Gleam

Serat - Gleam

Caring about the unexpected, focusing on details, Neve music is built around drifting layers, analog synths, elliptical tape processing, loopers and effects pedals.

Isadora is a 9 tracks full-length album about looping, drifting, shifting, unexpecting, life, moods, memory.

It is out on Rusted Tone Recordings, available as  limited-edition cassette and digital formats : https://rustedtonerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/isadora

04 - Vallées

Inspired by the crystal waters and loon calls of Echo Lake, near Fayette Maine, as pictured above.

This track appeared on DJ Steve Brown's excellent radio show on WECU, archived here: https://soundcloud.com/dj_steve_brown/dj-steve-brown-sonic-landscapes-wecu-november-2021?fbclid=IwAR3k-80brC6lub5V0QileZnwciaeVZ2OQX7jZz-mLYTGGqukCb1bef0awCY

Technotes: 4MS Ensemble is main sound source, processed with SynthTech E520 Shimmer, with percussion elements from Korg Trinity. 

mastered by Shawn Hatfield @ audibleoddities.com
Music © 2021 - All Rights Reserved

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Echo Lake

GRFTPS018
Chelidon Frame - Transience
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamp
https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/transience

Transience

B3. Chelidon Frame - Transience [GRFTPS018]

This track was made in response to a callout by Stuart Fowkes of Cities and Memory to reimagine the sounds of Myanmar recorded by C&M's  contributor Tenali Hrenak.

There were 15 sound files to choose from and I selected a recording of bats flying in the Dhammayangyi Temple (www.audioboom.com/posts/6563633-bats-in-the-temple-myanmar)

The inspiration for this track came from looking into the history of the temple in which the original file was recorded. The text below has been copied from this website: https://luxurymyanmarrivercruises.com/dhammayangyi-temple/

"The massive Dhammayangyi Temple was constructed in the 12th century (supposedly between 1167 and 1170) by the order of King Narathu, who was later given the name Kalagya Min or “the king slain by Indians”. Narathu claimed the succession of Bagan throne by murdering his own king father and his elder brother, who had been chosen to become King, in cold blood. Legend had it that the King felt guilty for what he did and was so worried about bad karma that he had the Dhammayangyi Temple constructed to gain merit and redeem for the sin of killing his father and elder brother. According to legendary tales, King Narathu supervised the construction himself. He set the rule that workers would have their arms chopped or even be beheaded if they the brickworks were not perfectly fit without a gap between two given bricks.

Unfortunately, the construction of Dhammayangyi Temple could never be completed. It was soon halted after the assassination of King Narathu. There are two main theories about the mastermind behind the assassination of the king. The better-known theory claims that the King was assassinated by a group of Indians dispatched by the King of Pateikkaya. Narathu was said to kill one of his wives, also an Indian princess, for having practice Hindu rituals. For this reason, in order to avenge his beloved daughter, the Indian King mandated eight assassins to get rid of King Naru right in the Dhammayangyi Temple. The lesser known tale states that the assassination plotted by the invaders from Sri Lanka."

Some people believe the temple is now haunted and say many of the interiors have been bricked up to prevent ghosts from roaming the corridors. True or not, what's sure is that the temple is now full of bats flying all over the interior.

My track is somehow an evocation of the damned soul of Narathu trying to return to the temple to repair his deeds and I used the sounds of the bats as a metaphor for the suffering inflicted by Narathu on his family and his people.

I used sounds processed and derived from the original file provided in Cities and Memory's project folder only - no additional synths, samples or external effects (except a bit of reverb) were used for this track.

Narathu

Hebra "Hebra" - TapeAny (Hebra)

this track is based on 3 samples from @marco lucchi´s "eine kleine elektronische meditation": https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/eine-kleine-elektronische-meditation

Fragments of a Meditation

Prior to the 20th century, and the emergent dominance of equal temperament, the association of emotions with particular musical keys was common practice. 

The Black Glass Ensemble recently revisited this historical alignment of sound and emotion to offer a brief ‘embrace’ in B Minor - the key associated with patience. 

The initial embrace, featuring the 8 musicians of the Black Glass Ensemble and guest Colin Potter, with whom they had been due to perform prior to the Covid19 lockdown, was well received. Consequently, Black Glass sought to widen the reach of their embrace to other musicians to make a more comprehensive piece of work.

The response was unprecedented. 104 musicians returned 247 individual musical tracks to be mixed into this present arrangement.

The full 38’ 50” minute work, “Be Mine in Patience: an Embrace in B minor” is made freely available in the sole hope that this extended embrace may help in some small way to nurture strength, fortitude and comfort.

Black Glass Ensemble and Friends
Be Mine in Patience: an Embrace in B minor
Arranged and produced by Michael Begg

Cover Image by Ben Ponton, used by permission of Sue Cannon

The Black Glass Ensemble:
Michael Begg
Douglas Caskie
Jen Cuthbertson
Neil Cuthbertson
Clea Friend
Julia Lungu
Aisling O'Dea
Ben Ponton

Contributors:
Tommy Aashildrød
The Alaska None
David Allison
Christopher Alvarado
Mkl Anderson
Carsten Aniksdal
Artificial Memory Trace
Matt Atkins
Nigel Ayers
Simon Balestrazzi
Stephen Bishop
Sergey Bulychev
Matt Burnett
Dave Burraston
Ed Carter
Kim Cascone
Don Clemenza
cl0v3n
Chris Connelly
Dane Law
Thomas Dimuzio
Pablo Diserens
Anthony Donovan
John Duncan
Kate Ellis
Steve Fors
Clive Graham
Scot Jenerik
Jean Johnson
Dan Joseph
Evan Henderson
Robert Henke
May Haliburton
Mark Hand
Jim Haynes
Liz Helman
Jack Hertz
Kathy Hinde
Marc Hurtado
France Jobin
Andreas Karperyd
Katpis Tapes
Fergus Kelly
Julia Kent
Jon Lee
Edvard Graham Lewis
Andrew Liles
Malcolm Lindsay
Marco Lucchi
Patrick Tubin McGinley
Grey Malkin
Robert Mazrim
Radboud Mens
Emmanuel Mieville
Abul Mogard
James Murray
Philippe Neau
Adi Newton
B J Nilsen
Mike Nolan
nula,cc
Aisling O’Dea
Orphax
Mike Orr
Chris Osborne
Daniel O’Sullivan
Ivy O’Sullivan
p_fish_mani
Filippo Panichi
Lee Paterson
PBK
Ben Ponton
Colin Potter
Nicola Quiriconi
Audrey Redpath
Ivan Ristić
Carla Santana
Paul sawford
Janek Schaefer
Second Harmonic Generation
Simon Šerc
Tim Shaw
Chandra Shukla
Clodagh Simonds
Steven R. Smith
Jos Smolders
sp3ct3rs
Julia Spooner
Mayor Stubbs
Bill Thompson
VIVIB
Frans de Waard
Warm Digits
Simon Whetham
Gary Wilkinson
Pete Woodhead
James Wyness
Zach Zinn

Be Mine in Patience: an Embrace in B minor

Edited and remastered version of Habala, first published in 2018. 
Made with passion and modular synths.

Habala

habala

“Sloup” is a poem written by Neal D. Retke. This piece worked on the phonetical and musical possibilities of the language. The initial reading material was generated by a reading program.

Narathu

Pascal Savy

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