Experimental Soundscapes

"Special Measures" is the first album of experimental electronica by Cathode, released in 2004 on Expanding Records.

this just in (c90 mix)

A binaural recording of three tracks from my first 4DSOUND performance - Woven Ancestry, Meadows and Gravity Well.

Woven Ancestry is from the Human LP out now, available from iTunes at www.smarturl.it/MCHuman and on vinyl and CD from bit.ly/FIELDSshop. 

The experience will only work if you listen with headphones, and in a quiet location. Closing your eyes helps. Relax and let yourself naturally build a mental picture of your surroundings based only on what you hear.

ABOUT 4D SOUND

The 4D Sound System was designed and developed in Amsterdam by Paul Oomen, Salvador Breed, Luc Van Weelden and Poul Holleman. It comprises 16 columns with omnidirectional speakers at several heights in each column, and the columns spaced around the room in a 12 x 12 x 4m array.

They have designed Max for Live devices which provide a range of spatial controls within Ableton Live, as well as an accompanying visual 3D model of the space and sounds within it. This allows for a spatial composition/production process, whereby each piece of music is designed as a physical entity to exist within the space, as something that can be walked around inside and explored by the listeners.

The system is called "4D Sound" because it produces sound in all 3 spatial dimensions, as well as being able to move sounds through the space in time - the 4th dimension.

More mixes and info:  www.maxcooper.net
Photo by Henri Blommers

HEADPHONES ONLY: Woven Ancestry, Meadows and Gravity Well from Amsterdam 4DSOUND show

Taken from "Human" out now >

Digital: iTunes www.smarturl.it/MCHuman / Beatport http://btprt.dj/TC7WHJ
Vinyl / CD bit.ly/FIELDSshop

This was a fun track to make. I wanted to try and make something purely noisy and intense, but always delivering a feeling that 100 times more power was still fighting to get out, like the potency of human nature. After deciding on a basic chord structure, it was just a matter of layering and layering, which gave an interesting interference result, you can hear the different waves interacting to give beating patterns.

The layers were made from some Operators in Ableton with Guitar Rigs and Saturators, plus a Moog Minitaur with a fast LFO with high resonance, plus Andy Ramsay’s overdriven guitar amps and speakers re-recorded, plus Phil Kieran’s tape saturation/distortion - it’s basically a right mess! You can even hear some of the leftovers on Phil’s tape at the end, with him speeding it up and slowing it down. Interestingly, that Moog on there was the only analogue synthesiser used in the whole album, the rest was all sourced digitally, albeit with some subtle analogue compression and analogue mixing desk throughs at the end.


Some album press:

"Incredibly intense" - Pitchfork

"Insanely good" - The FADER

"Impossibly gorgeous" - FACT

"Burns with an incredible creative intensity ... sumptuous, enticingly beautiful" - Clash

"Wants you to dance and cry simultaneously, and will probably succeed in doing so" - DUMMY

"Ace" - theQuietus

"A religious experience .. a master at blending blissed-out, lightweight textures with moments of heavy darkness" - Earmilk

"Recalls Philip Glass, Aphex Twin's most serene moments and even Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3" - Resident Advisor

"A quiet elegance that's unique to the genre" 
- XLR8R

"Some of the more ambitious and exploratory music crafted within the last few years" 
- The Music Ninja

"One of today's most innovative electronic musicians" - DJZ

Potency (clip) from HUMAN LP out now

In-keeping with the trend of slowing things down by 800%, this is Digital Love, achieved by using Paul Stretch...
http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/

Daft Punk - Digital Love -800% PaulStretch

One More Time, by Daft Punk, slowed by 800% using Paul Stretch...
http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/

Daft Punk - One More Time -800%

My liveset from the second Sonic Arts Waterford Festival, Waterford City, Ireland. I didn't get much practise in beforehand but am happy with my performance, so here it is in not all its glory: the room ambience, the crowd being very generous with their encouragement, and my walkabout with an amplifier at the end of the drone are missing - you had to be there.

I was lucky to have some amazingly reactive, abstract visuals produced live to my music by VJ Juladi who had a video installation at the festival. Cheers Elke!

http://sonicartswaterford.com/
http://vimeo.com/juladi

Live At Sonic Arts Waterford 27 - 09 - 14

Read the full interview here:
 http://lostinsound.org/biolumigen-interview/

@biolumigen



Biolumigen (LostinSound.org Exclusive Mini-Mix)

Washed Clean

Legiac_Keplerian Orbit from "the FAex has DEcimated

buy this track here :

https://tympanikaudio.bandcamp.com/album/the-faex-has-decimated


Legiac_Keplerian Orbit

blue skin

I turned left out of my flat, sun in my eye hands in pockets striding down the road kicking crisp packets and cans, dodging filth and skipping over cracks in the slabs. The late spring breeze carried the fresh damp scent of recent city rainfall, the zing of ozone tinted rust with exhaust fumes; gusts tussled through my hair and funnelled their way on up the street behind me rustling garbage and the deep green of rhododendron bushes yet to flower bright pink and deep purple. Turning left, hitting my stride I barrelled down the high street, dodging humans weaving in and out of shops, ambulating workers, chattering mothers, unpredictable excursions of children. The eccentric pauses of the old. Busses heaved free of inertia in clouds of noise whilst beggars crouched silent in vacant spaces bright eyes counting footsteps, their numbers flourishing over time. Moving downtown, passing the sleaze of sex workers distributing companionship and relief sunlight broke out across the sky. I exited long shadows cast by multi-storey commercial properties and entered the square, the fountain spilling crystal waters, momentary rainbows cascading across the dirty concrete. 
Moscow native Art Crime creates beautiful, propulsive emotionally reflective club music. Two E.P.s have currently met the world, ‘Never Look Back’ liberated via Willie Burns’ W.T. Records in the early part of last year, and the second, ‘Obsession’ has just found freedom through London’s Phonica Records. A third E.P. is paused for imminent deliverance via the mighty Créme Organisation. Mr Crime’s mix for us today pretty much satiates the full spectrum of sonic desire, from introspective effervescent house to sleazy minimal and onwards via surging dub techno to the outer regions of electronic deviation. Full spectrum dance music to permeate your auditory preceptors.

More info: http://digital-tsunami.org

Digital Tsunami 076 - Art Crime

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RefraQ - Semantics

Today I’m honored to present you with Roel Funcken‘s "The Voynich Manuscript Mix", which was published on Headphone Commute in four individual parts, and is now available here as a single continuous 4:32 hour mix!!!

On this amazing journey, Funcken masterfully weaves in his favorite ambient and modern classical pieces with the tracks from The Voynich Manuscript album, an upcoming release on Dronarivm as Legiac. This is a fantastic trip through music, layered with not only skillful selection, but Funcken’s expert touch of mixology, blended with a few effects to smooth out your ride. I could honestly go on and on about it, but, as with most cases for these things, the music speaks louder.

Full tracklisting here: http://hcdi.gs/VoynichMix
Enjoy!

Roel Funcken - The Voynich Manuscript Mix

Jagged relief of a busy heart

Watching paint dry, waiting for the kettle to boil. Slowly, ever so, my "Like Clockwork Springs" treated to a near stop. Please let it unfurl.

Experimental Soundscapes

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