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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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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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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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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Eisuke Yanagisawa - Ultrasonic Scapes

CD - Gruenrekorder
Eisuke 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 ]

Posted at 09:49 AM - Oct 25/2011
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audio art . electronica . experimental . soundscapes

Marcus Fjellström - Library Music 1

CD - Kafkagarden
In "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 ]

Posted at 02:40 PM - Oct 20/2011
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audio art . experimental . impro

Dimitri Voudouris - ΑΛΘ=Φ / UVIVI / 1:Θφ4 / ΟΝΤΑ:

CD - Pogus
The 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 ]

Posted at 10:30 AM - Sep 27/2011
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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 ]

Posted at 03:02 PM - Jul 26/2011
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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 ]

Posted at 03:52 PM - Jul 19/2011
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

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 ]

Posted at 07:24 PM - Jul 13/2011
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acoustic/digital . ambient . audio art . drone . soundscapes

Emanuele Errante - Time Elapsing Handheld

CD - Karaoke Kalk
Digital-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 ]

Posted at 03:42 PM - Jun 28/2011
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ambient . audio art . drone . noise

Philippe Petit - Scores Henry: The Iron Man

CD - Aagoo
Inserted 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 ]

Posted at 12:30 AM - Jun 16/2011
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audio art . drone . soundscapes

Blake Carrington - Cathedral Scan

CD - Dragon Eye
In 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 ]

Posted at 07:45 AM - Jun 3/2011
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audio art . experimental . field recordings . laptop

Francisco Meirino & Brent Gutzeit - Five Years Of Work For A Strange Result

Mp3 - Trust Lost
Flawlessly integrated in this project - the result of five years of collaboration - are the broken electro-acoustic frequencies of Francisco Meirino and the drones and highly sensitive, intense pulses of Brent Gutzeit. These are two ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:56 AM - May 7/2011
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audio art . experimental

AAVV - International Sound Art Festival: Playing With Words - Live

CD - Gruenrekorder
The "Playing With Words” festival stems from a collaboration between "Kulturnetz Frankfurt e.V." and "CRiSAP"(Creative Research into Sound Art Practice). The first is a nonprofit organization promoting cultural events and courses, while the other is a department of the London College of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:05 AM - Apr 28/2011
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audio art . experimental . microsound

Autistici (Reworked) - Resonating Wires

CD -Audiobulb
David Newman, head honcho of Audiobulb, is back as Autistici, this time remixed by a large group of colleagues, all well-known producers in the contemporary experimental electronic scene. From the first sequences Simon Scott (former drummer of Slowdive and collaborator with Brian Eno) gives us a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:59 AM - Apr 21/2011
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Bettina Wenzel - Mumbai Diary

CD - Gruen
of city traffic. Glimpses of a background with exotic music and citations that emerge alienated from their original context reassemble during atonal passages into extended audio emergencies that include metallic sounds, squeaks, gloomy lullabies and sighs. In "Mumbai Diary" Bettina Wenzel shares with ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:36 AM - Apr 19/2011
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audio art . experimental . microsound

Myo - Memory Gospel

CD - Zeromoon
Envelopes "stretched" beyond all limits, circular sounds fascinatingly unfolded among cracks, feedbacks, loops and rhythmic digital beats. Myo, the moniker of Cory O'Brien, is not new to using multiple free software and field recordings, experimenting with combinations ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:41 AM - Apr 14/2011
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audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Noish - Free SS 15

CD - Free Software Series
Inspired by "Noise & Capitalism", a book and audio-cd by Mattin & Anthony Iles - a sharp and tendentious reflection on the political role of noise - this fifteenth implementation of the Free Software Series features another radical sound activist, Oscar Martin, aka Noish, an experimenter whose work is as "cryptic" as the aforementioned text, but still ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:45 PM - Apr 6/2011
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audio art . experimental . field recording . soundscape

Tobias Reber - Backup Aura

CD - Hyperfunction Label
Intuition and algorithmic composition appear to be the cornerstones of meticulous and passionate research conducted by Tobias Reber, a member of the Centrozoon ensemble. Reber is an experimenter and electronic musician very skillful in interweaving field recordings and courteous samples, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:26 AM - Mar 31/2011
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acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental

Mari Kimura - The World Below G And Beyond

CD - Mutable Music
Interfacing 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 ]

Posted at 09:44 AM - Mar 15/2011
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acoustic . audio art . experimental

Alvin Lucier - Zeitkratze: Old School

CD - Zeitkratze
Recorded live at the Philharmonie Luxembourg in October 2009 and edited in the summer of the following year in Germany (GreenHouseStudios), these five new compositions by Alvin Lucier resonate intensely due to the quality of their structures and acoustic instrumental twists. In a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:29 AM - Mar 10/2011
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ambient . audio art . experimental . soundscapes

Gail Priest - Presentiments From The Spider Garden

CD - Endgame
Gail Priest - Presentiments From The Spider Garden Articulating field recordings in a fairly evocative way, with dilated drones and vocal interventions, using both digital techniques and acoustic instruments, the Australian sound-artist Gail Priest unravels in "Presentiments From The Spider Garden " a whole compendium of aural starts and dreamlike ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:11 AM - Mar 8/2011
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acoustic . ambient . audio art . drone . experimental

Olan Mill - Pine

CD - Serein
This is the debut album by the Alex and Svitlana Samoylenko Smalley duo, aka Olan Mill - two rather cultured and refined audioartists who propose elegiac instrumental sequences with elegant and solemn jumps that are modulated throughout the scores. The melodious succession of pipe organ and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:04 AM - Mar 3/2011
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audio art . field recordings . soundscapes

Andreas Bick - Fire And Frost Pattern

CD - Gruen
No metaphor - even in the art world, with its more experimental and avant-garde latitudes - exceeds the immediate fascination that the hot-cold dualism manages to evoke. The extremes - as Eastern philosophy teaches us - are to some extent complementary; they transform into each other, are ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:52 AM - Mar 1/2011
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Lasse Marc Riek - Harbour

CD - Herbal
This project brings together abstract sounds recorded on the street near bridges, tunnels, railways, and other "audio catches" that have connections with ships, boats, docks and a wide range of other objects moved by water. From the spring of 1999 to 2007 Lasse Marc Riek diligently developed the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:54 AM - Feb 22/2011
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audio art . experimental . laptop

Thomas Ankersmit - Live In Utrecht

CD - Ash
Thomas Ankersmit, a Dutch saxophonist and electronic composer, has finally released a solo album. Now based in Berlin, the artist is accustomed to installation work, though this time he is creating for the Ash label, sister of the better known and more celebrated Touch. This long suite ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:36 AM - Feb 15/2011
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audio art . experimental . microsound . minimal

Patricia Bosshard & Simon Grab - MRI

CD - Everest
With a limited edition CD, which contains a library of sounds with 80 samples, the experimental Swiss duo of Patricia Bosshard and Simon Grab debuts for Everest Recordings. All sounds are recorded using an MRI scanner (Magnet Resonance Imaging), a technology primarily known for its diagnostic and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:41 AM - Feb 12/2011
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audio art . experimental . microsound

Roel Meelkop - Grey Mass / Grey Matter

CDR 3" - 1000füssler
A Dual 3" CD-R, enclosed within beautiful A5 dark cardboard packaging has been released by the experimental German label 1000füssler. This is a production by Roel Meelkop, a visual artist with a strong interest in music, who is somewhat attracted to decidedly minimalist, skinny and abstract ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:18 PM - Feb 10/2011
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acoustic/digital . audio art . drone . laptop . post rock

DiRac - Phon

CD - Valeot
Many 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 ]

Posted at 11:01 AM - Feb 7/2011
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audio art . industrial . minimal techno

Greie Gut Fraktion - Baustelle

CD - Monika Enterprise
This is the debut album and the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between AGF and Gudrun Gut. The former is a 360° digital artist, a talented member of a multidisciplinary approach to combinatorial experiments of electronic audio-visual streams, while the latter is a seminal member of Einstürzende ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Jan 27/2011
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