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https://soundcloud.com/vaagner

https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/surging-waves

memento mori [Vaknar]

Robe rehearsal 181017

Created for Azimuth 6, here as a stereo version of the original 32-channel version.

'Based on the introduction of Jean-Paul Resweber's book "The Philosophy of Language", the piece explores the ambiguity between the voice that conveys a message and the voice whose acoustic and musical qualities are heard. It seems that when our attention is focused on the musical aspect of the voice, we forget the message it carries, and vice versa. The back and forth between these different levels of listening leaves the listener free to give it its own meaning, if there is one. And this is precisely the question asked by the original text. '

https://www.azimuthfoundation.net

La philosophie du langage

The spike organ or nail chello (sic) is thought to originate from an early middle Europe monastic sect, the Iscariotians. They may have used the instrument to accompany their lengthy rituals contemplating the pain of the crucifixion.  

The Iscariotians are said to have been wiped out by returning crusaders at the behest of emperor Leopold III. Other commentators have suggested that the whole story may have been a constructed  alibi for the defeated crusaders plunder and desecration of the brewery of ..Santa Quaffa...


A possible surviving 'chello' object, made from of lignum vitae and iron, resides in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. Its interpretation is not without controversy with some critics asserting the object is nothing more than a kind of agricultural implement, though this does not explain its cruciform shape and carved decoration.

In 1972 the scholar . Roland de Févin was granted permission to investigate the Rouen Chello, explore its sound making capabilities and make recordings. his theory was that the instrument was to be played by a rosined bow.  Unfortunately de Févin's playing and handling resulted in two of the nails fracturing and so the investigation was terminated after only one day. The single recording de Févin made was never released but it was played to audiences on an European lecture tour he conducted shortly before his death in 1974. 

It has been subsequently alleged that de Févin's  investigation  coincided with the great fire at  Nantes cathedral. This lead to several occultist conspiracy theories, most notably retold in the pulp fiction novel Blood Nail-(Brownie Dane,1975) much of the plot was lifted for the Italian soft core film Sistero Orgasma (1977) where the action was switched away from a monastery to a scantily clad convent.(citation needed) 

On the film soundtrack, the sounds of the Chello were replicated by experimental electronic synthesiser the achoirorium- itself the  subject of intrigue- as its extremely high operating voltages caused the death of its creator  Luigi soon after the recording session.


This recording was made in 1980 by UK avant geographer Forster Iberix who attended several of de Févin's lectures.  He set about building a replica device and making reconstructions of the Iscariotarian mass based on a column of scribbled numbers  which appear reverso  in one of Leonardo da Vinci's codex's (Coded notebooks). The recording was released on an untitled flexi disk issued by cult French label sordide sentimental -who now deny any knowledge of its existence. It does not appear on their official discography.  Improbably- Haringey local studies library, London, has a copy in their archive. The library does not provide any method of playback for the flexidisc and items from the archive cannot be withdrawn -so some subterfuge was involved in me getting this track taped. Whilst the disk was in my possession an inexplicable number of minor disasters befell me -so I can assure you I hurriedly returned it.

disquiet0385
More on this 385th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Audubonus Instrumentum / The Assignment: Imagine a fake instrument, and make music with it — at:
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The Nail Chello (disquiet0385)

Vormaks II

I've Never Been Able To Wedge My Smiles And My Panic Attacks

World has slowed down. 
Hidden beneath a skin of fear.

All Silver was created during the first days of the Corona shutdown.
Made with passion and modular synths.

Sound and artwork by Thomas Breuer

All Silver

all silver

eccs

Huggle 523 [olops]

Sheep Police [Jack]

second excerpt from Ludovic Medery | Les pierres sèches cd on Unfathomless.

In its regular version, this release is limited to 180 hand numbered copies and packaged in clear vinyl sleeve with folded insert and additional art card on 350gr satin paper. 

There is a special edition strictly ltd to 20 numbered copies coming with a different packaging (see website/Bandcamp page for details).

Les pierres sèches

U65 | Ludovic Medery | Les pierres sèches_excerpt2

Optionica - Biomechanics [Illusions In The Bathyscaphe Nearfield Remix]

Splinters as a composition has a dream like quality, dark and enigmatic. Electronic noise colours the drone and bubbling soundscapes of a somewhere. Repeating musical phrases mix with recognisable sounds from life - a spoken utterance, a rumbling train. As a listener you drift with the current through misty scenes, on a journey down a river towards some marshland on the edge of an urban sprawl.

Made in response to an invitation from TACO! - an artist space in Thamesmead in South East London - Splinters documents Kate Carr’s relationship with that space, and the area of London it is located in. Over an 18 month period Kate kept a growing sonic diary of her journeys to the space from her home, her construction of work in the gallery, her wanderings around the green spaces and urban architecture, the coming and goings of visitors and the artistic material from other artists and musicians working at the space. This work is a sonic portrait of a time and a place, and the actions and events within it.


Splinters includes audio samples from concerts and exhibitions held at TACO! Featuring material from live sets by Liz Helman, Tom White, Rebecca Lennon, Pouya Ehsaei, Jonathan Higgins and Hannah Dargavel-Leafe, and audio material from the exhibitions Scratch! by George Barber, and Heavy View by Laura Yuile.

Mat Jenner, director, TACO!
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Mastered by Simon Scott at SPS Mastering.
Design by Louise Mason.
A huge thanks to Liz Helman, Tom White, Rebecca Lennon, Pouya Ehsaei, Jonathan Higgins and Hannah Dargavel-Leafe for permission to use short excerpts of audio material from their wonderful live sets, and to George Barber and Laura Yuile for access to audio from their installations. 
Also massive thanks to Mat Jenner for inviting me to TACO in the first place!

Detritus Clouds from Splinters out Sept 3

from https://oberlin.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-a-corridor

Live In A Corridor

Market Song (album-dl see info)

Unfathomless is a thematic series focusing on phonographies reflecting the spirit of a specific place crowded with memories, its aura & resonances...


Published so far :
U71 juan josé calarco - poleas
U70 philippe neau - étang donné
U69 Masayuki Imanishi - insects are
U68 Clinton Watkins - Raaswater
U67 simon whetham - dry
U66 philip sulidae - Vandemonian Verplaatsing
U65 Ludovic Medery - Les pierres sèches
U64 nicola di croce - 47AD
U63 Thibault Jehanne - Farol
U62 Vanessa Rossetto - self-care
U61 grisha shakhnes - being there
U60 Leo Okagawa - something veiled
U59 Banks Bailey - Mountains and Waters
U58 René Aquarius - Woodland Sigil
U57 Jared Sagar - Tombland
U56 brb>voicecoil - reclaim
U55 A.F. Jones - Bourdon du Kinzie
U54 Bruno Duplant & David Vélez - our seasons reverse
U53 - Jérémie Mathes - In[Core]Wat[t]
U52 - Frédéric Nogray - Ondureñas
U51 - Mathieu Ruhlmann & Joda Clément - Sound Diary of Quiet Pedestrians
U50 - Jeph Jerman - Imbrication
U49 - Yiorgis Sakellariou - in Aulis
U48 - Philip Sulidae - Ramshead
U47 - Banks Bailey - The Pool
U46 - Haptic - ten years under the earth
U45 - Ludovic Medery - eMERgences
U44 - Fergus Kelly - Local Knowledge
U43 - João Castro Pinto - Suntria - imaginal sonotopes
U42 - Jared Sagar - Holme
U41 - Sala - scare me not
U40 - Rihards Bražinskis & Raitis Upens - Aldaris
U39 - Stéphane Marin - Invisible(s) Archipelago(s) 1 – Serendib rhythms
U38 - Five Elements Music - lokrum patterns
U37 - Kassel Jaeger - Onden  隱佃
U36 - Andrea Borghi - Fuochi Rituali di San Giuseppe
U35 - Vanessa Rossetto - The way you make me feel
U34 - Flavien Gillié - Nonante-neuf fragments harenois
U33 - David Vélez & Bruno Duplant - Moyens Fantômes
U32 - artificial memory trace - hypnotikon (australOpus 2)
U31 - Jérémie Mathes - Fallow Memory
U30 - Osvaldo Coluccino - Parallelo
U29 - Michael Trommer - night swimmer
U28 - Nicolas Perret & Silvia Ploner - Nýey
U27 - Jay-Dea Lopez - The Australian Gothic
U26 - Claudio Parodi - Prima del terzo
U25 - Manrico Montero - Sisal
U24 - Yiorgis Sakellariou - Klaipeda
U23 - Frédéric Nogray - Merua
U22 - Loren Chasse - Characters at the Water Margin
U21 - darius ciuta - ld2i(3)
U20 - artificial memory trace - garig gunak barlu
(australOpus 1)
U19 - philip sulidae - History of Violence
U18 - Tarab - strata
U17 - David Vélez /Simon Whetham - Yoi
U16 - Kassel Jaeger - Rituel de la Mort du Soleil
U15 - Jérémie Mathes - Efequén
U14 - Yann Novak - Paradise & Winchester
U13 - Bruno Duplant - Quelques usines fantômes 
U12 - Chris Whitehead - Ravenscar (not yet released, but imminent !)
U11 - Five Elements Music - Rishikesh
U10 - David Velez - Sonido Descompuesto
U09 - Joda Clément - The Narrows
U08 - James McDougall & Hiroki Sasajima - Injya
U07 - simon whetham - Mall Muzak
U06 - Juan José Calarco - aguatierra
U05 - revenant - zeltini
U04 - Kassel Jaeger - lignes d'erre & randons
U03 - Nicholas Szczepanik & Juan José Calarco - Lack Affix
U02 - Luigi Turra & Christopher McFall - Tactile.surface
U01 - mathieu ruhlmann - tsukubai

U65 | Ludovic Medery | Les pierres sèches_excerpt2

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