Bamboo Dreams

We ghalawtek (Balanov Remix) | عمرو دياب - وغلاوتك (ريمكس)

Until Dawn

Appears on: "The Thorned Maze". Out now on cassette + digital on Portals Editions 

https://portals-editions.bandcamp.com/album/circular-ruins-the-thorned-maze

Time Without End

This piece was made for the opening of the Radio Belgrade Electronic Studio on March 2 2018. 

This is my 1st recording of the real-time improvisation with EMS Synthi 100 + my computer setup.

Computer setup was based on the TouchOSC interface, Pure data patch and Ableton live. Improvisational dialogues between Synthi and computer were done through a dynamic interactive interface on my tablet and tweaking of the Synthi sounds live and playing with their parameters. I haven't used Synthi's sequencer (or a computer sequencer), but rather variety of key triggers, joysticks and envelope shaper trapezoids.

Due to a wide frequency range, it's not advisable to listen to this recording through a laptop speaker or similar.

This is my first use of the modular synthesizer in live performance and/or composition.

TV recording of the whole event: https://youtu.be/9tUwHGweUxY
(simultaneous performance in 2 studios of the Radio Belgrade with audience, live TV and radio broadcast)

Radio Concert No.1

Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Avenue Felix Faure, Strasbourg again, Leipzig, rue des mûriers, Nantes, Vichy, Strasbourg again,

Advices couldn't help what needed to be done alone, still public today for mental needs.

Lyrics heard but inapprehensible
unpleasant symphony but offensive beats
hic et nunc but distant  from our mores.

Readings inspired by L'ombilic des limbes d'Antonin Artaud.

Hic & Nunc

Taken from Keys to the Fields 35:
"2236-2R"

litüus _ 09292014_2236_002

@ https://soundcloud.com/karlfousek

Established as a key voice in modern synthesizer music, Karl Fousek’s focus lies on the sense of movement inherent in his modular. And it is indeed ‘movement’, along with its close cousin ‘time’, that seems to inform the pure experimentalism with sound generated on Another Use For Time. Fousek’s tones flurry back and forth across and inside each other, with the Canadian composer oscillating between the macro and micro gestures of his instrument to create a sonic sculpture in constant motion. Fousek himself describes it as an album made in transition: “It's kind of a reflection of my past work and taste and techniques, while also trying to move forward.” 

Unusually for Fousek, these three pieces were recorded at separate times, straddling a period of transition as the artist left Montreal to move back west to Vancouver. 

The album’s opening 18-minute exploration, ‘What Was Once Or Twice’, was recorded in Seattle, and is split into two movements. The first sees Fousek introduce a variety of whooshes, bleeps, and frozen tones, and the second sends them spiralling out of control, and receding back into the outer reaches of his setup, short circuiting and colliding into mind bending new forms that seem to fold space-time. The entire piece is built around a custom software delay network that “reacts automatically and changes itself based on the incoming signal”. 

The brief interlude at the centre of the record – ‘Circling’ – dates further back to 2016 and deploys those embryonic delay techniques Fousek would later develop, while the second two-parter dates to Montreal in 2018. Constructed from noisier jams, “Time For Another User” is dense with ideas; an attempt to make a “classic” electroacoustic composition devoid of narrative and structure. Algorithms and spontaneity are deployed to encourage maximum disruption, making it a sonic smorgasbord that rewards close listens. Every modest, Fousek views it differently. “Hopefully,” he says, “it just floats by.” 

credits
releases May 1, 2020 

What Was Once Or Twice recorded 2019 at The Chapel, Seattle. Circling recorded 2016, Montreal. 

Time For Another User recorded 2017-18, Montreal; Philippe Vandal contributed additional synthesizer. 

All tracks compiled, edited and mixed 2020 at Deep Blue, Vancouver. 

Mastered by Josh Stevenson at Otic Sound. 

Artwork by Maurizio Vicerè from the HOLOGRAMS series. 
www.akavice.com

Another Use For Time

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Corrupted Ataraxia

Ned Lagin's Seastones is a pioneering electronic composition interweaving metaphors from nature, science, art and music and the origins of music. Reflecting the technology, science, modern art, new ecological awareness and optimism of the times and culture, Seastones embodies the history of electronic music by taking full advantage of tape music, analog synthesizers and computer technology to create pieces that are dynamic, rich and deep.

Originally released by the Grateful Dead's Round Records in 1975, Seastones' reputation as a gem of electronic music was further enhanced by the celebrity of the musicians who contributed to the source material. Seastones musicians include Ned Lagin (processed piano, clavichord, organ, prepared piano, electric piano, synthesizers), Jerry Garcia (processed electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, voice), Phil Lesh (processed electric bass), David Crosby processed electric guitar and vocals), Grace Slick and David Freiberg (processed vocals), and Mickey Hart and Spencer Dryden (percussion).

This new LP presents two crafted Seastones sets (Sets 4 and 5, 18 tracks) drawn from the entire Seastones composition and contains gorgeous extended processed vocals by Garcia, Crosby, Slick and Freiberg, and beautiful abstract instrumental passages by Lagin and all.

Ned Lagin - Seastones - Seastones 03 - LP available Nov. 3, 2020

Makinist(https://soundcloud.com/user-153161389) is a french electronic musician, artist and PhD student. His doctoral thesis is focused on the uncanny in late capitalism. As a result, glitch, hauntology and uncertainty are recurring feelings in his sound. Alienation and transcendence seems to play a decisive part in this aesthetic. He is working with animation, installation, performances and with underground record labels like https://soundcloud.com/prehenseur(?), EZ, and https://soundcloud.com/ultravirusss. 

"What was a crucial sonic experience in your life?"
I was and I am still mesmerized by the particular silence of abandoned places. The city roar seems distant behind walls, letting space for other sounds. Nature, animals, wind, little flickering of sharp glass, or footseps have a new meaning in these places. It can be scary to hear someone coming in this context but this person could be a friend. It is places where capitalism  seems to rest, and new things can rise, like a new sonic ecosystem. 

Link:
BC - https://makinist.bandcamp.com/
IG - https://www.instagram.com/_makinist/
YT - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUeWvQWoCkjqCkpYk6M8Hng

Tracklist:
00:00 – Together or apart we rise
04:15 – Numerica remix
06:02 – Sao
09:49 – Savior’s Paradox
12:45 – Recording of protest against the Global Security french law .
13:55 – Oblivion Gate
16:52 – Headroom dream
18:30 – Paki’s smile
21:59 – The Glomar Blues 
23:50 – Recording of memories with Kamron and Cheyenne 
26:28 – Hypermnesie 
30:44 – Evental Archantrope
33:45 – Disaster Panacea 
41:30 – Let go at the edge 
47:15 – Trepan-prim
50:33 – Locked Out (excerpt from Préhensible (?), Quel est son nom (?) EP)
52:09 – Memory Displacement (excerpt from Préhensible (?), Quel est son nom (?) EP)
54:02 – Various recordings
55:10 – Heaven’s protocol

MNEMOSYNE #013 - MAKINIST

' .. son-ambient sculptures or creeping gas leaks, seeping out of speakers and into the atmosphere. '

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