Current Ambient I keep on coming back to

Marco Lucchi : piano
M.Nomized : electronics
James Hill : trumpet

for "piano patterns" vol. 2 https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/sets/piano-patterns-vol-2

marzo 2021

Marco Lucchi, M.Nomized & James Hill - #9

DAVID GRANSTRÖM, Empty Room - LP

Release date - April 2th 2021
Catalogue nr. - HG2102
Format - Vinyl / digital
Hallow Ground

hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
1) Obsidian 09:22
2) Aeon 10:56
3) Sapphire Visions 04:50
4) Occultations 10:08
5) Transience 04:45

Credits:
All tracks composed, recorded, performed and mixed by David Granström 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Photography by Aron Mattsson
Cover design by Greenpointless

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On »Empty Room,« David Granström works with slow transformations, cyclical and isometric patterns as well as just intonation as a way to create harmonic stability, allowing his long-form pieces to develop their own unique temporal and spatial qualities. A prolific figure in Stockholm’s experimental drone scene and a collaborator of Hallow Ground label mates Maria W Horn and Mats Erlandsson, the Swedish composer navigates through moments of quietude and crushing volume on these five tracks. Sonically and atmospherically, the pieces on »Empty Room« simultaneously call to mind Fennesz’s most meditative work or the physical experience of seeing Sunn O))) live, blending guitar recordings and synthesised sounds with forceful effects similar to those of Mario Díaz de Leon’s Oneirogen project while still being as moving and delicate as Alessandro Cortini’s solo work. The album is marked by melodies and harmonies that are the product of a peculiar working process that turned the composer into an intent listener collaborating with, rather than simply using technology. 

Having been invited by the self-organising artist group The Non Existent Center for a residency to Ställbergs Gruva, a defunct iron ore mine in Sweden’s Bergslagen region, Granström took his guitar as a starting point for his compositional work that heavily relies on real-time sound synthesis. »I seldomly use the instrument as a sound source in the final compositions and rather transcribe and orchestrate the harmonic structures using sound synthesis,« he explains. »On this album however, I chose to include the actual recordings of the guitar in order to extend the spectra between non-referential synthetic sounds and embodied referential sounds.« Working with precise tunings in order to blend the timbre of the synthesis with the harmonic structures of the composition, he created composite sound objects in which the harmonic elements blend into each other. 

Through the re-amplification of synthetic musical materials from the inside of the abandoned mine, his original compositions were enriched with site-specific sound qualities before he further refined them in a singular working process. Granström works with algorithmic and generative processes, using the SuperCollider programming environment and thus blurring the lines between generative and creative forms of composition. »One of the things that I like about this way of working is that it creates a distance between myself as a composer and myself as a listener of the music that is produced entirely by the system,« he says. Granström’s technologically aided eschewing of the conventions of composing doesn’t make the end result any less personal, however. By listening again and again to the newly generated output, Granström simply took on a different role in the process of finalising the music, with the technology and the sounds becoming his co-authors. 

By creating systems that generate music, he gains a new perspective on (musical) time, says Granström. »There doesn't have to be a fixed length to the music at all,« he explains. »And by writing music with this in mind, my focus tends to shift towards writing cyclical structures that gradually change and transform over time.« Simple parts, in other words, that emerge as the five complex wholes that form »Empty Room,« a record that itself seems to take on different forms with every new listen.

DAVID GRANSTRÖM - Occultations (HG2102)

"Make the Secrets Produtive" is taken from "Fold Unfold", Katrine Grarup Elbo´s debut album. Handmade LP and CD editions available April, 2021.

Fold Unfold

Katrine Grarup Elbo - Make the Secrets Productive

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After another weary year, allow us to soak your digital tendrils in our tepid aural ooze – a sonic silicone secretion to reboot the limbic system to its most primal state of ecstasy.

INDEX0X0XL is the second release of our pan-sensory bouquet, distilled to provoke and whet our deepest of lusts. An atomised, sway-inducing solution to seduce and ensnare the most sated souls, thru an intoxicating rhapsody of notes – a Venus in slurs.

The tracks will be available as 'pay as you feel' on Valentine's Day 2022. There will also be love inspiring merch to accompany the compilation: a colour-customisable, individually handmade INDEXOXOXL dildo by xoxo.dilco. Head to Bandcamp to order, or send us a dm.

@keptmale @benbondy @connaharaway @specialguest-dj @pontiacstreator @cybermission @drmystery @vasesound @rreinartz @mathisruffing @jpeglove @faffldn @loiflan @kingsofty @user-951049725-782254964 @dj-sweat @aradacid

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Mastered by @ikezwanikken
Artwork by @kingsofty
Curated by @connaharaway & @kingsofty

INDEXOXOXL

dildos n digis

Conna Haraway – don't @ me

avec ma  Solene

booted + legged  from the og:
dol-lop - flow

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sol-lop - l'eau  [akimat's chopped n wet bootleg ]

Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga, Tapiwa Svosve - The Sport of Love 
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 134
Release Date: 26 May 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/TheSportofLove

In the late 18th century, reason and rational thought was idealized and viewed as the most progressive way to comprehend a rapidly industrializing society. The snap reaction was Romanticism, an artistic movement that prioritized emotion, imagination and intuition - things that can't be quantified but have sustained culture for millennia. Now in a digitally accelerated age where our lives are not only measured but distributed in binary, a similarly hot-blooded creative response is long overdue. On The Sport of Love, seasoned collaborators Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga and Tapiwa Svosve consider the language, competition and contradiction of modern romance: its yearning, incomprehensible vastness and the inevitable darkness and fleeting fragility. For the trio, love is the emotion that propels all of us whether we acknowledge it or not, and its expression can be realized in many forms.

“I know my musical collaborators on an arguably more intimate level than many of the friendships that are exclusively born of word-based language,” says Belaga. The cellist and composer has been developing a relationship with Los Angeles-based DJ-producer Maroof (also known as Asmara) and Svosve, a Swiss saxophonist and electro-acoustic musician, for many years; the three are all part of Moved by the Motion, a "roving band" that also includes artist and filmmaker Wu Tsang, performer and dancer Tosh Basco and dancer Josh Johnson. As a three-piece ensemble, their interaction is fluid and physical, and with Svosve and Belaga on sax, flute, piano and cello, Maroof sculpts the sounds into textured, effervescent fantasies. “A lot of the songs were improvised and then I made sense of the madness," she explains.

The music emerged like smoke from the embers of soundtrack work they collaborated on in 2021. After finishing scores for Virgil Abloh's Louis Vuitton A/W 2021 collection film, Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light and Bafic’s documentary short Sub Eleven Seconds, the trio were left with unanswered questions and excess energy. They considered the idea of creating an imaginary score to a romantic movie, using love to dictate its movement and narrative. So opening track 'G Major Kind of Love' is the intoxicating first blush, characterized by a drowned sax solo that sounds like a siren call from beneath the ocean. 'Delicate Distance Between Boulders' is quivering and hesitant, using gentle piano motifs against reverberating flute sounds and subtle, goosebump inducing electronic treatments.

Everything comes into sharp focus on the album's lengthy central piece 'The Stranger', that brings in additional instrumentation from harpist Ayha Simone and percussionist Mathieu Edward. The three friends saw this particular composition as a journey within itself, charting the anxiety, harmony and uncertainty of love. Shifting from gooey freeform jazz into gurgling noise and bleak ambient drone, it connects the dots between Dorothy Ashby, Arve Henriksen, Jon Hassell and Hildur Guðnadóttir while voyaging into parts unknown. It's a finale of sorts that wrestles with the complexity of the album's themes, returning to earlier refrains and prolonging their tension.

Fittingly, the record is tied together by artwork from the trio's friend Tosh Basco, and several tracks have already been used by Wu Tsang in a piece for SFMoMa. The Sport of Love is powered by physical connection in a digital world, and breathes a mysterious allure that's never been more urgent.

The Sport of Love 

Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga, Tapiwa Svosve - Wicked City (PAN 134)

Alt-pop experimentalist and Croatian Amor collaborator @altoaria pays tribute to lovelorn souls on their @rhz000 return.

Fitting that a release bearing a title referring to an all-consuming state of infatuation would land on Valentines Day. Striking balance between soft and severe, ‘Limerence’ is a lament to unrequited love; a homage to the heart-broken among us.

Tugging hard on the heartstrings, our pick is no less tender for its restraint. String-fuelled, heart-in-mouth melodrama imbued with a sense of yearning. 

'Limerence' is out February 14th on Rhizome.

Pre-order: rhz000.bandcamp.com/album/limerence

Limerence

Premiere: Alto Aria - Where The Heart Is [Rhizome]

16ft dub (live cut)

Starfrog Slipmoded

Starfrog (Mosslander Tablet version) [feat. Ben Bondy]

Recorded in Rotterdam (Netherlands)  XX.07.2024

https://soundcloud.com/morelized [https://soundcloud.com/dischi_nottetempo]

Daniele De Rubertis - aka Young Gaina - is a DJ, passionate record collector, and talented listener currently based in Rotterdam. He runs the label Dischi Nottetempo where his unique taste as music curator shines through. For E.S.T his selection takes us on an emotional journey of happiness, melancholy, euphoria or anger; disregarding genre conventions, and putting beat matching to the background in order to create the foreground as a stage for the singular narrative of each track.

• https://it.ra.co/dj/younggaina/biography
• https://www.instagram.com/young_gaina/
• https://linktr.ee/dischinottetempo
• https://www.instagram.com/dischinottetempo/

E.S.T. 091 • Daniele De Rubertis

Gruth is set to release his 3rd solo album, this time via Temporize. Scenes From  was written between 2018 and 2021 in Brazil and follows Gruth’s debut album Laments released in 2018, and his second album Somnum Exterreri.. Written as a two-act play, 'Act I, Scene I - Wake In Fright' is the opening track and captures Gruth's light, euphoric sound that perfectly transitions from the final moments of Somnum Exterreri. 


words: https://www.asifnoway.com/premiere-gruth-act-i-scene-i-wake-in-fright-temporize

Scenes From

Premiere: Gruth - Act I Scene I; Wake in Fright (Temporize)

Pour cette émission de rentrée, je propose de prendre le contre-pied de la saison passée, qui s’axait sur les sonorités de la nature. 
Au fil de cette nouvelle saison de « murmurations », l’accent sera mis sur les paysages sonores façonnés par l’humain.
En guise d’introduction, je vais explorer la thématique de la voiture.
La voiture, ou la caisse, la bagnole.
Celle qui nous fait fantasmer, celle où l&amp#39;on allume la radio au gré des routes sinueuses sans savoir ce qu&amp#39;on va trouver au bout des ondes, autant que celle cabossée qui nous transporte sur les autoroutes, 4 voies et autres pistes de rallyes.
J’ai conçu ce set comme un hommage sous forme de collage sonore à mon Kangoo usé, à l&amp#39;autoradio défaillant, mais avec qui j’ai vécu tant d’aventures.
Bonne écoute ! 


Murmurations w/ Dj Sport 2000 (01/11/24)

LYL Radio - November 2024

Metamorphoses

After a stormy year, let us bask your moonlit dreams with synthetic serenades and sweet susurrations, that coax us all into digital lust.

INDEX0X0 is a prescription of sonic pheromones designed to soothe, arouse and awaken all sentient beings. A kiss from the gentlest carbon-composite lips, rewrites our code into a swirling sequence of bliss.

The tracks are available as 'pay as you feel' and we have love inspiring merchandise to accompany the compilation.

Tracks by: @agespowerflip @connaharaway @vasesound @specialguest-dj @cofaxx @l-v-j @amamelia @djfuckoff @ysystem @hystericalloveproject @blacksnakewhip

INDEX0X0

Love Line

Cofaxx - Fantasy

From Atlas der Gedanken, available now on cassette tape and digital.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/atlas-der-gedanken

Mareena & JakoJako - Phantasma

Ka Baird is a performer, composer and sound designer based in New York City. They are known for their live performances which include extended voice and microphone techniques combined with electronics and psychoacoustic interplay of flutes and other woodwinds. They create a present tense sound with a vigorous, ritualistic delivery that seeks extreme release through physical exertion and psychic extension. They have worked/collaborated with many other musicians, artists, filmmakers and choreographers, both in structured compositions and in their dedicated practice of improvisation and interdisciplinary work.

Metamorphoses

Ka Baird

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