C1-117 . Purification

“Purification” by С1-117 is a piece of old good industrial and classic dark ambient. The man behind the project defines Maeror Tri и Lustmord as his key points but their creativities are just guidelines for С1-117 but not examples for imitation.

Based on noises of various nature, this work looks like cold and lifeless sound canvas composed of rustles, cracks, processed field recordings, weird voice samples.

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CLAUDIO CURCIOTTI . Nepalese: Sounds from Nepal

“Field abuse” is a project from Italian sound artist Claudio Curciotti and photographer Eleonora Trani where they document visually and sonically the loudness of the contemporary world in relation with religion, ethnic music and traditional cultures. ‘Nepalese: Sounds from Nepal’ is a selection from the many many recordings Claudio captured during his trip to Nepal that greatly display the beautiful sonorities of this young country with an ancient cultural legacy and spiritual and religious tradition.

The recordings are complemented with a series of photographs by Claudio and Eleonora that provide visual cues to the beautiful sounds captured here.

Phonographic works like ‘Nepalese: Sounds from Nepal’ are always an amazing experience that literally recreates a journey through many places with different sonorities as it establishes a relation in real time between the listener and a passed moment in time that will never repeat itself.

This is the first publication of this kind by IH, where sound acquires a meaning beyond a mere imaginary, as it serves a window between our lives and the lives of other people and the sounds that define their everyday life.

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various artists . no-r-mal II

At long last it is finaly here; the successor of no-r-mal the first edition. Almost a year later down the line, but highly improved and filled with more goodies. Started on April 25th I would never have thought that this would grow as big as it did. Many bulkloads of work went into getting this compilation album out there, but it is out there now!
71 artists, 71 tracks have turned into a 6 CD!!! compilation album making for over 7 hours of listening pleasure. Today I give this to the world so that you may enjoy the sounds of some of the worlds great netlabel artists that all work somewhere in the field of experimental music. Neatly organized into 6 different atmospheres: Warm voices, Dark places, Strange paces, Ca-dance, Art sounds and Outta here.

Take your own moment and meander through these tracks that have all been laboured with love!
All CD’s are burnable to fit on an audio CD.

CD 1 – Warm voices

01 Nigel Samways – Windburn
02 Bob Dickinson – Rendition
03 usr/sbin – Voices
04 Dave Seidel – Penumbral
05 Bob Ohrum – Nocturnality
06 Sceance Noire – MJ
07 Terje Paulsen – Untitled
08 Joe Frawley – The theory of Emily
09 Miquel Parera Jaques – nc Score
10 Massimo Croce – Apocrifo di Giacomo

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CD2 – Dark places

01 James McDougal – Dirt in the wire
02 Cezary Gapik – #0466
03 Fosel – Syntax of things
04 Palancar – Arroyo
05 C Reider – Will fall
06 Terra Engine – Insomnia
07 Controlled Dissonance – Train
08 Kristus Kut – The teethmark on your nipples
09 900Piesek – Pearls and lyzards
10 Batcheeba – Kiss the whip

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CD3 – Strange paces

01 Megatone – Pure Land
02 TozzRozz – Opslagboter
03 Gurdonark – Normale stem
04 Gabran – Morning invocation
05 Emerald adrift – Exclusion zone
06 Subterminal – Breathe
07 Tyynyliina – And suddenly they had to run
08 Voder – Futures
09 Shane Morris Muied Lumens – At the gates of the unknown
10 Ariu Kara – Rusty smoke
11 Andrass Kiss – Catotelm
12 Botong – Die sich bekehren lassen

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CD4 – Ca-dance

01 Astrowind – Forest rain
02 Adamned.age – Wachtraum
03 Dedxound – Nbi
04 MPHM – Frostbite harpmix Mk 2.1
05 Joe McMahon – Landing at cyclades macula
06 Kris Cadwell – Journey to the ants
07 Mystified – Unsync
08 Dzlav – Contours
09 Kevin Haller – Burnt collisions
10 Johann Merrich – Mato grosso Mourning glory
11 Measures – Dive in
12 Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt – Soft power
13 My brother Daniel – Fat bird

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CD5 – Art sounds

01 Dennis McCarty – Plays Saba taksim
02 Juan Antonio Nieto – Icarus
03 Luis Antero – Alvoco Soundscapes One
04 jfox – daveflop
05 Paulo Chagas – Engorra
06 Philip Wilkerson – Four point two
07 Tensor Sensellation – Cryptococcus
08 Danadax – Schizoid
09 Ayato – Libra’s turning control
10 Medmud – Bal impuls
11 Altocumulus – Four days of rain

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CD6 – Outta here

01 PS – ni100603
02 Jazznoize – Komintern No 1
03 Somnaphon – Eye Calypso
04 Candstandya – The long night
05 op.cit – Saturnalia
06 Rinus van Alebeek & Anton Mobin – Phonecall
07 Carlos Suarez – Vulgus veritatis pessimus interpres
08 Thanato Twist Olegs Sound Sys – Whimsical resurection dub
09 Given Willingly – Dedicated to a lost cause
10 The silence bureau – SBPore
11 Tubiliforme – Cedar
12 v4w.nko – Intergrses
13 Mudbug Noggins – Suck
14 Mystahr – Live at Rigoletto Paris (excerpt)
15 Mono Poly – Panzer

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Anton Mobin . LONDON, a field memory

Using a Nagra ARES M II
All field recordings captured in LONDON from March 2nd till 6th, 2009
Mixed at the Maïzing Studio (Paris) during Spring 2010 by Anton Mobin

Collage artwork by Anton Mobin

“When a man is tired of London, he’s tired of Life; for there is in London all that Life can afford.”
S. Johnson

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Track 01 - Warmly quiet (16.4MB)

“Quiet and warm” are the merits of the small English hotels.
It was the case for this situated hotel meadows of Victoria station where I thought recorded by the scenes of life, to meet people; it will be nothing. I not there found that the out-of-theway peace and recorded exclusively elements in vibration (ventilation, the humming of the underground resounding in the bathroom), objects being in the room, as well as my movements were minutely analysed in corridors and staircases of this hotel.
Finally I had to go out of the hotel to smoke…

Track 02 - Music & Tradition (9.01MB)

The music is everywhere in London.
In the underground, in the streets, in the pubs and in the parks.
The traditions also and they feed the delicate contrast of this modern city.
This part of the soundwork consists of a wide admixture of diverse London’ aspects.
Where people play tennis to Warwick square before going to work,
While the squirrels eat in your hand to Hyde park.

Track 03 - Ferry Tale (14.1MB)

The muddled voices play a sonic contradiction to compose a phase of fear from an element cheerful. In this case, a recording of a farcical game with participation of the public in Apple market; modified, accelerated, superimposed, returns this joyful moment of life in disturbing situation.

Once warnings and safety instructions were expressed, it is good to arrive on the deck of the Ferry, the enormous monster of metal challenging the ocean on some kilometers. Feel the power of the steel moving without restraint and listening to the wind rushing into the slightest hidden recess of the boat.

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MaCu . Vol.3

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John Kannenberg . Audio Tour: The 4’33″ Museum

Stasisfield founder John Kannenberg presents an initial sampling of an ongoing practice that began in 2005: “performing” John Cage’s 4’33″ in various museums around the world. Instead of not playing an instrument, however, these tracks of unmanipulated phonography are the product of actively recording a space, more fully realizing Cage’s motivation behind composing 4’33″: the encouragement of active listening. By placing this practice within the context of museums, it both translates a primarily visual experience into a purely sonic one, and reaffirms the long-standing relationship that museums have with the experimental music world, serving as venues for avant-garde performances.

01  Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands – February 24, 2010 4.33  11.3MB
02  Motown Museum, Detroit, USA – November 3, 2009 4.33  11.3MB
03  SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA – July 1, 2008 4.33  11.3MB
04  Internet Archive Backup Server, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt – May 10, 2010 4.33  11.3MB
05  Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing, Chicago USA – May 16, 2009 4.33  11.3MB
06  Tate Modern, London, UK – March 19, 2005 4.33  11.3MB
07  Milwaukee Art Museum – September 1, 2008 4.33  11.3MB
08  Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands – February 24, 2010 4.33  11.3MB
09  Open Air Museum, Memphis, Egypt – May 4, 2010 4.33  11.3MB
10  Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada – August 1, 2009 4.33  11.3MB
11  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, USA – July 3, 2010 4.33  11.3MB

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Michael Farley . The Palace of Gathered Elegance

In August of 2009, our family traveled to Beijing, Zhengzhou, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong while on our second adoption journey. I made field recordings along the way. During the fall, I edited, layered, mixed and processed portions of the recordings for these 9 compositions. I added a guitar part to each one as a kind of commentary and reflection. The titles come from quirky English phrases I saw displayed on T-shirts worn by Chinese kids across the country.

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Ephraim Wegner . Audible Landscapes

Noises dispose of an aesthetic quality being taken up and evaluated far stronger than pictures by the unconscious. In a world where the immense flood of images has made individuals nearly deaf against acoustic stimuli, field recordings offer an unbelievable source of inspiration and imagination. The sound recordings sharpen and sensitise the hearing, reveal apparently well-known, pique curiosity on the unknown and the interest in quite concrete sceneries, in our environment with its tonal variety. As never congruent copies of an independently existing reality they play with the individual adaptation and cognition ability.

The field recordings taped between 2008 and 2009 at places like the Pyrenees, the Atlantic Sea or the Black Forest serve to Ephraim Wegner as basis for compositions of sound sceneries.

Typical tones of certain regions, but also omnipresent everyday noises are processed and edited, put on top of each other, distorted up to unrecognisability and assembled again. Thus musical sound fields / collages and new acoustic rooms are generated which invite to reflexion and abstracting or just listening: The apparently weird, but strangely melodic bell ringing of the flock of sheep in the Pyrenees reveals its musical structure which testifies to astonishing harmony. Heavy rains, thunder storm rumbling, wild buzzing of insects and shrill chirping of crickets mutate to tonal arrangements which remind of minimal music or classical noise every now and then. Everyday occurrences become unusual hearing experiences, the pasture land idyll rumbling wild noise.

All tracks by Ephraim Wegner,
except #07 by @c, #08 & 09 by Durán Vázquez.
Mastered by Miguel Carvalhais.
Cover photo by Julia Weinmann.

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Jazznoize . Sediments

From Spain, this multi experimentalist dares walk on the dark side of sounds as one would go shopping at the supermarket. His varried pallet of sounds has matured much since the establishement of Jazznoize in 2005. Sergio Sánches Nicolás uses field recordings transforming them a lot or at all, technicians of loop, audible errors, or the slow sounds like pure example of transformation of the means. If youâve never heard the eerie sounds of this Spanish meister then let this opportunity not pass you by and join in this special treat for the ears.

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Tzii . Earthly Excruciate

Since thirteen years Tzii, music composer and filmmaker, spreads his magickal corrosive frequencies all over the world through touring from EASTERN and WESTERN EUROPE to AUSTRALIA, passing by USA, CANADA, JAPAN and AFRICA, where he played hundreds of shows… Spreading cinematic dark ambient and raw power electronic anger, His aim is to enclose you into an abusive spiral leading you to an impossible redemption. He created his own label NIGHT ON EARTH in 2001, releasing vinyls and tapes.
He’s part of the projects SOLAR SKELETONS, LIFESTEAK, CINEMASSAKER , TRANSIT, HATHOR KYRIARHIA , PAROXYSM OF ANXIETY, PARADE GROUND and member of the labels/collectives V-ATAK and RADON.
As a filmmaker he makes live videos for bands like Parade Ground or Solar Skeletons, directed videoclips for Mourmansk150, HIV+, Solar Skeletons, Fujako, himself and some short movies for v-atak and others…
Sharing hidden ghostly souls is very important to him so he collaborated on stage or in studio with these musicians: Steve MacKay (The Stooges), Mike Watt (Minutemen, The Stooges), Marshall Allen (Sun-Ra Arkestra), Ripit, Gamaboy, Sikhara, Rko, Hop-Frog, Jason Lafarge, Temple Of Bonmatin, Sam Lohman, Alveols, Nevroz, HHY, D’incise, Klstr, Vinnie Paternostro, Najah, Koonda Holaa, Cham, Stalker, Otto von Schirasch, DJ Urine, The Masters Musicians of Hop-Frog, Error, Felakkkzion, Cochlea, Grabuk, Pilami, Synoxys, 1997EV, Luna Dopa, Company Fuck, Rinus Van alebeek, Duflan Duflan, Parade Ground, Mentol Nomad, Madame Patate and many more !

About this release
Human beings always felt the need for domination on their fellow comrades. Unfortunately torture is too often a way to achieve it, treating like pigs the victims. This recording is against all form of excruciate on any living creature.Performed and recorded on one take in Brussels in february 2010.

Credits:
Performed and recorded by Tzii in one take in Brussels in February 2010 (nightonearth.info and www.myspace.com/tzii).
Artwork & layout by Tzii
Mastered by Nyko Esterle

Released April 2010.

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John Kannenberg . Oculus

Oculus investigates the acoustic properties of visual art display mechanisms, combining field recordings and synthesized sound. Beginning as a series of field recordings made in museums and galleries during the summer of 2009, this audio collection coalesced into a fascinating document of sounds that are often ignored or considered superfluous. Can visual information be described by the sound of its display? Are these sounds and their corresponding images mutually exclusive, or symbiotic? What happens when the background is separated from the foreground – does it merely leave a gaping hole, or create a new object with its own relationships and contexts to explore?

Track 01 – Overture (9.25MB)
A statement of the primary source material and themes appearing in the tracks that follow, the Overture begins with a manipulation of the recording of the electromagnetic field generated by an analog television monitor from track 5, then goes on to present four untreated field recordings mixed with synthesized sound derived from the material in track 3. The field recordings are, in order: a slide projector in the Michael Snow room, Art Gallery of Ontario; film projectors in an installation by Wolfgang Plöger, Art Institute of Chicago; television picture tubes in an installation by Iain Baxter&, Art Gallery of Ontario; and a video projector from an installation by Immony Men, Art Gallery of Windsor.

Track 02 – Film Projection (10.6MB)
A combination of two field recordings bookending a digitally processed drone composition using the field recordings as its source material. In order: Film projector in a Henrik Hĺkansson installation at The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto; film projector showing Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s “Lichtspiel Schwarz-Weiß-Grau” with audience applause, Paradiso, Amsterdam.

Track 03 – 24bps (4.26MB)
The only purely synthesized piece in the collection, 24bps is a series of tones played at the rate of 24 beats per second, analogous to the 24 frames per second standard of traditional film projection – a bridging of analog and digital sonic worlds.

Track 04 – Slideshow (9.18MB)
A synthesized drone created using analog synthesis techniques permeates the track, a tone whose aesthetics echo a time when slide projectors were the de facto standard for still image display in the art world. Processed samples of the slide projector from the Michael Snow field recording in the Overture are placed 27.2 seconds apart – the mean time of how long the average visitor spent looking at a piece of art during a 2001 study at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mixed in at low volume is a field recording of visitors in the Masterpieces show on display at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. In combination, an impossible sound world based on a scientific fact.

Track 05 – Television Monitor (9.32MB)
Using an analog television monitor as the source material, this piece begins with drones created by manipulating the speed of a recording of the electromagnetic field of a television. The recording shifts to an untreated version of the recording of the powering up of the monitor, then eventually shifts to a heavily processed version of the Iain Baxter & recording from the Overture, stripping away much of the low end to focus on the high-pitched buzz and whine of the multiple picture tubes.

Track 06 – Video Projection (10.3MB)
This track focuses on the sound of video projection systems and includes a processed recording of the audience watching a video projection installation by HC Gilje at NIMk in Amsterdam, processed recordings of the electromagnetic field of a video projector in my studio, and the sound of a video projector in use at the Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario. The electromagnetic projector recordings here have been processed using convolution, applying the acoustic space of the Windsor video projector recording to drastically alter their original timbre and place them in a non-existent, non-idealized sonic space.

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Jazznoize: ALBA

Todos los temas por S. Sánchez Nicolás – http://myspace.com/jazznoize17 -
Portada: Antonio José Fernández “El Hombre del Anillo”, Sin Titulo 1977

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