Wonder placid feeling - a sense of relaxation without feeling your pulse has dropped dead.

I can't believe it's been 8 years now (writing this in late Feb '24). Beautiful piece of music here.

Beauty and sadness combined, making for a wonderful melancholy homage.

a really cool track, with this soft ambience

feels like a fleeting amalgamation of the last 4 trax on Low - lovin' the ethereal gitR

The Middle Mass Extinction

Perihelion

Bass Improvisation 1/2/2023

Patrick R. Pärk - Floating In Silence (for Manuel Göttsching)

Strange February Mood

The mixed version of the collaborative Machinefabriek album '+'. 52 tracks with just as many contributors. Available here: https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/-
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The plan for + arose from being a young parent, and dealing with the combination of working on music at the same time. Focusing on long-form music proofed challenging. So I came up with the idea to work on super short tracks that each could be made within a short span of time, and to do this with ‘a few’ collaborators. This concept worked out brilliantly (especially because of the enthousiastic responses from the artists I invited to join), and in no time the project grew a lot bigger than anticipated.

So, + is a selection of no less than 52 short pieces, each with a different collaborator. The variety is huge, with jazz cats, electronica wizards, classical players, and more.

Each contributor was asked to send a one-minute recording. No other guide lines were given (because I love surprises). These submissions were then treated/reworked into the audio miniatures you’ll find on the album. And it’s safe to say that these tracks are all over the place, stylistically.

Next step was to sequence everything into a more or less coherent album. It’s up to the listener to decide if that mission was accomplished. But it surely is an intruiging trip.

+ (full album, mixed)

Sonic Installations I (sagedus)

" M o n d f i e b e r "

🌝

I run from the Devil,
from the Devil to Her.
 
I fade away,
for all the Flowers,
for all the Creatures,
for all the Planets,
for all the Stars,
I fade away.

I pray, for the Dark Side,
I pray, to her Night.

I spell Light, as it's my Might.
I'll fade into White.

" Im Rauschen des Mondes "

With ♥️ by @medi-zijn 🌝
& SHÉ @the-healing-boat 🌞
Master: @greenhornmusic 🙏

 A l u n A – Greetings From The Heart of The World
" Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 'Gonawindua' Colombia 'Sacrada' "
🌝 Be blessed. Love You!  🕊

zhigoneshi 🌹

Fiebre de la Luna

🕊

F i e b r e  de  la  L u n a  🌙

Download link

http://pedestrian1.bandcamp.com/

Central Nervous System E.P. (See description)

“I'm growing more and more fond of imperfection. This isn't some knuckle dragging reaction against technology, but rather I just find the humanity of error engaging - and the accidents it causes often more interesting than perfection.
Maybe it's because of this, that I'm repeatedly drawn to earlier electronica, where imperfections were an unavoidable by-product of playing, bodging and stitching-together electronic compositions using tape loops and delays.
This is why this track - and in fact the entirety of the new album it features on "Walk-in Diorama" sounds as it does. It was all played by hand, with no sequencing, click-tracks or time fixes. Just played and combined using 4 stereo tracks.
People have mentioned it reminds them of Cluster or Harmonia. I did not set out to do this, but it seems, this way of working results not only in a feel, but also in a style, a time or even in a place. I find that interesting in itself." /Giles

Walk-in Diorama

In The Partial Shade Of Tall Trees

From COLLECTED LOCATIONS Vol II
free download: placement.bandcamp.com/album/collect…-locations-ii

A little while back my name ended up in a hat for a project of collaborations - the lucky-dip chose Man Meets Bear, and yesterday was the first clear day for recording. 
So it was into The Little Studio - flicking on the red lights & scanning the news feed... David Bowie had died. 

All day I just kept recording. This was the result. 

Between Boxing Day And Goodbye <Thin White Duke>  (by Placement & Man Meets Bear)

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The pair typically combine found sounds, field recordings and an array of instruments both electronic and otherwise, with tape effects, prepared systems and improvised playing. Their albums are largely themed geographically to evoke a particular area or feature and the tracks themselves can vary from large scale impressionistic pieces to more focused and intimate studies.&#13;
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'SCALE' (2023)
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‘From a dog lying on its side, to 1 au. An album inspired by the discovery of an old photograph, this album explores our relationship with Scale from human size to the distance from the Earth to the Sun. 
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'Prototypes For Placement - Vale Recordings Vol.1' (2020) By Placement's Giles Jacobs
Music designed to seed future Placement tracks. Specifically those for a project inspired by the geology and topography of 'two vales’. The vale of Avalon in Somerset and the vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. This edition explores the latter of these home vales, evoking the landscape and underlying fabric of Aylesbury Vale.
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'Collected Locations 2' (2016) &#13;
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'Pieces From A Life' (2013) "An unmapped flicker-book searching for place.." A CD and associated download available from <a href="http://placement.bandcamp.com/album/geometry-in-distant-agriculture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>&#13;
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'Geometry In Distant Agriculture' (with Adriva 2011) 'Music and textures gathered from and inspired by the Azov and Black sea regions of the Russian Steppe'. A CD and associated download available from <a href="http://placement.bandcamp.com/album/geometry-in-distant-agriculture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>&#13;
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