Mirror Shards can be interpreted as the result of all the artistic development based on the self-interests of composer/percussionist/improviser Joe Formanek, such as amplified micro-sound percussion instrumentation, electroacoustic laptop-drumset improvisation, experimenting with recording and mixing techniques, free improvisation, modern electronic music, and composing with field recordings just to point out some salient ones.

Another way Mirror Shards can be interpreted is to consider its strict yet unique conceptual and technical approach to creating music.

Conceptually, there are four principle disciplines being exercised with their own techniques and aesthetics while complimenting the others : improvisation, composition, electroacoustic techniques, and, what Joe has invented, the concept of auto-history. The innovative concept of auto-history can be understood as a methodology to improvisation and composition that keeps constant sonic contact with the artists former self, thus the music being not only a composition of a single moment but of several moments throughout the artist’s life, allowing a new kind of reflective insight into the time-based evolution of the artist’s personal development.

Technically, employing an electroacoustic apparatus (aka Mirror Shards), which is at once a laptop-drumset using digital signal processing and a history-database DJ station. With a massive collection of recorded improvisations and compositions organized onto a database, all of which are at a fingers touch during a live improvisation and in the studio, the most distinctive characteristic of Mirror Shards is the quality of improvising with the history of one’s self. The experience of “driving” the apparatus is a surreal encounter with one’s previous stages of artistic development, forcing a critical reflection and interaction with one’s past.

Another interpretation could be on how Mirror Shards is rooted in similar disciplinary mindsets as musician/composer Anthony Braxton, Steve Lehmann and Vijay Iyer, tackling the age old question of combining improvisation with composition.  After many years of honing conventional and especially unconventional skills as a drummer and as an electronic musician, Joe demonstrates an exercise of concepts, such as the interplay of time and non-time based styles, traditional and extended instrumental techniques, field recordings, micro sampling, and sophisticated software resampling.

This is a highly collaborative project and has been involved with Francisco Lopez (composer), Chris Formanek (composer), François Ducat (film director), Hervé Perez (sax, composer), Elm Records Collective., and Mangoest Records.

 

Noumen is a music project by composer and performer Andriy Vezdenko, from Lviv, Ukraine. Artist works in relative genre fields of IDM / Abstract / Experimental Electronic.

Noumen music incarnates by itself a dialectic transcendence of an ever-flowing form metamorphosis in its chimerical, eternal rhythmic circle dance, an enigmatic Delphic Mystery, swaying and spinning to the everlasting and ever-abideth rhythmo-tone of the Cosmos.

Noumen art originates and crafting from the late 90’s. Since 2010's Noumen releases his music in UK. On top compilations, among such legendary artists as Autechre, Arovane, 808 State, LFO, Bola, B12, The Future Sound Of London, Plaid, µ-Ziq, Orbital, Richard Devine. Remixing and remixed by some of such. Performs. Noumen music played by a prominent DJs and strikes on radio all around the world.

Recently on Central Processing Unit in Sheffield, UK, following critically acclaimed 2017 debut White Silence 12” EP & Apeiron album, Noumen released his new 2xLP album – Obscurium, which received a new wave of delighted feedback among the art electronic music community, in top music retailers and press, being chosen the album of the month in Mixmag, highlight for 2019 in Igloomag and called one of CPU’s best records by Resident Advisor.

Warp’s Bleep.com recommends Noumen music for the fans of Warp Records and along with other respected press calls Noumen one of the most distinctive, original, interesting and inventive artists on the IDM world scene, referring Noumen with such artists as Autechre, Aphex Twin and Boards Of Canada.

Listen and buy Obscurium 2xLP/Digital: shop.cpurecords.net/album/obscurium
Buy Obscurium T-shirt: bleep.com/release/144857-central-processing-unit-01010010-shirt
T-shirt + Obscurium 2xLP: bleep.com/release/158383-central-processing-unit-01010010-shirt-noumen-obscurium-2xlp
Listen and buy Apeiron CD/Digital: shop.cpurecords.net/album/apeiron
Listen and buy White Silence EP: shop.cpurecords.net/album/white-silence

Book, contact and subscribe to Noumen:
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andrewnoumen@gmail.com

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COMING FROM THE END OF TIME 
MOVING TOWARDS THE FUTURE

Independent record company based in Vienna.
For Spectrum Spools go here: https://soundcloud.com/spectrumspools

2013 - 2017

Danish label working in the experimental, noise and ambient field. No longer active.

This site contains a single track from each of our physical releases.
Available releases can be purchased on our Bandcamp page, where our full catalogue is up for streaming.

Record out September 12 2014.
Available at:
www.foodgradeplastic.bandcamp.com

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