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Cor Ardens 06 "Der Schimmel" Kostas Kefalianos released April 2021

“Der Schimmel” lays out a hermetic and gem-like study in voice, tape and electronics across two side long compositions. Poem-fragments mold and gather into a sonorous mesh. The compositions echo in organic repetition while some integral part of its inferred world refrains from emerging in full. Recorded as the artist was adjusting to a recent move to a new country, and learning a new language. Der Schimmel, exhibits the amplifying fruits of immersion; a stage precariously revealed in it's pull between the familiarity of home and the grafting of new roots.

more info Corardens.net

Kostas Kefalianos "Zuhause ist wo sie schläft während des Blumentodes"

Taken from the album 'Irreal' released as CD and Digital

Irreal

BJ Nilsen 'Short circuit of the conscious thought' (EMEGO 305)

https://sophiazhuravkova.bandcamp.com/album/land

Juniper

For the last episode of this season Broshuda welcomes his good friend Nick Klein to the show: The prolific interdisciplinary artist behind the Psychic Liberations label supplied a 30 minute piece of processed and manipulated The Magnetic Fields tracks for the second part of the show.

more on www.lyl.live

intrinsic Speculations w/ Broshuda and Nick Klein (07/07/22)

Excerpts of field recordings made 2020 - 2022 in Ireland and France

1. Funachree Coast, Co. Galway. (00:00 - 01:06)
Seals Calling, Barnacles, Water

2. Abandoned Barn, Portaferry, Co. Down (01:06 - 01:52)
Derelict Barn Moved by Wind, Amplified Tree Branches

3. Chemin du Trieux, Paimpol, Bretagne (01:52 - 02:52)
Crickets

4. Trieux River, Paimpol, Bretagne (02:52 - 03:50)
Snapping Crustaceans, Low Frequency Pulses

5. Windmill Hill, Portaferry, Co. Down (03:50 - 04:29)
Amplified Fishing Wire Stretched Vertically inside Windmill Tower

6. Trieux River, Paimpol, Bretagne (04:29 - 04:59)
Crab Eating a Periwinkle

7. Trieux River Port, Paimpol, Bretagne (04:59 - 05:34)
2 Pipes Resonating from Wind and Water


Equipment used:
DPA 4060 Microphones
Sound Devices MixPre6 Recorder
Aquarian H2A Hydrophone
JrF D Hydrophones
AKG C417 Microphones

Photograph by Louise Le Du at Funachree Coast in Co. Galway

Louise Le Du & Michael Speers Field Recording Excerpts

From the forthcoming album SG - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite (Faitiche 33)

SG - Western Affect

If you’re going through hell, just keep going. 
Dedicated to 2021-2023
Support: https://forgiveness.bandcamp.com/track/mess-x3

Mess x3

Alma G. Ferrer ‘Mim’ is a culture curator and music storyteller based in Mexico. https://soundcloud.com/mitaminelab, a contemporary sound archive and curatorial project, is one of her outstanding artistic projects. She also works with cultural and artistic projects doing art production and project management. Mim explores the articulation of networks of exchange, collaboration and hospitality through sound, contemporary music, digital archives and radio;  she’s currently exploring new forms of therapy with ancestral medicine, painting and mixed media.

“What was a crucial sound experience in your life?” 
Being a hypersensitive person has been pretty extreme sometimes, I always get mad and anxious with some sounds —like hearing another person chewing or car klaxons and traffic— so music has been always my comfort zone and shelter. Of course living in a city is kinda complex but I truly enjoy the urban sound experiences related with soundscapes of specific spaces and in general with ‘natural’ sound culture (or aural culture).

Links:
http://mitaminelab.org/
https://soundcloud.com/mitaminelab
https://www.instagram.com/mitamine_lab/

Tracklist:
Lo escucho lo pinto - Bandera negra - 2023
Sa Pa - AI-33: Atmospheric Fragments - Studio mix - 2023
Walking @ Mexico City 
Momoko Kamiya - 竹林 - 1999 
Haruomi Hosono - Himalaya - 1995
Sa Pa - AI-33: Atmospheric Fragments - Studio mix - 2023
Wind @ Centro Histórico, Mexico City 
Wind @ Tacubaya, Mexico City 
Japan Blues - Tsugaru Aya Bushi  - 2023
Apichat Pakwan - Nam Ton Tad (dub) - 2021
Hiss Sound - Kenau - 2022
PVAS - Somaesthesia - 2023
El afilador @ Mexico City
Commodo - eyewitness - 2022
Melody Beecher - Careless whisper (jura soundsystem lovers version) - 2023
Walking @ Mexico City 
Lakmé: Act I Dôme épais le jasmin (Lakmé Mallika)
Walking @ Mexico City 
Martyna Basta - Speechless Lately - 2023
Wind @ Centro Histórico, Mexico City 
Richard Pinhas - Dronz 1 - Ketter - 2017
Lagoss - Barranco del infierno - 2023
GConnection - Free Your Spirit 16 Bit Mix - 1993
Walking @ Mexico City 
Groove Corporation - A Voyage On The Marie Celeste - 1995

MNEMOSYNE #046 - MIM

Serge & Mondriaan

Artist: Frank Bretschneider
Album: abtasten_halten
Label#: faitiche21
Format: LP/DL
Release: Sept 18th 2020

Faitiche is delighted to present a new album by Frank Bretschneider. abtasten_halten was made as part of the raster.labor installation first presented at CTM Festival in 2019. It is perhaps the most radical work in Bretschneider’s distinctive oeuvre: abtasten_halten is a self-generating composition for synthesizer modules whose sole sound source is the movement of two VU meter needles. The resulting percussive sounds coalesce into rhythmic combinations – all random, without repetition. The album resembles a meditation on infinite rhythmic variation. abtasten_halten is Frank Bretschneider’s first release on Faitiche.

"One sound can give birth to thousands of tones through self-fertilization." Pierre Henry, 1982

Frank Bretschneider on abtasten_halten:
abtasten_halten (sample_hold) is a largely self-generating composition for a modular synthesizer system. Self-generating here means that as soon as a current flows, the various modules interact, but within limits set by the composer via the connections between the modules (patches): timing, tempo, timbres, dynamics. These conditions are kept variable to a certain extent or left to chance, so that the composition created is always similar but never the same. On the one hand, the use of random generators opens up possibilities that would not otherwise have been considered. On the other, it offers the fascination of the unfinished and the unique: totally unexpected musical events that you might hear only once.
abtasten_halten combines my preferences for percussive music in general and electronic music in particular. Largely avoiding repetitive structures, the piece is more like a free improvisation, quiet and diffuse, but also extremely dense, in ever-changing contrasts and transformations.
The tone generators are two modified VU meters whose needles, driven by trigger impulses, create a simple one-bar pattern by hitting against a metal spring that is connected to a piezo element (thanks to Gijs Gieskes / Gieskes.NL). The tempo is continuously varied over a period of about ten minutes by several mutually modulating LFOs, ranging from about 0.06 Hz up to the lower audio range of about 18Hz.
The percussive sounds thus obtained are then passed through low-pass filters with moderate resonance and random frequency modulation to additionally colour the sound. Further processing is then executed by an echo module whose tempo and repetitions are again determined by random parameters. Finally the audio signal is occasionally enriched with reverb to add more spaciousness to the sound.
The concept for the installation raster.labor was developed by Olaf Bender, Frank Bretschneider and David Letellier. Many thanks to raster - artistic platform.

On Frank Bretschneider:

Frank Bretschneider works as a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin, making mainly electronic work based on complex rhythmic structures and interlocking textures, whose many-layered sound is inspired by the experimental set-ups of modern physics, often supplemented by perfectly synchronized computer-generated visualizations. In 1986, he founded AG Geige, one of the most influential underground bands in East Germany. In 1996, he co-founded the label raster-noton and has since released many solo albums.

Frank Bretschneider: abtasten_halten C

NORMAN WESTBERG & JACEK MAZURKIEWICZ, First Man in the Moon - LP
Release date - March 12th 2021
Catalogue nr. - HG2101
Format - Vinyl / digital
Hallow Ground
Vinyl / digital, catalogue nr. HG2101

hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
What Is Good For The Goose (09:35)
That Was Then (08:29)
First Man In The Moon (06:45)
Falsely Accused (06:33)
Oxnard (05:47)

Credits:
Recorded at Studio Diamentowy Pies
Damian Pielka, engineering
Piotr Mazurek, engineering assistance
Jacek Mazurkiewicz, mix
Lawrence English, mastering
John Fell, photographs
Greenpointless, design

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An unlikely meeting of two like-minded spirits, »First Man in the Moon« sees the former Swans guitarist and Hallow Ground regular Norman Westberg and the prolific double bass player Jacek Mazurkiewicz collaborate for five evocative tracks. The pair finds common ground beyond the boundaries of atmospheric drone, abstract jazz and experimental music and blurs the lines between the acoustic and the electronic. 

The two first met when the composer Mazurkiewicz supported Swans with his solo project 3FoNIA on their 2014 European tour. »I really enjoyed his approach,« says Westberg about the Polish musician’s blending of the acoustic qualities of his instrument with electronically generated sounds. A decision to collaborate was made and when the US-American musician returned to Eastern Europe to support Michael Gira on his solo tour in late 2019, Mazurkiewicz reached out to him with the idea of booking some studio time before Gira’s two concerts in Warsaw. »Recording was very fun and easy,« remembers Westberg. »It was just two people enjoying hearing and reacting to what the other is doing.«

»First Man in the Moon« is not however a plain document of these improvised sessions, but also shaped by Mazurkiewicz’s approach as a composer. Once the recordings were finished, he selected and edited the recorded material, refining the peculiar dialogue between the guitarist’s meditative drones and bright chords and his own rhythmic yet subtle approach to playing the double bass, sometimes plucking the strings and occasionally using his bow to underscore Westberg’s fleeting melodies, but also using the instrument in unconventional ways to generate sound. 

A feeling of weightlessness prevails throughout the aptly-titled »First Man in the Moon.« Even at their most abstract however, these five improvisations-turned-compositions remain tangible, lively, and joyfully explorative. It is a record that you wouldn’t expect from either of these musicians, but the logical result of two idiosyncratic minds sharing not only space and time, but also their respective visions with each other.

NORMAN WESTBERG & JACEK MAZURKIEWICZ - What Is Good For The Goose (HG2101)

Factish (french / german faitiche) "(...) is a combination of facts and fetishes, and makes it obvious that the two have a common element of fabrication." Bruno Latour, 1999.

Faitiche is a label by Jan Jelinek.

Frank Bretschneider: abtasten_halten C

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