To celebrate a year of lockdown lunacy, in this special anniversary show we invite survivors from the very first PlaguePod to come back and tell us what their COVID highlights have been. Reza Negarestani, Miguel Prado, Shaun Lewin, Amy Ireland, and Xenogothic are among the guests. DJK Huysmans is in the house to provide Hariboid sounds. Plus snack testing, Chaney's Czech-in, and the Inexplicable Scots from Beyond.

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PlaguePod Live (New Variant), Year 2 Day 1

Taken from GEORGIA (@georgiasounds) new album State Effect (Accel), out April 16, 2021, via OOH-sounds (@ooh-sounds)

Read: https://bit.ly/3sWxiCA
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3tacvvv

GEORGIA’s new kaleidoscopic hyper-music-entity “State Effect (Accel)” expands the LA-NY duo’s project in a high-dimensional phase space—and does so within their all-kind-music frame.


State Effect (Accel) is happening this very moment, it is a positive cry for change—a brilliant plan.

This record is “viscous” — whatever I do, wherever I am, it sort of “sticks” to me.

It is “nonlocal” — its ‘accelerated’ effects are globally distributed through a huge tract of time. It forces me to experience time in an unusual way.

It is “phased” — I only experience pieces of it at any one time.

It is “inter-objective” — it consists of all kinds of other/multiple entities but it is not reducible to the sum of its parts.

This music reveals the present and its psychic dimension, no titles could have been more relevant.

Justin Tripp and Brian Close’s new kaleidoscopic hyper-music-entity expands their GEORGIA project in a high-dimensional phase space. A great work of cognitive music mapping that plots all the states of a system — Lovely bubbly HTML.

The eight tracker long playing make extensive use of the vocal participation of Paris/Berlin-based artist/DJ MARYLOU aka OISEAU DANSEUR and Gabi Asfour of visionary NY fashion collective threeASFOUR.

Cover art by GEORGIA
https://www.instagram.com/georgiastudio/

Mastering by Rupert Clervaux

Released by OOH-sounds

Premiere: GEORGIA - Deployable Mental (Clitic Version) [OOH-sounds]

Seth Ayyaz
AAdM (Audio Adaptive Machine) 8 channel installation
Protocol # 2 The Sabine Equation 
collaboration with Virginie Otth (photography & lasers)
Kunsthalle Luzern, Switzerland (20 jul – 4 aug 2013)
Presented by Helvetic Centre

AAdM (7-channel) Protocol # 2 The Sabine Equation (excerpt)

Modified Zoom 1204 multo FX rack with LTC1799 based system reclocking knob. The knob controls the speed of the RAM processing, and therefore sets the sample playback speed for the delays, pitch shifting and reverbs, along with the sample rate of the other effects.
More info at: http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/fxmod/1204.html

Circuit Bent Zoom 1204 - 1960's Sex Acts Demo

The Stanford Experimental Physics Lab sonified data from the European Space Agency and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). This humming sound captures the Sun’s natural vibrations and provides scientists with a concrete representation of its dynamic movements.

For more solar sounds, visit: http://soi.stanford.edu/results/sounds.html

Sun Sonification

Our phones, our cars, our televisions, our homes: they’re all getting smarter. Artificial intelligence is already inextricably woven into everyday life, and its impact will only grow in the coming years. But while this development inspires much discussion among members of the scientific community, public opinion on artificial intelligence has remained relatively unknown. 

Artificial Intelligence: American Attitudes and Trends, a report published earlier in January by the Center for the Governance of AI, explores this question. Its authors relied on an in-depth survey to analyze American attitudes towards artificial intelligence, from privacy concerns to beliefs about U.S. technological superiority. Some of their findings--most Americans, for example, don’t trust Facebook--were unsurprising. But much of their data reflects trends within the American public that have previously gone unnoticed.    

This month Ariel was joined by Baobao Zhang, lead author of the report, to talk about these findings. Zhang is a PhD candidate in Yale University's political science department and research affiliate with the Center for the Governance of AI at the University of Oxford. Her work focuses on American politics, international relations, and experimental methods. 

In this episode, Zhang spoke about her take on some of the report’s most interesting findings, the new questions it raised, and future research directions for her team. Topics discussed include: 
-Demographic differences in perceptions of AI
-Discrepancies between expert and public opinions
-Public trust (or lack thereof) in AI developers
-The effect of information on public perceptions of scientific issues

Artificial Intelligence: American Attitudes and Trends with Baobao Zhang

For the fifth episode of our monthly show on @Ma3azef radio
Drowned By Locals 
Presents 
@PuceMary and @FRKTL
In a nebulous curation featuring a seamless blend of disparate genres across exclusive and consecutive sets by the artists

on Friday, Oct 9th, 2020
at 8 p.m. Amman time (GMT+3)‬

Puce Mary is Danish experimental and noise artist, best known for her piercing live performances and full-length releases on Copenhagen’s Posh Isolation and Berlin’s PAN Records. Debuting with several homemade cassettes of noise in the darkness to transmitting ideas and feelings through an increasingly complex musical vocabulary, Frederikke Hoffmeier represents a new era of industrial, noise and experimental music, taking a very thoughtful and emotional approach to the slow-evolving layers of distorted sound.

AND

From a series of skins worn by the British-Egyptian audiovisual artist, creative-computing designer, writer, producer and composer Sarah Badr, FRKTL is a classically trained multi-instrumentalist, subjecting her piano, violin and guitar to heavy levels of processing, utilizing live sampling and improvisation, vocal manipulation, field recordings and generative rhythms, composing and independently releasing immersive, hypnotic and haunting explorations of sound. 

Artwork by @FRKTL

في الحلقة الخامسة من برنامجنا الشهري على راديو معازف 
دراوند باي لوكالز
يُقَدِّم
بيوس ماري وفركتل  
في عرضٍ غامض يتميز بدمج سلس لأنواع موسيقية متباينة داخل مزيجين متتاليين من الموسيقى المُنتقاة من قِبَل الفنّانتيْن.
يَوْم الجُمعة المُوافِق التاسع من شهر تشرين الأول، من عام ألفين وعشرين ميلادي
وبِتَمام الساعة الثامنة في توقيت مدينة عمّان (توقيت غرينيتش زائد ثلاث ساعات)

TRACKLIST  

Puce Mary:
Dennis Cooper - “Dear Todd”(poetry spots)
&
Coil - Is Suicide A Solution (Instrumental)

Compile - “Drone’s On Fire / Ten Wolves End”
Puce - “sketch101, set on fire”

Penderecki “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima”
&
Carl Sagan on the existence of god

Thighpaulsandra “Helen Is Screaming”
Linekraft - “History of My Betrayal Act”
Anne Gillis - 2 tracks from “monetachek”
Duppi ”はつねつのみやこ”
Kali Malone - “Arched in Hysteria”
Matti Bye “solen”
Frederikke Hoffmeier & Cæcilie Trier “Into The Woods”
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FRKTL:
FRKTL - Sidereal II
Incognito-San - Stereo Luv V2
MSC & THE BODY - Inner
Entropia - Fractal
Core Self - Suspiria
hyperlacrimae - Kogawa No Gotsu
IN MY TALONS - Cherubim
Lil Asaf - Msll777 (prod. Khadije)
Xr/spool - Silver Scissor
galen tipton - honey (w_ S280F & Miedo Total)
Benfika - Exodexo
Maciej Maciągowski - GNOMIE
Lamin Fofana - And All the Birds Sing Bass
LNRDCROY - Land, Repair, Refuel
Pal Hwang Dan - An engineering battalion 공병대대에서
BXN - State of Trauma
Casiopaya - Fire In My Chest
peb - A Blade of Grass has the Status of a Flower
Mamadou Diabaté - Touma
Soho Rezanejad - This Sea is Not a Memorial
Shapednoise - CRx Aureal
AYA - DaRE u to sour lips with me
HHY & The Kampala Unit - Lithium Blast
Helm - I Knew You Would Respond
GOLPESAR - Nâ-Kojâ-Abâd
33EMYBW - Medical Fodder
Pisitakun - ConConStituStitutionalCourt
WULFFLUW XCIV - Nyege Digital Immersion
Inwoo Jung - nowhere

Drowned By Locals W/ PUCE MARY & FRKTL | Ma3azef Radio - [09.10.20]

This week we are joined by François J. Bonnet, recording artist (as Kassel Jaeger) and theoretician, Director of Groupe de Recherches Musicales of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA-GRM) in Paris, and producer on National French Radio France Musique. We talk with him about the recent publication of the english translation of his book "After Death" (2020, Urbanomic)in the context of the current pandemic and the general externalisation and disembodiment of death. We do end up divagating about improvisation, the sublime, romanticism and other meta-musical tropes in the direction of François' most recent book "The Music To Come" (2020, Shelter Press). 

https://www.urbanomic.com/book/after-death/
https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/merch/fran-ois-j-bonnet-the-music-to-come-english-edition

SD16 - w/ François J. Bonnet - We Can Go to Work but We Cannot Attend the Funeral of our Loved Ones

Taken from Fumbata (@fumbataphiri) debut album Decoherance, out December 12 2020, via EXILES (@exiles-electronics)

Read: https://bit.ly/374jXj9
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3qIHRIu

Decoherence illustrates a theoretical framework that once applied to musical composition, may be a more accurate representation of the quantum world. If we abstract away from the specifics of quantum-mechanical models, we can discern a system where an electrical signal interacts with a circuital environment thus becoming amplified or attenuated. Ordinarily, we tend to think of this spectrum modification as destructive, dissipating information about the electrical signal.

The environment induced decoherence can actually enhance our ability to extract information about the system being observed. The quantum-mechanical interference causes a broadening of the spectrum induced by the finite resolution of the measurement process. Decoherence is not a new theory unto itself, but is instead an efficient repackaging of theory.

Artwork by Áron Lődi
https://www.instagram.com/aronlodi/

Mastering by Roland Nagy
https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier

Released by EXILES

Premiere: Fumbata - Catalyst [EXILES]

Highly advanced AI reads Nick Land, ‘Hypervirus’, from Fanged Noumena https://www.urbanomic.com/book/fanged-noumena/

As featured in Urbanomic PlaguePod Live New Variant Day 3

The backing track is (1) Untitled shruti transform by Mark Fell (2)‘Zero Fucks’ by Special Request