To celebrate a year of lockdown lunacy, in this special anniversary show we invite survivors from the very first PlaguePod to come back and tell us what their COVID highlights have been. Reza Negarestani, Miguel Prado, Shaun Lewin, Amy Ireland, and Xenogothic are among the guests. DJK Huysmans is in the house to provide Hariboid sounds. Plus snack testing, Chaney's Czech-in, and the Inexplicable Scots from Beyond.

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PlaguePod Live (New Variant), Year 2 Day 1

This episode celebrates monome's 10 year anniversary by exploring the work of Sean Hellfritsch (http://seanhellfritsch.com). Sean is an accomplished musician and filmmaker (http://encyclopediapictura.com), having recently released 'Some Sort of Wave Portal' on Leaving Records as Cool Maritime. He is as warm as the California sun.

Much of the featured music is from Sean's 2012 self-released 'Tea Time Travel'.

Lovingly crafted tapes of both works can be purchased here:
https://coolmaritime.bandcamp.com/album/tea-time-travel
https://leavingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/some-sort-of-wave-portal

Sean Hellfritsch (Cool Maritime): SOUND + PROCESS #2

Rev. Drumma 3

𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚑𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖
𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚕 𝚘𝚗
𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚋𝚎𝚕
𝙵𝙴𝟶𝟶𝟻 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚜
𝙵𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚊𝚕𝚎 	                           𝟶:𝟶𝟷𝟾
𝙰𝚖𝚋𝚞𝚙𝚘𝚙 	                                   𝟶:𝟶𝟷𝟾
𝙱𝚎𝚠𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚔 	                                   𝟶:𝟶𝟷𝟾
𝚂𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚒𝚛 	                                   𝟶:𝟶𝟷𝟾
𝙹𝚊𝚢𝚔𝚊𝚢𝚓𝚊𝚢𝚔𝚊𝚢𝚓𝚊𝚢𝚔𝚊𝚢                 𝟶:𝟶𝟷𝟾
𝚆𝚊𝚜𝚑_𝙲𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚍                                    𝟶:𝟶𝟷𝟾


Ｗｅ＇ｄ ａｄｖｉｓｅ ａｃｔｉｎｇ ｆａｓｔ ｗｉｔｈ ｔｈｉｓ ｏｎｅ ａｓ ｔｈｉｓ １２＂ ｉｓ ｓｅｔ ｔｏ ｖａｎｉｓｈ ｑｕｉｃｋｅｒ ｔｈａｎ ａｎｙ ｇｅｎｒｅ ｐｉｇｅｏｎｈｏｌｅ ｙｏｕ ｍａｙ ｈａｖｅ ｃｈｏｓｅｎ ｔｏ ｐｌａｃｅ Ｂｒａｉｎｗａｌｔｚｅｒａ ｗｉｔｈｉｎ．

Brainwaltz-era^bewdUkc (Mause Locked Jam-Groove)

Penelope Gkika - Violin
Samin Son - Voice
Ememe - Frame drum,bells,thunder tube

Penelope Gkika,Samin Son & Ememe 14.03.2020

"Music for Violin Alone" is my fourth solo album featuring compositions from Nicola Matteis Jr. (1720) to Angharad Davies (2020). Recorded in a make-shift studio in an empty house during the first week of April 2020 both as a response to all loss of work and a way to be heard again. The pieces on the album are the pieces I’ve come to discover and learn during the two years of maternity leave. Two years of maternity leave have also been two years of creative silence, a search for new approaches, repertoire and ways of playing. Only after finishing the recording process I realised there was a connection between the works - they have all been written by or dedicated to violinists-composers (with Oliver Leith being an exception) - J.S.Bach, Angharad Davies, Nicola Matteis Jr., Malcolm Goldstein (dedicatee of Cage’s Eight Whiskus and Tenney’s Koan).
The album opens with Circular Bowing Study by Angharad Davies - an exploration of a technique no matter how limited, it continues back through the ages with works that are filled with silence (Bach, Cage and Leith) and works with almost total absence of it (Tenney, Matteis), and closes with my own composition - broken harmonics of a string caught inside a ring.
It’s like a map of invisible violin sounds where past and present pathways are being drawn and redrawn over and over again until they are confined to a single technique or a broken sound or disappear into a total silence.

Recorded by Aisha Orazbayeva
Mixed and edited by Peiman Khosravi
Album cover photo by Scarlett Casiello
Album cover design by Paul Rafferty

Aisha Orazbayeva Ring

digital single available here: https://obeobe.bandcamp.com/album/spoo

made using puredata and ableton

Obe - Spoo

puigent-pp

From Blanche Blanche Blanche's new album of the same name, coming soon on Reading Group (RG19), more info at www.readinggroup.co/rg19.html

Blanche Blanche Blanche - "Seashells"

release on 20 November 2020 : https://bit.ly/39esOQP
@made_vacuum

Introducing morosphinx, a squeaky trio from Brussels. Recorded in Vilvoorde, on the outskirts of the Belgian capital, this album probes impressions of relative distances within a sound space. morosphinx projects us into a musical context that is both strange and familiar, where sounds blend together and define their own landmarks.

morosphinx - B2

After two more years of under-the-radar investigations in the pataphysical lip, the result has pretty much the shape of a coalescing quirky archipelago inhabited by undiscovered life forms with different degrees of reality, linguistic configurations and ontological statuses. EE3 is a suggestive succession of strangely assembled pieces of micromondo miscellanea as small bizarre objects and surreal items right for Artetetra’s continuously metastasizing outré wunderkammer. 

A showcase of heterogeneous materials that cover an entire imaginal ecosystem going from the grotesque to the hazy, to the hypnagogic and absurd til the utterly whimsical; often resulting in non-linear audio experiences with humoristic and paradoxical outcomes. Abstract exotica, amphibian footwork, compositional audio-jokes, brutal counterpoint metal, aquatic sci-fi shredding, steel-cold cognitive fado, glossolalia madrigals, metaphysical hip-hop, sunitty conglomerations, abrasive warfare cartoon OSTs. All and all, let’s just call it Quinto Mondo. 

But let's get down to the nitty-gritty: 
STILL NOT MUCH 3 SAY 
NEO°GEO 3.0 
30 TRACKS 
30 IMAGINAL FAMILY SUPERSTARS 
2H OF HAILE MUZAK FROM THE FLOATING WORLD 
FUN IS THE MF GUN 

Compiled and curated by Artetetra 
Illustrations and design by RIccardo Redeghieri 
Mastered by Giancarlo Brambilla

The nitty-gritty

Cadaver Mike - Track 2

Sound + Process deconstructs new electronic and experimental works through conversations with their composers. These artists all belong to the online community lines (http://llllllll.co). Hosted and produced by Dan Derks.