compilMORSE - Janvier 23

composition | sound pieces | live

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DL: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4jz9zuhetcp9eob/Damsel%20in%20Distress.mp3?dl=0

100% crafted/handled/lifted by @LOTIC. 

cover by @M-E-S-H

Lotic - Chunk
Lotic - Heterocetera
Lotic - Hummingbird feat. MikeQ, Bobby Johnson, and Miss Modular
Lotic - 2 Pressed
Lotic - Faded (How The Hell...?) feat. The Queen, barking stans and CBS censors
Lotic - Fractures (but just the chromatic growl)
Lotic - I Don't Just Wanna Chill With You (Love Letter) with help from PARTYNEXTDOOR and Timbaland
Lotic - 9th Inning feat. Rizzla, Missy, and a shy Björk howling in the distance
Lotic - KIDDIKUGKIDDIKIGKIDDIKIDDI feat. the historic Buddah vs. Sugur skirmish
Lotic - Ascension
Lotic - Suspension
Lotic - Battery

Lotic - DAMSEL in DISTRESS (JANUS001)

Remix of Gazelle Twin's 'Anti Body' by I Speak Machine aka Tara Busch.

Anti Body is released on 27 May on Anti-Ghost Moon Ray Records / Last Gang. Limited edition vinyl is released on 16 June.

Buy EP on ITunes

Anti Body (I Speak Machine remix)

from ROBERTO OPALIO 'Aurōra Coelestis' LP + Digital Download (Opax Records, October 2014 / OPX036)

***NYC legendary WFMU radio - "Record of the Day" Oct 29, 2014***

Physically and digitally available at Elliptical Noise via Bandcamp:
https://ellipticalnoise.bandcamp.com/album/aurora-coelestis

Fourth soloist album and debut on vinyl format by musician and visual artist ROBERTO OPALIO of radical avant-garde duo My Cat Is An Alien. ‘Aurora Coelestis’ presents two new instantaneous compositions for glockenspiel and voice, recorded in March 2014 at his Alien Studio for audiovisual arts, Torino, Italy. For the first time his musical work is mainly instrumental: ‘Aurora Coelestis’ is Roberto Opalio’s homage to early minimalism. The work is intended to be listened to at soft volume level, quietly in a room. The same glockenspiel used in the recording has then been cut into pieces to become the core of the spectacular art gallery edition of the album. 

“Roberto Opalio, the more sinister half of My Cat Is An Alien, has finally released a non-lathe solo LP in order to demonstrate his mastery of space junk. The two parts of the title track, “Aurora Coelestis”, are incredible glides through the darkest recesses of solar system. The music was created on glockenspiel, then run through Roberto's homemade electronics in a way that extends celestial glimmering into eruptive plains of infinity. Cosmic burbles worthy of Gong mix with expansive tones that make me think of what Richard Brautigan's Machines of Loving Grace might sound like. It's almost the same as listening to one of those computers that generates sounds from stellar radiation. Beautiful, cold and deep. It will make all of your bones feel very soft.

The third piece, “Hic et Nunc” is a piece for manipulated vocals. The title is Latin for “Here and Now” and may refer to either the Gong-related UK band of the '70s, or the impermanence of language, or both. The music is like being sucked through a long tube that lights up and resonates as you pass along sections of it. Alien lips quiver nearby and you can smell a kind of breath you have never smelled before. It's a wonderful trip through bubble time, and one suspects it would be an excellent soundtrack for your next bout with hallucinogens. If that's not your thing, just lie down in the dark and concentrate hard on the sounds. You'll be flying soon enough. Have a nice ride.” –BYRON COLEY, 2014

This is a private press, handcrafted by Roberto and Maurizio Opalio and released on their own legendary Opax Records. 165 gram black vinyl housed in tri-fold jacket made of fine art 250 gram clear blue textured cardboard, with 12”x16” full color folded cover/insert featuring a portrait of the artist taken by Maurizio Opalio on front and a photographic image by Roberto Opalio on the inside, plus full liner notes. Foreword insert by Byron Coley.
The album comes with 3 collector’s editions cover art: each cover features 1 of 3 different 4”x6” original photographs shot by Roberto Opalio mounted on back, representing diverse perspectives of the glockenspiel used by the artist during the session. Handnumbered and handstamped. Limited Private Press of 200.

http://www.mycatisanalien.com/news.htm

ROBERTO OPALIO 'Aurōra Coelestis' (album sampler)

from "Psychedelic Sanza 1982 - 1984 " comp
BUY :https://bornbadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelic-sanza-1982-1984

FRANCIS BEBEY - Blinta Madiallo "

Schultz et Èlg - Field Recordés - 2015

Commissioned by INLAND - CAMPO ADENTRO (Art, Agricultures and Countryside) Residency Program 2011. Premiered at MedialabPrado Madrid (14/09/11). EMPREMTES SONORES, a sound mapping project of the rural environment of Sant Bartomeu del Grau in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia.

Fieldwork, July-August 2011. Composition, Den Haag, September 2011.

http://www.pablosanz.info/huellas-sonoras/

 ***HEADPHONES LISTENING RECOMMENDED***

Commissioned by Atelier de Création Sonore Radiophonique (ACSR) Brussels for Silence Radio in 2012. Curated by Etienne Noiseau and Irvic d’oliver.

"Extraite des limbes des flaques, des mares et des étangs, se déploie une biodiversité fantasmagorique. Baissez-vous, un peu plus bas, un peu plus près de la surface, et buvez le bouillon par les oreilles." 

Based on hydrophone and above water recordings made in freshwater environments at various locations in Spain and Slovakia between 2007 and 2012. 

SILENCE RADIO :: Hiver 2012 : IN THE END (last edition)
10 commissioned works by: Henri Morelle, Anne-James Chaton, Andreas Trobollowitsch, Thomas Baumgartner, Yann Leguay, Christophe Deleu & François Teste, Pablo Sanz, Hanna Hartman, Anthony Carcone, Gregory Whitehead

http://www.silenceradio.org/grid.php?artist=131

released on Bandcamp, stereo and quadraphonic multichannel version, 2016
https://pablosanz.bandcamp.com/album/limnee

limnee

spectrum (ståtic limbø) is a live performance series focused on the exploration of environmental electromagnetic energies.

pablosanz.info/static-limbo/

stereo live excerpts from a quadraphonic live performance at VELAK-export in Vienna, 07.01.2016

many thanks to Vinzenz Schwab & VELAK crew

SPECTRUM | live excerpts @ VELAK Vienna 07.01.2016

Autoportrait

An exclusive track from the "Peace (for mom)" compilation on the Brainwashed Handmade series. 

A few years ago, I was making a mix CD for a friend, and casually asked if he wanted liner notes to accompany the music. He replied by saying that he appreciated having the notes, if for no other reason than to know that each song wasn't just selected at random. In a way, that's how I feel about most compilations I hear. In many cases, they're released as label samplers, tribute albums, promotional tie-ins or other such categories, though somewhat frequently, they exist because of a cause. The Red Hot series has long contributed to AIDS charities, while a Filter/Urban Outfitters compilation released at the beginning of 2005 titled Tsunami Relief offered just that, with benefits going toward the UNICEF Tsunami Relief Fund. The newly released compilation Peace (for mom) has a no less noble ambition behind it, but one extremely personal to those involved. Released in memory of Marilyn Whitney, the late mother of Brainwashed founder Jon Whitney, Peace (for mom) is dedicated to those who have lost a mother too soon, and is all the more heartbreaking for it. In honor of Whitney, proceeds will be donated to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass., where she volunteered. The songs assembled on the two-CD set aren't necessarily written with the theme in mind, and many of them have been previously released, but that said, their inclusion on this set is not without significance. Quite the contrary, there is a contrasting feeling of both somberness and of beauty, of grace and of grief. Disc A begins with "Sunbeam" by A Place to Bury Strangers, and is one of the Brooklyn band's most stunning and delicate songs. The next song, Antony and the Johnsons' "You Are My Sister," is perhaps the most well-known here, but actually seems more directly tied to the central theme and background. Aranos offers a gauzy ambience in "Fall's Golden Whispers," and Boy In Static layer on a bit of fuzz for "Stay Awake." Caribou's "Hummingbird" is a woozy standout with synths warbling and vibrating, Current 93's "All The Pretty Little Horses" is somewhat tied to the themes as well, though a bit creepy. That doesn't mean it's not great, though. On disc B, Matmos offers an ascendant electronic dream sequence in "Staircase," and Monster Movie contributes the amazing "Vanishing Act." In fact, the first 30 seconds of this song alone is enough to make me want to dig through the band's catalog, which is one of the best things a compilation can do. Marissa Nadler's "Stallions" is characteristically spectral and delicate, which is a wonderful thing, of course. I've never been a particularly big fan of The Dresden Dolls, but I can make an exception for Amanda Palmer's cover of Death Cab For Cutie's "I Will Follow You Into the Dark," which is achingly gorgeous to say the least. In the liner notes to the album, whose artwork has a stark beauty of its own, Jon Whitney notes that it was his mother who bought him his first records, took him to his first rock concerts and classical performances and came to the first festival he organized. The importance of family is rarely mentioned in rock music, but Peace (for mom) brings it to light and celebrates it, if somberly and with quiet reflection. Those with mothers like Whitney's, who express the importance of music and art, might consider this for a Mother's Day gift (or if you choose to keep it, at least remember to give mom a call!). No matter what, this compilation features everything that makes its kind essential--great music, unheard new discoveries and a really big heart. - Jeff Terich, Treble

A couple years after the time I first started getting into music that was outside of the mainstream, one of the first websites that I discovered was Brainwashed.com. At the time (clear back in 1996), it not only hosted websites for a variety of different artists, but also featured weekly updates (called "The Brain") with album and live reviews and other related information. Over the past decade, the site has grown in scope, but retained the same overall feel, with direct hosting of numerous artist websites (including Matmos, Windy & Carl and a ton of others), often-updated reviews, release date information, and other stuff. Along the way, The Brainwashed label launched, with several sub-labels attached (including Killer Pimp, which was home of the recent A Place To Bury Strangers). They co-released a couple Fridge albums with Temporary Residence, put out a DVDR series of live and behind-the-scenes interviews with great artists, put out limited 7"s and have put out several limited releases under the "handmade" heading. Peace (for mom) is the newest release in the handmade series, and it's dedicated to the memory of site-founder Jon Whitney's mother, who passed last year and was the major source of enthusiasm and influence in life. Like the site as a whole, the release is about as varied as one can possibly get, with everything from quiet folk and chamber music to electronic pop and experimental electronic. Thirty-four songs stretch out over 2CDs, and they're housed in a lovely hand-letterpressed sleeve from Interrobang letterpress. Although there's plenty of great already-released music on the compilation to recommend it (including work from Antony And The Johnsons, Marrissa Nadler, Fridge, Caribou, and others), it's the unreleased work that will likely be the biggest treat for most people (and is the real draw of this very-limited pressing). Boduf Songs, Andrew Lilies, Matmos, Jessica Bailiff, Little Annie Bandez, and Nudge all contribute tracks that are exclusive to this release alone, while Keith Fullerton Whitman and the aforementioned A Place To Bury Strangers both offer up songs that have only appeared on harder-to-get vinyl releases to date. In addition to the exclusive new tracks, there are a slew of exclusive alternate takes of already-released songs, and they're welcome additions as well, with "Woven Clouds" by Carter Tutti standing out as a particularly aching addition. As with the Brainwashed website as a whole, I don't find myself completely loving everything on the release, but there's more than enough excellent stuff to keep me coming back. A great little release, Peace (for mom) is a limited pressing with proceeds going for a great cause. - Aaron Coleman, Almost Cool

Little Annie, "Smile"

immersive ambisonic multichannel installation and live performance
ongoing project series, duration and dimensions variable

entangled explores the nonhuman worlds of the Amazon rainforest, focusing on the fascinating complexity of the continuous sonic flow created by insects, birds, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, fish, plant species, soil, water and the weather.
The work facilitates a profound, active and sustained listening experience, cultivating intimate sensory encounters in which affectivity is favoured over signification and representation. The listener-participants find themselves in almost total darkness, without images or objects, within a sound field generated by a multichannel sound system.
The work is a durational composition made from several hundred hours of environmental sound materials recorded in terra firme and flooded forest (várzea) ecosystems within the territories of the Amanã and Mamirauá reserves in the central Brazilian Amazon. The fieldwork was carried out over two months in the dry season of 2015, in collaboration with local inhabitants.
entangled is experienced as a series of immersive installations and live performance events, featuring variable sonic materials and extended durations. 

The project uses higher-order Ambisonics. This audio is decoded to stereo (headphone listening encouraged).

unreleased

entangled (excerpts for headphone listening)

Suzanne Ciani - Second Breath

2019, 37 min, for headphone listening
commissioned for R{A}DIO{CUSTICA}, Czech Radio Vltava (Český rozhlas ČRo 3). first aired on 30.10.2019, 22:00, PremEdition Radioateliér. curated by Ladislav Zelený. winner of the Prix Paysage Sonore / Field Recording at the Phonurgia Nova Awards 2020.

Based on environmental recordings along the territories of Amanã and Mamirauá, in central Amazônia, strange strangers focuses on unusual listening perspectives (above, underwater, and ultrasound), inviting us to listen to (within) a singular world of vitality and non-human otherness. Listening cultivates profound encounters with other beings (life-forms, abiotic terrestrial matters, sounds...), and with our being as an other.

available on streaming
www.radiocustica.cz/pablo-sanz-strange-strangers-8114365 

www.pablosanz.info/strange-strangers

strange strangers (excerpts)

Depuis septembre 2019, le musée a fermé ses portes au public pour des travaux de rénovation.Sa réouverture est prévue pour 2023. Le projet façonnera une nouvelle identité au musée en continuité avec son histoire et en résonance avec son avenir.

(c)Morse, diaporama des régions polaires, 1978 / Musées de Strasbourg / M. Bertola

4 Morse (Odobenus Rosmarus)

unheard, out of earshot, indistinct, imperceptible, hushed, faint, low, infrasonic, muted, soft, muffled, murmured, quiet, whispered, muttered, mumbled, silent, soundless, still, noiseless, unclear, ultrasonic 

https://phonosbcn.bandcamp.com/album/in-audible

(in)audible explores a variety of sounds on the periphery of human perception, including phenomena beyond our usual hearing range, "hidden" acoustic spaces, and "small" or unnoticed sounds. The project attempts to listen with other-than-human agents (species, energies, matters, things and technologies), engaging in alternative ways of listening. 

The aural materials featured in the composition were created using different extended listening and recording strategies. It includes electromagnetic noise recordings, geophysical and atmospheric effects, matters in states of transition, structural vibrations, ultrasound, close-up, contact and underwater bioacoustic sounds. 

All the original recordings were made at multiple locations in Spain, The Netherlands, Germany, and Slovakia from 2008 to 2012. The first version of the piece was commissioned by FONair (Cumbria, UK), with a premiere broadcast in January 2013. In addition, different headphone and spatial versions of the work (4, 8 and 16-channel) have been performed live and exhibited at multiple events in Wroclaw, Ljubljana, Brussels, The Hague, Heerlen, London, Kent, Belfast, Girona, Pontevedra, Porto, Viseu, and São Paulo, between 2013 and 2016. 

http://pablosanz.info/inaudible/

headphone listening recommended

limnee

pablo sanz