Stockholm-based composer and musician Linus Hillborg has an interest in compositional techniques born out of limited computing power and sample memory. Residue is a collection of weird, darkened and solitary sounds derived from such practices, including soundtracks and ambiences from early bootleg games - heavy on FM-synthesis, repurposed samples and microtonality - as well as music of past presents and future pasts constructed in a similar vein.

Ksiesyc - Smieszki
Martin Galway - Title (Parallax)
Kanako Kakino - Floe (Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere)
Matt Seldon - Suburban Symphony (DreamWeb)
Paul Ruskay - Great Wastelands (Homeworld)
Minako Hamano - BSL Ambience (Metroid Fusion)
Gregory Alper - BGM 10 (Darkseed)
Steven O’Brien - The Wardrobe (Only If)
Zhèng Yi - Green Hill Zone (Somari)
Keiichi Suzuki/Hirokazu Tanaka - Deeper Into Ness’ Unconcious (MOTHER2 ギーグの逆襲)
Ksiezyc - Dychana
Aydin Esen - Induan
Ellen Meijers - Rupture Farms, extracted ambience (Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee)
Theodor Kentros - In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni
Kelly Bailey - Town, extracted ambience (Half-Life 2)
László Hortobágyi - Bhairavi
László Hortobágyi - The End
Shahin Souri - Discord
Kelly Bailey - Canal, extracted ambience (Half-Life 2)
Brenda El Rayes - Min dikt tillbaka
Kazunaka Yamane - Doppelganger (Double Dragon II)
Yuzo Kishiro - Tunnelway (Bare Knuckle III)
Haruhiko Souno - Onryou Senki, extracted audio (怨霊戦記)
Mathieu Serruys - Phosphorescent Landscapes
Sonja Tofik - The Earth Spirit
Linus Hillborg - Atlashamnen
Moonilena - Arasole Rain
Zurich 1916 - The Children’s Song
KABLAM - bryt
Keiichi Suzuki/Hirokazu Tanaka - Cave of the Past (MOTHER2 ギーグの逆襲)

Extracted sounds and music have their source game listed in parentheses.

Residue w/ Linus Hillborg - Radio Ma3azef

Navigating notions of the age-old human obsession with death, Canadian Rifles’ latest venture explores this flirtation across a duo of synth-forward drone compositions. Dwelling on the poetic ideal of collective action as a glass monument over death. "Lessons On Shells" is a work of deep and bold duality, death and glaring beauty inseparably entwined, like blood on snow.

EN24

All music by Rui Andrade
Artwork by Laura Costas

Lessons On Shells

Canadian Rifles — Neither Power Nor Love

Charlie Morrow - "Toot! Too" LP (R41)
http://www.recitalprogram.com/toot-too/
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R41 Charlie Morrow - "Wave Music II – 100 Musicians with Lights (1978)" from Toot! Too LP

Collaboration with @lxv -> digitally released on "Loss Function" EP ->> https://lxvlxv.bandcamp.com/album/LOSS-FUNCTION

Loss Function

LXV and Lack - Strand

Anne Imhof - Faust
Format: 2xLP / CD / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 98
Release Date: 13 September 2019
Purchase: bit.ly/2NCegzC / bit.ly/2zo1bRY

Deriving from the acclaimed performance and exhibition—staged by Anne Imhof at the 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia and awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation— the album Faust is part documentation and part elaboration, the sonic capture and extrapolation of the gestures, intensities, and durations of the live event.
Serving as the dramatic backbone of a several-hour long performance seen by thousands over the course of the Biennial, the soundtrack was a product of the collective and its individuals, animating and organising the performers while immersing the audience in the potent images of power and paradise. The music for Faust was written in a band-like process by Imhof and her close collaborators Billy Bultheel, Eliza Douglas, and Franziska Aigner during the months leading up to its premiere at the opening of the German Pavilion in Venice. From the chaos of the performative, the album is constructed out of live recordings and original arrangements, teasing out the most potent strands and weaving them into a new composition of brutal feeling and baroque intricacy, each track a testament to the energy that brought it into being.

Faust is anchored around three pieces—Medusa’s Song, O.W.E.N., and Queen Song—written and sung by performers Eliza Douglas and Franziska Aigner, whose sonorous and elegiac voices imbue the work as a whole with their crushing depths and dolorous moods. Between these urgent vocal interventions march and twist the winding fugues and electronic abstractions of Billy Bultheel, who has dismantled and reassembled the sonic landscapes of the pavilion, crafting new arrangements that couple the forcefulness of the physical encounter with the artifice of the studio. Throughout the album and culminating in its closing act—the brutal chorus of Douglas’ Faust’s Last Song, a pulsing canon of looped and layered voice pierced by black metal screams—the record admits the listener into the inner space of Imhof’s dramatic vision of power, complicity, and vulnerability.

Shifting hypnotically between times and spaces, between cries and calls, between polyphonic antiquity and polyrhythmic complexity, Faust is the record of a lost event and the promise of a new creation. The release of Faust illustrates the centrality of music to Imhof’s artistic practice. Her musical collaborations with Bultheel began in 2013, and this generative constellation expanded to include the contributions of Douglas and Aigner, together scoring Imhof’s Angst (2016) and recently her performance trilogy Sex (2019).

The album comes with an expansive booklet of photography by Nadine Fraczkowski, another long-standing collaborator of Imhof and a prolific photographer, whose images of the performance and portraits of its cast offer intimate views of the work far beyond documentation.

It was mixed by Nanni Johansson at Hansa Studios and Ville Haimala, mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, and designed by Zak Group featuring artwork conceived by Imhof together with Douglas and Fraczkowski. Co-published with German Pavilion 2017 and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne / New York.

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Faust 

Cast of Faust - Mars (PAN 98)

Part of the Threads*Reverie TAKEOVER

1. Intro
2. Mountain High, Valley Low- Eartha Kitt- DaisyDarkpark Interpretation
3. Loup
4. Alien Chatter Song
5. Itsy Bitsy Spider- Daisy Darkpark Nursery Rhyme

Listen to Threads -> www.threadsradio.com

Daisy Darkpark (Threads*Reverie) - 31-Jul-20

The 2nd in a series of two new releases by French tape-based experimental artist Jérôme Noetinger, who has treated us to countless unforgettable live sets at OTO. For this he presents two pieces in collaboration with Jean-Philippe Gross based on the idea of the exquisite corpse.

"There is a great tradition of exchange and correspondence work in experimental music. In the 80's, there were a lot of cassettes with musicians who had never met each other but were exchanging sounds by mail. Nowadays it's even simpler and more obvious.

The imposed period of confinement - in France between March 17 and May 11 - was ideal for restarting such projects.
With Jean-Philippe Gross, our collaboration is older and we have had the opportunity to play several times as a duo. I have always been impressed by his dexterity, rigour and discipline in the electronic field.

For the first track, a musician created a first sequence lasting between 10 seconds and seven minutes, and sent only the last 10 seconds to the next one who then mixed or pasted his sequence into it, and so on for a total of 16 exchanges.

For the second, the number of exchanges has been limited to 14, with a duration of between 10 seconds and three minutes, but each having a maximum reserve of 10 minutes.

The final result was only filtered and slightly equalized in terms of volume." - Jérôme Noetinger

TR065 - Jean-Philippe Gross & Jérôme Noetinger - Cadavre 1 [sample]

Bag of Toys

Giant Claw - Drops Of Primed Water Leading To Another World (Live)

@nicolas-gaunin

EE3 is a suggestive succession of strangely assembled pieces of micromondo miscellanea as small bizarre objects and surreal items right for Artetetra’s continuously metastasizing outré wunderkammer. 

A showcase of heterogeneous materials that cover an entire imaginal ecosystem going from the grotesque to the hazy, to the hypnagogic and absurd til the utterly whimsical; often resulting in non-linear audio experiences with humoristic and paradoxical outcomes. Abstract exotica, amphibian footwork, compositional audio-jokes, brutal counterpoint metal, aquatic sci-fi shredding, steel-cold cognitive fado, glossolalia madrigals, metaphysical hip-hop, sunitty conglomerations, abrasive warfare cartoon OSTs. All and all, let’s just call it Quinto Mondo. 

But let's get down to the nitty-gritty: 
STILL NOT MUCH 3 SAY 
NEO°GEO 3.0 
30 TRACKS 
30 IMAGINAL FAMILY SUPERSTARS 
2H OF HAILE MUZAK FROM THE FLOATING WORLD 
FUN IS THE MF GUN 

Compiled and curated by Artetetra 
Illustrations and design by RIccardo Redeghieri 
Mastered by Giancarlo Brambilla

The nitty-gritty

Nicolas Gaunin - Huli

Aibo was written in Philadelphia, 2020. "Puro" was orignally created by Nobukazu Takemura, featured on his 1999 record Milano: For Issey Miyake Men by Naoki Takizawa.

Mastered by Luke Thinnes
Cover by Will Hipp

Roetem

possible nights

Label based in Berlin, est. 2008. http://www.p-a-n.org