reminds me of old school acid. love this stuff🙂

Get the whole recording (total length: 42:52) on Bandcamp now:
https://randyedgewood.bandcamp.com/track/expedition-19-sxb2-next

This is maybe the most unexpected show I performed so far. The Next is a little nightclub located in the middle of the historical centre of Strasbourg. It's a neat venue, with a nice staff and a good sound-system, but one can say it's very mainstream music-driven, so the odds to hear experimental, or even electronica stuff there is near zero.

Actually that was quite a challenge for me to adapt my style to this peculiar place. I had to find the right balance between my usual weird no input sounds, and some more musical/danceable elements, so I wouldn't lose the whole audience instantly. Turned out it worked pretty well, as people looked like they were really enjoying the moment. Interestingly, the most receptive were the younger part of the audience. I remember that the deeper we went into the expedition, the larger was the physical separation between the older ones, chatting and smiling in the background, and the younger ones, nervously dancing and headbanging just in front of me.

Thank you very much Nico, Mich-Mich and all the Kollectiv Wolfgang for trusting me and making this weird crossover of genres happen, thank you Ricardo for the great conversation, thank you Flipper for hosting the party, and thank you Crash Server for recommanding my name to the team. It was both a fun and interesting project to work on.

PS: The water sound you can hear in the beginning comes from the entrance of the Next.

Live setup: Reason + MIDI controllers

Expedition 20: SXB2 (Next) [Intro]

The world's largest iceberg, A23a — equivalent to the size of Rhode Island- is endlessly spinning near the South Orkney Islands, about 375 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula. Its dance is caused by a phenomenon in fluid mechanics known as a Taylor column. It's essentially a rotating cylinder that forms when there's an obstruction in a flow. The A23a is trapped in a kind of ocean vortex, a Taylor column.
There are many paths a collaboration can take you down. Although the typical one tends to be shaped as a kind of dialog or turn-taking, I like the most those that, instead, become as sawing a seed and watching what happens then, including some active intervention: somebody tells an idea, or provides some materials or tracks to you and they start a self-organizing process in one's DAW. That's what happened here: @user-737426987 Ambient Annie provided some tracks that made some musical sense by themselves, but I used them as seeds for something different though related. Another of Ambient Annie's relevant contributions to this track has been in providing a concept, even though this was originally unintentional: some of our email conversations deal with natural phenomena, and therefore Antarctica, its fauna and icebergs gracefully popped up. Some months later, the seeds swelled, stems grew and leaves appeared, giving way to the flowering that you can now listen to.
During the final mixing rounds, Nyarlathotep, the three-lobed burning eye creature from Lovecraft's cosmogonies, passing his crawling chaos through the throat of @lhtrah Lht (another SC artist you should listen to), unexpectedly contributed with some primordial chants to this track: my degree in Miskatonik studies allowed me to decode the singing as "I will die and nobody will remember me", which is quite appropriate for an iceberg that is slowly melting. As far as I could find out this song was first featured in a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky, "Fando y Lis" (1968).
Ship bell by Mateusz_Chenc @ freesound.

A Taylor column

This is a collaboration between the music producer LO and video artist DAPA Vision. Their creative efforts has resulted in a 40 minute VHS, released in limited edition (naturally) on Stålverk Records. Lo created the conteplative music, with its characteristic vinyl crackle, and DAPA Vision did the moving pictures with inspiration from mundane, everyday moments and TV static, a.k.a. "war of the ants". It was premiered at Gästrike konst (art festival) in april 2025.

LO + DAPA Vision - In Lokalen 3

LES   PARADIS   ARTIFICIELS

Bandcamp

erin's forgotten world

Conscience ∞ Soul
The body, a receiver— an antenna stretched toward the unsayable.
It tunes in, translates— but the signal comes from elsewhere.
One day, the frequency slips. The sound fades, but the wave goes on.
What we thought housed in flesh had already spilled past the bones.

My Soul is Not Contain

Conscience ∞ Soul

Watercolours

Hold your hands up to the sun,
Dance around, chant a song,
Swing your hips and have some fun,
Stomp your feet, vibrate the gong,
Shake the earth, embrace the air,
Sun is out, it's all around,
Dance your heart in to a prayer,
Listen to the sacred sound,
Circle of sol, enlighten your soul,
Rays of sunlight, solar power,
We are human, we are whole,
Consuming the sun like a sun flower,
Yellow sun that bakes the earth,
Essence of life it gives to we,
Fuel for the plants, bolsters the birth,
Taste the sunbeams, blaze of glee.

Oh, the golden mask of Ahau,
Oh, the golden mask of Ahau,
Oh, the golden mask of Ahau,
Oh, the golden mask of Ahau.

Sundance of Ahau (original unedited)

Lost in the groove. Let the soulful chords and lush rhythms of melodic house be the soundtrack to your weekend. Hit play and drift away.

The Sunken Path

Unexpected

Face Machine inhabits the blurred threshold between the human and the synthetic, where identity becomes fluid and is constantly rewritten. Drifting between melodic techno, underground trance and electro-pop, the album unfolds like a network of unstable selves - mirrors folding into mirrors, names dissolving into signals. Vocals shift between male and female, merging with abstract textures until the human voice becomes something unbound, a mutable instrument suspended between body and machine. Each track carves its own passage through luminous, volatile atmospheres, yet all are tethered by a shared sonic architecture of detuned oscillators, layered melodic counterpoint, and synthesis timbres that breathe with organic motion.

These twelve tracks move through states of emergence and disappearance - memory scattering, identity refracting, presence dissolving into signal. Wordless chants, whispered fragments, and spectral harmonies drift like residues of selves that never fully arrive. Within this landscape, rhythm and texture intertwine: polyrhythmic layers build and collapse, melodic threads blur into complex harmonic tides, and shifting tonalities open portals into new emotional terrain. Face Machine doesn't offer resolution; instead, it lingers in the spaces where perception falters and technology reshapes what it means to exist. It is an album of thresholds and transformations - a meditation on how we become, lose, and reinvent ourselves in an age where even our voices can belong to someone, or something, else.

Unface

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https://randyedgewood.bandcamp.com

ephemeral live music &
contemporary dance improvisation

synth/drone/ambient/noise/techno

music: randy edgewood
dancer: elisa loréa
guitar: @almone_silice

every expedition
is a new sonic journey

neither of us can tell
what will happen

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
32. ???

PREVIOUS EXPEDITIONS

2025
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: Ultratech Chaos Lab @ Perestroïka
25. 10/11: Sublime @ Liebe, Paris
24. 04/11: Ultratech Chaos Lab @ Diamant d'Or
with Elisa & VJ William Stone
23. 25/06: Nervure @ Péniche Loupika, Lyon
22. 23/03: Ultratech 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: Ultratech Chaos Lab @ Diamant d'Or
with VJ 520Still
17. 16/09: Art Residency @ secret place
16. 29/07: Ultratech Chaos Lab @ Local
15. 26/03: Private party @ J.'s basement
14. 05/03: Back2TheStream @ Crash Server HQ

2021
13. 02/12: Ultratech night @ 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: UTR Afterwork II @ 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 20: SXB2 (Next) [Intro]

Randy Edgewood

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