Beautiful new entry on Motion Cast this time courtesy of Cybermission, label operator of Emotional Waves. Her labels name is actually quite reflective of this mix ~  a deeply intertwined / hi-def tapestry of rhythms and moods <3


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Motion Cast Vol. 88: Cybermission

Earth Static Drums

An ode to flautists #2. Those who play with their breaths, daring and vulnerable, who metamorphose voices and play with their souls, to cross all opposing emotions like a single breath of air. 


An Hour is a Sea w/ Mélodie Blaison (18/12/24)

Pedro A. Ramírez am 15.12.2024 live bei stromspiesser XVI
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Aufnahme von Tim Pauli und Philipp von Neumann
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Foto von Luise Jakobi
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Pedro A. Ramírez live@stromspiesser XVI

Geh Hinter Mich (d.a.w.g. Remix)

Gen Comp

King Softy - Gen Comp (Original Mix)

 Une plongée sensorielle dans l’intimité des voix – chuchotées, chantées, murmurées, criées. Fragments d’un disque d’hypnose Méta-relaxation, confession feutrée, psalmodie personnelle de Scatterheart a cappella, une voix qui irradie, extraite des Pieds sur Terre.
Une traversée de la volupté à l’effroi, entre extase et tension. Des lamentations de pleureuses aux soupirs d’un plaisir simulé, en écho aux cris des joueurs de tennis. La voix devient désir, attente, jouissance – récitée, convoquée par André Manoukian, mise en abîme par Slavoj Žižek dans Le Guide pervers du cinéma.
Un patchwork sonore où l’oralité se déploie sous toutes ses formes : intime, obscène, mécanique, sensuelle. Une ode aux voix et aux cordes vocales, dans toute leur puissance évocatrice.


DREAMSICKLES w/ Gunnera (11/03/25)

Ben Shirken - Divagation w/ Pavel Milyakov & MIZU

let&amp#39;s question the nature of Love in Spring, in a spiritual and physical way. 
let&amp#39;s dive calmly into sounds alchemy and textural landscape where gods and desire collide
to make the cycle begin Anew.
I am ready for love! are you? 


Faith in Being w/ Humn (09/04/25)

H.D. Reliquary is the first eponymous release from Ben Shirken [a.k.a. Ex Wiish], and finds him returning home to 29 Speedway. The songs sparked during sessions with close collaborators - across 11 pieces, artists such as Pavel Milyakov, MIZU, Dorothy Carlos, Kevin Eichenberger and Muein breathe personality into the record. H.D.R. coaxes beauty from a serrated, raw, yet subdued palette drawn from improvised recordings of trumpet, violin, upright bass, cello, Max/MSP and modular synthesis.

The title references the hard drive as a sacred container for relics, contemplating how digitally archived fragments of one's existence can burn eternally after death. Archives, and in this case recordings, splinter and warp. Some distort what they contain. Some vanish, and others are eternally preserved, immune to deletion. Your information on these digital drives becomes archival shrapnel, the music that survives the remnants of collaboration.

Quick to note the dangers of creating music with ecologically intensive, mass marketed, and unethically trained AI software, Shirken employed bespoke, resource-light machine listening techniques for some of the compositional process. Pieces of recordings were fed into a series of proprietary neural networks, generating MIDI information and audio that reacted to on-the-fly soloing, imaginary sessions between players and algorithms invented posthumously (in post).

Shirken will release H.D. Reliquary alongside a sound installation on April 11. He has performed in spaces such as The New Museum, Pioneer Works, Public Records and Nowadays in New York City; Dripping Music And Arts Festival in New Jersey; La Station in Paris; and Cafe Oto in London. In recent years, he has also been a foundation of the elusive free jazz group Nu Jazz. Where his prior work was geared towards dissociation, H.D. Reliquary invites us to contemplate how our tools for understanding and containing the world fundamentally alter our relationship with it.

Written, recorded, & mixed by Ben Shirken
Greg's Thesis mixed by Jason Park
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu @ Schwebung Mastering
Art & Design by Brian Mark
29 Speedway 2025
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Greg's Thesis w/ Kevin Eichenberger

A synapse-popping electro-acoustic soundwalk around Western Europe's cathedrals, chapels and churches, 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒔 skews recognizable sacred soundscapes, proposing a contemporary mythology that muddles the past, present and future. Following on from his critically-acclaimed 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔 full-length, American sound artist Jake Muir familiarizes himself with German and British sonic architecture by studying some of the medieval shadows that still hang over Europe's streets, even as they continue to evolve. Manipulating environmental recordings captured in Germany and England, Muir presents an impressionistic juxtaposition of parallel cultures: the UK's distinctive "change ringing" technique, where a team of bell-ringers play long varied sequences on a set of tuned bells; and Germany's more sober style, with monotonous peals that add rhythm to daily life.

When Muir moved from Los Angeles to Berlin back in 2019, it wasn't just the German capital's damp weather and long, dark winters that came as a surprise. He was immediately struck by the city's anomalous acoustics, and one particular element stood out: the resonant church bells that echo around Berlin throughout the day to mark time, and for 10 minutes on Sundays as a call for mass. Gathering his field recording equipment, Muir acquainted himself with his new home by following the sonorous clangs, wandering from kiez to kiez to capture each church's distinct auditory flavor. And the more material he collected, the more engrossed he became in the history of bell ringing, prompting a deep dive that would shuttle him across Germany and into Italy, Belgium and the UK.

On 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒔, Muir trains his focus on Berlin, where his journey began, and on England, where he encountered the most elaborate bell ringing practice. 𝘌𝘳𝘻𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨 is a hypnotic lattice of sounds recorded all over the German capital: at Parochialkirche, a reformed church in Mitte; at evangelical church St. Matthäus, at Sophienkirche, another Mitte landmark; and at St. Mathias, a Roman Catholic church just in front of the Potsdam Gate. By fusing the liturgical chimes with snippets of local ambiance - traffic, chattering tourists and birdsong, for example -  Muir takes a blurry snapshot of the city, queering its idiosyncratic color spectrum with his various digital processes. Using reverb to replicate the acoustic properties of both the streets and the church interiors, he subtly disturbs the timeline, stretching out brief peals into long, mesmerizing drones and turning garbled voices into ghostly babble.

The environment alters considerably on 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴; Muir uses the same technique and applies it to recordings made at the 1000-year-old St. Oswald church in Oswestry, St. Bartholomew's, Edgbaston and Holy Trinity in Stratford-Upon-Avon, home to Shakespeare’s final resting place. Here, Muir methodically untangles the change-ringing process, linking back to 𝘌𝘳𝘻𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨 with a single bell tone before moving inside the church itself and documenting the ringers' shouted instructions, blending the calls with the bells' mathematical cyclic patterns. Muir memorializes what in 2025 is a dying art-form - a community skill that's disappearing worryingly quickly as young Brits lose interest in the church and its rituals. Unsettling distortions bite into the undulating sequences and underneath the noise, Muir highlights the music's latent euphoria, drawing out its most celestial tonalities.

File under: devotional music.

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recorded by Jake Muir
audio finalized by Glyn Maier
photography by Jake Muir
design template by Joe Bastardo

Campana Sonans

Erzklang [Preview Clip] (ENM-14)

Konzertreihe für Elektronische Musik im Ruhrgebiet organisiert von @roberto_beseler, @phvon und @timpauli für @gnmruhr 
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*stromspiesser XVII am 17. & 18.05.2025 Halle 6 Zeche Zollverein in Essen

*stromspiesser XVI am 15.12.2024 Stapeltor in Duisburg

*stromspiesser XV am 15.09.2024 Dubois-Arena in Essen
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*stromspiesser XIV am 26.05.2024 GeOrgel in Gelsenkirchen

*stromspiesser XIII am 28.01.2024 Museum Folkwang in Essen
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*stromspiesser XII am 30.07.2023 Tresor.West in Dortmund
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*stromspiesser XI am 30.04.2023 16 Uhr Makroscope in Mülheim
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*stromspiesser X am 13.01.2023 20 Uhr St. Maria Empfängnis in Essen
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*stromspiesser IX am 24.07.2022 15 Uhr Kunsthaus Essen im Atelier Idan Hayosh
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*stromspiesser VIII am 20.03.2022 16 Uhr Neue Musik Zentrale in Essen
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*stromspiesser VII am 05.12.2021 16 Uhr Gitter Raum in Essen
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*stromspiesser VI am 25.07.2021 15 Uhr Krupp-Park am Wasser in Essen
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