The Volume Settings Folder is the work of Italian artist M. Beckmann from a small town on the outskirts of Padua, in the country’s North-East. His musical journey began in 2004 following two parallel paths; a brief flirtation with progressive and nu-metal and a more enduring exploration into Folk Electronica and Post Rock sounds, gradually leading him to Ambient and Drone music. In 2011 he launched The Volume Settings Folder, self-releasing and also appearing on Organic Industries, EKAR Records, Oscarson, Fallen Metropolis and Whitelabrecs, with the 17th edition of Home Diaries back in 2017. The project has drawn inspiration from an eclectic palette; from Electronica giants such as Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada and Autechre to the Scandinavian nu-jazz of Arve Henriksen and Nils Petter Molvær; drone pioneers such as Rafael Anton Irisarri and the Modern Classical works of Max Richter and Nils Frahm.

The creative process remains rooted in improvisation. Tracks often begin with fragments of guitar, samples, field recordings or synths, layered live using looping techniques, hardware and pedals. Recording is immediate, committing ideas in the moment with minimal post-production. For this latest album entitled ‘Corporate Shamanism’, sessions took place throughout 2023 and 2024, using an array of instruments and tools including acoustic and electric guitar, kalimba, cassette and reel-to-reel tape, hardware including an OP-1 Field, monome norns and a carefully curated chain of pedals and effects. Recordings were captured to handheld devices before being shaped in Ableton Live with only subtle adjustments.

This provocatively titled album ‘Corporate Shamanism’ is free from a strict concept, yet the album carries with it a strong sense of place and time; an impressionistic reflection of autumn and winter by the sea, filtered through nostalgia and calmness. Polaroid photographs from these colder seasons inform the mood, with the music evoking shifting coastal light, perishing temperatures and quiet transformation.

For the artist, these pieces trace connections to landscapes tied to childhood memories and the way they shift with the changing seasons. The result is a deeply atmospheric work that invites stillness, contemplation, and a lingering sense of the familiar. The title ‘Corporate Shamanism’ hints at the pressures of modern life which is a striking contrast to the nostalgic warmth of Polaroid photographs and reel-to-reel tape. Yet in many ways, this album seeks to offer a quiet antidote to an overstimulated world.

Credits
Written and produced by M. Beckmann
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Photography by Filippo Bordigato
Artwork by M. Beckmann
Art and design by Andrew Heath

Corporate Shamanism

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wlr194 The Volume Settings Folder - Corporate Shamanism

Artist, musician and writer Richard Phoenix presents a guest mix for Endpapers. In this edition, Richard presents a sonic collage of his own works from over the last eight years, including compositions released under his own name, or under the aliases of Lilac and Huxley Boon, as well a variety of improvisations made with friends and collaborators.

Endpapers w/ Richard Phoenix: 3rd November '25

as the rope tightens i shall be free

Glass

me n pastel flip

Drone by Greg Chapman (Silver Apples, To Live And Shave In L.A.,...)
Voice by Leslie Keffer (Laundry Room Squelchers, Indian Jewelry,...)
Concept, idea & concoction by Peter W

"It becomes someone, it assumes a figure. This woody and headstrong denseness is metamorphosed into a supernatural thing, a sensuous not-sensuous thing, sensuous but non-sensuous, sensuously supersensible."

"Marx does not say sensuous and non-sensuous, or sensuous but non-sensuous, he says sensuous non-sensuous, sensuously supersensible. Transcendence, the movement of super, the step beyond."

(Jacques Derrida, 'Specters of Marx')

Dedicated to the memory of our mutual friend Tom Smith (To Live and Shave in L.A.,  Peach of Immortality, Pussy Galore,...)

A Séance Of The Table - The Phenomenological Wasteland (long)

On November 8 and 9, the ninth edition of the Seanaps Festival for experimental music and culture will take place at Westflügel Leipzig. We present the program for this year's Seanaps Micro Edition, entitled Sounding Bodies, which explores the relationships between body, space, and materiality in experimental music and sound art. In the Pre-Listening Radio Show, we listen to the works of the invited artists and welcome Leipzig-based artist Tibslc, whose DJ set will give us another musical preview of the festival.

Am 8. + 9. November findet die neunte Ausgabe des Seanaps Festivals für experimentelle Musik und Kultur im Westflügel Leipzig statt. Wir stellen das Programm der diesjährigen Seanaps Micro Edition vor, die unter dem Titel Sounding Bodies die Beziehungen zwischen Körper, Raum und Materialität in experimenteller Musik und Klangkunst untersucht. In der Pre-Listening Radio Show hören wir in die Arbeiten der eingeladenen Künstler:innen und wir haben die Leipziger Künstlerin Tibslc zu Gast, die mit einem DJ-Set einen weiteren musikalischen Vorgeschmack auf das Festival geben wird.

Website: https://seanaps.net/2025/
Tickets: https://seanaps.net/2025/tickets



Aurelie Bernadette Pertusot - Evaporations
tibslc - dungeon cats in windcastles
Yosa Peit - Call Me 
Kulku - Ode To Louis
Hye-Eun Kim - H2
Nino Dava - Mosquitos, Fireflies excerpt 
Sea San - Live @St. Gertrud - Order from Noise Festival 2023 
Gajek - Cutting Together Apart 
Mju Ensemble - Live @ Brompton Cementary 
 
tibslc DJ set 

Jiyoung Wi - Walking Tumor
Estle & Mia Moon - I'd Still Love To See You
Yosa Peit - PORTIMAO
Gajek - Exist In A Soundless Room
bela - Memorandum Loop
AGF - POEMproducer
Jonathan William Scherk - Model
Thelma Cappello - Ladder
Marianna Maruyama & Hessel Veldman - Softly, at first
ana reme - her infotech
Wellsgoodness - Covert Touch
Tendre Ael - Once
Nino Davadze - Fragile
Silvia Kastel - Mantide
Klein - only ever you

Seanaps Festival 2025 - Pre-Listening Radio Show

i dont have guitar fingers

AeterNoster

Info
Title: Be my happiness this Halloween
Track number: 01
Release title: [HL EDITION] Be my happiness this Halloween (2025)
Genre(s)/BPM: Extratone 3000+ BPM
Used scale(s): E major

YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2PA2TjmeG4
Release/download link: https://d4rkjagl.bandcamp.com/track/be-my-happiness-this-halloween-single
Netlabel: N/A (Self-release) but very similar to SAR

[HL EDITION] D4rkJäg.L - Be my happiness this Halloween (2025)

ill carve you name in my skin so you'll never retreat

Whitelabrecs was set up by Harry Towell in late 2015 as another outlet to put out experimental electronic/acoustic music. It followed Harry’s previous labels Audio Gourmet, Tessellate and Warehouse Decay and focuses on a collectable series of highly limited edition vinyl-effect CDr packaging, with the first 50 releases influenced by white label vinyl records. The label also runs a digital only series called eRecords, with each of these releases including a special PDF booklet.

https://www.whitelabrecs.com
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/

part of: 
https://soundcloud.com/ikirucollective
https://soundcloud.com/explodingheadllc

alias:
https://soundcloud.com/sobadatthis
https://soundcloud.com/flywithme1411
https://soundcloud.com/notyourtaste
https://soundcloud.com/mobhouse666
https://soundcloud.com/tsuki1411

Non-commercial, interdisciplinary and free radio platform from the east of Leipzig with the aim to promote exchange in society.

For uploads before 01.12.22 please visit our old Mixcloud Archiv: https://www.mixcloud.com/SphereRadio/

For inquiries, feedback or anything else: info@sphere-radio.net

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