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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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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Gilles Aubry & Stéphane Montavon - Les Écoutis Le Caire

CD - Gruenrekorder
A simple white sheet, 51 by 84 centimeters, with the poetry of Stéphane Montavon spread over it. The CD is basically environmental field recordings, made by Gilles Aubry in Cairo, Egypt, in a bathroom, in a covered market, in a basilica and in a courtyard. Finally, other "audio catches" that can be traced to a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:58 AM - Jun 28/2010
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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 . experimental . field recordings . impro

Lionel Marchetti & Olivier Capparos - Equus

CD - Pogus
"Equus", a collaborative project of concrete music, created by combining the strong personalities of Lionel Marchetti and Olivier Capparos. It may boast of being commissioned by the INA-GRM of Paris, the renowned music research institute founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1951, a place still very active and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:07 AM - Apr 15/2010
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Marc Behrens - A Narrow Angle

CD - Entr'acte
Shaped into the form of scratchy recordings, extrapolated from the environmental sounds of a video arcade in Taipei, which were then heavily processed, the frequencies of the first part of "A Narrow Angle" weaves together vibrant and alien sounds. These elaborations are very much present in the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:48 AM - Apr 6/2010
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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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audio art . drone . experimental . field recordings

Gilles Aubry - s6t8r

CD - Winds Measure
With a title that looks like a captcha, a hardbound, all-white, material design (developed by the designer Ben Owen) and a publishing volume of only 300 copies, Gilles Aubry commits his latest project to the catalog of Winds Measure Recordings - a label from Brooklyn appropriately focused on experimental ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:33 PM - Feb 18/2010
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acoustic/digital . experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

Akira Kosemura - Polaroid Piano

CD - Someone Good
Akira Kosemura creates fascinating miniatures in form of delicate piano elaborations, pop and classical at the same time, gentle and repeated, with light backgrounds of natural sounds and measured clicks. Pants, scratches, light percussions of string instruments, discrete field recordings that reinforce the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:38 PM - Feb 1/2010
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audio art . experimental . field recordings . microsound

Phroq - Recordings Of Various Vibrations And Stress Situations

Phroq, Recordings Of Various Vibrations And Stress Situation, Uzu Sounds, Francisco Meirino, audio-art, experimental, microsounds, field recordings, max/msp, Espace Julien di Marsiglia, Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut di Oakland, live set, Paradox, Tilburg, performance, error, entropia, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, Phroq_Recordings.jpg

CD - Uzu Sounds
Francisco Meirino - under the pseudonym Phroq - continues unabashed in his fascination with bugs and micro-sounds. His is a meticulous investigator, pushing the limits of the audible, cataloguing the frequencies and hums of electrical equipment under stress. The sources of the samples - in the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:15 AM - Jan 19/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . field recordings

Mudboy - Mort Aux Vaches

CD - Mort Aux Vachez
The audio compact disk is presented rigidly bolted between three different rectangular wooden blocks, held together by metal hinges, then fixed through the usual split pin, the symbol of the series. The new Mort Aux Vaches release includes five unreleased recordings and marks the return of Mudboy - hosted ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:02 AM - Nov 30/2009
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audio art . experimental . field recordings

Gintas K - Lovely Banalities

CD - Cronica
There are fourteen different tracks in "Lovely Banalities", the second release on Crónica for the Lithuanian sound-artist Gintas K. Although there are multiple "field recording" interludes, connections and micro-frequencies, they result in a rather continuous, evocative and fascinating flow of sound. They ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:08 AM - Nov 23/2009
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Jorge Haro - Works Based On Field Recordings

CD - Sudamerica Electronica
Jorge Haro, composer, sound and audio-visual artist, head of Sudamerica Electronica and LIMb0 festival director, insists on remarkable organic quality recordings, diluted in deconstructed scores, intertwined with long silences, drones and concrete auditory events, all very coarse and responsive with finely ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:48 AM - Nov 10/2009
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Shinkei / Luigi Turra - YU

CD - Non Visual Objects
Textures dilated, millimetrically suspended in space such that only distracted listening could make appear neutral, together with field recordings and ambient tonal digressions. These are the sound confluences developed by Luigi Turra and Shinkei, both musicians accustomed to minimal audio ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:53 PM - Jul 27/2009
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drone . experimental . field recordings

AAVV - Rhythm

CD - Cherry/Gruenrekorder
A series of wonderful artists follow one another in Cherry Music (Japan) and Gruenrekorder (Germany) split release. It consists of field recordings with an underlying 'intrinsic' rhythm, hence the title. This is an idea that in different ways permeates all ten selected tracks. Among the experimenters ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:53 AM - Jul 21/2009
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Yaco - Peliculas Y Una Cancion

CD - Sudamericaelectronica
Sensitive and suspended atmospheres are unravelled in layers of sound made vivid by the juxtaposition of many textures, including field recording, deaf repetitions and clicks, hinting at spurious melodies and unexpected outcomes. Sound snippets of everyday lives are reassembled by Yaco Argentina ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:49 AM - Jul 16/2009
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audio art . experimental . field recordings . free form

Thanos Chrysakis - A Scar In The Air

CD - Aural Terrains
Ethereal, synthetic and very fragmented sounds, field-recordings, drones and elegant acoustic treatments. Athenian composer Thanos Chrysakis, meticulously organises the structures and atmospheres of the project 'A Scar On The Air', a continuation of the Inscapes series (already selected ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:19 PM - Apr 6/2009
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Andrea Polli - Sonic Antartica

CD - Gruenrekorder
The Antarctic, an area larger than the United States, is an extremely important factor in the climate outcome of the entire planet. Blinding whiteness and endless expanses of ice are the predominant features of this landscape. It also generates the sense of being a ‘strong’ yet ‘neutral’ natural ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:25 PM - Mar 30/2009
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Ohrmong - A Film by Stefan Bauer

DVD - Nocords
Shot in 2003 in Mongolia, 'Ohrmong', with sequences and cut-ups of abstract images, recounts a train trip through those far away, exotic lands. Sounds and images are selected by Stefan Bauer in a very personal, stylish and brilliant film adaptation which, not surprisingly, was awarded at the Diagonale Film ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:15 AM - Feb 15/2009
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audio art . drone . experimental . field recordings

Kim Cascone - Music For Dagger And Guitar

CD - Aural Terrains
Field recordings and grainy sounds, multifaceted audio insertions, several settings - natural, metropolitan and industrial contexts - intense connections, spiky frequencies and meditative drones. Kim Cascone in 'Music For Dagger And Guitar', with an always pressing editing style, creates tangled ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:14 PM - Feb 2/2009
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acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . field recordings

Miya Masaoka / Joan Jeanrenaud - For Birds, Planes And Cello

CD - Solitary B
Joan Jeanrenaud, the irreproachable cellist of the Kronos Quartet (who can boast of collaborations with Astor Piazzolla, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, but also with David Byrne and Joan Armatrading) gives instrumental support to this 54-minutes-long continuum of field recordings and ambient textures; a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:44 PM - Jan 10/2009
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ambient . audio art . experimental . field recordings . microsound

Jos Smolders - Gaussian Transient (Megaphone)

CD - Nonvisualobjects
Coherent auditory elements, proliferation of individual sound ideas, field recordings, absences and frequencies, non-linearity, suspension and saturation, drones, ambience and conceptualism. These are just a few of the elements occurring in 'Gaussian Transient', a multifaceted work, that is not really very ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:25 PM - Nov 27/2008
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abstract . audio art . experimental . field recordings

Brandon LaBelle - Dirty Ear

CD - Errant Bodies
Field recordings, very atypical sounds and effects, envelopes unraveled in a series of documentary micro-narrations, carefully divided into different settings and limited spaces. The nine "Dirty Ear" tracks can be seen as a hypothetical prototype of studies on mobility and broadcasting, harking back to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:26 PM - Nov 18/2008
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audio art . experimental . field recordings . microsound

Simon Wickham-Smith - Love & Lamentation

CD - Pogus
With a degree in English literature at King's College in London, Simon Wickham-Smith is certainly not concocting. In his album's title he places a fairly explicit reference to the "lamentation" genre, a literary and musical style in vogue between the fourteenth and the sixteenth century, mainly in Europe, which ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:14 PM - Nov 10/2008
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acoustic . audio art . experimental . field recordings . free form . impro

Kiko C. Esseiva - Sous Les Etoiles

CD - Hinterzimmer
Oblique, hollow melodies, horror-movie-style audio samples, suspended atmospheres, elegant iterations, intermezzo organ, voice experiments, and - unmistakably - a taste for a certain pure mental automatism, which pierces the free flow of creativity. There are strong references to the historical avant ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:42 PM - Oct 14/2008
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Various Artists - Berlin Electronics

4 miniCD - Absinth
This album's artwork is immediately striking and very original: it is made of a foldable cardboard of good quality, hand shellacked by Renkel (with a dense acrylic bluish color), supplemented by four mini-cd's in a diamond shape. It seems almost a punishment – the cd's are identical, there is no further ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:00 AM - Oct 13/2008
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Yoshio Machida - Hypernatural #3

CD - Baskaru
This is the third and final episode of the Hypernatural series, which is inspired by research into Far Eastern organic sounds. It is distinguished by sensitive audio "transparencies", obtained through the interweaving of recordings, which are often ethereal and abstract. Yoshio Machida is incredibly skilled ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:45 PM - Sep 26/2008
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Janek Schaefer - Alone At Last

CD - Sirr
Oneiric sequences, field recordings and tonal harmonies, disruptions and modulated restarts. Sensitive settings, audio fragments, sound excerpts from an old Spanish movie. A virtuoso flamenco guitar and delicate yet invasive drones, like entering the core of a sophisticated abstract map with multiple ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:19 PM - Sep 17/2008
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abstract . acoustic/digital . experimental . field recordings

@C - Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom

CD - Cronica
This atypical album is divided into four tracks of unusual and disparate lengths - the first lasts more than twenty minutes, the second and third are less than two minutes long, and the last stretches out to more than forty minutes. 'Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom' by Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 PM - Jul 31/2008
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drone . experimental . field recordings . microsound

BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa - Passing Out

CD - The Helen Scarsdale Agency
A crepuscular and minimalist project focused on the effects produced by natural sounds on human beings and on the perception of time and space, here conceived in the precise terms of a 'hangover experience', really first drinking, getting intoxicated with alcohol and then 'passing beyond' with a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:20 PM - Jun 27/2008
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audio art . electronica . experimental . field recordings . glitch'n'cuts

Critikal - Graphorrhea

CD - Graphorrhea
Different electronic experiences converging into a single 'ensemble', a project wanted by Andrey Kiritchenko, Jeff Surak and Jonas Lindgren (then substituted by Dmytro Fedorenko and Tobias Åström), all of them very skilful electronic experimenters as well as able to remanipulate each other’s sounds in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:03 PM - Jun 18/2008
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ambient . audio art . experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

Various Artists - Favourite Places

CD - Audiobulb
Non-imaginary places, strictly related to the authors' dreams and intimate thoughts. They are "favourite places" because "there are places in the world where we come back later", "places that retain something precious feeding us". Ten sound artists were involved, starting with Taylor Deupree and his "space" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:28 PM - Jun 6/2008
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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 ]

Posted at 03:52 PM - Mar 22/2008
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experimental . field recordings . free form . impro

Tanake - 3ree

CD - Ebria / Fratto 9 Under The Sky
Improvised audio-abuse and extreme poli-instrumentalism recorded live, without either overdubbing or editing, but modulating live radio field recordings (some funny samples of the right wing Italian leader maximo Berlusconi). A work with a radical outcome but also equipped with historical coordinates. It's ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:52 PM - Feb 13/2008
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experimental . field recordings . minimal

Luigi Turra - Enso

CD - Smallvoices
Field recording, electroacoustic, evanescent resonances, minimal acts full of organic substances, atmospheres finely wrought in the void by impenetrable geometries, evoking zen gardens (graphically portrayed on the cover with a Roberto Zingales' photo). All these elements and even more is embodied in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:25 PM - Feb 12/2008
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