Lend Me Your Radio - Oct 20

Sundown

Listen to the flow of the healing sounds as they surround you and fill you up with joy of wholeness


Healing within

Can You Stay Forever

excerpt from an unlabeled live recording 2017

Mare Insularum

helios

Playlist and other information available at: https://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-167/

FFFoxy Podcast #167

Serrinha Do Alambari Soundwalk was composed by Martina Lussi during an artistic residency at Silo - Arte e Latitude Rural in Brazil. The work was originally presented on headphones and experienced as a soundwalk through the Brazillian forest around Serrinha Do Alambari. The sound piece contains field recordings including foot steps, breathing noises, snatches of voices and eletro-magnetic interferences. To explore the fluidity between the inner perception of the body and the sounds that surround us, the artist recorded mostly with binaural microphones whilst walking.


Written & produced by Martina Lussi.
Supported by Novas Frequências & Pro Helvetia.

Mastered by Anders Peterson at GS Mastering & Post.
Artwork & design by Benoît Lefeuvre.

Zenith / Serrinha Do Alambari Soundwalk

Martina Lussi - Serrinha Do Alambari Soundwalk

_ph011 Jordan Christoff - Плаващ

_ph012 Cait Foran - '-2'

ʼIs My Destroyerʼ unfolds like a story arc, always filled with a sense of time and direction as ideas morph, grow, disperse and rekindle; with key pieces like ‘Palaceʼ these ideas seem unbound, bursting out of their seams with emotional grandeur, elegance and passion, while other works such as ‘Orioʼ or ‘The Towerʼ offer sincere moments of reprieve.

https://soundcloud.com/vaagner

Premiere: Blessed are the Hearts that Bend - Kaal [Vaknar]

Dragon’s Eye is pleased to announce the release of 'Mixed Signals,' a new collaboration between longtime electronic musician FAX (Rubén Alonso Tamayo) and guitarist Braulio Lam. Both hailing from Mexico, the duo have crafted a multifaceted, shimmering ambient record that calmly propels the listener through passages echoing with just the right amount of reverb. Muted beats thrum against waves of ambient wash; bubbling guitar rides along the crest of synthetic sweeps. These carefully balanced mixed messages align with the album’s title, though the effect is not one of confusion. Listening creates a feeling of motivation toward a sense of ease, or settling into flux.

Mixed Signals

Fax & Braulio Lam - Insomnia

Raft of Trash is a generative music project exploring the sounds of systems using the natural rhythms of environmental dialogue in the world-building game SimCity 3000. It is a collaboration between sound artists/musicians Andrew PM Hunt (aka Dialect) and JC Leisure, and designer Thom Isom.  

Like the group’s early EPs, their debut album Likeness on the Edge of Town showcases the breadth of possibilities emerging from their unique process. Whilst playing SimCity 3000, the in-built sound effects of the game are converted and repurposed into MIDI data which is then fed to Hunt and Leisure's synths and samplers in real time. The resulting soundscape, imprinted with the dynamics of a simulated environment, is then augmented with live guitar, spoken word and field recordings to create an uncanny collage of wild synthesis, experimental narrative and bending, viscous guitar.  

Inspired by Fluxus artist Alison Knowles, the spoken word passages sprinkled across the record act as part travel journal, part system theory field guide as “someone guiding you through the simulated desert landscape, and through some kind of inner journey”. Exploring for instance the connections between the irregularities we discover in our functioning bodies and the impact of environmental influences or describing the fullness of the reality of stopping at a truck stop, these passages are an illuminating exploration of the complexity of living systems and real-life situations. Subtle musical references to Americana and sounds sourced from the desert around Joshua Tree contribute to a journey-like mood throughout the record. 

Musically, the record remains in largely abstract territory. Synths sprawl, crawl and fly above a sonic bed of creaks, ripples and bleeps; nothing is at it seems. This ambiguous relationship between the organic and the synthetic further highlights the themes explored by the group.  

Releasing in full on November 20 2020, as a limited edition poster and as digital files. 

Purchase on Bandcamp: https://raftoftrash.bandcamp.com/album/likeness-on-the-edge-of-town

Raft of Trash - Sans Sherif at the Painted Oasis

This song, which was originally supposed to be featured on a compilation, was ultimately scrapped for being too "dark". The bulk of this track was recorded in April of 2020 and then altered, possessed, exorcised, and eventually mastered by Sam Regan in October of 2020.

Ghoul Gathering In Ligovsky Prospekt

I (archive + time)
all the sounds are either recorded on the 21st september 2020 or from the archive made or recorded on the 21st september between 2007 and 2019. the arbitrary number of a date serves as an archival organisation and becomes here a structrural method that opposes and modifies the intuitive memory.

II (recordings and ghosts, the dead silence)
the sounds are recorded on a walk between bethaniendamm and urbanhafen alongside the former luisenstaetischer kanal. all the recordings of that walk are either a.) traces of em-signals or b.) resonating objects (hit or bowed) found along the way (so that the listener can follow the traces of the objects during the walk).
the recording itself happened during a monday night around 3 am. in the dead silence of the night. walking around with an em-detector and hitting on things like hunting or summoning ghosts: the sounds stand out against small noises of sleeping swans, startled residents or coincidental droping seeds from trees. so listening in this regard becomes more than listening to the sound itself. the decay of each sound is looking into the nothingness of silence.
the metaphor dead-silence refers to the non-availabilty (unverfügbarkeit) of the dead that slip away into nothingness. only memories hold a connection to the gone, to the past that otherwise would be nothing, silence. a decaying sound in the dead silence of the night thus becomes a sort of bridge, channel, vehicle to the dead (silence).
while for husserl the melody is an example of the process of retention, where we are able to recollect a certain amount of signals even without activly memorizing them, the musical structure at play in this piece works with layering parallels of single events that in confrontation become a (more or less) organized structure (dub and overdubbing).

III (luisenstädtischer kanal)
the luisenstädtischer kanal (1852) connected the spree and the landwehrkanal. mainly used for the construction of the densly populated area luisenstadt, it was filled with earth from the construction of the u8 to be reebuild as a public park in 1926 (as reconstructed today). after the second worldwar it was filled further with trümmer (debris) of the bombings and became 1961 part of the mauer, the border between east and west-berlin, the so called todesstreifen (death-strip).

0920_21 dead silence of the night

When ACL first started producing mixes, I knew that I didn’t just want to invite artists and labels. We’ve always imagined ACL as a part of a broader community. As such I’ve often invited mixes from amateurs, from listeners and fellow critics. This mix is one of those. 

We have another special guest mix from Philippe Requena. We have previous featured two mixes from him, Venant le jour and Water Be My Road Now. As on those mixes, Requena moves in a post-genre sonic world, drawing unexpected connections between disparate selections.

You can follow Phillipe Requena on his Bandcamp: https://bandcamp.com/requena


TRACKLIST

1. KMRU - Well
2. Innesti - Moving The Stars
3. Fovea Hex - Don’t These Windows Open ?
4. Fabiano Da Nascimiento - Ilhas
5. Biosphere - Tranoy Lighthouse
6. Meredith Monk - Unison
7. Plod - Aptaxi
8. Moses Sumney - Lucky Me
9. Rhythm & Sound - What A Mistry Version
10. Sarah Davachi - The Pelican
11. Roméo Poirier - Le bématiste
12. Steven M. Halliday - Für Alina Pt 3
13. Arvo Pärt - Even If I Lose Everything
14. Virginia Astley - With My Eyes Wide Opened I’m Dreaming
15. Christine Ott - Comma
16. Hilary Woods - There Is No Moon
17. Golden Retriever & Chuck Johnson - Lupine
18. Léo Ferré - Les Romantiques (Loop)

Paysages, encore

Phillipe Requena presents 'Paysages, encore' [mix]

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

_ph012 Cait Foran - '-2'

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