Honored to be included here . . . especially when I see who else was chosen!
Hitting the BIG time (@ last!) ;- D
31 Friday Aug 2018
Posted Ambient, Classical/Neo-Classical, Experimental, Jazz Fusion, Mixing, Post Rock, Rock, Tech/Glitch
in31 Friday Aug 2018
Posted Ambient, Classical/Neo-Classical, Experimental, Jazz Fusion, Mixing, Post Rock, Rock, Tech/Glitch
inHonored to be included here . . . especially when I see who else was chosen!
22 Wednesday Aug 2018
Posted Ambient, Classical/Neo-Classical, Experimental, Jazz Fusion, Mixing
in18 Saturday Aug 2018
Posted Ambient, Classical/Neo-Classical
inEthereal voice + piano. Haunting & elegant – released April 27, 2018
10 Friday Aug 2018
Posted Ambient, Experimental, Mixing
inExperimental Ambient; slightly caustic & glitchy . . . 66:02
This was originally mixed in 2014 & re-worked (tweaked, shortened) in 2015 & then re-re-worked in February of 2016 (ghosted treatments & segues) – until it was hammered into finely flattened sheet metal (in the form of experimental ambient).
This is a personal favorite (hence the labored re-workings);  as a matter of fact, itâs Monday evening, August 6, 2018 & Iâm vacationing on Assateague Island in Maryland & listening to this as I type . Itâs a mix that I go to when I want to toss the interesting+ignorable Ambient audiological dice.
Sequenced slowest to fastest, think of it as a soundtrack for air-conditioning & industrial fan installation . . .
;- )
01 Thomas Lehn + Toshimaru Nakamura – Untitled
(interpolating Plastikman, Trent Reznor/Quake, DJ Samsara & Teruyuki Nobuchika)
02 Ambient Landscape – ArBom (interpolating Rick Wright‘s ‘Breaking Water‘)
03 Emil Klotzsch – Geisterhaus
04 Red Clouds – Burning Metal Object
05 Leonardo Rosado – Leaving and Staying
06 Seren Fordd – Rin-Se   (courtesy of Low Light mixes)
07 Periskop – Blackout 1
08 Heiner Goebbels – The Salt
09 Speedy J – Amoco Cadiz
10 Eno/Wobble – Unusual Balance
11 Erik Skodvin – Red Box Curves
06 Monday Aug 2018
Posted Ambient
inIn ‘100 Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel GarcĂa Marquez, there is Macondo: a town hard to declare as fully real or fictional; an archetype of the magical-real; an interstitial town, where things are, but are not. Object-oriented philosophy proposes a not so distant idea: a flat consideration of objects, an ethereal alchemy in which everything, no matter if physical or imaginary, coexists although remaining autonomous.
Such ideas can be related to listening and composition in order to reflect the state of things after the anthropocene and also to consider sound as a way to explore objects and their dramas. If we consider things equally, no matter how real they are, then we can approach all objects as âsonicâ, to value objects as resonances, being there but not. Sound in an ontological interstice for which causality is not conceived as fixed to a particular mechanistic perspective but rather a sonic scaffolding: a mutant, mysterious, paradoxical set of objects.
When it comes to listening, both materiality and intangibility interact, so here composition appears as a way of weaving such interstitial objects, made of echoes of field recordings, found objects, aural situations, sonic memories, digital dots, analog synths, electromagnetic fields, musical instruments, among others. Everything with everything, not caring about sounds, but objects as such.
Macondo was composed in MedellĂn, Colombia during 2017, based on an exploration of materials gathered since 2012 and used in a research project called Aleph, started in 2016 with video artist Rossana Uribe and philosopher Camilo Tamayo and dedicated to research into magical realism. It has presented both in av installations and performance, the first sonic-only result of the process, presented initially in an acousmatic installation at FLORA ars+natura gallery in BogotĂĄ, Colombia.
Track names 1 to 3 have been taken literally from a phrase present in the first page of 100 years of solitude: â(1) The world was so recent (2) that many things lacked names, (3) and in order to indicate them it was necessary to pointâŚâ. Track 4 is a quote by Timothy Morton from his book ‘Realist Magic’.
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