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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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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 ]

Posted at 11:05 AM - Nov 29/2011
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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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ambient . drone . experimental . field recording

AAVV - Table For Six: All Quiet? #3

CD - EE Tapes
EE Tapes have released an interesting collection of ambient electronica, made with contributions from six different authors, who have each composed one extended track between 10 and 13 minutes long. We will try to mention everybody: first up is the Italian Neuestrasse ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:21 PM - Nov 2/2011
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abstract . drone . experimental

Alexander Rishaug - Shadow Of Events

CD - Dekorder
Recorded in Oslo between 2006 and 2010, then mixed in Berlin, "Shadow Of Events" is the third solo album by Alexander Rishaug, a sound-artist prone to the use of field recordings, modulated together with various electronic devices and both traditional and non-traditional instruments. The sound ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:50 AM - Oct 12/2011
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drone . experimental . impro . noise

Merzbow & Balázs Pándi - Ducks: Live In NYC

CD - Ohm Resistance,
Merzbow, AKA Masami Akita, needs no introduction. This pioneer of "noise" is well-known in the international experimental scenes for his sophisticated yet raw, “free jazz” attitude. Balázs Pándi is also quite well-known in the more extreme avant-garde "enclaves" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:16 PM - Oct 3/2011
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drone . experimental . field recording . soundscape

Mem1 + Stephen Vitiello - Age of Insects

CD - Dragon's Eye
This latest project – which combines field recordings with both analog and digital electronic instruments – spawned from a series of meetings between Mark and Laura Cetyl in Stephen Vitiello's Viginia studio between May 2009 and January 2010. The sound pieces in question, organized into ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:23 AM - Sep 6/2011
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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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drone . experimental . minimal . soundscapes

Lugano Fell - Slice Repair

CD - Baskaru
Lugano Fell is a solo project by James Taylor, a founding member of the tech house duo Swayzak, a combo that for more than a decade has been active in the field of electronic-dance. Taylor - apparently - must have wanted to take a break to try a different approach, one even more abstract and cinematic, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:55 AM - Apr 26/2011
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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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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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David First - Privacy Issues [Droneworks 1996-2009]

3CD - XI Records
David 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 ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Jan 4/2011
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acoustic . audio art . drone . field recordings

AAVV - E84

CD - Entr'acte
This very interesting collection, published by Entr'acte, opens with the tense and grinding drones of Greek experimenter Yiorgis Sakellariou. The metallic, sustained sounds are presented in the guise of iterated strings and harmonics, before the second track, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Dec 21/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . soundscapes

Philip Jeck - An Ark For The Listener

CD - Touch
An early version of "An Ark For The Listener" was performed by Philip Jeck at Kings Place in London in February 2010: an aesthetic sound composition heavily inspired by verse 33 of "The Wreck of the Deutschland", a 1923 poem composed ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:41 AM - Dec 3/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental

Mike Vernusky - Music For Film And Electro-Theatre

CD -Quiet Design
Metallic drones, forced puffing sounds, sub-frequencies and sculptural space-induced drifts: thus begins “Music For Film And Electro-Theatre", the latest project of Mike Vernusky, who is, along with Cory Allen, the co-curator of Quiet Design Records, an experimental and eclectic label based in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Nov 27/2010
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acoustic . drone . experimental . free form

Ignatz - Mort Aux Vaches

CD - Mort Aux Vaches
In Ignatz, floating guitar sequences merge with an exotic, repetitive score, creating melancholic and sensitive environments. Simultaneously lo-fi and yet of an unusually high technical caliber, this work generates dense drones that are infused with many influences (blues, postrock, improvisation, world ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Nov 2/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . microsound

Marcus Maeder - Annex

MiniCD - Domizil
In architecture, an "annex" area is typically an extension of the main building. Similarly, the engravings on this mini CD complement and supplement what Marcus Maeder has achieved in his latest project, "Subsegmental" ‚ a release published in the summer of 2009 by Domizil, a label ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:09 PM - Oct 28/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . microsound

Richard Chartier - A Field For Mixing

CD - Room40
After activating the player, all you hear in the room - a place dedicated to listening - is the laptop fan and some noise coming from the road, and no sound from the speakers. Four minutes pass before you begin to hear something in the background. A carpet of sound slowly creeps in; dilated and ethereal. "A Field For Mixing" by Richard Chartier, indulges in microsound intransigence, connecting with ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Oct 19/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . field recordings

Eric La Casa - Zone Sensible 2 / Dundee 2

CD - Room 40
This record presents natural and artificial events; brittle audio emergencies that seem conditioned by the same sound frequency registries. In Zone Sensible 2, only apparently converging oscillations, digital swarms with hybrid features and a a frantic microcosm that is very exposed and reactive are carefully crafted to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Sep 11/2010
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drone . electronica . experimental

Semuin - Circles And Elephants

CD - Ahornfelder
Provinces, the seminal 2005 album with which Jochen Briesen, using the moniker Semuin, triggered his personal research, was a collaboration with Anne Laplantine (aka Angelika Koehlermann), and was mastered by Greg Davis, another well-known musician in the niche areas of experimental-electronic sound. Since then a lot has happened and now, in the same ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:05 AM - Sep 9/2010
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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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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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