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Cem Güney - Praxis

Cem Güney, Praxis, Cronica, ambient, experimental, electroacoustica, field recording, microsound, noise, crackle, Nada Yoga, sequenze algoritmiche, Aurelio Cianciotta, CemGuney_Praxis.jpgCD - 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 ]


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Gregory Büttner - Walze 1-8

Gregory Büttner, Walze 1-8, Firework Edition, audio art, field recordings, experimental, source material, historical recordings, wax cylinders, German, Walze, recorded memory, the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, disintegration, information, background noise, technical faults, decay, fading, semiotic contexts,  Aurelio Cianciotta, GregoryButtner-_Walze.jpgCD - 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 ]


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electronica . ethnic . experimental . field recording . glitch'n'cuts . microsound

Mahmoud Refat - Mort Aux Vaches

Mahmoud Refat, Mort Aux Vaches, Mort Aux Vaches, electronica, ethnic, experimental, field recordings, microsound, glitch'n'click, Piotr Mordel, The Club of Polish Losers, Berlin, VPRO Dwars Festival, Amsterdam, Aurelio Cianciotta, MahmoudRefat_MortAuxVaches.jpg 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 ]


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audio art . drone . experimental . field recording . glitch'n'cuts

Robert van Heumen - Fury

Robert von Heumen, Fury, They Would Get Angry Sometimes, Creative Sources, audio-art, experimental, drone, glitch'n'cuts, Farm Security Administration, California, migrants, Aurelio Cianciotta, RobertVanHeumen_Fury.jpg 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 ]


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Ignaz Schick / Dawid Szczesny - The View Underneath

Ignaz Schick, Dawid Szczesny, The View Underneath, Non Visual Objects, audio art, experimental, field recordings, electroacustic, glitc'n'click, Aurelio Cianciotta, SchickSzczesny-_TheViewUnde.jpgCD - 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 ]


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acoustic/digital . audio art . field recording . field recordings

Bernhard Gunter / Heribert Friedl - TRANS~

Bernhard Günter, Heribert Friedl, TRANS~, Non Visual Objects,  acoustic, digital, audio art, experimental, field recordings, electric cellotar, hum, sonic devices, Aurelio Cianciotta, GunterFriedl-_TRANS.jpg 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 ]


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experimental . field recording . soundscape . soundtracks

Frank Rothkamm - Lax

Frank Rothkamm, Lax, Flux Records, rothkamm_lax.jpg 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 ]


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ambient . drone . electronica . experimental . field recording

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - The Garden Of Forking Paths

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, The Garden Of Forking Paths, CD, Spekk Japan, drone, electronica, experimental, field recordings, microsounds, post-rock, Tarentel, The Alps, cantuledesma_thegardenof.jpg 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 ]


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Nathan Davis - Memory Spaces

athan Davis, Memory Spaces, Mytoeses Music, acoustic-electronics, experimental, free form, impro, ethnic, Kaija Saariaho, Six Japanese Garden, Chester Music, nathandavis_memoryspace.jpg 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 ]


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Flim - Ohne Titel, 1916

Flim, Ohne Titel, 1916, Plinkity Plonk, acoustic/digital, electronica, Korm Plastics, minimal, Enrico Wuttke, piano, musica minimale elettronica, pianoforte, classica, cover design, Christos Lialios, flim_ohnetitle1916.jpg 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 ]


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Eric La Casa - Secousses Panoramiques

Eric La Casa, Secousses Panoramiques, Hibari, ericlacasa_secousses.jpg 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 ]


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Marc Behrens and Paulo Raposo - Hades

Marc Behrens,  Paulo Raposo, Hades, and/OAR, behrensraposo_hades.jpg 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 ]


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drone . experimental . field recording

Jacob Kirkegaard - 4 Rooms

Jacob Kirkegaard, 4 Rooms, Touch, Family Affair, jacobkirkegaard_4rooms.jpg 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 ]


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Various Artists - Montreal Sound Matter

montrealsoundmatter.jpg 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 ]


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electronica . experimental . field recording

Taylor Deupree - Northern

Taylor Deupree, Northern, 12K, Microsuoni, taylordeupree_northern.jpg 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 ]


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