Cold Reading

Banjar

An array of commonplace metal objects - chains, pans, a bicycle, a chair - recorded by Ross Alexander at home in Berlin during the pandemic comprise the source material of 11 𝑮𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔. Functioning as a temporal and mnemonic exploration into the nature and conception of “home”, the album evokes Alexander’s earliest memories and broader hauntological perspectives of post-industrial England:

“Growing up in South Yorkshire in the 1980s and 90s was an existence haunted with the ghosts of a heavy manufacturing industry which once thrived in the region. On both a visceral and sensorial level it might be considered equally as impossible to escape the nostalgic stories of mines and steelworks as it was to escape the smell of molten metal in the air drifting from the Don Valley.”

The improvised metallic scrapes, bangs, and bowings recorded by Alexander were further abstracted in live performances using granular sampling techniques, creating a new and extrinsic world to which subconscious thoughts can flee, sonically and contextually. The results are both dreamy and unpredictable, fusing the immediacy of acoustic percussion with the billowing resonances imbued by granular synthesis.

“On tracing back through distant memories of my formative years for sound-objects which represented to me the essential idea of ‘being from’ as opposed to ‘being a visitor’ I related to a pervasive association with the sounds of metal and metallic objects, mostly in respect to how certain structural properties relate to haptic and resonant nature and the manifestation of those properties as sonic results. I feel this is the result of growing up in a place where heavy industry, or at least the remnant of which, was central to society, community and everyday life.”

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Ross Alexander is an artist, producer and curator based in Berlin working in the context of expansive trans-disciplinary practice and non-individualist ideals. His broad ranging body of work as an artist has encompassed music, performance, sound art, visual arts, installation, radio art, digital media, augmented reality, intervention, social practice and education. Ross has presented and performed at such institutions as ICA London, Transmediale Festival, Nyege Nyege Festival, Documenta Kassel and Martin-Gropius Bau Berlin.

As a curator and organizer his experimental and diverse practice has seen him work with Transmediale festival, Maerzmusik, Glastonbury Festival, Cashmere Radio, Nyege Nyege Festival Uganda and extensively with his own Salon Oblique production collective.

rossalexanderpayne.com
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mixcloud.com/rossalexandermix

11 Gates

Ross Alexander - Piece 2 (ENMD-04)

Opéra Mort - Le Présent  (GRVTS022) / Vinyle & Digital 

OUT : February 1

Tracklist :
A1 - Le Monde
A2 - Secrets 
A3 - L'humanité entière 
B1 - Oeufs
B2 - La nouvelle fin du monde 
B3 - Damien Shultz 

Crédits :
. illustration & design : Piá-Mélissa Laroche
. Macarons : David Coquelin
. Mastering : Alstadt Frederic
. Distribution : Boomkat

Le Présent

Opéra Mort "Damien Schultz"

trop de mots pour réussir à les retenir tous, et des tuyaux qui bourrinent que tout tout est parti pour continuer encore un moment comme ça, du genre le tuut des portes du métro mais qui ne s'arrêterait jamais pendant que quelqu'un parle à côté de vous en facetime dans une langue que vous ne connaissez pas. Vous m'avez?

MOANS & GRUNTS w/ Raphaël Massart (16/01/24)

https://secd.bandcamp.com/album/se-cd03-match-fixer-done

Match Fixer - Foggy [SE:CD03]

From Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos
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Bearings:Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos

Gate IX

Ka Baird - Gate IX

900songs

Copenhagen-based artist Shō Alexander Murayama presents his debut release "samebound", under the alias name "saand".

Divided into two narrative pieces, the idea behind the project is to create an abstract place, one within the imagination, but still out of reach.

Artwork & Cassette Design by Ronja-Elina Kappl.
Written by Shō Alexander Murayama.
Mixed & Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis.

samebound

Cassette / Digital

saand - return

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Heejin Jang - Iceberg
Chloë Sobek - Thrall
pent - fragments (feat. Dorothy Carlos)
bod [包家巷] - abandoned building located
Peter J Woods - Original Text
User2222 - Piece Of Me Part Of You
1127 - complexity induced amnesia (feat. التعقيد نساك & الباشا دغف)
0N4B - Stuttering
Significant Other - When It Rains (It Pours)
Drumloop - Forcefield
Willix - Dolorem (Reversed + Slowed)
Sholto Dobie - Ice pancakes
SITOI - Faux Uterus
J. G. Biberkopf - Self Vortex
Jessica Ekomane - Manifolds
pent - babble acids
heoliene - 2023 12 09 song
alys - Soul
vio lino - Pop song for a prayer
Kenji Araki - SUBSTR8
Billy Bultheel - The Thief’s Journal
Ka Baird - Gate V
aya - Lovesong
Nexcyia - Tales
bela - 풀이 Unwinding
Shyweek - Finally
Jules Reidy - I, Phase III
How To Dress Well - Crypt Sustain

Ka Baird - Gate IX

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