„pan dora“ is based on Bernhard Weiss’ music for the butoh-performance „PanD’orA - Shades of Hope“ by DaniMayu and her Company MayuKan. Sounds and fragments of the original soundtrack are condensed into an independent track. „pan dora“ consists exclusively of partially heavily processed recordings of acoustic instruments (gongs, kamalen goni, windchimes, cymbals and tibetan singing bowls) and field recordings.

The performance was to have taken place in Vienna in early November 2020, but had to be cancelled and postponed indefinitely due to a lockdown.

About the piece „PanD’orA - Shades of Hope“:

After 20 years of being a butoh performer and choreographer, DaniMayu revived her Company MayuKan in order to create her new piece „PanD'orA - Shades of Hope“. In her new production Dani Mayu is honouring her body of work by incorporating quotes from over 30 pieces of hers.

Starting from Pandora's Box, the members of the Company show different aspects of hope in the tension between the general positive connotation of today and in the sense of Friedrich Nietzsche, who in „Human, All too Human“ describes hope as the worst of all evils.

MayuKan:
Concept / Choreography / Costumes & Stage: DaniMayu
Dance: DaniMayu, Jule, Michaela Mab, Runa Hatariy, Stephanie Tietz, Theresa Grießenberger

butoh-danimayu.com

Music played, recorded, produced and mixed at home by Bernhard Weiss, 2020
Fieldrecordings recorded at various places in Portugal and Switzerland by Bernhard Weiss, 2011

Pan Dora

Kittylung & Embassy - Membrane Breaking
Taken from the forthcoming album "Something Inevitable"

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Something Inevitable 
by Kittylung & EMBASSY

CD/Digital

Limited to 40 CD's, handmade covers, various colors available, hand numbered:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/something-inevitable

"Kittylung & EMBASSY is a collaboration between Chicago-based musician, Max Reikosky (he/him), and Portland-based artist, Toby Alden (they/them). After years of creating digitally art-damaged sound collages in the noise outfit micheal cushion and producing ambient works under their respective solo monikers, Kittylung and EMBASSY, Reikosky and Alden have teamed up once again to create an album of atmospheric, electroacoustic pieces inspired by the environmental perils of the anthropocene. Stylistically situated somewhere between Cluster’s Kosmische experiments, 12k’s sleek minimalism, and the spacious psychedelia of MFS Records’ early trance recordings, Kittylung & EMBASSY manage to create sonic spaces that evoke both the eerie stillness of empty, post-pandemic dance floors and the uncanny soundscapes of a world forever transformed by climate change." 

- Wyatt Thomas

Releases July 1, 2022 

Recorded, composed, and produced by Kittylung & EMBASSY 
Kittylung - kittylung.bandcamp.com 
EMBASSY - brlka.bandcamp.com 
soundcloud.com/embassy 

Cover art by Max Reikosky 
Back cover and tracklist art by Natalie Stevens - www.instagram.com/theceremonydoula/ 
Tracklist typography by Maxton McGuire - www.maxtonmcguire.com
 Mastered by Andrea Porcu 

Shimmering Moods Records 2022 
SHM 220

Kittylung & Embassy - Membrane Breaking

Of Light And The Sea

しゃんしゃんしゃんしゃんとんたんとんとん

Written and produced by Francesco Vitti
Registered in the studios of EKOS records (Italy)
Label: EKOS records
Mastering: EKOS records
Artwork: Federica Vitti

Clouds

CLOUDS

Candlelit Moon

Horizon

'I the Storm'
Simon McCorry
See Blue Audio SBA 045

1. The Earth's Sorrow for All Things That Pass
2. Misericordia
3. These Scalding Tears
4. The Ever-Evolving Reflecting Mirror

Release date: 22 September 2023

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See Blue Audio: ambient / electronic / beatless / cinematic / downtempo / eclectic / introspective… Shade rather than light...

As summer fades and the nights draw in, our collective consciousness can take a turn towards the melancholic. We may feel this cyclical change at both a micro, individual level and as part of a greater cosmic dimension, but its presence is undeniable. We can find ourselves in the eye of a storm, and that storm could well be within us. This is the theme of the forty-fifth release on See Blue Audio: 'I the Storm' by Simon McCorry.

Mixed ethnicity, part-British, part-Indian, and "cellist sound-sculptor of ambiguous environments", this is Simon's third release on See Blue Audio. It follows a prolific couple of years of releases on respected labels on the ambient music scene like Oscarson, Shimmering Moods, Whitelabrecs, Hidden Vibes, Rusted Tone Recordings and Polar Seas. As with Simon's first release on See Blue Audio, the 'Nature in Nature' EP from 2021, where the title track was created for a short film featuring Japanese contemporary dance artist Satoko Fukuda, so 'I the Storm' began its life in the theatre. All four compositions were written while collaborating with choreographer Travis Clausen-Knight on 'I the Storm', part of the Fabula Collective production 'Momentum'. Although not originally intended for the show, they ended up using 'These Scalding Tears' in its entirety alongside other original music from Simon, with 'Momentum' receiving its premiere at Sadlers Wells Theatre in London in September 2022.

Another important component in the backstory to 'I the Storm' is the serious health issues and periods in hospital Simon experienced at the end of 2021. As disharmony in the body can also lead to disharmony in the mind, this became a time of deep personal confusion for the artist. Seeking spiritual answers, 'I the Storm' is largely influenced and indebted to the sacred music of the 12th century Benedictine writer and visionary Hildegard von Bingen, even though it has a veneer of contemporary sonic landscapes.

'I the Storm' consists of four beatless compositions of varying length based around asynchronous live looping with the cello, a method Simon has been experimenting with for a number of years. This new work takes the process in another direction as all the loops remain 'open' in overdub mode. Five loops of five different lengths always recording and adding new material as the older material slowly fades away on each repeat. Sounds cascade and circle around each other in a network of loop and delay; sometimes like a call and response, sometimes like reverb or an audio smudge, or a choir of cellos, or dense string orchestration and harmonisation. There are moments where the music is on the edge of going out of control and tipping into chaos; a tightrope is being walked.

All the tracks on 'I the Storm' were played and recorded in one sitting. The chaotic nature of the method means this is the only way, but each piece also exists as its own dramatic whole, while contained within are smaller sections or movements travelling through different emotional states and spaces.

'I the Storm' was not conceived or executed as background ambience; this is not linear or gentle listening. Nothing is hidden, all emotions are raw, and it was designed to be experienced by the listener as such. As the track titles show, ours is a world of tumult and turmoil, of agitation and upheaval, and where the storm that's within us all ebbs and flows throughout life.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering.

Image: the Sound Camp.

I the Storm

'I the Storm' (preview) – Simon McCorry (See Blue Audio SBA #045)

Sunday night I performed an ambient set of vocals at a gathering near Wales, this is the ending as i only started recording over an hour into the set... enjoy!

Aug 23 Bank Holiday Live Ambient Vocal Improvisation

Hydrophonic sample of snow with some added instrumentation. Half speed Macumbista Benjolin, Soma Dvina and other friends.

Samplad snö

Written in May 2024. Orchestra.
The Choirboy, Georges de la Tour.

The Choirboy

Ambient / electronic / beatless / cinematic / downtempo / eclectic / introspective… Shade rather than light... Established 2019.

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'I the Storm' (preview) – Simon McCorry (See Blue Audio SBA #045)

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