Electroacoustic Fragments, Improvised Sounds, Weird Songs and Aural Oddities.
00:00 Resonator Spot.
00:27 A Trio + Alan Bishop – Gently Johnny.
03:20 Éric La Casa – Liège 2.
06:42 Viki Steiri – Procession.
10:35 Nzʉmbe – Ergosfera.
14:42 Kassel Jaeger – Unmap#1.
18:00 Joshua Bonnetta – Innse Gall I.
21:22 Ernesto Longobardi – 21’18”.
25:00 Blue Chemise – Influence On Dusk Part 10.
26:45 Rain Text – 3.6.
30:35 Lol Coxhill, Morgan Fisher – Vase.
32:48 Jeremy Barnes – The funeral table. (Demonstration)
35:40 Aphex Twin – #19.
38:30 Natalia Beylis – Lost – For Annie.
41:10 Laurie Spiegel – Appalachian Grove.
45:00 Mattias Gustafsson – Hålrum/
48:05 Giovanni Lami – Gechi e Fontane/
51:10 Ryuichi Sakamoto – ZURE/
55:15 KMRU – MR0/
56:30 Jana Winderen – Breeze from the South, 01-29-2023, 11-45 p.m.
57:53 James Tenney – Maximusic/
A Trio + Alan Bishop.
It is through his work for “world music” label Sublime Frequencies, that Bishop met and became friends with Lebanese improvising musicians Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet), Raed Yassin (double bass) and Sharif Sehnaoui (electric guitar), who have operated collectively as free jazz unit “A Trio” since 2003. In 2012, during a trip to Beirut to participate in the annual Irtijal Festival for Experimental Music, Bishop entered the studio with Kerbaj, Sehnaoui and Yassin, to lay down the first rough sketches of the “Burj el Imam” album.
https://annihayarecords.bandcamp.com/album/burj-al-imam-annihaya-unrock
Éric La Casa.
The number of sound sources available in large harbour areas such as Le Havre in France and Liège in Belgium is immense. The coexistence of natural elements, uninhabited areas and industrial areas allow for special and interesting audio captures. In most of these cases the captures originated in locations that relate to the presence of human activities. The recording of many of these captures in Zones Portuaires was structured by the daily work schedules that dominate the areas, and many were captured in places normally forbidden to the public.
https://swarming.bandcamp.com/album/zones-portuaires
Viki Steiri.
‘Balm’ is an album by Greek/ UK based artist Viki Steiri, a powerful debut, anchored by ritualistic, monolithic cello layers. Steiri combines Badalamentian soundscapes with electronic dance rhythms, synth-tinged folk songs from Istanbul, alongside reworked cello and santur improvisations.
https://alienjams.bandcamp.com/album/balm
Nzʉmbe.
Rewiring the conventions of chamber electronics and postmodern songwriting.
Here it is presented A Spanish’ song cycle on love and cosmological redshift. The distant echo of Tristan‐and‐Iseult’s smoking gun where lovemaking becomes an enactment of entropy, a transformation between the dynamic and the static, the human and the fetish, illustrating the inevitable decline into chaos and stillness.
https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/ardor-or-entropy
Kassel Jaeger.
In Dunwich Recursed, seven sonic practitioners drawn from Urbanomic’s extensive list of authors, associates and collaborators, rewind, recurse, remix and re-weird the source material of Robin Mackay’s ‘By The North Sea’. From Steven Warwick’s microhouse glow-up to Kassel Jaeger’s eerie sunrise drone and Miguel Prado Casanova’s elvish hall-of-mirrors flip, Robin Mackay’s labyrinthine audio essay is stretched, collapsed, de-structured and reimagined in a series of startlingly inventive remixes and reworks, including a 2-hour-long time-frequency-scattering re-synthesis from Florian Hecker.
https://flatlines-hyperdub.bandcamp.com/album/dunwich-recursed
Joshua Bonnetta.
https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/innse-gall
Bridging acoustic ecology and interdisciplinary creative practice, Joshua Bonnetta returns to Shelter Press with Innse Gall ‘The Islands of the Strangers’, his second LP for the label. Recorded and assembled between 2017 and 2020 and acting as a companion piece to Bonnetta’s film, An Dà Shealladh ‘The Two Sights’, these two interrelated side-long works – Innse Gall I and Innse Gall II – respectively deploy a rigorous approach to field recording and auditory phenomena, pursuing the complex relationship between landscape, place, language, and culture in the Outer Hebrides, where both the film and album’s source material was gathered.
Ernesto Longobardi.
The research behind the collaboration of Italian sound artists Ernesto Longobardi and Demetrio Cecchitelli crosses the ontology of the relationship between physiology, poetics and imaginative interpretation. Placed between sound art and minimalism, ‘Maloviento’ (Strzybog) consists of four specific windows in reductionist, sometimes subtractive, or purely acoustic and organic modes.
https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/maloviento
Blue Chemise.
‘Influence On Dusk’ forms an idiosyncratic cycle of fourteen mysterious, sometimes uncanny electroacoustic compositions, a personal and subdued eruption of ‘melancholy of the healthy kind’, suddenly here and suddenly gone
https://baadm.bandcamp.com/album/influence-on-dusk
Rain Text.
The music that soundtracked this meteorological shift was the debut full length from Rain Text (Giuseppe Ielasi & Giovanni Civitenga), simply titled III. Scattered throughout the nameless eight tracks there are moments of low-end pressure relieved by the fizz and clatter of metallic rhythms; there is static, there is discord, there is release.
https://sagome.bandcamp.com/album/iii
Lol Coxhill & Morgan Fisher.
Cherry Red generously gave Morgan Fisher musical carte-blanche by offering to distribute a label of his own so, like his studio, he called his label Pipe. For the first album he decided to record an album of ambient music. Rather than using synths, Morgan decided to invite soprano sax supremo Lol Coxhill to supply some raw material which he then processed in various ways. The opening track is based on Lol’s beautiful performance of Handel’s Largo, recycled through tape delays, VCS3 filters and octave shifts.
https://aguirrerecords.bandcamp.com/album/slow-music
Jeremy Barnes.
In Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet, a dysfunctional group of performance artists undertake a month-long residency at an institute devoted to culinary disciplines. Food is interrogated for its sonic potential as the group mic-up, amplify, distort and transform what they cook in front of an audience. The noise that the characters in the film itself make is driven by food blenders, overflowing cauldrons of gurgling soup and sizzling frying pans (courtesy of The Sonic Catering Band), yet the music that soundtracks the culinary capers is engorged with aching melodies and wordless, airy vocals. Contributors include Cavern of Anti-Matter, Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost of A Hawk and a Hacksaw and Trost’s band, Roj (formerly of Broadcast), and Nurse With Wound.
https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/flux-gourmet-original-motion-picture-soundtrack
Aphex Twin.
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known professionally as Aphex Twin
https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/selected-ambient-works-volume-ii-expanded-edition
Natalia Beylis.
Nestled at the center of Natalia Beylis’ music is an intertwined practice of listening and creating. She regularly foregrounds both field recordings and found instruments, building worlds around the curious sounds she comes upon and letting the process of recontextualization create meaning out of unexpected meetings. The picture that emerges is one of her having a profound connection to her environment, whether that is a community of human beings or the vast non-human living world that surrounds her.
https://nataliabeylis.bandcamp.com/album/lost-for-annie
Laurie Spiegel.
Laurie Spiegel is an American composer. She has worked at Bell Laboratories, in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic music compositions and her algorithmic composition software Music Mouse. She is also a guitarist and lutenist.
Spiegel’s musical interpretation of Johannes Kepler’s Harmonices Mundi appeared on “Sounds of Earth” section of the Voyager Golden Record. Her 1972 piece “Sediment” was included in the 2012 film The Hunger Games.
https://lauriespiegel.bandcamp.com/album/the-expanding-universe
Mattias Gustafsson.
‘Nattmusik’ is Gustafsson’s first record under his own name, removing the mediation of the artistic alias to fully embrace the symbiosis between body and environment. Keyboards splutter through bad wiring and wither into despondency, with notes engulfed by the sounds of earthly stir (tectonic rumbles of low frequency, muffled winds of sine wave). Symphonies of piano and electronics start to bloom and then flicker into states of death as the temperature suddenly drops. Body and telluric elements respire into eachother, as the contours of Galenus’ theory ripple with crumbling field recordings and spurts of melodic dejection. ‘Nattmusik’ depicts a world in which emotional decay feeds the flourish of nature – an earth thriving upon inevitable human decline.
https://baadm.bandcamp.com/album/nattmusik
Giovanni Lami.
A Compilation of Contemporary Italian Tape Electroacoustic and Musique Concrete artists featuring Valerio Tricoli, Mercury Hall, Ezio Piermattei, SEC_, Giovanni Lami, Giulio Nocera, and kNN.
https://nashazphone.bandcamp.com/album/tutto-a-posto-niente-in-ordine
Ryuichi Sakamoto.
async is Ryuichi Sakamoto’s first solo album in 8 years. Taking inspiration from everyday objects, sculpture, and nature,Sakamoto composed and arranged the sounds/music that he most wanted to listen to. Paying close attention to the essence of each track and carefully balancing the sounds with a less-is-more perspective, what remains are singular expressions of Sakamoto’s current mindset, and one of his most personal albums.
https://milanrecords.com/release/async/
KMRU.
In Temporary Stored Kamaru questions the importance of sound archives for the history of colonial violence. Using synthesizer sounds, field recordings and recordings from the archives of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, he is working on re-appropriating the stolen sounds.’
https://kmru.bandcamp.com/album/temporary-stored
Jana Winderen.
Jana Winderen is an artist based in Norway with a background in mathematics, chemistry and fish ecology. Her practice pays particular attention to audio environments and to creatures which are hard for humans to access, both physically and aurally – deep under water, inside ice or in frequency ranges inaudible to the human ear.
https://presquetout.bandcamp.com/album/tape-series-005
James Tenney.
James Tenney (1934-2006) is one of the most important American composers and theorists of the past fifty years. For a very long time, his work was known mainly to other musicians and its tremendous influence was belied by its obscurity. In the past twenty years, however, as his music and writings have been more and more published, recorded, performed, and studied, his place in the context of American contemporary music has become far better understood. He has pioneered musical fields as diverse as computer music, tuning theory, and integrating ideas from acoustics and music cognition into his work. Tenney has also been important as a teacher, performer, and scholar of other radical American composers.
https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/postal-pieces