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DARKSONICTALES, DarkSonicTales - LP

Release date - August 13th 2021
Catalogue nr. - HG2104
Format - Vinyl / digital
Hallow Ground

hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
1) Info Pandemie (02:57)
2) Sonic Darkness (05:41)
3) Spring Feelings (03:51)
4) I Still Believe (09:02)
5) Kind Of Restless (07:47)
6) Gevoelige Huid (05:57)
7) Best Buddies (07:59) 
 
Credits: 
All music by Rolf Gisler
Lyrics of IStillBelieve by David Keenan
Voice of SonicDarkness taken from Music Thing Modular - Radio Music Module
Mixed by Rolf Gisler & Roger Hofmann, Mastered by Rob Viso
Original artwork „Flamme“ by Irene Bisang, Photo by Simon Villiger
Design by Ruth Stofer

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DarkSonicTales is a project by Rolf Gisler and his eponymous album is his first for Hallow Ground. Having been granted an artist residency by the label in a 300 year-old farm house in the Swiss countryside in autumn 2019, the Lucerne-based musician and sound artist explored the peculiar sonic environment of the building and its surroundings through the use of field recordings, modular synthesizers, guitar, bass, kalimbas, a singing saw as well as self-built instruments. The seven tracks, which were finalised in late 2019 and the spring of 2020, are as much a reaction to the setting that they sprung from as they reflect upon and express Gisler’s state of mind in these days of solitude. »The house, the forest around it and my isolation became the origins of the music that was created,« he explains. The result is a stylistically varied album that over the course of roughly 43 minutes does indeed tell its own stories. And while they may be sinister in tone, they are far from monochromatic. Ambient music, sombre spoken word passages, rhythmic noise and even intricate electronica or rock music interlock to form a larger narrative.

»DarkSonicTales« is an organic album in more than one sense of the word. Reacting to and reflecting the world around him as well as expressing his inner one, Gisler gives the sounds at the core of his multifaceted compositions space and lets them breathe. Working along stark contrasts and with surprising twists, he also shines a light on the atmospheric and emotional ambiguity of the world he encountered during his solitary artist residency—unearthing the hidden layers underneath what is perceivable.

DARKSONICTALES - Gevoelige Huid (HG2104)

A quantum journey is limited by imagination only

QUANTUM CYMATICS PREBIRTH : https://soundcloud.com/digital_organics/2025-04-29-quantum-cymatics?si=d0da16096f834e0faf43269377c7375b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Quantum Cymatics

Filed under black ops of the psyche — a covert mission through containment corridors where no one blinks first.

PLC: Unit 27 High Ops

Whities 007 - Quirke
Pre-Order - http://www.whiti.es/
(Released 24th June)

A1 - Cylinders
A2 - Cope
B - Sa45 Circles

Artwork by Alex McCullough
Distributed by Rush Hour

Thanks to Josh, John, Tic, Alex, Lem & Simon.

007 - Quirke: Cylinders / Cope / Sa45 Circles

bruised ∪ beaming ∪ both live

From the upcoming Album "Vegetal Negatives"
Release Date 29 March 2019
Hallowground.com
HG1901
Vinyl / Digital

”Let us unfold the animal outward: the bronchia will become a thick foliage, keeping its respiratory function, but in reverse, naturally (CO2 absorption), reversed also concerning color, from the tint of calves’ lungs to its complementary cabbage green. The digestive system will become roots, maintaining its role of drawing in nourishment from the outside environment. […] for each animal form there exists a corresponding vegetal form. The man who would find his vegetal negative and unite with it would restore the integrity of the cosmos.”

Vegetal Negatives is a game of sonic mutations, mimicry, inversions, and association inspired by a text called "On pataphotograms", by the French writer René Daumal – a quasi-metaphysical essay that toys with breaking the conceived separateness of natural forms through poetic imagination.

Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a Swedish-born artist living and working in Turku, Finland. She has been an active part of the Finnish experimental music scene for more than ten years. Now arriving at her debut LP under her own name, Ahti explores a new formal language and sonic palette that ventures far from the path of her earlier work.

The four electroacoustic compositions on the album combine and arrange field recordings, electronic feedback, Buchla and ARP synthesizers, bowl gong and harmonium, textures of detailed acoustic sound, and sustained tones with gentle microtonal beating into a precise musical narrative. She juxtaposes recordings of rooms and empty vessels, natural and artificial climates, spontaneous and staged events. Ahti draws upon Annea Lockwood's ideas about associative movements between sounds based on shared characteristics and sonic energy. Her approach to field recordings is neither diaristic, documentaristic, nor purely acousmatic, but rather it starts out from somewhere in between these notions: the sounds hover between abstraction and the deeply familiar, moving into a realm of poetic metaphor where they are set in relation to each other, fleetingly mirroring or shadow-dancing. Acoustic environments mutate into synthetically derived shadow forms.

The opening track, "Coastal Inversion”, moves from a seemingly familiar seascape into an ocean of wavelike synthetic staccato patterns, turning itself inside-out on the shore, before diving back into a sea of resonance. ”Rooftop gardens” arranges a series of largely unprocessed field recordings into a dream-logic sequence of upward movement towards the clouds. On the other side, ”Symbiogenesis” brews a slow evolution of wet, airy and earthy sounds and resonant friction. The closing track, ”Chora”, imagines a meditative space of breath: filter resonance posing as organ pipes against a backdrop of breezy industrial hoovers merges halfway with a harmonium improvisation that foregrounds the frictions of the wooden instrument itself, just before filtering out into resonant harmony.

Tracklist:
A1) Coastal Inversion (12:14)		B1) Symbiogenesis (07:22)
A2) Rooftop Gardens (05:44)		B2) Chora (10:47)

Credits:
Marja Ahti: composition, production, field recording, Buchla 200 and ARP 2600
Recorded at EMS, Stockholm, WORM, Rotterdam, and on locations in Greece, Alaska, Finland and Sweden.
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Designed by Ruth Stofer

Vegetal Negatives

BUY VINYL/DL

MARJA AHTI - Symbiogenesis (HG1901)

clocked pulse trains connected to resonant filters, and to NIM boxcar integrators, with added sine wave mixture
recorded in one direct track
c HK @ studio 1

Sound Of The Week August 5 2019

Forever is in multiplicity and mutation. Musician and visual artist Nicola Tirabasso (VISIO), together with Haunter founders Daniele Guerrini and Francesco Birsa Alessandri called for a collective effort in order to celebrate these elements of experience. In opposition to linear notions of time itself. An attempt to let perceptions of future and past bleed together, to establish every moment as an infinite process of consumption and re-generation. A compilation of 33 artists, each contributing in their own peculiar style, adding their own blends to the palette and exposing the lineage of their work. It is precisely to state that the perennial immanence of difference is what constitutes the basis for true unity, that the curators have grouped an utterly diverse cast of contributors, whose output strikes a vastity of moods and textures, and grows out of very distinct intentionalities and backgrounds. Making kin without borders, letting mutual support evolve into a chimeric infinity.

Curated by Nicola Tirabasso and Haunter Records
Mastered by Jo at Tapewave Mastering
Artwork by Katja Novitskova & Kareem Lotfy
Cat. No. HR024 – All rights reserved.
℗ & © Haunter Records 2019
www.haunterrecords.com

Pubblicato da:
Haunter Records
Data di uscita:
4 Ottobre 2019
Copyright P:
℗ Haunter Records 2019

Katatonic Silentio - Eerie

Track commissioned for the exhibition ‘Now Accepting Contactless - Design in a Global Pandemic’ V&A Dundee as part of a mix by David Blamey for British Earways to be played on a loop in the gallery.

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A couple of months before lockdown, the housing block where Tom White lives got covered in scaffolding. Residents were left in a building veiled by translucent white netting for months on end. This composition was made in this specific urban lockdown context: the fridge whirs, birds chirp on scaffold poles, electromagnetic activity & tape loops reverberate on the eardrums, within the home and out into the world.

Composed of archive and site specific sounds. 
London Spring 2020

Medina Vibrations (2020)

Opening track from the upcoming Grøn album "Aldrig mere vinter"

Pre-oder the album here: http://infinitewaves.net/products/678178-grn-aldrig-mere-vinter

Digital pre-order here: https://groen.bandcamp.com/album/aldrig-mere-vinter

Grøn "Blegt forår"

Symphonic computer music. Collaging raucous electronics, manipulated vocals, and her mother tongue of lush string arrangements to kindle organic, texture-rich digital soundscapes.

https://thesetofarsonist.bandcamp.com/

inquiries: thesetofarsonist@gmail.com

Also 1/2 of @diaphonyincarnate

1/2 of @dxgpvwz with @spednar

& 1/2 of @haveyouheardaboutthenewhiptikiscene : http://secretthirteen.org/stm-231-new-hip-tiki-scene/

DJ on @csmcsnd 's Don't Make It Weird: https://www.mixcloud.com/DontMakeItWeird/

bruised ∪ beaming ∪ both live

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