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In his book 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒, Mark Fisher wrote about the two notions: While the weird is something present where it doesn’t belong—something from outside found on the inside—the eerie has to do specifically with outside space. Something is eerie when there are unanswered questions about agency: Who or what is responsible for the abandonment of this zone? Who or what is crying out in the distance?

Katharina Schmidt’s 𝑇𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, a single, longform track stretching to a near half hour, deftly captures this spatial sense of the eerie. The evolving drone is like coming upon a ruin, circling it, and being drawn inside. There are no surprises, no sudden horrors, just the strange pull of oscillating waveforms that paint a bleak yet soothing landscape.

In certain kinds of listeners, empty, abandoned spaces produce a pleasurable dejection. Maybe this is because spaces where human life is evacuated represent the end result of capital. (It seems to have withered away, but is in fact off to find another shell for its home.) What we’re left with is something new to inhabit, a new infrastructure for freedom. The subtle changes in Schmidt’s recording have less to do with melody and rhythm, more to do with accumulating color and texture of space. And so the half hour can feel like five minutes, or an eternity—time and scale exist differently here.

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After years of playing drums and piano in various bands, Katharina Schmidt's solo work is influenced by indie, experimental, and improvised music. Exploring interests in storytelling, sonic topographies, and generative techniques, her music uses electronics, field recordings, and self-built interfaces alongside acoustic instruments. From sonifications to lullabies, her work is poised between formal experimentation and narratives cued by literature and pop culture, and can be heard in installations, film music, and radiophonic pieces, as well as releases on labels such as Flag Day Recordings, Slaapwel Records, and Focused Silence.

Katharina holds a master’s degree in Sound Studies from the Berlin University of the Arts and hosts resident shows at Cashmere Radio and SVS Radio.

katharina-schmidt.net
katharinaschmidt.bandcamp.com  

artwork by Stefan Lingg
audio finalized by Glyn Maier

all proceeds to The Homeless Period Project (Greenville, SC, US) - www.homelessperiodproject.org

Tennis Courts in the Half Light

Katharina Schmidt - Tennis Courts In The Half Light [Excerpt] (ENMD03)

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Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Ecotone Festival w/ Léa Roger & Lucie Gresil @ Kiosk Radio 06.05.2022

release on 16 September 2022 : https://wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com/album/visage-zyg-ne
@roxanem-tayer

Roxane Métayer is a French sound and visual artist now living in Brussels. She composes with the violin, primary wind instruments (ocarina and various flutes), archaic percussion and field recordings, fragmenting and reassembling them with synthetic effects. Nature becomes the backdrop of these wild soundscapes, populated by a phantasmagorical bestiary and an exuberant flora.

Artwork by Coline Llobet
Mastering by Adrien Lambert

Roxane Métayer - Sur Les Ailes, Huit Tâches

sensi.ble's new radioshow, elysium solidity, is launching on Sphere Radio! In this first episode, he outlines the concept behind the show and delivers a DJ mix to introduce his aesthetic notion of future that led to starting this show. More to come! Check out the linked board on Are.na for some references.

https://www.are.na/jan-k/elysium-solidity

perila - cyx
otilo - serpent [infinite drift]
xphresh - myst [3XL]
dean blunt &amp; inga copeland - energy god
DJ ojo - strange exchange [pressure dome]
OL - shatter dub [motion ward]
stone - pink orange [theory therapy]
dopplereffekt - Mandelbrot set [leisure system]
marie davidson - vie et mort d’un ego [weyrd son]
OL - inasan [asyncro]
huerco s. &amp; SIR E.U - plonk IX [incienso]
ura - 4give [motion ward]
special guest dj - makeout dub [INDEX:records]
sensational ft. planteaterz - you don’t know me like that [naff]
korsssakov - prison mukbang [haunted space]
atrice - 11million [docile outros]
angel d’lite - liquid skies [planet euphorique]
vardae - litteraturformen [perchépolis]
roza terenzi &amp; hame DJ - steam baby [radiant records]
sky h1 - elysian heights [ad93]
exael - composure [3XL]
james K - ultra facial! [ad93]

https://soundcloud.com/sensi_ble

elysium solidity #01 ~ sensi.ble - 15.03.2023

Live sessions recorded at Recyclart (Brussels) for the Kitten Rhetorics party, and at the Chinois (Paris) during the Kikkogal night.

https://lyl.live/episode/micro-moistur-5

MICRO MOISTUR w/ Catherine Danger [Live Session]

In the second episode of elysium solidity, sensi.ble and Dino talk about the aesthetics of the Spomeniks, which are monuments established by the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1945 on up until the 1970s. With critical distance, Dino and sensi.ble discuss the monuments’ visual and historical characteristics and interpret their futuristic and abstract apperance through of sound and music. Check out the linked board on Are.na for references.

Tracklist: midori hirano - mirrors in mirrors [daisart]
nicolas jaar - killing time [other people]
vangelis - rachel’s song [atlantic]
akusmi - longing for tomorrow
time is an animal – new model blues
ryuichi sakamoto - async [commmons]
luis lopes – echoism III
einstürzende neubauten - nnnaaammm
model 500 - no UFO’s (vocal)
prince of denmark - tool 517 [forum]
textural bug - beaded rocks [theory therapy]

https://www.are.na/jan-k/elysium-solidity
https://soundcloud.com/sensi_ble
https://www.instagram.com/lucasdinonolte/

elysium solidity #02 ~ spomeniks - sensi.ble & dino - 19.04.2023

An ode to daydreaming – spheric views, y2k liaisons, and post-internet otherness in this episode of elysium solidity. Happy napping!

Tracklist:
perila - mouth full of tahini [sferic] 
exael - reality’s sweetheart (with zoe darsee) (moon pie mix) [soda gong] 
laurel halo - raw silk uncut wood [latency] 
para - underpass [cime] 
body sculptures - a body turns to eden [posh isolation] 
akira yamaoka - the day of night [konami] 
500 - deliverance 
kelman duran - foreva 
ben bondy & exael - meridian [west mineral ltd] 
malibu - held [pan] 
ruin - the dive (d. tiff dip) [radiant love] 
fennesz sakamoto - mono [touch] 
exael - glass in plastic (with arad acid) [west mineral ltd] 
xphresh - one kiss [3xl] 
otilo - embracing [infinite drift] 
sky h1 - blade [ad 93]
opheliaxz - citrine
nueen - IV [3xl]
purelink - not that deep [naff]
rezo glonti - in red weather [muscut]
lilac - u get me
sseq - sseq rely
outsidenightair - love feeling [theory therapy]
ben bondy - april w bass

https://soundcloud.com/sensi_ble
https://www.are.na/jan-k/elysium-solidity

elysium solidity #03 ~ cyber dreamz - sensi.ble - 17.05.2023

Futurist electronics from stars of the Chinese underground, presented monthly by Shanghai-based label & scene linchpins SVBKVLT.

https://www.nts.live/shows/svbkvlt/episodes/svbkvlt-1st-june-2023

Svbkvlt w/ Nahi Mitti 010523

31/07 noods radio
wax session with the dearest & mysterious  ▄︻┻ bdmn ︻┳═─-

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Magamura - Youth
Klaus - Gus
African Ghost Valley - Titans (I)
Umkra - Cellombre
G.E.S - Nije-je
Heda Zousli - 3 min dubplate
Acetone - Fire dub
Barracuda version
Jahtari - The stars my destinations
Tapes - Lowry  dub
John Wayne - Love it a kill me 
Dijit - Leban 
FFF - Volz A1
Tapes - Raagini in
Ssekinomy - Wireless
Nisennenmondai - A
Equiknoxx - Fly away
Sugar Minott - Genuine Lover
Jan Batta - Youthman time
Love joys - I belong to you

noods radio - furda / hermeneia invites bdmn

Tomorrow Is Good Not Today

@sensi_ble and lycopdsid_ (@lyc0psid / @nightwaif) explore the curiosity and playfulness behind ‘malfunction’ & glitchyness in the music production process and dive through their favorite records that embrace imperfection.

Tracklist: 
Atte Elias Kantonen - mire (Soda Gong)
gab_i - things + vibrations (self-released)
Secular Musics Of South Yorkshire - Zero As A Limit (Bottrop-Boy)
Heinrich Schwarzer - Figur0_3-39 (Conditional)
genus aix - as one so torn [index]
kareem lofty - GTO [quiet time]
lycopsid_ - unreleased
nightwaif - xmas bonus (photic zone)
Eric Lanham - Rasp (Soda Gong)
caveman LSD - lost hours [isla]
ALA VJIIOR - B1 (NO EXP)
purelink - head on a swivel [naff]
opheliaxz - kookaburra
buttechno & tris - silence 2 [psy x]
serwed - technics [west mineral]
Corell - Melts Into Air (Appendix:Files)
pontiac streator - red kings [west mineral]
sentinel - guardian (Quantum Natives)
Artur M Puga - _nwmdt (Eternal Recordings)
stone - blurry apple [3XL]

elysium solidity #04 ~ fehlfunktionen - sensi.ble & lycopsid_  - 20.09.23

Nightly endeavors – elysium solidity, for the first not pre-recorded but live from the Sphere Radio studio in Anger-Crottendorf. Tune in for musings on contemporary ambient & breaky downtempo.

Tracklist: 
nightwaif - void/remedies
ben bondy - z line print w huerco s. & pontiac streator
androne - signs of life
mu tate - frank’s hublots
sofie birch & johan carøe - portal of [stroom]
dj bingo - oh my god… (if only he knew)
flaty - upper spell [gost zvuk]
serwed - beroca [west mineral]
buttechno & triš - memory IV 14-160 [psy x]
chantssss - jus woke up w k2dj
effective power - b4
crimeboys - stab joy work [index]
stone - canyon fissure rift
rolf laureijs - meditation [präsenz editionen]
hoodie x james K - scorpio [ad 93]
exael - rotor [soda gong]
flaty - observer ft madteo [gost zvuk]
maara - erotics of betrayal [step ball chain]
rezo glonti - caveman [muscut]
opheliaxz - psyllium

elysium solidity #05 - sensi.ble - 15.11.2023

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/customerdjservice
Track: Lean Forward
Label: https://soundcloud.com/controlfreakrecordings
Format: Digital, EP
Release date: 08/12/23
YouTube: https://youtu.be/XI_A34B54rU
PREVIEWS: on.soundcloud.com/pG3ej

Control Freak co-founder Customer Service returns to the label with his second EP, Amygdala. As both a DJ and producer, Hong Kong-born, London-based Customer Service thrives in a genre-defying nether zone - rooted in familiar dancefloor grooves, but with a distinctive, off kilter sense of rhythm and melody that instantly mark his productions out.
With previous music supported from the likes of Ben UFO, upsammy & Oceanic, Tom Ravenscroft, Solid Blake, dBridge, re:ni and more, this record follows the thread of previous Customer Service releases, exploring deep, trippy and murky textures rooted in techno & electro soundscapes. Rounding off the record, @pugilistmusic remixes Lean Forward, adding a murky, broken groove to the detailed fabric of the original, and Customer Service collaborates with CF cofounder @finnaman on a similarly richly-textured closing track, Useless Knowledge.

Amygdala

PREMIERE | Customer Service - Lean Forward [Control Freak Recordings] 2023

TOO MUCH INFORMATION on Netil Radio, 7-9pm every 3rd Monday.

TOO MUCH INFORMATION enquires what's “now” and what's “new”, merging experimental music from the Internet with other audio amenities.
Quick slowfast maths exercise with bestie Airali this time, guaranteed weirdness <3

tracklist soonish

TOO MUCH INFORMATION w/ Ikävä Pii b2b Airali 20.11.23

Matthew Coulombe aka @nixtrove is a Canadian producer and live performer. Initially pursuing the drums as a practice as well as sound engineering, Matthew turned to electronic music production as a means of expression. Working with computer software, hardware, samples and field recordings, he now has a prolific discography under the Nixtrove moniker. His first record label release is due with independent Brussels-based label @perspektiflabel , called Hexagons; 6 tracks of immersive ambient electronic beats soon to be released on cassette.

Rinse France Podcast 

Nixtrove Live - 29 Novembre 2023

Embark on a mystical journey with Monstera Occulta, a black metal connoisseur for over a decade. Her mixtape guides you through ritualistic and dark ambient realms, evoking the enchanting presence of witches. Vocals resembling incantations intertwine with enchanting percussion, creating a sonic experience that transcends the boundaries of reality. Dive into the abyss of darkness and let yourself be spellbound by this unique musical voyage.

Witchy Hour: Cyber Witch invites Monstera Occulta - 09/01/2024

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