Gratitude, by Markus Reuter

Very nice – -can’t wait to explore this one . . .
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Released March 21, 2020

Recorded live at my former home studio in Franz-Fischer-Strasse, Innsbruck, Austria on July 28, 2012.

Composed and performed by Markus Reuter
Recording engineer: Erik Emil Eskildsen
Post-production and mastering by Markus Reuter (March 20, 2020)
Produced by Markus Reuter
Photography and design by Hajo Müller|
Special thanks to Erik und Hajo for their passionate contributions.
Dedicated to Bill Rieflin

additional information . . .

Slow Machines, by Michael Grigoni & Stephen Vitiello

Slow Machines brings together veteran Stephen Vitiello and 12k newcomer Michael Grigoni, whose debut Mount Carmel (12k1090, 2019) made an impression for its merging of the pedal and lap steel guitars with a hushed, ambient sound. With both calling the southern mid-Atlantic region of the United States home, the two met up and discussed a collaboration in which Grigoni would provide the guitars and Stephen the electronics and processing with a goal of combining each of their artistic languages into a new form.

Vitiello, whose work is steeped heavily in the installation and art world, utilized both his trademark field recordings as well as recordings from the oddly whimsical kinetic sculptures of artist Arthur Ganson. The clicking and rattling sounds of these sculptures were the inspiration for the album title as the metal forms whirl and whir in repetitive motion like slow machines. A feather on one of Ganson’s pieces softly touches the string of a violin and recordings from Vitiello’s fieldwork in Sheridan, Wyoming provide a tactile sense of place as the duo creates a series of new sonic machines that morph and evolve over the bending, lulling tones of the steel guitars.

Released February 7, 2020

Michael Grigoni: dobro, lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar, and voice
Stephen Vitiello: digital and analog sampling, field recordings, Ebow guitar

Additional instrumentation on track 5 by Taylor Deupree: Moog bass, Hohner Pianet-T

Recorded and mixed at the homes of Michael Grigoni in Durham, North Carolina and Stephen Vitiello in Richmond, Virginia in 2018

Final mix and mastering by Taylor Deupree at 12k

Published by EMSI Music (ASCAP) and Stephen Vitiello (BMI)

In the Open, by Asuna, Tomoyoshi Date & Federico Durand

During Spring 2017 we were touring together in Japan and had the chance to visit the old city of Kanazawa. After the concert we had a free day. We wanted to make recording sessions together but, at the same time to walk around Kanazawa, which has a famous castle and beautiful gardens. So, we decided to do both things at the same time. We took small battery-powered keyboards, tiny instruments and a recorder to go out. We made field recordings alongside castles, gardens and ponds, a soba house, sometimes playing while walking the city. All of these tracks are live recordings of that day in the open.

Released April 10, 2020

Mixed by Tomoyoshi Date and Asuna Arashi
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Femke

another space 2

another space volume 2 | 78:21

Another time,
another place,
another world,
[yet] another space . . .

More fun in the vector-forward ambient/noise realm: cycle-driven wave-tables incorporating ekto-plasmic sonance & circum-centric glitch.

Slightly more gradually-caustic & sonically aggressive than part one.

Part 2 of 3.

01 zakè & city of dawn – Fernweh (edit)
02 Michael Peters & Fabio Anile – Solennemente
03 Hammock – In the Shattering of Things
04 Brannon Lane – Delta Waves
05 Wil Bolton – Ulica Kanonicza (edit)
06 Will Guthrie – Elders
07 Jeff Greinke – Cirrus
08 Porya Hatami – Transition
09 Pan American – Is a Problem to Occupy Generations
10 Aperus – Marsh Lake, October
11 Asher Tuil – Extensities 1
12 Jonas Meyer – Sekundenschlaf
13 Strië – Unseen Weight
14 Brian Eno – Liquidambar
15 Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Consummation

Magnetic Voices From The Unseen, by Renaud Bajeux

MAGNETIC VOICES FROM THE UNSEEN
NAHAL007

Generating beautiful noise-laden soundscapes and harmonic songs from magnetic fields via electronic devices, “Magnetic Voices From The Unseen” is the symphonious and powerful debut album by experimental sound-artist & regular Ina-GRM collaborator, Renaud Bajeux. Since 2017, Renaud has been composing from magnetic field recordings ; using two electromagnetic coils, he records hard drives, phones, computers, mouse devices, screens, etc, trying to acknowledge this infra-reality merging industrial noise music and harmonic chants.

℗ & © Nahal Recordings
Cat.no.NAHAL007 – all rights reserved
Release Date: October 04th 2019
Format: LP Vinyl / Digital

Released October 4, 2019

All tracks composed, performed and recorded by Renaud Bajeux
Mastering by James Plotkin// Artwork & graphic design by Thibault Proux thibaultproux.info // Manufactured by Kuroneko Phonogram Manufacture

Special thanks to Charlotte Sanson, Emmanuel Richier and Antoine Gilloire for their careful listening and to Frédéric D. Oberland and Paul Régimbeau for their fortifying enthusiasm.
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TONESHIFT (INT) – “A haunting revelation of tonal separation, a wondrous collage of twisted oscillations and industrial repartee. As this winds with static and pulse, Renaud Bajeux has created a rare, timeless modern masterpiece.”

LES INROCKS (FR) – “Renaud Bajeux explore les limites de l’ambient. “Magnetic Voices From The Unseen” (NAHAL Recordings) est une magnifique suite composée à partir des champs magnétiques qu’il enregistre, provenant autant d’appareils électroniques hightech qu’électriques. Il en tire un matériaux aussi organique que noisy. Une très belle expérience sonore qui ravira tous ceux qui ont écouté Brian Eno.”

AVANT MUSIC NEWS (INT) – “Bajeux’s compositions straddle elements like noise, harmonicity, glitch, experimental, electronics, minimalism, and ambient sound without ever really succumbing to any of those elements in terms of overall style. “Magnetic Voices From The Unseen” is a wonderful debut album!”

NEOPRISME (FR) – “Capter ce qui n’est pas aisément audible, plonger au-delà du réel, en extraire le son. Sur Magnetic Voices From The Unseen, Renaud Bajeux regroupe ainsi des morceaux composés à partir d’enregistrements du champ magnétique provenant de disques dur, de téléphones, d’ordinateurs, de souris, d’écrans. Le résultat sonne noise, field recording, ambient, glitch, spectral, curieusement symphonique. Chant des machines ?”

SCENE POINT BLANK (INT) – ‘Created through the use of electromagnetic coils to record the magnetic fields of computers, phones, monitors, and other devices, this spacey ambient/noise album becomes more than just a collage of humming, hissing, and buzzing sounds. Though sometimes dissonant and jarring, the album is also strangely warm in a way – perhaps a reflection of the fact that most of us are surrounded by, and perhaps too comfortable with, technology.’

THESIS 17 (Ceeys & Constant Presence)

by CEEYS, CONTSTANT PRESENCE, Peter Broderick, Daniel O’Sullivan

The Thesis Project, now on its 17th release, has set about on uniting two different artists together to create limited, custom designed bodies of music. Uniquely crafted and designed by Gregory Euclide, each 10” jacket for THESIS 17 consists of laser cut-etched designs portraying brutalist architecture and atomic structures glued on top of airbrushed designs that use the homemade Black Walnut Ink that Euclide made himself from the trees on his property, then letter pressed with the THESIS logo. Each record is hand numbered in an edition of 300, and will be made available on the second day Q3AMBIENTFEST, where it is also possible to get the record hand-signed by the artists. During the second day of the festival CONSTANT PRESENCE will share the stage with CEEYS, for a unique performance that juxtaposes the notion of duality and harmony yet further, in a show that will combine professionalism with liveliness, method with lightness of touch, and efficacy with flexibility.

**Handmade from sheets of acid free Canson Fine Art Paper. Each Sleeve and Jacket is laser cut, folded, glued, airbrushed by artist/project owner Gregory Euclide. Hand numbered. Each album comes with Sleeve, Jacket, 10″ black vinyl and acrylic record sleeve.

Released April 2, 2020
2020 (C) CEEYS, Sebastian and Daniel Selke &
CONSTANT PRESENCE, Peter Broderick and Daniel O’Sullivan
2020 (P) THESIS PRODUCTIONS
Design / Artwork: Gregory Euclide
Assistance: Gabor Kerekes

#blackboxsound.1 (a sound installation)

blackboxsound.One.1 | 77:20

Post-aural construction, custom-formulated wavetables, sound installation
& . . . redundancy (we’re always in the studio pushing the edge out a little bit further . . .).

The first, out-of-the-[black]-box project not created merely as a component of a LARGER mix project (see our Sun Rings mix for further explanation), but as a stand-alone mix of its own: spliced, split, altered, over-dubbed & painstakingly rendered for your next aural excursion, ambient gathering and/or walkabout
[19+ Gigs of disc space to produce one, 102 megabyte mix! The “Effects” folder contains more data than the mix itself!]

Interestingly, I only came across the Scorn track (via OHM Resistance’s Bandcamp page) after the project had been named & was supposedly complete – but I thought ” . . . . hmm “ : )

Cover artwork crafted/manipulated via Paper by Fifty Three
;- )

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00 Intro: STUMM433/It’s All Dark (fractal, 4 layer excerpt into track 01)
01 Brian Eno – LUX 3, stretch-edited over nineteen minutes & then layered with several manipulated sections (2 & 3) of Twin Radiant Flux by Scott Cortez.
02 Rag Dun – The Place That Speaks
03 SteveRoach – Into the Mist with excerpts from Chris Russell’s ‘Portal’                                                        & Neuro…No Neuro’s ‘Under the Skin’
04 Scott Cortez – Twin Radiant Flux (morphed sections 4 & 8) layered
with Brian Eno – LUX 3 (stretch edited to thirteen minutes) & excerpting Momento, by Nels Cline, Tim Berne & Jim Black
05 Eugene Kha – Bells of Epoch, pt. 2 (Fog Mix)
06 Christopher Alvarado, Mystified & Colin Vallon – Dehli & Styx (dual excerpts layered & rendered atop one another)
07 P. Maze & Otto Lindholm – Part 1 (guillotine edit)
08 Cluster & Eno – One (fade to black edit; interpolating fractals of David Torn’s ‘At Least There Was Nothing‘)
09 Scorn – Black Box (Cafe Mor/UFO edit [w/quotation exit])

Superscience, by Minamo

Pre-ordered this a day ahead of its release & received the excerpted portion & then the full album. Nice: experimental, quirky, emerging, elusive aural Sushi & . . . pop-py (but NOT “Poppy”).
The engineering staff’s already tied it down to the operating table for dissection & reassembly (into another mix project) . . . we’ll await their findings & take it from there (don’t worry; we wear masks, surgical gloves & Saran-Wrap EVERYTHING since we’re deathly afraid of the virus with a 99% recovery rate ;- D )
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901 Editions is proud to announce the latest release by Japan’s Minamo, the duo formed by Tetsuro Yasunaga and Keiichi Sugimoto. “Superscience” follows their recent collaboration with Moskitoo “Superstition”, released by 12k in April, 2020.

The work was recorded at Ochiai Soup in Tokyo on May 11th of 2019 as part of the label’s showcase 9+1=0. This live format, which embodies the notion of imperfection, irony riddled in its name, has been presented in Rome, Milan, and London. These showcases combine the participation of artists from past 901 Edition releases alongside new artists who may not have a direct connection with the label but have inspired its research over the years.

The title of the album conceptually alludes to a living organism constantly mutating, formed by outstandingly peaceful harmonies and digital hums. Guitar textures and microsounds continuously merge, interacting and unravelling with one another. Alike their previous albums, “Superscience” blurs the line between live performance and studio practice, deploying sounds surgically crafted with the naturalness of the present moment of which Minamo are among the finest leading figures.

Releases July 3, 2020

Ultrasonic, by Field Works

Stuart Hyatt returns with another sonic wonder in the Field Works series, bringing the listener into truly uncharted acoustic territory. Ultrasonic is perhaps the first-ever album to use the echolocations of bats as compositional source material. For this special album, Hyatt has assembled an extraordinary group of contributors: Eluvium, Christina Vantzou, Sarah Davachi, Ben Lukas Boysen, Machinefabriek, Mary Lattimore, Felicia Atkinson, Noveller, Chihei Hatakeyama, John Also Bennett, Kelly Moran, Taylor Deupree, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Julien Marchal, and Player Piano.

Ultrasonic is part of a broader storytelling project about the federally endangered Indiana bat. Generously funded by the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute and the National Geographic Society, each album contains an official printed booklet of The Endangered Species Act of 1973.

Releases May 1, 2020