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From "Microphone Permission" LP, Editions Mego, 2020
https://jasmineguffond.bandcamp.com/album/microphone-permission

An Utterly Dark Spot

distortions, inversions of all this chamber made music to replace nightlong shakings between white or red horrors, fermented words; an imperfection being committed, beneath helpless intoxication, searching for a safe side of distance, libera, dreadful mourning. a spark of hope to all, bearing in mind a massive silence to be stopped by cheering from all around. 

when russia invaded ukraine it altered everything. writing music in these troubled days, during these historical events has become more sublimated than it has ever been; habitual leisure has been replaced by volunteering, the territorial defense of hometown, or the front line in the army. despite everything, music remains a significant part of our lives and continues to be the voice of history, communication, time, and memory. 

all revenues go to the ukrainian charities and defense forces.

cover designed by ratx.cc 
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xtclvr - july_23 dub

B SW | rec. on Detali: Native 19.06.22

Tittle:  روح على طريق تاني / ruuh 'ala tariq tani / which literally means "go on another road".

Medium: Chair, mixed media, amplification  - exhibited at Errand Sounds Berlin from 21st of July 2023 till 27th of July 2023. 

Duration: 8’22’’

who is guiding who chair performance: https://vimeo.com/849046388

This piece is a reflection of my transformative journey, which attempts to address themes of migration, forced exile, existential experience(s), memory, and time, through my reversed interpretation of Alvin Lucier's - I Am Sitting in a Room. 

I arrived to Berlin from Beirut on August 22nd, 2021, hence the duration of the piece, I felt as though I was merely a shell, devoid of life, unable to make sense of place and time. This piece mirrors my own journey of rebirth and self-discovery. I moved from a state of disarray and despair to a space of clarity and self-expression.

Ruuh 'ala tariq tani includes manipulating recordings of traditional Lebanese/Levantine instruments such as the Oud, Nay, Qanun, and Tabla, field recordings from Beirut and Berlin, acoustic and electro-acoustic sound sources, and most importantly my recovered voice.

A text I wrote: 

بالوقت يللي بيبرم، من لقى و من ضايع
ذكريات، لحن لطيف ما قلّو نهاية
من خلال انحلال الزمان
من خلال انحلال المكان
بينكتب حياة جديدة
بتنكتب حياة جديدة

In the loop of time, we lose and find
Memory, a melody, ever so kind
Through the decay of time 
Through the decay of space 
A new life is conveyed
A new life is composed

Samples of Lebanese/Levantine instruments were all recorded in Ras el Maten, Lebanon for a commissioned project during July 2021:

Mazen Salha - Oud and head of project
Rouwaid Mahmoud - Rek and Tabla
Sadeq Malaeb - Qanun
Souheil Zeitouny - Nay


Picture by Pablo Hassmann

روح على طريق تاني | Ruuh 'ala Tariq Tani

arbitrary19 | 24 November 2023
CD + DL

Edition of 300
Digipak - Pantone / metallic, 4c print
incl. fold-out insert (text, maps - riso print)

arbitrary presents Terrain Vague – the debut album of Danish group MESMER.

The album is a series of (deconstructed) live-recordings taken from three live concerts. The sounds on this record are taken from two years’ worth of sound research and creative outbursts with inspiration from field trips to the outskirts of Copenhagen. Intrigued by the auditive landscapes of places where nature and culture meet and challenge each other.

Listening to the field-recordings led MESMER to interpret the moods, musical qualities, and inherent energy of the sounds from these areas. Thus, creating melodies, harmonies and rhythmical structures that, together with the field recordings, paved the way for this album.

MESMER consists of the three musicians & composers Emil Jensen, Victor Dybbroe and Anders Filipsen, who have been creating music together over the last 15 years in various groups. MESMER is fascinated by how sound (and its absence) influences us as people and how the different natural and cultural environments create different musical scenarios.

Recorded and produced by Mesmer, 2021 & 2022

Mix: Mads Emil Nielsen

Master: Kassian Troyer

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https://arbitrarymesmer.bandcamp.com/album/terrain-vague

https://arbitraryproject.com/Terrain-Vague

CD + Print

Mesmer - Terrain Vague - 01 _ Intro (arbitrary19)

Ukrainian Field Notes VA is a fundraising compilation with a difference, music with a backstory that gives a first-hand account of the unfolding events since the full-scale Russian invasion in real time, and presents an overview of the changing face of the Ukrainian music scene dictated by blackouts and curfew restrictions.

What started off as an ongoing series of interviews with Ukrainian artists for the experimental music website A Closer Listen has now become a book comprising all 170 interviews conducted over the course of a year mapping out the electronic and experimental scene in Ukraine.

All musicians involved were asked to submit a track composed after February 24, 2022 to mark its publication. The resulting material reflects the diaristic nature of the book and deals with PTSD, displacement, separation, and loss, and shows at the same time the strength and resilience of Ukrainian artists with a meditative and uplifting reach.

The track listing follows the chronological order of the interviews, switching from ambient and electronic to classical and experimental in a seemingly random fashion, but war is chaotic and shattering, or as Serhii Zhadan writes in Sky Above Kharkiv, “War sharply changes ways of seeing, changes feelings.” Ukrainian Field Notes is a testament to the shifting sonic and human landscape.
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Ukrainian Field Notes VA - це благодійна фандрайзінгова компіляція, що відрізняється від інших, музика з передісторією, яка розповідає з перших вуст про події, що розгортаються з моменту повномасштабного російського вторгнення в режимі реального часу, і представляє огляд зміни обличчя української музичної сцени, продиктованої відключенням електроенергії та обмеженнями комендантської години.

Те, що починалося як серія інтерв'ю з українськими музикантами для сайту експериментальної музики A Closer Listen, тепер перетворилося на книгу, що містить усі 170 інтерв'ю, взятих протягом року, які окреслюють електронну та експериментальну сцену в Україні.

Щоб відзначити її публікацію, всім музикантам, які брали участь в інтерв'ю, було запропоновано надіслати трек, написаний після 24 лютого 2022 року. Отриманий матеріал відображає щоденниковий характер книги і стосується ПТСР, переміщення, розлуки та втрати, а також демонструє силу та стійкість українських митців з медитативним та піднесеним звучанням.

Трек-лист відповідає хронологічному порядку інтерв'ю, переходячи від ембієнту та електроніки до класики та експериментальної музики у, здавалося б, випадковий спосіб, але війна є хаотичною та руйнівною, або, як пише Сергій Жадан у "Небі над Харковом", "війна різко змінює способи бачення, змінює почуття". "Ukrainian Field Notes VA" - це свідчення мінливого звукового та людського ландшафту.

Credits:
The book "Ukrainian Field Notes" is available on the Bandcamp page of the UFN VA (https://systemnapotvora.bandcamp.com/album/ukrainian-field-notes-va)

Album mastering by Clasps
Album artwork by Dmytro Prutkin
All proceeds go to the charitable foundation Musicians Defend Ukraine (musiciansdefendukraine.com/en)

Ukrainian Field Notes 567 pages book is also available as PDF and ePub.
Spanish translation by Chema Chacón.
ebook PDF version: https://tinyurl.com/5n8hhbt2 
ebook ePub version: https://tinyurl.com/2znsn7rf 

Bonus items on the Bandcamp page for the UFN VA are the PDF & ePub versions of the book "Ukrainian Field Notes".

Ukrainian Field Notes VA

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mara (in Ukrainian 'мара') — a bizarre vision, mirage, chimera, illusion, delirium, halo.

liveset at Cosmos Campolide (Lisbon) 08.11.2023
@optovolokonniy
master by: @yyyvvv

if you enjoyed this piece, please consider a donation of any amount via the link above.

support Ukraine

ϙue - mara

◇ (Uncertainty) FUTURE | Digital

1. Olesia Borsuk - Salomé op.2
2. Khrystyna Kirik - Khvyleyu
3. Sche - Pastoral Landscapes
4. Super Inter - Norr
5. Sergey Chernyshov - 03072020
6. Vaxoid - Mdari
7. Noisynth - Lost in Oblivion
8. Ocheret - Obsolete Component
9. xtclvr - YYV2
10. Lu Joyce - Transparent Throne
11. Andriy Kostyukov - Smash Fluid Dub
12. Heskbo - Continua Iter
13. Vaxoid - Amber Forscalata
14. Louwave & Splinter (UA) - Solid
15. Incorrect Waves - Reality
16. Hatroneli - Beam 2
17. Horrotec - Nova
18. Vlad Suppish - Tunnels of the Mind
19. tofudj - Never Forget
20. Stiroll - Nowhere Dub
21. Mokri Dereva - Moya Nadia
22. Sommer - Fsolie
23. Werner - Wolf
24. Horrotec - Hype
25. Radiant Futur - Padson Dub
26. Friedensreich - Limited Adventures
27. Louwave & Splinter (UA) - April
28. Dunaewsky69 - Tetarto
29. Vaxoid - Ending
30. John Object - vomit the heart forget the mind

◇ - signifies uncertainty. At the heart of every elementary particle, indeterminacy shapes a universe of probabilities. The future, intangible and ethereal, suggests it's yet unborn in the deepest realms. At the core, the future is an unwritten canvas - it does not exist (yet). 

All revenue will be donated to support the unit of Yurii Tymoshenko aka Mokri Dereva, within the framework of the charitable foundation www.lightofrespect.org 

◇ - це невизначеність. В самому серці кожної елементарної частинки невизначеність формує всесвіт імовірностей. Майбутнє, нематеріальне та ефемерне, ще не народилося на фундаментальному рівні. Тобто майбутнє є ненаписаним полотном - воно ще не існує (поки що). 

Усі кошти будуть розподілені на підтримку підрозділу Юрія Тимошенка aka Mokri Dereva - в рамках благодійного фонду www.lightofrespect.org 

Mastered by UTC+16, Kyiv 
Designed by Ivan Starenkov, Kherson 
Editors Mykyta Griaznov & Ivan Pogodichev & Tymur Samarskyi, Kyiv/Lviv 
Media covers by Anton Kalhanov, Lviv 
All information:  corridoraudio.bandcamp.com 
© 2024 Corridor Audio

◇ (Uncertainty) FUTURE

CORAUD 023 Fundraiser V​​​/​​​A: ◇ (Uncertainty) FUTURE

arbitrary20 - CD/DL
26 April 2024

David Moss, Hanno Leichtmann, Hannes Strobl

“Just because Denseland take inspiration from the past, doesn’t mean they're stuck in it. On their first album since 2017, their second for arbitrary, the Berlin-based trio instead ventures slowly but steadily into unknown territory. Hanno Leichtmann and Hannes Strobl’s dub- infused, bass-heavy rhythmic minimalism in combination with lyricist David Moss’s sonorous yet deadpan delivery opens up a space that feels both claustrophobic and infinitely wide.

Like previous Denseland albums, »Code & Melody« picks up on the sparse side of dub-enamoured post-punk, no wave, post-rock, adventurous electronic and improvised acoustic music and blends this with a vocal performance marked by a Lou Reedian cool, a confrontationalism à la Lydia Lunch and, occasionally, an experimentalism akin to Scott Walker. The result is as unique and ambiguous as the record’s title: Musical formal rigour enters into a dialogue with poetic reflections on the beautiful mess that is the human experience.”

Written, recorded and produced by Denseland 2023 in Berlin
Mastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering
Artwork: Denseland and Mads Emil Nielsen
Text: Kristoffer Cornils

Edition of 300 – Digipak: 4c + Pantone / metallic print, incl. download code

https://arbitraryproject.com/Code-Melody

Pre-order: CD

Denseland - Going Up The Going Down (arbitrary20)

Meta is a syllabic abbreviation of two words: "Metallophone" and "Tape."
Metallophone and tape music by Nikolaienko.

"It’s an album where I’ve limited myself to using only two instruments – a metallophone and a four-track tape recorder. Explorations of the metallophone and tape sounds, deconstructed and reintegrated into tracks with cassette loops. This release is part of this year’s series, dedicated not to electronic but to electro-acoustic music with a focus on analog recording and production"
Taken from the Shape platform interview (March 2024)

Side A:
1. Meta VI 
2. Meta IV 
3. Meta V

Side B:
1. Meta III 
2. Meta II 
3. Meta VII 
4. Meta I

Recorded at Telemaja, Tallinn, Summer 2023
Composed, produced, metallophone, tape loops, artwork: Dmytro Nikolaienko 
Saxophone on A3 by Mykola Lebed
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi 
Design by Day Night 
Typeface by KTF

Catalogue: Muscut 33C
Format: Cassette, C40, Digital
File under: ambient, experimental, acoustic
Release date: June 24, 2024

Live at ШЩЦ VA 01 Presentation [Mar_23_2019, Kyiv]

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