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TR167 - Madalyn Merkey - 'A1_alt'

The luminous one, “Diamond Ben” Kudler, presents a pairing of challenging computer music on compact disc with a book of sentimentally charged photography for Psychic Liberation’s first print publication: “My Summer Vacation”. The book is a collection of photos taken during the artist’s eventful summer and lingering into early fall of 2021. Kudler pairs each photograph on the release with an audio recording, offering a contextual lead for the listener-cum-viewer. Kudler uses this equality of formats to provide a mildly different image and sound consumption experience from those constantly emanating from digital devices. The photos are accessible, pedestrian, usually only alluding to the difficulty of that particular summer by its’ pairing with the sound design on the CD.
 
Kudler notes : 
“The tracks were recorded using synthesis techniques taken from a few different sources and usually realized with the SuperCollider' suite for sound generation, with the exception of track three, recorded with some software from the MIMIC platform. For those interested in learning more or exploring their own methods of sound creation using ones contained on this CD (as I did with the recordings of many others in order to create these recordings); Maryanne Amacher’s technique of producing DPOAEs (distorted product otoacoustic emissions), Trevor Wishart’s conception of the “waveset” and “waveset transformation” that were further explained by Curtis Roads along with Road’s “pulsar synthesis” are all used on several tracks. Machine learning processes developed at Google that manifested in their Magenta software were used as well. Finally, the MIMIC teams work into synthesis with machine learning, with special help form Mick Grierson and concepts conceived around generative music composition from Roger T. Dean, Jonathan McCormack, and George Lewis were built upon to create several of the tracks.”
 
In Kudler’s work as a performer and a computer music historian (see “Computer Music For Dorks” via the Anomia Soundcloud), the work he has workshopped and developed for over a decade is uniquely interpersonal and idiosyncratic, always generous and open. “My Summer Vacation” acts as another wildly personal chapter to Kudler’s growing sonic and visual vocabulary.

MY SUMMER VACATION

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DJ Fusiller - Sacrilège Vénération Vol. 1 (GRVTSBZH4)

A - Sacrilège Vénération Vol. 1 (Face A)
B - Sacrilège Vénération Vol. 1 (Face B)

"Arbitrary overlays, lazer beams, failed somersaults, cheeky cuts, hectoliters of red wine, freewheel tributes. At the request of Editions Gravats, DJ Fusiller (aka Fusiller aka the dude behind the insanely successful Tanzprocesz label) presents a 100% French mix for your greastest pleasure. Anti-dancefloor music for blurry emotions."

SACRILÈGE VÉNÉRATION VOL. 1

Dj fusiller - Sacrilège Vénération Vol. 1 (Face A)

Klara Lewis returns to Editions Mego with a surprising live set recorded in 2018. Expanding her exploratory vision into haunted realms of unheimlich sound, Live in Montreal consists of a single piece with three distinct discernible sections. 

The set opens with a crude rhythm churning away under a choral loop from which a diverse array of rhythm and noise appear and disappear. Despite it's foreboding tone this sequence still retains a foot in the club, as damaged as that may be.

A state of permanent collapse is a thread throughout. In this opening sequence an array of strange sonic elements introduce themselves, rise to the fore, threaten the fundamental discourse only to recede on the brink of destroying the work itself.  

It’s this fascinating construct, this perpetual threat to the music itself that makes the listening experience so captivating. Midway the storm subsides laying bare a more static emotional framework rendered unrecognisable prior. Electronic phantoms swirl in a more gentle fashion as ghostly voices come to the fold looping into an uneasy landscape shifting into a blurry utopian finale. 

Finding itself between decay and hope, Live in Montreal 2018 is another stunning addition to the consistently solid output from Klara Lewis.

Live in Montreal 2018

Klara Lewis 'Live In Montreal 2018' [excerpt] (EMEGO306)

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Side A of "Ode to Mud"
(2019)
Cassette & Digital via .jpeg Artefacts
https://jpegartefacts.bandcamp.com/album/ode-to-mud

Mute Dot
Theme
Fax 1
Fax 2
Eye

Mastered by Joseph Buchan
Artwork by James Vinciguerra

"Ode to Mud" (Side A)

Rien Ne Tient Dans Tes Mains

Originally composed for livestreaming events during the ongoing lockdown of 2020, Felisha Ledesma presents two extended pieces as a debut album, “Sweet Hour”. Ledesma’s first full length release arrives after much experience in creating collaborative works with artists such as Isabella and Angelo Harmsworth, site-specific installations, and high-profile festival performances.

Both pieces were realized using a new software synthesizer, called “AMQR”, which Ledesma built for personal use in collaboration with Ess Mattisson. Contrary to many digitally-based compositions, a distinctly warm and organic palette pervades these recordings. An almost playful leisurely pace is employed, engaging the listener to listen deeper; the pieces gracefully evolve with special attention to subtle shifts in stereo field and sonic coloration.

The time-of-day titles illustrate the two distinct moods conveyed: "7:00 AM" integrates field recordings and a hardware modular synthesizer, taking the listener through a psycho-acoustic journey exploring various nooks and crannies of subdued auditory rivulets: perhaps a hidden woodland brook, a sunny glen, a crunchy gravel walkway. "2:00 AM" harkens to the memories of nightclubs, opening with a synthesized arpeggio which could lead into a dancefloor-ready stomper. But instead, Ledesma steps back, allowing the arpeggio to develop into an encompassing ASMR-like timbral massage. The two compositions are united in a slightly melancholic grasping for connection; are they unfolding or are they unraveling? Ledesma does not answer the question outright, but instead finds joy in superposition and sublimation - while creating a space for the listener to inhabit, to live in, and to re-connect.

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Felisha Ledesma is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Berlin, GER. In Portland, OR, Ledesma co-founded and directed numerous organizations focused on experimental sound and community engagement such as S1 (an artist-run space) and the Synth Library (a lending library for electronic music equipment). Most recently Felisha co-founded Fors (fors.fm), creating "novel instruments that are elegant to use and adventurous in sound" in collaboration with Ess Mattisson and is studying sonic arts at Universität der Künste, Berlin. 

releases January 29, 2021

mastering :: Ess Mattisson

cover artwork :: Felisha Ledesma

design ++ layout :: Robin JM Vanderheyden

all proceeds to Equitable Giving Circle :: www.equitablegivingcircle.org

Sweet Hour

Felisha Ledesma - 7:00 AM [Excerpt] (ENXPL04)

Asymmetry

Sebastian Camens - Dust

Label ran by @nick-klein
contact: psychicliberation@gmail.com

For the physical and digital purchasing of PSYCHIC LIBERATION/PRIMITIVE LANGUAGES :
www.psychicliberation.bandcamp.com

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