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Radiomentale / Eric Pajot - I-Land

CD - f4 Music
On first listening it is not easy to recognize the genealogy of this duo, whose origins are grounded in the rave and techno scenes of the nineties, in dj culture, and in a fascination with synthetic sounds and sci-fi movie settings. Jean-Yves Leloup and Eric Pajot, aka Radiomentale ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:49 AM - Apr 23/2013
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experimental . field recordings . impro

Mathias Delplanque - Chutes

CD - 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 ]

Posted at 10:17 AM - Apr 12/2013
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Ephraim Wegner & Julia Weinmann - Eins Bis Sechzehn

CD - Crónica
A hotel in ruins, burdened with memories and environments evocative of fascinating decadence. Here are spaces that became uninhabitable, now only remotely reminiscent of the splendour of the 60s through 80s, during which period the tourist industry embraced an approach that leaned ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:19 AM - Apr 9/2013
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AAVV - Between

CD - 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 ]

Posted at 09:47 AM - Apr 5/2013
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drone . experimental . field recordings

Quartz - Five Years On Cold Asphalt

CD - 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 ]

Posted at 11:27 AM - Mar 21/2013
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Murmer - What Are The Roots That Clutch

CD - 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 ]

Posted at 10:27 AM - Mar 12/2013
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abstract . experimental . field recordings

Dakim - 34 Fragments

CD - 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 ]

Posted at 10:48 AM - Feb 27/2013
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eRikm - Transfall

CD - 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 ]

Posted at 10:09 AM - Feb 18/2013
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Deison - Quiet Rooms

CD - Aagoo
The imaginative ambient sounds in this record were captured in four different rooms by Friulan sound-artist Cristiano Deison, a very ethereal manipulator not new to the international scenes, thanks to his work with artists such as Thurston Moore, Scanner and KK Null. In Quiet Rooms ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:34 AM - Jan 25/2013
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Angus Carlyle & Rupert Cox - Air Pressure

CD - Gruenrekorder
Between 2010 and 2011 Rupert Cox and Angus Carlyle captured a broad collection of audio recordings that focus on the planting and harvesting of specific cultivations in Japan. The farm in question came into being in 1966 and is the last place in the area to survive an ongoing project ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:42 PM - Jan 23/2013
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Simon Scott - Below Sea Level

CD - 12K
Simon Scott, newly published by 12K, is a sound artist hailing from Cambridge, an English city also home to Keshhhhhh Recordings, another worthy label dedicated to ethereal digital music. In "Below Sea Level" delicate textures and acoustic treatments are crossed with field recordings, giving birth to an interesting ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:56 AM - Dec 20/2012
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Yann Novak & Robert Crouch - Fata Morgana

CD - Murmur
Using field recordings, a multiscreen projection and other rarefied sounds, Yann Novak & Robert Crouch have created a fascinating narration with multiple concatenations and measured minimal arrangements. Appropriately, the title “Fata Morgana” is a direct reference to the optical effect ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:56 AM - Dec 14/2012
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Rodolphe Alexis - Sempervirent

CD - Gruenrekorder
In this release for Gruenrekorder, Rodolphe Alexis, a Parisian experimental sound artist and designer, accustomed to the manipulation of field recordings and meticulous editing, has created stereo sequences using parabolic quadraphonic microphones. These recordings were captured mainly in parks ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:00 AM - Dec 12/2012
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Yannick Dauby ‎- Taî-pak Thiaⁿ Saⁿ Piàn

CD - Kalerne
Born in France, but living and operating in Taiwan since 2007, Yannick Dauby experiments with field recordings, frequently assembling them with sounds emitted by found objects and adding more recordings which are sometimes the result of unusual acoustic or natural phenomena ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:33 AM - Nov 23/2012
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ambient . experimental . field recordings

Luis Tabuenca, Wade Matthews - Punto Cero Aragón

CD - 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 ]

Posted at 06:49 AM - Aug 23/2012
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Merzouga - Mekong Mornin Glory

CD - Gruenrekorder
The Mekong river is among the longest in Asia. It starts in Tibet and runs through Thailand, China's Yunnan province, Burma, Laos, Vietnam and finally Cambodia. Both in Lao and Thai languages the name Maè Nam Khong refers etymologically to the ancestral "mother", the origin of every feeling and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:31 AM - Aug 2/2012
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drone . experimental . field recordings . soundscape

Attilio Novellino - Through Glass

CD - Valeot
Attilio Novellino is a musician-experimenter and a native of Catanzaro, whose sound is strongly soaked in a dark and intense cinematic appeal with echoes of post-rock music. Here we find dissonances and environmental melodies together with liquefied sequences, drones and auditory whirlpools. Melancholic ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:03 PM - Jun 12/2012
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abstract . ambient . audio art . experimental . field recordings

AAVV - Replace

CD - Degem
Degem Concretist music, abstract and environmental, juxtaposed together with hardly classifiable research and field recordings: this is the substance - in short - of fourteen different authors selected and edited by Degem, a label that every year releases a German ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:12 PM - Jun 5/2012
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Emmanuel Mieville - Four Wanderings In Tropical Lands

CD - Baskaru
Metallic strokes, sparse voices, buzzing insects, sirens and dogs barking. Emmanuel Mieville is very skilled at capturing moments of reality in exotic contexts. These recordings were made in Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Peru and Malaysia and contain atmospheres that have been captured with sensitivity, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:41 AM - May 24/2012
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Scott Smallwood, Sawako, Seth Cluett, Ben Owen and Civyiu Kkliu - Phonography Meeting

CD - Winds Measure
Organized as a transversal field recording orchestra, the combo of Scott Smallwood, Sawako, Seth Cluett, Ben Owen and Civyiu Kkliu structured this project, providing a draft of unprocessed recordings strictly localized in fractions of 10 minutes each that have been consecutively mixed by an artist in a reciprocal handover. In "Phonography Meeting" the background climax is maintained by an "ambiance" very much ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:47 AM - Apr 26/2012
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Netherworld - Over The Summit

CD - Glacial Movements
The Netherworld project, supported by the Roman producer Alessandro Tedeschi (founder of the label Glacial Movements), has traditionally been characterized by ambient sounds both isolationist and ethereal. Now the road is open to a narration that assumes more sensitive and fascinating insertions. The textures ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:21 AM - Apr 17/2012
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Emmanuele Gibello - Labyrinthe

CD - Bruit Clair
The debut album of Emmanuelle Gibello, a Parisian artist accustomed to the union of visual and electronica, reveals a skillful manipulator of field recordings that have been extrapolated from both natural and urban contexts. The work utilizes electronic instruments, the Internet, video cameras, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:34 AM - Apr 11/2012
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Yann Novak - Presence

CD - Hibernate
The recordings made for Presence were originally conceived by Yann Novak for a sound performance held at VOLUME, a curated event at the Torrance Art Museum in June 2010. The sound captures were made on that occasion using a cell phone. The same sounds were then digitally processed, significantly ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:57 AM - Mar 22/2012
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Marc Behrens - Apparatus

CD - Agxivatein
A pair of headphones, a couple of active speakers, a DVD player, a digital frame with a USB memory stick – all set in a sound space activated each time for a single listener. "Apparatus" can be enjoyed from two different sound sources; on headphones and at different volume levels in the Phonebox - a small booth ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:50 AM - Mar 15/2012
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Francisco López + Novi_sad - Titans

CD - GH Records
Francisco Lopez and Novi_Sad certainly don't need too much introduction in the contemporary enclaves of experimental electronica. In "Titans", again, they prove their incommensurable talent, unraveling ambient sound scores through a long process of transformation of the materials used. Field recordings ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:17 AM - Mar 7/2012
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Chris Watson & Marcus Davidson - Cross-Pollination

CD - Touch
Two distinct compositions complete this release by Chris Watson & Marcus Davidson for the renowned label Touch. The first track (composed by Chris Watson only) "Midnight at the Oasis" stands out for its focus on exploring oblique frequency interlacements that cross from the animal world in very varied ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:46 AM - Feb 22/2012
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Mimosa / Moize - Hear One Near And Think Of The Other

CD - Dragon’s Eye
Minimal digital sequences, crackling and very refined, fill the listening space. Lightly throbbing sound developments are central to this project by Lucia H. Chung and Martin J. Thompson, the former from Taiwan, the latter from London. Both are experienced investigators of rarefied environmental ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:40 AM - Feb 15/2012
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Ernst Karel - Swiss Mountain Transport Systems

CD - Gruenrekorder
The reasons why a sound-artist might specifically limit the locations where sound is captured are numerous. In this case Ernst Karel has chosen the many transport systems typical of a mountain as the subject of a meticulous investigation. Ski lifts, chair lifts and cable cars, chosen for their particular and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:56 AM - Feb 9/2012
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experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

Thorsten Knaub - Listening Station

CD - Thorsten Knaub
Thorsten 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 ]

Posted at 10:56 AM - Feb 7/2012
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Fabio Selvafiorita / Valerio Tricoli - Death By Water

CD - Die Schachtel
It'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 ]

Posted at 10:41 AM - Feb 2/2012
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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 ]

Posted at 08:43 AM - Dec 15/2011
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Eisuke Yanagisawa - Ultrasonic Scapes

CD - Gruenrekorder
Eisuke 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 ]

Posted at 09:49 AM - Oct 25/2011
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Molly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden & Stephen Vitiello - Moss

CD - 12k
Molly 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 ]

Posted at 03:01 PM - Aug 10/2011
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audio art . field recordings

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 ]

Posted at 03:52 PM - Jul 19/2011
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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 ]

Posted at 07:24 PM - Jul 13/2011
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