abstraction

Granular ambient, glitch, fizz, fuzz & drone.Counterpointed doppelgängers across a synapse or 2. Solace, quietude…& Russian demarcation..!

[Не стесняйтесь взломать & ударить мой микс. : )]

01 Markus Guentner – Redshift
02 Zero Ohms – Peace of the Pi
03 åpne sinn;  – A White Space (for DGS)
04 Steve Roach – Touchstones
05 Oophoi & Paul Vnuk, Jr. – Awua
06 Nunc Stans – The Clarity Of Darkness
07 Aidan Baker – Everywhere
08 Saul Stokes – Open Your Eyes Maitreya
09 Robert Fripp & Brian Eno – Lupus
10 O Yuki Conjugate – Sunlessglare
11 Robert Davies – Between The Crevices
12 Chris Russell – Tundra
13 Brian Eno – Stedelijk
14 Robert Scott Thompson – Song of the Standing Stone

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Exhibition, by Grey Frequency

Exhibition is a compilation of Grey Frequency recordings covering the years 2012 to 2016. The album includes three previously unreleased compositions: Cascade, Thoughtograph and Absence & Neglect.

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Released February 3, 2017

All tracks written & produced by Gavin Morrow.
Design and artwork by Gavin Morrow.

Air Texture

Begun in 2011, James Healy has brought together some of ambient and experimental music’s finest artists through his unique collaboration series, Air Texture; a various artist compilation.

• Released April 14, 2017:
• Air Texture Volume V – [AIR005]
  • CD1 Compiled by Spacetime Continuum (tracks: 1-12)
  • CD2 Compiled by Juju & Jordash (tracks: 13-24)

Volume Objects by AUTISTICI

A relatively ancient (2008), exquisite collection of glitch & found sounds…made tactile for the eager listener of such things…
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In the desire to make recorded sound as tactile as possible Autistici (UK), recently featured on 12k’s Blueprints compilation (12k1039), has sculpted found objects, broken acoustic instruments, synthesizers and environmental recordings into Volume Objects. Expertly realized and designed, Volume Objects is loose and organic and demands careful listening. Melody and form are hinted at and then in a whisper, a crackle, are gone. A sense of narrative and place created as if a hundred tiny objects are scattered in front of you, a fractured story that you thought you once remembered.

The packaging for this release includes an 8-page booklet of black & white photography by Taylor Deupree inspired by the music and titles of the audio pieces. All printed materials in this package have been printed on 100% recycled paper.

Autistici creates audio narratives aimed at exploring the interchange between sound and space. Space in this context also includes the space within the listener’s head. In this realm reflection and fantasy recontextualise the sound according to the listener’s inner world. Autistici’s work incorporates a wide range of sources including textural sound design, orchestration, space and fragments of found sound or field recordings. Tracks focus on representing details from both the natural and manmade world. Each detail has the potential to be preserved or lost, clarified or confused. This means that any audio element, including elements from his own body become incorporated into the composition. This fascination on the interplay between inner and outer world embodies Autistici’s sound. There is an intimate, intense and enmeshed sense of connection with tiny details (e.g., dust on vinyl, a door opening, heart beats, breathing, snoring). Autistici has released tracks on 12k, Audiobulb Records, Hippocamp, Kikapu and Wandering Ear.

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Released January 15, 2008

Toxic City Music

NYC based artist Evan Caminiti breathes life into the Dust Editions imprint with the release of Toxic City Music. Caminiti has explored electro-acoustic music since the mid 2000’s, the latest transmission being 2015’s Meridian. While that album was Caminiti’s first to omit electric guitar, he has now returned to the instrument. Here it is buried it in an electronic mist and melted down, it’s sonic fabric reshaped.

Toxic City Music was inspired by the psychic and physical toxicity of life in late capitalism. Conceived throughout 2015 and 2016, Caminiti captured the sounds of NYC’s machinery and voices before weaving them into his studio experiments. This collection of song mutations unravels in hazy plumes and serrated edges; concrète sounds mesh with disembodied strings and corrosive electronics on “Joaquin”, drones ripple under stuttering rhythms and crude synth detritus throughout “NYC Ego”. On “Toxic Tape (Love Canal)”, layers of digital degradation smear guitar clusters, dissolving into a dubby devotional-ambient space.

Recorded and produced by Evan Caminiti. Featuring Jefre Cantu-Ledesma on “Joaquin”. Additional production and mixdowns by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios.

Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering.

Artwork by Evan Caminiti.

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Released March 3, 2017

The Story Surrounds Us, by Kate Carr

Kate Carr melds the exquisite details of her field recordings with an ephemeral approach to the song. this australian has relocated herself to london after many trips around the globe. with each orbiting journey, she has collected innumerable sounds from the urbane to the aqueous and from the frenetic to the sublime, contextualizing all of these into compositions rippling with primordial melodies through guitar, piano, and electronics.

The Story Surrounds Us follows her highly acclaimed albums i had myself a nuclear spring (first released on her own flaming pines imprint in 2015) and carr’s debut for helen scarsdale in 2016, it was a time of laboured metaphors. emblematic of her work is a gentle dislocation between the environmental sounds and her drone-dub ellipses of somnambulant melody. the clatter of a frozen dock or a vibrational shimmer from rustled objects or the unintelligible whispers displaces the sense of self amidst a sea of disparate symbols and coded thought. more a travelogue in and out of one’s own body than to any particular place.

Carr suggests

“In a way, it is about restlessness, an uncomfortable tossing and turning in all these many different places, a struggle somehow to forge a connection between my own internal world and all these places and persons i have encountered. i think this holds a sense of unease and strain, with both beautiful and failed moments of intimacy and connection which are made either possible or impossible in the difficult and distorted context of being away. it is quite sad, really.”

Look to Carla dal Forno, Alan Lamb and those moments of clarity in the shapeshifting ethos from jewelled antler for neighboring sounds to Kate Carr’s chimerical compositions.

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released May 26, 2017

This album involved a lot of travel from ólafsfjörður, iceland to sian ka’an in mexico, to falun in sweden and velez blanco in spain. special thanks to listhus artspace, biospheres soundscapes, joya arte + ecologica for hosting me in iceland, mexico and spain respectively, to lina sofia lundin for having me to sweden, andrea ancira garcia for letting me use her wonderful field recording taken in mexico in ‘1001’, to jim haynes for his support in releasing this, and to tanya serisier for her support in all things.

Markus Reuter @ Glaus Haus, by Dutch Rall

I’m a big @MarkusReuter fan (heavy Robert Fripp influence, but with his own unique sound). This is a soft & beautiful piece of ambient guitar from Mr. Reuter.

Check out his work with Stickmen (w/ Tony Levin & Pat Mastelotto) too.

Nest, by Arovane & Darren McClure

Will definitely be grabbing several choice tracks from this album…

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“Nest” is the second collaboration between Arovane and Darren McClure. This time their focus was on the sonic possibilities of granular synthesis, turning sound into music and music into sound.

The album was named after a photograph taken by Arovane, which perfectly described the creation of the music: layers of twisted audio, processed and bent into new shapes and soundscapes. Each track title is a different type of nest building, just as each track was created through different approaches to granular synthesis.

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released July 1, 2017

Mastered by Porya Hatami.

Bipolarity

new mix project, fresh from the studio:

Where does the dividing line between cognitive clarity (as a time/space/emotional issue), & cognitive dissonance reside? Further: how does cognitive dissonance, as regards genre selection, play into the mix-making process? Not that it’s a “serious” issue at all…different genres each have their own appeal – but I wanted to fuse several together on this project: Ambient, Experimental Ambient, Minimal Techno & Electronica – as opposed to one primary genre dominating the mix.

This project, honed from over 2 hours of original material*, spans the real/perceived distance between ambient & experimental techno/glitch and pushes gently, but firmly, upon the borders of multiple genres.

It’s a slightly caustic/scratchy amalgamation of sound, jump-started by the release of Focal’s remix project ‘Polarity‘…on Ultimae (which has served me over the course of 2 mixes: ‘mute space‘ & now this); plus a little help from my friends over @ Stroboscopic Artefacts.

[I think you’re going to enjoy it — it’s probably the best thing I’ve mixed this year!] | 78:53

01 Markus Guenter – Paragon
02 Triac – Day 2
03 Claudio PRC/Focal – Hyacinth
04 Steve Roach & Robert Logan – Ecdysis Activation
05 Hammock – Dropping Off (edit)
06 Dadub – Iridescent Fragment
07 Off.The.Sky – See Through and Through
08 Bob Ohrum – Subliminal Listening (edit)
09 Will Bolton – Canvas
10 Siavash Amini – Agarthini (edit)
11 Lucy & Rrose – Foil Gardens (edit)
12 Kinosura/Focal – Paradoxical Escape
13 Sendai – Geotope
14 Steve Roach & Robert Logan – The Biomechanoid Lifecycle Revealed (edit)
15 Speedy J – Caligula (w/custom ending segue)
16 Dadub – Life

[+ scroll to the page bottom for a bonus companion mix to this session]

(artwork restructured from the original on ‘Polarity)

This mix project* incorporates a satellite/companion mix, Hyacinth_6 (6 being the # of times I tweaked the audio-flow): produced from the overage, along with several tracks from my private “glitch-bin”. It has a running time of approximately 60 minutes & includes tracks from Steve Roach+Robert Logan, Focal (Polarity Remix), Si Begg, Scott Solter, Entia Non, Biosphere/Deathprod & AES Dana.

It’s available here as an exclusive download. : )

Bipolarity Journal Entry 3

‘Bipolarity’ (a mix project) will incorporate a satellite/companion piece, Hyacinth_6

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