electronic music :: Neural.it

audio art . drone . experimental . soundscapes

Max Eastley - Installation Recordings (1973 - 2008)

2CD - Paradigm Discs
An essential retrospective of Max Eastley's sound installations, a prolific artist who's been active since the late sixties. The oldest works presented here were made in 1973, the year when, in addition to gallery exhibitions and collaborations with Thomas Koner and film director Peter Greenaway, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Sep 2/2010
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drone . experimental . field recordings

Michael J. Schumacher - Weave

CD - Entr'acte
Based in New York City, Michael J. Schumacher focuses his research primarily on electronic and digital media, computer-generated sounds that iterate over fairly long periods of time, serializing sequences from multiple physical sources and structural elements. In Weave there are sampled engines, pumps and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 31/2010
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abstract . audio art . experimental

Loic Blairon - x\0

$Loic Blairon, x\0, w.m.o/r, Mattin, Cage, abstract, audio art, experimental, Aurelio Cianciotta, LoicBlairon_x0.jpg$ CD - w.m.o/r
Loic Blairon proposes a postulate. He listens and thinks he has no ideas to make music, but that people, through listening, can hold reality. Loic Blairon, in a way, says no to music - and it could not be otherwise, with a "work" based only on scattered tolls every minute. This "no" - finally - precisely defines the unilateral relationship that the "author" seeks to stabilize within and through ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 28/2010
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ethnic . experimental . impro

César Bolaños - Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)

2CD - Pogus
A pioneer of avant-garde experiments, well defined between electroacoustic and improvisational influences, the Peruvian composer César Bolaños, in this double CD, releases the pieces composed in Argentina during his collaboration with the Latin-American Center of High Musical Studies (CLAEM). ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 26/2010
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audio art . experimental . noise

Gert-Jan Prins - Cavity: The Capacitive Version

10" - Onomatopee
A transparent 10-inch record, rarefied digitalisms and several texts weaving more suggestions and trajectories (Freek Lomme, Daniela Cascella and Willem van Weelden). A stylized 32-page color insert, a report of geometric installations and of the ultra-vivid relationship between environments, human beings and the resulting sounds. Gert-Jan Prins, a seminal ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 24/2010
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ambient . drone . experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

Francisco Lopez - Amarok

CD - Glacial Movements
Extremely dilated drones, yet not too immaterial, redundant in their progressive slips of many sound layers. Microtones, someone calls them, but there's nothing minimalist in such a soundscape. Just consider the title, "Amarok", the name of a giant wolf in Inuit mythology, a people obviously accustomed to the extremes of an uninhabitable nature, where the sea and the abyss are clearly ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 22/2010
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abstract . experimental . microsound

v4w.enko - snd

mini-CDr - Electroton
"Snd" is a sound project by v4w.enko, the moniker of the Ukrainian researcher whose real name is Evgen Vaschenko, a multifaceted artist involved with electronic sounds, video streams, and algorithm manipulation. Electroton emphasizes that a sequence of instructions can trigger a simple process, a set ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:49 AM - Aug 3/2010
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abstract . electronica . experimental . noise

AAVV - Test Tone Anthology

3CD - Medama
Textures, rhythms and audio layers mix in this work, following the many forms of an experimental and abstract electronica, in the first of the three volumes of this series of "test tones". It's an anthology that draws inspiration from the music scene of the SuperDeluxe, in Tokyo, a club that represents the more ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:12 AM - Jul 29/2010
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ambient . audio art . experimental . microsound

Ido Govrin - Moraine

CD - Interval
Creeping ambient sequences, with alluring developments are pervaded by drones and split into many layers of auditory tones. This work consists of six compositions, in an electro-acoustic continuum that flows out of deep mechanisms of sound analysis and syntheses that are rich in new and increasingly ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:57 AM - Jul 1/2010
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Gilles Aubry & Stéphane Montavon - Les Écoutis Le Caire

CD - Gruenrekorder
A simple white sheet, 51 by 84 centimeters, with the poetry of Stéphane Montavon spread over it. The CD is basically environmental field recordings, made by Gilles Aubry in Cairo, Egypt, in a bathroom, in a covered market, in a basilica and in a courtyard. Finally, other "audio catches" that can be traced to a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:58 AM - Jun 28/2010
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ambient . audio art . drone . experimental

Bj Nilsen - The Invisible City

CD - Touch
This is the third solo album by Bj Nilsen, an artist and experimenter who now, with "The Invisible City", returns to Touch, a renowned label that has maintained a strong presense over the last three decades. This record focusses on one the most engaging and sensitive issues in contemporary art: the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:31 AM - Jun 4/2010
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abstract . audio art . drone . experimental . microsound

Frank Rothkamm - Ghost Of New York

CD - Rothkammusic
The first release of the planned series of three CDs and a DVD, "Tetralogy" by Frank Rothkamm starts with "Ghost Of New York", a spectral and detailed study of metropolitan poltergeist, a work in progress that since the beginning appears inspired by strong symbolic references, cryptic entities and energy ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:44 AM - May 20/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental

Novi_sad - Mort Aux Vaches

CD - Staalplaat
The package is made of three thick layers of black vinyl, edged by a heavy fabric ribbon, fastened by the usual copper "pin", the "centerpiece" of all Mort Aux Vaches releases. Our player starts and although we're wearing our headphones and the volume is pumped to the maximum, all we can hear for about ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:13 AM - Apr 26/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . field recordings . impro

Trevor Wishart - Machine

CD - Paradigm Discs
The reprint of a pioneering project by Trevor Wishart, completed in 1971, "Machine" could easily be mistaken for a very recent release, so well outlined in its audio landscapes, with carefully combined spoken texts, backing vocals and pre-recorded sounds, thoroughly manipulated and with the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:57 AM - Apr 19/2010
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audio art . experimental . field recordings . impro

Lionel Marchetti & Olivier Capparos - Equus

CD - Pogus
"Equus", a collaborative project of concrete music, created by combining the strong personalities of Lionel Marchetti and Olivier Capparos. It may boast of being commissioned by the INA-GRM of Paris, the renowned music research institute founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1951, a place still very active and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:07 AM - Apr 15/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental

Christopher Hipgrave - Day

CD - Home Normal
Stylized algorithmic abstractions, tonal sounds steeped in melodic elements, cross-manipulations resulting from the fusion of textures and granular frequencies. "Day" is subdivided into seven different tracks but the continuum seems finely modulated in real time. Itis difficult to separate the individual ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:26 AM - Apr 13/2010
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Marc Behrens - A Narrow Angle

CD - Entr'acte
Shaped into the form of scratchy recordings, extrapolated from the environmental sounds of a video arcade in Taipei, which were then heavily processed, the frequencies of the first part of "A Narrow Angle" weaves together vibrant and alien sounds. These elaborations are very much present in the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:48 AM - Apr 6/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . field recordings

AAVV - Birmingham Sound Matter

CD - Audiobulb
If the standard practice of sound recording is regarded as a "capture," then in this abstract conceptual electronic music project, the representation of auditory reality happens through far more complex perceptual mechanisms. The work considers frequencies and drones, intended as isolated particles, as ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:43 AM - Mar 29/2010
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acoustic/digital . audio art . drone . experimental

Mem1 - +1

Mem!, +, Interval, Laura. Mark Cetilia, audio art, acoustic/digital, experimental, laptop, Jan Jelinek, Frank Bretschneid, Jen Boyd, Steve Roden, Ido Govrin, Aera C, Kadet Kuhne, Jeremy Drake, RS-232, Aurelio Cianciotta, Mem1-_+1.jpg

CD" - Interval
The dreamily ambient sequences of "+1", a project by Laura and Mark Cetilia, constitute a fruitful and challenging colloborative work. The precision with which the duo compose has never been greater. Laptops and cello combine to produce a painstakingly thorough acoustic and digital confluence of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:18 AM - Mar 26/2010
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acoustic/digital . bastard pop . experimental . free form

Marina Rosenfeld - Plastic Materials

CD - Room40
Marina Rosenfeld is rather famous in the underground New York scene (and not only there) for her compelling combination of an atypical conceptual turntablism along with more avant-garde and original experimentation. In "Plastic Materials", too, some of the electro-acoustic structures typical of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:06 PM - Mar 23/2010
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acoustic/digital . experimental . free form . soundscapes

Nommo Ogo - Across Time And Space

CD - Record Label
Rather emotional and psychedelic electronica, with strong melodic ingredients and space-future influences. Nommo Ogo, a combo hailing from the glacial latitudes of Alaska recorded this album in the United States, in California, Colorado and Oregon, arranging plots that are unraveled - contrarily - in a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:21 PM - Mar 22/2010
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acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . folktronica

Mario Masullo & Andrea Gabriele - Les Couleurs Ne Meuvent Pas Les Peuples

CD - Persistencebit
The new project by Mario Masullo & Andrea Gabriele is replete with divergent inspirations. They are both sound designers who are well-versed in several genres, manipulating both acoustic instruments and laptops/electronic devices with equal skill. Compared to their earlier productions, the duo seem to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:40 AM - Mar 21/2010
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audio art . experimental . microsound

Marcus Maeder - Subsegmental

CD - Domizil
Although the term and concept of "subsegmental" are used primarily in psychology and in perception within the context of linguistics and phonetics, nothing stops Marcus Maeder from translating this meme into the field of music. Feeding the cognitive characteristics of tones, organizing acoustic ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:43 AM - Mar 19/2010
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experimental . folktronica . free form

Roj - Transactional Dharma Of Roj

CD - Ghost Box
Straight from Ghost Box, a label based in Surrey, and characterized by sophisticated electronic vintage, we happily welcome "Transactional Dharma of Roj", a vivid album with Burroughsian cut-ups and inspiring and imaginative conjunctions which underlie a cultural and psychic revolution in the English ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:30 AM - Mar 16/2010
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audio art . experimental . microsound

Philip Julian - Low Activity Computer Solo

CD - Free Software Series
Recorded in London and Berlin between September and November 2008, this work uses the induction coil of a telephone connected directly to a PC running GNU/Linux and a piezo contact microphone in order to pick up the electromagnetic activity inside the machine. Philip Julian's "Low Activity Computer ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:31 AM - Mar 12/2010
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acoustic/digital . electronica . ethnic . experimental . free form

Mice - World Tour

CD - Ecosono
As a combo whose typical sounds are very wobbly and crooked, permeated with electronic, experimental and jazz influences, "Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble", traveling 30,000 miles by ship around the world, have created a successful series of concerts, collaborating with and connecting ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:12 AM - Mar 8/2010
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drone . electronica . experimental

Black To Comm - Alphabet 1968

CD -Type
Repeated melodies, drones and coagulated atmospheres, dark aural fluctuations, with a bias towards the mystical and evocative. In "Alphabet 1968", Marc Richter (pseudonym: Black To Comm) takes these ingredients and leads the listener through an imaginative digital pilgrimage, poised somewhere ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:52 AM - Mar 2/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Mika Vainio - Aineen Musta Puhelin [Black Telephone Of Matter]

>CD - Touch
Multifaceted sound implementations, abstract and formally impeccable, arranged in unstable fractured sequences, congealed in rhythmic and granular turns. "Black Telephone Of Matter" is the fourth solo album by Mika Vainio, an experimenter mostly known for having founded Pan Sonic with Ilpo ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:04 PM - Feb 26/2010
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ambient . audio art . drone . experimental . microsound

Tu M' - Monochromes Vol.1

CD -Line
Released under the moniker Tu M' (Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli), an interesting and all Italian mixed media project is unraveled in a rather airy and meditative way for the prestigious Line label. Since 2000, Line has been curated and directed by Richard Chartier, a sound/installation artist ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:28 PM - Feb 25/2010
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electronica . industrial . noise . techno

Sturqen - Piranha

CD - Kvitnu
Intricate rhythmic sequences, hovering techno-trance fascinations and noise attitudes are contaminated with an energetic and chaosmotic mood in "Piranha", the latest release by Sturqen. The recording is imbued with a dark, electronic feel, heavy with collisions that could be fitted to industrial dance ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:45 AM - Feb 22/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . microsound

Richard Chartier - Untitled (Angle.1)

CD - Non Visual Objects
This new project by Richard Chartier stems from a collaboration with visual artist Linn Meyers. Chartier is an electronic composer engaged in a serious minimalist brand of reductionism. In Untitled (Angle.1), the author carefully brings about the co-penetration of optical and sound models, a juxtaposition of the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:40 AM - Feb 19/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . field recordings

Gilles Aubry - s6t8r

CD - Winds Measure
With a title that looks like a captcha, a hardbound, all-white, material design (developed by the designer Ben Owen) and a publishing volume of only 300 copies, Gilles Aubry commits his latest project to the catalog of Winds Measure Recordings - a label from Brooklyn appropriately focused on experimental ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:33 PM - Feb 18/2010
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audio art . experimental

Labor Camp Orchestra : Theater Of Operations

CD - Labor Camp Product
In this sparse but evocative electronica, mingled with tenor modulations, sound effects and melodic harmonies based on Eric Satie's Vexations, we hear the words of soldiers of the United States Army; transcripts taken from videos recorded during the war in Iraq. The "readings" are perhaps interpreted ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:31 PM - Feb 15/2010
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acoustic/digital . experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

Akira Kosemura - Polaroid Piano

CD - Someone Good
Akira Kosemura creates fascinating miniatures in form of delicate piano elaborations, pop and classical at the same time, gentle and repeated, with light backgrounds of natural sounds and measured clicks. Pants, scratches, light percussions of string instruments, discrete field recordings that reinforce the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:38 PM - Feb 1/2010
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audio art . experimental . soundscapes

RTX - Radio Tower Xchange

CD- Rixc
Sound waves broadcast in space and captured by powerful antennas. A steamy repetition creating an environment open to different contributions, pervaded by the energies of the artists themselves, who were invited to focus their attention on those deceitful mechanisms that are always in play at the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:31 PM - Jan 29/2010
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