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Thorsten Knaub - Listening Station
 CD - Thorsten KnaubThorsten 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Fabio Selvafiorita / Valerio Tricoli - Death By Water
CD - Die SchachtelIt'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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Eisuke Yanagisawa - Ultrasonic Scapes
 CD - GruenrekorderEisuke 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Molly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden & Stephen Vitiello - Moss
 CD - 12kMolly 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Hanna Hartman - H^2
 CD - Komplott Hanna Hartman is a Swedish sound artist and composer who lives and works in Berlin. She focuses on evolving the characteristics of sounds, revealing correspondences that are not always implicit and imagining new concatenations of forms and frequencies. Aural jolts, jumps and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Francisco Meirino & Brent Gutzeit - Five Years Of Work For A Strange Result
 Mp3 - Trust LostFlawlessly 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Bettina Wenzel - Mumbai Diary
 CD - Gruen of city traffic. Glimpses of a background with exotic music and citations that emerge alienated from their original context reassemble during atonal passages into extended audio emergencies that include metallic sounds, squeaks, gloomy lullabies and sighs. In "Mumbai Diary" Bettina Wenzel shares with ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Andreas Bick - Fire And Frost Pattern
 CD - GruenNo metaphor - even in the art world, with its more experimental and avant-garde latitudes - exceeds the immediate fascination that the hot-cold dualism manages to evoke. The extremes - as Eastern philosophy teaches us - are to some extent complementary; they transform into each other, are ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Lasse Marc Riek - Harbour
 CD - HerbalThis project brings together abstract sounds recorded on the street near bridges, tunnels, railways, and other "audio catches" that have connections with ships, boats, docks and a wide range of other objects moved by water. From the spring of 1999 to 2007 Lasse Marc Riek diligently developed the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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AAVV - E84
 CD - Entr'acteThis very interesting collection, published by Entr'acte, opens with the tense and grinding drones of Greek experimenter Yiorgis Sakellariou. The metallic, sustained sounds are presented in the guise of iterated strings and harmonics, before the second track, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Frank Holger Rothkamm - Birth Of Primary Cinema From The Spirit Of Sound
 Dvd - FluxAs the third episode of a digital, esoteric and contemporary tetralogy, which began with "Ghost Of New York", in "Birth Of Primary Cinema From The Spirit Of Sound" Frank Holger Rothkamm still effectively penetrates urban landscapes, putting a fixed camera at ground level during the night, picking ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Bird, Lake, Objects
 CD - FaiticheIntrospective, dreamy and dense sounds, intense but restrained, are intertwined in a very calibrated way in ‘Bird, Lake, Objects’. Using only one microphone to capture the whole ensemble (percussion and vibes by Masayoshi Fujita, electronic devices and laptops by Jan Jelinek), the work has been ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Mathias Delplanque - Passeports
 CD - CronicaMathias Delplanque was born in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, later moving to Nantes, France - the town where he currently lives and works. Composer, performer and music critic, Delplanque has several releases to his name over the past decade for small but interesting labels (Low Impedance, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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@C - 0° – 100°
 CD - Monochrome VisionFrom Monochrome Vision, a label in Moscow dedicated to contemporary electronic sound experimentations, comes an interesting project signed by @C, the duo of Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais, an ensemble well known to the "aficionados" of particularly abstract and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Gen Ken Montgomery - Birds + Machines
 CD - PogusA plethora of slipping sounds (probably from mechanical sources), the chirping of birds and vibrant electronics stimulate our attention from the very first grooves of this release signed by Gen Ken Montgomery, a digital experimenter and founder of "Generator", an art gallery, collaborative network ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Christophe Charles / i8u - Unter Den Linden / Und Transit
 CD - Non Visual ObjectsThe timely recording of a concert by Christophe Charles at the SND Studios in Sheffield, England, in March 2009, gave birth to a performance that goes by the intriguing title, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" The work evokes dimly lit environments, containing deep and disturbing breathing sounds alongside field recordings. Tormenting atmospheres, following the death of the composer's ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Jana Winderen - Energy Field
CD - TouchImmateriality of sound and direct experience in the sensory perception of space and frequencies, among field recordings and rarefied amplified resonances, make this project by Jana Winderen particularly attractive and intricate. She's an experimenter who, with four piezoelectric microphones that are specifically designed for recording in extremely humid environments (and with other even more sophisticated microphones), has ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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KGB - Noise Forest
DVD - Aural TerrainsBehind the acronym KGB hide Kim Cascone, Guido Henneböhl and Brendan Dougherty, all well-known musicians and researchers in the contemporary digital-electroacoustic scenes. This combo - founded in 2004 - stands out for their use of field recordings and processed sounds in performances. In this recording, created at an ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Eric La Casa - Zone Sensible 2 / Dundee 2
CD - Room 40This record presents natural and artificial events; brittle audio emergencies that seem conditioned by the same sound frequency registries. In Zone Sensible 2, only apparently converging oscillations, digital swarms with hybrid features and a a frantic microcosm that is very exposed and reactive are carefully crafted to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Michael J. Schumacher - Weave
CD - Entr'acteBased 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Francisco Lopez - Amarok
 CD - Glacial MovementsExtremely 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Gilles Aubry & Stéphane Montavon - Les Écoutis Le Caire
 CD - GruenrekorderA 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Trevor Wishart - Machine
 CD - Paradigm DiscsThe 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Marc Behrens - A Narrow Angle
 CD - Entr'acteShaped 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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AAVV - Birmingham Sound Matter
 CD - AudiobulbIf 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Gilles Aubry - s6t8r
 CD - Winds MeasureWith 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Akira Kosemura - Polaroid Piano
 CD - Someone GoodAkira 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Phroq - Recordings Of Various Vibrations And Stress Situations
 CD - Uzu SoundsFrancisco 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Mudboy - Mort Aux Vaches
CD - Mort Aux VachezThe 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Gintas K - Lovely Banalities
 CD - CronicaThere 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Jorge Haro - Works Based On Field Recordings
 CD - Sudamerica ElectronicaJorge 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Shinkei / Luigi Turra - YU
 CD - Non Visual ObjectsTextures 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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