When does new hope arise from the ruins of yesterday, and when does hope for the future fall apart into ruins? When does that moment come? Can we catch it, tune into it, hear it?

Adam Badí Donoval is no stranger to these stark and abandoned landscapes. Some of them were already captured on his debut album Sometimes Life Is Hard And So We Should Help Each Other (2022, The Trilogy Tapes). His approach hasn’t changed — he remains a master of sculpting frozen time, of capturing those moments when the world forgets to move forward and, with a deafening murmur, begins to gnaw at its own tail. On his second album, released by mappa, he returns to similar sonic anomalies, infused with a strong cinematic quality. His sounds erode the edges of memory and conjure situations we seem to remember, even if we’re not sure from where. A mirror where the image and the mirror wholly coincide is a seven-part series of these phantom memories.

It sounds like The Caretaker, if his ballrooms were infected by echoes drifting from Burial's late EPs. Or like The Disintegration Loops, resonating through the concrete walls and elevator shafts of socialist-era Eastern European housing blocks. Some of the raw field recordings carry the same disturbing, yet deeply vulnerable intensity of Klein’s soundscapes. Donoval is also a key figure in the community around labels like Warm Winters Ltd. — which he runs himself — as well as mappa and Mondoj.

In one track, you can hear the wail of a swampy siren, the voice of musician and singer Adela Mede. In another, there's something that resembles bells tolling across the land, strongly referencing the name of Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whom Donoval mentions in the credits.

Donoval’s sonic insights are, all at once, as light as a feather drifting on the breeze — borne by a melancholic hope — and yet as heavy as the wreck of a giant ship lost in endless darkness, like a shadowed thought quietly hibernating in the subconscious. 


Special thanks to László Krasznahorkai

Composed, recorded and mixed by Adam Badí Donoval
abdonoval.bandcamp.com

Tape loops on track 2 by Nate Scheible
Vocals on track 5 by Adela Mede

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval

Artwork by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (Funeral Symphony (VII), 1903)
Design by Basia Strzeżek
anothergraphic.org/basia-strzezek/
www.instagram.com/balbinka_s/

Words by Jakub Juhás / mappa
Thanks to Michaela Cagáňová

Released by mappa as MAP058 in 2025
license


⁠though the shadow nevertheless tried to separate them to separate two things

This track was a live performance from The Sunday Session 091 - November 2 -2025.

In the making of this track we used the following...

Samples from iPhone recordings made on location in, St Ives Cornwall UK, Bruxelles BE, Sado Island and Tokyo Japan JP. 

The recordings were twisted, pitched and stretched in Ableton using - Granulator 3 and Pitch loop 89, In addition Maze tape loop emulation and ALM Busy Circuits Motto Akemie.  

This soundtrack to an imaginary film was made live on the fly ,in 45 minutes, in the session. 

Thank you to everyone who made it 🙏 

TSS 091 - PITCH LOOP LIVE PERFORMANCE

Based on the 1990-2000s style that combined unequaled intriguing and distinctive soundschemes with melancolic colors and rare but unforgettable lyrics. 

Something wrong

Eleven feet of pure white snow

Cans of London

It´s on

Fearless

“stoned at the art museum" is an electronic exploration of the space between understanding and complete disillusionment... Inspired by the frustration of walking into a museum and confronting art that resists comprehension.
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LYRICS:
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red
blue
split
Sputtering
hum-ming
air
crackling
meaning leaks out
like broken light
staring at the nothingness

anger-
at the colors
what's in that gap…

What lives in the rift?
What lives in the rift?

a canvas shouts
in silent bursts
brushstrokes argue
I crane my neck

I want to love
but feel ashamed
the art is living
but I’m dead

wrong
wrong 
beauty

What's the matter with these pictures?

the walls are holy
the art is void
the colors breathe
but I’m way too annoyed
I touch the edge
of what I miss
I fall into
the artlessness

the only thing we know is nothing
because we live in the rift of understanding
bask in the fury of not having 
any of the answers
feel the ache in-between your spine

I walk the halls
skin buzzing wrong
the colors bleed
a broken song

I want to smash
what art won’t reveal
I want to kneel
to know that I can feel

Rift…
Stupid rift

Swallow me whole…

red burns heaven
blue chills hell
the seam between
is where we dwell
I’m drawn to fury
lines sculpted thin
the truth won’t start
until I finally step in

let irritation be my guide
let confusion split me wide

let the rift repaint my eyes
I won’t emerge the same size...

millions whisper
one word only

millions breathing
one breath only

too quiet to exist
Mmm

millions whisper
one word only...
millions breathing
one breath only...
too quiet to exist
Mmm

Melt in the glory
of not knowing

Comprehend the rift…

as it splits me

The only truth I feel
-is nothing

And the nothing
-feels like art

Feels like art

I feel like art

I might be art

We Are Art

Rift…
We live 
In the rift

We live in the rift

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stoned at the art museum (what lives in the rift?)

10000 Volts

time unwinds like a gentle dream carried on the moonlit wind...

whispered melodies bend colors which breathe soft sounds...

clouds turn inside out and light melts as you rise...

floating...

flying...

letting go.



Written and Produced by Michael Lemmer for AMOR*LEBEN*TODO
Performed by _eflethinv_

Cover Art by _spikerr_

Follow The Signal

floating ~ flying

The Music Production Academy (The MPA), is a London-based online Music Production School, that aims to teach and provide innovative, useful production techniques for people working with music and sound. Our process and techniques have been finely tuned over three decades of lived studio experience. 

Learn directly through knowledge gained from Producing, Mixing, Engineering, and Mastering sessions for artists such as, Björk, Massive Attack, Depeche Mode and U2 to name a few. We aim to show you the process you haven’t lived yet, sharing with you what it is like to be in the studio with some of the most talented bands and artists in the world.

Along the way explaining what it is like to be in the room for those moments in musical history, teaching you the techniques used to make those records.

The MPA endeavour to foster creativity through engaging and playful experiences. We combine past influences with modern concepts and possibilities, to allow a place for new ways of working and thinking while allowing original ideas to flourish.

liquid cartography
sonic wanderings

mappa.editions@gmail.com

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MAP059 Lénok - Langue of Tongue
MAP062 Kult Masek & Petr Vrba - Fumarola
MAP060 Yoichi Kamimura & Olli Aarni - Kōri no ryokō / Jäämatkailu
MAP061 Richard Hronský - Pohreb
MAP064 Areliz Ramos - B side
MAP063 Plume Gril - Unnameable Glory
MAP057 claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmo - quilted lament
MAP058 Adam Badí Donoval - a mirror where the image and the mirror wholly coincided
MAP056 fraufraulein - greater honeyguide
MAP055 - Julek ploski - Give Up Channel

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MAP053 Michaela Antalová & Adrian Myhr - Sing Nightingale
MAP051 michaela turcerová - alene et
MAP052 E/I - explicit isolation
MAP054 Lamina - Sueños acuáticos
MAP049 - Päfgens - Aspect of What
MAP050 - Henrique Vaz - De Silenti Natura
MAP048 Alley Catss - m Helux
MAP047 adaa - …img…
MAP041 Pentu - And I Saw My Devil And I Saw My Deep Blue Sea

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MAP041 Slowfoam - Worlding With Earth
MAP045 VA - Synthetic Bird Music
MAP044 Line Gate - Trap
SKUMAP002 Action Pyramid & Jack Greenhalgh - Mardle: Daily Rhythms of a Pond
046 Adela Mede - Ne L​é​pj a Vir​á​gra
043 Plume Girl - In the End We Begin
039 Forces - Chim​æ​ras
040 Rob Winstone - sifting through heaven
SKUMAP001 Lucie Vítková - Cave Acoustics
030 Symposium Musicum - Symposium Musicum

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038 Nighte - Pin down the dust
036 Kensho Nakamura - Electric Rust
037 Andrew Oda - Back To The Body
031 Baldruin - Kleine Freuden
035 CC Sorensen - Phantom Rooms
034 Alexandra Spence - a veil, the sea
033 Manja Ristić - Him, fast sleeping, soon he found In labyrinth of many a round, self​-​rolled
Grykë Pyje - The Fantastic World of Grykë Pyje
032 Atte Elias Kantonen - POP 6 SUSURRUS

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029 Grykë Pyje - Squirlich Stroll
028 Cucina Povera - Dalmarnock tapes
027 Nick Storring - Newfoundout
025 Lucia Nimcová & Sholto Dobie - DILO
026 Cheryl E. Leonard - Schism
024 Tastin Menu - Stand closer when you have something to say
023 Infant - face first in the entangled

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022 Line Gate - Apex
021 Andrew Oda - SOTTO
020 Cristián Alvear & d'incise - Bow down thine ear, I bring you glad tidings
019 Vlad Dobrovolski - Natursymphony No​.​1 — Spring Music
018 Felicity Mangan - Creepy Crawly
017 Roman Radkovič Collective - Televize
016 Olli Aarni - Mustikoita ja kissankelloja
015 Sarah Hughes - I love this city and its outlying lands
014 Sébastien Branche - Lignes de Fuite

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013 Grykë Pyje - Collision And Coalescence
VA: UŠAMI / Sound mapping camp - Gemer Gothic Route
012 IQ+1 - Conversaphone Plus

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011 Sarah Hennies - Sisters by Lenka Novosedlíková
010 Simon Whetham - Open and Closed Circles
009 MP Hopkins - Aeroplanes & Puddles

𝟚𝟘𝟙𝟟
008 Bruno Duplant, Pedro Chambel - Autofictions
007 Catriel Nievas, Sergio Merce - Pampa
006 Diatribes - Sistere
005 Line Gate - Den

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004 Sarah Hennies: Orienting Response by Cristián Alvear
003 Daniel Lercher & Vinzenz Schwab - Decrecimiento Exponencial
002 Adam Asnan - Carriers, PA
001 Jeph Jerman - 34​°​111'3"N 111​°​95'4"W

AMOR*LEBEN*TODO
Music, Mystery, and the Multiverse of Michael Lemmer

Somewhere between a mountain echo and a memory of the future, AMOR*LEBEN*TODO hums.
It’s not just a label — it’s a living signal. A constellation of songs, poems, and visions beamed from the heart of the Rockies into every corner of the cloud.

This SoundCloud page is a crossroads — a place for wanderers and one-offs, sonic sketches and stray transmissions. Here drift fragments of the greater work: folk and funk, dream and data, dub and dawnlight. Every sound is part of a larger conversation — between art and accident, code and spirit, love and the long road home.

Founded by artist-producer Michael Lemmer, AMOR*LEBEN*TODO carries a simple mission: to keep the signal alive. The music, the words, the images — all vibrate from the same pulse. A celebration of life, love, and the strange electric hum that connects it all.

Tune in, drift wide, and listen closely.
Every track is a little transmission from the in-between.

SINCERE IMPOSTER is an intimate collection of artists exploring a curious mixture of New Wave, Dance, EDM, Folk Rock, Metal, Art Pop, Electro, Dreamwave, and Experimental World Pop. Collectively, this is known as QUIRKPOP — music that pushes the creative limits of traditional pop.

Expect an unpredictable journey through sound, emotion, and humor, where genres collide and pop bends in strange new ways. Each song is conceived, composed, and performed with total sincerity, whether it’s built from voices, instruments, software, or hybrid experimentation. The focus is on the music itself: if it resonates, it resonates. No explanation required.

SINCERE IMPOSTER is curated by two musicians, both living within the same body, sharing a singular existence. They identify as Danielle & Dave. They are both psychologically and musically confused, yet extremely and unapologetically sincere.

Influences range from Weird Al and Nathan Fielder to David Lynch, Rosalia, Monatik, Atarashii Gakko!, Rammstein, T-Pain, and T-Swift. 

Danielle & Dave’s favorite inventions include the vacuum and the peach pitter. Their father is simply known as Vessel… who may be an entity or a god.


New tracks tagged #Cinematic Soundscape