Name: Excerpt N°13.a (Dialogues Egoistes) by Sylvia Monnier in Milkwood April 2021 Playlist
Duration: 13 min 52 s
Description: https://sylviamonnier.bandcamp.com/

extreme contemplation ✨🌌🕳️🦠👌

Milkwood April 2021 Playlist

Shelter Press is happy to announce the release of Perceptual Geography, Thomas Ankersmit’s latest record. The music was created as a loosely structured piece for live performance in 2018-2019, commissioned by CTM in Berlin and Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, and premiered there on the GRM Acousmonium. The music is inspired by - and dedicated to - the pioneering research of American composer and installation artist Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009), and created entirely on the Serge Modular analog synthesizer.

Ankersmit and Amacher first met in New York in 2000, and kept in touch over the following years. Her concerts and installations left a deep impression on him. Amacher, being close to the Tcherepnin family, also first introduced Ankersmit to the Serge synthesizer, developed by Serge Tcherepnin in the 1970s.

In the piece, Ankersmit explores different “modes” of listening: not just which sounds are heard and when, but also how and where sounds are experienced (in the room, in the body, inside the head, far away, nearby). So-called otoacoustic emissions (sounds emanating from inside the head, generated by the ears themselves) play a prominent role. When turned up loud, the material moves beyond the loudspeakers and starts to trigger additional tones inside the listener’s head; tones that are not present in the recorded music. Cupping the ears with the hands and slight movements of the head also help to bring these tones to life. Maryanne Amacher was the first artist to systematically explore the musical use of these phenomena, often referring to them as “ear tones”.

The title is a reference to Amacher’s essay “Psychoacoustic Phenomena in Musical Composition: Some Features of a Perceptual Geography”, and despite the all-electronic instrumentation, a dramatic sense of landscape and environment often emerges. There are sparks of fire, howling wind, distant thunder, a swarm of bats disappearing into the distance. Ghostly, floating tones are contrasted with highly dynamic sounds darting around the listener, and large, heavy waves rolling in slowly. “Ear tone” stimuli weave in and out of these textures, emerging from them. Once or twice, the music seems to completely freeze in time, but a slight movement of the listener’s head reveals changes.

For each live performance, Ankersmit tunes his instrument to the resonant characteristics of the performance space, so that the sounds activate the structure, traveling through the architecture and setting it in motion.

The record is accompanied by an extensive conversation between Ankersmit and Serge Tcherepnin, creator of the Serge Modular and friend and collaborator of Amacher.

This is a digital-only release (CD and download) because the “ear tone” material can’t be adequately transferred to vinyl.

Please play loud and use speakers, not headphones. 
credits
releases March 19, 2021

Music: Thomas Ankersmit
Mastering: Kassian Troyer
Design: Bartolomé Sanson
Interview editing: Michelle Arrouas

THOMAS ANKERSMIT 'Perceptual Geography' (EXCERPT) (SP130)

@felicity-mangan

Tracklist:

Dialect - Yamaha Birds 1 
Maria Karpovich & Felicity Mangan - Untitled
Hideki Umezawa & Andrew Pekler - Dokkyaku
Vlad Dobrovolski & Sugai Ken - Advanced Retrospective Shit-phonic 1
Olli Aarni - Hehkuva 
Audrey Chen & Hugo Esquinca - Untitled 
FRKTL - Excision After Love
Grand River - Canopies 
Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie - Aogaeru
Felicity Mangan - Frog field recording
Tomoko Sauvage - Flying Vessels
Lucy Railton - Part 3 (5 S-Bahn) 
Felicity Mangan - Double-headed Emu 
Felicity Mangan - Until Next Summer (featuring field recordings by Stas Sharifullin)

Guest mixes 2020

Episode 13: Felicity Mangan

Heimat is Zwheimat.

A. and O.  are back and with Baggersee, and the ride is jerky. Eponymous adventure of the shallow pool of Illkirch-Graffenstaden, pretty sure you can listen to the distant sounds of the trains flow between Kehl and Strasbourg, lost in a dystopian land between water and earth, nearby some open sky cemeteries. 

Collaboration between Teenage Menopause Records and Cry Baby, 
releases May 7, 2021. https://teenagemenopause.bandcamp.com/album/zwei

Zwei

NTOAB Jeez is - Heimat - Baggersee

Lake From The Louvers is a new solo work for concrete sounds, electronics and instruments from Australian composer-performer James Rushford, who has spent the last fifteen years honing his singular approach to composition and performance through solo works and collaborations with artists such as Oren Ambarchi, Crys Cole, Will Guthrie, Graham Lambkin and Klaus Lang.

Created primarily during a stay at the La Becque, an artist residency on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lake From The Louvers draws inspiration from the play of shadow and light on both the surface of the lake and the window through which Rushford viewed this lacustrine landscape. While the lake is itself at times directly audible in the form of field recordings, the image suggested by the record’s title is less directly represented than translated into sonic structures inspired, as Rushford explains, by ‘the passing of shadow through a fixed space’. The movement of light across these two flat surfaces, lake and window, finds its sonic equivalent in these eleven pieces, in which fragments and particles of sound – highly amplified crunches, synthesized squawks and pings, harp notes – ripple across the length of each track. Fixed sets of elements define each piece, often moulded into ephemeral ensembles in which individual voices consistently fade away and reappear.

Rushford’s performances on various keyboards provide the unstable, wavering foundations of many of these pieces, with microtonal tunings adding a woozy, seasick edge to his stately, often stunningly beautiful playing. Each side of the LP ends with an extended keyboard work: the first for groaning, sighing church organ, the second for a psychedelic cloud of detuned synthesizer tones in which harmonic fragments sink into their own melancholic recollection. Elsewhere the record makes use of elements as varied as microtonal harp, skittering drum machines and synthetic marimba, establishing a sound palette remarkable for its breadth, as well as its sparkling, glittering quality. Where many of Rushford’s solo projects have taken the form of long works with a sombre cast, Lake From The Louvers is strikingly bright and accessible, a series of sonic glimpses in which, like a late Monet, the shimmer of light undoes the distinction between image and reflection, foreground and background, surface and depth.

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu, cut at D+M. Printed artwork on inner and outer sleeves by Valle Medina and Benjamin Reynolds (Pa.LaC.E).
Design by Bartolomé Sanson. Released in collababoration with La Becque Editions.

JAMES RUSHFORD 'U+25CF' (SP131)

Lea Baldazza invite Rogue lvl pour une douce exploration dub-aquatique et planante, suivant des courants chauds downtempo et reflux de breaks jungle, dubstep, et plus encore.

More infos and tracklist at www.lyl.live

Soft Frenesia w/ Rogue lvl (20.04.21)

From forthcoming LP "Murmurations" available on Cibachrome Editions April 1st 2022 https://leabertucci.bandcamp.com/album/murmurations

A Vast Interiority - Lea B + Ben Vida

Following on from the 2016 Korea Undok Group compilation LP Penultimate Press is proud to release the follow up, Senescence. Covering material recorded in the last two and a half years, this new cd comprises 50% works previously available on private tiny run cassettes and 50% works made for an abandoned lp. Abandoned being a good word to use again here as this collection of barley-there trace element songs and decaying acoustic snapshots will leave the listener with a sensation not so dissimilar to the feeling abandonment conjures.

Please note there has been zero mastering on this release as we wanted it to sound as shit as possible.

Fixed Ending

Goddaughter - Goddaughter C38. Available Summer MMXXII
Echoes of music smeared with urban field recordings from NY's Weston Czerkies (Magnetic Coroner / Prime Ruin). Simply GORGEOUS! Limited to 80 copies with screen printed artwork.

Goddaughter - Goddaughter C38 (Excerpts)

from the "Minor Eden" CS (NNF392)
Not Not Fun / 2022

ENTER EDEN:
https://childese.bandcamp.com/album/minor-eden-2
https://midheaven.com/item/childese/minor-eden

Childese "Lito"

Embark on a sonic journey that'll take you from the nearest asteroids to the most distant known Dwarf Planets.
Best enjoyed with headphones!

Solar System Suite nº2

Frozen Queen of the Seas: Salacia

a sort of imitation of colin stetson saxophone playing, actually just another try to sequence a res-4 feedback patch going into mmf-6. sequenced from er-101 with cv going into the er-102 for volume, filter symmetry and resonance. pressure points and planar helped to get a lively feeling although it is quite a simple repetative sequence.

peroni

Finally finished my microtonal MIDI/CV retuning system so that I can play any hardware synths in La Monte Young's just intonation tuning from "The Well-Tuned Piano"

Moon Wheel — Vandetadgunalabhdhaye

From TRACED, Sonic Pieces, Pattern Series, 2017

Boundless Informant

Excerpt N°13.a (Dialogues Egoistes)

Upperground Orchestra - Kaigo
from the album "Euganea" expected October 2019.

Composed and performed by Upperground Orchestra
Piero Bittolo Bon: Alto Sax, Bass Clarinet, FLute, Electronics
Alvise Seggi: Bass, Oud
Tommaso Cappellato: Drums, Percussions
Rabih Beaini: Spatula, Electronics.

Recorded by Max Trisotto at Villa dei Vescovi, Luvignano di Torreglia in June 2016 during the residency "Musica Veneta" with the kind support of FAI, Fondo Ambiente Italiano.
Produced, Mixed and Arranged by Rabih Beaini - Mastered by Neel at Enisslab. Cover Artwork by George Sowden - Designed by M-L-XL.

doser033LP - Morphine Records 2019
All rights reserved to the respective owners.

Upperground Orchestra is the hybrid Jazz band of Rabih Beaini and his fellow musicians Tommaso Cappellato (drums), Piero Bittolo Bon (woodwinds/electronics) and Alvise Seggi (Bass / Oud). The band is returns with a new LP, years after "The Eupen Tapes". Euganea is a 5 tracks LP recorded during the Musica Veneta residency, promoted by FAI (Fondo Ambiente Italiano) in the great context of Villa dei Vescovi. Working around Veneto music, the band developed pieces that merge deep roots of original fusion (tape music, electronics and synths, processing) with the free spiritual jazz sound of Upperground Orchestra.

Upperground Orchestra - Kaigo (doser033LP preview)

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The Milkwood Project is an experimental electronic music project. Using synthesisers, tape loops, voice, and found sounds to create dramatic soundscapes and thought provoking sound pieces.

Excerpt N°13.a (Dialogues Egoistes)

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