Earth Grounding Vibrations

Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure, relax, chillout and enjoy.

DARK AMBIENT - GHOST DANCE

spit of smell

info: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/inexact-10-laura-not
https://soundcloud.com/lauranot

Laura Not

inexact 10 – Laura Not

https://soundcloud.com/muzaneditions

https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/the-sound-of-mountains

Dream on the Retina - yolabmi (from The Sound of Mountains)

Raft of Trash is a generative music project exploring the sounds of systems using the natural rhythms of environmental dialogue in the world-building game SimCity 3000. It is a collaboration between sound artists/musicians Andrew PM Hunt (aka Dialect) and JC Leisure, and designer Thom Isom.  

Like the group’s early EPs, their debut album Likeness on the Edge of Town showcases the breadth of possibilities emerging from their unique process. Whilst playing SimCity 3000, the in-built sound effects of the game are converted and repurposed into MIDI data which is then fed to Hunt and Leisure's synths and samplers in real time. The resulting soundscape, imprinted with the dynamics of a simulated environment, is then augmented with live guitar, spoken word and field recordings to create an uncanny collage of wild synthesis, experimental narrative and bending, viscous guitar.  

Inspired by Fluxus artist Alison Knowles, the spoken word passages sprinkled across the record act as part travel journal, part system theory field guide as “someone guiding you through the simulated desert landscape, and through some kind of inner journey”. Exploring for instance the connections between the irregularities we discover in our functioning bodies and the impact of environmental influences or describing the fullness of the reality of stopping at a truck stop, these passages are an illuminating exploration of the complexity of living systems and real-life situations. Subtle musical references to Americana and sounds sourced from the desert around Joshua Tree contribute to a journey-like mood throughout the record. 

Musically, the record remains in largely abstract territory. Synths sprawl, crawl and fly above a sonic bed of creaks, ripples and bleeps; nothing is at it seems. This ambiguous relationship between the organic and the synthetic further highlights the themes explored by the group.  

Releasing in full on November 20 2020, as a limited edition poster and as digital files. 

Purchase on Bandcamp: https://raftoftrash.bandcamp.com/album/likeness-on-the-edge-of-town

Raft of Trash - Sans Sherif at the Painted Oasis

TR073 - Kelly Jayne Jones - 'a fire that had to burn forever'

Track list
1 Galen Tipton & Nmesh / Fossil Blood
2 Maria W Horn & Mats Erlandsson / Atypi
3 Yann Leguay / IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
4 Hanna Hartman / Nightlock
5 Sam Haar / Gold Coast
6 Carlos Casas / Avesta
7 Shackleton & Wacław Zimpel / Primal Drones
8 Jake Meginsky / Seven Psychotropic Sinewave Palindromes
9 Joe Fujinoki / Collapse
10 Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson / Part VIII
11 Valance Drakes / The Hardest Battles Are Fought in the Mind (Interlude) [feat. Richard Devine]
12 Mads Emil Nielsen / 2
13 Kara-Lis Coverdale / X 4Ewi
14 Yellow Swans / Foiled
15 Merzbow / Looping Jane
16 Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson / From Procession to Refraction
17 OL / Cicadaskit
18 Stephan Mathieu / Variation Eins
19 Couture / Paris
20 recfeel / 201115_0787
21 Philip Corner / Ogive III
22 R Beny / Burl

KST w/ Yolabmi - 29th November 2020
https://m.mixcloud.com/internetpublicradio/kst-w-yolabmi-29th-november-2020/

KST's Shows
https://internetpublicradio.live/residents/kst

29th November 2020 - Internet Public Radio - yolabmi mix

Yolabmi - Breathe (excerpt)

UVL is proud to release two new side-long compositions from Max Eilbacher. Edition of 150 three color risograph print.

Digital Sketch For Strings
One morning I had an idea for a string composition. The tonal colors of the strings would be constantly morphing between shifting intonations. A rising and falling spectrum of many different sonorities would construct a throbbing, living whole. The gestural and perceptive qualities of the stringed accumulation would exist somewhere between glacial and in constant motion. I ended up using saw waves instead of string samples or acoustic instruments, as I found the harmonics of a saw wave helped achieve what I was hearing in my head that morning.

Spectral Masking Room Construction
A work exploring onset partials on audio perception and spectral masking. I started with a woodblock sample. For me, the woodblock's harsh yet beautiful striking sound is complex. The short burst acts as an extremely salient and trepidatious sonic cue. After listening for hours to a single strike and performing in-depth spectral analysis, I began to hear and comprehend the strike’s intricate material composite as extending beyond its short temporal life. The burst started to exist as an impulse response. With each strike, information about the space in which the woodblock’s material existed for the recording was communicated. The room in which the wood was struck was just as much a part of the sonic material being heard as the wooden material colliding with one another. Synthesizing the woodblock sound from scratch turned into a minute study of individual partial’s attack and decay times. I used the results of spectral analysis and composed around the initial short strike. The pitches comprising the fundamentals and overtones in the sample were extracted in various clusters and used to create a few different digital synths. The timing structure of the sampled and synthesized strikes are controlled by a simple counting transform. By doing so I set conceptual throughlines for the variants of struck sounds. The many variations of partials being highlighted or sent to the audio background serve to imitate “fake” spaces in which these sounds exist and convey subtle architectural information to the listener.

- Max Elibacher, 2020

Max Eilbacher (excerpt)

Emptiness Reworked, Rewoven

Sequences - Woven Empty (R. Schwarz Rework)

yolabmi24（at）gmail.com
https://soundcloud.com/recfeel

MADPIA
"Even if we knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, we would still play music."