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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Emmanuel Mieville - Four Wanderings In Tropical Lands

CD - Baskaru
Metallic strokes, sparse voices, buzzing insects, sirens and dogs barking. Emmanuel Mieville is very skilled at capturing moments of reality in exotic contexts. These recordings were made in Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Peru and Malaysia and contain atmospheres that have been captured with sensitivity, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:41 AM - May 24/2012
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audio art . experimental

Zavoloka - Vedana

CD - Kvitnu
Extracting the CD from the very elegant "special cardboard double sleeve", an hexagonal box with polished embroidery and playing the record soon leads to the realization that the content is equally as precious as the design. Kateryna Zavoloka is certainly a well-known and appreciated artist, one of the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:53 AM - May 22/2012
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audio art . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Alfredo Costa Monteiro + Ben Owen - Frêle à Vide

CD - Contour Editions
Harsh frequencies, superimposed in layers, obtained thanks to the feedback of a Walkman and emissions produced using short and medium-wave radios. These are some of the techniques employed by Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Ben Owen in "Frêle À Vide", a cooperative project in which several microphones, mixers, a turntable arm and several self-built accessories come together, alongside an ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:50 PM - May 12/2012
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experimental . post rock . soundscapes

Gator Bait Ten - Harvester

CD - Ohm Resistence
The grooves of “Harvester” offer a very shady, almost maniacal sound, characterized by slow cadences and post-rock influences. Gator Bait Ten, comprising M. Gregor Filip, Simon J. Smerdon, Kurt Submerged and Ted Parson, imprint very particular atmospheres that are both melancholic and fascinating. The group ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:56 AM - May 8/2012
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ambient . electro . electronica

AAVV - Mindfield

CD - Psychonavigation
Psychonavigation is an Irish label based in Dublin, stylistically focused between ambient, electronica and electro. Head honcho Keith Down is also - in this case - the curator of “Mindfield”, an interesting collection dedicated to a certain "mentalism", that crosses several musical genres and heralds calibrated, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:29 AM - May 1/2012
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Scott Smallwood, Sawako, Seth Cluett, Ben Owen and Civyiu Kkliu - Phonography Meeting

CD - Winds Measure
Organized as a transversal field recording orchestra, the combo of Scott Smallwood, Sawako, Seth Cluett, Ben Owen and Civyiu Kkliu structured this project, providing a draft of unprocessed recordings strictly localized in fractions of 10 minutes each that have been consecutively mixed by an artist in a reciprocal handover. In "Phonography Meeting" the background climax is maintained by an "ambiance" very much ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:47 AM - Apr 26/2012
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electronica . free form

Vega - Wormsongs

CD - Artek Sounds
Here we find a vocal stuttering, a sort of gibberish where a series of hardly decipherable words are emitted, winning us over. We are talking about "Sermon On Wings And Tergal Lobes", the first track of "Wormsongs", a not-easily decipherable album, suspended between lyricisms and noise, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:23 AM - Apr 21/2012
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drone . experimental . field recordings

Netherworld - Over The Summit

CD - Glacial Movements
The Netherworld project, supported by the Roman producer Alessandro Tedeschi (founder of the label Glacial Movements), has traditionally been characterized by ambient sounds both isolationist and ethereal. Now the road is open to a narration that assumes more sensitive and fascinating insertions. The textures ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:21 AM - Apr 17/2012
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Emmanuele Gibello - Labyrinthe

CD - Bruit Clair
The debut album of Emmanuelle Gibello, a Parisian artist accustomed to the union of visual and electronica, reveals a skillful manipulator of field recordings that have been extrapolated from both natural and urban contexts. The work utilizes electronic instruments, the Internet, video cameras, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:34 AM - Apr 11/2012
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abstract . audio art . experimental . free form

Gluid - Twee

CD - esc.rec
Dutchman Bram Van Den Oever, better known as Gluid, has already published a first solo cdr-album on esc.rec. For his second release he collaborated with Paul De Jong and MiaMia. Now Van Den Oever is back solo and with "Twee" the immersive and multiform sequences gain a musicality even richer in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:06 PM - Apr 5/2012
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audio art . drone . experimental

Illuha - Shizuku

CD - 12K
Here is some really sweet and delicate instrumental music by Illuha, the moniker that hides Corey Fuller and Data Tomoyashi, two musicians who articulate gentle and winding sequences, operating mainly from their base in Tokyo. However, it was in a old church in Bellingham, in Whatcom county ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:40 AM - Apr 3/2012
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acoustic/digital . experimental

Antoine Chessex - Dust for 3 Violins, Backtape and Electronics

CD - Cave12
Antoine Chessex is a talented Swiss composer, sax player and experimental musician, also familiar with sound installations and trans-disciplinarian collaborations. For "Dust for 3 Violins, Backtape and Electronics", as the description makes clear, the author (in the recordings made at the Berghain, a very ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:39 AM - Mar 26/2012
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audio art . field recordings . soundscapes

Yann Novak - Presence

CD - Hibernate
The recordings made for Presence were originally conceived by Yann Novak for a sound performance held at VOLUME, a curated event at the Torrance Art Museum in June 2010. The sound captures were made on that occasion using a cell phone. The same sounds were then digitally processed, significantly ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:57 AM - Mar 22/2012
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Marc Behrens - Apparatus

CD - Agxivatein
A pair of headphones, a couple of active speakers, a DVD player, a digital frame with a USB memory stick – all set in a sound space activated each time for a single listener. "Apparatus" can be enjoyed from two different sound sources; on headphones and at different volume levels in the Phonebox - a small booth ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:50 AM - Mar 15/2012
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Francisco López + Novi_sad - Titans

CD - GH Records
Francisco Lopez and Novi_Sad certainly don't need too much introduction in the contemporary enclaves of experimental electronica. In "Titans", again, they prove their incommensurable talent, unraveling ambient sound scores through a long process of transformation of the materials used. Field recordings ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:17 AM - Mar 7/2012
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audio art . experimental . noise

Yasunao Tone - MP3 Deviations # 6+7

CD - Mego
From the tradition of the Fluxus movement - of which Yasunao Tone was formerly one of the important organizers - the Japanese maestro transcends continuous mutation of matter with forms that are not very crystallized, nor easily encodable. What flows from the grooves of the first long suite (over 30 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:47 AM - Mar 1/2012
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audio art . drone . soundscapes

Luigi Turra - Ki

CD - and/OAR
Luigi Turra presents three CDs in a single release for and/OAR, including an equal number of extended and distinct compositions - Enso, Ancient Silence and Shasekishu respectively. From the beginning the trilogy by the Italian sound artist imprints itself in guise of a full-bodied electroacoustic continuum but ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:03 AM - Feb 28/2012
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acoustic/digital . experimental

Lucia Mense – Electronic Counterpoint

CD - Satelita / A-Musik
You can listen to Lucia Mense at the Berghain in Berlin, together with Sören Leupold, in a live performance released by Lux Aeterna – and then be now surprised by this project, which retains the same grace and effectiveness, though now adds in rich ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:51 PM - Feb 23/2012
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Chris Watson & Marcus Davidson - Cross-Pollination

CD - Touch
Two distinct compositions complete this release by Chris Watson & Marcus Davidson for the renowned label Touch. The first track (composed by Chris Watson only) "Midnight at the Oasis" stands out for its focus on exploring oblique frequency interlacements that cross from the animal world in very varied ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:46 AM - Feb 22/2012
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Mimosa / Moize - Hear One Near And Think Of The Other

CD - Dragon’s Eye
Minimal digital sequences, crackling and very refined, fill the listening space. Lightly throbbing sound developments are central to this project by Lucia H. Chung and Martin J. Thompson, the former from Taiwan, the latter from London. Both are experienced investigators of rarefied environmental ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:40 AM - Feb 15/2012
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Ernst Karel - Swiss Mountain Transport Systems

CD - Gruenrekorder
The reasons why a sound-artist might specifically limit the locations where sound is captured are numerous. In this case Ernst Karel has chosen the many transport systems typical of a mountain as the subject of a meticulous investigation. Ski lifts, chair lifts and cable cars, chosen for their particular and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:56 AM - Feb 9/2012
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experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

Thorsten Knaub - Listening Station

CD - Thorsten Knaub
Thorsten Knaub - Listening Station It's not the first time - of course - and it won't be the last here at Neural that in an experimental music, soundscapes or field recordings review we concern ourselves with audio productions that are somehow correlated with architectures and abandoned spaces, be they buildings or disused structures, old ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:56 AM - Feb 7/2012
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Fabio Selvafiorita / Valerio Tricoli - Death By Water

CD - Die Schachtel
It's not irrelevant that "Death By Water" was recorded on the small island of Giudecca in Venice, even if the distilled threads shine very abstractly and synthetically - a highly imaginative trip among field recordings, effects and multi-faceted patterns, effectively unraveled by Fabio Selvafiorita and Valerio ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:41 AM - Feb 2/2012
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audio art . experimental

Paul Baran - Panoptic

CD - Fang Bomb
A hoarse voice stands out. This is the beginning of "Scotona Song", conceived as something like an opening sketch that features walkie-talkie humming and a droning organ - a dirge characterized by minimal but expressive musical elements. "Panoptic" by Paul Baran moves on to balance multiple influences in a sort of melancholic instrumental avant-jazz, a hybrid conceptual and electro-acoustic ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:36 PM - Jan 26/2012
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audio art . experimental

Mpld - Lacunae

DVD - Winds Measure
Randomly found old Kodachrome slides and an uncomplicated digital set-up (laptops, midi controllers, a video projector, two diaprojectors, dimmer, lights and induction/contact microphones) are the basis of "Lacunae", an audio-visual project by Gill Arno, better known as Mpld, the Italian-born music ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:41 AM - Jan 24/2012
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audio art . experimental

Miguel Prado - Comedy Apories

CD Anty-Copyright
Let's be honest, when faced with a new Anty-Copyright crew release we are always prepared to encounter something unusual, radical and extremist, even from the perspective of audio art and experimental music. Even so, these ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:20 AM - Jan 19/2012
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ambient . electronica . experimental . noise

Martin Neukom - Studien 5-7

CD - Domizil
S basic elements of each auditory event: the oscillations. The feedback and non-linear filters, frequency distortion, granular synthesis work, crackle and various kinds of noise, combine to generate a continuous flow that is both engaging and fascinating: it could work as an ideal soundtrack for ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:21 AM - Jan 12/2012
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experimental . soundscapes

Burkhard Friedrich - Città Utopica

CD - Ahornfelder
The sound is deep and suggestive in "Città Utopica". This project by Burkhard Friedrich was created in the guise of an environmental installation enriched by visual elements and traversed by intense drones, digital iterations and synthetic frequencies. The cavernous plot is full of auditory stimuli, pulsating an ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:09 PM - Jan 2/2012
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acoustic/digital . experimental

AAVV - Myths & Masks Of Karol Szymanowski

AAVV, Myths & Masks, Karol Szymanowski, Kvitnu, Dunaewsky69, Nikolaienko, Kotra, Zavoloka, v4w.enko, Ujif_Notfound, Alla Zagaykevych, Andrey Kiritchenko, Polish Institute, Kiev, Tymoszówka, Ucraina, experimental, acoustic-digital, musica classica, Aurelio Cianciotta, AAVV---Myths-&-Masks.jpg

CD- Kvitnu
At the beginning of 2011, eight Ukrainian musicians were invited to play the same number of works by Karol Szymanowski, one of the most important European authors of the first half of the twentieth century. The renowned composer and pianist was born in 1937 in Tymoszówka, at the time a Polish ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:14 PM - Dec 27/2011
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Guillaume Laidain - Instants Mobiles

CD - Brut Claire
La Manufacture de Chaussures in Bordeaux is a 1930s shoe factory that since 1998 has been transformed into TNT, a urban place for the re-appropriation of public space. This building is being used as a space for independent artistic creation and promotion. Despite the restructuring (substantial ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:43 AM - Dec 15/2011
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abstract . audio art . experimental

Martin Tétreault + Le Quatuor De Tourne-Disques - Points, Lignes Avec Haut-Parleurs

CD - Oral
Even with its ultra-minimalist conceptualization, this collection of very abstract and harsh sound elaborations - made by manipulating turntables – manages to function as a kind of "symbolic scratching". Designed by Martin Tétreault and produced by Magali Babin, David Lafrance, Alexander ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:25 AM - Dec 13/2011
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audio art . drone . experimental . field recording

Novi_sad - Inhumane Humans

Sub Rosa
Thanasis Kaproulias, using the moniker Novi_sad, questions the intimate structure of environmental sounds created with a hypothetical "sculptural integrity" in mind. The artist presents auditive articulations whose essences somehow seem to precede the listening experience. The ear follows ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:29 AM - Dec 5/2011
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acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . impro

Mark Templeton - Mort Aux Vaches

CD - Mort Aux Vaches
"Mort Aux Vaches" (death to cows) shouted the anarcho-Communards as they turned against every form of authority. Echoes of this turbulent time still resound in the catalogue of Staalplaat, a Dutch indie label whose Berlin store has released some of the most interesting international experimental ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:05 AM - Nov 29/2011
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audio art . drone . experimental . field recording

CM von Hausswolff - 800 000 Seconds in Harar

CD - Touch
When he was twenty-four, Arthur Rimbaud left the world of literature and lounges to wander through Europe before finally landing in Harar in Abyssinia, a city that boasted of possessing 99 minarets. CM von Hausswolff, commissioned to write music for a play about the life of the "damned poet", has ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:04 PM - Nov 24/2011
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experimental . free form . impro

Philip Corner - Pieces from the Past

CD - Pogus
Philip Corner configured these five scores specially for the violinist Malcolm Goldstein, using a non-traditional notation (sometimes linear or with graphic and verbal notations). They were mostly recorded in live performance, leaving the residual noise of the public and of the environment in order to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:59 AM - Nov 15/2011
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