five excerpts of pieces made on the buchla music easel, summer 2024

Summer Easel (five excerpts)

now available: https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/coastal-main-lev-e

split-artist s4mpl3r ☀️

Of the Night Sky / Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet [HS45]

Handstitched* returns after a summer excursion and is super-excited to announce the next release in the split-artist series, this limited issue is by producer and instrumentalist Andrew Dobson under his guise Of The Night Sky, and French sound artist Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet.

Both artists deliver two emotionally resonant and individual perspectives for the split EP, Of The Night Sky who has previously released an EP on the Cactus Island label as Digitonal visits Handstitched* with his Coastal EP which focuses on his creative visions, surroundings and explorations with combinations of textured ambience and introspective harmonies which links Of The Night Sky’s music and the Suffolk landscapes together in musical soundscapes.

Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet is focused on improvisation - weaving patchworks of modular synthesis, tape variations, resampling and digital process into magical and mysterious sound collages, inspired by Musique Concrète and his trademark overlapping of intimate dimensions within natural environments. À main levée was composed in early 2024 in the heart of Parc Naturel du Livradois-Forez's green hills where he is now located. À main levée follows his recent album Les Alentours which was released on Californian imprint Not Not Fun Records.

Issued on limited edition mini double CD and C-45 cassette [HS45] both formats are limited to 50 copies, featuring individually hand-bound and unique hand-cut collage CD wallets made from vintage Japanese materials and papers.

Each CD copy is hand-numbered and packed inside glassine bags. Handmade, creased and glued tape O-cards are presented in five separate designs taken from the collage artworks of the CD covers and packed in clear eco bags.

ofthenightsky.com
jerosnet.com  

released: September 6, 2024

Tracks 1-4: Of The Night Sky
Tracks 5-8: Jean Emmanuel Rosnet
Tracks 9-10 Maps and Diagrams [remixes]

☀️ Of the Night Sky / Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet - coastal / à main lev​é​e - S4mpl3r [HS54]

Taken from Airmid

https://slowtonecollages.bandcamp.com

Airmid (named after the Irish goddess of healing), is my first ever piece composed as a sort of ambient sound bath. I went on tour last month and performed this piece live as a sound bath - participants laid out on mats on the floor and experienced the wash of sound and vibration for 90 minutes, as a meditation. Before leaving for tour, I recorded two versions of the piece in my studio, which I have worked/re-worked into this album. 

Airmid is built upon a binaural beat that I created in Max/MSP, using 285hz + 285.4hz and modulating the .4 slowly down to .1 to create variations in the beat. The first part (Restoring), uses layers of synthesizer, guitar, and 4 longform field recordings along with the binaural frequency to create an immersive, swelling journey. The second piece, (Resting), is nearer to what the live version sounded like. I brought in my singing bowl to signal the start and end of the sound meditation, and used an additional supposive healing frequency (741hz) that fades in and out throughout the track. The second track also features dulcimer and 3 more field recordings.

Releases September 12, 2024 

Written and produced by Nicholas Maloney 

STC 051 
Slow Tone Collages 2024

Blanket Swimming - Airmid (Restoring) (Slow Tone Collages)

Tracklist

01. James Murray - Bittersweet
02. Jason Kolàr - Taishido
03. Norihito Suda - Traversing a Dream from One Side to the Other
04. FourColor - Blur
05. Andrew Lang - Momentary Senses-Oulu
06. Ciro Berenguer - Retorno al mar
07. Bill Seaman - Anadyomene Inframince
08. Federico Durand - Cinco luciérnagas

391. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Format: CD
Pre-order: 12th December 2024
Release date: 20th December 2024

We begin this small tour around 1995. I am not able to sleep. With no immediate prospect of ending this bad infinity, I create a tower from my pillows and fashion my blankets into a cave. Soon enough I fall asleep; the structuring of this formerly empty and directionless time had pushed me towards its conclusion.

Now 2019, I acquire a Revox reel-to-reel tape machine. I record many hours of improvisations, sending sounds from my Max MSP patch directly onto tape loops. Covering up the erase head with some cardboard, I enjoy listening to melodies gradually fade away as new layers are burned on top. The sounds I use are constantly plundered and re-plundered from past work of mine, forever composting my own musical memories. I like how the tape adds an extra layer of haze to the already distant fragments.

Now early 2024, I am in a small community in the Australian outback. I constantly refresh my browser to see the water height at Diljin Hill, to work out whether the river would flood us 12 hours later. As the flood waters rise and we get cut off from the outside, I can’t help but conceive of another sense of time, of grand time.

An eternal rhythm constructed not by humans, but by the land and the skies above it.

A slowly shifting present that doesn’t necessarily offer deprivation, but rather more of the less. A sense of what is, rather than what could be.

An eternal time that doesn’t require a neat sign-off from a conversation.

But why must I rely on the computer to see our fate? Might it not be better to just look eastward and see if clouds are gathering above the catchment?

And in any case, why must I obsess over travelling 12 hours into the future?

In early 2020, as the world goes into a restless slumber, I start to conceive of this album. As did the floodwater, a natural force precipitates a lasting present. Gradually I plow through recordings from the year before in order to find material. My original plan is to make a long, single piece of slowly developing music, that might help bridge the listener across the empty span of a night. Gradually I start to favour smaller vignettes, each separate from the universe, with no clear antecedent or consequence. You can find signs of both on this album.

Does this change of plan weaken the ability to induce sleep?
Or is that what dreaming is?
The construction of some sort of overarching sensibility, or even meaning, from our mishmash of fleeing presences in our age of being?

I write this now from yet another time and place. I am trying my best to make sense of some notes I wrote about 8 months ago, which were themselves derived from a book by a well-known contemporary Korean/German philosopher. Perhaps, dear reader, you picked up this reference throughout my little ramble?

As they tend to do, my musical tastes and interests have changed considerably since I began this album. Yet I have enjoyed returning to it when it suited my mood. While tired or lacking energy it has been a warm blanket to guide me. As I look out my window now, the sky is grey and the wind is blowing leaves off the trees. Perhaps this might have formally been a trigger to open up this project folder.

There are still traces of this album in my newer work. It sits as a dream to my more current work; a lingering warmth while the moonlight has already died.

I am gradually getting better at falling asleep as well.

What’s that rustling outside my window?
Or is it a faded memory whispering to me?

Ssshhh, time to sleep
Let the hiss guide you

Thank you to Vicky, who kindly let me use this amazing photo. And thank you to Andrea, who has been an absolute dream to work with, and who also did a particularly sensitive job of the mastering.

I hope you enjoy this album, and I hope you don’t get stuck in too many bad infinities. 

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Format: CD
Pre-order: 12th December 2024
Release date: 20th December 2024

"this album was inspired by everyday landscapes. It was created influenced by the colors, living organisms, and sounds.." (Seki Takashi)

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Taken from "Following The Wind"

Last copies here: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/following-the-wind

This album is about escape from everyday life and monotony of life. About an attempt to break this monotonous cycle and to some extent to fall into childhood. Just following the wind......

releases December 6, 2024 

SHM 326 
Shimmering Moods Records 2024



Mitseliy - Following the wind IV

Tracklist

01.  Nobuto Suda - Resonance
02.  Bill Seaman and Monika Bugajny - beginning, introduction, pattern
03.  Hirotaka Shirotsubaki -  Cloudy Sky in November
04.  This Communication + Traveling Light - You Are Now At Peace
05.  Lamasz & Thme -  Spirales
06.  Masaya Ozaki -  Skerpla
07.  James Murray - Ragwort
08.  r beny - echoing pastoral
09.  Mi Cosa de Resistance & Ciro Berenguer - La invención del jardin
10.  Wil Bolton - Skymning

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