Pol Small: Tapan
Gabriel Valtchev: Tapan
Camille Emaille: Gongs, métaux
février 2021

OTTO

TR193 - Alya Al-Sultani & Mariam Rezaei - 'SISTER' [excerpt]

L'ampleur du souffle (2020)

To breathe, is to activate a certain space. Short breaths, deep breaths, dying breaths or sensual ones - they evoke variety of features and peculiarities that the breath embodies. Breath is also a precondition of voice, and further, of a spoken word. Paving the path for every physiological and philosophical activity, breath is essential to all we do and all that we are. 
Auditory situations in this piece are fluidly changing from one to another in a constant fluctuation and transfiguration of the musical material. Acoustic spaces inside of which the music is being situated, give room for the sounds to appear, to change and disappear, develop and transform, and inside of these spaces, the ear can swift freely from one sound object to another in a spatial and non-linear listening experience.

Commissioned for the Tingles & Clicks project by the Musikprotokoll 2020 and supported by the program "Creative Europe" of the European Union and SHAPE platform.

The work was presented in ambisonics, binaural and stereo formats. It was composed for an interactive environment, and the sections (structure, duration) were open. This is one of its renderings (structure and format-wise), made for the presentation at Radio Belgrade in 2020.

Presented at Musikprotokoll, Graz, at Radio Belgrade 3, CYNETART festival and Ö1 radio (Zeit-Ton radio show).

L'ampleur du souffle

Mads Emil Nielsen: Black Box 3
3: Climbing Plants

arbitrary14, release date: 09 December 2022
https://arbitraryproject.com/Black-Box-3

The third in the Black Box series of releases by Mads Emil Nielsen. The release, which showcases a more sample- and grid-based side of the Danish musician/composer’s work, is part of a sequence of publications with music and audio originally made for theatre, radio soundtracks and more.

Black Box 3 is based on sound pieces produced for Sprækker (Cracks), a dance performance & installation in Denmark, 2021.

LP / CD / DL

1: Installation – 2
2: Untitled (Wind)
3: Climbing Plants
4: Installation – 1
5: Untitled (Branches)
6: Vibrations

https://madsemilnielsen.dk

LP / CD

Mads Emil Nielsen: Climbing Plants (arbitrary14)

Biologists Rok Šturm & Juan López (National Institute of Biology Slovenia) on the vibrational communication of insects, recorded with lasers in the Old Botanical Garden in Zurich, Switzerland.

The project "Sonic Topologies" unfold the sounds of diverse sites in Zurich—a botanical garden, a swimming pool, a water reservoir and a lake shore. In a festival during June 2022, artists, scientists and architects developed site-specific concerts, talks and workshops that reveal hidden, overlooked and speculative sounds in the urban landscape. http://www.sonictopologies.com

Vibroscape Of The Old Botanical Garden

VA. I: As a first radical letter - the inauguration of the Isabelline sound featuring four artists channeling elements of techno, dub and ambient minimalism. Limited to 120 copies on wax, finishing touches made at the mighty Dubplates & Mastering with collage artwork by Paul van Trigt. 

Berlin-based UK native and label head Practitioner has been active for nearly 2 decades under numerous aliases - releasing field recordings, musique concrete and ethnic percussive sounds; with his electronic productions floating ambiguously between dubtechno, UKG and Romanian minimal. With prior releases on Well Street, Lissoms and more, “Factor Basis” nods towards a love of analog broken techno and exquisite sound design. 

“Deviate” is the latest impeccable emission by Igor Dyachenko, whose symmetrical frequencies are precisely built on years of sound design with MaxMSP and modular equipment. Superlative “Ambient” doesn’t do justice to the textured layers of this broadcast built on unique source manipulation. 

Katsunori Sawa once again sidesteps all trends with his track “Royal Flush” - bringing down a post-club rising dirge with a savage low end tone. Based in Kyoto, Japan, where he runs 10 Label with Yuji Kondo, Sawa has been a key contributor to abstract techno, rhythmic noise and offkilter dub under a variety of pseudonyms and collaborations (Bokeh, EOC, Steven Porter). 

Cologne-based Senking has been producing lean subarctic dub, IDM & techno since 1995 with 10 releases on legendary label Raster-Noton amongst other projects. On his track “Painkiller” Jens harks back to the early 2000s spare bassweight sound which captured a generation.

Igor Dyachenko - Deviate (clip)

thorn

New album out May 12th _Limited edition  CD  + Digital on the great @3op3op3op
Stream & Order at :
https://nebulo.bandcamp.com/album/mmxxii

ENG
nebulo is a French electronic musician based in Dordogne. He's released on labels such as Hymen, Orange Milk, Conditional, Le Cabanon (immense Parallaxes !)... and 3OP, for an essential LP with Horla, Pace Serpente (3OP008), as Othello Aubern.

The process here is experimental, the result immediate. MMXXII transcends the hyper-consumable towards a true piece of art. Indeed, the whole sonic palette derives from vocal sample sound-banks. One-shots recordings are altered, recontextualized, sublimized to the point of forgetting their origin. Raw materials with astonishing plasticity, conducive to countless melodic, micro-tonal, autotuned, rhythmic and timbral experiments.

One might dread some prevailing gimmicky concept within the music : it's quite the opposite. I've listened to this record dozens of times, from nebulo's early snippets he shared on Instagram to document his process to the masters : the marvelous, luxuriant, nuanced and overall breathtaking tunes instantly and repeatedly won me over. A total success.

Rather than dissecting each track (I could do that eh), let’s focus on MMXXII's 2 singles. zt is an unstoppable euphoric and visceral banger. sfumato, while being a formidable ear-worm, gives me goosebumps each and every time I listen to it. The rest of the LP is equally as decisive and adventurous.

MMXXII is a fabulous - pop - record.

FR
nebulo est Thomas Pujols, musicien électronique français vivant en Dordogne. Ses disques sont sortis sur Hymen, Orange Milk, Conditional, Le Cabanon (immense Parallaxes !)… et chez 3OP le temps d’un LP essentiel avec Horla, Pace Serpente (3OP008), en tant qu’Othello Aubern.

La démarche ici est expérimentale, le résultat immédiat. MMXXII transcende l’hyper-consommable vers une oeuvre d’art à part entière. Ainsi, l’intégralité de la palette sonore provient de banques de samples vocaux. Des one-shots altérés, re-contextualisés, sublimés au point de très vite en oublier l’origine. De la matière première étonnamment plastique, propice à toutes les expérimentations mélodiques, micro-tonales, autotunées, rythmiques et timbrales.

On pourrait redouter le gimmick, la prévalence du concept sur la musique : il n’en est rien. J’ai écouté le disque des dizaines de fois, depuis les premiers teasers sur Instagram pendant lesquels nebulo partageait l’avancé de ses recherches jusqu’aux masters : je me suis simplement fait emporter par des morceaux incroyables, riches, nuancés, beaux au possible. La réussite est totale.

Au lieu de disséquer chaque morceau (je pourrais le faire eh), focus sur les 2 singles de MMXXII. zt est un imparable banger euphorique et visceral. sfumato, en plus d’être un redoutable vers d’oreille, me fout la chair de poule à chaque écoute. Le reste de l’album est tout aussi décisif et aventureux.

MMXXII est un fabuleux disque, pop. 
crédits
paraît le 12 mai 2023

Written and produced by Thomas Pujols
Mastered by Nil Hartman
Artwork by Thomas Pujols

MMXXII

Zt_ [MMXXII : new album out May 12 th on 3OP]

"A Beaded Gesture" captures Sandy Ewen and Jason Nazary in a bewildering live set recorded at Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. Ewen’s prepared guitar and Nazary’s drums and percussion share a deeply stimulating dynamic. Ewen has recorded with such diverse folks as Tamio Shiraishi, Roscoe Mitchell, and id m theft able, while Nazary has worked with Travis Laplante, Chris Williams, Notice Recordings alumnus Leo Chang, and the late great Jaimie Branch, among others.

Having admired both their relentless collaborative energies over the past few years, it is with great joy that we present this tightly woven, roiling, playful, and cathartic album from two vital players in New York City’s free improv scene.

NTR077 - Sandy Ewen - Jason Nazary - A Beaded Gesture - [Made Way For Ice]

Fil - Automate IV (2023)

Total Destruction Ambient Section

Heroes Falling

Recording vibroscapes in Slovenia’s meadows and around
Most of what you can hear here are substrate-borne vibrations travelling through plants. Every different sound is a unique insect species communicating this way. Vibrations recorded with laser doppler vibrometers.
Biotremologist, National Institute of Biology (Slovenia)

Vibroscape Of The Old Botanical Garden

Tremoneta

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