senko @ Perception Phloq (cut7)

http://mailorder.ant-zen.com/product/id/2394
https://hymen-records.bandcamp.com/album/dronetudes

senko, who has also appeared as slew52, slam52 and .slam: is the aarhus / denmark based project of daniel kosenko. the manipulation of pure data into sound (or 'klang', as he designates it) has now become his main focus. kosenko's musical intention has always been of an explorative and experimental embouchure and for this release, senko's aim was to develop 'a system' with a semi-generative approach to harmonics, in which synths and sounds 'resolve' each others harmonic ideas, and 'talk' to each other 'forcing the hand of chance'. the process of developing 'the system' was inspired by such wide ranging artists as john coltrane, györgy ligeti and psychic tv. artists who always found a perfect balance between improvisation and elaborate concepts. the eight tracks of this album display a wide range of styles, approaches and spirits: contemporary electroacoustic textures and dark melodic drones as well as twisted abstract beats and filmic soundscapes with a ritualistic feel generate an aural kaleidoscope of moods between precipitance and relief. while listening to this release you will enter an unfolding labyrinth of semi-improvised drone-études - be prepared to stay there for quite a long time...

Senko Dronetudes cuts

2. Hum

Reworked excerpts from Demissions, part of The Domino Effect, The Santa Fe Art Institute, 2004 curated by Keep Adding. Featuring: Glen Velez - overtone chanting, Jenna Balfe - guitar, Katherine Marks - cello.

Video installation directed by Melanie Patiram
http://vimeo.com/channels/phoenecia/9079601

Four Person Tank

Reworked excerpts from the soundtrack for How Long Is Forever, directed by Franco Gonzalez, 2006

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How Long Is Forever

PHOENECIA - ECHELON MALL
(81:14)

Although Phoenecia's Echelon Mall is the culmination of five years of exhibitions and film work, the project did not begin with their first commission, rather the moment the first revision was requested. Realizing that useful limbs were bound to be severed, and conversely, that music for film needs to undergo additional surgery to become good listening music, the artists tucked the idea of Echelon Mall away for safekeeping, adding bits and pieces as time passed. The sources could hardly be more diverse, one is a soundtrack for the opening ceremony for a fantasy play-land for children created by a group of toy makers, one is a film about Hispanic low-rider bicycle gang members battling one another with witchcraft, another is a starkly futuristic 5.1 installation with visuals interactively generated by the soundtrack itself, and then there's a two hour performance where the artists remixed, at random, sounds from 2,500 Christmas records. The result is a surprisingly fluid piece of work that plays like a contiguous, mood-driven soundtrack. Some tracks sit at the near end of biological chaos, some closer to clean & structural reason, nevertheless, each song seems to narrate a different chapter from the same story, never straying too far from the central theme. Echelon Mall is for the most part beat-less, but by no means is it ambient, it nimbly traverses the gaps between electro-acoustic, musique concrète, industrial and noise, all the while rarely reminding the listener that they are listening to electronic music. All of this makes it difficult to categorize, but not difficult to listen to, and though it seems well aware of it's influences, it's just too akward a child to sit comfortably beside any well established genre, camp, or collective. So if we must, we'll just call what it is, an album of visual accompaniments translated into song form: cinema for the ears.

TRACKLIST:
1. Four Person Tank (10:10)
Reworked excerpts from Demissions, part of The Domino Effect, The Santa Fe Art Institute, 2004 curated by Keep Adding. Featuring: Glen Velez - overtone chanting, Jenna Balfe - guitar, Katherine Marks - cello.
Video installation directed by Melanie Patiram

2. How Long Is Forever (9:17)
Reworked excerpts from the soundtrack for How Long Is Forever, directed by Franco Gonzalez, 2006

3. As Pergillus (8:39)
Reworked from excerpts of the soundtrack for As Pergillus, directed by Kevin Medal, 2008 Featuring Glen Velez - frame drum

4. Some Other (20:48)
Reworked excerpts from the soundtrack for Smother, directed by Luis Gispert, 2008

5 . Phobiaphilia (7:54)
Reworked excerpts from The Sounds Of Christmas with Christian Marclay, The Museum Of Contemporary Art Miami (MOCA) 2004

6. In The Domain Of Universal Modules (9:45)
Reworked from excerpts of Cyclic Redundancy (5.1 surround),
Directed by Melanie Patiram for the Phil Niblock Festival, Galleria Rachel Haferkamp, Cologne, Germany 2005

7. Fog Things Of Antiquity (7:18)
Reworked outtakes from Cloud City by Friends With You, Museum Of Contemporary Art Miami (MOCA), in cooperation with of Art Basel Miami 2005 Friends With You - Cloud City soundtrack available on Schematic (Catalog # SCH049)

8. SCHEMATIC.NET/ECHELON (7:07)

CREDITS:
Produced by Joshua Kay & Romulo Del Castillo between 2004-2009 at The Humidor (Miami) & Chronophage (Lake Lure) Mastered by Omar Clemetson at Metatronix (Miami)

For full details, videos, discography, links & more info, visit http://schematic.net/echelon

Schematic Catalog # SCH050 © 2009 Schematic Music Co.
Compact Disc available through Alphabasic 


2. Hum

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