Hot Tub Cøøking Beast Mode

Bečva is a river located in the Eastern part of Czech Republic. In September 2020, several chemical leaks into the river caused the poisoning and subsequent death of 40 tons of wildlife in the waterway – an unprecedented catastrophe. Growing up in Přerov, Bečva was an ever-present part of Tomáš Niesner’s youth and this environmental disaster affected him deeply. In an effort to understand the river better and inspired by Werner Herzog’s ‘Of Walking in Ice’, Niesner set out on a journey from the spring of Bečva to its confluence with river Morava, a journey of over 100km. It was a romantic quest in wholly unromantic circumstances, an attempt to expiate the irreversible.

Bečvou, the album, is a travelogue of sorts, an aural chronicle of this journey. Arranged and composed around field recordings from the river banks, it also features Tomáš Niesner on guitar, zither and modular synthesizer, unlike many of his previous releases where he’d zero in on one instrument. Combining elements of fingerstyle guitar, musique concrete and drone, it’s an elemental tapestry of enveloping textures, shimmering guitar motifs and soaring synth sounds. At one moment reminiscent of the meandering improvisations of East of the Valley Blues, at others calling to mind the ecstatic minimalistic compositions of Caterina Barbieri and oscillating between moods like dread and hope thoughout, Bečvou is Tomáš Niesner’s most complete statement to date, fascinating in both concept and execution.

Pre-order (CS + digital): https://tomniesner.bandcamp.com/album/be-vou

Tomáš Niesner - Chladná Voda

Oversyche I

Cicillian Issue - Syrup Of Orgasm

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we both knock (edit)

The music of Naarm/Melbourne composer Lisa Lerkenfeldt channels a unique wavelength of foreboding, interstitial electronics, incorporating strategies of musique concréte threaded with veiled currents of melody and hypnosis. Recent recordings for Vienna Press, Longform Editions and Aught Void have demonstrated different depths of process and finesse but her latest, Collagen, captures perhaps the most complete and complex manifestation of her craft to date.

Drawing on a disciplined palette of peach wood combs, contact microphones, piano, strings, and feedback, the album moves in low, looming arcs, ascending to strange purgatories of opaque atmosphere. Lerkenfeldt cites a core aspiration to “elevate the everyday,” transforming common objects into otherworldly sound sources, which colors Collagen with a beguiling tactility, like vibrations traced in sand. The tracks shift in frequency and feeling, alternately heady and bodily, acoustic and synthetic, isolated states of static, light, and undertow skirting the outer rings of ambient, noise, and modern composition.

Although each piece exists in its own rare air the composite panorama they present is striking in its sweep...  more

Credits:
Released August 21, 2020

All music by Lisa Lerkenfeldt
Mastering by Kassian Troyer at D&M
Design by Bartolome Sanson
Scores by Lisa Lerkenfeldt

Collagen

Champagne Smoke

From Luciano Maggiore & Michael Speers - necesse est numquam revelare stercorem tuum CD (KK-11)

Luciano Maggiore & Michael Speers - necesse est numquam revelare stercorem tuum (i)

Sam Wolk "Trop-plein" excerpt from new cdr on Salon available at http://saloncdr.blogspot.com/

New stereo improvisations by Sam Wolk. Max/MSP, Acoustic objects and feedback, SP-404, Saxophone (Max Lesser), Voice (Charmaine Lee)

The trio of improvisations which follow are variations on a single idea.  Running a Max/MSP patch and interacting with it is a method of transducing energy from one form to another.  Electrical energy drawn from the grid is ultimately transformed into acoustic energy emerging from speakers along with the accompanying, over-flowing waste energy [entropic release].  The ephemeral, unstructured heat released in the process of generating structured acoustic energy [the composition] takes multiple forms: the discarded acoustic energy of computer keys pressed while manipulating the patch, the kinetic energy of hard drives whirring as data is read from disk into the patch, the thermal energy of CPUs radiating out and the acoustic energy of fans loudly attempting to reroute those heat flows.  In this trio of variations the central theme is feedback.  These ephemeral energy fluxes associated with keys, fans, disks, and CPUs are subjected to recycling [feedback] as the energy they produce is transduced by a contact microphone and the computer's internal microphone back into electrical audio flows which serve as the input to the Max patch itself.  As such, manipulating the audio at the human-computer interface generates the very energy flows which are transduced into the audio to be manipulated in the first place... The computer processes its own unstructured flows of waste energy back into structured audio [the output of the patch].  The machine is not treated as an abstract, universal computational device whose digital nature renders its physical existence irrelevant.  Instead, as it harvests its own unstructured heat and processes it into structured audio, its physical identity is embraced for what it is: a concrete, individual, material machine imbricated in a larger system of energy flows. 

Recorded at the Harvard University Studio for Electro-acoustic Composition, 2016. 

Special thanks to Jeff Witscher. 

Play loud.

Sam Wolk "Trop-plein"

BBC Late Junction session- Tony Allen, Pat Thomas and Elvin Brandhi - Take 1 soundcheck

13 lit candles, a candle for each month and an extra one for luck.

With the end of May comes Eastern Nurseries 1st anniversary. We had plans to celebrate it together, from moonlight until dawn. This new normality demands that we do it apart, so we present you with the 10th release on the Eastern Nurseries imprint. 'The Violence Of Merging' is a digital platter for digital times. 13 portraits of togetherness. A still-life reunion for a still world.

“You'll miss the sunrise ahead if you're not gazing at the horizon.”

EN10

Artwork by Laura Costas

The Violence Of Merging

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From AEST-056: Sortlegeme “Zero Intensity” CS

Sortlegeme returns 19 months following the act's first release for the PA, Awe, with Zero Intensity – 5 tracks of true saturated apocalyptic industrial with a hint of tribalistic techno divided over 40 minutes

Zero Intensity

Sortlegeme - Production of Lack

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