Name: Mare Insularum by Andrew Pekler
Duration: 4 min 2 s
Description: excerpt from an unlabeled live recording 2017

Heavenly I feel like myself when I listen to this

listening to this quells the ego beautifully.

wlr188 - JARR - Sun Swift Swoon

Life, Death, & Birth "II" || 2025

Written by HD-4884

Life, Death, & Birth II

This project is a continuation,a deeper descent and a softer emergence.

It carries the weight of what couldn’t be said the first time, the fragments I buried, the echoes that haunted the quietest parts of me. These songs are not just music—they're remnants. Proof. Emotional residue from the fallout of grief, of family fractures, of trying to find a voice in the aftermath of being silenced.

"II" is where I begin to untangle.
Where I stop asking for permission to feel.

These tracks were written in moments where I couldn’t breathe, when the memories were too loud, and the future felt unreachable. But through every beat, every word, I stitched something back together. Not to forget but to finally make peace with what I carried.

This isn’t just a goodbye, don't allow the darkness to place you in a bind.

-HD

Life_ Pt II

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/views-of-mind

"Views of Mind” continues my recent trend towards ambient chamber music, blending electronic soundscapes with acoustic instruments, and moving towards a kind of contemporary classical music. 

Through its minimalism, this new album is introspective, unwinding the threads of a slow, fluid, serene and meditative musical reverie. 

Like a sonic screen on which to project intimate films, “Views of Mind” encourages contemplative listening, away from the tumult of the world...

releases July 21, 2025 

Compositions, sound design: Christian Wittman 
Recorded and produced at Nina Studio, Paris, May-June 2024. 
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong 
Artwork: Christoph Harbonnier 

Bandcamp: christianwittman.bandcamp.com 
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4q4V7ci4nsWYEoPSb09voh 

Blog: christianwittman.blogspot.com 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083593063457 
web: lightwave-musique.com 
Links: linktr.ee/christianwittman 

SHM 348 
Shimmering Moods Records 2025

Christian Wittman - Introspection

B3 Silent Escape

http://tmxt.es/3f4t

[00:00] Luciano Cilio - “Terzo quadro da ‘Dialoghi del presente’”
[01:20] Robert Ashley - “The Fox” (excerpt)
[03:22] Phonophani - “Life’s White Machine”
[07:52] Michèle Bokanowski - “Tabou” (excerpt)
[10:07] Ahnnu - “Found”
[11:33] Harold Budd - “Bismillahi ‘Rrahmani ‘Rahim” (excerpt)
[13:31] Mark Templeton - “Pond” (excerpt)
[14:47] Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - “Botuto”
[19:47] Semuin - “greetings prelude”
[22:50] Mark Templeton - “Cab Lights”
[25:52] Visible Cloaks - “Bloodstream”
[29:11] Leo Kottke - “Owls [Instrumental]” (excerpt)
[30:55] Mark Templeton - “Horizontal Plane”
[34:27] Andrew Pekler - “Seascape / Ship”
[36:40] Jon Hassell - “Air”
[40:41] Inventing Masks - “3’11””
[43:42] Ezekiel Honig - “August Rooftop”
[44:28] Nicola Ratti - “w6”
[48:11] Félicia Atkinson - “Curious In Epidavros”
[51:05] Nikolaienko - “Wir Bauen Eine Neue Welt”
[53:58] Mark Templeton - “Burning Brush”

Guest Mix: Mark Templeton - Present Affection

excerpt from an unlabeled live recording 2017

Mare Insularum

behavioral shutdown model

dɛ koŏning

From the album Sounds From Phantom Islands

https://faitiche.de/products/sounds-from-phantom-islands

The Australian ship Southern Surveyor sails toward the Eastern Coral Sea in November 2012. The crew is nervous when approaching the coordinates of Sandy Island north-east of New Caledonia. Minuscule archipelagos and stone-hard chalk riffs are common in this area. Captain Fred Stein and marine geologist Maria Seton have ordered their crew on deck to scan the waves for dangerous riffs or seabed sightings. Some of the scientist on board follow the search on the computer screen – and are amused to live-track their ship as it crosses the black pixels on Google Maps labelled Sandy Island. The explorers have undiscovered an islet that has been on the maps since Captain Cook charted it on his second voyage as lying off the northern tip of New Caledonia. A British Admiralty chart of 1908 that includes Sandy Island warns: "Caution is necessary while navigating among the low lying islands of the Pacific Ocean. The general details have been collated from the voyages of various navigators extending over a long series of years. The relative position of many dangers may therefore not be exactly given."
 
First Appearance: Chart of discoveries made in the South Pacific Ocean by HMS Resolution under the command of Captain Cook. 1774, published 1776

Last Appearance: Google Earth 2012

Sounds From Phantom Islands

Buy on Bandcamp

Sunshower At Sandy Island

Keith Fullerton Whitman inaugurates the Satellite Mix series with Acid Causality, a blend of recordings made in his home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. 

"Shortly after returning to New York City in October 2018, I began recording a series of extended pieces applying analogue computing concepts to generate fluid, evolving values that were mapped to formal elements (pitch, rhythm, timing, spatialization, filtering, etc.) normally driven by fixed-value sequencing. 

This mix presents edits of a series of four sessions forged between November 11, 2018 and November 27, 2019: First, a suite of Vocoded kick-drums and sample and hold canon melodies run through a sentient resonator network; then a six-voice wavetable canon with requisite acid bassline and pitched-down drums; then a suite for hand-percussion and modeled metallophones; then a high-feedback karplus-strong wash. 

These were immaculately conceived from the tools on hand and the methodologies of Norbert Wiener, Maatrameru, et. al, although stylistic/traceback shout-outs are in order to Stephan Wittwer's score for Fischli and Weiss' Der Rechte Weg (1983), to Mikel Rouse's Quorum (1984), and to Steve Poindexter's Computer Madness (1989)."
—Keith Fullerton Whitman

KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN, ACID CAUSALITY / SATELLITE MIX 001

Pre-Order available now via imprec.com 
Cassette edition of 100 via Cassauna/Imprec

“Rupture” was inspired by the southern Italian folktale of Tarantism,
which is said to be an epidemic provoked by the bite of the tarantula.
It causes extreme spiritual possession. 
Aki Onda composed these tracks using the traditional folk music of the region as underlays, mostly in indirect ways but occasionally directly sampled. 
The tracks were recorded with musicians Tatsuya Nakatani, Gareth Davis and Clifton Hyde. The artwork features eerie and uncanny images of the Japanese
photographer Daisuke Yokota.

1. Rupture 
2. Betrayal

3. Rebirth
4. Growth 

Aki Onda : electronics, field recordings (1-4)
Tatsuya Nakatani : percussion, gongs, bells (1-4)
Gareth Davis : bass clarinet (4)
Clifton Hyde : mandolin (3)

Soundtrack for “Rupture” by Aki Onda
Recorded by Tatsuya Nakatani, Gareth Davis, and Aki Onda 
Edited and mixed by Aki Onda 
Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper



Photography by Daisuke Yokota

Aki Onda - Rupture - Cassette - August 3, 2020

https://socialharmony.bandcamp.com/merch/dj-michel-gentil-le-retour-des-d-moniaques

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