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]

From ‘Shyness’.

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/shyness

Artwork by @lucasdupuy
Mastered by @ikezwanikken
Written and produced by @chantssss
Released on Theory Therapy & @coclear

Shyness

CHANTSSSS - lia

Session # 14 - Emre Girginkaya

The opening track from Conna Haraway's forthcoming album, "Spatial Fix". Out March 21 on vinyl.

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/spatial-fix

@connaharaway
Mastered by @ikezwanikken

Conna Haraway - Freon

After the last two weeks' high-octane entries, s.drift arrives to RA Radio with an odyssean wend through stellar textures, humming ambience, technological soundscapes and flickers of glitch.

Across live sets and a number of self-published productions, s.drift has cultivated an uncategorisable sound that slinks between ambient, sound-collage and the variegated rhythms of dance. Yet his music never settles satisfied into any of these and implies always something exceeding the confinement of a label and beyond the bounds of writing.

It's still difficult to describe both Cal's tunes and the way he mixes, where every echoic cymbal, every thrum of bass, every shift in pattern manages to come across laden with an unearthly significance. One thing Cal and I connected over was videogames, and there's this idea in game studies about the technological sublime... that the trick of sublimity in a game is that it always appears to exceed what it shows - a game does not provide you an entire world, it intimates the imagination that the world one inhabits could be entire. There's something similar, albeit with the difference that there's no illusion here, in Cal's mix. A universe is always present, if only as half-dreamt conjectures. There are suggestions of mechanism and the discordance of industry, wisps of dislocated voice and the embers of disco and hardcore and dub. But it's always a peripheral universe, there being something innately charitable in the attitude to music... a universe as-yet undiscerned, a whole lifeworld built of shards into which only the listener's intrusion can clarify some personal coherence. A music that creates a canvas atop which the paints are particles and tinctures, oblique spaces into which the listener might build.

It's like there's a secret in the music only s.drift knows. But this secrecy allures rather than excludes. It adumbrates a planetscape alive and coruscating, an ecosystem of ooze constituting an invitation to the tangibility of fantasy. And because of the skill with which Cal can conjure worlds, fantasy is here simply the given of reality. 

tracklist:

Strategy - A Distant Destination
Pendant - NMQ-HYT
Obi Uto - a5 cyclone version
Igor Dyachenko - TimeStretch
JJ+JS - CRX
Davis Galvin - Humidity 14
O Yuki Conjugate - Black Magic Box
Pavel Milyakov - Mondpfad
Disjecta - Smokehead
dub - Electricity in mind
J. Albert - la flor
effekt - wiki
Shinichi Atobe - World 4
Unt - Grids
Ghost Dubs - Wired Version
exael - choeo3
ELIZA B.C. - B1
James Bangura - Monterrey
Daniel Stefanik - b1_dambala_experience_001
AEM Rhythm-Cascade - Volnushka
Quatremont College - Safari
JEMAPUR - Frictize 412
Jeffre Cantu-Ledesma - Non-person
Ivory Black - Blood Oath
African-American Sound Recordings - Gauze
Kassir feat. Shumopeleng - Tommy III
d.towards - a+r atmo
CA2+ - Stop Mixing Tracks Like This
AQ*8 - traffic gem
Echoplex - Taking Off
Kero X Tetzzie - Trench Mesh
bookworms - disco demo
ccctyyy - C_RA_001
iokera (RIP) - asphodel fields
cypha - Xzirow Command
Hesaitix - Anticrime
Eszaid - Chained
xtclvr - deep scanning
Conna Haraway - 1702

artwork by @frasier77777 // addditional art and typesetting by @manicpixiedreamgirl555

Realist Alive Radio 004: s.drift

Artwork by Eva Marie Nelson
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken

Axine M - Bored Giant Engine Sputter

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/expired-09-b00n
https://b00n.bandcamp.com/music
https://soundcloud.com/z05

Cover artwork by Raphaela Linders.

expired

expired 09 – B00N

nish

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/sarab-o-cheikh

سراب / Sarab

سراب / Sarab – O.Cheikh

shadow garden drawn into summer 
guitar songs, old and new
tears in summer sun
🌞💧

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

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.