Program Notes:
Listen for the subtle,  short, interrupted sine waves within electronics that cause the speakers themselves to emit ‘pops’ and
crackles, interrupting the acoustic instruments and tape playback. We’re not hearing the sine wave but rather the effect of the sine wave on the speaker’s mechanics turning the speaker itself into an acoustic element; thus giving these objects an active role rather than accepting them as a passive (playback) tool. Usually this treatment is avoided and seen as a mistake but in this piece it functions to address the physical mechanics of the speaker, of its own body, and demanding it to become more. To add to this, the percussionists are playing custom made “speaker-instruments:” subwoofer speaker cones transformed into an open air (and in a sense, large contact) microphone. This configuration allows the percussionist to physically perform low resonant tones and high washes of live filtered noise not possible outside this setup, with the hope to merge electronic and acoustic instruments into one composite organism, dependent on this merging to become more than just an extension of itself. The live processing portion of the work is that of rapid panning of the live acoustic instruments between two stereo speakers. This panning reaches audio rates and thus from this rapid oscillation causes its own square wave-like tone: the electronics sounds blooming from the acoustic in a symbiotic, intertwined creature like lichen.
This piece engulfs two prior pieces of mine that I’ve been working on for the past few years, “Harbinger” and “Speaker Spit.”

Instrumentation: Amplified vln, vc, piccolo, trumpet, e. gtr, midikeys, b-flat clarinet and live processing

Premiered and Performed by Nadar Ensemble
Mastered by Murat Colak
Mixed by Kelley Sheehan

Creature Like Lichen (2022)for chamber ensemble

LULL 'That Space Somewhere' CD

Cold Spring proudly present the first new album in 14 years from LULL - the pioneering, isolationist dark ambient project of MICK HARRIS (SCORN, FRET, ex-NAPALM DEATH).

EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM AT THE SLEEPING SHAMAN: https://www.thesleepingshaman.com/streams/premiere-lull-that-space-somewhere

LULL was conceived by Mick Harris in 1990, in an attempt to create music that would stretch, if not forsake entirely, the structures of conventional music by developing and exploring sound without beats.

MICK HARRIS ON LULL: 

"I finally heard the way of recording, making profound sounds. Lull is purely something I can get lost in, as far as trying to create these imaginary spaces. And that’s what I always tried to do – to create. I'm a lover of sounds. I love collecting sounds. Playing with those sounds using various software until I created something new from that sound. Which for me end being what I call "a droner" or "a drift",  I’d use those to create a piece of music, or a sound-scape. That's what I’m doing with Lull. Just trying to create soundscapes. And to this day, still, absolutely love doing that". 

THAT SPACE SOMEWHERE:

"I haven't made Lull records since 2007 so... with this pandemic, I have time on my hands. I've used that time, I think, to the best. Going to the music-room is pretty much an everyday thing to me. Which has been the best thing because I’ve not been able to do this since the 90's when I had various studios... Since the lockdown I had all this time on my hands and I created a lot of good music, which I'm actually happy with.

I'm a fisherman. It gives me a lot of space. It gives me immense pleasure. For me it's about going to the river. I like moving water. The seasons change, the river changes with the seasons. It clears my mind, gives me ideas, gives me the space to be by myself and with nature... just listening to the sounds around me.

LULL is quite natural for me. It's an extension of me. Drifting. Just going to darkness. Into a space. LULL is drifting and droning, discovering more and more what can be done with sound. These soundscapes hugely appeal to me".

Mick Harris interview August 2020, courtesy of Peek-A-Boo Magazine.

http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/interviews/mick-harris-scorn-lull-ex-napalm-death-2020

Matt-laminate digipak with majestic artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja). Out 2nd December 2022.

Order: https://coldspring.co.uk/csr321cd

Order: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/that-space-somewhere-csr321cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr321cd

Watch: https://bit.ly/LULL-TSS

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/lull-that-space-somewhere


LULL / MICK HARRIS:

https://mickharris.bandcamp.com
https://coldspring.co.uk/Lull

"Though this is dark ambient, the tone here is more meditative than menacing, something the name of the project has always made obvious and which always set Harris' work apart" (The Sleeping Shaman)

"The first really minimal music I encountered that really captivated me... It seems to exist somewhere on the threshold between consciousness and the unconscious" (Aaron Turner).

LULL Unplumbed (Excerpt)

The village stood on the slope of a steep hill and faced north-northwest, overlooking Wadi Salman. The Jerusalem-Jaffa highway ran immediately southwest of it, and dirt paths linked it to a group of neighboring villages. Although the identification of the village has been debated by biblical scholars, Lifta is believed to have been established on the site of Mey Neftoach, a source of water near Jerusalem. The site retained this name during the Roman period and was called Nephto during the Byzantine era. Almost nothing is known about the village in the early Islamic period; however, during the Crusades the village was referred to as Clepsta.

The fighting in Lifta, as well as the adjacent Jerusalem districts of Rumayma and Shaykh Badr, was triggered by the Haganah in the earliest days of the war. The History of the Haganah states that “Securing the western exit of the city [of Jerusalem] entailed the eviction of Arabs from Romema and Shaykh Badr. Afterwards, the Arabs also vacated Lifta.“ Other sources supply further details. According to Israeli historian Benny Morris, the Haganah fired the first shots in December 1947, killing the Palestinian owner of a filling station in Rumayma, on the grounds that he was suspected of informing Arab forces about the departure of Jewish convoys to Tel Aviv. The next day, a grenade was thrown at a Jewish bus.

Palestinian historian ‘Arif al-‘Arif adds that a coffeehouse in Lifta was attacked on 28 December with Sten guns and submachine-guns, and that six of the patrons were killed and seven wounded. The New York Times account puts the number of dead at five, adding that members of the Stern Gang halted their bus outside the cafe, sprayed the patrons with machine-gun fire and threw grenades.

Al-‘Arif writes that most of the residents of Lifta left after the attack on the coffeehouse and the rest evacuated soon afterwards. These actions were followed by a number of others, with the Haganah, Irgun Zvai Leumi, and Stern Gang repeatedly raiding both Rumayma and Lifta. In neighboring Shaykh Badr, the Haganah blew up the house of the mukhtar on 11 January, and two days later launched a second raid in which twenty houses were damaged. Most houses on the eastern periphery of Lifta were also demolished. Morris adds that the purpose of these demolitions was to turn the Palestinian residents out of their homes; to a large extent, this goal was achieved. By 7 February 1948, Jewish Agency chairman David Ben-Gurion expressed his satisfaction with the results of the attacks at a meeting of Mapai party leaders: “From your entry into Jerusalem through Lifta - Romema, through Mahane Yehuda, King George Street and Mea Sharim - there are no strangers. One hundred percent Jews.“

sraeli Settlements on Village Lands
The settlements of Mey Niftoach and Giv’at Sha’ul were built on village lands and now have become parts of the suburbs of Jerusalem.

The Village Today
Most of the houses remaining on the site are deserted, although some have been restored for the use of Jewish families. A basin that had been built around the spring in Wadi al-Shami lies in ruins. The mosque and the village club are still visible, north of the spring. Adjacent to the mosque, on the western side, is a cemetery covered with bushes and wild grass. The village orchard of  fig and almond trees is located at the bottom of a wadi along a stream flowing from the spring. Jewish families have moved into three of the old village houses. The ruins of other houses are visible in various parts of the site. In 1987, the Israeli Nature Reserves Authority planned to restore the “long-abandoned village“ and and to turn it in an open-air natural history and study center that would “stress the Jewish roots of the site.“ This project, with an estimated cost of $10 million, would be financed from donations.

BedouinDrone - Lifta

From album Bakblivv - "Piece of Stone"
Releases > premiere 23.05.2023
Listen & buy > pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com
Limited edition of 60 copies / C-30 cassette
POINTLESS GEOMETRY 2023 / POINT#52

Music by Bakblivv / @bakblivv
Recorded in Warsaw 2022-2023
Mastered by Fausto Mercier / @fausto_mercier
Artwork by Kamil Kukla / @kamilqkla

Bakblivv is a musical alias of Ernest Borowski, a queer intermedia artist, producer, and DJ from Poland.
His latest album, "Piece of Stone," is a stunning embodiment of the possibilities of contemporary post-club music. Through mesmerizing glimpses of multilayered soundscapes, the album invites listeners on a sonic journey that imagines a world yet to come. Each track on the album is a vivid imagination of ecosystems of (im)possible agencies. Born from a place of utopian dream of being-together, the album serves as a non-linear narrative.

Piece of Stone

Bakblivv - Broken Bones / POINT#52

Marie Deback, a French artist and DJ.
She works in the museum of fine arts and the museum of contemporary arts in Toulouse. She is mainly to be seen playing in art exhibitions and gardens. Her mixes are shaped by emotions and flaws and will often catch you in a dreamlike haze.

Marie Deback [Hits from the Boeing] [15.05.2023]

@noemibuchi x Avant Radio

"In this mix I want to manifest my passion, respect and love for all the selected artists, and bring together different worlds of musical genius. The aesthetic commonality that connects all these works has allowed me to enter into dialogue with the artist by including unreleased live recordings of myself. I am interested and inspired to observe how different, similar or even very different musical worlds function, but also to discover the universal commonality, the unique power of music through it, which no other medium in art expresses the way music does.
I'm mainly interested in compositional ideas and processes and I am fascinated by certain happenings in these selected passages. The power of innovation is both startlingly beautiful and almost frightening at the same time. With this mixing work I want to enter and influence this innovative power, by setting sounds, passages or accents in a new way. It triggers an indescribable euphoria in me.
Thank you very much for all this wonderful music, and thank you for listening."

Noémi Büchi is a Swiss/French composer and sound artist that creates electronic, symphonic maximalism. Her music is defined by a delicate synthesis of textural rhythms and electroacoustic- orchestral abstraction. She explores the potential of consonance and dissonance, contrasts rhythmic physicality with disruption and playfully emphasizes irregularities, creating an expansive listening experience marked by detail and elevation.
After her studies in electroacoustic composition, musicology and german literature, she already played at various festivals and was awarded a culture prize of the city of Zürich. Her 2019 debut EP ‘Matière’, released through Light of Other Days, drew widespread acclaim. In 2020, she released a second EP ‘Prismic Passages’ on the Leipzig- based tape label Visible Dinner. -OUS Records will be releasing her debut album ‘Matter’ and its prelude ‘Hyle’ in 2022, as well as the debut album of Musique Infinie, a collaboration between Noémi Büchi and Swiss/Italian composer and installation artist Feldermelder.
She explores the potential of consonance and dissonance, contrasts rhythmic physicality with disruption and playfully emphasizes irregularities, creating an expansive listening experience marked by detail and elevation.

Noémi Büchi - Avant Radio mix n.119

After his ep Street Knowledge 93, where Old school meets contemporary bass music mutations in a collection of remixes, original created by Mente3000, remixed by Hyper John, Pondus, Digitonica, Beatrix Weapons and P0brediabla, ep that was released in March 2023 by the Hyperboloid label.

This time Mente 3000 returns to his home, Infinito Audio Network, a label that celebrates 7 years of avant-garde activity, where he releases 7774L1F3 a breakbeat track in the classic 90's style, euphoric and breaks schemes. Co-produced with the engineer Enzo Donato in Santiago de Chile in 2022.

The ep has remixes created by the best of the current Chilean electronic scene, names like Lilen, Delia, Valeotro or Raw C show off their extrasensory senses to turn around, rebuild and give versions even more advanced than the original.
The ep also includes a remix by Broosnica, lord and master of the new Emo Trance sound and fellow Hyperboloid labelmate.
The ep was mastered by underground sound specialist Imaabs and features cover art by chilean artist Garse.

https://infinitoaudio.bandcamp.com/album/7774l1f3
https://soundcloud.com/valeotro
https://soundcloud.com/infinitoaudiolabel

PREMIERE: MENTE 3000 - 7774L1F3 (Valeotro Remix) [Infinito Audio Network]

Retour sur l'émission dédiée à la mémoire d'Ubald Hirsch, esprit brillant que notre animateur @Poborsk a eu la chance d'avoir comme ami. Ubald était un producteur talentueux et implacable de techno plutôt hardcore - https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/85342-Ubald

TRACKLIST:

- MORBID ANGEL - In Remembrance
- PHONOPHANI - Neverdal
- HANS REICHEL - You Can Dance With Me
- WANKER'S UNITED - Timimoun
- BOLA - Phulcra
- KEN ISHI - Turbinates
- POLE - Überfahrt
- HANS REICHEL - Le Bal (New Version)
- MUN SING - Left
- BARKER - Bent
- UBALD - Virus
- ROBERT HOOD - Minus
- JEGA - Motion Math
- CURRENT VALUE - PROCEDURE
- JEAN REDONDO -Hypersonic
- UBALD - Abaris
- ERRORSMITH & JAY MITA - Jam for Sisso
- KAY KYSER - You'll Find Out

GET IN THE POBOTRON ! w/ Poborsk (08.09.2023)

Another ambient and electronic experiment with the Teenage Engineering OP-XY. Great device!

Timeless

Cruise through city lights and midnight highways with this car lofi vibe — a perfect blend of chill beats, ambient textures, and driving rhythm. Whether you're on a solo night drive or relaxing in your parked car, this soundtrack sets the mood for reflection, peace, and aesthetic motion. 🚗✨

🎧 Tags: #carlofi #lofibeats #drivingmusic #chillhop #nightdrive #aestheticvibes #studybeats #lofimood #retrovibes #relaxingmusic

Drifting Away_with_outro

Deep Sleep Twenty Three

https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/unlimited-editions-pointless-geometry

https://www.dwutygodnik.com/artykul/11779-rozszczelnianie-kultury.html

Bakblivv - Broken Bones / POINT#52

Pointless Geometry

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