from 'Mirror World' [CDN004] / full EP available on Nina Protocol

Reflections of songs, double-vision fragments. Lean into the uncanny valley; select your alter ego.

Mirror World [CDN004]

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EInlächelnamfußederleiter

Thanks to I & P

Recorded from 2021-2023 in Vienna
Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval (@a_b_d_a_b_d)

Calix Fig Tre

Our initial dialog with Synthia was an adventurous creative endeavour that made us question whether machines could have a soul. This one definitely spoke her mind, and left a fascinating mark on both of us as a wondrous machine––––––woman, a marvelous piece of engineering, an entity trapped in a modular eternity.

Considering that neither of us had any previous contact with such a complex modular system such as EMS Synthi 100, we took a somewhat intuitive approach. This is a fairly raw glimpse of the first days spent in the studio.

Oh, Synthia, we only just met...

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Happy birthday Mark!!!

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Composing, editing, patching & live mixing: Manja Ristić
Live mixing & patching: Mark Vernon
Cover art: Manja Ristić –– segment of the sculpture by Angelina Gatalica made in memory of Serbian painter Nadežda Petrović, erected in 1989 in the Pioneer’s Park, on the occasion of the IX Summit of Non-Aligned Countries.

basne——side B

basne——side A

All the heat u can eat

Stay warm xx


reading list: Toni Cade Bambara, Abdelrahman Munif, Roman Jakobson, Fay Stender, Claudia Jones, Agamben on Dante, C. Eric Lincoln, Cao Xuequin, Deborah Eisenberg
Borges essay 'Blindness' 
"I had replaced the visible world with the aural world.. At nightfall, the things closest to us seem to move away from our eyes. So the visible world has moved away from my eyes.. it is one more instrument among many--all of them so strange--that fate or chance provide"

img: Larry Young 1971

Winter Song C

Felipe Vaz is a sound artist, researcher and new media producer.
In this publication for Evel Felipe delves into his musical and creative language pushing the limits of the experimental electronic scene.
We think that this release will be one of those that will define the new sound that is coming in 2024.

Felipe Vaz - Marie Curie Allee

Blue Sky Approach - A tangle of weaving inquiries presented by Philadelphia-based label CALLA DISCS ( @user-719326406 ). Exploring the process of re-enchantment through sound. 

Listen live -4th Sundays, 1-2PM EST at www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~
2302 - Windmill [Mammo, 2024]
EDN - 2 bored angels [ONO Records, 2024]
Kelela - Divorce (Loraine James Remix) [Warp Records, 2024]
Mica Levi - Blue Shit [self-released, 2021]
Naemi - Amber Floe (Part 2) [radio.syg.ma, 2019]
Ravenna - Vision III: Our Paradise Regained Lasted Only Two Days (self-released, 2022)
Piezo - p°P° [Ansia, 2023]
Chuck Person - A2 [The Curatorial Club, 2010]
Betty Hammerschlag - U Fadinggg [self-released, 2023]
comeout2thecoast - Most Things [Calla Discs, 2023]
Jonnine - As You Sleep by My Feet [do you have peace?, 2023]
excel dj ft. cascader - guitar 2020 [self-released, 2023]
Venerandi - Only for Love [self-released, 2023]
sportsmanship - Circa (2018) [self-released, 2024]
Low Flung - Understanding [Oxtail Recordings, forthcoming]
Eyes of the Amaryllis - Dinner is Waiting [Horn of Plenty, 2023]
Bill Laswell - Káshí [Sub Rosa, 1997]
Lovefear - Breathe [Absurd TRAX, 2022]
Lisa Lerkenfeldt - With water up to her knees [Shelter Press, 2022]
Maharadja Sweets - Siddhartha and Govinda [Oxtail Recordings, 2022]
Tara Clerkin - The Reek [Laura Lies In, 2020]
CTM - Vind [Posh Isolation, 2023]
blackbody_radiation - Rhyolite [Faitiche, 2023]

Blue Sky Approach

Blue Sky Approach - w/ Calla Discs 25Feb2024

idas_u-2764

"premonitions" by @alenakoroleva [fom10]
CS/DL : f-o-m.bandcamp.com/album/premonitions

“Whenever I go, I can't help but notice signs of a looming change. I eavesdrop on conversations of creatures big and small, and like me, they seem uneasy and uncertain about what's to come. Something is in the air, dark clouds gather, winds are shifting course. Amidst the confusion and restlessness, the voices of non-human and human worlds blend in a worrisome symphony. This piece is an ode to anticipation, to the beauty of different forms of life on the brink of the sixth mass extinction. Joining in the chorus are the American toad, northern winds, an old kettle, Mr. Cat, tawny owl, crickets, domestic chickens and pigs, trumpeter swans, honey bees, truck horns, cormorants, seagulls and other elements and critters.” — Alëna Korolëva 

Something is afoot, the Tkaronto/Toronto-based artist and curator, Alëna Korolëva tells us in her new soundscape composition “premonitions”. American toads and water beetles set things in motion before the long-form piece journeys through a multitude of field recordings and non-human voices in a quasi-cinematographic fashion. Korolëva layers and manipulates sounds from the real into a sonic chimaera which mutates concrete ambiances into vaporous surrealities through the modes of collage. A storm blankets the soundscape, things grow quieter. Distant parallels with Luc Ferrari’s "musique anecdotique" come to mind, yet here the piece materializes in an acoustic docu-fiction of some sort, that takes the form of a waking dream. Various scenes, ranging from the mundane to the uncanny, unfold in eardrums exposing an underlying sense of earthly melancholy. A weight lurks throughout while winds, pigs, chickens, and mechanical apparatus weave into a strange agitated tapestry. A kettle whistles, a cat meows – Korolëva sprinkles the gloom with touches of humor and audible senses of home. Trumpeter swans are joined by a trumpeter human; Chayka Chekhov responds to the avian songs in a interspecies dialogue – echoing Jim Nollman’s “Playing Music With Animals”. Environments cascade into a finale droned out by truck horns. Their ringings and animal cries swell in a somber abstraction bearing the weight of a presentiment. “What does the future hold?” we ask ourselves throughout the album as we dissolve in imbrications of positionings, emanating from one another like stacking dolls. Poly-layered, “premonitions” engages in play, in negotiation with the disparate spaces and voices of a troubled world as if it created harmonious discord to decipher the ominous clouds gathering in the horizon.

C30 — limited edition of 60 
duration: 28’56’’ — piece repeats on both sides 
recorded, photographed, and composed by alëna korolëva 
trumpet improvisation by chayka chekhov 
mastered by mathieu bonnafous 
tape production by headless duplicated tapes 
published by forms of minutiae — fom10 — 2024

CS / DL

alëna korolëva — premonitions [fom10]

oisatana - future self
man rei -  call
ken ikeda - mist on the window
ceffyl dwr - gucci drift edit
ourora - cinéma À deux
jonnnah - big apple under water
sensual mindfuck - beffskee & ornography
noorj - flame flowers
halos - III (simone bauer dubbed out edit)
dj ojo -  in the slush (iii)
shiner - shining message
ken ikeda - rustle
drip 133 - finalhours
bb948 - june
lewi boome - softbody
ayya - `·. ljst `·. ©®™
two heavens - I want to live 4 ever

NOODS RADIO #6 - w/yusk 3.24.2024

Yzak125

coaricatherine@gmail.com


Memory becomes the statue at the portico, something the women will photograph over the course of their days to and from work, some will make a song of this and wonder who could have cut chicken wire and mixed sediment to a fine pudding–only the maker’s initial at the elbow, now limed pewter.

Winter Song C

Kate

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