shadow

mindseyerecords.xyz/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbzQeNhMIp4

Archaic Vaults - PS [audio-server archive 21/05/24]

reading Jack Spicer "Imaginary Elegies I-IV"

calling all gods – sub mit

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.

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