I just love how absolutely random and weird comes together to make a consert! ^_^

Great sound! Is there a way to listen to or download the 4.0 version? Thanks!

This is really nice, I've been starting to experiment with nature recording and planning on a bullfrog symphony in local, Upstate NY, marsh. I'll send you a link when I do!

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)

From forthcoming LP "Murmurations" available on Cibachrome Editions April 1st 2022 https://leabertucci.bandcamp.com/album/murmurations

A Vast Interiority - Lea B + Ben Vida

from KR103:  an moku I stefan schmidt:: zwischenraum
imited edition tape / download out on may 13th 2022

zwischenraum

AN MOKU I STEFAN SCHMIDT:: yama

Remix for Annie Hall's "Bandit2893" track from the Random Paraphilia EP on Detroit Underground Records:  DETUND 21 

info at: http://detroitunderground.net/blog/2013/12/annie-hall-random-paraphilia-du21/

Link to buy the EP here : http://www.juno.co.uk/products/annie-hall-random-paraphilia/514243-01/

also at Deejay.de http://www.deejay.de/m_Beats/details__137675

Richard Devine Remix Annie Hall - Bandit2893"

Improvisation from on high, fraternising with elevated explorations of the grid (and momentarily providing a setting for a Derridean meditation on the former).

LYL Radio: Tanzen und Denken 13

STEVE FORS, it's nothing, but still, LP
Hallow Ground
Vinyl / digital, catalogue nr. HG2201
Getefold cover, obi strip, limited clear vinyl

// Single release "ground glass" 21. June 2022
// Album release "it's nothing, but still" 19. Aug. 2022

Steve Fors offers deeply physical music on his Hallow Ground debut »it's nothing, but still.« Having already established himself as a composer of visceral drone and noise pieces in various Chicago- and New York-based underground projects, Fors’s first release under his given name is even more dense and evocative than his earlier work. A concept album on the subject of breath, the Siavash Amini-produced record sees the now Swiss-based composer blend field recordings with electronic and acoustic sounds—most notably towering cello drones—to almost overwhelming effect. 

Initially taking inspiration from living with a chronic lung condition, Fors meticulously crafts pieces that transcend his personal experience and reach for something universal. »The album is a study in melancholy and transience,« he explains. »And my intention is that the sounds trigger a memory, an image, a feeling in each of us. While our specific circumstances are momentary and discrete; joy, rage, and despair remain existential to our common experience.«

At first listen, Fors describes moments in time by building on a foundation of simple field recordings—an afternoon in a cathedral, the idling of COVID-19 morgue trucks outside Brooklyn Hospital, or the fleeting sound of wind in the trees—and then progressively overlays electronic and acoustic textures. On repeated plays however, the songs unfold, revealing a complexity, depth, and presence uncommon in current ambient music.

What makes »it's nothing, but still« such a memorable album is that it doesn’t impose anything on the listener, but rather offers them something to get lost in. From the first lush drones on the opener »(good enough) for now,« to the solemn piano chords on the title track, to the glistening cello feedback on »the way to heaven,« Fors’s sentiment about the record rings true. »If we surrender ourselves, these sounds can move us out of our present condition into a distinctly different existence, if only for a moment. If we choose to listen closely, we can experience the superpositioning of both memory and imagination in real time.«
Tracklist:
1.) (good enough) for now (07:28)
2.) ground glass (05:32)
3.) it's nothing, but still (05:02)
4.) unsound structures  (06:26)
5.) lead into aether (05:58)
6.) the way to heaven (05:48)		 
		
Credits:
All songs composed, recorded, performed and mixed by Steve Fors in Zurich 
Produced by Siavash Amini in Tehran, Iran
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irissari at Black Knoll Studio, New York
Cover photography by Jens Knigge
Cover design by Steve Fors
Released by Hallow Ground in 2022

STEVE FORS - ground glass

'For Wind Poetry' releases October, 2022.

https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/for-wind-poetry-2

Wind Poetry

VAK 62 | yolabmi - Reborn (+ Felt)

"Band Ane - Worldtronica" is taken out of the Various Artist album Pnyø, which was released on May 15th, 2020.

Album download ||
https://mindwaves-music.bandcamp.com/album/pny

Artist || VARIOUS ARTISTS
Title || PNYØ
Label || Mindwaves Music
Cat.No. || MWM011
EAN || 8718723145411

Compiled by || P(h)onyCat https://soundcloud.com/matti-p-h-onycat
Mastered by || Gianclaudio H. Moniri @ GancLoud Mastering
Artwork by || Cecilie Nørgaard, Nina Zeljković, Claus Top Christens
Edited by || Hagar Faibish

Tracklist ||
01 Rasmus Meinert - Syv
02 Rexob.B - Extraterrestrische Physik
03 Karsten Pflum - 95 Deka House
04 Serge Geyzel - Love Circles
05 Rasmus Fisker - Vagrant
06 Rosyan - Yomi (Album Edit)
07 Sofus Forsberg - Invert
08 Band Ane - Worldtronica
09 WHRK - pHaD
10 Senko - Pnyø
11 Astrodyssey - Derelict 

After a three-year hiatus, Mindwaves Music awakens from hibernation and is rebooting with a brand new compilation called “Pnyø”.
Eleven exclusive and previously unreleased tracks, carefully chosen by the labels in-house artist Matilde Møller aka P(h)onyCat, merging between genres such as Ambient, Electronica, Leftfield, IDM and Glitch.

The selected tunes may be diverse in tempo and timbre, but the underlying feeling is melancholic, and imaginative - poetic and delicate. 
Even if "Pnyø" could be characterized as peculiar in part, instead of opting for the obvious straightforward expression, the release comes in an overall laid back vibe, which was compiled for your listening pleasure at home.

Release date ||
May 15, 2020

Album download ||
https://mindwaves-music.bandcamp.com/album/pny

More info ||
http://www.mindwaves-music.com
http://mindwaves-music.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/mindwaves_music

Band Ane links ||
http://bandane.dk
https://bandane.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/band-ane

Pnyø

Worldtronica

Band Ane - Worldtronica

Antoine Hubineau: Dissolvè / Scillions
02 / B: Scillions

arbitrary15, 21 April 2023
https://arbitraryproject.com/Dissolve-Scillions

Dissolvè / Scillions by Antoine Hubineau (FR). Derived from the same series of compositions, Dissolvè and Scillions are drawn from modular synthesizer recordings which have been reworked, treated and composed in the computer.

7" / DL

A: Dissolvè
B: Scillions

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https://arbitraryproject.com

7" vinyl

Antoine Hubineau: Scillions (arbitrary15)

Recorded at Midnight in the rain, at a marshy wetland at Buckeye Creek Farm Cherokee GA. 

Audio captured with the Sennheiser MKH-8040 Compact Cardioid Condenser Microphones x 4, in ORTF configuration. Recorded at 24-bit 96khz with the Sound Devices 788T.  Free Download

buckeyecreekfarmga.com/


Multichannel Field recording of A Symphony Of Frogs in the Rain.

Mary Anne Hobbs asked me to create a mix for her program on BBC6 while she was sitting in for Gilles Peterson.
I'm so grateful to her for supporting my music so far with enthusiasm and generosity, giving the fact she's an amazing DJ, music fan and attentive listener.

The track list includes tracks from my last solo album 'ORE'
1- Tribute to Raymond Scott
2- Vano
3- Hi-Jacked Drone (by Machinefabriek and Soccercommittee - Andrea Belfi's remix)
4- Ton (from my last solo record 'ORE')
5- 'East Timor' by Robert Wyatt, played by Hobocombo
6- Nautikon

Mix for Mary Anne Hobbs

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

Bookings: mia@lb-agency.net

Multichannel Field recording of A Symphony Of Frogs in the Rain.

RichardDevine

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