For some reason my shortcut through the woods was flooded. Every year the water level in this area was rising until the location became permanently waterlogged. Trees fell and the former forest became silent and inaccessible. This summer the area was drained, and it is now no longer a swamp or a forest. In the evaporating puddles the last of the remaining water creatures can be heard crunching.
Peter Olsén, Järna, Sweden.

eat the world of yesterday to make room for today - Peter  Olsén - Tiny Portraits

A Flaming Pines project:

Tiny Portraits: 

Small renderings of place in memory and sound. 

Sound and place are two terms often thrown together, but what actually connects the two? Sure places sound differently, or may shape the sounds that enter them in particular ways but in what ways is sound actually able to capture and convey place? Is place something to be captured at all? 

In Listening to Noise and Silence, Salomé Voegelin talks of soundscape compositions occupying a site 'between preservation and invention' – an attempt by the composer or field recordist to retain the essence of a site inevitability results via the processes of recording, composition and listening in the creation of somewhere new. 

Tiny Portraits asks each participant to dwell on these connections and disconnections between sound and place, representation and invention by starting somewhere small, somewhere overlooked or obscure, and to interrogate this site using sound. 

In listening to these pieces we ask you to bring only some stillness and imagination, as together we create new places, connections and silences out of these traces of forgotten and hidden sites. 

To visit the Tiny Portraits map by Arash Akbari visit: 
http://www.flamingpines.com/tiny-portraits/

Credits: 
Tiny Portraits is conceived and curated by Kate Carr and is distributed via the record label Flaming Pines. 
Website design and programming by Arash Akbari 
All pieces by listed artists. 
All artwork by Kate Carr 
Mastering by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering. 

If you would like to pitch a portrait for this project contact: flaming.pines@gmail.com

We Define Each Other:
"Very inventive great tune. An extraterrestrial corporate ringtone! I'm imagining E.T. doing a TED talk"  - Weerthof

" have a bunch of creatures moving things around in my head...from left to right and back again. they are scattering and running, like night bugs in the light. too cool....pure headphone sugar".  - Pretzels Malone

"Awesomely beautiful and relaxing! The organic/synth sounds are an amazing contribution to the atmosphere...phew, wonderful!" - Utu Lautturi

"ah, here we have some mouse on mars meets the doors ... nice nice" - valeska jakobowicz 

"Intricate. The best things happening where styles are in collision - the indie sway and industrial grittiness abrading at the lightly elastic dub-step" - 

"Naughty-sneaky, with a quirky stomp. A bit like tiptoeing in an 8 bit landscape with gluey sneakers.."
Placement

"Sounds like thinking :) Great job!"  - Sect-on

"Great drums and and sample tweaks, amazing sonic experiementals and analog inputs!"  - Pfaender

"Wonderful sense of time's contiuum, but it's hard to associate with deleuzeian theories"  - _Ginko_

"Great style you've created. I bought your album because it's so unique and interesting. Plus I like to support other bay area bands!"  - Hemorrhage

"have not heard anything like this before but like it a lot"  - Papuna

 . . .you guys are too kind . . .


Music is Vital and this website is a dream come true, so please don't spam us, ask us to "check out my track" or otherwise use this community to bastardize relations in this way.  

Homunculus Rex is:
Ryan Morgan - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Bass, MIDI Bass
Josh Sonstroem - Ableton: Drums, Glitches, Samples; Synths, Melodica, iPhone

Present & Future:

instagram.com/b3rbl_chn

Past:

UKW Kraftwerk Rostock
Das Lokal Wroclaw
MÓZG Warszawa
Luzztro Club Warszawa
FORUM Przestrzenie Krakow
Off. Radio Krakow
Das Haus Zagreb
PG Bristol 
Dachkantine Zürich
tanztag. Schwerin
Institut für Zukunft Leipzig
Geheimclub Magdeburg 
://about.blank Berlin
Tresor Berlin
Griessmühle Berlin
OYE Record Store Berlin
Berghain Kantine Berlin
Domestic Affairs Berlin
Zur Klappe Berlin
Schrippe Hawai Berlin
Maria am Ostbahnhof Berlin
Salon Zur Wilden Renate Berlin
ZMF Berlin
Suicide Circus Berlin
Ballhaus Ost Berlin
Chalet Berlin
Beatstreet Berlin
PAL Hamburg
BKI Hamburg
Rosa Greifswald 
Turbine2020 Altentreptow
KTC Freiburg
White Rabbit Freiburg
Club Prag Stuttgart
Palais München
Muffathalle München
Transit Chemnitz
Spinnerei Chemnitz
etc. pp

See you around the cosmos <3