zonedout - neon circuit (prod. phntmzn bR)

Can't Decide

竜の笛

@anonymouscomplicity
@n_1_l

angoisse.site (2018)

Flatline

Lensk - Stoptime (N1L Liquid Time Remix)

Michael Speers - xtr'ctn (LP)*OUT NOW*

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS005
Release Date: 13th of September 2019

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synthetic listening environments :: created with material extracted from field recordings and processed/arranged using software, alongside electronic signals from no-input feedback + test equipment.

most of the source material was generated at my place of work[as a technician]—whilst testing large amounts of audio equipment—capturing electronics’ internal behaviours + using very high levels of amplification on various small capsule microphones, connected to wireless transmitters placed in resonant vessels/spaces and materials of interest
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Northern Irish, London based musician Michael Speers composes and performs music as a temporal and worldly extension of himself and the tools at his disposition. As a percussionist by training, Michael extends his contact and interplay with resonant objects through instrumentalised amplification and feedback, employing signal processing to articulate the almost tangible constitution of sonic material as structural, nearly cellular, microscopic entities. Following his integral presence in C.A.N.V.A.S. performance events since their inception and his recent participation in the Cipher compilation, xtr’ctn is released in September 2019 as a debut solo LP for both the artist and the label.

Dehumanised black metal screams, attributed to seagulls - specifically “recorded in Ramsgate, 06.2017”. It’s the inhuman that concerns us here, or our complex relationship with non-human entities and abstractions. Extracting is a process. By integrating recorded and found sound phenomena, treated as profane and material entities, Michael meticulously arranges sound objects into composition, upholding a fidelity to their emergent properties. Most of these objects become seemingly un-referential, although occasionally you arrive at a near-recognisable sound source or environment, disrupting the invitation towards a total loss of a sense of self.

This is fictional music - it is of and for a world that doesn’t exist. Although presenting sound with sincerity and integrity, without allusion to linear narrative, Michael's materialistic approach is transcended by the sensitivity of his composition. In a sense, it comes after both feeling and expression, as the subdued emotion of a person attempting to reach beyond their own affective limitations. It reaches out without ever really touching anything. Yet for all it’s clinical reduction, there are moments of unhindered emotion which strike harder for their arrival from such a seemingly nonhuman place.

“xtr’ctn” fails in reaching a point of immanent abstraction - a flatline horizon. It arrives instead at the outer brim of a sensory dam, where organic glitches from the extremities of our perception have spread - like sonic cataracts - intercepting the flow of our auditory awareness. In its state of fiction, “xtr’ctn” acts as a flag for the C.A.N.V.A.S. community, pitched as a marker of our enacted existence, weathered though unliving. To follow this signal to its depth is to accept the unknown - you only follow, knowing no alternative.

Mastering by Ali Najafi
Artwork and product design by AALTAR

@michaelspeers

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

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Michael Speers - tombeau

Red Program

Taken from https://soundcloud.com/forces-music's new album 'Epoch', out March 22, 2020 via https://soundcloud.com/ginandplatonic

Following Forces’ breakthrough string of acclaimed albums coming out on the key label triad of Bio Future Lab., Conditional & Genot Centre in 2018, we are now more than pleased to extend the output of the Finnish musician and multidisciplinary artist Joonas Siren with his next full-length 'Epoch':

"This is the epoch of uncertainties; of shifting and unreliable narratives, of rising temperatures and sea levels, of growing economic inequality, of increasing political polarization and far-right influence.

’Epoch’ is a testament of these disintegrating processes. It is also a narrative of my own struggles. The album was made during 2019, when I felt that my mental health was unraveling; panic attacks, anxiety and somatic pains left me almost paralyzed before I got some professional help.

My personal troubles can be seen as an indicator of the general political, ecological and social problems. There are many new studies, how the looming possibility of climate catastrophe is causing anxiety and mental health issues.

Besides the disastrous effects on climate change, late capitalism is also causing problems on a societal level. The job and social security is poor, especially for younger generations, which in turn generates even more distress, alienation and mental instability.

How to remain hopeful in this situation? Rather than reverting to abandoned nihilism, I believe in the force of grassroots activism. Not everybody has to be like Greta Thunberg, but her actions can be seen as an illustrious example, how you can actual make a difference.

The album maps out all these topical ideas sonically. Collapsing sound material, unsteady temporal structures, noise and distortion build up intensities without catharsis. The tracks are made with different live programming techniques, peculiar time-stretching and layering techniques and other VST and FX’s dysfunctions.

Within the mournful aural chaos, there is a potentiality for change."

- Forces aka Joonas Siren

Produced by Forces
https://soundcloud.com/forces-music

Mastered by Wim Dehaen
https://soundcloud.com/wimdehaen

Artwork by Jiri Macku
jirimacku.tumblr.com

♻️

Epoch

Forces - Agency To Act (G&P012)

@johnobject is a producer and graphic designer based in Kyiv. His two previous works ‘Pre-Heat’ and ‘Heat,’ were released by Bio Future Laboratory. John is pushing his unique take on contemporary electronic music, full of radical experiments with the formula. With a live-set for Tight is 2 takeover, he featured part of his new music from upcoming release as well as music from ‘Heat’ and ‘Pre-Heat’ EPs.

20ft Radio 11.04.20

Tight Is 2 Takeover w/ John Object @20ft Radio 11.04.20

Part of the Threads*Reverie TAKEOVER

Premiere of A/V album

Listen to Threads -> www.threadsradio.com

Visio (Threads*Reverie) - 31-Jul-20

@user-valeda

Artwork by Swaya and @remote_access

Purchase: smile666.bandcamp.com/album/i-looked…but-saw-myself

Released by:
s.M.i.L.e.
Release date:
1 May 2020

Swaya & Valeda - Undecision

bandcamp

Suspiria (gil edit)

Connecting local communities across the world and empowering people to express themselves through music, discussion and art.