Brannten Schnüre 170621

Following on from the 2016 Korea Undok Group compilation LP Penultimate Press is proud to release the follow up, Senescence. Covering material recorded in the last two and a half years, this new cd comprises 50% works previously available on private tiny run cassettes and 50% works made for an abandoned lp. Abandoned being a good word to use again here as this collection of barley-there trace element songs and decaying acoustic snapshots will leave the listener with a sensation not so dissimilar to the feeling abandonment conjures.

Please note there has been zero mastering on this release as we wanted it to sound as shit as possible.

Fixed Ending

Svetlana Maraš - Live performance 2019-2020
Cat #: OUS042
Release date: May 12, 2023
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«The nearly infinite improvisational potential in my performances is a result of tweaking the technology, using it in unpredictable ways, musically exploiting it, and maybe even misusing it.» - Svetlana Maraš

Serbian composer, sound artist and musician Svetlana Maraš has spent years developing her unique setup for live performances. Distinctly defining a live performance as an own form of musical practice that is defined by the sculptural potential, rather than reproducibility, she builds live sets as frameworks for musical expression. The core of her performative practice lies in the accessibility of all layers of what a ‘musical image’ at any given point consists of.

Using micro samples, granular sampling and snippets of one to two seconds, Maraš treats her live setup equivalent to an acoustic instrument. Using tablet controllers running a self-built ‘Touch OSC’ interface and pedals, she manipulates and morphs the material with the mindset of a sculptor, while exposing herself to the audience and the room. Her focus lies on the sound itself: musical structure and qualities, and the shape of the sounds projected into the performance space define which turn she might take next. Maraš explains: «I am interested how sounds fills up the room, how they spread, how near or far they are, how ‘big’ or ‘small’ they seem, how they morph and move.» With the set she played from 2019 to 2020, Maraš had reached an extreme regarding the handling and manipulation of micro samples. -OUS is releasing a live recording of this set as deep dive into the possibilities of live sound manipulation.

Svetlana Maraš is composer and artist active in the field of experimental music. Her work, which she presents internationally, encompasses variety of formats such as live performance, electro-acoustic composition, sound installations and works for the radio. She is the winner of the most prestigious Serbian composition prize «Mokranjac», awarded by the Serbian Composers’ Association. From 2016-2021, she was composer in residence and artistic director at Radio Belgrade’s Electronic studio, where she established numerous programs such as artistic residencies, educational courses and most notably, restoration of EMS Synthi 100. Currently, Maraš is Professor of Creative Music Technology and Co-head of Electronic Studio at Hochschule für Musik FHNW, Basel. 
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releases May 12, 2023

Music by Svetlana Maraš
Recorded at Il Circolo del Frattempo, Zurich, 2019
Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer
Artwork by Marko Vuleta-Djukanov
Graphic design by Rebecca Morganti-Pfaffhauser

This live set was recorded at Il Circolo del Frattempo, Zurich, a co-production between -OUS and MADAM.

The set was additionally performed at:
HEK, Basel
CAN, Neuchâtel
Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin
@svetlanamaras

Svetlana Maraš - 2019-2020-4

Nothin Remains Except Change

ǝɯǝɐ - Hopeless

Detox № 19 - 2000-2001

The Funnel is the debut album by composer, instrument builder and artist Wojciech Rusin.

Combining field recordings from Port Talbot Steelworks, self built electro-acoustic instruments and vocals drawn from alchemical texts and renaissance polyphony, The Funnel is chamber-musique-concrète for the wondering troubadour of the 21st century.

"Passport to an OBSCENELY DYNAMIC, contemplative dimension - “The Funnel” is a set of ancient imaginations in a stranglehold of electronics and steel factory atmosfears, originally composed for Radiophrenia by Wojciech Rusin and now gloriously pressed and presented by Glasgow based Akashic Records.

Equipped with some adapted instruments and occultist readings (decent dose of RATHER GLOOMY Greek-Egyptian philosophy in there too) Rusin composes and engineers an unpredictably celestial moving picture for the ear - the auto-tuned intro “Paolo’s Dream” and the bellowing baritones of “Salvation” diffusing into a solemn soul-purging of post-pythagorean(?) electro-organums.

“Transmutation” sounds like a petri dish of duplicating cells, contorted beauty with strings soaring like some sorta solar wind, the internalised ecstasy fading into the ambient clatter and percussion of “Cyclops”. The brain really scrambles trying to find points of reference - so we’ll shoot from the hip and go for some ridiculous meeting point between Księżyc’s “Rabbit Eclipse” and the more contemporary work of Pierre Bastien.

Side B offers further consuming, haunted chamber music - “Sacrifice” sounds like some possessed, hologram’d high priest drowning in a sea of sub-bass and gristly electronics before rounding up this destabilising noggin-scrambler with the near ten minute Open Music enchantment “Jupiter”

LP in sliver / blue screen print artwork limited to 300

Order here - https://akashicrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/the-funnel
Distro here -https://www.lowcompany.co.uk/

Wojciech Rusin - The Funnel (excerpts)

The second movement of Morton Feldman's music for the film ‘Sculpture by Lipton’ , a documentary from 1954 about the work of the sculptor Seymour Lipton to which Feldman wrote the music. The original score has not survived, but the piece was transcribed from the soundtrack by Philip Thomas, who performs it on his 5-CD box set of Feldman's piano music, which will be released in September 2019.

Morton Feldman - Lipton Piece #2, played by Philip Thomas

Sam Mallet could have pursued a career as a French literature professor in Paris, but decided his true calling was to remain in Australia, dedicate himself to his music and find the plateau; a word he used to describe the sensory worlds residing in music. Under the influence of Eno, Jon Hassell, Arvo Pärt, John Coltrane and Robert Fripp, Sam explored a wide variety of musical styles and put them to service soundtracking the time-based works of his peers. He crafted spatial ambience, somber jazz, and drum computer driven rockers for short films and experimental video works, television shows (including the original Australian Wilfred series), feature films and live theatre. The avant garde Anthill Theatre, known for its departure from conventional staging practices and having a keen eye for talent, enlisted Mallet to provide soundtracks for approximately 40 productions throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.

Sadly, Sam passed away in 2014. A crucial piece of his legacy is undoubtedly the body of work he produced during his life, and the archive of recorded works is vast and deep. Sam seemingly saved everything, from fragments to finished pieces; and often repurposed previously released tracks by collaging them into new pieces. He self-released a small number of cassettes and CDs from the mid 1980s onward, the contents of which were culled from soundtrack work and original pieces, but the majority of his music was experienced only within the ephemeral live performances.

Wetlands is the product of countless hours spent with this archive by Rowan Mason (Sanpo Disco/Recurring Dream) and Tony Remple (Musique Plastique), offering a dynamic survey of Sam’s work, and housed in a jacket evoking the minimal design and colour palette of his earliest cassette releases. Two selections of Sam Mallet’s music were featured on the compilation Midday Moon (also produced by Rowan), released last year by Bedroom Suck Records. Along with Left Ear Records’ Antipodean Anomalies, Midday Moon has served to highlight outlier musics and scenes from Australia and New Zealand, and Wetlands plunges deeper into the catalog of this obscure yet groundbreaking artist.

Release by Musique Plastique / Recurring Dream

PRE-ORDER HERE: www.seance-centre.com/other-releases…allet-wetlands

For EU distribution contact: info@rushhour.nl
For NA distribution contact: info@seance-centre.com

Release date October 11th 2019

Wetlands

Sam Mallet - Wetlands (MP006/RD01)

Guest: Will Boyd (@sferic-records)

📷 Picture by Nuri Llompart(instagram.com/nurillompart)
www.nurillompart.com

Joe Beedles - Viper Reel
Nikolay Kozlov - Neo_wet
Andres Saenz De Sicilia - 21 - 9 - 18
Micro Incubus - poor, really poor
Oto Hiax - Slit
Asio Otus - Sairp Vodge
Loto Retina - Galactique Dune
Koriand'r - Æon
Patrick Kosk - Distrak - Sillalla
Micro Incubus - huerco s.
Phil Struck - Tide
François Bayle - Toupie Dans Le Ciel
Jake Muir - on occasions of this kind (forthcoming sferic)
Roméo Poirier - forthcoming sferic
Loto Retina - Tension Chrono
Roméo Poirier - forthcoming sferic

Nits de la Tramuntana #16 w/ Will Boyd (sferic)

Jocy de Oliveira - Wave Song
kitty slave - blood sugar (+u)
Arial Kalma - Devil Forest Spirit
Pontiac Streator - Gumtainer
Ennio Morricone - Astratto IV
JJ+JS - CRX
TIBSLC - Later That Day (forthcoming sferic)
Cam Deas - Rhythmic Landscapes 2
Phil Struck - Sommertage
Jake Muir - on occasions of this kind (forthcoming sferic) 
Florian TM Zeisig - Been listening a lot
JJ+JS - Helio’s Trip
Roméo Poirier - Longe-côte (forthcoming sferic)
Pinkcourtesyphone - temporal extravagance
Phil Struck - Baizubai
JK Flesh - Dissociation 
(Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement Extended Remix)
Florian TM Zeisig - Only Textures

All Night Flight w/ Will Boyd - 12 07 2020

Enshrouded in high-pitched static and elusive fumelike oscillators come "Sundowning", a new mini-album signed by Preston Weippert's most prolific alias, aka Volunteer Coroner. Co-founder of the Colorado-based Trust Collective label, Weippert's music vectors a collection of desolate murals often painted with industrial-grade fuel. A low-resolution picture of oil fields burning from your window seat. Closed eyelids against the sun, into the red.

“Loss as gain- forever in blood”

EN17

Recorded during the Summer of 2020
Volunteer Coroner is P.W.

Sundowning

Volunteer Coroner - A Token Saved From A Previous Life

Electronic music label based in Manchester, UK.

All Night Flight w/ Will Boyd - 12 07 2020

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