I come back to this one a lot. Thanks David 🙇

Live Sets

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/mjwilkin
Track: Healing
Label: https://soundcloud.com/musiccompanyco
Format: Digital, LP
Release date: 11/11/21
Purchase: 

'Music For Friends And Family’ is the first full-length release from Australian born artist and composer, mjwilkin.
Spanning pop, drone, electronic and ambient, the release thoughtfully, and effortlessly pushes experiential boundaries, creating an immense soundscape for the listener to delve into.
“Music For Friends And Family [is] a collage of tracks written and refined across ten years and as many cities. A time capsule pulled from laptops, harddrives, studios and field recordings to document time spent with beautiful people in beautiful places.” 
An amalgamation of collected times, feelings and places, ‘Music For Friends And Family’ is a sonic offering for contemplation and escapism heard through the auditory lens of solo explorations and collaborations with vocalists Douglas Hume, and Ruven.
“This record is for anyone with a good heart and a wandering mind, may it become a canvas for your nostalgia as it has mine.”

YouTube

PREMIERE | mjwilkin - Healing [Music Company] 2021

Palm Reader 7: David Grunzweig
“Veiled, Mirror, Absolute”

A live performance centering modular synthesis, guitar, and looping. Recorded at @chillits in Laytonville, CA, in September, 2024. 

Dedicated in memory of Yvonne Boegman 

“Like a silver bowl filled with snow, like a heron hiding in moonlight”

3-words by David

David Grunzweig: @tape-ghost

Palm Reader 7: David Grunzweig

The debut album from the Claws Community is finally here! PEGASUS showcases our best songs over the past few years and marks a new chapter. This is only the beginning... https://claws.world/discord

@limbowmusic @vanda100

PEGASUS

addicted

Limbow & vånda - addicted

Six Three
1: Six Three, 02:32
2: Six Three Touch, 03:00
3: Six Three Orbits, 03:39
4: Six Three Particles, 02:13

Dates:
05-Dec-2025 (inception), 06-Dec-2025 (finalised), 07-Dec-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/album/six-three

SHORTEN VERSION, excludes Table 1 tuning, see my BandCamp site or my social media page for full details (https://www.facebook.com/norman.freund.545/)

Description:

Marcelo Leal Ref. [1] posts an article on FaceBook group, "Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory" and tags me, I looked on with interest. A tuning scale developed using at most harmonics one through to and include sixty three, octave reduced (i.e. divided by powers of 2 to ensure the frequency ratios remained within the 1. to 2. range. 32 Notes were used in this scale with adjacent note intervals starting from 53 cent, gradually reducing to 27 cent for the last interval to the first octave. So loosely speaking a quarter tone tuning with some stretching. I have tried quarter tone equal divisions of the octave tunings (24EDO) in the past and could not really get warm with them. Still, I was intrigued. 

Thirty notes, a lot of intervals to imagine, so I thought some form of colour coding on my Ableton Push2 midi controller would help. My Digital synthesiser, PulseRectOsc has micro-tuning and a user definable colour table, so switched this on and began experimenting. Stepping back just a bit, some preparation work on a spread sheet was necessary to calculate the frequency ratios, figure out a colour system using nearest 12EDO notes as a frame work.

The colour coding was to start the root note out as RED (1), colour all the diatonic notes of the nearest 12EDO major scale notes (the white keys on a piano) in GREEN (10), colour the nearest 12EDO sharp accidentals (#) in BLUE (15) and what was left over (the ^ and \/'s) coloured in PURPLE (18). The note naming convention used here was intended as a performer guide.

The PulseRectOsc synthesiser is a drone with a pulse like wave shape, amplitude modulation, wave folder distortion, a delay+feedback net work and your choice of VST reverb (or other effect). I used the Native Instruments' Raum for reverb. PulseRecOsc has an eight track audio recorder, so I recorded some four note chords to improvise over on the Soma Lyra 8.

The Soma Lyra 8 tuning approach was to tune it by ear to eight notes from the Table 1 tuning for the first track prior to the performance, then improvise a melodic line. Subsequent tracks would use a different four note drone chord from the PulseRectOsc and the Lyra 8 would use the tuning from the previous track as a starting point but alter the tuning during the performance. Each performance would introduce additional entropy into the tuning as performed on the Lyra 8, all done live, by ear, during the performance.

Each track's duration was purposely kept short, I wanted to demonstrate the various flavours of the 63-Limit Otonality tuning and in Lyra 8 style interpret this tuning organically.

The signal chain for the Lyra 8: mono out to the Soma COSMOS (rhythmic firmware, adds reverb and stereo space) -> stereo to digital interface -> 8 track recorder of PulseRectOsc.

The tuning of the Lyra 8 is very organic, is influenced by adjacent oscillators and has a "MOD" dial to accept frequency modulations from what it calls a "Hyper LFO". The Hyper LFO comprises of two low frequency oscillators, I used them here in the OR mode not synchronised, each pulse of the LFO changes the oscillator voice frequency according to the MOD dial. You don't control it strictly, more like guiding it, you listen and decide to increase or decrease the amount of modulation. A very organic approach.

References:
[1] Marcelo Leal, 5-Dec-2025, 63-Limit Otonality by Pitch (tuning scale). FaceBook group "Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory" Link: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1asmaHiK7G/

Six Three Touch

Collection of recorded fragments from 2025

Experimental  18.10.25

@tape-ghost is a project of David Grunzweig exploring the musical possibilities of artificial field recordings, microtonality, and polyrhythm composition. With a focus primarily on technology and utilizing new methods for sound synthesis and mangling, Tape Ghost productions range from ambient to psychedelic club tracks. Tape Ghost's style is largely influenced by the work of Voices From the Lake, Wata Igarashi, Monolake/Robert Henke, Cio D'or, Lucy and Rrose. A graduate of Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, David is an audio signal processing engineer by day for a company specializing in sound spatialization and acoustic simulation.

. . . 

this is an all original live set by tape ghost, in response to...

"The intent of this set was to create a new set exploring a variety of themes and sound design concepts that have been of interest to me lately. Starting with formant synthesis in an attempt to make drones that resemble human vocals more closely, I developed a synthesizer in Reaktor that pulls from a variety of traditional formant filtering techniques and expanded it with some additional ideas. The rest of the digital elements in the set pull from granular synthesis techniques and Phase Modulation synthesis. These were chosen based on the fact that they do not have an analog equivalent and require digital systems to be achieved. The remaining equipment used was an Elektron Digitakt for drums and midi sequencing and my Eurorack modular system. Each decision was made in an attempt to create a performance and composition in which each device used functions in a way that is particularly unique to it’s capabilities. Thematically, the set focuses on a few ideas, primarily the juxtaposition between viewing our lives personally and existentially. Certain sounds illicit associations and experiences that we may have had personally or have learned about. Particularly sounds like chanting, droning, and the use of large reverberant spaces transports many to spaces of worship, spaces designed to turn our attention away from the micro of our personal lives to the cosmic. Placing this setting against the use of polyrhythmic drum arrangements was intended to allow people to detach or entrance, to feel themselves melting into their surrounding. The sound design is also influenced by a desire to explore the boundaries between the real and artificial in recorded music. No field recordings were used in this performance, but the intent was to create sounds which maintain a vague connection to our world and ask the listener to derive their own distinction between the familiar and the unknown."

. . . 

photo by Index thumb (http://www.indexthumb.com/)

"This image of a mountain, like Tape Ghost’s set, speaks to the ancestral, primal elements of our psyche — those ancient ghosts that haunt our modern-day consciousness. It suggests the power these archetypal forces still hold for us today, and reminds us to honour and respect our elemental origins. By blending analog stills with digital compositing, the photograph reflects the paradox of our organic-yet-digital existence, while also hinting at the liberation that lies within the harmony of these seemingly contradictory perspectives. Photographed somewhere on a misty mountain somewhere in Wales, while utterly lost."

Ghunghru

ghunghru 006 // tape ghost

My live set from the Noctuary SF x Asterisk Collective show on October 20th opening for Amanda Mussi. Starts with some atmospheric and minimal dub techno and moves towards blistering drone.

All original compositions, 90% unreleased.

Released Track: Incision [Perfect Location Records]
https://perfectlocation.bandcamp.com/album/recovery-and-retrograde

Live at Noctuary x Asterisk

Live at Noctuary x Asterisk 10/2018

Recording from our "Redlight Radio Shop" takeover during this years` ADE, as part of the Public Possession 5 Years Anniversary Katalog(01) Tour. 

Incl. Public Possession D.J.s & Obalski, Otologic, SK U KNO (live), Møzaika, Job Jobse & Young Marco.

01) PUBLIC POSSESSION & OBALSKI REDLIGHT RADIO SHOP INSTORE SESSION

Tape Ghost(@tape-ghost) is the techno and ambient project of San Francisco based musician David Grunzweig. He is the co-founder of the Asterisk Collective and has released music on Perfect Location Records and Ghunghru.

Tape Ghost | Fault Radio LIVE Set at Classic Cars West, Oakland (January 6, 2019)

Recorded live at Chillits 2019.

Cover Image by Indexthumb: www.indexthumb.com

Live at Chillits 2019

- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/luigidivenere
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/luigidivenere/?hl=es

Luigi Di Venere - Discoteca Podcast 47

@salvadorricardo

https://undertheapricottree.net/salvador-ricardo/

Photo: Chris Nichols

Apricot 05: Salvador Ricardo

CBR NYE 2020 

David Barbarossa & PVK x NYE (31/12/20)

Etcetera with Monibi is going ambient.
This is the Space Healing Tape: 2 hours of meditative, spiritual, and dream-like music.
Monibi is inviting you to leave this physical world and access a different realm of consciousness.
Close your eyes, listen, and let yourself wander through time and space.

playlist:
Lawrence Lek – Welcome To SoMA w/ Seth Scott / Hyperdub
Mister Water Wet Monkey 20 – Watching It Rain (Smoke Thru A Window) / Water Works
Sebastiano Carghini – Emotional Part / enmossed
NYZ – AA0009 / fluf recs
Mads Emil Nielsen – Endeavour (2020 Remaster) / arbitrary
Ulla Straus – House / Quiet Time Tapes
Mu Tate – Ultima Resonance / Experiences Ltd
D.K. – Five Wisdoms 
Tibia – Watermusic / Man Band
Music For Safe Spaces – 1/1 / Music For Safe Spaces
Disrupt – The Elevator / Jahtari
The Blessed Kitty – Metal Jacket / Experiences Ltd
Piezo – Amore Tossi / Hundebiss
Tafi & Green Door Allstars – Agbe Me Nya Wo / Optimo Music
Fadimoutou Wallet Inamoud – Ahaylalou / Sahel Sounds
Roberto Musci – Woman Of Water And Music / Music From Memory
Iku – Hey Papi / Spa recordings
Emeka Ogboh – Everydaywehustlin / A-TON
Heathered Pearls – Salvaged Copper (ft. Terrence Dixon) / Ghostly Intl
O Yuki Conjugate – Raindance / Emotional Rescue
Riccardo Schirò – Trans-garde / Gravity Graffiti
Kincaid – Pipe Up (Benedikt Frey Remix) / Inside Out Records
Yazz Ahmed – Inhale / Naim Records
Kuma – The Core / Rocafort Records
Yellow Dudes – Futuro (8mm) 
El Nina Diablo – Unchained / El Nino Diablo Music
Kahter – Heaven
Beta Librae – Shy / Incienso
Azu Tiwaline – Terremer / Livity Sound 
T++ – Voices No Bodies / Honest Jon's Records
Garrett – Awaiting The Light / Music From Memory
Dimitris Petsetakis – The End / Into The Light Records

The Space Healing Tape

A3K122 Zander Gecko - February 26th, 2021

Aka Tape Ghost
1/2 of @nightseaproject

Releases on: As You Like It, Ghunghru, Spontaneous Affinity, and Perfect Location Records

Inquiries: tapeghostmusic@gmail.com

Live at Chillits 2019

David Grunzweig

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