Composition of sounds found in the vicinity of Montpellier, France in the pandemic summer of 2020.  Vocal contributions by Ghislain Amar and Lucia Rosenfeld.

Hurluberlu

Quenchless (Lungs in Reverse)

Bandcamp link: https://mariamg.bandcamp.com/track/lotsva 

In March 2021, after two silent years of pandemic, I began collecting chants from around the world for my new acousmatic work. Exhausted by the long period of isolation and lack of contact, my artistic goal with this project was to bring together the voices of people from different countries, cultures and religions and unite them in my musical composition. In the promotional video I posted on my social media channels, I asked for audio recordings with a smartphone and received 26 songs that I used as source material for the piece. The audio files ranged from intimate solo recordings made in a bedroom, to polyphonic folk songs and chants professionally recorded in a studio, to songs accompanied by various instruments. As I listened to the recordings, I realized that my task as a composer was to find ways to connect the voices that were recorded in different acoustic environments, with different keys, tempos, and languages, and to create a sound world in which they could all coexist. Considering the time in which the recordings were made and the work was composed, I consider this piece a collective prayer, hence the title ლოცვა (Lotsva).
The first version of the piece premiered in Oslo on September 9 and subsequently toured other Norwegian cities and international festivals. In the meantime, I kept receiving new recordings, so I added a new contribution from a different country at almost every performance. The final version of the piece was presented at Kulturkirken Jakob as an 8-channel sound installation as part of VoxLAB VårFEST.

Contributors:
Annie Björkman, Sweden
Aine Eva Nakamura, Japan
Heidi Skjerve, Norway
Line Souza, Brazil
Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad, Norway
Nigar Gahramanova, Azerbaijan
Åshild Hagen, Norway
Katy Pinke, Israel
Supriya Nagarajan, India
Zosha Warpeha, USA
Silva de Waard, Netherlands
Zoe Perret, France
Verena Merstallinger, Austria
Diego (surname anonymous), Argentina
Tamo Nasidze, Georgia
Falk Rößler, Germany
Ensemble IALONI, Nino Naneishvili, Georgia
Elvic Kongolo Birkebein, Congo
Małgorzata Olejniczak, Poland
David Zurabiani, Georgia
Sajidah Ahmed, Bangladesh
Andrea Silvia Giordano, Italy
Balint Laczko, Hungary
Marija Astromskaitė, Lithuania
Diana Serrao, Portugal
Christopher Manning, US 


Mastering: Balint Laczko
Cover: Midjourney AI
Video: Manuel Madsen (Norsk Komponistforeningen)
Commissioned by: Ny Musikks Komponistgruppe
Produced at Notam

LOTSVA / ლოცვა (excerpt)

Panoptikon is a suite of vocal & electronic music composed by Maria W Horn for an installation in the disbanded Vita Duvan panoptic prison (The White Dove Prison) in Luleå, Sweden.

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Panoptikon is a suite of vocal & electronic music composed by Maria W Horn for an installation in the disbanded Vita Duvan panoptic prison (The White Dove Prison) in Luleå, Sweden.

Preorder the album now at https://xkatedral.bandcamp.com/album/panoptikon

Omnia Citra Mortem

Weathering unfolds as an hour of sonic experimentation, where electronic music, ambient textures, and voice intersect. Hosted monthly by Dela Savelli, each show forms a distinct piece, blending improvised music with curated readings, like a back to back between sound and word.

Weathering w/ Dela Savelli & 5am Neo @ Kiosk Radio 15.04.2025

what's good

A storm the size of forever -  pendant une heure, le son rôde.  le signal se code dans le vent.   field recordings qui errent,  spoken words en suspension,  ambiances dissolues,  pulsations réduites à leur squelette.   du reboot jusqu’au crash. Chaque épisode est une map, Immortalisant le brouillard 

Spell of remembrance - Nicolas Snyder
Phone call - Isaac Forsyth
Untitled - Ed Call w/ 5am Neo 
Tomorrow Is Not Promised [E+E Berserk Blend] - Diamond Black Hearted Boy
Robbie Basho - Moving Up A Ways (original)
Balança o Pepeitin - Montagem Atari Mistery 
CLAYhands - Nicolas Snyder
Per Strada - VALENTINA MAGALETTI
FREE Dancehall Sound Effects - DJ Rewind & Backspin Samples 
Wow, I’m so proud of you (short tik tok audio)
Ai > Real men drink beer - JB Glazer
Untitled - 5am Neo 
Sunday pan drum - Antoine Grenez
Drifting away - DETENTE 
Volevo essere un gufo - Bruno Mari 

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A Storm the size of forever #2 *i'm so proud of you* w/ 5am Neo

Live At Lowlands

High Together

Year created: 2018
Format: Stereo / 3D Ambisonics

Streams of microscopic sound events burst out as contours while others dissolve in the background to create the impression of shapes and momentum. These fluctuating textures inhabit the space as flocking birds, bubbling surfaces, or pseudo verbal articulations of the enclosure, creating sensations of being tightly surrounded by sound and then being released

Image: Emma McNally

Flux

From the album Cantus Descant, released 18 September 2020 via Late Music http://latemusic.ffm.to/cantusdescant

Play The Ghost

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RAAR is a nomadic platform for artists working with sound and the medium of radio podcasts.  We stream every show live and try our best to perform every artwork live on various sites around Rotterdam and beyond.  The show is curated by Joshua Thies and co-hosted by various enthusiastic friends and partners.

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