Cyprien Gaillard - Retinal Rivalry
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 157
Release Date: 17 October 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/RetinalRivalry

Retinal Rivalry is the soundtrack to Cyprien Gaillard’s new stereoscopic film, Retinal Rivalry (2024). It is an entrancing journey through Germany’s urban landscape and its layers of historical and social significance. Building on his previous exploration of the sculptural qualities of three-dimensional moving images, the work extends beyond the confines of the screen. By harnessing cutting-edge technology to its full potential, Gaillard offers an expanded, sharpened and deeply affecting novel view of the world around us.

Retinal Rivalry is named after the visual perception phenomenon that occurs when the brain receives two conflicting images at the same time. Instead of blending into one 3D image, the neural system alternates between prioritising one image while suppressing the other, causing confusion and discomfort for the viewer.

Gaillard’s film engages with these complexities of visual processing and the limitations of technology, collating visual information through exceptional, often tongue-in-cheek, shots that intertwine the inside and outside, the contained and dispersed, and the natural and built.

His camera adopts unusual viewpoints, shifting from smooth aerial perspectives to a rodent’s low gaze to the dizzying darting in and out on the bulbous nose of a sculpture, or a long shot of a train moving through a landscape, drawing us into a layered experience that teeters between a bad trip and unexpected beauty providing solace.

The film’s score draws from diverse sonic elements, bolstering its exploration of dissonance and synchrony. Indonesian instrumental music is reworked and combined with field recordings of heavy machinery rumbling and strangely melodic retching. The soundtrack also incorporates the opening lines to Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), along with its accompanying overture by German band Popol Vuh. 

The soundscape of Retinal Rivalry contrasts its images—what we see is often at odds with what we hear. Only one section lets sound and image converge: a fractured leg pumps the pedal of an interactive organ to play a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach that repeatedly falters.

The film Retinal Rivalry will be on view at Haus der Kunst in Munich from October 17, 2025, to March 8, 2026.

Cyprien Gaillard - Retinal Rivalry (PAN 157)

The duo Corporation, formed by Racine (Julien Racine) and Keru Not Ever (Justin Leduc-Frenette), have been linking contemporary electronic music with the brute practices of electro-acoustic and plunderphonic music for several years. This - as patent in their respective works as in their debut album, Graffito (2019 [Genot Centre]) - results in hallucinatory music based on collage, superposition, repetition, synthesis and field-recording. It is composed as an acousmatic theater of sound artifacts without actors.

They are now returning with their sophomore album, Tableaux du doute, a work of sound investigations, traces, clues and alibis collected between 2021 and 2024. Drawing motifs and samples from the soundtracks of neo-noir films and detective movies of the 1990s and 2000s (Miami Vice, L.A. Confidential, Scoop, etc.) the pieces are composed as small tableaux, scenes of obsessive (dis)appearances and ordinary conspiracies, whose curtains hide underhand thefts and repeated treacheries. Every piece insists on and repeats the motives of doubt - before the revelation of a crime - whether felted by the lyrical eroticism of violins or the oblique coldness of FM synthesis.

The album can be listened as both a fanfiction-turned-mixtape and a musical études of investigative tropes - an empty object whose mystery is entirely produced by the artificial surface of seductive sounds.

releases November 14, 2025

Corporation - Sa dent douce à la mort

OXY w/ Turbo Miffy - 28/10/2025

teenage me having a stroke
*not official artwork lol

baby g opening 4 mura masa ★ curve +1 tour,  melkweg ★ w/ ambu bambu b2b masha wordpress, zohar

PREMIERE : Zero Crossing Point - Crowds of Us (feat. Lea Farina) [katharsis]

Listen to "Resonator Statements" by Zero Crossing Point taken from "Rebound" out on November 17th via katharsis

Pre-order: https://katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/album/rebound

"Rebound" is the new EP from Zero Crossing Points coming out on katharsis on November 17th, a work that feels both intimate and expansive, drifting between reflection and release. Drawing elements from several genres, the EP ranges from quiet and discrete soundscapes, to vivid blasts of raw emotions. Fragments of voice appear throughout, human yet often transformed, woven together with sweeping synths, bowed strings, digital manipulations, and textures that feel at once fragile and grounded. The result is a sound world that blurs the line between the synthetic and the organic, the remembered and the reimagined. Japanese video game music dances together with musique concrete elements, echoes of sacred music meet screaming metal drones. There is a sense of searching that runs through Rebound - it is music that lingers in the in-between, where distortion becomes tender and introspection turns into motion.

Links:
Zero Crossing Point
https://soundcloud.com/zerocrossingpoint
https://zerocrossingpoint.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/zerocrossing.point
katharsis
https://soundcloud.com/katharsislabel
https://katharsis-label.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/katharsislabel

pre-order / bandcamp

Zero Crossing Point - Resonator Statements (katharsis)

03 Estoc x jondu - ENDLESS TOMORROW

06 Kelvin T - Around The World (ATC Cover)

magna mater [feat.vylo] (prod.vyperrkg)

https://soundcloud.com/alwissound https://soundcloud.com/kioskk  https://soundcloud.com/10-60-hz
🛒 https://10-60-hz.bandcamp.com/album/drumcore-vol-1
🔊 https://youtu.be/g_FL2f7WgZc

Drumcore Vol. 1 marks the return to the producer Alwis. Taking inspiration from iconic video games from the late 1990s — from Wipeout to Jet Set Radio — this EP revives a sense of nostalgia where speed is an aesthetic and original soundtracks are a style in their own right.

Effective fusion of IDM, drum & bass and breakcore, Alwis plays with the boundaries of percussion within a dense and hyperactive electronic universe. His productions display a disconcerting mastery of the genre which presents itself as a brutal encounter of samples, flows, chords, rhythms and other fluctuations coming from all sides.

For its part, k:i:o:s:k offers an unrestrained remix that injects dub resonances into a syncopated and fragmented architecture. The deconstruction adds a depth that is faithful to the frenetic energy that runs through the entire release. 

Tracklist:

1. Tricks
2. Cave Toss
3. Virus
4. Two Minds
5. Virus (k:i:o:s:k Remix)

PREMIERE: Alwis - Virus (k:i:o:s:k Remix) [10.60 Hz]

p me
w @achachachach
s/o потемкин о.о

тяжелое сердце невинно
разве этого не видно
удары по стеклу
на лице полу-пантомима
я выучил эмоции
но все куда-то мимо
продолжаю падать
небо уже украли
мы с самого начала
ничего не означали
иногда я забываюсь
карманы пахнут мраком
но мне уже не надо
мне уже не надо
боль воспоминаний
убивает меня

даже небо ставит крест на мне
как и остальные сука я не хочу знать о тебе
ничего, ничего
словно огонь поджигает весло
этой зимой то холодно то тепло
воспоминания не греют, лишь боль
пытаюсь извлечь хоть что-то из грязи
оно подо льдом, тонет и визжит
больно будет потом, пока все лежит
я курю под темные электронные миксы
и даже луна мне говорит спасибо
за то что я плююсь на улице жижей
я весь в табаке оплаканный и поникший
она хочет сожрать все мои мысли

убивает меня
убивает меня

pain

Sea Cucumber is a label founded in 2021 by @Tzusing 
Sea cucumbers are found on the sea floor worldwide.

06 Kelvin T - Around The World (ATC Cover)

Sea Cucumber

Related tracks