zoned out

Stochastic synthesis is a microsound synthesis technique invented by Iannis Xenakis that uses stochastic processes to create and vary waveforms. I composed all the sounds in this piece using my own extensions to Xenakis's stochastic synthesis algorithms that I have been developing for the last 20 years in the programming languages SuperCollider and C. No samples were used.

It Is Happening Again for computer-generated sound

INITIATION

Apprendere dal fango, d'après Volodine 

Acousmatic, stereo version

Apprendere dal fango

Machine | slow tempo ambient

https://radiopunctum.cz/shows/phonon-swarming

phonon~ swarming (@phononcrew) #14 by Sholto Dobie (@sholtodobie)

Tracklist:
clara de asis & ryoko akama - without territory (erstwhile)
lucy railton - standing cadence (modern love)
sydney spann - possession (recital)
christina vantzou - reclining figures (kranky)
banana - afterwards (infant tree)
tetuzi akiyama - trajectory (besom presse)
marja ahti - in all this, there is a melody that you can sing and to which you may dance (black truffle)
phill niblock - nudaf (xi records)
vanessa rosetto - exotic exit (kye)
luciano maggiore & michael speers - necesse est numquam revelare stercorem tuum II (krim kram)

phonon~ swarming 01/24 by Sholto Dobie

The intricate sonic activity behind 'Live at default' testifies to Francesco Corvi's recent post-acousmatic practice. Intense multi-layered textures and rich synthetic soundscapes are fused with micro-sounds. Highly detailed digital noise is made warm and enchanting by the live performance and ambience recordings, and reaches its best character on magnetic tape.

"In my practice software is not conceived as an instrument, neither as a virtual agent, but rather as a dynamic network of interconnected components that exhibit emergent properties by monitoring their own behavior, adapt to changes and alter their own structure. Immersed in this ecosystem of sonic processes, I shape the unfolding of the performance by modifying the software on stage and responding to its behavior. This peculiar form of improvisation possesses a unique performative idiom that cannot be reduced to bodily gestures or human intentions, as the sonic activity itself becomes the medium for conveying the liveness of the performance. This release focuses on how such a feeling of liveness might be translated into a record, placing particular attention on the capturing of the acoustic space of the concert hall and the additional layer of meaning it creates."

Francesco Corvi (aka nesso) is a performer, composer, and multimedia artist. He works with custom digital technologies including live coding environments, adaptive systems, and spatial audio engines,
creating shows at the intersection of computer music, new media art, and deconstructed club. He released music on Superpang, Kaer'Uiks, Genot Centre, HEEL.ZONE, Mossa records, Riforma.

released December 15, 2023

Music composed and performed by Francesco Corvi, live recorded 16.03.2023 at default #3 in Den Haag
Mastered by Francesco Corvi
Artwork by Ran
Cover silkprinted at Papier Gâchette, Strasbourg

Live at default

Live at default (excerpt)

Dans ce premier EP, Vaness Sadness s'empare de la soif de revanche écrite par Helen Zahavi en 1991 dans son roman éponyme. Pensé comme une pièce musicale décrivant un reprise de pouvoir sur la violence patriarcale, cet EP cherche à explorer des alternatives à la honte et au dégout. En transposant le récit de Zahavi à l'aune de sa propre histoire, Vaness vous plonge dans sa route vers la résurrection, où se mêlent tristesse, joie et revanche. 

Dans la ville sombre, ou les pleurs ont trop brisé la nuit, les chiennes sortent de l'ombre.

Enfin

The deeper I am investigating field recording as both artistic and listening practice, the more I become aware that each recording session is an intrusion into the landscape and that the landscape, whatever historical, biotic, or environmental system defines it – is sentient to my presence.

No matter how considerate my “intrusions” are, an abstract form of communication always takes place, and it largely depends on my ability to maintain this connection, which goes beyond the soundscape and sonic properties of the place. In this sense, my capacity to employ deep intuition and activate a specific neural architecture developed through a compound of skills also defines the recording process and its future aesthetic transformation. Thus, making a field recording fully personalized practice and soundscape composition a discipline of open interpretation, as well as a vast field for misuse and false representation. Regardless of an evaluation system, whether we contemplate an act of listening through scientific observation of one’s cognition event boundaries or through the capacity to comprehend the existential phenomenology of Zulu spiritualism, the possibility that two or more listeners can have the same listening experience is minuscule.

We are all deeply rooted in a diversity of psychological constructs; neural and sensory imprints, memory compounds, cognitive abilities, and many body-mind pathways determining our current psycho-physical state. Therefore, if the field recording practice is based on any form of active listening – it is a discipline based on interpretation.
With that in mind, I am asking: How do we approach the landscape of severe devastation and a dense history of warfare? Knowing that serious ethical and moral consequences are involved in the effort to interpret a particular soundscape.

In the work “ghosts” I am using obsolete instruments – a modular synthesizer built in 1970, a discarded wheelchair wheel salvaged from the Adriatic Sea, and the piano fallen in disuse which belonged to the Austrian conceptualist, filmmaker, improviser, photographer, environmentalist, and writer – Karl Katzinger aka John Tylo (October 1953 – April 2021). Next to these elements of the past and their voices rediscovered, I am incorporating hydrophone and field recordings from several locations appropriating them through the discourse of critical tourism and a culture of memory – more specifically through listening to the inherent memories of environmental devastation due to exploitation of natural resources as well as warfare – in the South Adriatic (Old town Dubrovnik and island of Vrnik), and the Czech-Austrian borderlands nearby of Mauthausen–Gusen concentration camps. 

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Instruments:
EMS Synthi 100
Wheelchair wheel salvaged from the sea
John Tylo’s old piano

Field recordings:
Dubrovnik – Stradun air conditioning units and collection of rubbish containers
Vrnik Island South Adriatic – crickets in an ancient limestone quarry
Adriatic dolphins *hydrophone recording by Robertina Šebjanič
Harrachstal village on Czech-Austrian borderlands – crickets in the abandoned granite quarry
Hydrophone recordings of the river Schwarze Aist
Train coming into Freistadt train station in Austria

All sounds performed, recorded, composed & edited by Manja Ristić
Some sounds gathered at the SHAPE + musikprotocoll residency, July 2023

Hydrophone used for an underwater recordings made by Jez riley French
jezrileyfrench.co.uk

Mastering by La Plant Studio
laplantstudio.com

Bandcamp

ghosts

You Should Be Here

TAKE ME OVER - Love Rollercoaster Christine
Denamur
Tracklist
Eydís Evensen - Bylur
Christine Denamur [Samples]
Cat soup - folded shadow
inc. - Angel
DIDA - Don't Touch Crickets
Dido - My Lover s Gone
Rogergoon & Camille Keller - Red of Joy
Cherry Glazerr - Addicted To Your Love
TRYCE - Raingel (feat. Sadness)
Madonna - Justify My Love Official
Christine Denamur - Elles sont belles (feat. M-O-R-S-E)
Kelela - Enough for Love
Sade - Smooth Operator

[TAKE ME OVER] Christine Denamur ⏤ Love rollercoaster

noxpox - C U (see You)

Frequensea

Layers of percussion and hiphop beats form the backbone of this emotive track. Huge dark ambient synths weave in and out, like rhythmic breathing. Abstract vocal samples echo behind a wall of droning bass. 
Drawn from the emotion behind the realisation that we often want what we cannot have.

Everything In Love

Paradox of Desire

Paradox Of Desire

Lowlowlow

B ICU w/ braun.aar - 17/05/2024

Gloom Variations w/ Petteril - 12/06/2024

Darkwave de pétasse

https://linktr.ee/vaness_sadness

typical white brutality
Φ ¡ndustr¡al tɝchnō-funk Φ 
+++both albums will be mastered & re-released - july 2024:
'make it end' & 'pretty boys must die'
+++ my playl¡sts cōnta¡n ōnly ¡ndepɝndɝnt art¡sts = thɝ bɝst tracks ōf my fɝɝd

Enfin

Vaness Sadness

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