Zemletrus (Earthquake) by Svitlana Nianio

Near The Chemistry Cabinet by Maryana Klochko

for percussion and fixed media.

I. Chroma
II. Value
III. Hue

performed by Joanne Chiang.
premiered in Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music in May 2022.

artwork: Sol LeWitt - Composite Series, Plate #01 (1971)

Video: https://youtu.be/knODmkcNeqU?si=qTI2aO6x1ZOQl39B

Three Studies

for six players and electronics (2023). 

commissioned by Sinfonia Smith Square and premiered in Anghiari, Italy in July 2023.

flute: Ellie Blamires
clarinet: Raymond Brien
bassoon: Hollie Redshaw
violin: Naomi Warburton
viola: Wanshu Qiu
cello: Miki Piszczorowicz

I was thinking about euphoria in pop music, that simple, single-minded ecstatic feeling you get from so many love songs. I found some vocal samples I liked and slowed them down and looped them, imagining each one as a kind of sculpture, gently rotating round and round in a neutral, dream-like space. Still euphoric, but frozen like TV static, repeating obsessively like prayer ritual.

1. I STILL FEEL
2. YOU'RE ALL I NEED
3. DON'T RUN FROM ALL THE THINGS YOU FEAR
4. THINKIN' ABOUT YOU, I'M THINKIN' ABOUT YOU
5. WE AIN'T GOT NO PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS, YEAH. I LET 'EM GO
6. TELL ME I'M YOURS
7. AH, JUST DON'T WALK AWAY
8. I DON'T WANNA LOVE YOU BUT I CAN'T SAY NO
9. I WANNA BE WITH YOU
10. YOU TOLD ME YOU WOULD NEVER, EVER FADE AWAY

https://bennobuto.com/break-up-mantras

Break-Up Mantras

We are pleased to present the 16th episode of Kuboraum’s Digital Sound Residency in collaboration with Catalan pianist, vocalist, and producer Marina Herlop. 
Crafting multifaceted worlds to spur and feed the imagination, Marina unveils ‘alas’, a nexus of unpredictable vocal melodies, digital synthesis, and phantasmagoria. 

Marina's musical journey began with classical training at an early age, but it wasn’t until her 20s—while immersed in music studies at the Conservatory—that she truly began to experiment with harmony and melody, culminating with the release of her debut album Nanook (Instrumental Records, 2016).

Her second album, Babasha (Aloud Music Ltd, 2018), marked the beginning of her integration of synths and electronic sounds, expanding her sonic palette toward a more cybernetic sound. With Pripyat (2022), her debut on the cult label PAN, Marina made an irrevocable shift into electronic music, weaving hypnotic rhythms, layers of processed vocals, and organic textures to craft new, brooding dimensions.
Her latest release, Nekkuja (PAN, 2023), continues the experimental touches of Pripyat, but with an unexpected lightness and positivity—an uplifting contrast in a scene often captivated by darkness and melancholy. Loosely themed around the metaphor of gardening, Nekkuja’s peaks and valleys invite an active, reflective listening experience.

In contrast to the view that an artist is an isolated genius or an idol to be worshipped, Herlop believes that the garden helps us see the process as closer to devotion or perseverance. A gardener brings order to the wild chaos of the outdoors, collaborating with nature to arrange something vibrant and enduring. Blending familiar sounds with fanciful concepts, Herlop traces an imaginary garden, imploring us to wander and wonder.

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab.

Kuboraum Digital Sound Residency: www.kuboraum.com/digital-sound-residency/

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Marina Herlop - alas

These are the audio examples to my paper “Hearing Greek Microtones”, in Hagel, S./Harrauer, Ch. (eds.), Ancient Greek Music in Performance. Wiener Studien Beiheft 29 (Vienna, 2005), 9–50: https://www.academia.edu/7860981/_Hearing_Greek_Microtones_in_Hagel_S._Harrauer_Ch._eds._Ancient_Greek_Music_in_Performance._Wiener_Studien_Beiheft_29_Vienna_2005_9_50

Audio Example 19 Ptolemy Tense Chromatic

fall

fall (live)

https://soundcloud.com/urubumarinka

From Entropia Coletiva I : https://soundcloud.com/voodoohop/sets/voodoohop-entropia-coletiva-i

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Urubu feat J. Abramovay - Sokak

Track from my new album (released 10th Feb 2017). UNOFFICIAL RELEASE - this is merely so I can enter a competition with this song. Please do not share.

This song is about LANGUAGE

Kaleidoscope

Echo of Species 10 - Moonbow

@el_hardwick
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This episode features tracks from Arve Henriksen (@arve-henriksen), Ulla (@ullastraus), Chihei Hatakeyama (@chiheihatakeyama), αίών, Theta Wave, Emily A. Sprague (@mlesprg), Carbon Based Lifeforms (@carbon-based-lifeforms), State Azure (@state-azure), FRKTL (@frktl), Kareem Lotfy (@kareemlotfy), Saphilieaum, Octo Octa (@octoocta), Mabe Fratti (@mabefs), Unknown, M. Geddes Gengras (@green-machines), Pataphysical (@pataphysicaltransmission), Legion of Green Men (@legion-of-green-men), Vida Vojić (@vida-vojic), Carmen Villain (@carmenvillain), Dolphin Midwives (@dolphinmidwives), ose, sonmi451 (@sonmi451), Biosphere (@officialbiosphere), Andrea, Stephan Haluska (@stephanhaluska), spoken words by Donna J. Haraway, and materials from the podcast "For The Wild"
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Moonbow's words about their participation:
"Recently I have been enamoured by the work of Donna J. Haraway: a professor, writer and scholar whose work critiques the seprativist perception between humans and non-humans. Imagined as an alternative to the term "Anthropocene", Haraway instead proposes a successive epoch, which she calls the "Chthulucene", wherein multi-species kinship thrives.

Interspersed with samples taken from an interview with Haraway on "For The Wild", one of my favourite podcasts, the mix I have made is a proposed soundtrack for such entangled worlds. It is an ambient deep listening journey that spirals through multiplicities of landscapes, seasons and atmospheres. Many of the tracks that feature in the mix, I listened to over the last year whilst recovering from a physical, chronic illness that was the result of overworking like a machine within our capitalist system. Listening to ambient music and spending time in my small, but wild, garden, played a crucial role in my healing. I strongly believe that a slower, attentive, less extractive pace is what is needed in the route towards climate justice -- and so it was important to me to include many of these tracks in the mix."

Thanks to Donna Haraway & For The Wild Podcast for granting permission to use samples. 

Please visit https://forthewild.world/podcast
Donna J. Haraway’s work can be found here: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway
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To know more about Moonbow:

Moonbow is the project of London based multidisciplinary artist El Hardwick. Alongside working as a photographer and music video director, their avant-pop music production interweaves a vortex of ambient soundscapes, maximalist sci-fi rhythms and political lyricism. Meanwhile, their colourful DJ sets and mixtapes are an exercise in storytelling that delve into melancholia & euphoria, old & new, organic & synthetic. A refusal to be defined by genre, gender or media underpins Moonbow’s artistic voice, which is at once eclectic and also undeniably their own.

Soon to release their debut album on 33-33’s label, the record will be released alongside a book of prose and collaborative photography created by Hardwick. Titled "8" the project imagines a climate fiction narrative where technocratic powers use the last reserves of energy, on an otherwise resource-depleted-earth, to mass migrate to cyberspace. However, when it is discovered that there is only limited bandwidth and resources to do so, a familiar story of corruption unfolds. Interweaving issues of colonialism, industrialisation, borders, net neutrality, and dogmatic constructs of the “good versus evil narrative”, the story is told from the perspective of several fictional alter egos, who are in a relationship with a capitalist system that favours extraction over nurture.

You can support Moonbow here: https://elhardwick.com/

You can support artists directly: https://buymusic.club/list/moonbow-echo-of-species-mix-tracklist?fbclid=IwAR0XaezV_PWFPGfx5x5DA-_y54NBgroJctwuqDpQn4ZmyFkUFj2C3lIy8K4

🌳1x tree has been planted to balance the carbon footprint of this upload (Project Povo da Floresta).

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