im omw to the midsommar ceremony and that aint bad ::)

Absorb(ed)on Skylab Radio, aired 29 October 2021.

E3 welcomes composer and performer, Nick Ashwood (Splitrec) to the show. His first mix! An hour trip, featuring music from Graham Lambkin, Caterina Barbieri and some Will Guthrie collaborations. More from Nick via Absorb soon...

@nick-ashwood @nick-ashwood @nick-ashwood

Cover image by Otis Burian Hodge.
https://www.instagram.com/otisbh/

Tracklist:
Oren Ambarchi, Mark Fell, Will Guthrie & Sam Shalabi - Oglon Day
Phil Harmonic - Timing
Yoshi Wada - Off The Wall I
Tashi Wada - Midheaven (Alignment Mix)
Clara de Asís - The desert is a sea
Linda Catlin Smith - Forest
Keith Rowe - an assemblage construct for 45 voices
Mark Fell and Will Guthrie - unfolding 2
The Dogmatics - It Never Yielded Results Which They Had Failed to Discover by Other Means
Caterina Barbieri - Firmamento
Caterina Barbieri - This Causes Consciousness to Fracture
Graham Lambkin - Rudolph's Warcloud
Graham Lambkin - Dove's Eyes
Jürg Frey - I Listened to the Wind Again
erika bell - 1-
Byron Westbrook - Memory Phasings

E3 - Nick Ashwood: First!

This was originally issued in a pic disc LP boxset in an edition of 250 as part of the Prints of Darkness exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers. This exhibition is still touring and LPs can be purchased from Edinburgh Printmakers.

"People Like Us illuminates this dark visual ride with ‘This Is Light Music’, an exclusive full-length picture-disc album in a limited edition of only 250. This record is available as part of a lavish limited edition boxed-set publication which houses the record and a pull-out poster in a gatefold sleeve, and includes essays by People Like Us and co-curator Norman Shaw. This publication is on sale throughout the exhibition, together with specially commissioned t-shirts and badges by the participating artists."

People Like Us - This Is Light Music - "Lavender White"

Extremities documents the first meeting of Jessica Ackerley and Patrick Shiroishi, recorded live in a basement apartment in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Both musicians come from strong improvised and free music scenes: Ackerley from NYC, and Shiroishi from L.A. There is a joyful sense of abandon here; the love affair each musician has with their instrument produces a dripping intensity, congealing upon impact with the physical, coalescing into a new form; fresh contours, rippled textures glinting in the atmosphere of passive space, as their musical chemistry manifests in instantaneous spurts. Stylistically, the album ranges from free jazz to noise and even serrated slices of metal. This makes for music constantly branching out from an agitated core: bulbous and irregular, and convolutedly engaging from start to finish.

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Jessica Ackerley / guitar
Patrick Shiroishi / saxophones, percussion
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Recorded by Jared Rodriguez

Mixed and mastered by Lucas Brode

Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery
"Garlic Foot" and "Knowing What to Write" (detail), 2020

NTR060 - Jessica Ackerley - Patrick Shiroishi - Extremities - "Popcorn Spackle"

INFOS / ORDER: http://shelter-press.org/native-instrument-camo-sp073/

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Native Instrument is a Berlin based sound collaboration bringing together the fieldrecordings archive of Felicity Mangan and the abstract vocabulary of Stine Janvin Motland.

Often referred to as insect techno, Native Instrument’s music is constructed using electronic and vocal adaptations of wildlife audio recordings originating mainly from the Australian and North European fauna; mixing the natural rhythms of animal calls with digital effects and vocal imitations, Native Instrument enlightens a sonic ambiguity between rural nature, electronics, and the human voice. 
 
Over time, field recordings and human vocabulary become mixed up, indiscernible from one another – a sound illusion that ends in the creation of a new melodious wildlife genre.

With their debut release Camo, Native Instrument presents their true artificial nature; sound collages moving between tropical ambience, club inspired bug beats and amphibian trance. 

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi and pressed at Pallas in a first edition of 500 copies.

NATIVE INSTRUMENT 'Waldfest' (SP073)

Releases worldwide - June, 15, 2018
Pre-Order Vinyl NOW. 
https://saintabdullah-boomarmnation.bandcamp.com/album/ta-tash
Powerful new sounds from Iranian duo Saint Abdullah. 
Following up the 2017 Boomarm debut "The Sounds of Evil Vol. 1" and their acclaimed 2018 release "The Stars Have Eyes" for NYC label PTP, Saint Abdullah bring forward Ta Tash, a stunning audio visual collection of hypnotic, thundering sounds.

Ta Tash

Saint Abdullah - Vivid Persian Dreams (OUT June, 15!)

recorded live at Huddersfield University 8th March 2018

Cassandra Miller - voice, composition
Silvia Tarozzi - violin, composition

So Close, for voice, violin and tape by Cassandra Miller, Silvia Tarozzi

``it is no measure of health 
to be well adjusted 
to a profoundly sick society`` – Jiddu Krishnamurti

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4oZy8JwvQM

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full lyrics:

controlled by mass consumption
democracy is a farce

under conglomerate rule
where ignorance is bliss

in the west world where 
self sufficiency is deemed primitive

complete dependency is civilised

where water is getting privatised
like land, everything has its price

about ownership
rather than ethics
and compassion
on
passion
sion

unnatural
un
unspiritual
unnatural
unspiritual

it is
it is 
it is no measure of health

``it is no measure of health 
to be well adjusted 
to a profoundly sick society`` – Jiddu Krishnamurti

> we live in a society

Etrusca 3D is a new band that merges two current Audio and visual artists from the 21st Century, Francesco Cavaliere and Spencer Clark.

The album is the first to be released by Spencer Clark's label Pacific City Discs, as a subsidiary and in collaboration with Discrepant.

Etrusca 3D is the juxtaposition of two imagineers friendship, as Francesco says, 'because I am Etruscan and you (Spencer) are 3D." There is a piece of the future of Etruscan civilization contained within this disc. It is with Spencer's remote viewing of a past and future creative culture and Francesco's birthright that we find a true insinuation of civilizations world body.

We decided to invoke various Etruscan deities or spirits by sampling Francesco's voice uttering their name. We put them inside the Emax 2 3D machine and we began to play these deities and thus incorporate a fresh and ancient music language to present the 21st Century Etruscan experience. In the meantime, these musical stories turned into Francesco's imaginary storytelling style to further present a narrated record of the intuited activities of Etruscan Gods...’’

‘’One cannot underestimate the result of stating the names of certain gods at high voices. Something that sinuous and quiet enters into this disc for you to listen. What if the Etruscan Civilization instead of transforming or amalgamating into the roman one, was instead passed on to other worlds? Were the tombs, their spiral idols and funeral decorations a meticulous method for transmuting to something else?”
- Francesco Cavaliere & Spencer Clark 


Music by Francesco Cavaliere and Spencer Clark as Etrusca 3D
Story by Francesco Cavaliere

Vecu

È una profeta, la profeta del mondo Etrusco, non puoi raffigurare la sua immagine. Il suo sguardo in trasparenza si nota dietro una barra marmorea che nasconde delle venature impossibili, probabilmente aliene. Vecu è la sola e unica abile a trasferire le parole della creazione dei mondi più alti e più profondi. Curva la realtà negli sguardi degli animali. Il sottosuolo non è scuro non è sabbia bagnata che goccia creando torri. Il sotto suolo è un terreno d’oro coperto da trasparenti cristallini involucri. Delle energie forano il pensiero e le radici strette lo conservano nel corso dei secoli. Non pensate di sbarazzarvi di lei. Vecu vive dietro gli occhi di colui che non sa di esserlo. Sta già cambiando il fuoco col suo sguardo. Nessun vampirismo. Solo un sorriso che non fa ridere ma che annuisce allo sguardo di Dio. Oltre le ciglia del tempo è la personificazione del destino celeste.

Etrusca 3D

Etrusca 3D - Veive (from Etrusca 3D)

Track #4 from debut album "A Courteous Invitation To An Uninhabited Anabatic Prism"

Vinyl and digital pre-order: http://decolonizeyourmind.bandcamp.com

http://decolonizeyourmind.net

Stupid Fucking White Man

Trio for harp, flute and viola

Performed by Ghost Ensemble at Areté venue and gallery, Brooklyn November 2019

Margaret Lancaster(flute)
Lucia Stavros (harp)
Carrie Frey(viola)

After some time away from composing notated music, being occupied more with open and text scores, the lovely Ghost Ensemble approached me for a piece, and what came out is an actual score and this lovely performance in November 2019. 

Thank you Ben Richter and Ghost Ensemble for organizing this sensitive, nuanced and thoughtful performance of a piece that could have gone many different ways.

Please write me if you'd like to take a look at the score!

So Close, for voice, violin and tape by Cassandra Miller, Silvia Tarozzi

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