The Self Elastic

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Sonmi-451

Track 2 from 'Alternate Looking Glass' out July 30th on Eternal Ocean.
Buy: https://eternalocean.bandcamp.com/album/alternate-looking-glass

Curved Space

Track 1 from 'Alternate Looking Glass,' released July 30th on Eternal Ocean. https://eternalocean.bandcamp.com/album/alternate-looking-glass

Alternate Looking Glass

Sculpturegardening

Foraging Music

Cloud Surface

Thought Painting

Pond In Moonlight

Gypsum

"From The Seams" is the lead single from Tristan Arp's debut LP, 'Sculpturegardening,' out October 22nd on UK label Wisdom Teeth, run by Facta and K-LONE. Using modular synthesis and cello, Tristan Arp embraces generative music inspired by gardening and acoustic textures inspired by sculpture.

From The Seams

Marble Net

Mexico-city based @tristanarp blurred the lines between the synthetic and the organic on his second full-length, Sculpturegardening. Released on Wisdom Teeth just last week, the Human Pitch label boss approached the album as a gardener might approach a landscape: using his array of machines and modular synths he let the music write itself. It's resulted in an album that bristles with glitches, ambient pads, downtempo drums, digital perc and micro-house details that succeeds in its mission to blend the made with the played. 

With this week's podcast, Tristan - who is also a member of Asa Tone with Melati Malay and Kaazi - aimed to show off all his sides as a producer, listener and DJ. While his album goes beyond the dance floor, here he mixes those styles with what he would play in a club. "Slippery rhythms, levitating environments and everything between these orbits," as he describes it. There are lots of edits, often many tracks are layered up at once and the whole thing plays out with many an unpredictable twist and turn. It's as adventurous and asymmetrical as you would expect from this always innovative artist.

Tracklist

Dekmantel Podcast 356 - Tristan Arp

Track 2 from 'ashbalkum remixes,' released November 17th on Human Pitch: https://8salamanda8.bandcamp.com/album/ashbalkum-remixes

Salamanda - Coconut Warrior (Tristan Arp Firefly Dub)

For the third 3024 TAPES we travel to Mexico City for an amazing hour of blending technology by the one and only Tristan Arp!  Stay tuned for his debut EP on 3024 in a few months, and please repost this link as much as you like - let the music reach the furthest corners!


3024: Please describe the mix in a single sentence ?

Tristan Arp:  120-180/90bpm freakouts, unexpected blends and slippery rhythms with some mischievous plot twists.


3024: What DJ inspires you at the moment / has inspired you throughout the years and why?

Tristan Arp:  DJ Firmeza from the Principe Discos family is one of my favorite DJs in the world. It’s always madness and ecstatic when he plays and the joy he gets from playing is infectious and life-affirming. 


3024: What are you working on / what have you got forthcoming?

Tristan Arp: Coming up this year are a couple of polyrhythmic bass EPs for 3024 in the summer and NYC’s Slink in the fall. First Japan tour coming up this summer! Meanwhile I’m challenging myself to explore and experiment all I can with my second full-length album. Also, my collaborators in Asa Tone, Melati and Kaazi, were able to come from Indonesia to Mexico City in February to work on our 2nd album. It was our first time making new tunes together in the same room since pre-pandemic, which was so rejuvenating for my collaborative spirit and spirit in general.

3024 TAPES 003 : Tristan Arp

Juanita's Mix 088 with Tristan Arp @tristanarp

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. soundbender / fire type 

Q. What's your relationship to the NY music scene?
A. New York is home! I moved to New York from Michigan when I was 18, spent ten years there and started Human Pitch with Simisea when we were young pups. I’ve lived in Mexico City where my partner’s from after learning Spanish and finding community here but New York is the place on Earth where I still feel most at home thanks in no small part to its music communities over the years: from Slink to BRB to Sustain to the Lot and putting on weird, outsider affairs at Trans Pecos, 285 Kent and Ran Teahouse where I met my besties in Asa Tone.

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. I’m feeling spicy as of late and am putting out records in that orbit, so here’s a mix that echoes this sensibility and some bits I’ve got in the proverbial crate for Sustain Tokyo 3.0

Juanita's Mix 088: Tristan Arp

End of a Line or Part of a Circle

Panspecies Rights

DJ set for Sustain Release Tokyo 3.0 recorded live from Spread in Shimokitazawa, June 22nd, 2023. Grateful to be able to share this document and special thanks to DJ Healthy & Aurora Halal :~)

Tristan Arp at Sustain Release Tokyo 3.0

Tristan Arp - Liquid

Tristan Arp - Shrink Wrap

SLINK007: Tristan Arp - The Self Elastic
Release Date: October 20, 2023

We are thrilled to welcome our dear friend Tristan Arp into the SLINK family with his latest EP, "The Self Elastic".

A shapeshifter across strains of biologic club environs and tender sculptural soundscapes, this project finds Tristan Arp testing the elasticity of his own sonic blueprint through an exploration of varicolored intensity, mischief, and evolution.

Inspired by the sci-fi writings of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Bo-Young Kim’s “An Evolutionary Myth,” the fluidity of free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman, and a fascination with alchemy, these four tracks are designed for freak-time club rapture.

What would it sound like if one could alchemize a self that is beyond the sum of all our parts. Would it make a sound? Would it have a shape? Would it have a body?

Tristan Arp - Afterimaging

@tristanarp
@slinknyc

BC: https://tristanarp.bandcamp.com/album/the-self-elastic

A shapeshifter across strains of biologic club environs and tender sculptural soundscapes, this project finds Tristan Arp testing the elasticity of his own sonic blueprint through an exploration of varicolored intensity, mischief, and evolution.

Inspired by the sci-fi writings of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Bo-Young Kim’s “An Evolutionary Myth,” the fluidity of free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman, and a fascination with alchemy, these four tracks are designed for freak-time club rapture.

What would it sound like if one could alchemize a self that is beyond the sum of all our parts. Would it make a sound? Would it have a shape? Would it have a body?

pi pi pi premiere: Tristan Arp - Polymer (SLINK)

// room 2 // 23:30-24:30 // july 6 2024 //

Much love to Steevio & Suzybee for inviting me to perform this live set and to all the dancers and beautiful people I met that weekend. Won't forget this one. °˖✧◜✧˖°

Tristan Arp Live Set @ Freerotation 2024

a pool, a portal

in regrowth

a piece of silence

beneath the world staring upwards

life after humans

time dilation

invisible cities

ways of being (feat. Mabe Fratti)

a scattered meaning

DJ set recording from Muffle Truffle at .TAG Chengdu, September 20, 2024. 
☼Special thanks to Heling☼

Tristan Arp @ .TAG Chengdu [Muffle Truffle 9.20.24]

'Cold Sweat / Fluid Being' is out now on @HumanPitch.

Purchase here:
MP3/Stream: http://smarturl.it/hp06-digital
Bandcamp: http://smarturl.it/hp06-bandcamp

'Rites of Passage' Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jCySyrOzs8

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Cold Sweat / Fluid Being

Cold Sweat

Rioux - Cold Sweat

'Cold Sweat / Fluid Being' is out now on @HumanPitch.

Purchase here:
MP3/Stream: http://smarturl.it/hp06-digital
Bandcamp: http://smarturl.it/hp06-bandcamp

Rioux on the web:
www.rioux.fm
www.facebook.com/riouxmusic
http://twitter.com/rioux__
http://instagram.com/rioux__

Fluid Being

Rioux - Fluid Being

Tristan Arp - Pipeline (Machine Woman Rework)

Buy/Stream here: http://smarturl.it/hp011r-rework

@tristanarp @machinewoman

Pipeline (Machine Woman Rework)

An hour of slippery tones, asymmetrical rhythms and Technicolor club sounds from The Lot Radio resident, Human Pitch co-founder and sound designer extraordinaire Tristan Arp as part of the Fresh Kicks series

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/fresh-kicks-124-tristan-arp

Fresh Kicks 124: Tristan Arp

Tristan Arp - Phylum (Kelman Duran Remix) @kelman-duran
Taken from Suggested Forms. Out February 14, 2020 on Human Pitch

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Tristan Arp - Phylum (Kelman Duran Remix)

The Detroit-born Mexico City-based sound designer oscillates between dance and ambient forms.

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Crack Mix 390: Tristan Arp

First single from Tristan Arp's forthcoming EP 'Oddkin,' out March 19th on @humanpitch. Pre-order here smarturl.com/hp019
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Borrowing its title from the language of writer Donna Haraway, multimedia artist Tristan Arp’s forthcoming EP, Oddkin engages with the imagined realities of non-human forms, from plants and insects to androids. Oscillating between playful and apocalyptic, ambient and polyrhythmic, Oddkin is a web of unlikely bonds hanging in the delicate balance of coexistence. Approaching each track as a different living creature or sentient form, Tristan Arp leans into animated sound design and asymmetrical rhythms for worldbuilding.

The EP’s cover art features an original painting made by Tristan Arp while finishing the record in his home in Mexico City in quarantine during 2020. Oddkin will be released on Tristan Arp’s Human Pitch label, run in collaboration with Simisea, on March 19th.
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Tristan Arp - Oddkin

Remix of "Barbajia" by Seagit Arc, available on Antimateria Sonora
https://antimateriasonora.bandcamp.com/album/seagit-arc-half-emotion-remixes-as008

Barbajia (Tristan Arp Remix)

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