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* Announcing CANVAS005 *

Michael Speers - xtr'ctn (LP)

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS005
Release Date: 13th of September 2019

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synthetic listening environments :: created with material extracted from field recordings and processed/arranged using software, alongside electronic signals from no-input feedback + test equipment.

most of the source material was generated at my place of work[as a technician]—whilst testing large amounts of audio equipment—capturing electronics’ internal behaviours + using very high levels of amplification on various small capsule microphones, connected to wireless transmitters placed in resonant vessels/spaces and materials of interest
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Northern Irish, London based musician Michael Speers composes and performs music as a temporal and worldly extension of himself and the tools at his disposition. As a percussionist by training, Michael extends his contact and interplay with resonant objects through instrumentalised amplification and feedback, employing signal processing to articulate the almost tangible constitution of sonic material as structural, nearly cellular, microscopic entities. Following his integral presence in C.A.N.V.A.S. performance events since their inception and his recent participation in the Cipher compilation, xtr’ctn is released in September 2019 as a debut solo LP for both the artist and the label.

Dehumanised black metal screams, attributed to seagulls - specifically “recorded in Ramsgate, 06.2017”. It’s the inhuman that concerns us here, or our complex relationship with non-human entities and abstractions. Extracting is a process. By integrating recorded and found sound phenomena, treated as profane and material entities, Michael meticulously arranges sound objects into composition, upholding a fidelity to their emergent properties. Most of these objects become seemingly un-referential, although occasionally you arrive at a near-recognisable sound source or environment, disrupting the invitation towards a total loss of a sense of self.

This is fictional music - it is of and for a world that doesn’t exist. Although presenting sound with sincerity and integrity, without allusion to linear narrative, Michael's materialistic approach is transcended by the sensitivity of his composition. In a sense, it comes after both feeling and expression, as the subdued emotion of a person attempting to reach beyond their own affective limitations. It reaches out without ever really touching anything. Yet for all it’s clinical reduction, there are moments of unhindered emotion which strike harder for their arrival from such a seemingly nonhuman place.

“xtr’ctn” fails in reaching a point of immanent abstraction - a flatline horizon. It arrives instead at the outer brim of a sensory dam, where organic glitches from the extremities of our perception have spread - like sonic cataracts - intercepting the flow of our auditory awareness. In its state of fiction, “xtr’ctn” acts as a flag for the C.A.N.V.A.S. community, pitched as a marker of our enacted existence, weathered though unliving. To follow this signal to its depth is to accept the unknown - you only follow, knowing no alternative.

Mastering by Ali Najafi
Artwork and product design by AALTAR

@michaelspeers

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

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ORAMICS is honored to premiere a track from @aleksandra_slyz debut album on @Pointless-Geometry

Oramics Premiere is our new series on SoundCloud and YouTube that will showcase fresh tracks and videos from female, non-binary and queer producers. We want to use our platform to celebrate emerging talents and independent labels who support them.

https://pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com/album/aleksandra-s-y-human-glory

Aleksandra Słyż is a composer, sound designer, and sound engineer. She is fascinated by interactive and multimedia art. In her music, she looks for connections between the human body, sound, and technology. Her works presented so far have been in the United States and Europe.

Aleksandra Słyż's debut album "Human Glory" has a dual nature. Intense and very emotional experience, built by layering, thickening, and intensifying drone parts of synthesizers (MG), intertwines with recordings created using motion sensors (BG), which created the sound recording of the choreography. Słyż is not afraid to lead the listener along winding paths - through silence and intricate details fragments of sound design, to massive, tectonic walls of sound. The precise logic of the composition naturally blends with intuition, and the album's narrative freely leads the listener from the microscale of the smallest particles of the world to epic film panoramas.

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ORAMICS ma zaszczyt przedstawić utwór z debiutanckiego albumu Aleksdandry Słyż, wydanego w Pointless Geometry.

Aleksandra Słyż to kompozytorka, sound designerka, realizatorka dźwięku. Fascynuje się sztuką interaktywną i multimedialną. W swojej muzyce szuka połączeń między ludzkim ciałem, dźwiękiem i technologią. Jej prace prezentowane do tej pory były w Stanach Zjednoczonych i Europie.

Debiutancki album Aleksandry Słyż  “Human Glory” ma dwoistą naturę. Intensywne i bardzo emocjonalne doświadczenie, budowane przez nawarstwiające, gęstniejące i intensyfikujące się dronowe partie syntezatorów (MG), przenika się z nagraniami stworzonymi z wykorzystaniem sensorów ruchu (BG), dzięki którym powstał zapis dźwiękowy choreografii. Słyż nie boi się wieść słuchacza krętymi ścieżkami - przez ciszę i pełne kunsztownych detali fragmenty sound designu, aż do masywnych, tektonicznych ścian dźwięku. Precyzyjna logika kompozycji w naturalny sposób przenika się z intuicją, a narracja albumu swobodnie prowadzi słuchacza od mikroskali najmniejszych drobinek świata, do epickich filmowych panoram.

PREMIERE: Aleksandra Słyż: MG I

From album Bartek Kujawski - Psychomachia
Listen and buy pre-order (digital / cassette): pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com

Music by https://soundcloud.com/bartek-kujawski
Recorded in Łódź 2019
Mastering by Bartek Kujawski
Artwork and design by Krzysiek Marczak / www.instagram.com/ycszw

Release date: 22.06.2020
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Released via digital download and on limited hand numbered cassette via Spun Out Of Control. Head to www.spunoutofcontrol.com to order

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