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eRikm - Transfall
 CD - Room40In the notes of the album eRikm says: “The time spent on the composition of some of these pieces gave me the possibility to break out, that is to get out of my usual processes of degeneration/generation of a body or of a multiplicity of ‘pre-existing sound objects. Thus my gesture shifted ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Helmut Schäfer - Thought Provoking III
 CD - 23fiveThis interpretation of Helmut Schäfer’s free score features muted tones from a pipe organ, electronics, a hair dryer, a gong, a violin and an intermittent flux of percussion. These are the basic elements of Though Provoking III, the last work by the Austrian electroacoustic composer ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Emanuele De Raymondi - Buyukberber Variations
 CD - ZerokilledSkillfully drawing on his expertise in a number of areas (including electronic, free improvisation, jazz, minimalism and ambient music) Emanuele De Raymondi’s work is formed exclusively from a live recording of virtuoso Turkish clarinet player Oğuz Büyükberber, captured ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Mark McGuire - Get Lost
CD - Editions MegoThe acoustic and electric sequences of this new production written by Mike McGuire are immediately dreamy, circular and iterated. Sounds and reworks (mainly of guitar) are unraveled in gentle drones, hanging in the balance between new-age and post-rock experimentalism, cleverly deconstructed ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Yannis Kyriakides - Airfields
CD - MazagranEmpathizing with the suggestion that a bird's eye image may be translated into sound, Yannis Kyriakides makes use of satellite images gathered from different sources. "I often think of my compositions as a musical setting where it is possible to wander in a lapse of relatively open time. Consequently the idea of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Antoine Chessex - Dust for 3 Violins, Backtape and Electronics
 CD - Cave12Antoine 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Lucia Mense – Electronic Counterpoint
 CD - Satelita / A-MusikYou 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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) |
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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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) |
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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) |
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) |
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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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) |
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Mari Kimura - The World Below G And Beyond
 CD - Mutable MusicInterfacing MaxMSP with a violin, Mari Kimura extends the traditional expressive techniques of the instrument, focusing his research primarily on the range of subharmonics. "The World Below G And Beyond" - however - use an approach which seeks to implement a ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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DiRac - Phon
 CD - ValeotMany laptops combined with several acoustic instruments – this is a set-up focused on pattern building, iteration on different levels through precise manipulations designed to modulate tones, resonance and vibration. Peter Kutin, Florian Kindlinger and Daniel Lerche, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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David First - Privacy Issues [Droneworks 1996-2009]
![David First, Privacy Issues [Droneworks 1996-2009], XI Records, acoustic-digital, audio art, experimental, drone,](http://www.neural.it/sound/images5/DavidFirst_PrivacyIssues.jpg) 3CD - XI RecordsDavid First’s debut album with XI Records sees the experienced guitarist and composer working alongside such luminaries as “Blue" Gene Tyranny, Peter Zummo, Chris McIntyre and The Black Jackets Ensemble. The work features drones, dilated harmonies and diverse ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Bird, Lake, Objects
 CD - FaiticheIntrospective, dreamy and dense sounds, intense but restrained, are intertwined in a very calibrated way in ‘Bird, Lake, Objects’. Using only one microphone to capture the whole ensemble (percussion and vibes by Masayoshi Fujita, electronic devices and laptops by Jan Jelinek), the work has been ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Bill Wells & Stefan Schneider - Pianotapes
 CD - Karaoke KalkGentle, fragile chords played by Bill Wells and Stefan Schneider, a form of "chamber music" we might say, digs up an old-fashioned stylistic category. The former engages with harmonic scales while the latter records everything on two old tape recorders and replays elements at ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Philippe Petit & Friends - A Scent Of Garambrosia
 CD - AagooElegant cinematic and orchestral movements, made using both acoustic and digital instruments, are unraveled in rarefied and narrative structures and juxtaposed with melancholic, anxious sequences by Philippe Petit. The artist has carefully coordinated an eclectic group of musicians, artists and sound-experimenters ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . audio art . circuit bending . experimental . field recordings
KGB - Noise Forest
DVD - Aural TerrainsBehind the acronym KGB hide Kim Cascone, Guido Henneböhl and Brendan Dougherty, all well-known musicians and researchers in the contemporary digital-electroacoustic scenes. This combo - founded in 2004 - stands out for their use of field recordings and processed sounds in performances. In this recording, created at an ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Mem1 - +1
 CD" - IntervalThe 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Marina Rosenfeld - Plastic Materials
CD - Room40Marina 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Nommo Ogo - Across Time And Space
CD - Record LabelRather 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . folktronica
Mario Masullo & Andrea Gabriele - Les Couleurs Ne Meuvent Pas Les Peuples
 CD - PersistencebitThe 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . electronica . ethnic . experimental . free form
Mice - World Tour
 CD - EcosonoAs 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Akira Kosemura - Polaroid Piano
 CD - Someone GoodAkira 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Milosh - III
 CD -!K7Gentle 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Stephan Moore - To Build A Field
 CD - Deep ListeningSounds 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Anne Laplantine - A Little May Time Be
CD - AhornfelderThe 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Tom Hamilton - Local Customs
CD - Mutable MusicThe 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Domenico Sciajno - Doves Days In Palermo
 CD - BowindoFrom March to July 2008 Palermo held the 'Doves Days', 'Meetings of music, sounds and experimental electronic arts' – a festival organised for the third time by Antitesi. Works were selected for this edition for their ability to cultivate a sense of cultural exchange between artists, practitioners and a public of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Nicolas Bernier - Les Arbres
 CD - No TypeAcoustic and electronic sounds in 'Les Arbres' can be listened to in the form of a delicate but rigorous project, led by Nicolas Bernier, a composer able to activate symmetries between piano and environmental textures, developing intense and expanded melodic tunes. The Canadian author places ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . ambient . electronica . experimental
Ethan Rose - Oaks
 CD - BaskaruTo create these minimal sound ellipses Ethan Rose uses an old Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. The sounds are often velvety, ambient and symphonic, and are manipulated using computers and other electronic devices. They are also intertwined with more traditional acoustic instruments such as flute, clarinet, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Taylor Deupree & Kenneth Kirschner - May
 CD - Room40Recorded live at the Lisbon's OFF Festival in May 2008, this collaborative project by Taylor Deupree and Kenneth Kirschner is specifically focused on the relationship resulting from the interaction between the sounds produced by an acoustic piano and those produced in subsequent laptop manipulation. The ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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