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HEREJIA

Our initial dialog with Synthia was an adventurous creative endeavour that made us question whether machines could have a soul. This one definitely spoke her mind, and left a fascinating mark on both of us as a wondrous machine––––––woman, a marvelous piece of engineering, an entity trapped in a modular eternity.

Considering that neither of us had any previous contact with such a complex modular system such as EMS Synthi 100, we took a somewhat intuitive approach. This is a fairly raw glimpse of the first days spent in the studio.

Oh, Synthia, we only just met...

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Happy birthday Mark!!!

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Composing, editing, patching & live mixing: Manja Ristić
Live mixing & patching: Mark Vernon
Cover art: Manja Ristić –– segment of the sculpture by Angelina Gatalica made in memory of Serbian painter Nadežda Petrović, erected in 1989 in the Pioneer’s Park, on the occasion of the IX Summit of Non-Aligned Countries.

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117ueis The Waypigrandom 2

Omiya, Saitama City, (JP)
28/01/2024, 11:30 a.m.

A cold winter sunday morning, opening the window of our home studio in the city of Omiya, Japan. We can see our balcony terrace, Japanese pine tree in the garden and the music room of the city’s high school just next to our place.

We don't know how long this tradition has been going on, the sounds of high school brass bands echo through the street everyday and accompany some moments of our daily life in this neighborhood for around 60 years at least. The sounds of brass celebrate our ordinary life and add some pinch of dramatic or cinematic senses in our daily life.　


Microphones : Rode NTG-5 + ZOOM XYH-6 
Recorder : ZOOM H6

Omiya, Saitama City, (JP)  28/01/2024, 11:30 a.m.

Uncertain Outcome For A Lovely Idea

Cafe Noise

Track included in Sync Phoney EP on Mutoscope Records (MTC001)
https://soundcloud.com/mutoscope-records

https://mutoscoperecords.bandcamp.com/album/sync-phoney-ep

Release date: 23rd of November 2023

Written, produced and mixed by Veelargo in Krakow, Poland.

Mastering by Ruben Montesco at SoundClip Studio, Madrid.
https://soundclipstudio.es/

The image is a painting by Katarzyna Karpowicz entitled Other Planet.
All rights of the image are property of Katarzyna Karpowicz.
https://katarzynakarpowicz.pl/

EP on Bandcamp

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"premonitions" by @alenakoroleva [fom10]
CS/DL : f-o-m.bandcamp.com/album/premonitions

“Whenever I go, I can't help but notice signs of a looming change. I eavesdrop on conversations of creatures big and small, and like me, they seem uneasy and uncertain about what's to come. Something is in the air, dark clouds gather, winds are shifting course. Amidst the confusion and restlessness, the voices of non-human and human worlds blend in a worrisome symphony. This piece is an ode to anticipation, to the beauty of different forms of life on the brink of the sixth mass extinction. Joining in the chorus are the American toad, northern winds, an old kettle, Mr. Cat, tawny owl, crickets, domestic chickens and pigs, trumpeter swans, honey bees, truck horns, cormorants, seagulls and other elements and critters.” — Alëna Korolëva 

Something is afoot, the Tkaronto/Toronto-based artist and curator, Alëna Korolëva tells us in her new soundscape composition “premonitions”. American toads and water beetles set things in motion before the long-form piece journeys through a multitude of field recordings and non-human voices in a quasi-cinematographic fashion. Korolëva layers and manipulates sounds from the real into a sonic chimaera which mutates concrete ambiances into vaporous surrealities through the modes of collage. A storm blankets the soundscape, things grow quieter. Distant parallels with Luc Ferrari’s "musique anecdotique" come to mind, yet here the piece materializes in an acoustic docu-fiction of some sort, that takes the form of a waking dream. Various scenes, ranging from the mundane to the uncanny, unfold in eardrums exposing an underlying sense of earthly melancholy. A weight lurks throughout while winds, pigs, chickens, and mechanical apparatus weave into a strange agitated tapestry. A kettle whistles, a cat meows – Korolëva sprinkles the gloom with touches of humor and audible senses of home. Trumpeter swans are joined by a trumpeter human; Chayka Chekhov responds to the avian songs in a interspecies dialogue – echoing Jim Nollman’s “Playing Music With Animals”. Environments cascade into a finale droned out by truck horns. Their ringings and animal cries swell in a somber abstraction bearing the weight of a presentiment. “What does the future hold?” we ask ourselves throughout the album as we dissolve in imbrications of positionings, emanating from one another like stacking dolls. Poly-layered, “premonitions” engages in play, in negotiation with the disparate spaces and voices of a troubled world as if it created harmonious discord to decipher the ominous clouds gathering in the horizon.

C30 — limited edition of 60 
duration: 28’56’’ — piece repeats on both sides 
recorded, photographed, and composed by alëna korolëva 
trumpet improvisation by chayka chekhov 
mastered by mathieu bonnafous 
tape production by headless duplicated tapes 
published by forms of minutiae — fom10 — 2024

CS / DL

alëna korolëva — premonitions [fom10]

Taken from the "Pathfinder EP", a free download EP available on Youtube, Soundcloud & Spotify on May 3rd.

Pathfinder EP

Fall For You

Free Download

Spain/Poland
*SYNC PHONEY EP ON MUTOSCOPE RECORDS [MTC001]. AVAILABLE ON BANDCAMP:
https://mutoscoperecords.bandcamp.com/album/sync-phoney-ep

*MONOLITHS AND GREETINGS LP ON PEOPLE CAN LISTEN LABEL [PCLLP024]. AVAILABLE ON BANDCAMP. 
https://peoplecanlisten.bandcamp.com/album/pcllp-024-monoliths-and-greetings

*Digital track "MELEK17" included in the the Various Artists compilation on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE™ [AI005]. AVAILABLE ON BANDCAMP.
https://artificialintelligencercrds.bandcamp.com/album/ai005-various-artists-artificial-intelligence

*Tracks on PCL compilations: 
inklink:
 https://peoplecanlisten.bandcamp.com/album/pclva-015-fifteenth-listen
Velvety Light: 
https://peoplecanlisten.bandcamp.com/album/pclva-016-sixteenth-listen

*MIXES AND LIVE SETS:
Mix for Bricolage on Mixcloud:
https://m.mixcloud.com/BricolageG5/bricolage-podcast-102-veelargo/

Live set podcast for Zanderhythm:
Escucha Zanderhythm MIX Series #16 - Veelargo de zanderhythm en #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/NA75E

Live set podcast for Mutoscope Records: 
https://soundcloud.com/mutoscope-records/mutoscope-podcast-002-veelargo?si=c7a337048e24481ca4754e62233b6135&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Mix for Archaic:
https://soundcloud.com/12-inch-spain/archaic-podcast-483-veelargo?si=b61a7bdd2d724a5d892bac4722c49298&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Mix for Elektropedia Analog Kollective:
https://soundcloud.com/e_a_kollective/eak-invites-37-veelargo?si=380dc63729f54b329e1b5e08ab6ac742&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Mix for Zyrcadian Editions:
https://soundcloud.com/zyrcadianeditions/mix-for-zircadian-editions?si=e60e6503fdf54c1b9cf3652fd519cd13&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Live set for INDEx:
https://soundcloud.com/indexidm/index-live-20-veelargo?si=05084fd75f4f46ba8014e61fe054493c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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