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Here is the ephemeral liveset I performed at Ultratech Chaos Lab 2.0, the second instalment of a party series dedicated to noise, livecoding, and other experimental stuff. This gig was a little special as it was the first time I played at the Diamant since Exploration 1 which took place something like 5 years ago. It was also the first time I used a random notes generator (you can hear it in the first part). I really enjoyed the 'melody cascade' feeling it gave to the whole piece. Will definitely reuse this kind of technique in the near future.

Special thanks to the Diamant team for hosting the event and 520Still for the awesome visuals he illustrated my liveset with, and big up to all the other artists involved: Azertype, Ralt144mi and Leon Denise from the Cookie Collective, Papirove Houby, Jules Cipher, Coloscope, William Stone, and Crash Server.

Live setup: Reason + MIDI controllers
Recording: Zoom H5

Artwork based on a photography by Alice Dirwimmer

Expedition 18: Ultratech Chaos Lab 2​.​0 (Diamant d'Or) [Intro]

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Ok this is a special one. When Canine invited me to her Unleash residency at la Kulture, she proposed me to warmup the party from 11:30pm to 1am. It was the very first time I had to create an ephemeral piece more than an hour long so it was a little challenging, especially because I design each of these ephemeral pieces to be like one, continuous, giant escalation. The fact that this liveset was so long did create some very interesting moments in my opinion, especially in the beginning, like if all these synth arps were diluted in some ethereal space or something.

Believe it or not, someone even told me that this performance would fit in a contemporary art museum. Don't know how to take it really, so let's say this is an awesome compliment.

Thank you very much Canine for inviting me, it was a great night. I would also thank Zoe and Laurent for the beautiful conversation we had together after the bar did close its doors. Good and powerful memories.

Live setup: Reason + MIDI controllers
Recording: Zoom H5

Expedition 19: Unleash (Kulture) [Intro]

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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 sewing 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

May (f1)

3/ De la folie jusqu’aux illuminations, les raccourcis abondent.

catalogue : muzakorderEP0015

recording(s) : fhauna

mastering : Jean-Patrice Rémillard

tuuf

A blend between two different projects, to say not in my name
audio taken from a raw italian documentary about all we already know..
work in progress

غزة  *Pay attention to the volume

zone.

muzakorder _ 2025
LPx02
Mastering : Nil Hartman

à la rouille (avec öthann)

Small fragments of the planet remain visible

E.F.S. n*1

fhauna_bc

RASK

dm for booking & inquiries

https://randyedgewood.bandcamp.com

ephemeral live music band

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

33. 04/12: I'm not a DJ @ Péniche Mécanique

> PREVIOUS EXPEDITIONS

>> 2025
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 19: Unleash (Kulture) [Intro]

Randy Edgewood Experience