Studie für Vögel(2022)

Tape loop ambient jam with Inner Ocean 4Trak recorder.

Drift, Inner Ocean 4Trak (Tascam-v2.1), Redux, Vocoder, Hybrid Reverb (Convolution + Prism), Color Limiter.

tape 20241116

There are three lines of text in this short tape, taken from T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets,
“I do not know much about gods, but I think that the river is a strong brown god”
“many gods and many voices”, and “the river is within us, the sea is all about us”.  The bass clarinet samples and voice on the tape are by Laura Carmichael, and were recorded at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley.


I do not know much about gods

Cindy Cox, music
John Campion, text
Laura Carmichael, bass clarinet and voice

My daughter brought a shell and bade me put my ear to it: 
—That’s the sound of the ocean, I said.
—Is the ocean inside of it, she asked?
—The shape of the shell causes the sound, I said.
—Then the ocean is the shaper of things, said Sophia. You throw a stick out into the water and it comes back looking like a fish.


Shape of the Shell_version tape only

divine coax - rabbit hole 7 (demo)

28.11.2024 | Gdańsk | Sonar Record Store | godz. 20:00
Premierowy odsłuch nagrania z serii Field Notes # 16: zôpôd
Zrealizowano przy pomocy finansowej Województwa Pomorskiego

FIELD NOTES 16 TRAILER

Tape loop ambient jam with Inner Ocean 4Trak recorder.

Drift, Inner Ocean 4Trak (Tascam-v2.1), Redux, Hybrid Reverb (Convolution, Prism), Color Limiter, Glue Compressor, Multiband Dynamics.

tape 20241118

Tape loop ambient jam with Inner Ocean 4Trak recorder.

Drift, Inner Ocean 4Trak (Tascam-v2.1), Redux, Erosion, Blackhole.

tape 20241124

Improv Jam- August 9th

Improv Jam - August 10th

My mix for The Wire Magazine 

"Samson AK traverses some of the industrial, noise and no wave sounds that influenced the make-up of Tape 1. Compiling “early 1980s and 90s weirdo cassette tape excerpts”, he includes music by Belgian experimental band Pseudo Code, Japanese one-man band Yximalloo, Brume collaborator Vrischika, and more."

Full Article

Wire Mix: Samson A.K

Likely taped off of CKUT FM in early 90s.
Same artist as "Appreciation", which means this might've also been on the same show.

Unknown Artist - "Could You Repeat That?"

Tape loop ambient jam with Inner Ocean 4Trak recorder.

Drift, Inner Ocean 4Trak (Tascam-v2.1), Redux, Hybrid Reverb, Valhalla Shimmer, Color Limiter, Multiband Dynamics.

tape 20241201

4-channel mixed down to stereo

[Program Note]
A closed surface is a finite surface without boundaries that completely encloses a portion of space. A hole must first be drilled to create a boundary on a closed surface. Moving from one space to another is impossible without perforating the closed surface, as it separates the inside from the outside.

In this piece, the closed surface was assumed to consist of glass, and the propositions above were approached considering the physical properties of glass. The word 'perforate,' which means 'to drill a hole,' includes three concepts: surface, hole, and penetration. These concepts were explored by recording the sounds of glass being tapped, broken, rubbed, or dropped into water. The process of encountering a blocked surface, piercing a hole, and entering through it is guided by the altered and transformed sounds of glass.

Jennifer Ryu - Perforate for 4-channel tape (2021)

Format: CD
Pre-order: 12th December 2024
Release date: 20th December 2024

We begin this small tour around 1995. I am not able to sleep. With no immediate prospect of ending this bad infinity, I create a tower from my pillows and fashion my blankets into a cave. Soon enough I fall asleep; the structuring of this formerly empty and directionless time had pushed me towards its conclusion.

Now 2019, I acquire a Revox reel-to-reel tape machine. I record many hours of improvisations, sending sounds from my Max MSP patch directly onto tape loops. Covering up the erase head with some cardboard, I enjoy listening to melodies gradually fade away as new layers are burned on top. The sounds I use are constantly plundered and re-plundered from past work of mine, forever composting my own musical memories. I like how the tape adds an extra layer of haze to the already distant fragments.

Now early 2024, I am in a small community in the Australian outback. I constantly refresh my browser to see the water height at Diljin Hill, to work out whether the river would flood us 12 hours later. As the flood waters rise and we get cut off from the outside, I can’t help but conceive of another sense of time, of grand time.

An eternal rhythm constructed not by humans, but by the land and the skies above it.

A slowly shifting present that doesn’t necessarily offer deprivation, but rather more of the less. A sense of what is, rather than what could be.

An eternal time that doesn’t require a neat sign-off from a conversation.

But why must I rely on the computer to see our fate? Might it not be better to just look eastward and see if clouds are gathering above the catchment?

And in any case, why must I obsess over travelling 12 hours into the future?

In early 2020, as the world goes into a restless slumber, I start to conceive of this album. As did the floodwater, a natural force precipitates a lasting present. Gradually I plow through recordings from the year before in order to find material. My original plan is to make a long, single piece of slowly developing music, that might help bridge the listener across the empty span of a night. Gradually I start to favour smaller vignettes, each separate from the universe, with no clear antecedent or consequence. You can find signs of both on this album.

Does this change of plan weaken the ability to induce sleep?
Or is that what dreaming is?
The construction of some sort of overarching sensibility, or even meaning, from our mishmash of fleeing presences in our age of being?

I write this now from yet another time and place. I am trying my best to make sense of some notes I wrote about 8 months ago, which were themselves derived from a book by a well-known contemporary Korean/German philosopher. Perhaps, dear reader, you picked up this reference throughout my little ramble?

As they tend to do, my musical tastes and interests have changed considerably since I began this album. Yet I have enjoyed returning to it when it suited my mood. While tired or lacking energy it has been a warm blanket to guide me. As I look out my window now, the sky is grey and the wind is blowing leaves off the trees. Perhaps this might have formally been a trigger to open up this project folder.

There are still traces of this album in my newer work. It sits as a dream to my more current work; a lingering warmth while the moonlight has already died.

I am gradually getting better at falling asleep as well.

What’s that rustling outside my window?
Or is it a faded memory whispering to me?

Ssshhh, time to sleep
Let the hiss guide you

Thank you to Vicky, who kindly let me use this amazing photo. And thank you to Andrea, who has been an absolute dream to work with, and who also did a particularly sensitive job of the mastering.

I hope you enjoy this album, and I hope you don’t get stuck in too many bad infinities. 

Copyright © 2024 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved


previews. Daniel Craig - Diljin Rising | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

Cloud Circuit
Live at Bug Incision, Calgary, AB
10-27-2024

Deanna Radford - words & word events deconstructed, voice
Jeremy Young - sine & square wave oscillators, tape, radio.
Em Medland-Marchen - photography
Bradley Hawkins - audio recording

Produced by New Works Calgary & Bug Incision. Very special thanks to Chris Dadge, Rebecca Bruton, Jessica Ackerley, Nia Devetzis, Ado Nkemka, Po Yeh, and High Line Brewing. 

https://cloudcircuit.ca/
https://www.newworkscalgary.com/jessica-ackerley-trio-cloud-circuit-devetzis-plays-hennies

Cloud Circuit - Live in Calgary 2024

No affiliation with the eponymous streaming service of a similar name.

I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE TRACKS I UPLOAD AND SHOULD ANYONE ASK I WILL TAKE THEM DOWN IF I INFRINGE ANY COPYRIGHT

Have been making music in multiple different genres for over a decade and a half (2009-present), have recorded 300+ Cassette Tapes and CD's, plus 150+ digital only albums

Deanna Radford plays words of mouth, language events, EMF. Jeremy Young plays magnetic tape, tube oscillators, tiny radio.

Independent record label founded by Andrea Porcu in late 2007.

Meditation, Medicine, & Strange and Psychedelic Music

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amu from Seoul, South Korea

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amu is a Seoul-based DJ/producer who deals with electronic music mainly focusing on techno and ambient genres. She relays experiences of unpleasantness and miscommunication through her productions. 
 
amu's personal experience of anxiety and fear leading to actual physical pain have led to motivating her for sharing 'senses' through music. Including the sound of pounding the body, the ambiance such as submerging into the water, and the sound of the hair-raising sense of the back, her music is embodied as a substance with physical properties, leaving a sense of lingering rather than emotional lingering.

As the co-founder/director of the Seoul's first underground house/techno channel “textures.”, amu has been curating her texture to the people in Seoul. “amu selects” series introduced notable techno tracks/artists combining with the scenery of Seoul as a video. The “amu selects” series illuminates the local techno scene through the first volume and the overseas techno through the second volume. 

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Releases

'Never a Land Without People' Compil. (2020)
'Era' EP (2019)
'Right, But'Club' Compil. (2019)
‘N.A.S.A.’ Compil. (2019)
‘Plastic People’ Compil. (2018)
'Konimeter’ Compil. (2018)
‘G.U.N.’ Compil. (2018)

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Press

Podcast: Discwoman, 'DiscUs 004'
EP Review: https://mixmag.asia/read/korean-dj-amu-drops-her-first-ep-new-releases
Interview: https://tunrmusic.com/inspirational/amu

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Music Projects

Film Music: "Rangda" (2020)
Event: "ZER01NE DAY Festival" (27.9.2019)
Event: Vans, "House of Vans: Visla Magazine 'House of House Music'" (7.9.2019)
Exhibition: "노라이브 NO LIVE", <FUTURE SONIC>, COSMO40 (31.8.2019 - 20.10.2019)
Dance Music: Salon de casse, "寶席의 娜裸: 보석의 나라", Platform-L (17.8.2019 – 18.8.2019)
Dance Music: Nahee Kim, "ImprovivorpmI in Visual Studio", Platform-L (20.1.2018 - 26.1.2018)
Exhibition: 업체eobchae, "(故)고 이 괴롬 풀 에디션", 공간 사일삼 (1.12.2017 – 15.12.2017)
 
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Gigs

2019
DEC 18 Thai Tour: Marmoset, BEAM
DEC 05 HVOB, Cakeshop
NOV 29 KA WAI & MNDC, Concrete Bar
NOV 22 txtrs. [select 03.] Umfang, Volnost
NOV 15 Mark Reeve, LIVIN'
NOV 09 Thai Tour: Asianism, Mezzanine
NOV 02 'Era' EP Release Party, Concrete Bar
AUG 30 txtrs. [select 02.] Korea Town Acid, Concrete Bar
JUN 14 txtrs. [select 01.] Shlomo, Modeci 
APR 27 Club Rotary, Contra
APR 26 Cosmos vol.18, ain
APR 05 KYLL, ain
MAR 22 Bcr_220319(Xin V, Shakti), Beton Brut
MAR 15 txtrs. presents: MALT, Contra
JAN 26 the internatiiional RAVE AGE, Contra
JAN 05 (KONA, SINQMIN), Beton Brut
 
2018
DEC 21 txtrs., Contra
DEC 15 (Keiti Aki, Yomi, Lynpung), ain
DEC 13 Seoul Community Radio txtrs. show
OCT 26 MAGIC LOOP 2nd Anniversary, Pistil
SEP 14 Panparth in Seoul, DIP
SEP 13 Untold, Beton Brut
SEP 01 BOOTCAMP 2nd Compil. Release Party, Pistil
AUG 24 Vertigo Helpline, DIP
AUG 17 False Witness, Cakeshop
JUL 27 BOOTCAMP, DIP
JUN 08 Vertigo Helpline, DIP
MAY 31 Nodaji Show Live, Contra
MAY 26 BOOTCAMP, DIP
MAY 25 No Club #32, Seendosi
MAY 05 BOOTCAMP 1st Compil. Release Party, Pistil
MAR 24 Vertigo Helpline, DIP
MAR 23 NBDKNW Pres. Bulma, Seendosi

Radically transparent, Cindy Cox’s music synthesizes old and new musical designs through linked strands of association, timbral fluctuation, and cyclic temporal processes.

emiter (Marcin Dymiter) porusza się w kręgu elektroniki, field recordingu i muzyki improwizowanej. Tworzy instalacje dźwiękowe, słuchowiska, muzykę do filmów, spektakli teatralnych, wystaw i przestrzeni publicznych. Jest autorem projektu Field Notes, map dźwiękowych i edukacyjnego cyklu muzycznego Tracklista. Prowadzi warsztaty dźwiękowe oraz działania przybliżające ideę field recordingu. Gra w projektach: niski szum, ZEMITER, oraz innych, efemerycznych formacjach.

emiter (Marcin Dymiter) moves in the field of electronic music, field recording and improvised music. He creates sound installations, radio plays, film music, theater performances, exhibitions and public spaces. He is the author of the Field Notes project, sound maps and music educational cycle Tracklist. Conducts sound workshops and an action that approximates the idea of field recording. He play in projects: niski szum, ZEMITER and other, ephemeral formations.

Tapes on MAL Recordings & Berceuse Heroique

Get in touch: samsonakmusic@gmail.com

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