Based on Franco Battiato's L'Egitto Prima Della Sabbia

L'Egitto dopo La Cicala

On the occasion of the passing of Jon Hassell.

Fanfare (for Jon)

https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/klangturm-sounds-for-the-bell-tower-of-the-immanuelkirche-hamburg-veddel

"Klangturm" was commissioned by the Immanuelkirche church in Hamburg-Veddel. The church had recently replaced its bells with a loudspeaker and automated playback system and had asked a number of artists to compose music to be played hourly as well as shorter sounds to be played 15, 30 and 45 minutes past the hour. 

Thinking about what sounds have bell-like properties (but aren't bells) and taking into consideration the technical limitations of the bell tower's loudspeaker (mono, limited bass and high frequency), I decided to work with a limited pallet of just electric guitar and a few effects pedals (reverb, tremolo, pitch shifter, envelope). 

Each piece at the full hour is "previewed" by short fragments of its component parts at the preceding 15, 30 and 45 minute mark. Some, but not all, of the pieces include a time-telling element; a melody with the same number of notes as the hour. 

These pieces were played back from the bell tower of the church from 8 AM to 8 PM every day (except Mondays) during July 2021.

8:00 PM (excerpt from "Klangturm")

From the album Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi "Palimpsests" out on Shelter Press om October 22, 2021. Preorder: https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/palimpsests

Bandcamp

Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi - Simferopol

This is a mixed down composite version of Browser Music 1. 

The individual parts and instructions for playing them are as follows:

Open each link below in its own web browser tab or window and press play on each. 

Part One: youtu.be/O7K1iG0TsHo
Part Two: youtu.be/wIK1krtrErM
Part Three: youtu.be/8GNHtoh3Q58
Part Four: youtu.be/Pv_X8e8cgJs 

The four parts are meant to play at the same time but don’t have to start together. You can stop / re-start individual parts and change their respective volumes as you wish. Like the components of a mobile sculpture, each part can be considered on its own or in any combination. 

This is music without development, where nothing much happens (or rather: the happening is evenly distributed throughout). This is also quiet music – perfect for playing in the background on your web browser while you are doing something else on your computer. You can even listen to other music / watch other videos / make Zoom calls, etc. while playing Browser Music in the background.

Support here: https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/track/browser-music-1

Browser Music 1

This is a mixed down composite version of Browser Music 2. 

The individual parts and instructions for playing them are as follows:

Open each link below in its own web browser tab or window and press play on each. The four parts are meant to be played at the same time but don’t have to start together. You can stop / re-start individual parts and mute / change their respective volumes as you wish. Like the components of a mobile sculpture, each part can be considered on its own or in any combination. 

Part One: youtu.be/3bFnL-NScXg
Part Two: youtu.be/t0uBrmzbLmg
Part Three: youtu.be/JuL0QeuPD0E
Part Four: youtu.be/SpKiqpJViSw

This is music without development, where nothing much happens (or rather: the happening is evenly distributed throughout). This is also quiet music – perfect for playing in the background on your web browser while you are doing something else on your computer. You can even listen to other music / watch other videos / make Zoom calls, etc. while playing Browser Music in the background.

Support here: https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/track/browser-music-2

Browser Music 2

This is a mixed down composite version of Browser Music 3. 

The individual parts and instructions for playing them are as follows:

Open each link below in its own web browser tab or window and press play on each. The four parts are meant to play at the same time but don’t have to start together. You can stop / re-start individual parts and change their respective volumes as you wish. Like the components of a mobile sculpture, each part can be considered on its own or in any combination. 

Part One:
youtu.be/LnwaunruVRE

Part Two:
youtu.be/G3gaV4DsV6U

Part Three:
youtu.be/5GJYi3-Uk1E

Part Four:
youtu.be/4748yUy4dNE


This is music without development, where nothing much happens (or rather: the happening is evenly distributed throughout). This is also quiet music – perfect for playing in the background on your web browser while you are doing something else on your computer. You can even listen to other music / watch other videos / make Zoom calls, etc. while playing Browser Music in the background.

Browser Music 3

This is a mixed down composite version of Browser Music 4.

The individual parts and instructions for playing them are as follows:

Open each link below in its own web browser tab or window and press play on each. The four parts are meant to play at the same time but don’t have to start together. You can stop / re-start individual parts and change their respective volumes as you wish. Like the components of a mobile sculpture, each part can be considered on its own or in any combination.

Part One:
youtu.be/4fE2awB7_d0

Part Two:
youtu.be/kT9ZastGvqE

Part Three:
youtu.be/Hzd_ydrGCqE

Part Four:
youtu.be/EpPkit3i8Vg


This is music without development, where nothing much happens (or rather: the happening is evenly distributed throughout). This is also quiet music – perfect for playing in the background on your web browser while you are doing something else on your computer. You can even listen to other music / watch other videos / make Zoom calls, etc. while playing Browser Music in the background.

Browser Music 4

A mix originally made for Kiev's 20ft Radio https://www.20ftradio.net 

Tracklist:
1. Paul Lansky - Word Color
2. Celia Hollander - 11:01 PM
3. Yolambi - VI
4. Madalyn Merkey - Click
5. Mark Templeton - Water Baptism
6. Brin & Josiah Steinbrick - I Feel / New Look
7. Giuseppe Ielasi - 04 (Its Appearance Reflected By Three Copies)
8. Mike Weiss - The Beach
9. Ned Lagin - Seastones 79 
10. Wild Card - Twighlight Disclosure
11. Andrew Pekler - unreleased 
12. Ludwig Berger - Hotel Bali-an Resort Shinjuku Island Tokyo
13. Takamitsu Ohta - Pichang-Pochang - Hide From the Rain 20190219
14. Yoshio Machida - Daydreams
15. Hideki Umezawa - Sinking into Silence
16. Andrew Pekler - unreleased 
17. Andrew Pekler - unreleased 
18. Andrew Pekler - Encounter

20ft Radio Mix

From the forthcoming album SG - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite (Faitiche 33)

SG - Western Affect

From the album Palimpsests (Shelter Press, 2021) 
https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/palimpsests

Buy on Bandcamp

Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi – Ravenna

From the album "New Environments & Rhythm Studies" - out on June 27th .
https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/new-environments-rhythm-studies

Cumbia Para Los Grillos

From the album "New Environments & Rhythm Studies" - out on June 27th .
andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/new-en…ythm-studies

Fabulation For K

1. andrew pekler - feedback tt
2. unnamned burundian musician - chant avec citahare / toru takemitsu - water music
3. mike cooper - electricity
4. joel chadabe - yum yum
5. ryuichi sakamoto - ulu watu 
6. andrew pekler - synthetic birdsong / cool symmetries
7. michael prime - the mouth of hermes / barbera benary - sleeping braid
8. chappel mood music vol. 15 - électronique / zazou, bikaye, cy 1 - m’pasi ya
9. andrew pekler - synthetic birdsong / madalyn merkey - archipelago
10. barbara kolb - solitaire / waisoni msusa (malawi)- kung'anda kwa anyamata
11. dennis smalley - the pulses of time
12. peuls musicians of niger - pakapak / mike cooper - tahiti green island
13. gordon monahan - large piano magnified / andrew pekler - untitled 
14. andrew pekler - mirror structures
15. mbuti singers (malawi) - iyo-o-o / david keane - in memorium hugh le caine
16. jon hassell - empire iv
17. unnamed burundian musician - take me back to mabayi / pierre henry - danse / additional sounds
18. andrew pekler - theme from tt
19. nuno canavarro - bruma / unnamed burundian singers - akazéhé / andrew pekler - synthetic birdsong

mix originally made for the skyapnea radio show on nts radio http://www.skyapnea.com/pagez/about/

photo by tina born 
http://www.tinaborn.com/


Fourth World Problems

Synthetic Birdsong

Underwater Nocturne

Cue: repetitive bed for science / mystery, miniaturized percussion.

Taken from the first ever vinyl pressing of "Cue" since its original release by Kranky in 2007.
Available through: anost.net, Juno Records, Rush Hour Records, Bleep.com and many other stores...
http://muscut.org/Andrew-Pekler-Cue

Buy album

Steady State

Insect March

An unused Sentimental Favourites interlude.

Love You Know You

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

Los Jardines

Fonseca Winds (Lament)

1.  Andrew Pekler - Synthetic Nocturnal Atmosphere
2. Sugai Ken - Wakihi
3. Tomoko Sauvage - Clepsydra
4. Roger Tellier Craig - Soleile Et Chaleur Dans Le Parc (excerpt)
5. Walter Zimmerman - Stille Tänze Riuti
6. Mark Templeton - One Last Encore
7. Giuseppe Ielasi  - Forthcoming Untitled
8. Alessandro Bosetti - Advertencia (El Silbo Gomero)
9. Paul De Marinis - Fonetica Francesa
10. Mike Kitcher - Amabele O-O
11. Carl Stone - Dong Il Jang
12. Jason Grier - Demonstration Disc 5
13. Jake Meginsky - Fourth Gate
14. Phil Struck - CCLT
15. Andrew Pekler - Cricket Steps
16. Nicola Ratti - L2
17. Seekersinternational - Run Come Test
18. Steve Shehan - Sticks And Stones
19. Richard Horowitz - Eros Never Stops Dreaming
20. Maggie Payne - Gamelan
21. Ahnnu - Daydream Blink Edit
22. Andrew Pekler - Water Particles

Resonant Night

Excerpts, fragments, edits and combinations of: 

Ströer Duo - Vietnam  
Jonathan William Scherk - Oh Softer
 Naná Vasconcelos - Dado 
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Studie II 
Kiyoshi Mizutani - Watering Place Under Kannogawa-Nokkoshi 
Savant - Heart of Stillness 
Matsuo Ohno - 映画｢惑星大戦争｣電子音響 
でいご娘 - クーダーカ
Knud Victor - Images 1 
Roberto Musci - Claudia, Wilhelm R. and Me 
Yasuaki Shimizu - Seiko 2 
Joel Chabade - Yum Yum 
Daniel Lentz - You Can't See the Forest 
Tomoko Sauvage - Jalatarangam Revisited
 Iannis Xenakis - Orient-Occident 
People of the Ituri Forest - Elephant Hunting Song 
Benjamin Lew / Steven Brown - Bamako Ou Ailleurs 
Michel Redolfi - Death Valley 
Martin Neukom - 18.5 
José Pivin ‎– Opéra Du Cameroun 
Andrew Pekler - Fonseca Winds (Lament)
Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Fawn 
François Bayle - Toupie Dans Le Ciel 
Duke Ellington, Max Roach & Charles Mingus - Le Fleurs Africaines

Originally broadcast on http://lyl.live/show/les-statues-meurent-aussi/

Juxtapositions

New, old and timeless faves, plus some works in progress mixed together for https://soundcloud.com/latency-recordings label

Otto Sidharta - Gongs
William Selman - Polysemy
Makoto Shinohara - Alternances 
Susan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz - Tear
Asa-Chang & Junray - Tsuginepu To Itte Mita
Paul Lansky - Word Color
Andrew Pekler - Untitled, unreleased (Cicada + Bass)
Bellows - Untitled track from Sander EP
Sugai Ken - Okera
Andrew Pekler - Untitled, unreleased (Remix of recordings made in Uganda by Alyssa Moxley)
Seth Graham - Mas Que Fin
Mads Emil Nielsen - Soundtales excerpt
Phil Struck - Klouds
Dawid Szczesny - Drafts 1.7
Otto Sidharta - Gongs
Bobby Hutcherson - Prints Tie
Sote - Santour sample from Holy Error 
Don Cherry & Latif Khan - Air Mail
Ahnnu - War Stage
Terry Riley - Music For The Gift (part 1)
© - He Was 
Vapour Gourds - Low Jack Miniatures excerpt
Jasmine Guffond - Post Human

Magical Nihilism

excerpt from an unlabeled live recording 2017

Mare Insularum

A collage of sounds from http://www.andrewpekler.com/phantom-islands/ – an interactive website that charts the sounds and histories of islands that were once found on nautical maps but have since disappeared.

Phantom Islands are artifacts of the age of maritime discovery and colonial expansion. During centuries of ocean exploration these islands were sighted, charted, and described – but their existence was never ultimately verified. Poised between cartographic fact and maritime fiction, they haunted seafarers’ maps for hundreds of years, inspiring legends, fantasies, and counterfactual histories. Phantom Islands – A Sonic Atlas interprets these imaginations in the form of a map of speculative sounds from 27 phantom islands around the world.

Phantom Islands (Collage)

Philip Tabane - Mgwedi (Moon)
Chas Smith - After 
Marissa Anderson - Chimes
Roy Montgomery - Clear Night
A.C. Marias - Just Talk
Robert Fripp - 1988
Acetone - How Sweet I Roamed
Bill Nelson - The Ritual Echo
Pete Drake - Steal Away
Andrew Pekler - Untitled Guitar Music (incorporating sounds from @human_ear and @bun)
Spacemen 3 - Repeater
Daniel Lanois - Sketches

Guitar Topographies

From the 2011 album "Sentimental Favourites" – originally released on Dekorder. Available digitally on Bandcamp at the nice price of pay what you want.
https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/sentimental-favourites

Sentimental Favourites

Name your price

The Twilight Of Your Smile

A mix assembled for the bi-monthly Temple of Faitiche show on LYL Radio: https://lyl.live/episode/temple-of-faitiche-17/

Hi - Tech World 1984-1990

Extended arrangement of loops made for Dougherty Island at www.andrewpekler.com/phantom-islands

Dougherty Island - 120º W, 59º S
Captain Dougherty of the English whaling ship James Stewart, discovers the island in 1841 and describes it as 5–6 miles long with a high bluff to the northeast and a valley in the middle covered in snow. Dougherty's discovery is confirmed by English captains in 1859, and 1891. Sailing through the area during Shackleton's Antarctic expedition of 1908–1909, Captain Davis, Chief Officer of the Nimrod suggests that fog banks or icebergs had deceived Dougherty and his successors. Nonetheless, a license granting “exclusive rights to occupy the island for the purposes of removing guano and other fertilising substances” is issued to the Norwegian whaler HJ Bull by the British Government in 1913. 

First appearance: 
1892 British Admiralty Chart of the South Pacific

Last appearance: 
1910 Royal Geographic Society Chart of the voyage of the Nimrod

Dougherty Island

This mix, originally made for @mysteriesofthedeep, features a few favorite (mostly unaccompanied) piano meanderings from Australia, Algeria, Ethiopia, Italy, South Africa and the US set against a shifting backdrop of nocturnal field recordings.

Tracklist:
1.  Joanna Brouk - The Space Between
2. Chris Abrahams - Roller
3. Abdullah Ibrahim - The Pilgrim
4. Mustapha Skandrani - Mode Ghrib
5. Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou ‎– Golgotha
6. Domenico De Clario - June 5
7. William Duckworth - Time Curve Prelude III
8. William Duckworth - Time Curve Prelude XIII
9. Adrian Klumpes - Be Still
10. Raul Lovisoni & Francesco Messina - Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo

Pianos In The Wild

re-upload of this mix from 2015 – features some early drafts and snippets of material that would later make it onto the album tristes tropiques. part 2 can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/pekler/fourth-world-problems-ii

1. andrew pekler - feedback tt
2. unnamned burundian musician - chant avec citahare / toru takemitsu - water music
3. mike cooper - electricity
4. joel chadabe - yum yum
5. ryuichi sakamoto - ulu watu 
6. andrew pekler - synthetic birdsong / untitled
7. michael prime - the mouth of hermes / barbera benary - sleeping braid
8. chappel mood music vol. 15 - électronique / zazou, bikaye, cy 1 - m’pasi ya
9. andrew pekler - synthetic birdsong / madalyn merkey - archipelago
10. barbara kolb - solitaire / waisoni msusa - kung'anda kwa anyamata
11. dennis smalley - the pulses of time
12. peuls musicians - pakapak / mike cooper - tahiti green island
13. gordon monahan - large piano magnified / andrew pekler - untitled 
14. andrew pekler - untitled 
15. mbuti singers - iyo-o-o / david keane - in memorium hugh le caine
16. jon hassell - empire iv
17. unnamed burundian musician - take me back to mabayi / pierre henry - danse / andrew pekler - additional sounds
18. andrew pekler - untitled
19. nuno canavarro - bruma / unnamed burundian singers - akazéhé / andrew pekler - synthetic birdsong

Fourth World Problems I

Bonus track from the expanded digital release of the 2012 album Cover Versions. Available now at: https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/cover-versions

Download includes 10 bonus tracks not included on the original vinyl release, a PDF of 100 unique Cover Versions album covers, and installation photos. 

Original press release text:
Cover Versions – Record-edition and installation by Andrew Pekler

For ten days, the gallery Laura Mars Grp. is transformed into a record shop, complete with records in browser bins, recommendations on the walls and a record shop clerk to assist customers. This record shop, however, only sells one record: Cover Versions by Andrew Pekler, each copy of which is packaged in its own individual album cover. 

Andrew Pekler selected 300 different covers from cheap second-hand records and, using colorful geometric elements to cover over all titles, performer's names, and label logos, removed traces of the covers' original contexts. 

The sunsets, couples in silhouette, alpine panoramas, roses on pianos, faces in close-up, and seascapes no longer serve as the packaging for easy listening, , volksmusik, exotica and light classical. Instead, the romantic, bizarre and intriguingly bland images of the original covers are free to lend their evocative powers to the record of new music they now house. 

Likewise, the principle of collage is audible in Andrew Pekler's compositions. The electronically transformed fragments of audio extracted from the original records take on a new existence as Cover Versions.

Cover Versions is a co-production between Andrew Pekler, Laura Mars Grp., Fantôme Verlag and Senufo Editions.

Organ / Instrument

From the split release with Hideki Umezawa "Two Views of Amami Ōshima". 
Full length album: https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/two-views-of-amami-shima
Limited edition LP via Edições CN: https://edicoescn.bandcamp.com/album/two-views-of-amami-oshima

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