Finding joy & pleasure in times of great difficulty.

Steadfast in our pursuit of pleasure

I'll take that to my grave

This piece is related to the piece "Running away to the nightfall".

In the dark, after running away

Created for Azimuth 6, here as a stereo version of the original 32-channel version.

'Based on the introduction of Jean-Paul Resweber's book "The Philosophy of Language", the piece explores the ambiguity between the voice that conveys a message and the voice whose acoustic and musical qualities are heard. It seems that when our attention is focused on the musical aspect of the voice, we forget the message it carries, and vice versa. The back and forth between these different levels of listening leaves the listener free to give it its own meaning, if there is one. And this is precisely the question asked by the original text. '

https://www.azimuthfoundation.net

La philosophie du langage

Pip is a duo playing improvised and composed pieces of music, consisting of Torstein Lavik Larsen on trumpet and Fredrik Rasten on guitar. 
Long lasting, blending sounds with a basis in chord structures and harmony is an ever returning element in their music. 
Pip's music also emphasizes small variations in tonal colour, often applying just intonation, extended playing techniques and repeating musical patterns.
Sometimes they include electronic sounds, without leaving behind the core sound of guitar and trumpet as a point of departure.

The duo has existed since 2006, and since then explored many different musical approaches. 
A recuring theme of their exploration has been expansions of the duo instrumentarium, including 
electronics, multiple guitars and different electronic and acoustic keyboard instruments.

Pip released their first official release on the Portuguese label Creative Sources in 2016,
and they have toured in countries as Germany, Czech Republic, England and the Scandinavian countries.

The duo has also worked with artists from other disciplines. They collaborated with choreographer and contemporary dancer Marie Bergby Handeland on the piece Lyden av besluttsomhet, jeg tåler den ikke, which were premiered at the CODA festival in Oslo in 2013, and they have also worked together and performed with the Copenhagen-based live visuals duo of Freya Sif Hestnes and My Lambertsen, called Manuals.

Torstein and Fredrik also play together in the band Oker, with drummer Jan Martin Gismervik and bass player Adrian Fiskum Myhr, and in the quartet Volumes with Magda Mayas on prepared piano and Isak Hedtjärn on clarinet.

Release date: 27. September 2019

Pip: Possible Worlds (excerpt)

Léo Dupleix - synthesis, voice
Félicie Bazelaire - double bass
Stefan Thut - cello
Fredrik Rasten - e-bowed guitar, voice

Recorded live by Stefan Thut in Säulenhalle, Landhaus Solothurn on 28th of June 2020


score:

http://fredrikrasten.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Fuse-modulations.pdf

Fuse modulations - excerpt

Splinters as a composition has a dream like quality, dark and enigmatic. Electronic noise colours the drone and bubbling soundscapes of a somewhere. Repeating musical phrases mix with recognisable sounds from life - a spoken utterance, a rumbling train. As a listener you drift with the current through misty scenes, on a journey down a river towards some marshland on the edge of an urban sprawl.

Made in response to an invitation from TACO! - an artist space in Thamesmead in South East London - Splinters documents Kate Carr’s relationship with that space, and the area of London it is located in. Over an 18 month period Kate kept a growing sonic diary of her journeys to the space from her home, her construction of work in the gallery, her wanderings around the green spaces and urban architecture, the coming and goings of visitors and the artistic material from other artists and musicians working at the space. This work is a sonic portrait of a time and a place, and the actions and events within it.


Splinters includes audio samples from concerts and exhibitions held at TACO! Featuring material from live sets by Liz Helman, Tom White, Rebecca Lennon, Pouya Ehsaei, Jonathan Higgins and Hannah Dargavel-Leafe, and audio material from the exhibitions Scratch! by George Barber, and Heavy View by Laura Yuile.

Mat Jenner, director, TACO!
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Mastered by Simon Scott at SPS Mastering.
Design by Louise Mason.
A huge thanks to Liz Helman, Tom White, Rebecca Lennon, Pouya Ehsaei, Jonathan Higgins and Hannah Dargavel-Leafe for permission to use short excerpts of audio material from their wonderful live sets, and to George Barber and Laura Yuile for access to audio from their installations. 
Also massive thanks to Mat Jenner for inviting me to TACO in the first place!

Detritus Clouds from Splinters out Sept 3

study on graphical composition, produced 2019.

Untitled V

Keep Saying Its Easy

©2018 ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ ♥♥♥♥ Records 
Produced & Mixed by Danny Playamaqui

Special thanks to anothernonagon, blue3b0x, Godbath and Tunnel One during the recording of this album. 

"watch out for your ears!" 

🌸🦄💥 ok done.

Spaghetti Squash

Playlist and other information available at: https://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-171-trouble-in-mind-feature/

*This episode includes an interview with Bill & Lisa Roe from Trouble In Mind Records.

FFFoxy Podcast #171: Trouble In Mind feature

SOFA is a Norwegian record label for experimental music run by musicians Martin Taxt, Ingar Zach and Kim Myhr.