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audio art . experimental

Ulrich Troyer meets Georg Blaschke - Somatic Soundtracks

Ulrich Troyer meets Georg Blaschke - Somatic Soundtracks, 4Bit Productions, Neural, electronic, experimental, minimal, audio art, Aurelio Cianciotta, Ulrich-Troyer-meets-Georg-Blaschke_Somatic-Soundtracks.jpgCD - 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 ]


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audio art . experimental

Plinth - Collected Machine Music

Plinth, Collected Machine Music, Time Released Sound, ambient, classical, experimental, folk, minimalist, machine music, mechanical music, michael tanner, music box, toy music, victorian, United Kingdom, Aurelio Cianciotta, Plinth_Collected-Machine-Music.jpgCD - 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 ]


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experimental . field recordings . impro

Mathias Delplanque - Chutes

Mathias Delplanque, Chutes, Baskaru, Karu, elettroacustica, experimental, free form, impro, Aurelio Cianciotta, Mathias-Delplanque_Chutes.jpgCD - Baskaru
Mathias Delplanque is a talented musician with experience performing sound installation works and electro-acoustic compositions. His creations often balance objects and audio captures, giving life to interesting digital textures. His approach includes improvisational elements but emphasis is  ... [ Continue ]


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audio art . experimental . field recordings

AAVV - Between

AAVV, Between, 12K, Simon Scott, Corey Fuller, Marcus Fischer, Tomoyoshi Date, Taylor Deupree, Recorded live at Kinse Ryokan, Kyoto, on October 8th, 2012, experimenta, drone, impro, audio art, sound designer, Aurelio Cianciotta, AAVV_Between.jpgCD - 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 ]


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drone . experimental . field recordings

Quartz - Five Years On Cold Asphalt

Quartz, Five Years On Cold Asphalt, Crónica, field recordings, drone, Alexandr Vatagin, Electronic, Experimental, Alexander Schubert , Nicolas Bernier, Martin Siewert, Stefan Nemeth, David Schweighart, Bernhard Breuer, Tupolev, Port Royal, Aurelio Cianciotta, Quartz---Five-Years-On-Cold-Asphalt.jpgCD - Crónica
His debut album on Crónica Electronica, a Portuguese label well known to the lovers of the experimental scene, Five Years On Cold Asphalt is the beginning of the solo career of Alexandr Vatagin, aka Quarz, already famous for his collaborations with Valeot and Liska Records, and for his commitment  ... [ Continue ]


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drone . electronica . experimental

Nad Spiro - Atomic Spy

Nad Spiro, Atomic Spy, Geometrik, electronic, experimental, drone, Aurelio Cianciotta, Nad-Spiro---Atomic-Spy.jpgCD - Geometrik
Dark, twisted, cerebral resonances filled with electronic retreats and industrial audio emergencies are mixed with drones, percussive electroacoustic insertions and clotted vocal breaks. The whole generates maudit suggestions and shocking and claustrophobic atmospheres that maintain a great charm  ... [ Continue ]


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drone . experimental . field recordings

Murmer - What Are The Roots That Clutch

Murmer, What Are The Roots That Clutch, Helen Scarsdale, field recordings, experimental, site-specific, acusmatica, ambient, drone, Aurelio Cianciotta, Murmer---What-Are-The-Roots-That-Clutch.jpgCD - Helen Scarsdale
Under the moniker of Murmer hides Patrick McGinley, a field recordist who we remember for his We Share a Shadow, released in 2007 and the interesting live albums with Jim Haynes, another sound artist who works with Helen Scarsdale, a label specializing in the ambient and drone genres  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

Lingouf - Terre De Pierres

Lingouf, Terre De Pierres, Ant-Zen, experimental, elettronica, acoustic, digital, field recordings, Aurelio Cianciotta, Lingouf---Terre-De-Pierres.jpgCD- Ant-Zen
The record opens with the minimal sounds of a clock, its ticking mixed with very frail ambient sounds. The texture gradually fills out with overlapping recordings and other elements that reveal a melodic and rhythmic matrix. The matrix appears to be based on a fascination with time, with cryptic  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

Lawrence English - For / Not For John Cage

Lawrence English, For / Not For John Cage, Line, Experimedia, ambient, experimental, musica aleatoria, Aurelio Cianciotta, Lawrence-English---For-Not-For-John-Cage.jpgCD - Line
The ambivalence of the title “For/Not For John Cage” and the reference to the master (whose birthday saw its hundredth anniversary last year) is suggestive of a versatile, multi-sided and chaotic treatment. While partially the case the record also features pleasantly iterated and ambient frequencies  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

Kid Koala - 12 Bit Blues

Kid Koala, 12 Bit Blues, Ninja Tune, abstract hip-hop, experimental, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, Kid-Koala---12-Bit-Blues.jpgCD - Ninja Tune
Thanks to the ability and versatility of Kid Koala, it is possible that an album in an oblique blues style with abstract hip-hop contaminations may also assume more experimental connotations, attractive to a certain niche audience used to dissonances, manipulations and other extreme exercises in style  ... [ Continue ]


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abstract . experimental . field recordings

Dakim - 34 Fragments

Dakim, 34 Fragments, Dak, Senufo Editions, abstract hip hop, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), field recording, experimental, Aurelio Cianciotta, Dakim---34-Fragments.jpgCD - Senufo Editions
From the San Francisco Bay Area in California comes Dakim Saadiq, also known under the moniker Dak as an abstract hip-hop producer and lo-fi experimenter. In 34 Fragments, varying the sound quality of his sources, Saadiq subjects his audio captures – collected along the many branches  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

John Cage - Song Books

John Cage, Song Books, Sub Rosa, contemporary music, Compositions, Aurelio Cianciotta, John-Cage---Song-Books.jpg2CD + booklet - Sub Rosa
The re-release of a John Cage work always gives a reviewer the opportunity to underline the importance of this figure in the evolution of the contemporary music. 2012 saw the hundredth anniversary of the composer’s birth, resulting in celebrations and special event across the world  ... [ Continue ]


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acoustic/digital . experimental . field recordings

eRikm - Transfall

eRikm, Transfall,  Room40, field recording, musica atonale, acoustic-digital, experimental, electronic, abstract, Aurelio Cianciotta, eRikm---Transfall.jpgCD - Room40
In the notes of the album eRikm says: “The time spent on the composition of some of these pieces gave me the possibility to break out, that is to get out of my usual processes of degeneration/generation of a body or of a multiplicity of ‘pre-existing sound objects. Thus my gesture shifted  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental . noise

Jean Dubuffet - Expériences Musicales (II)

Jean Dubuffet, Expériences Musicales (II), Aurelio Cianciotta, musique concrète, noise, experimental, Asger Jorn, Internationale Situationniste, Aurelio Cianciotta, Jean-Dubuffet---Experiences-Musicales.jpg2CD - Rumpsti Pumsti
Expériences Musicales leaves a strong impression on the listener and is part of a small number of recordings that have “anticipated” the history of contemporary music. Jean Dubuffet, a multiform creative mind, influenced a large part of twentieth century music with his concept  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

Francisco Meirino - Untitled Phenomenas In Concrete

Francisco Meirino, Untitled Phenomenas In Concrete, cave12, audio paint, field recordings, experimental, UPIC, Iannis Xenakis, sintesi additiva, Aurelio Cianciotta, Francisco-Meirino---Untitled-Phenomenas-In-Concrete.jpgCD - cave12
This album utilizes 85 sessions of hybrid “audio paint” system HighC/UPIC and field recordings of fallen snow, breaking bones, magnetic filed and insects. The system is a structural model of additive colour inspired by the UPIC works of Iannis Xenakis that date back to the late seventies  ... [ Continue ]


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ambient . experimental

Fennesz - AUN / The Beginning And End Of All Things

Fennesz, AUN / The Beginning And End Of All Things, Ash, Touch, Cendre, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, Fennesz---AUN--The-Beginning-And-End-Of-All-Things.jpgCD - Ash / Touch
It is always difficult to begin discussing new releases by Christian Fennesz. Maybe this is due to the size of his personality, or perhaps it is the complex aesthetics of his compositions, which often center on very elegant and harmonious ambient-drones. His more recent works almost completely  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

eRikm, Martin Tetreault, Arnaud Rivière, Dj Sniff - DRIFT-01

eRikm, Martin Tetreault, Arnaud Rivière, Dj Sniff - DRIFT-01, Aurelio Cianciotta, Art Kill Art, eRikmMartinTetreaultArnaudRivièreDjSniffDRIFT.jpg 3xLP - Art Kill Art
Four turntablist djs improvise without a prearranged theme and record the performance separately on the same number of tracks. The arrangement is then presented using a special vinyl technique that keeps the different scratches separate and allows them to intersect continuously  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

Økapi & Aldo Kapi Orchestra - Opera Riparata [Tribute To Bruno Munari]

Økapi & Aldo Kapi Orchestra, Opera Riparata, Tribute To Bruno Munari, Illegal-Art, plunderphonics, plunderphonica, bastard pop, audio-pirataggio,  Aurelio Cianciotta, Okapi---opera_riparata_web.jpgCD - Illegal-Art
Inspired by a seminal text written in the late sixties by Bruno Munari and Davide Mosconi, the turntablist and cut-up artist Filippo Paolini - based in Rome and better known under the moniker Økapi – has created an interesting experimental opera project, surgically operating on 40 different works  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

Strøm - Fold

Strøm, Fold, Domizil, Gaudenz Badrutt, Christian Müller, click, micromusic, impro, drone, Aurelio Cianciotta, storm_fold_web.jpgCD - Domizil
Hiding behind the moniker Strøm, the duo formed by Guadenz Badrutt and Christian Müller investigates abstract sound constructions, utilizing many stylistic approaches. In this latest work they have arrived at a greater minimalism that, in the layered patterns, is filled with a rather iterated and fascinating machinic lyricism  ... [ Continue ]


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Philippe Petit - Extraordinary Tales Of A Lemon Girl

Philippe Petit - Extraordinary Tales Of A Lemon Girl, Aagoo, modern ambient, experimental, acustic,  field recording, Aurelio Cianciotta, PhilippePetit_web.jpgCD - Aagoo
Philippe Petit is not new to revisiting contemporary music tradition: as a journalist and activist he can boast of almost three decades of genre-traversing experience sharing his own specific passions. His works have been released by cult labels such as Pandemonium and Bip-Hop that are actually his creatures  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

Thomas Koner - Novaya Zemlya

Thomas Koner, Novaya Zemlya, Touch, field recordings, drone, site specific, experimental, music, Aurelio Cianciotta, ThomasKoner_web.jpgCD - Touch
Novaya Zemlya by Thomas Köner is made of abstractions that do not condense into a tangible construction. The continuum is very perturbing and is diluted in barely audible frequencies. In this release for Touch, the author, who can boast of a long career in the ambient-isolationist scene  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

V4W.enko And Sanmi - Y:E:T

V4W.enko And Sanmi, Y:E:T, Nexsound, suoni generativi, experimental, glitch, abstract, noise, Aurelio Cianciotta, V4W_web.jpgCD - Nexsound
This work is based on fascinating generative sounds, sensually moving between hyper-vivid structures. These are developed through patterns organized in multilevel textures that are rich in sudden changes of register, dysfunctions and digital jumps. Continuously expanding rhythmic concatenations evolve  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

Terre Thaemlitz - Soulnessless

Terre Thaemlitz, Soulnessless, Comatose, Pen Drive USB, micro SD, Aurelio Cianciotta, TerreTaemlitz_web.jpgPen Drive USB/Micro SD - Comatose
It takes around 15 minutes to copy the 15.66 Gb of audio files, videos and texts to our hard disk. This memorable release by Terre Thaemlitz for Comatose Recordings includes 32 hours worth of MP3s, 80 minutes of films and more than 150 pages of PDFs. It seems implicit that such a quantity of material can't be  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

Richard Garet - Areal

Richard Garet, Areal, 23five, experimental, drone, sound-designer, Aurelio Cianciotta, RichardGaret_web.jpgCD - 23five
Richard Garet is an investigator accustomed to audio/visual performances that are very careful in the analysis of the spaces and processes that determine the resulting phenomena. His approach often includes mixing different media that evolve in intimate spaces, giving rise to delicate mechanisms able to modify  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

Isnaj Dui - Abstracts On Solitude

Isnaj Dui, Abstracts On Solitude, Hibernate, experimental, abstract, glitchy, Aurelio Cianciotta, IsnaiDui_web.jpgCD - Hibernate
The incorporeal beats of "Abstracts On Solitude" give birth to a peculiar ecosystem that burrows deep in our perception, feeding not only on external manifestations. With different releases under her belt - for labels such as Normal, Smallfish, Rural Colours and FBox Records - and  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

Maurizio Bianchi - Celtichants

Maurizio Bianchi, Celtichants, Alone At Last, drone, experimental, Aurelio Cianciotta, MaurizioBianchi_web.jpgCD - Alone At Last
"Celtichants", by Maurizio Bianchi, is dedicated to Lautréamont (Isidore Lucien Ducasse), which brings to mind the idea of a visionary nature, something a little obscure and crooked, a poetic similitude that brings us back to a "sound doomism". The record is dense  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

VNDL - Gahrena: Paysages Électriques

VNDL, Gahrena: Paysages Électriques, Hymen, elettroacustica, post-rock, experimental, Aurelio Cianciotta, VNDL_web.jpgCD - Hymen
Operating under the moniker VNDL, Philippe Vandal, a young Montreal-based electronic investigator, released his first record "Something For Someone" on Abstract Reflections (an EP now available as a free download). The artist has not moved far from those organic and lively cuts in this latest offering  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

Stephen Cornford - Binatone Galaxy

 Stephen Cornford, Binatone Galaxy, Senufo, installazione, experimental, Aurelio Cianciotta, StepheCornford_web.jpgCD - Senufo
In the abstract and iterated forms of an installation that arranged different models of used tape recorders in a purposeful pattern on a white wall, Stephen Cornford created a system of playing devices whose original function was subverted. Replacing the contents  ... [ Continue ]


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Frank Bretschneider - Kippschwingungen

Frank Bretschneider - Kippschwingungen, Line, generating alternating sinewaves, sintesi subarmonica, Trautonium, experimental, Aurelio Cianciotta, FrankBreteshneider_web.jpgCD - Line
The subharchord is a rare sounding-generating device that employs subharmonic synthesis. Long-forgotten, the instrument was rediscovered in 2000 by Manfred Miersch, a Berlin artist and musician. The subharchord derives from an even more ancient instrument, the Trautonium, an equally strange  ... [ Continue ]


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Francisco Meirino & Michael Esposito - Gost Of Case File 142

Francisco Meirino & Michael Esposito - Gost Of Case File 142, Firework Edition, Shiver Mobile studio, Electronic Voice Phenomena, experimental, drone, Aurelio Cianciotta, FranciscoMeirino_web.jpgCD - Firework Edition
This work is based on recordings made in Lausanne, Switzerland, in an ancient school of anatomy that has been turned into a library. They were edited by Francesco Meirino himself at the Shiver Mobile studio between November and December of 2011. Hesitant audio emissions - rather dark iterations, dense with  ... [ Continue ]


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experimental

Florian Wittenburg – Artefacts: Solo Electronics

Florian Wittenburg – Artefacts: Solo Electronics, Nurnichtnur, abstract, sample, drone, experimental,  Aurelio Cianciotta, Artefacts_web.jpgCD - Nurnichtnur
Florian Wittenburg has been experimenting with sophisticated abstract sound structures, mixing virtual electronic instruments, samples and dilated drones to create complex non-deterministic algorithmic concatenations. The results are not always predictable, though the inspirations are articulated and the  ... [ Continue ]


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Andrea Belfi - Wege

Andrea Belfi, Wege, Room 40, Rutger Zuydervelt, Stefano Roveda, Stefano Pilia, Massimo Carozzi, Stefano Tedesco, Andrea Faccioli, Valerio Tricoli, Attila Faravelli, Greg Haines, impro, avant-folk, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, AndreaBelfi_web.jpgCD - Room 40
These four compositions by Andrea Belfi - with Giuseppe Ielasi mixing and mastering – have been skilfully woven together in collaboration with Rutger Zuydervelt, Stefano Roveda, Stefano Pilia, Massimo Carozzi, Stefano Tedesco, Andrea Faccioli, Valerio Tricoli, Attila Faravelli and Greg Haines. The sounds  ... [ Continue ]


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F.C. Judd - Electronics Without Tears

F.C. Judd, Electronics Without Tears, Public Information, concréte tape music, experimental, musica concreta, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, FcJudd_Mag_web.jpg CD - Public Information
Appearing on CD and vinyl (500 copies) and adorned with a small but interesting booklet of rare vintage photos, "Electronic Without Tears" takes us back to the epic times of the first concrète tape music, celebrating the work of a master and pioneer of sound art. Often forgotten, F.C. Judd was a composer  ... [ Continue ]


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drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts . post rock

Jasper TX - The Black Sun Transmissions

Jasper TX, The Black Sun Transmissions, Fang Bomb, Ambient, Dag Rosenqvist, drone, post-rock, lo-fi, melodic, post-human, glitch, noisy, abstract, Mike Weis, Aurelio Cianciotta, Jasper-TX---The-Black-Sun-Transmissions.jpg CD - Fang Bomb
Claustrophobic settings, dark patterns in the background, disguised melodies, rather diluted and sidereal threads. In this manner begins "The Black Sun Transmissions" by Dag Rosenqvist, aka Jasper TX, a Swedish musician accustomed to hybrid multi-instrumentalisms, drones and improvisations rooted in  ... [ Continue ]


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ambient . experimental . field recordings

Luis Tabuenca, Wade Matthews - Punto Cero Aragón

Luis Tabuenca, Wade Matthews, Punto Cero Aragón, Aural Terrains, experimental, audio art, contemporary music, digital, art, Aurelio Cianciotta, Luis-Tabuenca_Wade-Matthews_Punto-Cero.jpgCD - Aural Terrains
In the form of a reflection on emotional, psychological and physiological involvements with the words "home" and "territory", the sounds that underlie this project include words, narrated stories, cracklings, shouts, croaks of frogs, whirlpools and winces of the most variegated kinds. Field recordings,  ... [ Continue ]


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