An exploration of music released through -OUS alongside other favourites from Swiss labels and musicians, curated and mixed by Ink!, and originally recorded for the platform www.deedeespicks.com to accompany an interview with Feldermelder and Ink!. @ink_ous @feldermelder

Read the interview here: https://www.deedeespicks.com/chats/-ous-manuel-oberholzer-and-nik-schaerer


Ink! - Swarms of Silence
mixed for Dee Dee's Picks in October 2022

01: SPIME.IM - Exaland VII - -OUS
02: Feldermelder - Wendy's Hollow Path - -OUS
03: Noémi Büchi - Le Souvenir d'une Ignorance Essentielle - self released
04: Jan Nemeček - Foreverness (Piano) - -OUS
05: Jan Nemeček - Saw (Beats) - -OUS
06: Colliding Fields - (circles of) perpetual becoming - Unvague
07: Furtherset - Coda - -OUS
08: Simon Grab & Francesco Giudici - I Leave - -OUS
09: Martina Lussi - Notre Dame Paris (15 April 2019) - ClubCulture
10: Fresco/Sommer - Glas- und Porzellanabteilung (Rundgang) - Gais
11: Sara Oswald & Feldermelder - Fishes In Histogram Waterfalls - -OUS
12: Levent - Pnotion - Daralan
13: Simon Grab - The New Kind - -OUS
14: Yao Bobby & Simon Grab - Tchaka Tchaka - LavaLava
15: Lumpex - Turm - Czarnagora
16: Bit-Tuner - Averof - -OUS
17: Sara Oswald & Feldermelder - Left Eye Distortions - -OUS
18: Svetlana Maraš - VI - self released
19: Yatoni - No Light Factory - Strecke
20: Gray Chalk - Senobi - Unvague
21: Colliding Fields - view from nowhere - Unvague
22: Feldermelder & Julian Sartorius - Friedhof - -OUS
23: Janiv Oron - Yellow Green - Light of Other Days
24: IOKOI - Effective Tension - -OUS
25: Noémi Büchi - Elemental Fear - -OUS
26: Tapiwa Svosve - Sleepwalker - Czarnagora
27: Feldermelder - Forever - FM Rework (Cat Power - Good Woman) - self released

Ink! - Swarms Of Silence (mixed For Dee Dee's Picks)



«A collection of pieces about the discovery of sounds and sonic universes hidden in objects, places and within yourself.» - Feldermelder & Julian Sartorius

Commissioned by the legendary concert venue Bad Bonn in Düdingen, Switzerland, and the KRAN project, ‘Bonn Route’ is a collaborative album by electronic musician Feldermelder and percussionist Julian Sartorius. A location- based sound walk that can be experienced both on-site in the village of Düdingen, and as a full-length album. The eleven tracks are a sonic homage to, and an artistic interpretation of, a small village in Switzerland’s heartland.

Building on his practice of site-specific performances and percussive sound walks, Julian Sartorius captured sounds and patterns at eleven locations: the train station and cemetery, on the banks of a stream, on a bicycle path, and in an intimate cavern above the village’s lake, amongst other locales. Sartorius documented the soundscape of the village in field recordings, recorded samples of objects and captured percussive patterns by playing on the architecture and vegetation found on-site.
Feldermelder then processed these recordings into eleven compositions, preserving the locations’ acoustic identities, but expanding on Sartorius’ material. Besides the bassline on ‘Veloweg’, Feldermelder used only sound reactive synthesis and resonators to create additional sounds, layers and tracks, thus multiplying the spectrum and rhythms of the original material. ‘Bonn Route’ is a musical journey rooted in the emittance of sound, and our resonation with the world around us.

Feldermelder is a Swiss musician, sound designer, producer and installation artist. He is co-founder of -OUS and part of the audiovisual collective Encor.studio. He has previously released several releases on -OUS, both solo and in collaboration with Sara Oswald.

Drummer, artist and percussionist Julian Sartorius’ precise and multi-layered rhythmical patterns are keen excursions into the hidden tones of found objects and prepared instruments, bridging the gap between organic timbres and the vocabulary of (experimental) electronic music. He has previously released his album «Locked Grooves» on -OUS.
credits
released June 17, 2022

Credits
Field recordings, samples & patterns: Julian Sartorius
Arrangement, resonators & production: Manuel Oberholzer
Mix, master and design: vfbm Fribourg


Bonn Route - Grotte

«A collection of pieces about the discovery of sounds and sonic universes hidden in objects, places and within yourself.» - Feldermelder & Julian Sartorius

Commissioned by the legendary concert venue Bad Bonn in Düdingen, Switzerland, and the KRAN project, ‘Bonn Route’ is a collaborative album by electronic musician Feldermelder and percussionist Julian Sartorius. A location- based sound walk that can be experienced both on-site in the village of Düdingen, and as a full-length album. The eleven tracks are a sonic homage to, and an artistic interpretation of, a small village in Switzerland’s heartland.

Building on his practice of site-specific performances and percussive sound walks, Julian Sartorius captured sounds and patterns at eleven locations: the train station and cemetery, on the banks of a stream, on a bicycle path, and in an intimate cavern above the village’s lake, amongst other locales. Sartorius documented the soundscape of the village in field recordings, recorded samples of objects and captured percussive patterns by playing on the architecture and vegetation found on-site.
Feldermelder then processed these recordings into eleven compositions, preserving the locations’ acoustic identities, but expanding on Sartorius’ material. Besides the bassline on ‘Veloweg’, Feldermelder used only sound reactive synthesis and resonators to create additional sounds, layers and tracks, thus multiplying the spectrum and rhythms of the original material. ‘Bonn Route’ is a musical journey rooted in the emittance of sound, and our resonation with the world around us.

Feldermelder is a Swiss musician, sound designer, producer and installation artist. He is co-founder of -OUS and part of the audiovisual collective Encor.studio. He has previously released several releases on -OUS, both solo and in collaboration with Sara Oswald.

Drummer, artist and percussionist Julian Sartorius’ precise and multi-layered rhythmical patterns are keen excursions into the hidden tones of found objects and prepared instruments, bridging the gap between organic timbres and the vocabulary of (experimental) electronic music. He has previously released his album «Locked Grooves» on -OUS.
credits
released June 17, 2022

Credits
Field recordings, samples & patterns: Julian Sartorius
Arrangement, resonators & production: Manuel Oberholzer
Mix, master and design: vfbm Fribourg

Bonn Route - Friedhof

Bonn Route  - Bahnhof

Bonn Route -  Velobrücke

Bonn Route  - Hohla

𝘍𝘞𝘋 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤. 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥, 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴, 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳, 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴. 𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘺𝘭, 𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘴 + 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭. 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 🖤 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴.
 To date, -OUS has released music by @noemibuchi (Zurich, CH) @SPIMEIM (Turin, IT), @Feldermelder (Fribourg, CH), @jsartorius (Bern, CH), @Bit-Tuner (Zurich, CH), @Furtherset (Bologna, IT), @jan-nemecek (Belgrade, SR), NHK yx Koyxen (Berlin/Osaka, JP), @senkingmusic (Cologne, DE), Hirsch&Eigner (Cologne, DE /Vienna, AT), @IOKOI (Zurich/Milano, IT), @simongrab (Zurich, CH) and @Tresque (Geneva, CH).

-OUS was founded in 2015 by @ink_ous, @mprfctmprmnntncmplt, Feldermelder and JJ. The label is run out of Switzerland. All releases are distributed through Kudos and are als available via http://ousooo.bandcamp.com

Distributed by Kudos: https://ous.kudosrecords.co.uk/

http://www.ous.ooo

Feldermelder (Manuel Oberholzer) is a polymathic creative whose artistry spans composition, sound design, installation and code. He is also one of the co-founders of -OUS Records and a member of Encor.studio, a collective of artists and designers who specialize in creating immersive audio-visual installations.
Through his work, he explores the idea of secrecy and its impact on our lives, using music and sound to create a thought-provoking and immersive experience for his audience. Feldermelder collaborates with a group of like-minded artists, including Noémi Büchi, Julian Sartorius, Sara Oswald, Davide Tomat and Afrorack, to create works that are deeply introspective and evocative.

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