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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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drone . experimental . field recordings

Michael J. Schumacher - Weave

CD - Entr'acte
Based in New York City, Michael J. Schumacher focuses his research primarily on electronic and digital media, computer-generated sounds that iterate over fairly long periods of time, serializing sequences from multiple physical sources and structural elements. In Weave there are sampled engines, pumps and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 31/2010
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ambient . drone . experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

Francisco Lopez - Amarok

CD - Glacial Movements
Extremely dilated drones, yet not too immaterial, redundant in their progressive slips of many sound layers. Microtones, someone calls them, but there's nothing minimalist in such a soundscape. Just consider the title, "Amarok", the name of a giant wolf in Inuit mythology, a people obviously accustomed to the extremes of an uninhabitable nature, where the sea and the abyss are clearly ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 22/2010
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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 . 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 . 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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acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . folktronica

Mario Masullo & Andrea Gabriele - Les Couleurs Ne Meuvent Pas Les Peuples

CD - Persistencebit
The 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 ]

Posted at 04:40 AM - Mar 21/2010
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drone . electronica . experimental

Black To Comm - Alphabet 1968

CD -Type
Repeated melodies, drones and coagulated atmospheres, dark aural fluctuations, with a bias towards the mystical and evocative. In "Alphabet 1968", Marc Richter (pseudonym: Black To Comm) takes these ingredients and leads the listener through an imaginative digital pilgrimage, poised somewhere ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:52 AM - Mar 2/2010
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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 . 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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drone . experimental . microsound

Autistici - Complex Tone Test

CD - Kesh
Dilated and charming tonal sequences, micro-sonorities and patterns that gently intersect, ticks, acoustic and more synthetic structures arise in this new work by Autistici (David Newman), a sound-artist based in Sheffield, head-honcho of Audiobulb. Even if this record starts with very placid ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:52 AM - Dec 5/2009
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drone . experimental . free form . noise

Audrey Chen + Robert Van Heumen - Abattoir

CD - Evil Rabbit
After an disquieting start, modulating on shrill guttural vocalizations and innervated with noisy and improvisational acts, Robert van Heumen intervenes on laptops and controller. He generates instrumental arrangements, selected by highly noisy drones, with supplemental clicks, hums, sudden ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:54 AM - Dec 2/2009
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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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acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . folktronica

Anne Laplantine - A Little May Time Be

CD - Ahornfelder
The 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 ]

Posted at 04:04 AM - Oct 29/2009
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audio art . drone . experimental . plagiarism

Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Sample - Circulations

CD - Faitiche
A multifaceted cluster of different auditive materials, a set of miniatures, a choreographic movement of field recordings: it is not surprising if 'the Society for the Emancipation of Sampling' promises 'financial protection and legal support in cases of active infringement of the copyright associated with that ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:20 AM - Sep 17/2009
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audio art . drone . experimental

Thomas Peter - Medir

CD - Domizil
Thomas Peter - Medir Sounds conceived to "furnish" virtual spaces; dilated and very balanced sequences (it is not chance that 'Medir' means "measure" in Spanish) articulated in a production deft in its use of drones, pauses and inspired emotional sounds. This is a maniacally organized project by Peter ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:08 AM - Aug 17/2009
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drone . experimental . field recordings

AAVV - Rhythm

CD - Cherry/Gruenrekorder
A series of wonderful artists follow one another in Cherry Music (Japan) and Gruenrekorder (Germany) split release. It consists of field recordings with an underlying 'intrinsic' rhythm, hence the title. This is an idea that in different ways permeates all ten selected tracks. Among the experimenters ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:53 AM - Jul 21/2009
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drone . electronica . experimental

Monoton - Eight Lost Tracks

CD - Oral
Since the early eighties, Konrad Becker (seminal media activist and author of the 'Tactical Reality Dictionary') has thoroughly tested sounds extracted from meta-mathematical structures, natural constants and patterns in his 'Institut Für Wissenschaftliche Sensation' project. Following an automatic ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:53 AM - Jul 13/2009
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breakbeat . drone . ethnic

Muslimgauze - Sycophant Of Purdah

CD - Staalplaat
From the endless catalogue of Muslimgauze recordings, Staalplaat is still able to release an unpublished work in a limited edition of only 700 copies. 'Sycophant of Purdah' was originally conceived to be published in 1994, and then was put aside, thus complying with the intentions of the artist, in order to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:08 AM - Jun 25/2009
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drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Atom™ - Liedgut

CD - Raster-Noton
Trapped by his own genius, auto-induced to predominantly wear Senor Coconut's exotic clothes, Uwe Schmidt, aka Atom Heart, aka Atom ™, aka Lassigue Bendthaus now with his first release for Raster-Noton, is still able to surprise. 'Liedgut' is an estranging album, romantic and austere at the same time, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:09 PM - Jun 22/2009
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audio art . drone . experimental . noise

Zeitkratzer & Carsten Nicolai - Electronics

CD - ZeitKratzer
This is the first of a series of three releases on Zeitkratzer Records, titled 'Electronics' which will soon be printed in a 3CD box set format. Here, Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) together with the Zeitkratzer ensemble, directed by Reinhold Friedl, restate many of their typical musical strategies, experienced ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:26 AM - Apr 1/2009
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Sudamericaelectronica 02

DVD + CD - Sudamerica Electronica
Sudamerica Electronica, a new label based in Buenos Aires, articulates most of its research around the concept of 'extreme noise and extreme nature', enchantments that, in the DVD - this is a double release which also includes a CD - convey the experimental sense of radical and contemporary frequencies ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:53 PM - Feb 3/2009
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Kim Cascone - Music For Dagger And Guitar

CD - Aural Terrains
Field recordings and grainy sounds, multifaceted audio insertions, several settings - natural, metropolitan and industrial contexts - intense connections, spiky frequencies and meditative drones. Kim Cascone in 'Music For Dagger And Guitar', with an always pressing editing style, creates tangled ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:14 PM - Feb 2/2009
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abstract . ambient . drone . electronica . soundscapes

Dj Olive - Triage

CD - Room 40
A long time has passed since some non-mainstream scenes started talking about 'illbient', a word coined - in fact - by DJ Olive that better defined and promoted, during the early 90s, the new production trends in ambient music. Very rarefied sound passages, lying somewhere between hip hop ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Feb 1/2009
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audio art . drone . experimental . laptop

The Noiser - Trilogie Des Fantomes

CD - Free Software Series
Otherworldly desires, dense atmospheres, gloomy and rarefied, drones and wide textures, the 'Trilogie Des Fantômes' is project by Julien Ottavi, also known as The Noiser - a sound artist/activist in the APO 33 collective of Nantes, the makers of Apodio, a GNU/Linux platform expressly used for this ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:40 AM - Jan 29/2009
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acoustic/digital . ambient . drone . experimental . soundscape

Maju - Maju-5

CD - Extreme
In Japanese, "Maju" (pronounced 'may-you') has approximately the same meaning as the English word "cocoon". So in this album, the music-induced relaxation is completely different to that often obtained in neo-lounge intimate trends, usually derived from frivolous electronic entertainment and consumed in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:46 PM - Nov 28/2008
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