Undercurrents

For A While

MIXED SIGNALS II represents the next chapter of Fax and Braulio Lam’s collaboration, which started with their first EP in 2020. Across four tracks, they navigate creative exploration, and wander among the textures, colors, and sizes that sound can possess. 
  
Much like its predecessor MIXED SIGNALS, the sequel EP delivers a meditative ambient swirl, dedicated to finding balance while still moving. And yet, if the first album was to be considered grounded and earthy, MIXED SIGNALS II is determined to challenge gravity—it creates spacious cinematic landscapes that stretch out and up.  

The four tracks are distinctive in their progression: The airy subtleties of the field recordings in ”Fragmented” take off and open up into an expanse of drone, with echoes of feedback further off in the distance. “Porta” twinkles in a dark sky; it wavers slightly in a liminal space of gradual transformation. In “Visions”, there is a hypnotic revelation, with an underlying heartbeat that gently draws one into its ascent. Finishing with the title track, “Mixed Signals II” is a docking; it rotates as it revolves, slowly considering what lies beyond its own orbit. 

This meditative soundtrack is like a hazy black and white image, captured by a telescope or transmitted by a satellite, hinting at what lies far beyond our own limits of perception. The arrangement of acoustic instruments and electric guitars layer with field recordings and synthesizers to create a hypnotic reflection on sound—how it reaches out in the space around it, how it rises, how it looks, and how it feels.  

MIXED SIGNALS II was recorded between Tijuana and Mexicali, in Mexico by musicians Braulio Lam and Ruben Tamayo (a.k.a. Fax). Together, the artists built upon their first collaboration to pass beyond the horizon of instrumental music.

Mixed Signals II

Fax + Braulio Lam —  Visions

from KR093:  MimiCof - Distant Symphony
LP / tape / DL out on june 10th 2022

Distant Symphony

MIMICOF - Distant Symphony I (excerpt)

Arturas Bumšteinas
So-called Space
Sloow Tapes- CS 30

Continuum-collage piece by Lithuanian composer Arturas Bumšteinas created in 2015 from incidental music sampled from various Lithuanian radio drama's from the 1950's to 2000's. A strange heady brew which juxtaposes music, sound effects, rudiments of vocal expression and various acoustic instruments among others in a compelling cut-up, reminding at times of People Like Us or Dirk Schaeffer's recent work for Peter Tscherkassky's movies. Edition of 70 copies.

Arturas Bumšteinas

Skal_Ghost

Audd_Shut

Kit Downes: Concert Hall Organ
Shiva Feshareki: Turntables

In the centre of my orchestral composition 'O', the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra had a pause, and the concert took a little detour as Kit and I provided an improvisation.

Kit Downes & Shiva Feshareki Live From Musikhuset Aarhus, Denmark (2017)

sleep in nothingness, 2018 

// sounds heard 
samples from the Guimet's archival LP copy of 'Japanese masterpieces for the shakuhachi' (Lyrichord_MX4205_1989) 
+ artists own field recording of train ride in the monastic region of Koyasan Japan, clarinet, sine tones, voice, amplified objects, sferics, and a google-translate/text-to-speech recording of the album liner notes. // 

In a dream he found himself floating in a boat. Suddenly thick mist rolled down the sky and blocked his view of the moon. On hearing the moving melody of a flute, he reached out for his favourite bamboo flute to accompany the ethereal melody. The music is long and simple, and the listener is expected to forget everything and "sleep in nothingness".
-the dream of a priest named Kyochiku in the 12th Century while meditating at a temple in Nara (as cited in the album liner notes).

composed for performance at the Guimet Museum in Paris on Feb 03 2018, curated by the French label Tsuku Boshi.

sleep in nothingness

remixes and interpretations for ooo & MA'AM - /0/

@s_olbricht @ooo_no1 @anna-makay

mastered by Roland Nagy
artwork by Zoltán Márton Nagy

original album: exiles-electronics.bandcamp.com/album/ooo-maam-0

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ooo & MA'AM - Gamma Candies (S Olbricht interpretation)

Terrace dweller

This is one of 3 tracks that were made solely by using the analogue synthesizer EMS Synthi 100. For each track, there was a single patch and the material was recorded live in one go. Rhythmical synchronization of the material was done by using the Synthi's sequencer. Simple live manipulations included putting a pin or two in and out and switching on and off the mixer channels. Additional panning of each individual channel was done on a computer. These tracks demonstrate the effect of extremely simplified musical material produced by using the not-so-simple sound tool (for the reference, try figuring out and programming a Synthi 100 sequencer:)). Tracks are named by the number of sequencer steps used in that piece. Recorded live at Electronic Studio - Radio Belgrade.

2019

From the album STEPS: https://svetlanamaras.bandcamp.com/album/steps

Svetlana Maraš©All rights reserved
©SOKOJ

WNDFRM's music has a special meaning for one of TREVE's memeber (see our facebook post) so we are so proud to have him.

WNDFRM- syllogism

@wndfrm is Tim Westcott, currently residing in portland, oregon.
He works with processed field recordings, tones, drones, abstract percussive elements, a wide dynamic range and an inquisitive, patient ear.

 About the mix :
"Despite seemingly syllogistic connections, aesthetic similarities do not equal cultural similarities - but they can bring us together, and inspire dialogue - and dialogue can bring empathetic change.
I have tried to purposely broaden my own listening horizons this past year- this mix is a simple blend of past/present.
let's continue to listen, especially to the voices less often heard."


tracklisting 
Hugo Zuccarelli - shower		
Marcus Fischer - a million lights
KMRU - variations (radiophonic)
Jessica Ekomane - solid of revolution
Syntonic Reserach ltd. - tintinnabulation (special low frequency edition)
Neina - translucent metal
Thomas Köner - novaya zemlya 3
Minoru Sato - minutes until the end
Sohrab w/ Hani - hejrat
Mileece - fern
Ernst Karel - four

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Photo by Cyril (https://www.facebook.com/uninstantSVP)

TREVE series 16 - WNDFRM (Prologue)

Shiva Feshareki is an internationally acclaimed experimental composer and electronic artist who works at the intersections between electronic music, contemporary-classical composition and the “cutting-edge expression of turntablism”.
(Ryan Walmsley, Strange Sounds from Beyond) 

All enquiries: info@shivafeshareki.co.uk

Kit Downes & Shiva Feshareki Live From Musikhuset Aarhus, Denmark (2017)

Shiva Feshareki

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