Taken from 'Fringe' LP/Download (E064, Ecstatic 03/09/2021)

A gorgeous swell of intimate soundscaping from Felisha Ledesma on this simmering stunner for Ecstatic, despatching two extended, richly absorbing pieces weft from everyday detritius; synths, strings, voicemail, found sounds - hitting a similar spot for us as Ulla’s diaristic 'inside means inside me’ but with a more defined play of sound-as-light that gently and memorably tugs at the earlobes and heartstrings. 

Exploring a music of presence and ultra subtle inference, ‘Fringe’ is the 2nd release by Ledesma, student of Berlin's estimable Universität der Künste, following from a debut for Enmossed x Psychic Liberation earlier this year. Using AMQR - a software synthesiser built by Ledesma together with Ess Mattisson - both pieces here shimmer with elusive timbres that occupy a realm that feels lost between worlds - neither electronic nor acoustic, but more a sort of observational sound that radiates togetherness and warmth. 

Operating at insightful levels of synaesthesia, Ledesma poetically turns ostensibly humdrum sources into clouds of smoke - emails, voicenotes, walking along the water, a poem attached to an email, walking alone in New York during lockdown, going for a swim at sunset in the desert - all turn into a smudge of memory. When ‘Beamsplitters’ opens with a tangible human presence - a voicemail from a friend - it startles with its earthly pull, eventually getting lost in a tangled spool of found sound leaving just a trace of iridescent, intimate reverie. 

On ‘Golden Mirror’ Felisha gently diffracts a lonesome guitar phrase into a humming thizz with a steeply uncanny ability to jog the memory in a similar way to how olfactory stimulus can conjure feelings of nostalgia. It’s a trick familiar from an emergent new realm of lower case composers creating something like submerged, small scale symphonies that work counter to notions of classical excess or anodyne ambient, instead focusing on microcosmic, highly peronalised sort of worldbuilding that’s impenetrable, yet somehow entirely open.

Felisha Ledesma - Golden Mirror [E064]

live recorded at les ateliers claus 11.03.2022

Piotr Kurek - live ateliers claus

“Cimetière spatial” est une installation sonore imaginée dans le cadre de l'exposition Cosmopolitiques organisée par le collectif Polynome à Buropolis (Marseille) en avril 2022.

En 1957, la chienne Laïka est le premier être vivant à avoir été mis en orbite autour de la Terre. Cette installation s’inspire de son histoire et de celles des autres animaux décédés dans l’espace pour construire un hommage, un moment de recueillement, un monument funèbre à ces êtres jamais revenus. Laïka, les singes Albert I et Albert II, les araignées Arabella et Anita... nombreux·ses sont celles et ceux qui ont péri lors de missions de recherche sur les effets de l’espace sur le vivant. Sans elles et eux, l’exploration spatiale humaine n’aurait probablement pas eu lieu. 
Cette installation nous invite à réfléchir aux relations entre humains et non-humains, aux exploitations passées et aux possibilités d’empathie et de partage qui s’ouvrent à nous.

Un projet développé avec le soutien du collectif Polynome.
Mixage par Boris Gobin.
Prix de la Création sonore format court au festival International du Film d'Environnement (Toulouse).

CIMETIÈRE SPATIAL - installation sonore

Made by splashing water creating ripples in a pan whilst shining a bright light onto it and directly receiving the resulting audio frequency domain modulated reflected light some distance away with a photo sensor as sound.  The resulting raw audio was overdubbed 4 times at different points into the recording and various pan positions to create a pseudo-stereo effect. More sound from light recordings here: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/sound-from-light-optically

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2022.

Sound of Light Reflected From Water Ripples (Optical Sound Experiment)

Avant-garde musician and composer Jim O'Rourke pulls stops by once a month, pulling an hour of picks from his extensive record collection.

Jim O'Rourke 130723

as promised to those who pm'd me.

made approx 2006-07

Short Forgotten Produk  Trk Omc

as promised to people that pm'd me.
made approx 2006-07

feat Kawai K5m

2nd Neotek Test Trac Omc

Inspired by: https://www.reddit.com/r/radiohead/comments/15b0zes/so_i_asked_gpt4_to_update_fitter_happier_for_2023/

Fitter Happier 23' - lyrics by u/MrBarkan

Tim Hecker plays his favorites new and old. This show is 100% Terry Riley. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/tim-hecker/episodes/tim-hecker-26th-september-2023

Spa-Time w/ Tim Hecker 260923

Taken from the new album "Well Kept Era" out now everywhere via BLOOHA UNLTD.

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"Well Kept Era" was recorded with C-60s, transistor amps, analog mono + polysynths, tape loops, effect units and a reel to reel machine. The pieces unfolded in real-time, no multi-tracking, no overdubs.

Fragments composed, captured and assembled from 2012-14
Recorded straight to tape over the course of 3 weeks in early 2015

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Well Kept Era

Arrows

Tape/WAV/FLAC

Arrows ~ taken from the album "Well Kept Era"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUr10sz_hes
produced sometime between 2000-2001

boxenergy4remix1  [2000-2001]

Tape deck ghosts + sonic research

Latest album 'Nocturnal' out now!
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Arrows ~ taken from the album "Well Kept Era"

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