Get the whole recording (total length: 0:41:21) on Bandcamp now:
https://randyedgewood.bandcamp.com/track/expedition-14-crash-servers-back2thestream

Here is a recording of a liveset I performed at Crash Server's basement for their Back2TheStream livestreaming session. Recording was slightly edited as there were some odd audio glitches in the original one. Maybe some parts are also too long and repetitive, but I didn't want to modify it too much.

Live setup: Reason + MIDI controllers
Recording: Crash Server streaming setup

Special thanks to Crash Server for the great initiative and invitation, and big up to all the other artists involved: NoisK8, Vindeyre, AFALFL, and Jules Cipher.

Artwork based on the event visual created by Crash Server

Expedition 14: Crash Server's Back2TheStream [Intro]

Kalaallit Nunaat - Filmstadt Underground

a little snippet from the other night. Somewhat contrasting the extreme noise of our last SC post : ) Still making use of this wonderful space and Grand Piano, no doubt we will get asked to leave at some stage, but until then happy days : )

Kirby/Ward  Organ Room Jam # 27

Arp 5, Rv5 tst 08.02.24 (live Recording)

released in Jan 2025 - nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/i-am…m-with-you.

Then She Reaches for the Gun was formed in 2021 by Mat Ward. At its essence is sound collage, Ward invites musicians, sound artists, poets and anyone interested to send him files to be used, abused and showcased ‘as suggested by the work’. They are not always musical but field recordings, spoken word, engine noises and drunken rants. Animals participate a lot too! The raw material is arranged with one phrase asking for the next in an alchemical and intuitive process that will most often feature dozens of tracks weaving in and out of each other, colliding, harmonising, arguing and laughing along the way.

Both the aesthetic and the compositional methods use what Frank Zappa called Xenochrony - the mixing together of separately recorded and rhythmically opposing musical phrases to create polyrhythmic and polytempi compositions.The work also features fragmented story telling with the human voice (in many languages) appearing unannounced throughout the tracks offering up snippets of thoughts, conversations, jokes and existential angst. The absurdity of humanities desperate claim to have any real understanding of its place in the universe is revealed through the recorded follies and genuine emotions of the artists. The project is a celebration of chance, diversity and community. It pays homage to all musical tastes and genres whilst maintaining a sense of humour and irreverence that is needed to stay sane in the climate of 21st Century contemporary culture.

Then She Reaches For The Gun is

Humans

Adam Meredith - Ford XD with XF front mods/Voice
Ambient Annie - Electronica/Field Recording/Voice
Andrew Harper - Field Recordings
Angostura Elwar - 2 x Behringer CRAVE analog synths/Yamaha P200 electronic piano
Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi - Text/Voice
Ariad Music - Clarinet/Percussion/Piano
Axel Weiß - Electric Guitar/Robot Voices
Banalytic - Experimental Electronics
Belial Pelgrim - Digital Strings/Electronica
Brendan Corey Benson - Electric Guitar
Carolyn Wigston - Voice
Chicago Word Brigade - Electronica
Dan Hewins - Bass Guitar
Dane Renshaw - Drums/Voice
Dani Kirby - Keyboard/Piano/Voice
Dylan Banks - Intonarumori/Voice
Frank Wilke - French Horn/Trombone/Voice
Garbage Truck Disco - Drum programming/Electric Guitar/Joyous Pop Punk
Glenn Ward - Electric Guitar/Skyhooks
Hakan - Moog Voyager XL
Hverheij- Drums/Electric Guitar/Synth
Johnny Python- Bass Guitar/Drum Programming/Electric Guitar/Text/Voice
JZsuperstar - Electric Guitar/Field Recordings/Keyboards
Lady ElectroTrek - Organ
Libby Laksmi - Jazzy Loops/Synth Bass
Loop(c)y - Electric Guitar
Malo Bernard-O’Meara - Drums
Maxx Black - Guitar/Ukulele
Minimal Drone Girl - Cat Wrangling/Field Recordings
Oberlin - Eurorack/Piano
Paolo D’Emilio - Electronica
Paul Miller - Electronic Percussion/Keyboards/Phat Electro Bass
Phil Bywater - Saxophones/Voice
Raul Mainer - DAW Programming/Heavy Metal
Robert Jefferson - Akai Rhythm wolf/GakkenSX-150 ll/Korg Kaosilator/Percussion
Rosin Dust - Violin/Field Recordings
Sarah Megahertz - Speedway Noise
Scratch Kelly - Beats/Electronica
Stan Magendanz - Electronica
Ten Atmospheres - Field Recordings/Synths
Texmex Shaman - Electric Guitar
The Windscale Blues Experiment - Clarinet/Flute/Saxophones
Timothy Korstad - Demons/Electronica
Thomas Bergheim - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar
Tobias Schmitt - Electronica/Processed Organ/Text
Tuonela - Demons/Electronica
Vartch - Drones/Things/Trousers (not T-shirts)/Voice
Widar’s Spiritual Front - Electronica/Ms Pacman
W:I:L-o’ the-wisp - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar/Electronica
Wivresse - Electronica/Voice
Zanshin - Acoustic and Processed Drums

Mat Ward - Arrangements/Bass Guitar/Double Bass/Field Recordings/Intonarumori/Marimba/Noise/Percussion/Piano

Dogs
Boogie
Brophy
Buddy
Hancho
Jack
Momo
Neska
Poldo
Senna
Shyamsundara
Star
Oily (cat)
And many cows from Milis, Sardinia

Cooking Hard Boiled Eggs in a Cheap Motel In Adelaide Part 1

Volcanic

‘in principio creavit Deus cælum, et terram’
Travel Stories.
2025 semi-live performance.

I started producing Trans-Lunar Injection (https://soundcloud.com/petrus-major/trans-lunar-injection-travel) before learning of Jim Lovell's passing. The initial reference was simple: I was inspired by Kraftwerk's TransEurope Express (thanks to @fhauna for spotting this reference) and I wanted to travel through space :) hence the chosen theme and title. I finished the track after Lovell's passing.

The Apollo VIII epic had a huge impact on me, even though I was young at the time, as had those of Apollo XI and the others, of course. So my little dedication was sincerely necessary.

Then I wanted another version, more streamlined, and above all focused on the Apollo VIII mission with this extraordinary message sent from lunar orbit, including the reading of the first verses of the Book of Genesis by each crew member, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968, during a television broadcast: a magnificent event within the event! (I might come back to this later).

Sorry for this long introduction...

Tools :
Pam’s, Marbles.
- DFAM > Data Bender > FX Aid (#27 reverb hall medium).
- Drum2 (noise crush) > DSP (leslie speaker).
- Polygogo > Monsoon (clouds mode).
- Plaits (vowel and speech synthesis) > Sisters.
- Basimilus.
Ochd, Diode Chaos, Rnd Step.
Tetrapad, 3x MIA, Mutes.
StMix, Black Stereo Mixer, Listen IO.
Apollo 8 Genesis reading: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_8_genesis_reading.ogg
Transcript (and more information): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8_Genesis_reading
Recorded, mixed and mastered with Logic Pro.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

TLI Genesis RMX [travel stories]

I look back on this track fondly, as it reflects itself in the mirror with new gifts.

“Eudaimonia refers to a fulfilling life through authentic self-realization, emphasizing living in accordance with one’s true values & purpose”

5 years ago I collaborated with dark electronic artist/vocalist INRGD.
@inrgd
She contributed her gorgeous ethereal vocals to music I had sent. Fellow producer Belial Pelegrim skillfully mixed her vocals perfectly to the material.
@belial-pelegrim

The result was the track “Eudiamonia”. This remains one of my favorite collaborations- the beauty and purity of INRGD’s vocals resonated deeply on this track, giving a near chilling emotive power.

https://soundcloud.com/r-salchaks-mood-exhibit/mood-exhibit-ingrid-eudaimonia-1

By allowing this track to expose itself in reverse, I’ve found another level of emotion derived. Even more ghostly, almost that of a different realm altogether - yet equally intended to touch the soul.

Mood Exhibit & INRGD - Eudaimonia (Reverse Mix)

#film, #dark, #wall of sound, #liminal, #pulse, #ambient, #mysterious, #industrial, #Lynch, #Cocteau, #Crash, #chromatic, #shimmer, #throb, maximalist, #gothic

See Me in the Darkness

August 2025 . The residency has just finished, heading home soon to start work on developing a couple of long format works from all the sound captures. 
These are the 3rd batch of 3 short sketches using field recordings captured around Montegiovi, Tuscany. With these little works I am experimenting freely with what can be produced from each days sounds - manipulating them and stitching them back together with the aim of producing a long format work at the end of the residency. I have done maybe 20 or so  since the beginning of August. The idea is to have them done by the end of the day (or night) then move on to something fresh the next day.
I am truly thankful for this opportunity that has been provided for me by the Salamanca Arts Centre in Tasmania and Cultivate Projects/La Baldi residency in Italy and The USA.
And of course the wonderful people of Montegiovi !

Tuscany Experiments  8 - 10

From the new album "Welcome Anomaly"
https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-anomaly

Mood Exhibit - Protopristine

for booking & inquiries: ultratechrec@protonmail.com

ephemeral live music band

https://randyedgewood.bandcamp.com

dance: elisa loréa
guitar: @almone_silice
synths: r. edgewood

every expedition
is a new sonic journey

member of @ultratechrec

curator of Chaos Lab with @crashserver

zones already explored: Autre Sens Festival (Lac Blanc), Diamant d'Or, Liebe (Paris), Kulture, Local Bar, Maison Rose, Molodoï, Péniche Loupika (Lyon), Péniche Mécanique, Shadok...

> NEXT EXPEDITIONS

35.  31/01/26: Chaos Lab @ Carbone doré

> PREVIOUS EXPEDITIONS

>> 2025
34. 04/12: I'm not a DJ @ Péniche Mécanique
with Almone Silice
33. 12/11: Chaos Lab @ Perestroïka
with Almone Silice
32. 15/10: Chaos Lab @ Perestroïka
with Almone Silice
31. 06/09: I'm not a DJ @ Péniche Mécanique
with Elisa & Almone Silice
30. 03/01: Shônagon's Residency @ Z.est Radio
with Almone Silice

>> 2024
29. 10/08: L'Autre Sens Festival @ Lac Blanc
with Elisa & Almone Silice
28. 17/05: I'm not a DJ @ Péniche Mécanique
with Almone Silice
27. 27/04: Soutien à la Palestine @ Molodoï
with Elisa & Almone Silice

>> 2023
26. 22/11: Chaos Lab @ Perestroïka
25. 10/11: Sublime @ Liebe, Paris
24. 04/11: Chaos Lab @ Diamant d'Or
with Elisa & VJ William Stone
23. 25/06: Nervure @ Péniche Loupika, Lyon
22. 23/03: Chaos Lab @ Local
with VJ William Stone
21. 17/03: Molitor 3 @ Elastic
20. 10/03: SXB 2 @ Next
19. 24/02: Canine's Unleash @ Kulture

>> 2022
18. 29/10: Chaos Lab @ Diamant d'Or
with VJ 520Still
17. 16/09: Art Residency @ secret place
16. 29/07: Chaos Lab @ Local
15. 26/03: Private party @ J.'s basement
14. 05/03: Back2TheStream @ Crash Server HQ

>> 2021
13. 02/12: Ultratech @ Kulture 
12. 17/09: Bitte Acht Bits IV @ Maison Rose
with VJ William Stone
11. 03/07: Hyperstatik Koncept @ Molodoï

>> 2018
09. 19/11: 7ème Ciel @ Radiocapsule
08. 18/10: Ultratech @ Studio Saglio
07. 02/06: Katharsis @ Elastic Bar
06. 26/03: 7ème Ciel @ Radiocapsule

>> 2017
05. 23/11: From dB to lumens n°2 @ Elastic
04. 26/10: Bal de la Bidouille @ Shadok
03. 12/10: Bock-Too-Beer Fest @ Mimir
02. 12/07: Opus IV @ Coloscope's basement
01. 08/06: From dB to lumens @ Diamant d'Or

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Expedition 14: Crash Server's Back2TheStream [Intro]

Randy Edgewood Experience