Baltazar’s Adventure through the Great Machine 
In early May 2019, composers working in the city of Sheffield recorded sounds in and around the Kelham Island Industrial Museum, using these to create musical works that resonate with the space and place of Kelham Island. In much the same way as one might imagine the transformation of the spaces of heavy industry, such as Brooklyn Works becoming residential accommodation, the ten sound artists transformed the sounds of Kelham Island, giving them a new home. 
This piece imagines the huge machines as if from a child-like fantasy. It follows the journey of fiction character - Baltazar - as he travels into, and through, the greatest machine of all.  Join Baltazar as he journeys through the Great Machine in search of its beating, mechanical heart. As the machine judders and splutters into life, will he avoid the pistons and valves, cogs and bursts of steam?  Warning: contains scenes of mild peril.

For Ozzy, Zac, and Kaia. 


Adam Stanović started composing electronic music some twenty years ago. At that time, early experiments with tape machines and a four-track mini-disc recorder led him discover the potential of recorded sounds, and he quickly started using computers as a tool for music-making. Ever since, Adam has considered the fixed medium as a canvass for his works which, although mostly acousmatic, are sometimes accompanied by instruments, electronics, film, and animation. In all cases, his music explores ways in which both pitch and noise coexist within recorded sound, with musical form often delivering one from the other. Adam’s music has been heard in over 400 festivals and concerts around the world. His works are available on 12 different CDs.

7 Adam Stanovic Baltazars Adventure Through The Great Machine (Prix Russolo 2020/21)

earthbeamer

Ignited by "Landfill Totems" by @Hainbach (w. Spitfire Audio)  - Wires, Noises, and some LABS auxiliary (Frozen Strings). 

Added eurorack chatter (mainly Moog 32, DFAM, DSM01,02,03 and Wogglebug) + Lexicons (41 and 80).

Beauty Oscillator

Narcoleptic Beauty Oscillator

Pure 200 Super Long Kiss

Limited edition cassette: https://perceptualtapes.bandcamp.com/album/the-softest-lace

‘The Softest Lace’ is the new album by Oberlin, an experimental musician based in Koblenz, Germany. Inspired by the sights of early morning dew behind his windows as Oberlin played his analogue and modular synths, The Softest Lace is a work of minimalist arrangements, wintry atmospheres, and slowly shifting layers of electronic tones and textures occasionally supplemented by guitar recordings. With his instruments of choice, Oberlin paints lush soundscapes, sometimes muted and dreamy, sometimes hypnotic with subtle rhythmic pulses, and other times cold, misty and dark.
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The Softest Lace was recorded in Oberlin’s Gold-Pit-Studio, Koblenz, Germany in winter 2023 with a Moog Grandmother, a Eurorack modular synth and an Ibanez Custom guitar.

Artwork by Elise Wilson

Layout by Timothy Allen

© 2023 Oberlin

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Oberlin - The Softest Lace - 01 As I Went Out One Morning

Mix Tape 01

Composed with the materials created during the dance project "I WANT TO BE A SWAMP" by Yolanda Morales and the team.

Soft Contamination

Resonance is not merely a phenomenon where objects and human bodies vibrate in harmony at their natural frequency, but also about the deep, intangible connections that bind everything together. Nearly all the raw materials were captured by the real-time resonator Wingie 2 during a soundwalk.

Cover by Ngau.

I'll Be a Resonance

For the Cities and Memory London Soundmap, Westminster - this piece explores the concept of ‘future’, venturing ‘into’ as well as ‘back’, taken from a point of discussion between an adult and children in the original recording. The piece draws inspiration from the recording location, Westminster. ‘Future’ imagines a dystopian fate for our politics, with fragmented speech becoming drowned out by the crescendo of aggressive drones, to an ominous and unknowing conclusion.

WM//Future

Premiered at BEAST's Waves concerts, November 2012, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Performed as either a live laptop performance or a stereo diffusion over a multichannel system.
Composed using mostly SuperCollider + Field Recordings from Toronto, Ontario

alone together (hospital suites) (2011-12)

Equanimity

For Clarinet and Computer (6’50”) - Clarinet performed by F.Gerard Errante

Taking a moonlit night on a beach in Majorca as its inspiration, Equanimity is an attempt to convey a sense of delicate balance between different environmental and sonic factors: a certain stillness in the air; the sound of different nocturnal creatures blending in harmony; the ocean shifting in the darkness.

I have tried to exploit the different elements that make up the sound of the clarinet, at the same time relating these to the natural sounds on the recording. A delicate balance is set-up between stillness and movement, knowing and unknowing. Is the listener hearing the sound of the clarinet or cicadas? Do they hear the performer’s breath or the sound of waves gently lapping against the shore?

Through the use of live electronic processing, the sound of the clarinet is subtly extended to aid this blending of instrument and nature. The through-composed nature of the piece reflects a gradual unveiling of the natural scene, shifting from the different harmonics contained in the clarinet to the sounds of insects and birds communicating on their own narrow bands of frequencies.

Equanimity was composed for clarinettist F.Gerrard Errante in Scarborough and Las Vegas (with support from the University of Hull and the great hospitality of D. Gause and Gerry Errante). A recording is available on the CD Delicate Balance published by Aucourant Records. It can be purchased on-line at http://www.aucourantrecords.com/catalog.php?op=detail&cid=72

I'll Be a Resonance

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