Solid track. Looking forward to the album

5.12.17 DS159 - Mette Rasmussen & Sofia Jernberg - Part 1

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

Distant Symphony

MIMICOF - Distant Symphony I (excerpt)

32 Presets for Arturia's Pigments synthesizer.

The sound set consists of rhythmic sequences, pulsating pads, powerful gated sounds, ethereal pads and experimental sounds based on granular synthesis.

the modulation wheel plays an important role in performance and playability. This means that the sounds can be formed on a larger scale.

Filter parameters, synthesis-specific parameters such as FM and Ring Modulation, parameters in the granular section, dynamic function generators and much more can be controlled with a single movement of the mod wheel.

A rhythmically gated pad fades softly into an atmospheric soundscape, a significant and powerful pulse dissolves into a granular structure, an atonal - granular sound morphs into a tonal spectrum and much more.

Radiance consists of:

7 Sound Effects (Creative, Ambient)

1 String Sound (String Ensemble)

7 Sequences (Rhythmic, Gated, Pulse)

15 Pads (Bright, Ambient, Classic, Evolving..)

2 Key Sounds (Plucked)

the presets were created with the current version 3.6.0

Radiance Audio Demo

Mother Ivy's Cave - Sampler

Mascara Snake
Mountain Diary
Sloow Tapes - CS 25

Not to be confused with the sometimes Captain Beefheart clarinetist of the same name, this particular Mascara Snake makes instrumental and atmospheric sound collages, influenced especially by Moondog, Penguin Cafe Orchestra and Luc Ferrari. As the snake sheds its skin Pacôme Genty reveals himself, who you might remember from the just as enigmatic La Non-pareille  lp he released last year with his duo Des édens (together with Antoine Cortes). Edition of 60 copies.

Mascara Snake

"Free the party, for the people"

Modular synth + compressor

Mixed in synth
mastered

F-T-P Drone

Included in The Wire Tapper 44, the CD compilation included with the August 2017 edition of The Wire.

Badalisc (from The Wire Tapper 44)

for free download and more info https://miracalixportal.bleepstores.com/music

head to my Calix Portal ode to the future

written and produced by Mira Calix 2018

Instrumentation: Mira Calix - electronics/Daniel Pioro - Violin/Eloisa Fleur - Violin /Oliver Wilson -Viola/Clare O'Connell - Cello/ Kathryn Thomas - Flute/ Stuart King - Clarinet Bflat and bass/Sam Wilson - Percussion

Duration: 7.18

published by Mute Song

In 2018, Merck is celebrating its 350th anniversary. The theme of their celebration is “Always curious - Imagine the next 350 years.” This winter i took up their challenge and collaborated with 6 human beings in utero. Working with sonographer Rick Miles, i went about scanning the participants who ranged from 13 to 32 weeks gestation. This was followed by a process of sonifiying the data we collected, using the human movement to generate sound within a given set of parameters. Based on this material, I composed two pieces of music for an ensemble of classical musicians. 16 weeks - also available for free download on the poratal and this piece. Ode to the Future, is based on melodies generated by all the participants. Here i composed freely, taking inspiration from not only the data but the experience of the collaborative process, the privilege i was afforded by the generosity of the parents involved and the experience of working with such a great team of musicians and scientists. Along with the compositions i wanted to visualise my process: (ultra) sound - picture - data - music - picture. i created a sound and light sculpture, one that can be performed, inspired by the ripple tanks of my school days. The first time i remember 'seeing' sound. The acrylic, glass and light sculpture, is filled with water, becoming an instrument for gestural waveform play.

Ode To The Future

Radiophonic work in 10 parts, duration - 30min.
Production: Radio Television Serbia - Radio Belgrade 3
Produced partly in Electronic Studio Radio Belgrade using EMS Synthi 100
Premiere: May 30, 11:10PM, Radio Belgrade 3
Artwork (sculpture): Goran Stojčetović - Art Brut Serbia
Photo: Milan Milutinovic - Black Sheep Produkcija
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/7bu6HcFKI1k
*Winner of the Serbian most prestigious composition prize "Mokranjac" for 2020

Post-excavation activities (teaser)

"White Eyes" is taken from "The Burrow", the upcoming duo album by Jasmine Guffond & Erik K Skodvin. Released 30th of October, 2020 on the PATTERN series by Sonic Pieces.

The album also features Merja Kokkonen on voice and comes in a laser cut sleeve.

Jasmine Guffond & Erik K Skodvin - White Eyes

Pre-order now available from Imprec.com

Harry Bertoia's Glowing Sounds LP contains three versions of the same composition, each transferred at different tape speeds in accordance with the artist's instructions. This is the third LP to be released from Bertoia's extensive tape archive and it's the first, of many, to be released using instructions left behind by the artist himself.

Bertoia wrote the concept for this Glowing Sounds LP on a note in 1975 and slipped it into the master tape case where it sat unread for 45 years. The idea was simple, transfer the original recording at its original speed and two slower speeds. Bertoia noticed that the results, however, were profound. 

Recorded on January 20, 1975 using two large gongs, Glowing Sounds is one of the most powerfully minimal recordings yet discovered in Bertoia's collection. The artist's note left with the tape indicated that it was recorded at a speed of 15 IPS (inches per second) but slowing it down to speeds of 7.5 IPS and 3.25 IPS were quite effective for enhanced playback. Side A features the original 15 IPS recording and the 50% slower 7.5 IPS recording. Side B features a 20 minute, ultra-slow version at 3.25 IPS. 

Long, deep drones and powerful overtones define the sound of this recording. Comparison of the three speeds provides a revealing magnification of Bertoia's gongs, overtones and the artist's inventive approach to performance, composition and recording. 



Bio: 

Harry Bertoia first gained some artistic visibility in the early 1940s, then came into prominence with his sculptural, ergonomic chairs, produced by Knoll Furniture beginning in 1952, which quickly became classics of modernist furniture. Inspired by the resonant sounds emanating from metals as he worked them and encouraged by his brother Oreste, whose passion was music, Harry restored a fieldstone "Pennsylvania Dutch" barn as the home for this experiment in sounding sculptures which he had begun in the late 1950s. Bertoia was an obsessive composer and relentless experimenter, often working late into the night and accumulating hundreds of tapes of his best performances; Oreste, too, would explore and record the sculptures' sounds during his annual visits to his brother's home in rural Pennsylvania.

Harry Bertoia's recently dismantled Sonambient barn collection was an attentive listener's paradise full of warm, expressive instruments that were gorgeous visually and audibly. Nothing could prepare you, even on return visits, for the overwhelming experience of entering the spacious wood and plaster interior where gongs, some of them giant, hung among the ranks of standing sculptures of various metals. Over nearly twenty years of adding, culling and rearranging, Bertoia carefully selected nearly 100 harmonious pieces ranging in height from under a foot to more than fifteen feet. He considered this barn a full experience, sights and sounds comprising not a collection of works, but one piece unto itself. It was here, deep in the woods, that his Sonambient recording work took place.

Learning by experimentation was common for Bertoia and he mastered the art of tape recording, turning the Sonambient barn into a sound studio with four overhead microphones hanging from the rafters in a square formation. He would experiment with overdubbing by performing along to previous recordings, sometimes backwards, constantly improving his methods while also honing his performance skills. Bertoia was a careful editor of his own work and only chosen recordings remained, each with a date and carefully considered observations written on a note included with each tape. Through these pieces of paper a the artist's logic can be uncovered, a careful approach to composition, ideas, feelings and forms. The story of Sonambient barn collection will slowly be told through the release of recordings from the archive as well as installations and performances built from Bertoia's own recordings, lectures and a book.

Glowing Sounds

Harry Bertoia - Glowing Sounds (slowest) - LP -  Pre-Order

SONIC PIECES is a boutique record label based in Berlin. Every carefully selected release comes as a limited edition in genuine packaging, hand-crafted with locally produced and designed material. The label's musical output and unique artwork form a connection between each release that is both recognizable and challenging, while celebrating the difference and individuality of each project.

Jasmine Guffond & Erik K Skodvin - White Eyes

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