electronic music :: Neural.it: audio art Archives

Vernon & Burns - Mort Aux Vaches

CD - Mort Aux Vaches
For Mort Aux Vaches, surpassing itself with even more extreme modulations of the characteristic "riveted" format doesn't happen often, given how many highly original packages have been created for these very idiosyncratic releases. This time - however - you have to be very careful when unwrapping ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Sep 7/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

@C - Music For Empty Spaces

CD - Baskaru
Non-places, uninhabitable spaces on the edge of several fascinating layers and fractures and delicate and extremely sensitive aural presences.These are the aesthetics of a parallel universe in which abstract experiments live, along with field recordings, ghostly melodies, environmental drones and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Sep 4/2010
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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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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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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 . 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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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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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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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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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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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. 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

CD - 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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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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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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