"Craco is a small town in southern Italy, completely abandoned after a landslide in 1963. Since then, plants and animals slowly started to take over the ruins, creating a suspended atmosphere magnified by distant echoes coming from rural production and imaginary voices."
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Nicola Di Croce - Hearing Voices (Excerpt)

Early spring on the volcanic island of Nisyros, Greece: Bees swarm over almond trees on the caldera's edge. On the fertile crater soil, livestock graze. Mud pits burble and sulfur vents puff out thick vapor clouds. Solitary men ring the bells, call to their animals, and sing to themselves. Scops owls and bats call into the night.
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Alyssa Moxley - Underdrift (Excerpt)

00:00-01:00
Excerpt from 'Without', performed by Erik Carlson (violin) and Greg Stuart (percussion), composed by Clara de Asís. Released in October 2018 on Elsewhere.

01:00-02:00
Excerpt from 'Comme de loin', 2020. Commande de l’Etat du Ministère de la Culture, France. Produced by GMEA - Centre National de Création Musicale d'Albi-Tarn. Électroacoustique sur support seul. Released on Blank Mind as part of the homonym compilation.

02:00-03:00
Excerpt from 'De ce côté-ci', from the album 'Sans Nom Ni Forme'. Recorded in Berlin, 2019. Released on Pilgrim Talk, 2020.

03:00-04:00
Excerpt from 'double points; reflected', Clara de Asís & Rebecca Lane, 2021.

04:00-05:00
Excerpt from 'Present Omission', from the album 'Repetition of the same dream' featuring works by Clara de Asís & Mara Winter. Released on Another Timbre, 2020.

Excerpts 2018-2021

“Two Duos” is pressed from cellist Okkyung Lee’s most recent OTO Residency; the first side a duo with Jérôme Noetinger on Revox B77 and the second with Nadia Ratsimandresy on Ondes Martenot. Cut together, the two meetings seem to raise three cellos in the search for expressive voice: the cello, it’s magnetic reproduction, and the dual controls of the machine invented to expand on its musical qualities.

On the A side Noetinger’s opening tape hiss establishes a current; an electrical partner who gives Lee room to slide across and stretch out. Progressively the cello is returned, duplicated and manipulated with increased velocity and distortion. Noetinger draws out the full extent of Lee’s extended technique; rewinding strands of Lee's horse hair and transmuting her percussive attacks into shuddering echos, before letting his own concrete interjections spin the duo's sonic tussle into an almost romantic daydream.

On side B the ondes (invented by French cellist and wartime radio operator Maurice Eugene Louis Martenot and so loved by Bernard Parmegiani, Varese and Messiaen) seems shaken from classical tradition and those long, drawn out horrorscapes it has come to be associated with. In a duel with Lee, Ratsimandresy grasps the ondes’ extraordinary capacity for dexterity, nuance and speed, hounding Lee’s cello in a bid to drive her instrument out of the past and into the future.

Two fantastic pairings and a testament to the freshness with which Lee and her collaborators continue to work with their instruments.

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Okkyung Lee / cello

Jérôme Noetinger / revox b77

Nadia Ratsimandresy / ondes martenot

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Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Thursday 28th March & Friday 29th March by Paul Skinner and Shaun Crook. Mixed and mastered by Lasse Marhaug. Designed by Maja Larrson. ROKU027.

ROKU027 - Okkyung Lee / Jérôme Noetinger / Nadia Ratsimandresy - “Two Duos” [sample]

My very late contribution for the open remix project curated by :zoviet*france:, this track has been assembled using audio sources taken from “Hidden by the Wall”, a soundwork by :zoviet*france: commissioned by Green Croft Arts as part of its Collision and Conflict project.

The recordings have been treated and remixed at Timelash 2 Studio, (Trieste), Italy on Saturday, March 26th, 2022.

Photo courtesy of Rea Jubani

:zoviet*france: - Hidden By The Wall open remix (The Wind Between)

Davachi/Smith - Live at the Omnimax Theatre, Science World
Vancouver, BC, Canada

New Forms Festival 14
18 September 2014

Sarah Davachi - Buchla 300, Roland Jupiter-8, effects
Richard Smith - Buchla 300, Roland TR-808

https://soundcloud.com/ava76

Davachi/Smith - Collaboration with Richard Smith - Live 9/18/14  - NFF14

A mix of original recorded & electronic sounds.

Dream Croaking (naviarhaiku544)

Recorded in the hollow body of Deutzer Bridge, Koln, for brass ensemble, electronics, 8-channel sound. For Bruckenmusik 2018. Listen on good speakers.

Acoustic Shadows - brass (Excerpt)

Site-specific music from the instalments of ‹Sounding the City› in Montréal and São Miguel. The ongoing project captures urban environments and re-imagines their soundscapes through public installations and acoustic interventions. | soundingthecity.com

vertical-music.bandcamp.com/album/sound…ity-001-002

Cassette, 60 min. Mastered by James Plotkin. Design by Nicolas Turki Duchesnay.

Sounding the City 001-002

Jen Reimer & Max Stein - Sounding The City (Excerpt)

marble silence

Marble Silence

Taken from the album 'Shutting Down Here' released as LP and Digital.

Jim O'Rourke 'Shutting Down Here' (excerpt)(SPGRM 001)

Presence of beings, places and things. 

Field recording and experimental music label curated by Ludwig Berger. Graphic design by Nicolas Turki Duchesnay.

Jen Reimer & Max Stein - Sounding The City (Excerpt)

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