VAK48 | Jeremiah Carter & Kelby Clark - It Sure Ain't Worth A Damn (Feat. Sarah Viviana Valdez)

Falling Through Holes Of Everything I Was

pre-orders start Friday July 22, 2022 at https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/

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Toni Dimitrov & Demetrio Cecchitelli – A New Dawn (Shimmering Moods, 2022)


Like the sudden passage of a light ray, this new and first collaborative effort by Dimitrov & Cecchitelli evokes images of daily-life surrounded by a whitening veil of nostalgia and melancholy. An immersion into the multifaceted colours of ambient music, precisely in a direction of slow transformation dilated sounds into space, time and imagination. Deep textures mainly developed by Cecchitelli and strong soundscape/found sounds source from Dimitrov’s archive, yet extraneous either reflecting, all transporting to a structured aesthetics that takes back to the idea of a sound installation within a land-art point of view or a scenography merely composed of organic elements. Materic at the intersection between real and surreal, a spiritual voyage.

credits:
Demetrio Cecchitelli, Toni Dimitrov: field recordings, textures, composition/dramaturgy
Elia Moretti: percussion
Andrea Porcu: mastering

A New Dawn

03 — Recall (feat. Elia Moretti)

From Moments In Shapeshifting, out soon on Type Recordings.

Belarisk - The Hand That Bit Itself {Geist}

A reworked version of one of the tracks used in the soundtrack to Surface Area Dance Theatre's production, 'Auricular'.

Auricular was performed in April 2017 at CCA, Glasgow (16 April), Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed (22 April)and at Turner Contemporary, Margate (29 April),

http://www.surfacearea.org.uk/auricular/

GB 2 Re/r/ed

MORE INFO HERE: www.79ancestors.com/release/territories

Territories is the debut compilation from brand-new audiovisual label 79Ancestors. Initiated as a celebratory call-to-action for musical friends and family to compose soundtracks for “imaginary landscapes”, the inaugural LP lays the foundation for a year of upcoming collaborations amongst a diverse set of musicians, designers, and performers. 

A collection of both music and visual art, featuring core 79A artists (Tongueless, A.M. Architect, Before Tigers) as well as guest contributions from Telefon Tel Aviv, Shigeto, Rafael Irisarri, and more. Territories is presented as a color-vinyl LP bundled with a customized 79A Cardboard VR viewer and a free iOS / Android app.

Territories

Before Tigers - Backward Rituals

A piece that I had been working on for a year. It never quite found a place within other works on an album, as it seemed unusual for me. 

Elements were incorporated into the DUO live performances. 

But not as an entity on its own. so here it is... 

isolated, dark, but hopeful. 
for these trying and anxious times. 

stay safe.


3particles25

Absention

in recent years, the turkish drone-pop composer ekin fil (born ekin üzeltüzenci) has been refining her talents in the realm of the film score. since her first recordings that were published by root strata and students of decay, she has always exhibited a preternatural ability to express the saddest of emotions through sound. once channeled through the lens of a gauzy shoegazing smear of guitars and voice, she has peeling away layers of her ephemeral songs to reveal their emotional core. that compositional process that works so well for her award winning film scores informs the soft-focus tenebrous pieces of her 2020 album coda. 

it’s true that any number of these pieces on this album could announce the finale to an emotionally draining movie, but ekin sculpts the entire album as a whole, dissolving one perfectly tempered piano motif, an impressionist ambient plume or a sibilant vocal melody into another. just at the threshold of perception, she occasionally invokes cascades of distant noise that easily can be interpreted as the ominous premonitions for natural disasters - incoming storms, earthquakes, or tidal waves. this subtle disquiet amidst the introspective melancholy furthers the emotional weightiness of coda.

her somber, blissful compositions have considerable gravity of their own in the constellation of grouper, felicia atkinson, and harold budd.

Coda

Ekin Fil // On Sand

This track is the result of a field recording workshop held at Skotfoss and Løveid Locks in April 2019. The workshop was part of the Greenlightdistrict Arts Festival 2019.
The workshop aimed to capture the sonic identity of a closed down industrial site in the south of Telemark, Norway. 
Artistic leader was Jørgen Larsson. Producer for Greenlightdistrict was Tom Hovinbøle. 
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Collecting sound is my habitual endeavour. Using recorded sound as my raw material, detach it entirely from its source and reconstruct it through a series of electronic processing. Texture rich tracks blend the sounds of my journeys. From heavily droning soundscapes towards a more rhythmic narrative.

Summer Solstice

A track recorded for the soundtrack to the contemporary dance production, 'Auricular' by Surface Area Dance Theatre.

'Auricular' was premiered at Baltic39, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK on 28 and 29 June 2013.

http://www.surfacearea.info/news/auricular.html

http://www.dancecity.co.uk/events/performances/568/auricular-surface-area-dance-theatre

Corrugated

Pre-order now available from Imprec.com

Harry Bertoia's Glowing Sounds LP contains three versions of the same composition, each transferred at different tape speeds in accordance with the artist's instructions. This is the third LP to be released from Bertoia's extensive tape archive and it's the first, of many, to be released using instructions left behind by the artist himself.

Bertoia wrote the concept for this Glowing Sounds LP on a note in 1975 and slipped it into the master tape case where it sat unread for 45 years. The idea was simple, transfer the original recording at its original speed and two slower speeds. Bertoia noticed that the results, however, were profound. 

Recorded on January 20, 1975 using two large gongs, Glowing Sounds is one of the most powerfully minimal recordings yet discovered in Bertoia's collection. The artist's note left with the tape indicated that it was recorded at a speed of 15 IPS (inches per second) but slowing it down to speeds of 7.5 IPS and 3.25 IPS were quite effective for enhanced playback. Side A features the original 15 IPS recording and the 50% slower 7.5 IPS recording. Side B features a 20 minute, ultra-slow version at 3.25 IPS. 

Long, deep drones and powerful overtones define the sound of this recording. Comparison of the three speeds provides a revealing magnification of Bertoia's gongs, overtones and the artist's inventive approach to performance, composition and recording. 



Bio: 

Harry Bertoia first gained some artistic visibility in the early 1940s, then came into prominence with his sculptural, ergonomic chairs, produced by Knoll Furniture beginning in 1952, which quickly became classics of modernist furniture. Inspired by the resonant sounds emanating from metals as he worked them and encouraged by his brother Oreste, whose passion was music, Harry restored a fieldstone "Pennsylvania Dutch" barn as the home for this experiment in sounding sculptures which he had begun in the late 1950s. Bertoia was an obsessive composer and relentless experimenter, often working late into the night and accumulating hundreds of tapes of his best performances; Oreste, too, would explore and record the sculptures' sounds during his annual visits to his brother's home in rural Pennsylvania.

Harry Bertoia's recently dismantled Sonambient barn collection was an attentive listener's paradise full of warm, expressive instruments that were gorgeous visually and audibly. Nothing could prepare you, even on return visits, for the overwhelming experience of entering the spacious wood and plaster interior where gongs, some of them giant, hung among the ranks of standing sculptures of various metals. Over nearly twenty years of adding, culling and rearranging, Bertoia carefully selected nearly 100 harmonious pieces ranging in height from under a foot to more than fifteen feet. He considered this barn a full experience, sights and sounds comprising not a collection of works, but one piece unto itself. It was here, deep in the woods, that his Sonambient recording work took place.

Learning by experimentation was common for Bertoia and he mastered the art of tape recording, turning the Sonambient barn into a sound studio with four overhead microphones hanging from the rafters in a square formation. He would experiment with overdubbing by performing along to previous recordings, sometimes backwards, constantly improving his methods while also honing his performance skills. Bertoia was a careful editor of his own work and only chosen recordings remained, each with a date and carefully considered observations written on a note included with each tape. Through these pieces of paper a the artist's logic can be uncovered, a careful approach to composition, ideas, feelings and forms. The story of Sonambient barn collection will slowly be told through the release of recordings from the archive as well as installations and performances built from Bertoia's own recordings, lectures and a book.

Glowing Sounds

Harry Bertoia - Glowing Sounds (slowest) - LP -  Pre-Order

Richard Chartier (b.1971) is a Los Angeles based artist, considered one of the key figures in minimalist sound art. Chartier’s works explore the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception, and the act of listening itself. Chartier’'s sound works/installations have been presented in galleries and museums internationally and he has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at digital art/electronic music festivals and exhibits. In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE and has since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by international sound artists/composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism.

He is also Pinkcourtesyphone.

Absention

Richard Chartier

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