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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

runaway with me ~ your warm arms

Submission to Tune Into Nature Prize 2025.
The track is based around the Nightingale song, which I recorded in Spring 2024. Upon hearing the birdsong for the first time, I thought - this really reminds me of the Jungle and Drum & Bass styles I loved as a teenager.
So - I took the recordings home and began working it into a piece of music.  Rhythmical Wood Crickets and Grasshoppers make an appearance as well as ‘cymbals’ made from Marram grass. A lot of the higher percussion is created with snapped dry twigs.

Nightingale

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

1. The Oyster
2. Limbless
3. The Multiverse Moat
4. Ted's Tune

An EP by Bethany Stenning
Artwork by Laureen Burlat
Mixed by Harry Stoneham
Mastered by Oliver Baldwin

Limbless

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