Youth from Kirin McElwain is out now on digital and limited run cassette.

Composed over two years between Brooklyn and Stockholm, Youth is a meditation on coming to terms with our desires and shame. Negotiating elements of harsh noise with crisp passages of cello, the dichotomy of the work balances the deft hand of classical training with the mysterious and often chaotic nature of modular synthesis. By continuing to turn towards the uncomfortable, McElwain holds up a mirror to both her practice and herself in a patently honest way that showcases a work of astounding maturity and verisimilitude.

Pony

h8 /jealousy

n2 /unknown

a0 /material

20251010

Chapters:
[0:00] Part I – Prologue (Electronica / Ambient)
[12:10] Part II – Cosmic Experimental Hip Hop
[19:05] Part III – Noise / Experimental
[30:55] Part IV – Dreamlike Chillout
[41:56] Part V – Meditative Finale (Tampura / Prayer-like)

Duration: 50:45 (continuous live set)
Setup: Modular synth , Bansuri flute
Stage requirements: single power outlet, 80×60 cm table, 2 DI boxes, 1 mic input

Live improvised performance by Tonbo (Japan).
Recorded in Berlin, this 50-minute set moves through experimental ambient soundscapes, modular improvisation, and cosmic textures. Flute, modular synths, and field recordings merge into a slow, hypnotic journey — designed for immersive stages and forward-thinking festival programs.

For bookings / press:
booking@tonboq.jp

Bandcamp
ppq-rec.bandcamp.com/

Instagram
www.instagram.com/tonboq/

Tonbo - Live (Berlin 2025): Experimental / Ambient / Modular & Flute

Airborne

Kimber - Modular Techno Live-

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Falling Time (David Harrow Remix)

'no one notices the fly' is the latest release from Chicago based multi-disciplinary artist, Zander Raymond. Raymond, who has authored or appeared on around a dozen albums (give or take a couple) in the last half-decade, here continues to refine his approach to careful and active listening and music making. On this collection he’s occasionally joined by past collaborators and deep listening comrades Lia Kohl and Matt Sage. Opening with “just keep going”, a brief recording of a reaching and plaintive, out-of-tune violin whose amateurish playing nevertheless delivers a certain depth of feeling. It also possibly acts as a bit of a mission statement; that here we will be shown that we can find meaning from the barest of means. Every song on this record  is slightly cracked and seemingly concerned with detritus, each piece a careful and layered accumulation of what in other hands might be solely considered cast-off sounds. The songs could almost be the aural equivalent of the Japanese sculptor Yuji Agematsu’s daily collection of “desirable street debris”, which he constructs in exquisite, miniature arrangements inside the empty cellophane sleeves of old cigarette packages; each piece a new and unique, dazzling landscape, a whole world unto itself. Through Raymond’s improvisational approach, which employs live sampling and imaginative filtering, the most mundane sounds are refracted into a new, if fleeting, reality. The micro becomes macro, the quotidian rendered into the sublime. In these songs we might find certain doors opening, wind breezing through, steam rising, or restless feet becoming grounded. A piece will sound stable, until it’s not. Patterns are set until small insertions and intrusions interrupt, and maybe a new pattern will form. Or maybe not. One of the minor miracles of this album is that it appears, via sound, to render entropy in action. Across its fourteen tracks, we find a thoughtful, modest reminder to take notice of the aleatory nature of our lives, to maybe even “notice the fly”, as it were.

No One Notices The Fly

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zander raymond: for all we know

modular synth BGM for you who create something

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