electronic music :: Neural.it

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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audio art . experimental . free form

Piotr Kurek - Lectures

CD - Cronica
Tangled instrumental sequences, dense and fascinating, are improvised by Piotr Kurek, a Polish producer and electronic musician who now lives in Portugal. This work reveals a precisely organised, multilevel sound structure, which throbs with avant-garde jumps, jazzy shards and raw ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:14 AM - Jan 28/2010
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audio art . experimental . noise

Yellow Swans - Mort Aux Vaches

12" - Staalplaat
Once again Staalplaat sets a new milestone with the artwork accompanying their historic Mort Aux Vaches series. A very playful yellow hardback with embossed inserts, complete with the silhouette of a cute duckling and a smiling peasant girl is the companion of scratchy industrial sounds. The record is a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:20 AM - Jan 23/2010
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audio art . experimental

Jim O'Rourke - I'm Happy, and I'm Singing, and a 1, 2, 3, 4

2CD - Mego
Compositions recorded between 1997 and 1999, often in different studios and cities (New York, Osaka, Tokyo, Toronto and Malmö), and originally published on Mego in 2001 constitute this fascinating project by Jim O'Rourke. This record effectively condenses the eclectic electronic music typical of the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:11 PM - Jan 21/2010
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audio art . experimental . field recordings . microsound

Phroq - Recordings Of Various Vibrations And Stress Situations

Phroq, Recordings Of Various Vibrations And Stress Situation, Uzu Sounds, Francisco Meirino, audio-art, experimental, microsounds, field recordings, max/msp, Espace Julien di Marsiglia, Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut di Oakland, live set, Paradox, Tilburg, performance, error, entropia, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, Phroq_Recordings.jpg

CD - Uzu Sounds
Francisco Meirino - under the pseudonym Phroq - continues unabashed in his fascination with bugs and micro-sounds. His is a meticulous investigator, pushing the limits of the audible, cataloguing the frequencies and hums of electrical equipment under stress. The sources of the samples - in the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:15 AM - Jan 19/2010
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abstract . acoustic/digital . electronica

Milosh - III

CD -!K7
Gentle melodies and indietronic patterns are veined with a very insistent downtempo melancholy and crystal clear sounds in this finely modulated work by Milosh, a Canadian classical and jazz composer. This is his third release, emblematic in its sensitive junctions, embedded in a tenuous electronic music, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:55 AM - Jan 17/2010
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abstract . ambient . experimental . noise . soundscapes

An Antology Of Chinese Experimental Music

4CD - Subrosa
Editor Li Ching Sung and Guy Marc Hinant have come together to produce this anthology of Chinese experimental music, which includes 48 different artists whose works are divided across four engaging CDs. Moving beyond the names that are already internationally known (the same Li Ching-sung - aka ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:53 AM - Dec 31/2009
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acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . soundscape

Stephan Moore - To Build A Field

CD - Deep Listening
Sounds that seem to converge in ultra-rarified sequences, hesitating in sensitive constructions with strong environmental and narrative structures, reflect the background of Stephan Moore, the author, a long time member of the live band at the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Moore is a composer ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:33 AM - Dec 23/2009
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abstract . audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

EVOL - Punani Rubberist

Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Jacob Draminsky-Hojmark, Punani Rubberist, Evol, Entr'acte, Joe Gilmore, Excelsior Punani, eRikm, Tupolev Farmyard, Kazumoto Endo, 23 Cartas de Tamariz, abstract, audio art, experimental, glitch'ncut, Aurelio Cianciotta, Evol_PunaniRubberist.jpg

CD" - Evol/Entr'acte
The fifth work in the 'EVOL's Punani' series, this is a 300-copy limited edition, sealed in stylized silver-transparent envelopes, including a CD and a booklet in the shape of a leaflet, along with individual black and white photo cards. The free form sound of the first track is "cut" and extremely inconstant, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:35 PM - Dec 22/2009
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ambient . audio art . noise

AAVV - Noise Vs Subversive Computing

USB flash drive - Computationally Infeasible Records
Noise Vs Subversive Computing' is a collaborative project that concerns sound suggestions relating to the realm of more experimental ambient-noise, and is both sophisticated and imaginative. There are not only electronic musicians joining this effort but also radical activists, computer hackers and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:34 AM - Dec 14/2009
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audio art . drone . experimental . noise

Yutaka Makino - Black

CD - Strukto
This is not the first project with a black artwork. Here, however, black abounds. In addition to the outer carton which presents the word 'Black' in an impeccably neutral relief, there's also the black inlay card of the CD trailer underneath the transparent plastic trailer, the black booklet, and the black CD ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:23 AM - Dec 11/2009
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audio art . drone . experimental

Gregg Kowalsky - Tape Chants

CD - Kranky
Drones and subdued frequencies, structured in a kind of meditative psychedelia. Gregg Kowalsky is not new to sounds with such characteristics, using analog recordings, manipulating oscillators and managing purposefully created feedback. In "Tape Chants", however, his explorations reach a new level ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:16 AM - Dec 10/2009
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drone . experimental . microsound

Autistici - Complex Tone Test

CD - Kesh
Dilated and charming tonal sequences, micro-sonorities and patterns that gently intersect, ticks, acoustic and more synthetic structures arise in this new work by Autistici (David Newman), a sound-artist based in Sheffield, head-honcho of Audiobulb. Even if this record starts with very placid ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:52 AM - Dec 5/2009
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drone . experimental . free form . noise

Audrey Chen + Robert Van Heumen - Abattoir

CD - Evil Rabbit
After an disquieting start, modulating on shrill guttural vocalizations and innervated with noisy and improvisational acts, Robert van Heumen intervenes on laptops and controller. He generates instrumental arrangements, selected by highly noisy drones, with supplemental clicks, hums, sudden ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:54 AM - Dec 2/2009
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audio art . drone . experimental . field recordings

Mudboy - Mort Aux Vaches

CD - Mort Aux Vachez
The audio compact disk is presented rigidly bolted between three different rectangular wooden blocks, held together by metal hinges, then fixed through the usual split pin, the symbol of the series. The new Mort Aux Vaches release includes five unreleased recordings and marks the return of Mudboy - hosted ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:02 AM - Nov 30/2009
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audio art . experimental . free form

Denis Tricot / Eric Cordier - Orgue De Bois

CD - Prele
Narrow strips of wood, roughly five inches long, thin, connected to each other to reach a considerable length (up to ten meters), totally suspended by special rods, shape sinuous undulations, as sculptural instruments and architectural installations, artistic and musical. This construction by Denis Tricot and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:57 AM - Nov 24/2009
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Gintas K - Lovely Banalities

CD - Cronica
There are fourteen different tracks in "Lovely Banalities", the second release on Crónica for the Lithuanian sound-artist Gintas K. Although there are multiple "field recording" interludes, connections and micro-frequencies, they result in a rather continuous, evocative and fascinating flow of sound. They ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:08 AM - Nov 23/2009
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audio art . experimental

Marcus Maeder - Die Wunschmaschinen

DVD - Domizil
Since the mid-nineties, the experiments of Marcus Maeder permeated the Kombirama of Zurich with a certain conceptual freshness, which was both seminal and intuitive. It was at this time - for the first time - that the term "digital culture" found its application. They were the same years in which Bernd ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:08 AM - Nov 18/2009
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audio art . experimental . soundscapes

Robert Hampson - Vectors

CD - Touch
Three dense and acousmatic tracks, in which Robert Hampson displays unconventional attitudes in very imaginative ways, are devoted to the construction of complex soundscapes. The plots are constructed with great care for the pauses; the ones in 'Umbra' - quote from Latin referring to the darker area ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:23 AM - Nov 15/2009
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Jorge Haro - Works Based On Field Recordings

CD - Sudamerica Electronica
Jorge Haro, composer, sound and audio-visual artist, head of Sudamerica Electronica and LIMb0 festival director, insists on remarkable organic quality recordings, diluted in deconstructed scores, intertwined with long silences, drones and concrete auditory events, all very coarse and responsive with finely ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:48 AM - Nov 10/2009
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audio art . experimental

Daphne Oram - Oramics

2CD - Paradigm Discs
Seminal anticipations of future musical concepts and techniques from a time now passed away - a time fed by a different perception of the "concept" of the future, characterised by a very strong and rational exploration of the concept of "new" in music. These are the first stirrings of an electronic age - one ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:22 AM - Nov 1/2009
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acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . folktronica

Anne Laplantine - A Little May Time Be

CD - Ahornfelder
The harmonic structures in this work have a distracted quality, a fragile polyphony. Experimenter and transalpine videomaker Anne Laplantine is well-known for projects created under the moniker Michiko Kusaki e Angelika Koehlermann. She is now turning her attention to a style of digital pop, rendered in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:04 AM - Oct 29/2009
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acoustic/digital . experimental . free form

Tom Hamilton - Local Customs

CD - Mutable Music
The elegant and modulated instrumental interventions of Jacqueline Martelle (flute), Richard Cohen (clarinet), James Martin (trombone), Terry Kippenberger (bass) and Rich O'Donnell (percussion) are twisted with electronic harmonic sequences dictated by Tom Hamilton, in a work similar to electro- ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:08 PM - Sep 19/2009
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audio art . drone . experimental . plagiarism

Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Sample - Circulations

CD - Faitiche
A multifaceted cluster of different auditive materials, a set of miniatures, a choreographic movement of field recordings: it is not surprising if 'the Society for the Emancipation of Sampling' promises 'financial protection and legal support in cases of active infringement of the copyright associated with that ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:20 AM - Sep 17/2009
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abstract . audio art . experimental

Heribert Friedl - Recherche

CD - Nonvisualobjects
The hackbrett - or cimbalom - is a chordophone, trapezoidal in shape, with 90 to 125 metal strings. The bass strings are arranged in groups of 3 which are tuned in unison and are copper over-spun. The strings are stretched in an order that allows different groups to overtop the others on each side ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:54 AM - Aug 27/2009
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audio art . drone . experimental

Thomas Peter - Medir

CD - Domizil
Thomas Peter - Medir Sounds conceived to "furnish" virtual spaces; dilated and very balanced sequences (it is not chance that 'Medir' means "measure" in Spanish) articulated in a production deft in its use of drones, pauses and inspired emotional sounds. This is a maniacally organized project by Peter ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:08 AM - Aug 17/2009
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