Current Ambient I keep on coming back to

Marco Lucchi : piano
M.Nomized : electronics
James Hill : trumpet

for "piano patterns" vol. 2 https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/sets/piano-patterns-vol-2

marzo 2021

Marco Lucchi, M.Nomized & James Hill - #9

DAVID GRANSTRÖM, Empty Room - LP

Release date - April 2th 2021
Catalogue nr. - HG2102
Format - Vinyl / digital
Hallow Ground

hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
1) Obsidian 09:22
2) Aeon 10:56
3) Sapphire Visions 04:50
4) Occultations 10:08
5) Transience 04:45

Credits:
All tracks composed, recorded, performed and mixed by David Granström 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Photography by Aron Mattsson
Cover design by Greenpointless

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On »Empty Room,« David Granström works with slow transformations, cyclical and isometric patterns as well as just intonation as a way to create harmonic stability, allowing his long-form pieces to develop their own unique temporal and spatial qualities. A prolific figure in Stockholm’s experimental drone scene and a collaborator of Hallow Ground label mates Maria W Horn and Mats Erlandsson, the Swedish composer navigates through moments of quietude and crushing volume on these five tracks. Sonically and atmospherically, the pieces on »Empty Room« simultaneously call to mind Fennesz’s most meditative work or the physical experience of seeing Sunn O))) live, blending guitar recordings and synthesised sounds with forceful effects similar to those of Mario Díaz de Leon’s Oneirogen project while still being as moving and delicate as Alessandro Cortini’s solo work. The album is marked by melodies and harmonies that are the product of a peculiar working process that turned the composer into an intent listener collaborating with, rather than simply using technology. 

Having been invited by the self-organising artist group The Non Existent Center for a residency to Ställbergs Gruva, a defunct iron ore mine in Sweden’s Bergslagen region, Granström took his guitar as a starting point for his compositional work that heavily relies on real-time sound synthesis. »I seldomly use the instrument as a sound source in the final compositions and rather transcribe and orchestrate the harmonic structures using sound synthesis,« he explains. »On this album however, I chose to include the actual recordings of the guitar in order to extend the spectra between non-referential synthetic sounds and embodied referential sounds.« Working with precise tunings in order to blend the timbre of the synthesis with the harmonic structures of the composition, he created composite sound objects in which the harmonic elements blend into each other. 

Through the re-amplification of synthetic musical materials from the inside of the abandoned mine, his original compositions were enriched with site-specific sound qualities before he further refined them in a singular working process. Granström works with algorithmic and generative processes, using the SuperCollider programming environment and thus blurring the lines between generative and creative forms of composition. »One of the things that I like about this way of working is that it creates a distance between myself as a composer and myself as a listener of the music that is produced entirely by the system,« he says. Granström’s technologically aided eschewing of the conventions of composing doesn’t make the end result any less personal, however. By listening again and again to the newly generated output, Granström simply took on a different role in the process of finalising the music, with the technology and the sounds becoming his co-authors. 

By creating systems that generate music, he gains a new perspective on (musical) time, says Granström. »There doesn't have to be a fixed length to the music at all,« he explains. »And by writing music with this in mind, my focus tends to shift towards writing cyclical structures that gradually change and transform over time.« Simple parts, in other words, that emerge as the five complex wholes that form »Empty Room,« a record that itself seems to take on different forms with every new listen.

DAVID GRANSTRÖM - Occultations (HG2102)

"Make the Secrets Produtive" is taken from "Fold Unfold", Katrine Grarup Elbo´s debut album. Handmade LP and CD editions available April, 2021.

Fold Unfold

Katrine Grarup Elbo - Make the Secrets Productive

enigma

AddyDomarus

Thanks to Autechre for this awesome mix, blending many styles and genres. 

This mix is here to put Neuvoids back to life, as the project was paused for a while now. We hope you'll like this mix as much as we did. More stuff coming really soon!

Full tracklist:

r beny - alpenglow 
a0n0 - 1202
Made - Tek50
Humanoid - Last Seen
Sunken Foal - Trabolgan Acid
Stallone the Reducer - Eight Queens Puzzle
Pinch - Loose Cables
Luxus Varta - Cloud Study
Ishtar - Ca Va Craquer
tsx - nachawa
Versalife - Cosmic Language
ESG - UFO
Fumbata - Actuation
DJ Stingray x The Exaltics - Herd Instinct
CONTAINER - Vacancy
Lauren Bousfield - Foster Kid Running Away Again
Sluta Leta - Snöade Läger
Westside Gunn feat. Slick Rick - Good Night
Patricia Taxxon - Ascension
Civic Edits - Hassle
Stranglers - Meninblack
Spunk - La Bimini
Willie the Kid feat. Rapper Big Pooh and Joe Scudda - Game Winning Shot 
Bob James - Nautilus
Oto Hiax - Silt
Minced Oath - A Game Of Skill And Forethought
Beach Surgeon - Four Millions
The Extra T's - E.T. Boogie
Cygnus Ft. Yukihito Tsuge - Smooth Fixation 中毒
tsx x psygod - silberringe swud
zK - ZERO TOLERANCE
KMRU - under the bridge
Pita - Inend
Russell Haswell - Ambient Takedown
BJ Nilsen - Pole of Inaccessibility
Patricia Taxxon - Crocus 1

Autechre - Mix for Neuvoids

Sat down and loaded my modular with all kinds of beats, loops etc..

Modular DnB Session

Guest mix for Peak Oil's Tipping Point program on LA's Dublab radio.

Peak Oil 'Tipping Point' (Dublab)

heartfelt, intelligent electronics by @jakemuir

₀₂₇ 𝗷𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗶𝗿

Gruth is set to release his 3rd solo album, this time via Temporize. Scenes From  was written between 2018 and 2021 in Brazil and follows Gruth’s debut album Laments released in 2018, and his second album Somnum Exterreri.. Written as a two-act play, 'Act I, Scene I - Wake In Fright' is the opening track and captures Gruth's light, euphoric sound that perfectly transitions from the final moments of Somnum Exterreri. 


words: https://www.asifnoway.com/premiere-gruth-act-i-scene-i-wake-in-fright-temporize

Scenes From

Premiere: Gruth - Act I Scene I; Wake in Fright (Temporize)

The mastermind behind Basic Channel, Hard Wax and Rhythm & Sound doesn't do mixes. For RA.1000, he made an exception.

Trace Mark Ernestus's path, and you trace the evolution of electronic sound itself. The timeline of contemporary Berlin is unimaginable without him. At first, that meant Hard Wax, the crucial hub that shaped the early era of the city's techno revolution. Carl Craig once said it plainly: "Mark was ground zero."

From there, Ernestus never stopped. There's the birth of dub techno and the near-flawless catalogue that followed through Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. There's his immersion in Senegalese mbalax with Ndagga Rhythm Force. Lately, that means Open Ground the Wuppertal bunker that's letting people hear music as never before.

As part three of RA.1000, Ernestus has kindly supplied his first studio DJ mix. As you might expect, it's technically immaculate, but more than that, it feels like a substantial and generous conduit to one of the world's most vital genres.

Amapiano remains underexplored in music media. Publications like our own are still learning to keep pace with the South African sound's global pull, animating millions across the globe. 

You'll hear the range and richness of the genre across the near two-hour mix, from the gothic, percussive stomp of Caltetonic's "Bambela"  to the devotional glow of GemValleyMusiq's "Something Spiritual."

Through all of this, Ernestus has remained understated. He lets the music speak for him, with a quiet honesty that lies in decades of opening doors—creating the conditions for new sounds and scenes to flourish and carry the culture forward.

@opengroundclub @hardwax 

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1011. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Mark Ernestus

A rough and ready improvisation with Hexady: a little Max for Live based system for dynamically mapping tonalities from Ben Chasny's Hexadic System to keyboard.

Hexady can be programmed with a progression a Hexadic figure, and maps the natural notes across two octaves into:

* The centre tone in three different octaves; 
* The six tones from the current hexadic field; 
* The same tones transposed up one octave.

The C# key is used to move to the next hexadic field in the progression.

Hexadic Improvisation with Max for Live

full broadcast

http://m50.net/playlists/2018.03.16.html

@zkiii...
Last Spring : KTL : V : Editions Mego 2012
Death Trip IV : zK : another world entire : zK 2012
Ginnel Mouth : zK : The Ebony Tower : zK 2011
Life Is An Empty : Place : Andrew Liles Life Is An Empty : Place : Norton North 2015
Demeures aquatiques : Beatriz Ferreyra : GRM Works : GRM 2015
YS2 : Goner : Yogascum : Hospital / Hallow Ground 2017
Algiz - Konvergence of Life and Death : Mz.412 : Nordik Battle Signs : Cold Meat Industry 1999
Gone : zKIII : Greybeard Fathoms : 2018
Rites III : Paul Jebanasam : Rites : Subtext 2013
The Trip Part 2 : None : LSD : Capitol Records 1966
Cutlass : zKIII : Greybeard Fathoms : 2018
NYDONBea : zKIII : NYDON : 2017
peaks and valleys : zKIII : peaks and valleys : 2018
Do ME : zKIII : why are you wearing gloves, sir? : 2017
Tutkamaa : ø : Olento : Sähkö Recordings 1996
Unnatural Channel part 2 : Drew MCDowell Unnatural Channel : Dais 2017
Fantasma : Modulazione : Alessandro Cortini Sonno : Hospital Records 2014
Monadology : Eyvind Kang : Visible Breath : Ideologic Organ 2011
Allegro : Francis Dhomont : Frankenstein Symphony : Asphodel 1997
COPAL (MGRM07) : Coil : Moon’s Milk CDR remasters 2007 : 2007
Obscene Birds : Randy Greif : Noises From The Attic : Forced Nostalgia 2013
7:38 : Cluster : 71 : Captain Trip
Zero zero one, zero one, zero one : John Avery : Jessica In The Room oF Lights : Forced Nostalgia 2012
grim shores [exh.j6grun] : zKIII : grim shores : zKIII 2016
Saying : zKIII : flaneur II : zKIII 2016

@daniel-marius-reisser... (1h 42m)
no setlist

streamed live at @wnur

zK + Marius Reisser @ etc, WNUR 2018.03.16

Music for Whales, an ambient radio transmission.
Chapter 13: Twenty nine musical xperiments mixed in the same set as a test tube. Nothing else to say... Whales would not understand us.

Tracklist and links:

1. Simon Fisher Turner -  Hope Swims 
 https://simonfisherturner.bandcamp.com/

2. Tujiko Noriko -my heart isn't only mine
https://tujikonoriko.bandcamp.com/album/my-ghost-comes-back

3.Thomas Brinkmann – Bleiweiss
https://thomasbrinkmann.bandcamp.com/album/what-you-hear-is-what-you-hear

4. Loke Rahbek & frederik valentin - a woman without
https://lokerahbekfrederikvalentin.bandcamp.com/

5. Steve Hauschildt - Familiar scene
https://stevehauschildt.bandcamp.com/album/s-h

6. Cindytalk - Feathers burn
https://cindytalkemego.bandcamp.com/album/the-crackle-of-my-soul

7. Emeralds - Goes By
https://emeraldsemego.bandcamp.com/album/does-it-look-like-im-here

8. Richard Chartier - Horizontal Format (for D. Marti)
https://richardchartier.bandcamp.com/album/taking-into-account-only-a-portion-of-your-emotions

9. Anthony Pateras - Automatic 1
https://anthonypateras.bandcamp.com/

10. Oto Hiax - Eses Mitre
https://otohiax.bandcamp.com/album/s-t


11. KTL V - Phill 2 (Orchestrated By  Jóhann Jóhannsson)
http://editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO-120

12. Pita -  Line angel
https://pitaemego.bandcamp.com/album/get-in

13. Fennezs – Caecilia
https://fenneszemego.bandcamp.com/album/endless-summer

14. Oneohtrix point never – Stress waves 
https://opnemego.bandcamp.com/

15. Exposure Scales- Sunlight
https://kasseljaeger.bandcamp.com/album/toxic-cosmopolitanism

16. Anthony Child -  Old Technology
https://anthonychild.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-recordings-from-maui-jungle-vol-2

17. Loke Rahbek - City of Women
https://lokerahbek.bandcamp.com/album/city-of-women

18. The transcendence orchestra -  Barrington Park
https://thetranscendenceorchestra.bandcamp.com/

19. Thought Broadcast - Carving A Vow
https://thoughtbroadcast.bandcamp.com/

20. UUUU - Partial Response Takes Another Form
https://uuuuemego.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

22. Exposure Scales- Combat
https://kasseljaeger.bandcamp.com/album/toxic-cosmopolitanism

23. Klara Lewis -  Twist
https://klaralewis.bandcamp.com/album/too

24. Licht-Akiyama Trios - Tomorrow Outside Tomorrow
https://licht-akiyamatrios.bandcamp.com/album/tomorrow-outside-tomorrow

25. Oren Ambarchi - Quixotism Part 2
https://orenambarchiemego.bandcamp.com/album/quixotism

26. Oren Ambarchi & Jim O'Rourke - Indeed B
https://orenambarchijimorourke.bandcamp.com/album/indeed

27. Compound Eye -  Foehn 
https://compoundeyeemego.bandcamp.com/album/journey-from-anywhere

28. Cindytalk - Sea Of Lost Hopes
https://cindytalkemego.bandcamp.com/album/the-labyrinth-of-the-straight-line

29. Gilbert, Bruce -  Do You Me I Did Parts 1,2 Swamp
https://brucegilbert.bandcamp.com/album/this-way

Music For Whales - Editions Mego, its best ambient tracks

A selection of tracks from the Ampoule & Talent Hoover discography.

Chosen & Brewed by Pub:

Pliiant - Marbrissa (Diipliioviila part 2)
Bachel - issues (Cat Say Dog Say)
Bachel - yes no piano (Go Gax)
Pliiant - interspring 1 (Montage)
Pliiant - interspring 2 (Montage)
Pub - Gota Fria (Liltmor)
The Actors Pedantry - The Chocolate Factory (Diffrint Hings Oan)
Pliiant - Delovely Moskowitz (Diipliioviila part 3)
The Actors Pedantry - Feelings Engine (Diffrint Hings Oan)
Pliiant - Eudaimonia (Diipliioviila part 2)
Pub - All Is Not Lost (Making Trakcx)
The Actors Pedantry - Diffrint Hings Oan (Diffrint Hings Oan)
Choo Choo Brown - Unodos (Ve_In_S)
Bachel - The Saturday Requisite (Cat Say Dog Day)
Pliiant - Nasanov's Gland (Diipliioviila part 3)
Pub - Llaves (unreleased)
Pliiant - Blakey (Segs)
Pliiant - Little Tanks (Segs)
Pliiant - Pophiophidelium (Sterile Committee)
Pliiant - Leopoldine (Markens Grøde)
Pub - After Glow (555)

All tracks can be purchased from
https://ampoulerecords.bandcamp.com/

https://www.ampoulerecords.com

https://www.pliiant.com/



The Loch Inn mix

The Loch Inn - Brewed By Pub

From Atlas der Gedanken, available now on cassette tape and digital.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/atlas-der-gedanken

AddyDomarus

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