Andrew Pekler

A deliquesce afterimage forming through slow collisions - trembling erosion, weightlessness, and substantiality, dissolving into granular ripples. Fragmented, porous sequences wrapped together in mellow stasis.

Adam Badí Donoval is a Slovakia-based sound artist, curator, and mastering engineer whose practice unites the spaces between composing his own music and moulding the sound dimensions of other artists. Adam has nurtured a label - Warm Winters Ltd, that serves as a home for exploratory music. Beyond all that, he extends into performance, writing, education, and curatorial projects. A dynamic dialogue - linking sound, memory, and the environments they inhabit.

Amulet of Tears 057: Adam Badí Donoval

Music: @a_b_d_a_b_d / @warmwintersltd

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 057: Adam Badí Donoval

I'm spacing out, I'm zoning out, I'm travelling between time frames, I'm dissociating between there and over there.

Un épisode qui fait nid dans sa tête, pour penser à ce qui n'est pas là, à venir ou à passer. Pour disparaître en contemplation. Habiter le vague où notre regard se pose. Dessiner des silhouettes dans les ombres des arbres. Et faire fonctionner notre machine à histoires, à images, à chansons, que nous portons dans nos organes.

NEST 𓆇𓆇𓆇 Daydreaming w/ Nek (16.04.2025)

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/guests-205-xalt-xcess
https://repulsexplosif.bandcamp.com/album/diamond-stars
https://soundcloud.com/xaltxcess

GUESTS

GUESTS 205 – Xalt Xcess

nish

gallery

king softy - pleasure gallery s4 e11

Nick Malkin hosts Post-Geography, featuring ambient and atmospheric selections, live from the NTS studio in L.A.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/post-geography/episodes/post-geography-13th-june-2025

Post-Geography w/ Andriy K. 130625

Living Room n°85 ~ @living_roooom sleep set

8.5 hour hybrid set recorded on the 8th of February 2025, 23:30-08:00 at Oficina Municipal do Teatro in Coimbra, Portugal by @asiootus and @usofusofusofusof

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q. pls introduce yourself:
a. Hi we’re asio and usof from the Living Room crew


q. is there a story behind the mix?
a. We were invited to perform a sleep show by the Ouvido Absoluto crew in Coimbra. We were very excited because playing a sleep set was always something we wanted to do. We've been collecting tracks specifically for an occasion like this for many years. On top of the different tracks we were improvising with a variety of digital instruments, to create an organic canvas of sound that is always moving, but very slowly. The idea of influencing dreams with music is one aspect that we found particularly interesting. So for that reason the set is not always focused on creating comfort, but rather different, sometimes quite alien moods.


q. what’s the best way to enjoy your mix?
a. Sleeping and dreaming.


q. describe a favourite object in your living room…
a. Perhaps the red desk light in Cosmos (technically our living room:). it creates a very cozy atmosphere.


q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
a. The whole Living Room crew is soon set off to play at Waking Life. After that we’ll have a string of events in Lisbon, with the next one being on the 6th of July. 

Living Room n°85 ~ sleep set (usof & asio)

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/peripherie-17-igor-dyachenko
https://igordyachenko.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/igordyachenko

Peripherie

Peripherie 17 – Igor Dyachenko

Living Room n°86 ~ @drublei

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q. pls introduce yourself:
a. hi Living Room,
First of all, I’d like to thank you for the opportunity — I really like you all.
I’m Sandro, I’m a painter and I occasionally DJ as well. I’m part of the Tundra collective and I’ve recently started making music — and that’s thanks to you, as Living Room influenced me a lot. Thank you for that!

q. is there a story behind the mix?
a. I’m not sure, but it definitely gives me a lot of chills.

q. what’s the best way to enjoy your mix?
a. Looking at the sea — or whatever way you feel most in tune with while listening :)

q. describe a favourite object in your living room...
a. it’s an old piece of furniture where my mother kept all kinds of stuff, and those things are still inside.

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
a. Yes, I’m currently working on a painting about my uncle who passed away recently, and I would also like to dedicate this mix to him, as I love him.

Living Room n°86 ~ drublei

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/walking-for-two-w-justine-ferrer

walking for two

walking for two w/ Justine Ferrer

Autumn Sketch / Feedback + Horns

From the album Sounds From Phantom Islands:
https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-from-phantom-islands

Bandcamp

Taprobana

Artist: Andrew Pekler
Album: Tristes Tropiques
Format: LP/DL
Label#: Faitiche14
Release date: November 11th

Faitiche welcomes back an old friend: Andrew Pekler was the musical director of the 2011 album Ursula Bogner – Sonne=Blackbox (faitiche05 lp/cd/book). Known for his albums on Senufo Editions, Entr’acte, Dekorder, Kranky and other labels, Andrew Pekler’s new work Tristes Tropiques is now released by Faitiche. Tristes Tropiques is an album of synthetic exotica, pseudo-ethnographic music and unreal field recordings.  

Find out more about Andrew Pekler’s Tristes Tropiques in the following interview:

Jan Jelinek: You’ve titled your album Tristes Tropiques – a reference to Claude Lévi-Strauss’ famous account of his travels among native peoples in the Mato Grosso. If I remember correctly, the book can be read in two ways: as an ethnographic study of indigenous Brazilian tribes, and as a critique of anthropological methods. What exactly about Tristes Tropiques inspired you? The melancholy travelogue, or the formation of a new, critical school of thought?

Andrew Pekler: Both. Lévi-Strauss’ constant reflection on the purpose of his work and the often melancholy tone of his writing constitute an internal tension which runs throughout the whole book. Tristes Tropiques is many things; autobiography, traveler’s tale, ethnographic report, philosophical treatise, colonial history. But ultimately, it’s the author’s attempt to synthesize meaning from fragments of his own and other cultures that resonated most strongly with me – and led me to a new perspective on how I hear and make music. 

JJ: Listening to Tristes Tropiques I noticed a certain oscillation between references, which is what I really like about it. Obviously, your music alludes to the beloved fairytale kitsch of exotica, but it also repeatedly shifts to a mode of ethno-poetic meditation music that seems to have no beginning or end. Where do you yourself locate the tracks gathered here? 

AP: As a listener and as a musician, exotica music of the 1950s and 60s has always been a constant reference point and inspiration. And perhaps my listening has been ‘ruined’ by exotica, but as I have dug deeper into ethnographic archives of ‘traditional’ music, I’ve come to the realization that all recordings that evoke, allude to, or ostensibly document other musical forms have a similar effect on my imagination: I am most intrigued when I perceive some coincidentally familiar element within the foreign (a tuned percussion recital from Malawi that immediately brings to mind Steve Reichian minimalism, or the Burundian female vocal duet that sounds uncannily like a cut-up tape experiment, etc.). I suppose this album is an attempt to recreate the same kind of listening experience as what I’ve described, just with the electronic means that I have at hand. 

JJ: I know that you perform Tristes Tropiques not only as music, and that there is visual and spatial aspect to the presentation. Can you reveal more about this?

AP: I made an accompanying video – mainly close-up footage, shot in Thailand, of various tropical flora. The video was recorded at very slow speed and this gives the plants, flowers, trees, bamboo, etc. the appearance of rather abstract objects. In live performance, this abstracting effect is further emphasized through real-time modulation of the colors, brightness and other parameters of the video image. There is also an installation version of the video that is meant to be projected on multiple screens / walls and with its own soundtrack of heavily manipulated field recordings captured in the same locations in the jungle.  

JJ: We can get an idea of what this looks like from the beautiful video stills on the back cover of the album.

Andrew Pekler: Theme From Tristes Tropiques / Avian Modulations / Life In The Canopy

Gibbons of Siem Pang Protected Forest recorded by Adrian Stoeger
Andrew Pekler - Untitled / Insect March
Alessandro Brivio - Untitled
Jake Meginsky - Vandals + Waldkautz Balz recorded by Walter Tilgner 
Mike Kitcher - Processed Snippet of "Congo Traditional 1952 & 1957" # 8
Yannick Dauby - 蛙界蒙 + Francis Bebey- Sanza tristesse
Unnamed Aka Pygmy Singer - Dikoboda sombe (Hut song solo) + Morton Feldman - Samoa
Hanno Leichtmann - Primitiva 4
Three Legged Race - Tyrant (loop) + Lieven Martens Moana - A Subtle Landscape + Knud Viktor - Images
Luluwa people of Congo - Wa Kabwala Wa Beena Luluwa + Andrew Pekler - additional sounds 
Andrew Pekler - Synthetic Gamelan & Frogs
Yas-Kaz - Psychopomp + Tor Dietrichson - The Conjurer + Asmus Tietchens - Vektor 2 R
Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon - Study VII for Samplers and Percussion + Louise Lawler - Birdcalls
Günter Sommer - Hörmusik + Jake Meginsky - Four Zopas
Native Instrument - Live at Atonal 2016 + Cluster - Rote Riki (loop)
Pierre Henry - Continuum + Adam Asnan - Rev Sets 11
Hamza El Din - Song With Tar + Yannick Dauby - A Pattern Which Connects B
Gamelan Son of Lion - Gamelan II
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Agba'a
Andrew Pekler - Humidity Index / Khao Sok (chopped and screwed)
Gibbons of Siem Pang Protected Forest recorded by Adrian Stoeger

Fourth World Problems II

Artist: Andrew Pekler
Album: Sound From Phantom Islands
Label#: Faitiche20
Format: LP/DL

Faitiche is delighted to present a new album by Andrew Pekler: Sounds From Phantom Islands brings together ten tracks created over the last three years for the interactive website Phantom Islands - A Sonic Atlas. With his 2016 album Tristes Tropiques, Pekler created a highly unique cosmos of ethnographic sound speculations. Sounds From Phantom Islands continues and simultaneously expands this concept: finely elaborated chordal motifs float like fog over fictional maritime landscapes. A masterpiece of contemporary Exotica.

Phantom islands are islands that appeared on historical maps but never actually existed. The status of these artefacts of European colonial expansion from the 15th to the 19th century oscillates between cartographic fact and maritime fiction. Sounds From Phantom Islands interprets and presents these imaginations as a quasi-ethnographic catalog of music and synthetic field recordings. The pieces on this album are based on recordings made for Phantom Islands - A Sonic Atlas, an online interactive map developed with cultural anthropologist Stefanie Kiwi Menrath.

Autumn Sketch / Feedback + Horns

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