Robert van Heumen : fury

‘Fury’ is the first real CD by Robert van Heumen, a name that may not ring an immediate bell (perhaps, who knows), but who is an active driving force in the Dutch improvised electronic music. He’s active with such bands/collectives/projects as OfficeR, Skif++, RKS, Shackle and founding member of N Collective, if not organizing events for Steim in Amsterdam. His primary instrument is the laptop running software like LiSa (live sampling) and SuperCollider, sampling everyday sounds and making them sound like anything but everyday sounds. On his debut CD he has two pieces. The four part work ‘Fury (After Anger)’ and ‘They Would Get Angry Sometimes’. The first uses texts about ‘Dust Bowl migrants living in Farm Security Administration camps in central California (1940-1941). Many Americans fled the Great Plains looking for work and a better economical and ecological environment”. The texts however do not play a big part in the composition. There is a bit of guitar like sound to be spotted (self-played? taken from the original recordings), and a bit of text, but throughout the title piece is a racket of noise tumbling through the bits and bytes of the computer – but beware it’s not noise in the traditional sense of the word. It’s dynamic, ever changing, crackling, loud and soft, buzzing and hissing. Even without being able to understand the text, which doesn’t seem to be absolutely necessary, this is a very nice piece, shifting back and forth between abstract sound and more melodic passages. The second piece uses some similar sounds but is altogether a strict abstract piece of music of an even harsher quality type of noise. Vibrant music this is, great music – moving away from the delicate structures of microsound into the land of noise based textures. More Mego than micro. Great start!
Frans de Waard (Vital)

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#1-#4 fury (after anger)
#5 they would get angry sometimes

Robert van Heumen – electronics
© 2008
Recorded in the Netherlands
Cover design Robert van Heumen

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Carl Kruger and chefkirk : Unexpected End of Formula

chefkirk + carl kruger = UNEXPECTED END OF FORMULACarl and I have been collabín since 2004 and this is our 5th release together.Mr. Kruger and I have a release under the moniker Ibiza Shock Troops. Troops consisted of Carl supplying the beats and my no-input mixer modulations thrown on top. The source material for UNEXPECTED END OF FORMULA was originally intended for another I.S.T. release, but i really didnít like what we had. Carl sent me the original beats back in late 2007. I added the no-input and shelved the whole thing. I broke it out in 2008, but didn’t like the new changes. Finally I dug this stuff up again in August of í08. After many, many CPU edits, and 1 final mix Jan. 2009 it is done.chefkirk [http://tibprod.com/chefkirk.htm ]carl kruger [www.myspace.com/cockasians910 ]

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VIALKA: Succès Planétaire International

(2009): CD.

Hailing from deepest France, via everywhere and nowhere, Vialka are a devilishly high-spirited guitar/drums duo who tour hard and fast across the world. Together they create a music that skips joyfully across borders, channeling desert blues, Chinese folk songs, scatter rock and European gypsy song dynamics. This whirlwind of dervish energy, combines endless gypsy punk folk rock tales, hard hitting polyrhythms, yelps and howls into one feverishly danceable and intoxicating brew. Like ‘A Hawk And A Hacksaw’ or ‘The Ex’ their openness to new sounds and cultures makes you feel alive and shows that ‘world punk rock’ need not be a dirty phrase. Succès Planétaire International (“International Worldwide Success”), is their latest album and third recording with engineer Bob Drake. The album features collaborations with François Marcziniak and Cyrielle Faure (tuba and flute), Crank Sturgeon (vocals and guitar), Andrew Dymond (mbira), and Xiao He (vocals and Hunan pipa).

2002

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Fars : The Mold Is In The Moor

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James Mcdougal – An Opening in the Canopy

James McDougall (Entia Non). All recordings taken at dawn in Mount Glorious National Park, South East Queensland, Australia. Slightly abstracted impressions of moving through a rain forest. Features of landscape, quietude and retreat. Minimal processing.

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david grundy : sound_journey

‘Sound Journey: Eartrip Compilation # 1′ is an MP3 compilation album designed to accompany the third issue of ‘eartrip‘ magazine

A first for the magazine, this MP3 compilation collects pieces by a diverse range of improvising musicians. The performers are: Alexander Hawkins, Anthony Whiteford, David Curington, Dominic Lash, Graham Mackeachen, The Improvising Clarinet Ensemble (I-C-E), Ilia Belorukov, Styles Kauphmann, Skarabee, Stet Lab, and The Cambridge Free Improvisation Society. Performances were recorded in England, Ireland, and Russia.

I’m sure many readers have a fairly substantial collection of free CDs collected from years of magazine subscriptions: some rare and rather exciting in their zany selection of tracks, some containing performances of genuine and lasting worth. Well here’s another: the first eartrip compilation album. Of course, as eartrip is internet-based, this makes it a little different from the usual free CD: ‘sound journey’ is available as an MP3 release rather than a physical object, although artwork and additional information is provided along with the MP3s, so that you can burn your own copy, if you so desire. In any case, rather than a mere supplement or add-on to this issue, I’d like to consider this an integral part of the magazine.

The track-list is as follows:
The Cambridge Free Improvisation Society – Michaelhouse (9:22)
David Curington – Cambridge Improvisation No. 2c (30/1/09) (3:21)
I-C-E (The Improvising Clarinet Ensemble) – Green Tea and Acid (3:26)
Skarabee – Ghostly (3:53)
Graham Mackeachan – ghosts before breakfast (2:18)
Stet Lab – Has ‘It’ Happened? (9:44)
Ilia Belorukov – Alto Sax Improvisation (6:10)
Dominic Lash – Hatch (5:56)
Mark Anthony Whiteford – radio breath (10:00)
Styles J. Kauphmann – acoustic improvisation: solo voice (excerpt) (9:58)
Alexander Hawkins – Isfahan (9:07)

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StruKtur : Harsh Toys

(ca238) (March 29, 2009)

Good listen!

Struktur is the solo project of one half of 10konekt.
Contact:

http://www.myspace.com/strukturmusik

http://www.struktur.fr.tc/

struktur@aliceadsl.fr

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Chris Abrahams / Clare Cooper : GERM STUDIES

for Guzheng and DX7

Chris Abrahams, DX7
Clare Cooper, Guzheng

198 scratches, itches and ailments.

Germ Studies is the inspired pairing of renowned Sydney pianist Chris Abrahams, and Berlin based Australian harpist Clare Cooper – but if you’re expecting a harmonic polyphony of harp and piano you’ll be shocked by the alien landscapes that span the 198 tracks of this double disk.

The unlikely combination of 1980s Japanese synth and 1380′s Chinese harp creates an ambiguous and ambitious music. Although stemming from a language borne of contemporary electro-acoustic improvisation – Germ Studies approaches the path from a very different angle – filled with wonder-ful, ecstatic and unexpected joys.

Chris Abrahams is perhaps best known for his work with the improvising trio The Necks. He has also released 5 solo albums, 5 albums of songs (with the singer Melanie Oxley), as well as many collaborative projects with artists such as Clayton Thomas, Mike Cooper and Stevie Wishart.
He has composed for the screen and has been nominated for two Australian Film Institute awards for best soundtrack in a feature film. He has also worked in the medium of radio both as producer and as composer, collaborating with sound artist Sherre Delys and the writer Rick Moody amongst others.
A veteran of the Australian improvised music scene, he first began playing the DX7 in the 1980′s and has remained a constant explorer of the poetry in this remarkable FM synthesiser. His deeply personal work on the instrument is obvious from the first undulating sweep of Acid Shower¹.

Clare Cooper is keenly interested in extended vocabularies on the concert harp and the guzheng. As a founder of the NOW now festival and as a profoundly gifted improviser, Clare has had an immense impact on the Sydney music community. Since moving to Berlin in 2007, she has performed across Europe, with many of the worlds most venerated improvisers including work with the John Butcher Octet, Kapital Band 1, The Trondheim Jazz Orchester, and forming the international seven piece HAMMERIVER with Tobias Delius, Werner Dafeldecker, Christof Kurzmann, Tony Buck and Clayton Thomas.

Germ Studies for guzheng and DX7 stands alone in their collective oeuvre.

Moving from five second sound bites to five minute odyssey – the journey that takes you from the first Germ to the 198th has a daring flexibility, combined with captivating detail – as if the collected output of Pierre Schaeffer and Todd Dockstadter were being channelled through the quick fire mind of a chess master.

Not happy with the gargantuan output of 198 distinct pieces, GERM STUDIES goes a step further – presenting an A3 Wall Chart with 198 Germ illustrations, depicted in sinister and candid detail by colleagues and friends, from Otomo Yoshihide to Clare’s mum.

More than a collection of improvisations by two imaginative musicians, Germ Studies is a defining document, presented with all the care and attention to detail that these complex, bizarre and beautiful pieces deserve.

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Necktar 2017-Vol1

The unhealthy new encyclopedia is available on earsheltering, here
Necktar 2017, the reissue of a sampler to appear in 20 (35?).
Come get lost in these deviant sounds where each song will take you to
successive shifts. Have you ever been afraid of losing control? If the
answer is yes, this compilation is for you.

.01. Paradiso Dimenticato…………………………………………………….ShivaTribu 07.42
.02. Musicboxes……………………………………………….M.Nomized & Obozdur 05.20
.03. As Time Travel [Cortex mix]……………………………………………AdamLWO 04.16
.04. Moonphase prelude………………Penn Kemp & Chris Meloche 01.12
.05. Hidden rooms……………………………………………………………………….Spit it Out 05.28
.06. Belledanse……………………………………………………………………………………………..Djet 02.30
.07. More brutal noise from hell……………………….Intervention zone 03.48
.08. I Like To Take The Yellow Bus…………………………………..DYBITCOTGV ? 04.52
.09. Babycomeback………………………………………………………..Susan Matthews 04.07
.10. Broaching Rage…………………………………………The Tapeworm Vessel 04.41
.11. Profferte di oscuro dominio e crudele potenza.CORPOPARASSITA 03.08
.12. Maya…………………………………………………..Ben Presto Larsen Lombriki 03.45
.13. Back to the cave…………………………………………Les Modules Etranges 01.46
.14. Emotions Code…………………………………………………………………….Spit it Out 05.15
.15. Long live the new flesh………………………………………..Jenn Birkenow 05.25
.16. Emen Flooded………………………………………………………………………………….e men 04.25
.17. Crucifixus………………………………………………………………….Thomas Wiracki 04.38
.18. Painted nails mixxo……………………………………….Mike Meanstreetz 02.53
.19. Anachronisme……………………………………………………………………………..Arcaïde 04.34
.20. Glitter Wehwalt mix……………………………………………..Jenn Birkenow 06.53
..21. Frenchmxx……………………………………………………………Mike Meanstreetz 04.18
..22. [4] dotes on anecdotes. by a man. (in progress)……………………murmurists 05.20
..23. This The Virus Whirls Of Slow Death…….The Painful Leg Injuries 03.08
..24. Travailler plus pour travailler plus…………………………Jungle Is Neutral 03.05
.25. Appel à l’Insurrection I………………………Symbol Of Subversion 03.26
.26. Détruit……………………………………………………………………………………………Wehwalt 06.09
.27. Mais j’ai rien demandé moi………………………………………Planetaldol 05.38
.28. Récalcitrante……………………………………………………….Gestalt OrchestrA 04.44
.29. Leap day…………………………………………………………………………………..Tone Poem 13.40
.30. American White Trash Culture…………………………………….Turmoil 03.41
.31. Ota Benga pt.1………………………………………………………………………….TSIDMZ 07.31
.32. Le cimetière des enfants 03………………………..Intervention zone 02.04
.33. Stoneblind……………………………………………………………………………………………..Djet 02.09
.34. Indéfini………………………………………………………………………………………….Wehwalt 06.37
.35. Nucleo………………………………………………………………………………………………….VINCI 06.26
.36. No more thinking………………………………………………………….Mechanicoid 05.31
.37. Male Genitalia Examination……………………………Thee Virginal Brides 03.42
.38. Bobby J Thérapy………………………………………………………………………..Arcaïde 03.11
.39. An Anxiety Dream About Performing Acoustic..The Painful Leg Injuries 03.31
.40. Clear Chain…………………………………………….Chlorophyll Fluxbunny 07.42
.41. Long Ignored Lunar Instances Lingered..The Painful Leg Injuries 04.08
.42. Kairo………………………………………………………………………………………………….A.n.K.h 03.15
.43. Already Forgotten…………………………………………………………Mechanicoid 04.47
.44. Holiontonskyies………………………………………………………..Botulism Prick 02.55
.45. Sietämätön Valo…………………………The Great Onanist Swindle 03.29
.46. Within a cube black as pitch….Astrogenic Hallucinauting 05.55
.47. Hello walls……………………………………………………………….Mister Fuckhead 08.46
.48. Interval A………………………………………………………………………………………………..Djet 02.30
.49. Shade The Blind………………………………………………..Vanishing Cream 05.36
.50. Yums yums yums…………………………………………………….Jenn Birkenow 03.37
.51. Twilight at the incinerator………………………………………………NuxNazi 05.24
.52. This is Strange Planetalcion……………………………………….Planetzoo 04.37
.53. Ascension1………………………………………………………………………..Anton Mobin 02.33
.54. Sound Property………………………………………………………..James Edmonds 11.38
.55. Ascension2…………………..The Ghost Between The Strings & Anton Mobin 06.44
.56. Recording is all it takes……………………………………..James Edmonds 04.37
.57. Ascension3…………………..The Ghost Between The Strings & Anton Mobin 10.12
.58. You are a movie star…………………………………………………………….Finaldoll 04.28
.59. Hate……………………………………………………………………………………………………….VINCI 01.35
.60. Poly Darton……………………………………………………………………..Flying Spider 03.12
.61. Bardoh VersuS Butoh…………………………Symbol Of Subversion 07.11
.62. Objet très petit a……………………………………………….Gestalt OrchestrA 00.21
.63. Les Puces du Son au Bruit de l’Orient………………………………………Pacific 231 01.55
.64. Orienthal………………………………………………………………………………….Klimperei 01.33
.65. Radical Dada………………………………………………………..Gestalt OrchestrA 05.57
.66. Warning time……………………………………………Symbol Of Subversion 00.23
.67. Un truc folk……………………………………………………………………………..Klimperei 01.06
.68. Dragon Song………………………………………………………………..Ethnomite Pux 11.42
.69. #3……………………………………………..The Montreal Nintendo Orkestar 05.14
.70. There She Goes [Chromatic Mix]………………………….Ethnomite Pux 03.15
.71. Malphas……………………………………………………………………………………Project 418 04.24
.72. My Bella Lee……………………………………………………………………………..NuxNazi 06.31
.73. I’m dirt…………………………………………………………………………………….Criad Crias 02.39
.74. Variante Italie……………………………………………………………………….Klimperei 00.48
.75. The Crypts of Lieberkühn………………….The Darkening Scale 02.08
.76. I Love Special K…………………………………………………………Radio Scotvoid 04.16
.77. Connect my brain to the machine…………………………………………..Adam LWO 04.58
.78. Harey………………………………………………………………………………………..Gas Anorex 05.28
.79. S1P4T1…………………………………………………………………………………………….Hardleg 01.29
.80. Please call me a driver………………………………………………………….Joli-joli 06.40
.81. Der mond………………………………………………………Krankheit der Jugend 01.38
.82. CutUp…………………………………………………………………………………………………..VINCI 00.19
.83. Between The Lines…………………………………………………………………..Clutter 02.15
.84. Sk1………………………………………………………Justin Robert/AKA Shulaka 02.35
.85. Pulsey Edit…………………………………………………………………………Mechanicoid 01.17
.86. Les Fraises……………………………………………………………….BeNe GeSSeRiT 03.29
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Total Time / Temps Total : 6 h 17 mn …….
Playlist / Playliste . .. . . . .
Cover / Pochette . .. . . . .
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Licences of the tracks / Licences des titres

Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – No Derivative Works :
4.6.8.9.11.16.30.31.33.35.37.48.54.56.59.63.64.67.68.69.74.79.82.84.86

Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – Share Alike :
1.3.5.10.14.19.22.23.24.27.38.39.40.41.42.52.58.70.73.75.76.77.78.81.83

C Reaction : 7.13.15.20.25.26.28.32.34.44.45.50.53.55.57.61.62.65.66

If some tracks are not listed ask to the contributor
for other uses than free sharing.
Pour tout autre usage que la libre diffusion,
si des morceaux ne sont pas dans la liste
addressez vous directement aux participants.

Necktar 2017 volume 1 is a free to share compilation.
Necktar 2017 volume 1 est une compilation en libre diffusion.

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Technical Informations / Informations Techniques

Because of the diversity of the sound’s treatments,
the noise level of Necktar 2017 volume 1 is not balanced.
You can use mp3gain for set it.

En raison de la diversité des traitements du son
le niveau sonore de la compilation n’est pas équilibré.
Si besoin est, vous pouvez utiliser mp3gain pour le règler.

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Necktar 2017 volume 1 is a coproduction :
Necktar 2017 volume 1 est une coproduction :
Le Colibri Nécrophile / Earsheltering / M.i.r.e.n.a

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Collective 4tet : In Transition

CD LR 529 – LEO RECORDS
Release date: 2009/01

This is the sixth CD by the Collective 4tet on Leo Records with Arthur Brooks (trumpet) taking the place of the late trombone player Jeff Hoyer. William Parker, Mark Hennen, Jeff Hoyer and Heinz Geisser have been playing together for 15 years and Jeff’s death was a shock to everybody. On this recording one hears Collective 4tet reassembling itself and brilliantly creating its identity anew. As Stuart Broomer writes, “The Collective 4tet has been one of the great bands of free jazz, …”

2000

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Gintas K & Gys : when the drummer is smoking .ep

In 2006, me and GyS talked about collaboration, in which we could use each otherâs material. We exchanged the raw files. I completed my part, composed from his sounds (mostly guitar sound). In the middle of GySâ work his computer crashed and all his work was lost. Only my part left, and it is on this ep.

On track When the drummer is smoking I imagine BAUHAUS or COIL (If they had one) drummer taking a rest in the middle of the concert. Smoking a cigarette with one hand, while playing on Hi-hat with the other. The show goes on.

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Merzbow : Somei

About three weeks ago I reviewed ‘Hodosan’ by Merzbow, which showed his love for drums, or perhaps a return to the drums he once started to play in the formative days of his career, but its not an one-off move, as for ‘Somei’ he chooses the same route. Or perhaps, in good Merzbow traditions, never do anything once you can do more. I was quite surprised to see this released on a label that is better known for electronic rhythms, technoid music and darker ambient courses, but hey why not have Masami Akita banging the drums, along with his fine line of feedback and distortion. His drums are in total free spirit here, free jazz its best. Like with ‘Hodosan’ its absolutely unclear what came first – the drums or the noise, or whether the drums respond to the electronics, or the electronics go, in perfect synchronization, with drums. Kinda like the Silver Apples once did with some different result. I wrote on ‘Hodosan’, ‘another small alley opened’, but perhaps it would have been better to say, ‘another motorway opened’. This is another fine CD. For all those who read this and mumble ‘but why would need another Merzbow CD’, I’d say ‘quite right, you don’t, but then would you need a CD by anybody at all’? No doubt the true devotees marched to the e-stores already.

Vital Weekly 667

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AxDelbor , Carlos Groenland , Denis Mc Carty : CRASH #06

1 30’08”
H.A.K. Lo-Fi Record n.177

Enregistre a Grrnd Zero (bureau 1011) le 17.02.09
Mixe au Chuck-a-Luck69

AxDelbor : spirit bending
Carlos Groenland : synth, loops & fx
Denis Mc Carty : turntables, tapes & loops

Artwork by Carlos Groenland.

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Burns / Rodrigues / Rawlings / Hirvonen : refrain

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The 26+ minutes of “Refrain” were recorded at Seattle’s Gallery 1412 during the local Improvised Music Festival. The instrumentation comprises piano, viola, amplified cello, surface electronics, loudspeakers, electric guitar and electronics. It’s one of the “obscure” releases in the history of the Portuguese label, both in specific terms of sound and intuition of where the musicians are directed, which is still unclear at the end of the piece. That is not to say that the performance is not good, au contraire: there’s a feel of eeriness in this improvisation that forces us to stay under the shadows of suspicion throughout, as when troubled individuals try to worm a way in our mind by suggesting impossible doubts on someone we trust blindly. The alternatively radical and familiar quality of the timbres exploited by the accomplices contributes to this state of unhinged interest: clear piano notes stain otherwise persisting static superimpositions of feedback and drones, viola and cello attributing a component of normalcy in otherwise unclassifiable clutters of small noises let loose by the guitar. Sinister scrapes abound, as the quartet seeks out for rust and residues – not a hint to any kind of tidiness. When they manage to achieve the aim – with a little suffering – it just looks like when it stops raining, but the sky remains threateningly black. Massimo Ricci (Touching Extremes)

Gust Burns – piano
Ernesto Rodrigues – viola
Vic Rawlings – cello, surface electronics, loudspeakers
David Hirvonen – electric guitar, electronics

© 2007

Recorded in Seattle, 8th February 2006

Cover design Carlos Santos

1998

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Nicola Ratti – èsope

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Nicola Ratti is one of Zymogen’s favourite Italian composers.
After the acclaimed album From The Desert Came Saltwater, published on Anticipate in 2008, and the collaborative project Bellows with Giuseppe Ielasi, Nicola gives us a unique composition called ésope.
This work was originally done for the exhibition “ésope reste ici et se repose”#1, which took place in Montpellier between October 30th and December 13th 2008.
It’s a single track based on processed field recordings taken in Montpellier between the 22nd and 25th April of the same year and was conceived of as the musical background for the exhibition.
Twenty copies of this work have been printed on cdrs in conjunction with very special handmade packaging by Fatima Bianchi, which you can still buy directly on Nicola’s myspace.

Nicola Ratti’s music is based on the search for a personal language that is capable of joining basic song structure, electro-acoustic experimentation and the use of sounds extracted from the environment in which we live. He does this with a sensibility that ranges from improvisation to the construction of sound via sheer artisanship.
Voice and words are combined to produce a variety of niceties, overtones and gradation open to all forms of interpretation. In this piece you’ll find all these elements, but this time Nicola is focused more on textures and sound design creating a different atmosphere from his previous work.
This is a real gem that we can explore while waiting for his forthcoming album “Ode”, which will see the light later this year on Preservation.

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Herd – Tangents 32 – 39

Herd is Jason Thomson, who’s located in Corby, England.
With his Tangents, his ongoing abstract ambient/space series, he has been featured on a diversity of radio shows such as Rob Booth’s Electronic Explorations, Mary Anne Hobbs Experimental (BBC Radio1) and more recently, DiversityFM’s MUSICBOX.
The first 19 tracks in Jason’s series got released on the PostUnder netlabel‘s sublabel, FSOR.
You’ll want those once you hear these.
Tangents artwork by Nick Nenov vs Jan Robbe.

01 – Tangent 32
02 – Tangent 33
03 – Tangent 34
04 – Tangent 35
05 – Tangent 36
06 – Tangent 37
07 – Tangent 38
08 – Tangent 39

Herd (myspace)

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Lapslap : ITCH

Itch – Ten Improvisations for Instruments and Live Electronics

Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, Lapslap emerged from a desire to make well-formed music in realtime using computers and instruments. The group freely combines computer solos with instrumental trios and any combination in between: in one set, instrumentation can range from the purely acoustic piano/sax/horn to the completely electric laptop/laptop/synth. The music draws from traditions ranging from avant-garde classical, free improv/free jazz through to improvised electroacoustic/glitch.

Lapslap: Michael Edwards / Karin Schistek / Martin Parker

1997

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D’incise – Cendre et poudre

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a still inhabited space meticulous archaeology,
on half-earased pages remained open books,
what others meant and nobody knew how to don’t tell,
silky mineral prints,
time put in flesh and bones,
notes without stave and rhythms without fasteners,
to the powder indifferent breath,
to the ash return cycle.

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Jean-Luc Guionnet : Non-Organic Bias

Two facts determined the compositional process of non-organic bias :

1 – the title itself

2 – the sound sources used for the piece were restricted to various recordings I made of the organ

Other then the play of words that sum up many of my main points of interests with the organ (organ – organum – organism – organic – etc.), the title, bias, means prejudice, focussing on, interest in, systematic distortion, irregular shape, oblique course, predisposition, partiality, from the french biais, all of them signifiing for me a sort of base of living organism.

Inclinations going through material, warped matter, a form full of inner slopes, a material that bends… non-organic bias : to rediscover the bias of a sound machine (the organ) and then, keeping the same concerns, following up these bias’ up until the membrane of the speaker, passing through the whole electroacoustic network.

To compose with the technical issues, to be on the hunt for forms and artefacts that the techniques produce, when, following its own tendancies (bias), it is brought to its own limit : border effects, resonances, natural saturations, … all artefacts that sign the acoustic, analogic, digital, process…

To compose with the tendancies of the non-organic, and with the tendancies toward the non-organic : these are the 2 possible meanings of non-organic bias.

“Non-organic bias” is dedicated to Franck Gourdien.

Paris 2003

Translation : Will Guthrie

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seth cluett : a position in equilibrium

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Release Date : 23.03.09

During a live performance at Studio Soto, Boston, in October 2007, seth cluett created this stunningly sparse set of droning sine waves accompanied by sounds generated by a laundry list of seemingly unrelated objects like styrofoam blocks, slide whistle, tin toys, and motors. The resulting forty-plus minutes unfolds with razor-sharp precision, skirting the boundaries of silence and composed aural events before focusing on a cycling drone whose interplay with the other sound sources becomes the primary focus of the piece – the central nerve in a system of sonic balance.

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Hitoshi Kojo – Kumoma / Shigemi / Mogari

These pieces were originally made for a compilation album “Yasujiro Ozu – Hitokomakura” of “and/OAR” label, which was released in 2007.

The participants were ordered to make the piece based on the stills of Ozu’s movies.
Probably many of you know his movies. His movies were based on so-called ordinary daily life of old days in Japan.
At least it was my impression of his movies, even though the reality of my daily life in Japan was totally different…
So, it was an interesting challenge for me to see how I can work in the gap of the reality.
However it was much more difficult to adapt his movie’s image to my work than I had expected.
Then, I needed to make up seven pieces until an acceptable one was made.
Now I can say, all the other pieces were funnily different from the image of Ozu’s movie.
Dale Lloyd(and/OAR) told me that some of them might have been suitable for the previous compilation for the movies of Andrew Tarkovsky.
Three of them sounded listenable as they are. So, I decided to share them with you.

They were all composed between the end of 2005 and the beginning of 2006 in Epesses and Cully in Switzerland.
All the sound sources were only taken from field recordings in various places.

Another mix of “Mogari” was used for a short video piece in same title, which I offered to a media art festival in Italy “Squardi Sonori 2008″ later.

These photos are not related with Ozu’s movie. Third photo is a still from the video piece “Mogari”.

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Massimo Magee : Strange Fruit

[AR08]
A ’still life’ in improvised sound

[AR08] is called ‘Strange Fruit’ because it is, at least in part, about choices. Choices and the consequences of these choices. These consequences that flow on from our choices and our attempts (successes/failures) to control them – the pursuit and relinquishing of control. The amplifier feedback is in some parts controlled, and in some parts set up and then left to its own -punintendeddevices to play out as dictated by forces outside of human control (vibrations in the desk, in the air, etc.). The fierce rain outside which can be heard on the recording is not controlled. The field recordings – momentary portals to another place and time – are set in motion, but not controlled. The ukulele, flute and sopranino saxophone are controlled. Thus the pursuit and relinquishing of control as well as the entirely uncontrollable are all happening at the one time. Many elements of the life of the capsicum in the image on the cover, no doubt, were controlled right from where it was grown, likely designed to produce a round, red, perfectly healthy specimen. Many aspects of its presentation in the supermarket, in a specially designed area placed in with lots of other round, red, healthy-looking capsicums [capsicae?] were also, no doubt, controlled to enforce this impression of a normal round, red capsicum. Somehow, however, other forces outside of control conspired to produce this strange, but strangely beautiful vegetable, and a relinquishing of control (nay, quality control) on the supermarket’s part led to its being placed on display in the capsicum basket for the hungry (and forgiving) consumer to find and photograph. This intertwining of the pursuit and relinquishing of control and the uncontrollable, unpredictable forces of nature led to this strangely beautiful object being created and put in a position for its strange, individual beauty to be observed and enjoyed by others who would otherwise not have seen it.

This piece is intended to be listened to at very low volume, with the sounds of the rain on the recording just at the very edge of hearing, and the other sounds very faint, so that they are subsumed into the sounds of the room around them.

-Massimo Magee

1: Strange Fruit 19:50
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Massimo Magee: Amplifier with headphones and preparations, Ukulele, Wooden Flute, Field Recordings, Sopranino Saxophone, recorded to tape

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Etienne Michelet – Jeux pour Clavier

*RONDEAUX, OU L’ESCALIER DU DIABLE*

24 keyboard sketches and hand games

Etienne Michelet is a french musician and writer working on musical pieces including words and pictures.

In 2007, he began his own project called CALENDAIRES, in the manner of a musical tale, describing through music and writings a whole land of apprehension…

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[neuma] : Mourning Star

biodata 23

I …de como su anciana amiga llega al final del ciclo y se convierte en una enana blanca

II …de como vive una falsa placidez inmersa en la tranquila pero triste soledad

III …de como, con su resignada lucidez, se deja morir y enfrenta el mismo destino de su desaparecida amiga

una vida de viento estelar y radiación electromagnética.

“Si tan solo el dolor de perder a alguien querido no se convirtiera en esa oscura resignación llena de remembranzas y soledad. Si tan solo pudiéramos seguir viviendo el dolor del recuerdo.”

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Mokuto : Dressed like a horse

Mokuto is presenting three of Denmark’s foremost improvisers in collaboration width New York Trumpeter Herb Robertson.
Mokuto’s second CD “Dressed like a Horse” was recorded in 2006 after a two week tour in Denmark, Norway & Sweden. Mokuto have developed it’s entirely own sound, a subtle, delicate personal sound, which differs from others groups counting either Robertson Anker, Nielsen or Jørgensen.

Herb Robertson, trumpets; Lotte Anker, saxophones; Peter Friis Nielsen, bass; Peter Ole Jørgensen, percussion, homebuilt instruments.

Dressed like a horse (09.28)
Brother nest (06.44)
Top gentle jester (05.25)
In fine liner steps (06.22)
Dead red (09.18)
Lone krater (19.24)
Recorded at Ninth World Studios, 2006.
Drawings (front cover reproduced above) by P.O. Jørgens; layout by Renée Paaschburg.

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