Electroacoustic Fragments, Improvised Sounds, Weird Songs and Aural Oddities.
00:00 Resonator Spot
00:27 Annea Lockwood – World Rhythms
03:06 Toyozawa Shinzaemon & Inoue Satokishi – Joruri Taiko-ki Ju Danme
05:50 Graham Lambkin – The Bridge To Aria, Salmon Run
08:22 Robert Ashley – Automatic Writing
11:22 Nour Mobarak – Palm Fronds
12:59 Tom Mudd – Brass Cultures B
15:00 Mbé – Celebração do Xingu ao Congo
17:55 Ruth Anderson – Points
20:30 Nicholas Maloney – R
23:00 Brandstifter & Diurnal Burdens – Manchmal Auch Nicht Side A
26:10 Luca Yupanqui – V5
28:45 Stefano Giampietro – Intercapedine Part 1
31:00 Yan Jun & Axel Dörner – that everything is illusion
31:40 Mattea Landry, Sean Mccann, & Eric Schmid – Form
34:18 Ivan Zoloto – Pleasure Prison (feat. Sasha Kretova)
37:50 Curtis Roads – Nscor
41:30 Relly Tarlo – Tracks 2
44:00 Matt Rösner – Beneath the Breeze
48:18 Louis Dufort – Scintille
50:00 Anthony Pateras – Pseudacusis IV
53:18 Langham Research Centre – Accarezzo
55:00 LST – Renaoz
56:00 Masayuki Imanishi – Worn Tape 9
57:21 Amateur Hour – Jenny’s Place
Annea Lockwood.
Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand-born American composer and academic musician. She taught electronic music at Vassar College. Her work often involves recordings of natural found sounds. She has also recorded Fluxus-inspired pieces involving burning or drowning pianos.
https://www.annealockwood.com/
Sound Storing Machines: The First 78rpm Records from Japan, 1903-1912.
Compilation of the first commercial recordings from Asia made in Japan in 1903 – Japanese gagaku, shakuhachi, shamisen, storytelling, folksong and more – Collected and compiled by sound artist Robert Millis – The beginning of Japan’s homegrown record industry, including a few sides taken from Japan’s notorious bootleg 78rpm industry.
https://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/694590-sound-storing-machines-the-first-78rpm-records-from-japan-1903-1912
Graham Lambkin.
Graham Lambkin (b.1973, Dover, England) is a multidisciplinary artist/publisher whose work embraces audio, visual and text-based concerns. Lambkin first came to prominence in the early 90’s through the formation of his amateur music group The Shadow Ring, who fused a D.I.Y. post-punk aesthetic with folk music, cracked electronics, and surreal wordplay, to create a unique hybrid sound that set it apart from its peers, and continues to exert an influence today. After the dissolution of The Shadow Ring Lambkin embarked on a series of striking and highly original solo releases, including the critically acclaimed Salmon Run, Amateur Doubles, and Community, as well as undertaking a string of collaborative projects with the likes of Joe McPhee, Keith Rowe, Moniek Darge, Jason Lescalleet, Michael Pisaro, and most recently Áine O’Dwyer.
https://www.grahamlambkin.com
Robert Ashley.
Robert Reynolds Ashley (March 28, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American contemporary composer, who was best known for his television operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques. His works often involve intertwining narratives and take a surreal multidisciplinary approach to sound, theatrics and writing, and have been continuously performed by various interpreters during and after his life, including Automatic Writing (1979) and Perfect Lives (1983).
http://www.robertashley.org/
Nour Mobarak.
Nour Mobarak is a compelling new artist from Los Angeles whose work, as she describes “excavates violence and desire – the compulsions, and glitches in both a person or nation state.”
https://www.nour.computer/
Tom Mudd.
Tom Mudd is a musician and programmer interested in relationships between software, composition and improvisation. His recent work revolves around physical models: digital synthesis processes based on numerical simulations of acoustic objects and instruments. His release on Fancyyyyy uses massed brass synthesis: digital models of physically improbable brass instruments being played by algorithms.
http://tommudd.co.uk/
Mbé.
O experimentalismo surge da necessidade de significações para a vida negra, mas deixando de lado o sentimento da marginalização e subalternidade social. Desde que os nossos primeiros ancestrais chegaram aqui, grandes líderes e intelectuais negras e negros guerreiam para criar um novo olhar para as nossas experiências e a nossa amefricanidade. Ou seja, o experimentalismo aqui é por uma vida, muito além das limitações da música “experimental”
https://qtvlabel.bandcamp.com/album/qtv048-rocinha
Ruth Anderson.
Ruth Anderson was a composer of orchestral and electronic music. Her extensive education spanned two decades, and was spent at eight different institutions. Throughout this time, Anderson was the recipient of a multitude of awards and grants, including two Fulbright awards (1958–60) to study composition with Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. After completing her education, Anderson spent time as a freelance composer, orchestrator, and choral arranger for NBC-TV, and later for Lincoln Center Theater.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/244704-Ruth-Anderson
Nicholas Maloney.
Nicholas Maloney is a sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, and performer from Jackson, Mississippi. Working primarily in the areas of what could be called drone, ambient, musique concrète, and minimalism, Nicholas creates personal, evocative recordings, while at the same time offering a pallet of sound that can be used to practice the rewarding act of deep listening. He looks to challenge the listeners’ focus and perception of sound. Much of his work explores the textural nature of sound within a framework of progressing and evolving compositions. He is interested in the interaction among texture, sound, and space.
https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/p-r
Brandstifter & Diurnal Burdens.
Collaborative work between Brandstifter & Diurnal Burdens (Aka Ross Scott-Buccleuch). A great sound-collage with both artists using a big variety of analogue sound sources and materials.
Brandstifter is a German interdisciplinary Artist and Networker, working with many different forms of art, in the spirit of Dada & Fluxus. Diurnal Burdens (Aka Ross Scott-Buccleuch) is a sound artist and collagist, founder of Steep gloss experimental UK tape label.
https://www.moremars.org/product/brandstifter-diurnal-burdens-manchmal-auch-nicht/
Luca Yupanqui.
Luca Yupanqui was not yet born when she recorded her debut album. The music on the aptly titled Sounds of the Unborn is the expression of life in its cosmic state — pre-mind, pre-speculation, pre-influence, and pre-human. It is the first album created by a person while they were still inside the womb, the expression of a soul that hasn’t yet seen the light of day nor taken a single breath of air. It is a message that comes from a different realm, a sublayer of our existence.
https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/collections/luca-yupanqui
Stefano Giampietro.
Intercapedine is composed of various improvisation fragments using no-input mixer, field recordings, cassette recorders and feedback systems.
https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/intercapedine
Yan Jun & Axel Dörner.
Yan Jun is a musician and poet based in beijing. He works with field recording, electronics, voice, body movement etc.
German trumpeter Axel Dörner has a unique style of playing based on unusual, often self-invented techniques that make use of breath and microscopic sounds as much as conventional note-playing – but that didn’t stop him winning the prestigious SWR Jazz Prize in 2006
https://yanjun.bandcamp.com/album/i-agree
Mattea Landry, Sean Mccann, & Eric Schmid.
https://www.recitalprogram.com/st-francis/
Ivan Zoloto.
Ivan Zoloto is a musician and artist based in Barcelona. Besides solo work, he currently runs School Of The Arts label and plays drums in drone band Petrozavodsk (named after his hometown).
https://ivanzoloto.bandcamp.com/
Curtis Roads.
Curtis Roads is a composer and researcher in electronic music composition, currently teaching at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was the editor and associate editor of Computer Music Journal from 1979-2000 and has authored numerous books, including Computer Music Tutorial (1996) and Microsound (2004).
https://www.curtisroads.net/
Relly Tarlo.
Dutch artist working in the field of sound sculpture installations. Characteristic of his work is an unique fusion of image and sound. In the 1980’s he built an installation that was played as an acoustic instrument called TRACKS 2. With this installation he performed in various museums in Europe.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/702750-Relly-Tarlo
Matt Rösner.
Matt Rösner is a sound artist from Western Australia. Being based away from the world’s most remote city has infused Rösner’s works with an organic sense of space and time constructed using acoustic instruments, custom software patches and detailed field recording studies.
http://www.m-rosner.net/
Louis Dufort.
Canadian sound artist Louis Dufort pipes environmental recordings through software processes that belch out some of the more interesting DSP worlds we’ve heard in a minute. Not completely abstract, “VOLUME” offsets chattering metallic crunches with reverberating ambience, fashioning a world that’s equal parts organic and digital
https://louisdufort.bandcamp.com/album/volume
Anthony Pateras.
Anthony Pateras is a composer, pianist and electronic musician active since the late 90s. His work has been recognised through the Michael Kieran Harvey Scholarship, residencies at La Becque, Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM, fellowships from Creative Victoria, the Sydney Myer & Ian Potter Foundations, and two nominations at the UNESCO Rostrum of Composers.
https://bocian.bandcamp.com/album/pseudacusis
Langham Research Centre.
Langham Research Centre came together in 2003 with the purpose of using a studio as their instrument: a studio with microphones and also, crucially, several ¼” tape machines. From the start they were interested in manipulating sound on tape and in focusing on one sound source, or a small number of sounds.
https://www.langhamresearch.co.uk/
LST.
LST (Tarquin Manek) has released a slew of donked-up tapes under various guises and as part of the trio F ingers; via Night People, the recently deceased Blackest Ever Black, and Australian labels Another Dark Day and Chapter Music. As the title suggests, Hard Drive Vinegar contains material that rotted inside Manek’s hard drive from 2009 – 2019. Its decade timespan is surprising for such a cohesive work, especially with a geographic spread of recording at home in Australia and after relocating to Berlin. One of its enigmatic charms lies in how it seems to disregard time and place in favour of its own conformity; especially pertinent now while concepts like distance and closeness are both futile and ever-blending together in omnipresence. Distant like our next-door neighbours hemmed in and invisible, who are as close as those in other communities, cities and continents. As the hourglass marks the disappearance of time in one realm to record its swelling growth in its subterranean other, the belly of the infinity sign rotates upwards.
https://xlstx.bandcamp.com/album/hard-drive-vinegar-vol-1
Masayuki Imanishi.
After several previous albums and collaborations with musicians such as Leif Elggren, Kouhei Matsunaga, Vampillia and The Body, with Worn Tape Japanese musician Masayuki Imanishi presents his first work for Moving Furniture Records.
On this album he presents 11 new works based on small sounds from objects, paper, radio and field recordings. Due to the various subtle sounds the album is a captivating work that stands out in a world where bombast seems to rule.
The sounds on this album come from his direct surroundings he comes across in his daily life, making this a very personal work.
It strikes how, with these abstract sounds, Imanishi knows to create a warm calming work that is not only experimental in its form, but at the same time easy to listen to.
https://movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/worn-tape
Amateur Hour.
The songs talk for themselves, appealing both to the romantic indie-kid as the most elitist avantgardist. My mind ventures to referencing Nico’s The Marble Index and it’s lovechild with a Beat Happening tune. It’s Felt and Velvet Underground seen and interpreted through the Scandinavian experimental tradition, a sound not heard before anywhere.
https://happiestplacerecords.bandcamp.com/album/framtiden-tillh-r-inte-oss