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Ten years ago, Parish Bracha anonymously released his Disconscious album Hologram Plaza, significantly influencing the still nascent Vaporwave scene. He continued producing a number of disparate anonymous projects until Cascade II was released in 2020 on Arca's Mutant Mixtape.

Cascades of Refinement, which includes the single Cascade II, is Parish's debut album released under his own name and his focus on the dialogue between the digital and the organic continues. The techniques that defined his influential early sound have been refined into a flawless hybrid of analog and digital textures which give his post-minimalist compositions an unmistakably personal expressivity.

Classical instruments are mutilated and transmuted into razor-sharp shards of glass suspended on piano wire above warped opalescent metal while never losing sight of their tonal integrity. Much like the impartial juxtaposition Parish employs in his timbral exploration, each composition explores the concepts of beauty and gentleness through and with extremity, violence, and chaos as equal counterparts, with each successive piece refining and relieving the artificial tension between these states. Employing use of the Una Corda, prepared piano, bowed piano, plucked piano, harpsichord, church organ, untuned violin, voice, synthesizers, and resampled field recordings, Cascades of Refinement lies somewhere in the indefinite space between acoustic and electronic and is beholden to neither.

Parish's initial electroacoustic experiments with piano and strings were interrupted by the pandemic lockdown when he was limited to sampled instrumentation and digital processing available on a computer. Out of this necessity evolved an appreciation for the incidental nature of digitally sampled acoustic instrumentation and the unpredictability of its interaction with digital signal processing.

As work on Cascades of Refinement continued and acoustic recording was reintroduced, the focus turned to the tension between recorded and sampled instrumentation, with the goal of integrating the two into a singular indistinguishable material to be warped and shaped together. Each of the four pieces of the Cascade series explores this tension, successively integrating and collapsing their distinction with each piece. 
 
The subtle artifacts of digital processing and incidental mechanical sounds of the acoustic are amplified and given presence alongside the tonal elements of each piece until a point of indivisibility is reached. The sound of a bow scraping along a string or a granular buffer freezing are neither discarded nor hidden, but selected as the ripest material to accompany and structure each composition. Cascades of Refinement is a dialogue between organic and digital, between the mercurial and infinitely reproducible, not as opposites, but as mereologically cohabiting counterparts with equal expressivity.

Cascades Of Refinement

Parish - Cascade III - From Cascades Of Refinement CD/Tape

Musique Pour La Danse's Olivier Ducret kicks off with a focus on "Cascades Of Refinement" the new album by Parish Bracha (aka Disconscious), which "explores the concepts of beauty and gentleness through and with extremity, violence, and chaos as equal counterpart", followed by a laidback summer? selection featuring Software, Horsey, Miles Davis, Peter Gabriel, Funkadelic, DTR, The Meters, Amerie, Bass-O-Matic, Coldcut, The Irresistible Force, The Durutti Column, Donald Fagen, Henri Salvador, DNA feat. Suzanne Vega, Lalo Schiffrin, Portishead and  to end with the cherry on the cake, the incroyable Zeta Zeta.

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Curated by Bccording, NTS Parody Law was originally realized as a sound installation that took place at the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery in Detroit, MI on December 2nd, 2023. The piece was a collaborative endeavor, assembled from previously unreleased material created by independent musicians working in the avant-garde across Detroit, the United States, and the World. Now, a copy of NTS Parody Law is preserved here in the formforum universe in an archival effort to capture the ephemeral.

List of Works:

00:00:00 Bccording - Bccording’s Intro
00:00:54 Nina Spheres - ෛൊ 1 ண.
00:07:38 Elizah Ivy - 6 Feet
00:08:12 november02 - Move
00:10:29 Caitlin C. Harvey - In the Red
00:16:56 Yoko Xama - R
00:19:44 Stress Actual breaker
00:23:23 Cryingfossil - Senior Year
00:26:20 ddunccan - giving in
00:35:10 Parish - Untitled
00:34:20 Stress Actual - noise 2
00:37:05 Daniel Hex - Boyfriend
00:40:37 Leigh Dimension - it will 422
00:44:24 Yoko Xama - B
00:47:55 Elizah Ivy - Frozen
00:50:02 deskulling - rezen
00:59:56 november02 - Seeds
01:02:41 Wyatt Thiry - Untitled Excerpt
01:05:44 PHPM - my closure
01:07:34 Yoko Xama - Mould.Net
01:10:36 Nina Spheres - ﷽ 2 (၎᪬༃)
01:15:24 ddunccan - Fuck You (ft. Bccording)
01:21:38 Elizah Ivy - I’ve Made it Through Hell
01:22:23 Stress Actual - foghanglow
01:28:54 lartheealien - Oct25
01:30:43 Stress Actual - Remix of Stress by OPN
01:33:37 Cryingfossil - Sleep Talking
01:36:21 Tommy Fleece - Semester in Japan
01:38:37 Ziggy Waters - 2seaterdemo
01:40:57 Leigh Dimension - Breakbeat RIO Edition
01:43:40 BESTTOW - STTOW Arena
01:47:08 deskulling - pull me up drone

Thank you to every contributing artist, WSU faculty member, and to formforum

Logo Design and Cover Art by Union Farm
@bccording

NTS Parody Law (Full Mix)

Performed live @ Q-Factory Amsterdam 29.2.2024
Performers: Iara Perillo, Waldorf 
Mastered: Waldorf
Cover Art: Waldorf

https://formforum.bandcamp.com/track/d-exp0i

Iara Perillo, Waldorf - D.Exp0I [live]

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Affection (Single)

Album of the same name coming out this fall.

For cr4zyw0rldlov3

Mastered by Stress Actual (sc/stress-actual)

Affection

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First single from Human Story 3 
released june/14/2016

preorder: https://jjamesferraro.bandcamp.com

Ten Songs For Humanity

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