Name: Dream of the Sorcerers by Tuonela in work sleep die playlist
Duration: 7 min 7 s
Description: Art work: 'Magicians of Dreams' by Leszek Kostuj aka FrodoK

work sleep die playlist

Ain't docile Automatons Vol. 1
march 16 2023

My Microbrute knobs became awfully sticky that i wasn't able to dial a sound, so I grabbed a glove to remove all the sticky crappy knobs, I didn't had a replacement set so I looked into every possible knob available from old gear that was laying around the studio, at the end I replaced them with different knob models, some of them didn't had any marks so was impossible to know the real position, it was a knob salad... then I started twiddling them, suddenly a sound emerged, then this track was created. The track should be named sticky knobs really, but I'm not fond of sticky cheap materials on synths... sometimes interesting sounds do materialize from adversity lol

Ain't docile Automatons Vol. 1

New Knobs

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FUJI||||||||||TA, MMM, LP
Hallow Ground
Vinyl / digital, catalogue nr. HG2403
Ltd. purple vinyl / digital
Release date 18. April 2024

FUJI||||||||||TA returns to Hallow Ground with his second full-length for the Swiss label after it had released his international breakthrough album »iki« in early 2020. Active since 2006, the Japanese composer and sound artist has become prolific since the release of »iki,« releasing a slew of records while also touring the world. His new album »MMM« is Yosuke Fujita’s most complex so far. Changing the set-up of his pipe organ by switching to an electric air pump allowed him to activate new sonic and compositional potentials of the instrument, while he also expanded upon his experiments with his own voice. »MMM« is a masterpiece of conceptual and formal rigour—a testament to how multi-layered and versatile the music of FUJI||||||||||TA can be. 

Previous releases had already showcased Fujita's interest in working with the rhythmic potentials of the organ he built himself in 2009. Replacing its hand-operated air pump with an electric one allowed him to work with it more freely and simultaneously record its sounds. This marked the starting point for the opener »M-1,« for which he recorded the pipes by waving a gun microphone close to it, thus creating shifting rhythmic patterns. The piece engages in a perpetual play of repetition and difference, balancing sonic intensity with compositional dramaturgy. For »M-2,« the artist uses his voice and works with a singing technique he has developed over more than a decade: constantly exhaling and inhaling, he puts a strain on his internal organs in order to create what he calls a »third voice.« The resulting piece is built on a throbbing rhythmic foundation topped by wordless melodies.

»M-3« closes the album as a synthesis of these two pieces, but is far more than the mere sum of its parts. The subtle tonal shifts of the organ take on a more subdued role this time, and Fujita’s scat growling and singing reappears in processed form. »M-3« combines the rhythms and melodies of the previous pieces to let something entirely new emerge out of them, much like the album is based on perpetual changes and recombinatory strategies. In fact, Fujita explains, the acronymic title can be read in many ways: this album is minimalistic, but freely mixes and mingles different materials in magical and even metaphorical ways while also paying its dues to his wife and daughter—M. and M. Just like its title can mean a lot of different things, »MMM« itself is ever-evolving, traversing different moods and opening itself up to a plethora of interpretations at each of its many turns.

FUJI||||||||||TA  -  M-3

Link to my youtube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIUGP1TNufY

the being/the world (2024)
for Juliet Fraser and Ensemble Musikfabrik

extract recording:
scene 1: asleep,
scene 2: awake [from 3:00],
scene 3: mesmerized [from 6:00]

premiere recording extract from WDR, Köln on 3 March 2024

total piece duration: 1 hour

in loving memory of Amelia Cuni

commissioned by Ensemble Musikfabrik and Kunststiftung NRW
photograph: Janet Sinica

the being/the world (2024) scenes 1, 2, 3

evo-lation five is evo-natura's fifth fundraising compilation, featuring Werner Levant, 111X, Hajj, Softmatter, Ice_Eyes, MIRA新伝統, Zaumne.

Focusing on natural sounds, the project skilfully blends field recordings, drones, and electronics, with each artist sonically reflecting towards the subject.

All profits made will be donated to Eden Reforestation Projects. (www.edenprojects.org)

Artwork & Cassette Design by Ronja-Elina Kappl
Curated & Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis

evo-lation five

Cassette / Digital

Zaumne - Śnieżycowy Jar

Thirsites answers back

Art work: 'Magicians of Dreams' by Leszek Kostuj aka FrodoK

Dream of the Sorcerers

Hisayasu Satō Voyeurism Blues (Eulogy Version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVP81X8L15s&list=LL&index=3

[PBD002] Overlight Penchant - "Caricature of a Figure" Mixtape

insomnient

Fantasy for Machines and Strings

Distant Void

Calyra

SPICE - THE WEIRDING WAY

Emerging Vision

Unused Ritual email music no.2

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

*****

Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...

Dream of the Sorcerers

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