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Ulrich Troyer meets Georg Blaschke - Somatic Soundtracks

CD - 4Bit
Among the cuts of Somatic Soundtracks we find analogue synthesizers, loops, effects and guitars. The compositions were created in 2010 and 2012 to provide material for the choreographic work of Georg Blaschke, a dancer and maths/philosophy/pedagogy graduate. Blaschke was previously ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:03 AM - Apr 26/2013
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audio art . experimental

Plinth - Collected Machine Music

CD - Time Released Sound
We are immediately moved to an unreal dimension, hyper melodious and out of time. This work has been realized using boîte à musique (music boxes), devices that function as automatic instruments. Thin sheets of steel arranged in combs are made to vibrate using pins and rollers or a spinning plate, producing ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:39 AM - Apr 18/2013
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audio art . field recordings . soundscapes

Ephraim Wegner & Julia Weinmann - Eins Bis Sechzehn

CD - Crónica
A hotel in ruins, burdened with memories and environments evocative of fascinating decadence. Here are spaces that became uninhabitable, now only remotely reminiscent of the splendour of the 60s through 80s, during which period the tourist industry embraced an approach that leaned ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:19 AM - Apr 9/2013
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

AAVV - Between

CD - 12K
Recorded live at the Kinse Ryokan in Kyoto, on 8th October 2012, Between is the creation of an ensemble of uncommon talent and inspiration. It is rare to come across a roster that combines such names as Taylor Deupree, Simon Scott, Corey Fuller, Marcus Fischer and Tomoyoshi Date. Although ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:47 AM - Apr 5/2013
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Carl Schilde - Wow

CD - Heavy Listening
Wow is faithful to the implicit statement of intent in its title. The vinyl confines itself to ultralow frequencies at the limits of human perception and is supposed to be played and amplified using different equipment in order to create divergent playback effects ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:20 AM - Jan 24/2013
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audio art . breakcore . experimental

Party Catani - Lowfistication

CD - Cock Rock Disco
Behind the moniker 'Party Catani' hides Patric Catani Cremer, Hank Candle, The Very Impossible Person and Toytone. The members of this crew are all devoted to weird and extreme sonic elaborations, especially Patric, who boasts of having a "chiptune" background - a kind of music ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:35 PM - Jul 31/2012
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audio art . electronica . experimental

Toad Blinker - Sculpture

12" - Dekorder
This luxurious edition has sprung from the elaborations of the Toad Blinker combo (musician Dan Haurhurst and animator-illustrator Rueben Sutherlan). The release is a 12'' vinyl with "zoetropic" images in a pure psychedelic style, something we haven't seen at the office for time ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:07 AM - Jul 24/2012
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audio art . experimental

The Futureplaces Impromptu All-Stars Orchestra - Poststop

CD - Cronica Electronica
This very enjoyable and original release has been produced by Heitor Alvelos, Anselmo Canha eand Marc Behrens and mastered by the latter and Miguel Carvalhais, at the end of a two-day workshop and live show that took place in October 2010 in the city of Oporto. It is the result of the fertile confluences of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:31 PM - Jul 17/2012
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audio art . experimental

Valentina Vuksic - Harddisko

12" - Artkillart
Artkillart is an experimental label supporting projects focused on the analysis and détournement of techniques and practices typical of the record industry. The label is accustomed to collaborations with sound-artists "seduced" by the idea of exploring the limits of the traditional physical substrates (CDs, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:56 AM - Jun 21/2012
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audio art . experimental

AAVV - Yokomono 3.5

12" - Staalplaat
Simply by looking against the light at the white vinyl, we are able to distinguish the three sound tracks, recordings that don't present the regular separations usually found on "normal" record printings. Here the idea has been to leave the stylus jump between the grooves, placing the listener randomly ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:16 PM - Jun 7/2012
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abstract . ambient . audio art . experimental . field recordings

AAVV - Replace

CD - Degem
Degem Concretist music, abstract and environmental, juxtaposed together with hardly classifiable research and field recordings: this is the substance - in short - of fourteen different authors selected and edited by Degem, a label that every year releases a German ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:12 PM - Jun 5/2012
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audio art . experimental

Chihei Hatakeyama - Mirror

CD - Room40
Chihei Hatakeyama, the Japanese investigator, is remembered for his debut album inspired by the philosophic works of Theodor W. Adorno. "Minima Moralia" was published by Kranky Records in 2006: from then on, Hatakeyama's research has centered on very dilated sequences that are constantly reprocessed in a mix of drones, atmospheric patterns and quietist passages, which remain very vivid ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:33 PM - May 31/2012
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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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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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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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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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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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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

CD - 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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