4th and probably final round of the Bathhouse Blues concept. More porn dialogue/sfx, field recordings & late nite vibes.

Bathhouse Blues Vol. 4

As part of the Constable Ambisonic project I want to understand how we perceive the landscape, and what did Constable and his contemporaries bring to our understanding of the natural world, and who else has contributed to the language used and ideals we hold in regard to perception of landscape. Here I talk to artist and artist and broadcaster Wendy Bailey to discuss the project more broadly.

Constable Ambisonic - Stuart Bowditch in conversation with Wendy Bailey

Bernhard Lang : Paranoia II

Klang Systematiek
Gareth Davis - bass clarinet
Anna Linardou - voice
John Greaves - voice
Dario Calderone - bass
Martin Svec - percussion
Tomas Jarmyr - drums

Recorded Live Divadlo X10 Prague December 2025


Paranoia II is a  work by Bernhard Lang, commissioned by Stichting Mousai and written for Gareth Davis and  Klang Systematiek. Scored for bass clarinet (Gareth Davis), double bass (Dario Calderone), drums (Tomas Järmyr), percussion (Martin Švec), electronics, and voices by John Greaves and Greek singer Anna Linardou, the work continues Lang’s long-standing investigation into repetition, fragmentation, and the psychology of looping.

Lang’s collaboration builds on years of shared exploration — Davis premiered his Loops for Davis concerto, and Calderone has been a key collaborator in previous projects. In Paranoia II, this ongoing dialogue becomes a study in disorientation and perception: a sonic environment where fear, media saturation, and repetition intertwine.

The work’s textual foundation is a collage of three interwoven sources. The first, “Justifications”, draws on fragments of writings about paranoia collected from online forums and social media, revealing the anxious inner voices of the digital age. The second, “CIA Protocols of Political Assassination”, extracts material relating to the 1954 coup in Guatemala — an emblematic instance of Cold War manipulation and disinformation. The third layer samples texts from the American magazine Paranoia, which documented conspiracy theories and countercultural speculation in the 1980s and ’90s.

Lang combines these materials into a stream of distorted voices — sampled, processed, and recombined — where meaning fractures and reassembles through repetition. The musical structure mirrors this psychological terrain: loops evolve, twist, and disintegrate, creating an unstable network of rhythmic and harmonic cycles. The result is both visceral and analytical — a meditation on control, fear, and the fragmentation of truth in an age of information overload.

Klang Systematiek with Bernhard Lang  - Paranoia II

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Stefan Nussbaumer - SuperCollider generated noises

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