This Mixtape is a compilation of tracks produced by the participates of the 'Take it from the bird - creating music inspired by the Superb Lyrebird' workshop I lead for Unthinking / Unlearning - an online laboratory and residency, a part of the Year of Germany in Russia 2020/21 and collaboration between Klammklang label, Sound Studies and Sonic Arts (M.A.) at the Universität der Künste Berlin and Sound Art and Sound Studies (M.A.) at HSE Art and Design School, Moscow.

‘The Superb Lyrebird’ is an Australian Native bird, which is capable of mimicking natural and synthetic sounds from its natural environment — Participants created their own music sampling biorhythms and timbres from an animal sound open-access archive.

Track list:
Alexandra Kopelyan - In a Bittern Voice
Isa sO.any - Myai
Alexey Berezhnoy - Flat ES Ecosystem
Anton Anishchanka - Bear Habitat
Ira Afanaseva - Dogs in the yard
Lera Elagina - Kozhuhovo Birds
Masha Alexandrova - Fin 
Ystalost Dimecres - Untitled.

Take it from the bird - creating music inspired by the Superb lyrebird U/U workshop mix tape

Undercurrents

For A While

Fragments IV: Collected Waves from Surrogate Memories

Ada's Chant (From Fragments IV)

Cloistered Anatomy

long-form audio installation
artistic research
booklet in English – containing aural photography, theoretical discourse on the culture of listening, and more...

sound, text, images: Manja Ristić
editor: Sonja Leboš
sound mastering: La Plant Studio, Belgrade
design: Nevena Vasiljević
proofreading: Mark Vernon
production, publishing, distribution: ELL Studio 2023
artistic research in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research, Zagreb

water memory is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia

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https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/water-memory-mnemosonic-topographies-of-the-adriatic

water memory

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water memory – mnemosonic topographies of the Adriatic

Davachi/Smith - Live at the Omnimax Theatre, Science World
Vancouver, BC, Canada

New Forms Festival 14
18 September 2014

Sarah Davachi - Buchla 300, Roland Jupiter-8, effects
Richard Smith - Buchla 300, Roland TR-808

https://soundcloud.com/ava76

Davachi/Smith - Collaboration with Richard Smith - Live 9/18/14  - NFF14

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

Mourning Dove - Blessings (Mdrgr-025) 

Format: 2xCS with additional insert

Layout and Design by O.R. 

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Blessings

Mourning Dove - I Don't Know

Revised version of "Traces: for Electric Organ, i-Phone Videos, Objects and Electronics". (The first iteration was presented at KM28 in Berlin on April 24, 2019, as part of "Very Organized"  a concert of works for electric organ by a group of Berlin-based composers. ) Variation 2 is part of an immersive multi-channel work that is currently in progress.

Narathu

Pascal Savy

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