Name: Hydrophone PopRocks by RichardDevine
Duration: 5 min
Description: Stereo capture with two Ambient Recording Sound Fish ASF-1 MKII Hydrophones recording Pop Rocks Candy.

When the villain hits you with the microwave beam and it goes straight to your brain

If only we could video record ppl's facial reactions to these sounds...

Part of Optimism Is Out To Get You - OOTGY003 

buy: https://ootgy.bandcamp.com/album/ootgy003

7 - Genohunters

Taken from the album 'Piano Muisc 1-7' released as LP, CD and digital.


Editions Mego is proud to welcome Powell to its roster with a bizarre and strangely emotive new LP of synthetic computer works entitled Piano Music 1-7.

Via his own Diagonal Records imprint, his work on XL Recordings and, most recently, the opening of audio/film platform A Folder [afolder.studio], Powell has firm footing in the contemporary electronic landscape. During a wry and obstinate musical life he has twisted myriad synthetic forms into shapes that explore and expand upon the districts of post-punk, techno, noise + computer music, and in the the last year alone he has released four albums of hi-def abstractions, each inspired by a formalisation of music proposed by Iannis Xenakis. 

As an extension of this intense period of work/research/play with stochastic functions [using probabilities to compose music], various processes emerged that Powell then began to apply to more traditional musical events. Where ordinarily in his work the probabilities and relationships are used to define parameters such as wave-shape, folding, FM, filter modes etc., he now began to use them to create musical formations and visual scores that could be played back using any software/MIDI instrument [one of these can be seen on the rear cover of the LP release]. While mapping out this cartography of relations, he used a basic Grand Steinway sampler as a placeholder instrument; the longer the process went on, though, the more he began to embrace the acoustic properties of the synthetic piano and make it the bedrock for this new constellation of work. 

Piano Music 1-7, subtitled ‘Music for Synthetic Piano and Assorted Electronics’, consists of seven different synthetic islands strung together into a single composition. All were composed using the aforementioned processes that allowed Powell to play a piano, even if he never learned to do so with his hands. After all, ’In writing electronic music,’ Robin Mackay once wrote, ‘you also have to direct the invention of new tools.’

At times the piano skips gleefully over shadowing synthesis, whilst at others the synthetic sheets swarm and envelope the keys. The interplay between the two create a fantastical alternate reality, a cosmic machine in which time is eroded, shrunk and expanded, like a wax upon which operations and relations are inscribed or engraved. Many of the pieces express a playfulness or optimism verging on vitalism, as bundles of piano notes dance and interpolate with a never-repeating range of electronic gestures. The feel is of a brightly coloured flower-bed in various stage of bloom. This interplay of the [artifical] acoustic and the electronic builds on the pioneering processes developed by David Behrman in works such as Leapday Night, and Piano Music 1-7 could also be posited as a modern take on Conlon Nancarrow’s investigations for player piano. Similarly, the razor-sharp sonic properties and unfolding of non-human events recall the computer works of Xenakis and the surgical precision of Mego mainstay Florian Hecker.

Recorded in late 2020, these new Powell works propose not just a bold and bright vision of electronic music but serve also as a map with which, for 35 minutes at least, we can navigate our way out of the current milieu. As the artist himself remarks in the sleeve-notes, ‘. . . What emerged from this fog or soup [for me] were ideas and processes that felt affirmative and life giving — sensations I had always hoped to convey in my music. Perhaps the optimism or positivity I felt at these musical events unfolding, these clusters and knots tumbling in different directions across time, can also be felt by you.’

Music for Synthetic Piano and Assorted Electronics

Composed and recorded by Powell, 2020
Mixed by Powell and Tobin Jones at The Park Studios, London
Mastered by Russell Haswell

Art direction by Guy Featherstone
Photography by John Cronin

Powell 'Piano Music #1' (EMEGO 301)

"Hlapov", the latest full-length release by Italian musician Grotta Veterano, is a work of patiently arranged, layered beauty. Presented as four movements of a single suite, "Hlapov" offers a sense of great cohesive narrative, supported by its slow buildups and gravitating drones, blending in elements of choral music and expanding, organic rhythms. Ultimately it is music of quasi-sacred contemplation, a meditative journey of profound scale - a precious ornament.

Your eyes are but two pools of infinite emerald green.

EN22

All music performed, recorded and arranged by Grotta Veterano, 2021

Hlapov

Grotta Veterano - MOV II

Stereo capture with two Ambient Recording Sound Fish ASF-1 MKII Hydrophones recording Pop Rocks Candy.

Pop Rocks Underwater Recording

Hydrophone PopRocks

From "Glissements" available April 2022

a document of a season of transition, attempting some new approaches (including recording with a computer). reflective, long-form mostly live pieces. Let it flood

recorded November 2019-April 2020 at Cathedral ii, Cedar Village NC
Final mixes early 2022.
Mastered by Glyn Maier

Glissements master v2

Secret Boyfriend - Anulka

“How to tell a story about being from a place you don't come from? The lives of both my grandmothers were marked by moving to the other end of their world. And this is how I was born in Warmia. A place that has repeatedly uprooted its history. From the Prussians to Warmians, Germans, and Jews, to the forced resettlement of Ruthenians and Ukrainians in the Vistula operation and repatriation of the Kresowiaks...” – Zosia Hołubowska 

“Singing Warmia” is an attempt to deal with the lack of family archives and the inability to establish a relationship with the place of birth. 

Instead of family stories, the album's material is photos of the artist's favorite places around Olsztyn (capital city of Warmia region), which were sonified using processes designed by the artists. Zosia Hołubowska follows Saidiya Hartman's critical fabulation, that is, the transformation of history that counters the violence of historical representations and archives. Singing Warmia expresses both the pain of exile and the gloomy beauty of the abandoned landscape: the slow current of the river grazed by tree branches. 

This process concerns the landscape, or rather the soundscape inviting the voices of the spirits that inhabit it. The bends of the Łyna become the signals controlling the synthesizers. The arrangement of tree branches is translated into a melody, and the splashes of light on the waves of the river constitute a harmonic spectrum of sounds resembling the whispers and wailing of phantoms. This piece is another example of creative work with archives, following the "undoing" approach, which means deconstructing, collage reassembling, and animating the elements to reinterpret the performative and magical potential of the material. 

The album is a rework of the 5 speaker concert commissioned by Canti Spazalizzati.

written, composed, and mixed by Zosia Hołubowska @zosia-ho-ubowska
mastered by Roland Nagy 
artwork by Peter Mazur 
font: HIDE productions

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Zosia Hołubowska – Forest of the Expelled / Las wypedzonych

Behold... Prepare for the arrival of Janus, the two-faced god, invocated by Emcsi.

“If I take the wholeness out of the wholeness, the wholeness alone remains. I invoked the vision of Janus, the god of beginnings and endings, and of transition; I washed my memories and then sifted them, thus creating new stories from the filtered noises left in the sieve and the rushing sounds that flowed through it. Stories that, like all material, are complete in their fragmentedness, errors, and remains, complete when torn apart, mushed together, and turned inside out. A journey, transition and transformation from one vision to another, from wholeness to wholeness, in continuous movement, in the unity of duality.”

Emcsi is a sound artist and producer. Her compositions are rooted in deep personal experiences. She collects and processes field recordings and materials from various sources, including electroacoustic samples. She creates unique and layered textures which build a suggestive and infinite soundscape. Currently studying at the University of Pécs, BA in Electronic Music and Media Arts, she is a host at Lahmacun Radio and a member of ASS Budapest audiovisual workshop.

music by Emcsi @emcsi-sound
mastered by Lőrinc Bornemisza 
artwork by Adrienn Császár

www.instagram.com/drienn_csaszar

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Emcsi – Adverso

"𝘢 '𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦' 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮"
~~~
Klein - Ray [terrence musings interrupted by terrence]
JIDDY - Bass GvD (Feat. LilC4 )
MURDER CLUB - PERSONA 4 [180] (UNLIMITED CHOPS HACK)
Josh Da Producer - Dap You Up Dance Cypher ( Sped up)
Sinkhole Crim - SMOTHERED [190]
$icko Music - BUBBLEGUM CYPHER jerseyclub (FMOIG sleptsicko)
LEAKTHEDJ - NAME IS RILEY
julek ploski - The Riddle
Yem Gel - Mageborn
Lasus - Undul
Chrisman - Njiya
Klahrk & KAVARI - Rib
Obelisk - Brokenblade
Gabber Modus Operandi - Nyonyon Rangda
Jay Mitta - Don Bet
nudo - Kpa2
Sirr TMO - Sentimental
doon kanda - Bewitched
[calen forced to read houellebecq passage]
Paramida - Konbanwa (Ibiza Mix)
riri - te amo (WA?STE REAL MADRID CF MIX)
omarion - ice box (swami's redub)
Dj Rankng - Dale a la Bebida
Cuban Chamber of Commerce - Ping 900 (SZCH Remix)
DJ G2G - SAD GIRLZ LUV X-FILES
DJ Loser - Bad Standard
Masafumi Takada - Rave On
séverine - INFATUATION AT FIRST SIGHT
Blank Wall Season - Supermarket For Existence [Rec 01:30 @ -33.865315, 151.205630]
Rabit, Croww - TRU
Racine - Couverte d'une suie terreuse

laplaces demon :: 1L ciroc and also $100

Zach Rowden in an American musician dealing with the acoustic and performative possibilities of the contrabass. His fierce improvisational approach strips away the raw textural make up of this iconic acoustic instrument, rendering a complex timbral transformation of its sound and a complete obliteration of the listeners own understanding of the sonic potential of the contrabass. Zach’s promising release for XKatedral, “Tasked”, is a brutal harnessing of pyschoacoustic rhythms and microtonality through the minimal instrumentation of contrabass and feedback. 

XK14

Zach Rowden - Fog area

Full release: 
https://n1lmusic.bandcamp.com/album/kr-l-spe-s

Producer, Composed By, Artwork By, Mixed By – N1L
Mastered By – Raphaël Valensi

                                                     Tracklist:
1 	krɔːl speɪs 	2:15
2 	alpha fail 	5:24
3 	chronos 	3:18
4 	kairos 	2:42
5 	ijsv.0gel II 	2:28
6 	centipede goddess 	2:23
7 	ani-maani-musani-mal 	3:00
8 	exit anthropocene 	3:02
9 	bloodstained totems 	2:43
10 	kavadi aattam 	7:10

1st draft titled "water memory" was released as limited edition cassette tape via OpalTapes, 2018
.....................................
Extended, updated by N1L 2018-2020
Re-mastered by Raphaël Valensi 2020

krɔːl speɪs

N1L - krɔːl speɪs 2020 (snippets)

New EP Systik now available: https://richarddevine.bandcamp.com/

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