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experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

Thorsten Knaub - Listening Station

CD - Thorsten Knaub
Thorsten Knaub - Listening Station It's not the first time - of course - and it won't be the last here at Neural that in an experimental music, soundscapes or field recordings review we concern ourselves with audio productions that are somehow correlated with architectures and abandoned spaces, be they buildings or disused structures, old ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:56 AM - Feb 7/2012
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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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ambient . electronica . experimental . noise

Martin Neukom - Studien 5-7

CD - Domizil
S basic elements of each auditory event: the oscillations. The feedback and non-linear filters, frequency distortion, granular synthesis work, crackle and various kinds of noise, combine to generate a continuous flow that is both engaging and fascinating: it could work as an ideal soundtrack for ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:21 AM - Jan 12/2012
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experimental . soundscapes

Burkhard Friedrich - Città Utopica

CD - Ahornfelder
The sound is deep and suggestive in "Città Utopica". This project by Burkhard Friedrich was created in the guise of an environmental installation enriched by visual elements and traversed by intense drones, digital iterations and synthetic frequencies. The cavernous plot is full of auditory stimuli, pulsating an ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:09 PM - Jan 2/2012
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acoustic/digital . experimental

AAVV - Myths & Masks Of Karol Szymanowski

AAVV, Myths & Masks, Karol Szymanowski, Kvitnu, Dunaewsky69, Nikolaienko, Kotra, Zavoloka, v4w.enko, Ujif_Notfound, Alla Zagaykevych, Andrey Kiritchenko, Polish Institute, Kiev, Tymoszówka, Ucraina, experimental, acoustic-digital, musica classica, Aurelio Cianciotta, AAVV---Myths-&-Masks.jpg

CD- Kvitnu
At the beginning of 2011, eight Ukrainian musicians were invited to play the same number of works by Karol Szymanowski, one of the most important European authors of the first half of the twentieth century. The renowned composer and pianist was born in 1937 in Tymoszówka, at the time a Polish ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:14 PM - Dec 27/2011
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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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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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experimental . free form . impro

Philip Corner - Pieces from the Past

CD - Pogus
Philip Corner configured these five scores specially for the violinist Malcolm Goldstein, using a non-traditional notation (sometimes linear or with graphic and verbal notations). They were mostly recorded in live performance, leaving the residual noise of the public and of the environment in order to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:59 AM - Nov 15/2011
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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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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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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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experimental

Ostravská Banda - On Tour

CD - Mutable
Stemming from the homonymous biennial festival in the Czech Republic, Ostravská Banda - with its twenty musicians – thrives under the direction of Peter Kotik, a veteran of unconventional orchestration and artistic director of the S.E.M. Ensemble in New York City. Standing ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:32 AM - Sep 30/2011
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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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ethnic . experimental

Sven Kacirek - The Kenya Sessions

CD - Pingipung
Sven Kacirek, a young musician who graduated in percussion and marimba at the conservatory of Hamburg, is an author inspired by the many facets of African music. In his Kenya Sessions there's a clear difference between the live recordings and the studio "arrangements" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:54 AM - Sep 21/2011
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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 . experimental . field recordings . impro

Molly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden & Stephen Vitiello - Moss

CD - 12k
Molly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello, have created an interesting live project recorded in the Trinity Cathedral in San Jose, California. The audio performance, part of the comprehensive program of the Biennial 01SJ Festival, an event focused on futuristic imagination ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:01 PM - Aug 10/2011
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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 . experimental . industrial

Alexander Schubert - Alexander Schubert Plays Sinebag

CD - Ahornfelder
Acoustic instruments and electronic processing converge in this new album by Alexander Schubert through hybrid experimental junctions of captured sounds and elliptical atmospheres. There are almost post-jazz sequences in "A Few Plateaus", while “Preliminary”, "Vowels", "All My Models" and "Slept" offer ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:00 PM - Jun 8/2011
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electronica . experimental . soundscapes

AAVV - Electric Carpets [Part 2 Of 2]

CD - Record Label Records
Abstract sound design and experimental atmospheres meet a fusion style, mixing electro-acoustic beats and creating an artificial and frantic post-IDM pastiche. Record Label Records, a record label founded in 1996, is headed in a rather unconventional way by Robbie Martin, aka Fluorescent Grey, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:06 AM - May 26/2011
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experimental . techno

Retina.it - Randomicon

CD - Flatmate
Under the Spanish Flatmate Music imprint, three years after their last release, Retina.it (Lino Monaco and Nicola Buono) are back. This veteran duo in Italian electronic experimentation formed in the nineties in the techno-centric Neapolitan area and gradually shifted towards more dense and refined ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:26 PM - May 24/2011
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acoustic/digital . experimental . impro

If, Bwana - Assemble.Age!

CD - Mutable
He's back to delight lovers of more "purist" experimentation. Al Margolis - aka If, Bwana – is an acrobatic audio-artist, active since the eighties, who remains effective and calibrated in the production of concrete techniques, weaving improvisation and deliberation, combining acoustic instruments, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:08 AM - May 20/2011
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breakcore . experimental

Igorrr - Nostril

Igorr, Nostril, Ad Noiseam, electronic, breakcore, baroquecore, Gautier Serre, experimental, noise, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, Igorr - Nostril.jpg

CD - Ad Noiseam
Vitriolic sequences, without any sense of sadness even though peppered with church-like and orchestral moments. Accelerations, pauses and slowdowns, sudden changes of tempo, and an insane attitude for unusual twists and hyperbolic improvisations. Igorrr, born Gautier Serre, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:10 PM - May 12/2011
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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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experimental

Matta - Prototype

CD - Ad Noiseam
When we choose to review an Ad Noiseam release – a Berlin-based experimental label founded in 2001 by Nicolas Chevreux - we know from the start that we will have to face unconventional styles and musical projects that are difficult to define. This time, however, we have been surprising by an offering ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:59 AM - May 5/2011
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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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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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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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