Name: Vance Galloway: Souciant Mix by The Battleground
Duration: 49 min 55 s
Description: Recorded in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle, 1993-2010. Written, produced and engineered by Vance Galloway.

This one is from 1996, I believe, and was created using the Kyma sound design workstation. At about 1:13 you can hear vocal formant filters which were a favorite of mine at that time.

This one was recorded sometime around 2004 using a "freezing" looper built in Max/Msp. I have recently returned to using the Freeze idea a lot. 

This was 1993 or '94 and I recall trying to create a "Time Freeze" effect where one note is drawn out to many minutes...however at the time computers weren't powerful enough for this so Iwas using a cascading set of delays in an Eventide harmonizer.

I recall thinking a lot on Stockhausen's "Moment Form" during the time I starting recording these slow moving pieces. These works don't necessarily adhere to that aesthetic ideal, but that's what I used to justify the lack of motion in the piecs to myself at the time. I now just admit that I like slow moving Noise music.lat

Like the last piece, we hear very little distinct "motion in this work". It's included here as an example of how these ideas have endured in my mind and music. This was recorded 2010.

Sometime in the late 90s I got really into using the Kyma system and this is a prime example of my output at that time. It makes use of a whole host of processing available only on kyma at the time such as step sequencers controlling delays and grainlators and filters. The idea was to tie all of the processing into the a single control mechanism...the step sequencer. The result was more "synth" sounding than much of my output , likely due to the step sequencer.

This one is just plain unusual for me.  Using the MIDI output of my guitar, I was controlling the pitch of the playback of a set of delays.  The beats you here are a step sequencer controlling the same delays. The drone you hear fainly in the background is an ebow sustaining one note: This is actually the same sound that is creating all of the other notes and beats in the piece...it's all one drone being controlled and manipulated.  All real-time.

Another example recorded in 2010 of the concept of a TimeFreezer: Small segments of the incoming guitar notes are being captured, looped and overlapped with audio that came in just prior or just after, creating the effect of smearing' or 'freezing' the audio. Near 49:40 your hear some of the actual notes I'm playing peek out from under the drone. 

Selections from San Francisco's legendary Voltage label. Mixed by Dub ID, for Souciant.

Dub ID: Voltage Mix

Neil Wiernik (NAW) live in the studio. Toronto, March 2011.

NAW: Souciant Live Studio Mix

Recorded in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle, 1993-2010. Written, produced and engineered by Vance Galloway.


Vance Galloway: Souciant Mix

Sukitoa o Namau is a Moroccan experimental sound artist and researcher. Her background is rooted in contemporary dance, performing arts and visual arts. 

"As a child, I remember being fascinated by when traditional bands started playing during weddings, baptisms and other celebrations and by the body reactions their music triggered. The area I come from is known for Sufi brotherhoods called Issawa and they are systematically booked to perform for these events. I remember women asking people around to hold them as they were scared to go into a trance and lose control in front of everybody. Social pressure in those contexts where everybody is well dressed, behaving themselves, leaves little room for erratic and unpredictable acts.

Their friends or relatives would come, sit around them and hold firmly their hands, legs or any part of their body to control them. When the band started playing, I remember their body shivering, their eyes between two worlds. At some point, some manage to stay in control with the help of the people around and others would just abandon themselves to it.

So my first experience with sound is of how invasive it can be, how it can affect, confuse a body, tear it apart and cause uncontrollable gestures, resulting in a disheveled and sloppy mess. I often heard about this music “dakchi tay dkheli f3dami”, literally meaning “this is penetrating my bones” which is a very deep and powerful way to describe this phenomenon."*

*Read the rest of this interview on the blog La Pelle Muta.

Tracklist:
CENTUM - Anbamix
Kamran Kərimov və Yusif Əzizov (ORED Recordings) - Ritmik improvizasiya
Mukta-feen - كنيسة الديناتك - Dynatech Church
Michael Speers - ορμή
Raz Mesinai - Death Notes #1_3
Aleksei Podat - iregreteverythingihaveeverdone.online
Aleksei Podat - suicidestream.live
Kelman Duran - Aeons IIII
Elvin Brandhi - I SAID IF
Dylan Kerr - Live @ Dark Arts Festival Barge Grand Canal3
Holy Similaun - Ghawdex
A-V - Photographer (Sukitoa o Namau Remix)
Aşıq Ağamurad İsrafilov (ORED Recordings) - Şəşəngi (Gözəlləmə)
Maral - lorestan reggaeton
Sunik Kim - The Truth
Mireille Kyrou - Étude 1
levent - UHT_precious
Auditor - Choke Needle
Make'Em presents Sistema Som Suave - Quadril
Converter - Denogginizer
Maria Violenza - Il Palermitano
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-wolves-really-became-dogs-180970014/
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Guest ♥ 7 - Sukitoa O Namau - How Wolves Became Dogs

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SUKITOA O NAMAU: the animal rights movement is a civil rights movement

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⟿ links to activist orgs ⤪
https://www.are.na/agf-poemproducer/animal-rights-movements

➤ book by Charles Patterson "Eternal Treblinka"
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☊ all music & recordings by Sukitoa O Namau

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✂ edited by AGF

episode release: 30 April 2020 
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RECon: audio-collectifness feat Sukitoa O Namau [excerpt]

Recorded by Preethi Nallu in Beirut, November 2019. Mastered by Raz Mesinai. 

Image courtesy of Shahen Books. Published under a Creative Commons license: https://bit.ly/2RbATvk

Vance Galloway: Souciant Mix

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