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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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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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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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Tobias Reber - Backup Aura

CD - Hyperfunction Label
Intuition and algorithmic composition appear to be the cornerstones of meticulous and passionate research conducted by Tobias Reber, a member of the Centrozoon ensemble. Reber is an experimenter and electronic musician very skillful in interweaving field recordings and courteous samples, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:26 AM - Mar 31/2011
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audio art . experimental . field recording . microsound

Cem Güney - Praxis

CD - Cronica
With sudden audio constructions, electro-acoustic and microsound influences, the Turkish multi-instrumentalist Cem Güney (who can boast past experiences as DJ and trumpet player) gives birth to a fascinating sequence of synthetic sounds and field recordings for the Portuguese experimental label ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:40 PM - Jan 22/2009
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audio art . ethnic . experimental . field recording

Gregory Büttner - Walze 1-8

CD - Firework Edition
Il materiale di base per questo progetto di Gregory Büttner è costituito da registrazioni storiche effettuate su cilindri di cera (in tedesco: 'Walze'), provenienti direttamente dall'archivio del museo etnologico di Berlino, realizzate agli inizi del novecento e in differenti parti del mondo. Operando nuove sequenze ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:42 PM - Jan 21/2009
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electronica . ethnic . experimental . field recording . glitch'n'cuts . microsound

Mahmoud Refat - Mort Aux Vaches

CD - Mort Aux Vaches
Mort Aux Vaches series artworks are more and more sophisticated. This artwork has been commissioned to Piotr Mordel, graphic designer founder of the atypical "The Club of Polish Losers" in Berlin, Dialog magazine contributor, and skillful here in associating elaborate drawings to a "precious" lettering, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:04 PM - May 8/2008
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audio art . drone . experimental . field recording . glitch'n'cuts

Robert van Heumen - Fury

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CD - Creative Sources
"Fury (after Anger)" is a new project by Robert von Heumen made up of two recordings: the title track, split in four different tracks, and "They Would Get Angry Sometimes". The former has been commissioned by the Sonic Circuit Festival in Washington and the latter has been composed from a performance at ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:01 PM - Apr 9/2008
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audio art . experimental . field recording . glitch'n'cuts . microsound . soundscape

Ignaz Schick / Dawid Szczesny - The View Underneath

CD - Non Visual Objects
Ethereal atmospheres lightly veined with 'jazzy' attitudes with a noir penchant but very conceptual in the abstract electronic sequences. The sound design of this duo melts Ignaz Schick's skepticism towards digital technologies and interest towards objects which can emit peculiar sounds with the creative use of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:54 PM - Mar 24/2008
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acoustic/digital . audio art . field recording . field recordings

Bernhard Gunter / Heribert Friedl - TRANS~

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CD - Non Visual Objects
Sampling field recordings using the hum (the noise produced by the difference of potential between electronic devices connected together) as a base is truly unusual. The interference is generated by three different low power voltage adapters and the positions of the microphones are changed to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:52 PM - Mar 22/2008
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experimental . field recording . soundscape . soundtracks

Frank Rothkamm - Lax

CD - Flux Records
This is a brilliant conceptual posthumous soundtrack, inspired by the Millenium fear, trying to sonify this atmosphere during the two years before 2000 in Los Angeles. Fear, city on the edge of chaos, media upcoming hysteria, noise are described with an emotional tour of frequencies, recorded with "vintage" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:41 AM - Jan 25/2008
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ambient . drone . electronica . experimental . field recording

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - The Garden Of Forking Paths

CD - Spekk Japan
Using a computer or other traditional editing methods doesn't matter. Electronic music as a category can be instinctively connected more to 'how' certain sounds are produced than to 'with what' they are produced. It's useless getting tangled up in disputes, motivated perhaps more by the endless trends' ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:26 PM - Apr 7/2007
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acoustic/digital . ethnic . experimental . field recording

Nathan Davis - Memory Spaces

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CD - Mytoeses Music
Familiar spaces whose memory is imprinted in our own brain, explored to the very end by Nathan Davis, a percussionist and composer, fascinated at the same time by acoustic and electronic sounds. It's a union of experimental exoticisms, using traditional music instruments as a triangle, in 'Diving ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:10 AM - Mar 6/2007
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acoustic/digital . electronica . experimental . field recording . impro . microsound

Flim - Ohne Titel, 1916

CD - Plinkity Plonk
After 'Holiday Diary' in 2003, this is Enrico Wuttke's, aka Flim, second release on Plinkity Plonk, a Korm Plastics parent label. It is made up of piano inspired music, an instrument played by Wuttke since his childhood. Here he intersects the improvisation attitude with minimal derives, meticulously diluted in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:56 AM - Feb 13/2007
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experimental . field recording

Eric La Casa - Secousses Panoramiques

3" CD - Hibari
A musical ear is always needed. In 1958 John Cage, was a contender in an Italian quiz show (as a mushroom expert), and once he started to play coffee pots astounding the question master. Eric La Casa, instead, uses elevators to create his own music. Sixteen short tracks are composed with the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:35 PM - Feb 1/2007
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experimental . field recording . soundscape

Marc Behrens and Paulo Raposo - Hades

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CD - and/OAR
Marc Behrens and Paulo Raposo made this recordings one by one at the beginning, on board a ferry boat and in other places near the Lisbon area's landing places within the space of three years (2001 - 2003). All the recording were afterwards edited and condensed in only four tracks, poetically hovering ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:44 AM - Jan 29/2007
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drone . experimental . field recording

Jacob Kirkegaard - 4 Rooms

CD - Touch/Family Affair
Four big and gloomy recordings, made respectively in those who were once public places ("Church", "Auditorium", "Swimming Pool", "Gymnasium"), abandoned military bunkers, within the zone of the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl, an Ukrainian city whose sad fame is due to what happened on April 26, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:50 PM - Oct 18/2006
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Various Artists - Montreal Sound Matter

CD - Pogus
This is a project that started with a workshop curated by Francisco Lopez, which features eight artists active in the fields of sampling and field recordings, especially in inner spaces, who try to extract a collective sound out of single elaborations through discussions and collective decisions. Fragments of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:35 PM - Oct 17/2006
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electronica . experimental . field recording

Taylor Deupree - Northern

CD - 12K/Microsuoni Suspended and refined sound acrobatics for Taylor Deupree in 'Northern', from the State of New York, much quieter than Brooklyn, where this artist worked and lived for several years. Diluted textures, loops and field recordings, electric piano, guitar and subdued iterated melodies, a nice balance of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:39 PM - Sep 6/2006
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