from the album "Uto'Pians vol.2"
#pianoday2021

Midori Hirano Keep Shining

"Endless Pit" is the fifth track of Amek's "Vanishing Standards III" compilation. 

Featuring vocals from my main project @niandraz .
Visualizer: https://youtu.be/QUM7u7ANGaE

Vanishing Standards III:
"The third installment of our bi-annual Vanishing Standards compilation series closes the year of our fifteenth anniversary. As usual, we wanted to have as many members of our extended family aboard as possible, as well as welcome new ones into it. Of course, they are in the company of Amek regulars, whom, whenever we could, we tried to inspire to work in new collaborations and configurations. The result is not only the shortest volume in the series but also the first one dominated by atmospheric, yet noisy, tracks that are punctuated with some unexpected heavy hitters."

credits
released December 18, 2023

Mastered by Marius Costache
Artwork by Nikola Kostov

This is amek070.
https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/album/vanishing-standards-iii

погледни / отрази / черни дни / пропадни .

Vanishing Standards III

Endless Pit (ft. Niandraz)

Neither Horns Nor Blowers

Pipistrelle bats using the farmhouse as a nursery.  Positioned a microphone the other side of the wall to record their chattering and scrabbling.  

Recorded September 2014 with 2 x DPA4060s to SD744T.
Extract from several nights of recording.

Pipistrelle Bats in the loft

Pedicel

This precious recordings of authentic Chinese classical music on the great Lyrichord label, including the cheng zither, the hsia flute and sheng mouth pipe organ, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2024/02/china-taiwan-professor-liang-tsai-ping.html

Professor Liang Tsai-Ping and His Group – China's Instrumental Heritage – Lyrichord - LLST 792

China's Instrumental Heritage –  Lyrichord / Professor Liang Tsai-Ping and His Group

Format: CASSETTE
Pre-order: 16th February 2024
Release date: 23th February 2024

"Though the river's current never fails, the water passing, moment by moment, is never the same. Where the current pools, bubbles form on the surface, bursting and disappearing as others rise to replace them, none lasting long." - Kamo no Chōmei (1155 - 1216), Hōjōki 

"Casual Now" is a suite of fragments inspired by landscapes with water—places of peace and tranquility that remind people of the way the world behaves.

Copyright © 2024 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

previews. Yosuke Kakegawa - Casual Now | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

An improvised field recording set on aquatic life and death in the age of the Anthropocene. It combines underwater recordings of singing glaciers, pulsating aquatic plants and water insects with spatial resonances from hydropower dams and reservoirs.

Live on the river Bille, Floating Transmission, Hamburg 2023
Festival curated by Julia Nordholz
Photo by Antje Sauer

Troubled Waters (Field Recording Live Set @ Floating Transmissions 2023)

enclosures, for chamber ensemble and electronics, explores a combination of reverberant spaces via custom reverbs that echo, mimic and allude to different sections of Bachelard’s Poetics of Space. 

The tape brings together a collection of convolution reverbs containing impulse responses I have collected from my home, environment, and most intimately, from my body. The piece is made up of three movements with live electronics that act as scaffolding for the ensemble to inhabit. The score unfolds in loose time, asking performers to activate each of these three environments using their own directory of flexible, composed materials. The three main movements are separated by two miniature acoustic “doorway” movements that act as portals, moving the ensemble between intimate and expansive spaces, from corners to cavities. Tracing the path from nests and corners to intimate immensity, I combine reverbs to transport and transpose the ensemble through a number of spaces, from that of my chest cavity, to that of hybrid in/outdoor environments, grasping at both real and imaginary spaces.

Burial’s 2013 track “Come Down to Us” ends with an audio sample from a speech Lana Wachowski gave when she received the Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award. When receiving the award, Wachowski speaks to her experience coming out as transgender through the metaphor of space and access. The sample ends with Wachowski stating, “this world that we imagine in this room might be used to gain access to other rooms, other worlds, previously unimaginable.” This piece is about inhabiting a space between, the queer middle, eliding the imaginable and unimaginable, possible and impossible.

Guiding quotes from Bachelard are listed under each movement.

i house and universe
[ i follow the line of the moldings Which follow that of the ceilings ]
[but there are angles from which one cannot escape]
[when the peaks of our sky come together my house will have a roof.]

ii intimate immensity
“Immensity in the intimate domain is intensity, an intensity of being, the intensity of a being evolving in a vast perspective of intimate immensity of the world, which they transform into intensity of our intimate being.”
“Grandeur progresses in the world in proportion to the deepening of intimacy”

iii: the dialectics of outside and inside
[...Silently the birds
Fly through us. O, I, who long to grow,
I look outside myself, and the tree inside me grows.]

Written for, premiered and recorded by lovemusic collective
Recorded and mixed by David Bird

enclosures - for lovemusic

I'm embarking on a new project series that will focus on long-form generative eurorack pieces. I was delighted to discover the ability to use the Generations generative midi controller that was created by Innesti (innesti.bandcamp.com/merch/generations-handmade-midi-controller) with the 1010 Bitbox Micro, and so this combination created the foundation for the piece. I very much consider this to be a companion piece to my recently released 'Generational Drift-A Seasonal Reflection in Four Movements' on Handstiched* (handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/generational-drift-the-celestial-sphere), as some of the elements are shared, as well as the use of Generations, however, this feels quite a bit warmer...thus Spring.

Basic patch notes~

Generations triggering four midi clips in Bitbox, as well as modulating various parameters (pan, filter cut off). Other samples in Bitbox triggered by random gates from Marbles, witch is slowly clocked by PNW. White noise triggering ProbMel/ProbDiv in O_c Hemispheres, which is delicately playing Rings, which then goes thru Draad and Monsoon. Øchd is creating an offset drone from Ensemble Osc and Plaits + Three Sisters, all while sending modulation to various param's throughout..

Recorded 4/21/24...Eurorack > Bluebox > Ableton, and then a basic mastering chain..

D/L for free~https://darrenharper.bandcamp.com/album/generative-01-spring

I hope you'll enjoy, and hopefully I'll be able to continue with these bits for the foreseeable future :)

free download

Generative.01~Spring

... coins 
... foil 
... metal pan 
... cellophane 
... bubblewrap 
... noise

A collection of found sound objects originally explored in an hands-on creative workshop exploring sound, object and mark making. This workshop was a collaboration between sound artist Emma Margetson, The Barber Collective and The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Learning and Engagement Team. The recorded found sound objects from this workshop were repurposed for this eight-channel composition, Abstracted Objects.

Abstracted Objects [Binaural Version] [Excerpt]

Wildlife sound recordist/farmer.

Website at www.thesoundfarmer.com

Pipistrelle Bats in the loft

The Sound Farmer

Related tracks