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Fabio Selvafiorita / Valerio Tricoli - Death By Water
CD - Die SchachtelIt'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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental
Paul Baran - Panoptic
 CD - Fang BombA 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Mpld - Lacunae
 DVD - Winds MeasureRandomly 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Miguel Prado - Comedy Apories
 CD Anty-CopyrightLet'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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
ambient . electronica . experimental . noise
Martin Neukom - Studien 5-7
 CD - DomizilS 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
experimental . soundscapes
Burkhard Friedrich - Città Utopica
 CD - AhornfelderThe 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental
AAVV - Myths & Masks Of Karol Szymanowski
 CD- KvitnuAt 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Martin Tétreault + Le Quatuor De Tourne-Disques - Points, Lignes Avec Haut-Parleurs
 CD - OralEven 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . drone . experimental . field recording
Novi_sad - Inhumane Humans
 Sub RosaThanasis 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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CM von Hausswolff - 800 000 Seconds in Harar
 CD - TouchWhen 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
experimental . free form . impro
Philip Corner - Pieces from the Past
 CD - PogusPhilip 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
ambient . drone . experimental . field recording
AAVV - Table For Six: All Quiet? #3
 CD - EE TapesEE Tapes have released an interesting collection of ambient electronica, made with contributions from six different authors, who have each composed one extended track between 10 and 13 minutes long. We will try to mention everybody: first up is the Italian Neuestrasse ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . field recordings
Eisuke Yanagisawa - Ultrasonic Scapes
 CD - GruenrekorderEisuke Yanagisawa, an audio-artist interested in field recordings and researching ethnographic matrices (the latter also explored through interesting cinematic experiments), has been studying the linguistic and cultural characteristics of rural Vietnamese since 2006. The results of these studies have ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Marcus Fjellström - Library Music 1
 CD - KafkagardenIn "Music Library 1" Marcus Fjellström takes inspiration from classic music libraries - collections of sounds that were used in sixties and seventies movies and low cost television productions. The result is a lovely mash-up between classic ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . drone . experimental
Alexander Rishaug - Shadow Of Events
 CD - Dekorder Recorded in Oslo between 2006 and 2010, then mixed in Berlin, "Shadow Of Events" is the third solo album by Alexander Rishaug, a sound-artist prone to the use of field recordings, modulated together with various electronic devices and both traditional and non-traditional instruments. The sound ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
drone . experimental . impro . noise
Merzbow & Balázs Pándi - Ducks: Live In NYC
 CD - Ohm Resistance, Merzbow, AKA Masami Akita, needs no introduction. This pioneer of "noise" is well-known in the international experimental scenes for his sophisticated yet raw, “free jazz” attitude. Balázs Pándi is also quite well-known in the more extreme avant-garde "enclaves" ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Ostravská Banda - On Tour
 CD - MutableStemming from the homonymous biennial festival in the Czech Republic, Ostravská Banda - with its twenty musicians – thrives under the direction of Peter Kotik, a veteran of unconventional orchestration and artistic director of the S.E.M. Ensemble in New York City. Standing ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . impro
Dimitri Voudouris - ΑΛΘ=Φ / UVIVI / 1:Θφ4 / ΟΝΤΑ:
CD - PogusThe second release for the label Pogue by the Greek-born South African composer Dimitri Voudouris, an artist whose output is never predictable, focuses on the psycho-acoustic nature of auditory phenomena and on the characterizations they assume in different ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
ethnic . experimental
Sven Kacirek - The Kenya Sessions
 CD - Pingipung Sven Kacirek, a young musician who graduated in percussion and marimba at the conservatory of Hamburg, is an author inspired by the many facets of African music. In his Kenya Sessions there's a clear difference between the live recordings and the studio "arrangements" ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
drone . experimental . field recording . soundscape
Mem1 + Stephen Vitiello - Age of Insects
 CD - Dragon's EyeThis latest project – which combines field recordings with both analog and digital electronic instruments – spawned from a series of meetings between Mark and Laura Cetyl in Stephen Vitiello's Viginia studio between May 2009 and January 2010. The sound pieces in question, organized into ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental . field recordings . impro
Molly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden & Stephen Vitiello - Moss
 CD - 12kMolly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello, have created an interesting live project recorded in the Trinity Cathedral in San Jose, California. The audio performance, part of the comprehensive program of the Biennial 01SJ Festival, an event focused on futuristic imagination ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . audio art
Synusonde – Yug
 CD - Minus Habens"Yug" is an interesting project that stems from a meeting between the electronic composer Paolo Bragaglia, in a creative symbiosis with the talented Italian-American musician Matteo Ramon Arevalos, who both share a passion for one of the most important instruments of the Western concert tradition: the piano. The purpose of Synusonde is to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
electronica . impro . soundscapes
Nicola Ratti - 220 Tones
 CD - Die SchachtelAnalog synthesizers, a Farfisa organ, turntables, a tape recorder, a CRT TV: all devices that have no reason to exist without electricity. The relationship between the instruments and the electric continuum is precisely the research ground upon which are unraveled the seven distinct tracks that ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . field recordings
Hanna Hartman - H^2
 CD - Komplott Hanna Hartman is a Swedish sound artist and composer who lives and works in Berlin. She focuses on evolving the characteristics of sounds, revealing correspondences that are not always implicit and imagining new concatenations of forms and frequencies. Aural jolts, jumps and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Jason Kahn - Beautiful Ghost Wave
 CD - Herbal International From the title, "Beautiful Ghost Wave", we already expect ethereal and intangible sounds, an impression immediately confirmed in this work by Jason Kahn. The record employs a crafty expansion and contraction of the sequences, made using the first analog synthesizers, audio mixers and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . ambient . audio art . drone . soundscapes
Emanuele Errante - Time Elapsing Handheld
 CD - Karaoke KalkDigital-acoustic mixes, delicate lullabies and ambient scores. Overlapping textures sometimes develop from a single note, among meandering drones and clear harmonic articulations. All of Emanuele Errante’s electro-acoustic wisdom comes together in the seven tracks (including two bonus ones in the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
ambient . audio art . drone . noise
Philippe Petit - Scores Henry: The Iron Man
 CD - AagooInserted in our player, this CD immediately plays anxious sounds - dreamy and visionary - reminiscent of the original soundtrack of the movie mentioned in the cover artwork - "Eraserhead" - the first feature film by David Lynch, a cult director who is also often ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental . industrial
Alexander Schubert - Alexander Schubert Plays Sinebag
 CD - AhornfelderAcoustic instruments and electronic processing converge in this new album by Alexander Schubert through hybrid experimental junctions of captured sounds and elliptical atmospheres. There are almost post-jazz sequences in "A Few Plateaus", while “Preliminary”, "Vowels", "All My Models" and "Slept" offer ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Blake Carrington - Cathedral Scan
 CD - Dragon EyeIn this project by Blake Carrington the architectural plans of the Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral are subtly decoded and transmuted into open orchestral scores, full of different rhythms, drones and textures. The album - recorded live in those sacred spaces - makes use of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
electronica . experimental . soundscapes
AAVV - Electric Carpets [Part 2 Of 2]
![AAVV, Electric Carpets [Part 2 Of 2], Record Label Records, Robbie Martin, aka Fluorescent Grey, Kossak, Terminal 11, experimental, electronica, sound design, post IDM, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, AAVV - Electric Carpets [Part 2 Of 2].jpg](http://www.neural.it/sound_it/images5/AAVV%20-%20Electric%20Carpets%20%5BPart%202%20Of%202%5D.jpg) CD - Record Label RecordsAbstract sound design and experimental atmospheres meet a fusion style, mixing electro-acoustic beats and creating an artificial and frantic post-IDM pastiche. Record Label Records, a record label founded in 1996, is headed in a rather unconventional way by Robbie Martin, aka Fluorescent Grey, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
experimental . techno
Retina.it - Randomicon
 CD - Flatmate Under the Spanish Flatmate Music imprint, three years after their last release, Retina.it (Lino Monaco and Nicola Buono) are back. This veteran duo in Italian electronic experimentation formed in the nineties in the techno-centric Neapolitan area and gradually shifted towards more dense and refined ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental . impro
If, Bwana - Assemble.Age!
 CD - MutableHe's back to delight lovers of more "purist" experimentation. Al Margolis - aka If, Bwana – is an acrobatic audio-artist, active since the eighties, who remains effective and calibrated in the production of concrete techniques, weaving improvisation and deliberation, combining acoustic instruments, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
breakcore . experimental
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Igorrr - Nostril
 CD - Ad NoiseamVitriolic sequences, without any sense of sadness even though peppered with church-like and orchestral moments. Accelerations, pauses and slowdowns, sudden changes of tempo, and an insane attitude for unusual twists and hyperbolic improvisations. Igorrr, born Gautier Serre, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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