In his book 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒, Mark Fisher wrote about the two notions: While the weird is something present where it doesn’t belong—something from outside found on the inside—the eerie has to do specifically with outside space. Something is eerie when there are unanswered questions about agency: Who or what is responsible for the abandonment of this zone? Who or what is crying out in the distance?

Katharina Schmidt’s 𝑇𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, a single, longform track stretching to a near half hour, deftly captures this spatial sense of the eerie. The evolving drone is like coming upon a ruin, circling it, and being drawn inside. There are no surprises, no sudden horrors, just the strange pull of oscillating waveforms that paint a bleak yet soothing landscape.

In certain kinds of listeners, empty, abandoned spaces produce a pleasurable dejection. Maybe this is because spaces where human life is evacuated represent the end result of capital. (It seems to have withered away, but is in fact off to find another shell for its home.) What we’re left with is something new to inhabit, a new infrastructure for freedom. The subtle changes in Schmidt’s recording have less to do with melody and rhythm, more to do with accumulating color and texture of space. And so the half hour can feel like five minutes, or an eternity—time and scale exist differently here.

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After years of playing drums and piano in various bands, Katharina Schmidt's solo work is influenced by indie, experimental, and improvised music. Exploring interests in storytelling, sonic topographies, and generative techniques, her music uses electronics, field recordings, and self-built interfaces alongside acoustic instruments. From sonifications to lullabies, her work is poised between formal experimentation and narratives cued by literature and pop culture, and can be heard in installations, film music, and radiophonic pieces, as well as releases on labels such as Flag Day Recordings, Slaapwel Records, and Focused Silence.

Katharina holds a master’s degree in Sound Studies from the Berlin University of the Arts and hosts resident shows at Cashmere Radio and SVS Radio.

katharina-schmidt.net
katharinaschmidt.bandcamp.com  

artwork by Stefan Lingg
audio finalized by Glyn Maier

all proceeds to The Homeless Period Project (Greenville, SC, US) - www.homelessperiodproject.org

Tennis Courts in the Half Light

Katharina Schmidt - Tennis Courts In The Half Light [Excerpt] (ENMD03)

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"This book will perhaps only be understood by those who have themselves already thought the thoughts which are expressed in it—or similar thoughts" Ludwig Wittgenstein

Releases October 8, 2021

Written and produced by David Onanov 
Mastered by Andrea Porcu 
Shimmering Moods Records 2021 
SHM 174

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This is an awkward album. Some of this awkwardness is unconscious and unplanned, the by-product of lo-fi techniques and studio ineptitude. Some is planned and conscious, the product of searching for rifts, of searching for “the symbols of the divine that show up in the trash stratum” (Philip K. Dick). Through awkwardness and juxtapositions, glimpses of something else can be seen, a something that is lost in the polished, the tuned, the smooth. Partly because I believe ‘better’ works often come with their own inbuilt responses, by engaging with them they engender a set reaction, so there is simply no room nor stimulus for the listener/reader/viewer’s own interpretation and thoughts. The art has become artifice – merely propaganda or pornography. 

By embracing the rifts, the imperfect, the awkward, and the juxtaposition, we turn our backs on works that are apparently perfect reflections, as comforting and numbing as they are, of a reality that doesn’t really exist anyway. To push further, alongside art, we need other, obsolete modes of thinking, approaches that, well, capitalism has forced out. We need more magic, more religion. Through art, magic, religion, we can push back, think for ourselves and finally see the radical mystery, the Other, the divine behind everything, and that makes life, and by extension, us anything but irrelevant. 

All that from some static and too much reverb. 

Andrew

Releases October 8, 2021 

Music & Artwork - Andrew Sherwell 
Mastering - Stephan Mathieu 
Shimmering Moods Records 2021 
SHM 175

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SqrtSigil - Voltage Depression  (Album Preview)
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Recorded in Kolberg, Poland in the pre-pandemic era, using mostly Ciat-Lonbarde instruments.

Releases October 8, 2021 

Written and produced by Maciek Jaciuk 
Shimmering Moods Records 2021 
SHM 177

SqrtSigil - Voltage Depression  (Album Preview)

Sample from the third track of the 'Broken Lust' CD, available in January on Monorail Trespassing.

Broken Lust

Vasculae - Immolation and Atonement (excerpt)

Pre-order date: 14th January 2022
Release date: 20th January 2022
Format: CD, Digital

http://molven.org

The essence of ambient music is not the absence of movement, but movement that takes place on another, more interior, introspective level, a sort of fluctuation without movement, a travel while remaining still, a dance without movement. The dynamism of the musical components is a motion that does not necessarily require a moving body: it moves flows, displaces molecules, opens up spaces.
Haze traces an emotional path that moves on two planes that intersect and emerge from each other: a drones base built with a simple synthesis starting from a basic waveform with a cascading filter. A sound that tends to grow and incorporate veins of noise created with techniques not far from certain shoegaze; and a part made up of compositional textures, vocal elements and sequences of notes that can sometimes include aleatory components.
Much of the source material is experiments or unfinished tracks produced many years ago, when the Molven sound was much more IDM-oriented, as in SAF2013, a track made in 2013 and never released, remixed and included as a sort of callback to the origins.

Pseudonym of Mario Marino, creator and curator of numerous projects and musical events that fuelled the electronic scene in Veneto in the early 90s, linked to the historic radio programme Red Planet. The same name was used at the time as a collective name for DJs to identify a certain ambient-techno sound, that of the so-called chill-out zones.
In 2004 he founded the ambient label Laverna.net and, under the pseudonym matera electronics (later molven), he created some productions in which rarefied and introspective sounds coexist with sequences and rhythmic articulations typical of certain IDM electronics. In the latest productions the sound becomes deeper and more dilated, moving into ambient-drone territories, with vocal elements and noise veins.

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From Elin Piel's Satsuma Sunday, available for pre-order on tape and digital now.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/satsuma-sunday

Elin Piel - Bliss Tristesse

Artist: Darwin Grosse
Title: Fresco
Format: Tape, digital
Label: One Instrument
Catalogue: ONEINST012
Release date: December 28th 2021

Tracklist:

A1. Darwin Grosse - Bainbridge Sunrise (Korg ARP 2600 FS)
A2. Darwin Grosse - I Cry When I Think Of You (Korg ARP 2600 FS)
A3. Darwin Grosse - Protractor (Korg ARP 2600 FS)
A4. Darwin Grosse - Power Grid (Korg ARP 2600 FS)
B1. Darwin Grosse - Santa Cruz (Korg ARP 2600 FS)
B2. Darwin Grosse - Translucent They (Korg ARP 2600 FS)
B3. Darwin Grosse - Fresco Waltz (Korg ARP 2600 FS)
B4. Darwin Grosse - Water Lily (Korg ARP 2600 FS)

Darwin Grosse debuts on One Instrument with the album “Fresco”, solely created on the Korg ARP 2600 FS, a remake of the classic semi-modular synth of the 70’s. He states that he loves the ARP 2600 not for its complexity, but for the purity of its sound, and this can very well be heard in this wonderful dreamy ambient electronica release.

All of the tracks were created using a hand-written script on the monome norns hardware device and were recorded in a single session, with errors and recorder glitches embraced as part of the performance.

Each track reveals Darwin’s harmonic and melodic sensibilities, his love of lush reverb and passion for the beautiful tone of the Korg Arp 2600.

“Fresco” is an elegant undertaking to be listened to from beginning to end. The 8-part, 30 minute work is an ideal example of how warm minimalism and thick melodic soundscapes are combined, becoming a graceful richly textured trip.

Composed and produced by Darwin Grosse
Mastered by Luca Sammartin
Original artwork and layout by Marco Ciceri

© 2021 One Instrument

ONEINST012

Darwin Grosse - I Cry When I Think Of You (Korg ARP 2600 FS)

Ortie Culture

Naïve Line Demos
Field Recording by Caleb Woodward in Switzerland, Austria, Prague and Berlin, 2023

Naïve Line Demos

Hush

Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure. relax chillout and enjoy.

DARK AMBIENT - SO COLD, SO COLD

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