Ainigma

Conversions

Plaines

release on 8 December 2023 : www.wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com/
@lalamina

For Bajo Tierra, the artist was inspired by the muted bubbling of swamps. Thus, at the start of each piece, the listener is led to observe the apparent, superficial calm of a multi-headed sound complex.

Lamina - Sous La Terre

CED — Bazar Bizar #22 - Pierre Bastien Special

The deeper I am investigating field recording as both artistic and listening practice, the more I become aware that each recording session is an intrusion into the landscape and that the landscape, whatever historical, biotic, or environmental system defines it – is sentient to my presence.

No matter how considerate my “intrusions” are, an abstract form of communication always takes place, and it largely depends on my ability to maintain this connection, which goes beyond the soundscape and sonic properties of the place. In this sense, my capacity to employ deep intuition and activate a specific neural architecture developed through a compound of skills also defines the recording process and its future aesthetic transformation. Thus, making a field recording fully personalized practice and soundscape composition a discipline of open interpretation, as well as a vast field for misuse and false representation. Regardless of an evaluation system, whether we contemplate an act of listening through scientific observation of one’s cognition event boundaries or through the capacity to comprehend the existential phenomenology of Zulu spiritualism, the possibility that two or more listeners can have the same listening experience is minuscule.

We are all deeply rooted in a diversity of psychological constructs; neural and sensory imprints, memory compounds, cognitive abilities, and many body-mind pathways determining our current psycho-physical state. Therefore, if the field recording practice is based on any form of active listening – it is a discipline based on interpretation.
With that in mind, I am asking: How do we approach the landscape of severe devastation and a dense history of warfare? Knowing that serious ethical and moral consequences are involved in the effort to interpret a particular soundscape.

In the work “ghosts” I am using obsolete instruments – a modular synthesizer built in 1970, a discarded wheelchair wheel salvaged from the Adriatic Sea, and the piano fallen in disuse which belonged to the Austrian conceptualist, filmmaker, improviser, photographer, environmentalist, and writer – Karl Katzinger aka John Tylo (October 1953 – April 2021). Next to these elements of the past and their voices rediscovered, I am incorporating hydrophone and field recordings from several locations appropriating them through the discourse of critical tourism and a culture of memory – more specifically through listening to the inherent memories of environmental devastation due to exploitation of natural resources as well as warfare – in the South Adriatic (Old town Dubrovnik and island of Vrnik), and the Czech-Austrian borderlands nearby of Mauthausen–Gusen concentration camps. 

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Instruments:
EMS Synthi 100
Wheelchair wheel salvaged from the sea
John Tylo’s old piano

Field recordings:
Dubrovnik – Stradun air conditioning units and collection of rubbish containers
Vrnik Island South Adriatic – crickets in an ancient limestone quarry
Adriatic dolphins *hydrophone recording by Robertina Šebjanič
Harrachstal village on Czech-Austrian borderlands – crickets in the abandoned granite quarry
Hydrophone recordings of the river Schwarze Aist
Train coming into Freistadt train station in Austria

All sounds performed, recorded, composed & edited by Manja Ristić
Some sounds gathered at the SHAPE + musikprotocoll residency, July 2023

Hydrophone used for an underwater recordings made by Jez riley French
jezrileyfrench.co.uk

Mastering by La Plant Studio
laplantstudio.com

Bandcamp

ghosts

Tracklist:

pauline anna strom - rain on ancient quays
loscil & lawrence english - pink
natalia beylis - black sea, 1967
lau nau - amphipoda II
john t gast - euphoria
bassae - c
ssabae - tous les murs sont des portes
tradecraft - not even
donato dozzy - santa cunegonda
voices from the lake - meikyu
lao - corriente de aire"
Alexandre Centeio - Fluteacoes
VHS Head - phocus
EDM (jodey kendrick) - KMA4
plant43 - skyway shadow
Vertical67 - obstacles
scanner - sestinea
scanner - flexaia     
normal nada the krakmaxter - tarraxinha sapotico
mj guider - opaline
romance - endless love
mark jenkin - enys pt.1
maps and diagrams - to play the scarlet hue
romance - endless love
on4word - stone in focus

PLIC :-: PLOC — Episode #15

~ Deep Breakfast 248 by https://soundcloud.com/patriciawolf_music ~

Tracklist:
01. Pablo Diserens - Tidal Dwellers
02. Jonathan Sielaff - Lost Boy Beach
03. Slowfoam - Evapotranspiration
04. Marta Forsberg - Part 1 - Echo
05. Michele Di Martino - The Lost Archive Conspiracy
06. Ian Wellman - The Night The Stars Fell
07. Karen Vogt - The Wilder Things
08. Andy Aquarius - Waters Above, Waters Below
09. James Heather - Oizys (Nailah Hunter Rework)
10. Penelope Trappes - Away From Tidal Waves
11. Niecy Blues - 1111
12. Roy Werner - Whistling on the Roses (with Les Halles)
13. Igor Dyachenko - Depth Camera
14. Prokharchin - Green Grizzly
15. Ka Baird - Gate VIII
16. Methods Body - Torches
17. Alexandra Spence - Wind
18. Adam Wiltzie - Tissue Of Lies

~ Picture by Patricia Wolf at Berlin Botanical Garden ~

~ Check out her Deep Breakfast mix 101 : https://soundcloud.com/deepbreakfastseries/deep-breakfast-101-patricia-wolf ~

Deep Breakfast 248 ~ Patricia Wolf

CED — Bazar Bizar #24

1. Caterina Barbieri – Myuthafoo // Myuthafoo (Light-years - 2023)
2. Laszlo Umbreit – Jardins // Pas De Regrets (Sub Rosa - 2032)
3. Manja Ristić – More Tuge / The Sea of Sorrow // Seasonal Diary IV: Shadowed Embrace (VA) (Objects and Sounds - 2023)
4. Sarghuma Incoxis – El sol que refugia este calvario // Noche Aluciante (Midira Records - 2023)
5. Marta Forsberg – Disquiet (Heart) // XKatedral Anthology Series I  (VA) (XKatedral - 2022)
6. Anton Friisgaard – Even the sea is broken // Minor Blossoms (Vaagner - 2024)
7. François J. Bonnet & Stephen O'Malley - Four Rays (Anti Divide) // Cylene II (Drag City - 2023)
8. Michiko Ogawa & Lucy Railton - Fragments of reincarnation // Fragments of reincarnation (Another Timbre - 2023)

Emission 19 - 21 avril 2024

Bonambi presents Days Like Television, to celebrate his tape debut album “This Will Have Been The Past”. Dive into tracks from the UK composer as well as our shared favourite musicians and influences. 

Bonambi presents Days Like Television @ Kiosk Radio 30.05.2024

émission de radio consacrées aux musiques ambient.
Les 1er et 3eme dimanches du mois, de 22h à minuit.
en région liégeoise sur 100.1 en DAB+ et en FM
en ligne : https://player.48fm.com/

Emission 19 - 21 avril 2024

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