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Dreamweaver

TR188 - gilgul - OS-22 [excerpt]

from the upcoming album 'aSpiritual' by offthesky & Rin Howell... out august 8th, 2021

Music: offthesky & Rin Howell
Mastering: offthesky / Ian Hawgood
Print design: Craig Tattersall
Packaging design: Daniel Crossley
Label: Fluid Audio

offthesky & Rin Howell - Suspension

In his book 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒, Mark Fisher wrote about the two notions: While the weird is something present where it doesn’t belong—something from outside found on the inside—the eerie has to do specifically with outside space. Something is eerie when there are unanswered questions about agency: Who or what is responsible for the abandonment of this zone? Who or what is crying out in the distance?

Katharina Schmidt’s 𝑇𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, a single, longform track stretching to a near half hour, deftly captures this spatial sense of the eerie. The evolving drone is like coming upon a ruin, circling it, and being drawn inside. There are no surprises, no sudden horrors, just the strange pull of oscillating waveforms that paint a bleak yet soothing landscape.

In certain kinds of listeners, empty, abandoned spaces produce a pleasurable dejection. Maybe this is because spaces where human life is evacuated represent the end result of capital. (It seems to have withered away, but is in fact off to find another shell for its home.) What we’re left with is something new to inhabit, a new infrastructure for freedom. The subtle changes in Schmidt’s recording have less to do with melody and rhythm, more to do with accumulating color and texture of space. And so the half hour can feel like five minutes, or an eternity—time and scale exist differently here.

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After years of playing drums and piano in various bands, Katharina Schmidt's solo work is influenced by indie, experimental, and improvised music. Exploring interests in storytelling, sonic topographies, and generative techniques, her music uses electronics, field recordings, and self-built interfaces alongside acoustic instruments. From sonifications to lullabies, her work is poised between formal experimentation and narratives cued by literature and pop culture, and can be heard in installations, film music, and radiophonic pieces, as well as releases on labels such as Flag Day Recordings, Slaapwel Records, and Focused Silence.

Katharina holds a master’s degree in Sound Studies from the Berlin University of the Arts and hosts resident shows at Cashmere Radio and SVS Radio.

katharina-schmidt.net
katharinaschmidt.bandcamp.com  

artwork by Stefan Lingg
audio finalized by Glyn Maier

all proceeds to The Homeless Period Project (Greenville, SC, US) - www.homelessperiodproject.org

Tennis Courts in the Half Light

Katharina Schmidt - Tennis Courts In The Half Light [Excerpt] (ENMD03)

Founded 1995 in London by Austrian trumpeter and band leader Franz Hautzinger as an ensemble for experimental music, the project developed over the years into a mixed style wild fusion band. Various musicians like Fennesz, Tony Buck, Otomo Yoshihide, Burkhard Stangl, Oren Ambarchi, and others were part of this long-time and often changing project, combining jazz, improvisation, brass melodies, guitar rock and electronics. The band developed its specific pulsating and continously evolving "Regenorchester Sound", comparing the constantly changing ways of making music, analogue and digital. Hautzinger and his Regenorchester XII play a kind of “jazz about jazz”, incorporating quite naturally accomplishments of experimental improvisation or drone and noise experiences into the rock jazz sound, pushing the boundaries of sound art and always creating surprises.

Relics was recorded live at the Klangspuren Schwaz festival in 2019

Franz Hautzinger - quarter tone trumpet
Christian Fennesz - guitar, laptop  
Otomo Yoshihide - guitar, turntables, el. devices
Luc Ex - bass
Tony Buck - drums, percussion

linernotes by Reinhard Kager - translated by Mark Fisher

TR203 - Regenorchester "Relics"

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Released by Geraeuschmanufaktur

Limited Edition CD available at

geraeuschmanufaktur.bandcamp.com/album/19-strings

From the label:

With "19 Strings" Geräuschmanufaktur presents a new release by the Copenhagen resident artist and musician Paw Grabowski, the man behind øjeRum.

19 quiet, almost fragile-sounding strings resonate into a poetic soundscape and slowly increase to a hypnotizing, expressive and droning ambient piece. The result reveals both rousing and enraptured moments that lure every listener to immerse themselves into the piece's isolated melancholy nature.
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19 Strings

souj5 alt (18-2-21) "sequndle"

The Diaspora of Flexible Patina

This is the fourth component in the :zoviet*france: and Fossil Aerosol Mining Project 'Flexible Pooling’ collection. Complementing the alt.vinyl / Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art 7-inch flexidisc release, which comprises two tracks on the disc and a third as an exclusive download to those who buy it, this track is made available as a free download to all.

The flexidisc is available from local specialist suppliers and directly from alt.vinyl at:
http://www.altvinyl.com/details.asp?rId=33621


By North (Tundar Influence)- :zoviet*france: and fossil aerosol mining project

A track from the album More Beautiful Than Silence out 11/13/18 on Constellation Tatsu.

Rhucle - Warm Winds

Songs, artifacts, and debris from an artificial past. Over 30 years of fake resurrection.