Pleased to share the 9th episode of the Kuboraum Digital Sound Residency, hosting Studio LABOUR’s mind-altering soundscape mass and mess, dispersion of subjectivity.

LABOUR is the Berlin-based sonic entity composed by multidisciplinary artists Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander. Bringing together their experience in molecular biology, sound art and post-tonal theory, they compose ambitious and reverently experimental audio works centering around the transformative potential of sound. Their practice promotes active listening and a heightened sensory awareness, interrogating existential questions and the power structures that form our collective reality. Through immersive performances shifting between digital sound synthesis, algorithmic compositions, percussions and vocals, LABOUR explore the juxtaposition of amplified and unamplified sounds within specific architectural spaces.

“LABOUR devise methods of co-existence and distinction through rupture while gesturing towards the possibility of strong, sudden shifts in consciousness.”

'mass and mess, dispersion of subjectivity’ shows their continuing exploration of temporal juxtapositions, merging algorithmic rhythms with cyclical pulsing drum layers to discover alternative notions of time. This new track relates aesthetically to their previous pieces next time, die consciously (بیگانگی) and hit of enlightenment, contemplating on the construction-of-self and the extent to which external forces create us, being heteronomy the condition of all things. Operating simultaneously on multiple temporalities — from microsounds and stochastic synthesis to rhythmic cycles to acknowledging that which propels beyond — these pieces take a critical stance towards notions of regulated time by embracing rhythmic instability and sound as sculptural material.

Their recent performance Sungazing premiered in Kraftwerk during X100 Berlin Atonal (2022) is one of their most extensive works so far, involving an ensemble of 30 drummers, 7 string players, 4 dancers, 2 drum sets, and 3 visual artists, all distributed throughout the audience. Proposed within the framework of Xenakis’ legacy, the performance was described as ‘An ode to the one who pursues an experimental lifestyle, an ode to the avant-garde’. Other commissioned compositions and performances include: Eventide in collaboration with Fa’ Pawaka (2022), Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin ; Sungazing, HAU (2022), Berlin ;  Constructs of Sanity, Musica Sanae, Berlin (2019); nine-sum sorcery, Berlin Atonal (2019); Activating the Gropius Bau, Sonically, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2019); next time, die consciously (بیگانگی), Berlin Atonal (2018); Hacklander’s Activating the Messeplatz, Sonically and Stochastic Activation: Basler Trommeln (with Isabel Lewis), Basilea, Art Basel (2018); conatus/consent, Neue Musik in St Ruprecht, St Ruprechtskirche, Vienna (2015) and Levels of Intrusion, transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2014).

composition and production by LABOUR: Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander
second drummer: Masaya Hijikata
bass clarinet: Yoni Silver
drums recorded by: Francesco Donadello

Photography: Evelyn Bencicova

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

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Studio LABOUR - mass and mess, dispersion of subjectivity

Monthly topographical conspiracies & sonic accountabilities recorded for Skylab Radio.

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Bodiless, we swerve into Chrome's castle of ice. It feels like we're surfing the crest of the invading program, hanging ten above the seething glitch systems as they mutate. We're sentient patches of oil, swept along corridors of shadow.

But at the heart of the darkness, the still centre, the glitch systems shred the dark with whirlwinds of light, translucent razors spinning away from us; we hang in the centre of a slow motion explosion; ice fragments falling away forever.

Ura - Lettingo
Nightech - qovxbadl
I/DEX - Tetrapolar01
Dy - noctambulation
Loek Frey - Cite Dialogue
Ninestein - Fracture
Christina Vantzou - Enter
Masayoshi Fujita, Simon Harris, Derek Shirley, Jan Thoben, Kassian Troyer - 14_24
Y-E-T - Lightsloft
¬[d] - Axon
qebrus - ⋌.⋋ ⋤.⋥ ⋌.⋋
Archidi - MaTTTaG
qebrus - ⊶⊑∷⌊∴⊹∵⌉∷⊒⊷
Atomhead - Vortex
.o.O.o. - Enantiodromia
Hazcaush - 3_20_3
Suunk - Out of Frame
¬[d] - Colleoptera
.at_on & v4w.enko - Slow Motion
Shinkei & Mise en Scene - Cuts
Woopheadclrms - Refrain
Woopheadclrms - 2020
Nozumu Matsumoto - Sustainable II
Nile Koetting - Garden of Debris
Nile Koetting - Flood
Hironori nagatsuma - Osynlig struktur
Erratic - Gravitational Lens
ssabæ - sommet d’une église
B(if)ten - In Memoriam (The Silent Spring Mix)
Idle Blip - deepening
Fp - Meca
Tlactoc - Organic EFT
Marihiko Hara - Mirage

Faultlines E36 - Seán - Sentient Patches of Oil, Swept Along Corridors of Shadow

Broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (25.11.2023)

Artist: @jonathanca

Jonathan Castro @ Radio TNP 25.11.2023

Out March 15th on @southern-lights-rec

Bandcamp: https://mattiaonori.bandcamp.com/album/tra-vento-e-oscurit

Tracklist:

A1 / Intro
A2 / Spazio profondo
A3 / :cambiamento
A4 / 6 giorni
A5 / rtf
B1 / La fossa della disperazione
B2 / I mostri hanno paura
B3 / Eppur sto in piè

Credits:

Written & Produced by Mattia Onori
Mastered & Cut by Tim Xavier at Manmade Mastering Berlin
Artwork Design by Acid Hazel
Distribution by Ready Made, Berlin
© Southern Lights Recordings 2024

Bandcamp

Mattia Onori - Tra Vento E Oscurità [Southern Lights]

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https://www.retreatradio.net/web-echoes

web echoes #1 w/ Minka (26/03/24)

Written and Produced by German Army.
Artwork by @nocturnerror.

AFN013 - A Flooded Need, 2024

An Era of Absolutes

side A

German Army - side A

@stagno-records pres. Terre Rare 01 with Hagva CP1 @cipppo, @notmass
Live recorded at @inbeatwin, Milano
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=yjEen351uVo

"Terre Rare is a new code of exploration curated by Stagno Records, thrives on the convergence of different perspectives and mindset. It moves across space and time, driven by the need to be contaminated and to contaminate these “terre”. An audio-visual gathering through hyperspace ambient, organismic drum & bass, free tribal techno and mesmerizing textures.
Kicking off the series is the dynamic duo 'Hagva', formed by Stagno co-founder, CP1, and Not Mass. They are joined by the label's lead visual artist, Ubeesnaps, who has just finished cooking up a preview of what will be the label's official website."

Visuals by instagram.com/ubeesnaps

Originally streamed on www.fritto.fm

Stagno Records pres. Terre Rare 01 w/ Hagva + Ubeesnaps 28.03.24

We respect the artists and do not make any kind of money of this edit so it is a FREE DL.

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*FREEDL | Marc Acardipane & G.I.T.M vs The Moon - Draw The Pitch-Hiker Circle (Demolished Live Edit)

A collection of fantasy inspired ambient soundtracks that set the perfect atmosphere for a post apocalyptic world infested with walking corpses only hungering for human flesh, hear the zombies moan outside as you cower in your safe zone


1 - Phat Phrog Studios - Fantasy Collection -  Zombie Apocalypse Ambience

ETHEREAL AMBIENT SOUNDSCAPES INSPIRED BY GAME OF THRONES AND THE  LORD OF THE RINGS AND MANY OTHERS. RELAX, ENJOY AND DRIFT AWAY.

CTHULHU MYTHOS - TENEBROUS

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Faultlines E36 - Seán - Sentient Patches of Oil, Swept Along Corridors of Shadow

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