This is an open remix project with 11 original, downloadable 24 bit / 48kbps field recordings we captured to create the track Hidden-by-the-Wall (included in this playlist). We invite anyone to take these and use them to create something new. If you do, please post it here on SoundCloud and let us know – we very much want to hear what you do with them.

Hidden-by-the-Wall is a new soundwork by :zoviet*france: commissioned by Green Croft Arts as part of its Collision and Conflict project.

Collision and Conflict is a GPS-triggered geolocated sound walk, presented through the Echoes phone app, that follows a circular route between Walltown and Green Croft in Northumberland, UK. The route runs alongside and close by Hadrian's Wall, a vast Roman defensive fortification that runs east/west across northern England, marking the northwestern frontier of the Roman empire. While following the route, walkers can listen to each of the 14 new music, sound and spoken word Collision and Conflict compositions at the locations to which they've been allocated along the way. Hidden-by-the-Wall can be found along a stretch of open country between Walltown and Thirlwall, a high point from which the distant Scottish borders to the north and the North Pennines to the south can be seen.

In devising Hidden-by-the-Wall we set out to capture hidden and unnoticed sounds in the vicinity and recreate lost sounds that would have been heard decades ago but have now gone forever. The original field recordings that form the hidden and unnoticed sounds are here in this playlist. More about each track can be found in the description on its page.

More on Collision and Conflict:
https://www.greencroftonthewall.com/collision-and-conflict

The recordings are made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix

A binaural recording of the outflow from Horsetail Ponds. The ponds drain into a culvert which runs for several hundred metres before opening out into Quarry Lake.

Recorded 27 January 2021 at Horsetail Ponds, Walltown, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'20.5"N 2°31'08.6"W
Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/usVgkYVy6Ys3oFG38

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Horsetail Ponds Outflow

The audio recorded from a hydrophone as it's dropped into the water followed by the sound of the tiny bubbles created in the immersion.

Recorded 4 March 2021 at Horsetail Ponds, Walltown, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'24.6"N 2°31'05.7"W
Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/hwYhgN45TMmC5eHC6

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Hydrophone Dropped into Horsetail Ponds

A binaural recording of marcescent oak leaves, dead but still on the branches, rustling in the breeze.

Unlike other deciduous trees, for reasons not fully understood, young oaks, along with beech and hornbeam, retain their dead leaves through winter, a characteristic known as marcescence.

Recorded 27 January 2021 at Horsetail Ponds, Walltown, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'20.9"N 2°31'08.4"W
Google Maps: goo.gl/maps/g8ySoNRtSANdSrza6

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Dry Oak Leaves, Horsetail Ponds

A binaural recording of walking in a circle around the microphones.

Recorded 27 January 2021 at Horsetail Ponds, Walltown, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'20.9"N 2°31'08.4"W
Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/g8ySoNRtSANdSrza6

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Circle Walk, Horsetail Ponds

Hidden-by-the-Wall is a new soundwork by :zoviet*france: commissioned by Green Croft Arts as part of its Collision and Conflict project.

Collision and Conflict is a GPS-triggered geolocated sound walk, presented through the Echoes phone app, that follows a circular route between Walltown and Green Croft in Northumberland, UK. The route runs alongside and close by Hadrian's Wall, a vast Roman defensive fortification that runs east/west across northern England, marking the northwestern frontier of the Roman empire. While following the route, walkers can listen to each of the 14 new music, sound and spoken word Collision and Conflict compositions at the locations to which they've been allocated along the way. Hidden-by-the-Wall can be found along a stretch of open country between Walltown and Thirlwall, a high point from which the distant Scottish borders to the north and the North Pennines to the south straddle the horizons.

In devising Hidden-by-the-Wall we set out to capture hidden and unnoticed sounds in the vicinity and recreate lost sounds that would have been heard decades ago but have now gone forever. The original field recordings that form the hidden and unnoticed sounds are here in this playlist. More about each track can be found in the description on its page. Those tracks form an  open remix project with 11 original, downloadable 24 bit / 48kbps field recordings we captured to create this track. We invite anyone to take these and use them to create something new. If you do, please post it here on SoundCloud and let us know – we very much want to hear what you do with them.

More on Collision and Conflict:
www.greencroftonthewall.com/collision-and-conflict

Open remix tracks:
https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix

Hear the remixes:
https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-remixes

Hidden-by-the-Wall

AIR Krew - LOSS REWARD
4/20 on Echotourist
This record is the result of the band's jam sessions in Dubki (Moscow Region). The work refers to discrete music and its heritage. Each of the one side-long tracks contains relaxed improvisations of instruments drowning in echoes and sounds to fictional operating systems. The raw and atmospheric sound of the film with a pleasant noise will carry you to the borderline between sleep and reality.
Album was made in the fall of 2020 at the «Глухое Соседство» (Deaf Neighborhood) residence. The recording was attended by Lena Tsibizova, Emile, Piper Spray, and s0.any.
@kabinw @lenatsibizova @piperspray

LOSS REWARD

Cassettes and Digital

AIR Krew - LOSS REWARD (sampler)

Taken from the album 'Sky Dice / Mapping the Studio' released as LP and Digital

Marcus Schmickler 'Sky Dice / Mapping the Studio (excerpt)'  (EMEGO 296)

Assembled to accompany a short film from Manchester-born visual artist, poet and filmmaker Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh, Joshua Inyang and Joshua Tarelle’s newest is a cinematic audit of identity and ancestry. In the film, Sanoh works hard to visually illustrate an honest and vulnerable picture of her soul. Inyang and Tarelle respond by doing the same with sound, collaging disparate elements together in a way that should be familiar to anyone who heard "hybtwibt?" or their jawdropping RA mix from earlier this year.

Warped field recordings, overdriven rhythmic pressure, syrupy pads and disorienting vocals are cut and pasted over each other, generating a living, breathing study of the duo's Northern working class Black British reality. Unlike the duo's acclaimed "Somewhere Decent To Live" full-length, elements mutate and transform: mushy noise bends into street sounds, haunted vocals into echoing drill melancholia and muffled howls into shattered digital remnants.

Special Edition 10" & digital out now. 
Gold metallic Pantone printed on reverse board.  Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung, cut by LUPO.

Tracklist:

Untitled (To Describe You) [OST] feat. Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh
Version 1
Version 2
Version 3

@space-afrika

Space Afrika - Untitled (To Describe You) [OST] (SFERIC10") [Preview]

Joe Fujinoki is a Tokyo-based musician, synthesist.

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Tracklist

D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. - Självbedrägeri
LXV - Diodes
JD SWIFT - 0​:​00
Lifted - Cymbecko Dub
Kagami Smile - Intangible Mirror
тпсб - Matted Feathers
Klara Lewis & Peder Mannerfelt - You Need To Be Kind
Nikita Bugaev - Untitled
ju ca - Looking Through The Picture Of A Person
Yeong Die - Lowers

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Joe Fujinoki Beatless Tapes Session [30.03.22]

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"When we can no longer move forward or look outward, some reflect and seek truth in themselves – some sharing, through the language of music, what might be impossible to say through words."

Release: https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/speak-you-also

ASM04 | J. Carter – Where It Sees Itself Glitter: On Sand Dunes

Egg Meat- Egg Meat EP (AJ020 clips)

The music of Naarm/Melbourne composer Lisa Lerkenfeldt channels a unique wavelength of foreboding, interstitial electronics, incorporating strategies of musique concréte threaded with veiled currents of melody and hypnosis. Recent recordings for Vienna Press, Longform Editions and Aught Void have demonstrated different depths of process and finesse but her latest, Collagen, captures perhaps the most complete and complex manifestation of her craft to date.

Drawing on a disciplined palette of peach wood combs, contact microphones, piano, strings, and feedback, the album moves in low, looming arcs, ascending to strange purgatories of opaque atmosphere. Lerkenfeldt cites a core aspiration to “elevate the everyday,” transforming common objects into otherworldly sound sources, which colors Collagen with a beguiling tactility, like vibrations traced in sand. The tracks shift in frequency and feeling, alternately heady and bodily, acoustic and synthetic, isolated states of static, light, and undertow skirting the outer rings of ambient, noise, and modern composition.

Although each piece exists in its own rare air the composite panorama they present is striking in its sweep...  more

Credits:
Released August 21, 2020

All music by Lisa Lerkenfeldt
Mastering by Kassian Troyer at D&M
Design by Bartolome Sanson
Scores by Lisa Lerkenfeldt

Collagen

Champagne Smoke

The Blue Hour

Velvachell - Firewood (los colores)

Taken from the album 'You Win Again' (ELP078) out on 14/07/2023

Cypriot synthesist and songwriter Maria Spivak, known for her captivating Bedroom pop and naive songwriting, is back with her highly anticipated album, "You Win Again." This transformative project beautifully encapsulates the process of embracing new chapters and moving forward while cherishing the tender moments that unfold along the way. Spivak skillfully navigates the delicate balance between surrendering to adversity and finding solace in life's absurdity. With humor, lightheartedness, and the support of cherished friends, she fearlessly confronts her inner shadows. Moreover, "You Win Again" explores the captivating power of vulnerability, revealing its remarkable potential to inspire and empower. 

Spivak's earlier works, including her 2020 debut album "Met'a To P'eib = Μετά Το Ρέιβ," resonated with brooding anxieties and infectious melodies, evoking a haunting sense of unease. Her pearlescent synth compositions conjured imagery of steam hissing from potholes or the resonating hum of a Drexciyan trident. In 2021's "Rare Backwards," Spivak blurred the lines between intimate introspection and the dancefloor, hinting at cryptic slacker indie ballads. With "You Win Again," Spivak exudes even greater confidence in her songwriting. These nine songs, with a concise runtime of 25 minutes, seamlessly blend washed-out indie vibes with ethereal synth work, alluding to concealed struggles beneath the surface. 

The mesmerizing opener, "Mid Week Ritual," envelops Spivak's sparse vocoder vocals with swells of static and warped synthesizers, weaving a captivating sonic tapestry. The dreamlike stride of "Golden Boy" finds its foundation in a thick, rubbery bass line, accompanied by layers of synth pads and caustic metallic drums reminiscent of Drexciyan tones. 

In "My Loneliness Is Healing Me," lazily strummed guitar intertwines effortlessly with Spivak's breathy and enchanting vocals, melding with atmospheric textures to create a poignant ballad that blurs the line between dreams and reality. 

Spivak's lyrics oscillate between the abstract and the poetic, spinning tales of love, loss, and transformation without fully disclosing their precise meaning. This enigmatic quality draws listeners into Spivak's world, provoking introspection and inviting personal interpretation. 

Throughout "You Win Again," Maria Spivak adeptly juxtaposes darkness with levity, allowing light to permeate even the most melancholic corners of her songs. The title track embodies this delicate balance, blending introspective musings with a playful and infectious melody. The interplay of buoyant synths and warm guitar strums creates a rhythmic dance, enticing listeners to sway along with Spivak's heartfelt lyrics and irresistible rhythm. 

"You Win Again" stands as a testament to Maria Spivak's artistic growth, showcasing her unwavering determination to confront discomfort, find strength in vulnerability, and embrace the unexpected joys that arise amidst life's ever-changing landscapes. Once again, Spivak proves her mastery as a captivating storyteller and sonic sorceress, leaving listeners longing for more.

Spivak - Golden Boy

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