deep breath

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

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2022 élan vital recordings 

Manja Ristic / Toni Dimitrov - Dystopian 001

1. Manja Ristic - Nothing Has To Happen, Fortress Europe
2. Toni Dimitrov - Against Civilization

🏴 'Dystopian 001' is split release between the sound artists Manja Ristić and Toni Dimitrov, and it is part of the new 'Dystopian series', showcasing a more abstract, darker, obscure and politically infused side of the sound of élan vital artist roster. Inspired by everyday life in the last several years living in realized dystopian visions and darkest predictions, the sound on this series will be the soundtrack for our daily dystopian reality. We are all aware that the future of our civilization is not bright, but that doesn't mean we are not living in an exciting epoch.

🏳️ Part one brings two longer pieces, presenting the dark side of the mystical long form experimentations by the Serbian violin and field recordings diva Manja Ristić and the latest field recordings experiments of the sound art naturalist Toni Dimitrov. Through this joint release the artists are trying to explore the potential for change of the society, resulting in a mature, expressive and complex album. 

Composed and arranged by Manja Ristić & Toni Dimitrov 
Mastering LaPlant Studio Belgrade
Cover drawings by Dorian Dimitrov
Design by Toni Dimitrov

Release date 27th March 2022
 https://elanvital.bandcamp.com/album/dystopian-001

Manja Ristic - Nothing Has To Happen, Fortress Europe (excerpt)

Out now on Gagarin Records. Available to buy here:
markvernon.bandcamp.com/album/time-deferred

Followers of the artist Mark Vernon will note a subdued and pensive mood on this new record. Monochrome and sepulchral, these tracks are in a minor key, a key which opens the door to a damp cellar of the imagination. Too-many legged spiders crawl over dusty violins. Time lurches, loops and echoes like excursions on slow motion railways in reverse. Concrète noir sombre séances for non-believers. Tauntological voices from the past provoke us. Half guessed ghosts, magnetic phantoms from funereal-to-reel tape recordings. The sibilant persistence of the deceased evokes the exhausted dread of waiting for a medical test result. Enigmatic messages thrown to the werewolves with nothing but cheap medication and some breathing exercises for support.

Caution: this record can cause dreamless nights.

“Psychedelic visions, blackouts and blinding lights reveal an unusual, sick, and feverish musicality... here the gods come back from the dead only to ensure us an existence nurtured by the freezing rays of a black sun.”

Massimiliano Busti, Blow Up (Feb 2022)

A Coincidence Of Deceleration And Acceleration

Extrait live / Le Mesjpleck / 25-03-22 / Dunkerque

Pitch, number of notes, time interval, and intensity are randomized, output to the score, and performed.

metal, guitar, water, paper and everything : peeq

https://yoichi-ichikawa.bandcamp.com/album/ones-not-half-two-its-two-are-halves-of-one

one's not half two it's two are halves of one

A hug to die
(for 8 musicians)

Inspired by the play "The Pillowman", of the contemporary playwright Martin McDonagh.

Ensemble Intercontemporain
Dylan Corlay direction
Megaron - Athens Concert Hall

A hug to die (2023)

For ensemble and multichannel, asymmetrical sound (excerpt)

Premiered by Black Page Orchestra at Wien Modern, 2022
Christina Bauer: Klangregie
Yalda Zamani: Conductor

Recording produced by ORF/Radio Österreich

Wigmaker - Black Page Orchestra, Wien Modern (2022)

Rei Nakamura - piano
Wojtek Blecharz - conductor

Concerto for piano and wireless speakers (after Symphony No.3 for 200 wireless speakers) is a continuation of my work with sonic multiplicities. Replacing the orchestra with small electronic devices refers both to the industrial and the digital revolutions. 
The first one allowed mass production of musical instruments and creating large homogenous orchestras, the second one allowed mass storing of sound and playing it at any place and any time.
The orchestra of speakers can be compared to a sound garden, where each seed is activated by the “conductor”, who arranges and distributes ca. 60 speakers in space, creating themes, lines, rhizomes or echoes. 
Each speaker contains a memory card with a track, a larger number of speakers creates a multilayered texture and the accompaniment for the soloist. 
The “conductor” controls the motion of the speakers around the audience, since the speakers can be passed from one person to another during the piece, changing the sonic/spatial constellation of the “accompaniment”. 
Concerto was written for Rei Nakamura
The recording was made during Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, August 2023
This track features the 2nd half of the Concerto (total duration 60 mins.)

Concerto for piano and wireless speakers (excerpt)

sleep in nothingness, 2018 

// sounds heard 
samples from the Guimet's archival LP copy of 'Japanese masterpieces for the shakuhachi' (Lyrichord_MX4205_1989) 
+ artists own field recording of train ride in the monastic region of Koyasan Japan, clarinet, sine tones, voice, amplified objects, sferics, and a google-translate/text-to-speech recording of the album liner notes. // 

In a dream he found himself floating in a boat. Suddenly thick mist rolled down the sky and blocked his view of the moon. On hearing the moving melody of a flute, he reached out for his favourite bamboo flute to accompany the ethereal melody. The music is long and simple, and the listener is expected to forget everything and "sleep in nothingness".
-the dream of a priest named Kyochiku in the 12th Century while meditating at a temple in Nara (as cited in the album liner notes).

composed for performance at the Guimet Museum in Paris on Feb 03 2018, curated by the French label Tsuku Boshi.

sleep in nothingness

https://amhain.bandcamp.com/album/arcv-dts-91-98-vol-vii

1997

Concerto for piano and wireless speakers (excerpt)

wojtek blecharz

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