Componisten/uitvoerenden: Amateur Hour | Antoine Läng | Aoi Tagami | Ayami Suzuki | Chiho Oka | Christos Yermenoglou. | Daniel Bachman | Eric C. Burton | Felicia Atkinson | Francesco Fonassi | Gabriel Ferrandini | Gerard Lebik | Harry Bertoia | Hobo Sonn | Huerco S | Ian Murphy | Marta Salogni | Pauline Oliveros | Philip Sulidae | Piotr Damasiewicz | Savvas Metaxas | Spyros Polychronopoulos | Tetuzi Akiyama | Tujiko Noriko | Wave Temples
Electro-acoustische geluiden, vreemde liedjes en auditieve absurditeiten.
00:00 Resonator spot.
00:30 Christos Yermenoglou – First Observations.
01:00 Spyros Polychronopoulos – Fifth Duende.
04:30 Tetuzi Akiyama & Ayami Suzuki – Allelopathy Part 1.
08:20 Philip Sulidae – 904 Hamilton Street, 1970.
10:20 Savvas Metaxas – 40 days.
15:00 Gerard Lebik, Piotr Damasiewicz, Gabriel Ferrandini – veNN circles Part I.
19:00 Morton Subotnick – The Wild Bull Part B.
22:26 Rabit – Georgia Boy Interlude. (feat. Boochie)
24:30 Huerco S. – Latautii.
27:00 Francesco Fonassi & Marta Salogni – A Largo.
29:56 Chiho Oka, Aoi Tagami – Improvisation.
31:45 Felicia Atkinson – The House That Agnes Built.
33:50 Harry Bertoia – Integrated Sounds.
36:30 Hobo Sonn – Improvised Music For Japanese Drum-Machine Pt.2.
38:20 Unix Systems – Android Dreams.
42:33 Antoine Läng – Idiophasies 3.
44:58 Daniel Bachman – 10-17 PM KHB36. (The Warned Area)
47:00 Wave Temples – Double Enchantress.
49:55 Amateur Hour – Radio Is Silent.
52:30 Tujiko Noriko – Cosmic Ray.
54:50 Yannis Kyriakides – Empire Within an Empire.
Christos Yermenoglou.
Greek drummer, composer, teacher and author. Born in Germany in 1969 and grew up in Thessaloniki, Greece.
He began his musical studies in Greece with Byzantine music and drums. He went on to study drums, classical percussion, Latin American percussion and jazz in the United States. He taught in the Preschool Music Education Program for Infants and Toddlers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. He has invested in silent film films, collaborated with dance theater groups and collaborated in improvised events of music, painting, movement, poetry and theater. He had also recorded music for the theater while he had collaborated with the State Orchestra of Thessaloniki and the Symphony Orchestra of the Municipality of Thessaloniki. He has appeared in international music festivals in the USA, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Turkey, Romania, Belgium, Greece, Cyprus etc
https://christosyermenoglou.bandcamp.com/album/birth
Spyros Polychronopoulos.
Spyros Polychronopoulos interest in sound, both as a physical phenomenon as well as a form of art, began at an early age. He holds a degree in Physics and a PhD in Acoustics. He has published a number of papers in this field. Further to his research in sound, he has developed unique sound objects (i.e. LEM), released 15 albums and performed a number of concerts around the world.
https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/duende
Tetuzi Akiyama & Ayami Suzuki
Ayami Suzuki, a musician based in the Tokyo area, performs a unique kind of ambient drone using electronics and voice. Since 2020 she has been performing at Ftarri in Tokyo, both as a soloist and with other musicians. Acclaimed guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama is active on the international improvised music scene. In 2021 Akiyama gave many outstanding performances at Ftarri; recordings of a number of these concerts were subsequently released as CDs. “Allelopathy” is one of these recordings.
https://ayamisuzuki.bandcamp.com/album/allelopathy
Philip Sulidae.
Philip Sulidae is a sound artist from Australia whose practice draws on over a decade of sound art practice, focusing on field recording, phonology and acousmatic recordings. During this time he has developed a thematically and conceptually defined practice that focuses on the symbolic intent and significance of sound.
Sulidae’s works have been published by imprints including Gruenrekorder, Unfathomless, Falt and Impulsive Habitat. Additionally he curates and runs the label Hemisphäreの空虚, dedicated to releasing sound works that emphasize the use and abuse of field recordings.
https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/perplexor
Savvas Metaxas – 40 days.
Future Chorus is based on a collection of readings, spoken word, nonlinguistic sound, poetry, MCing, cello and animal sounds — made by Abbas Zahedi, AGF, Elaine Mitchener, Eleni Ikoniadou, Jordan Edge, Joshua Leon, Lunatraktors, Ruth McGill, Sukitoa O Namau and Viki Steiri. The material was combined with machine learning processes — by Mohab Tarek — for the artificial generation of a new voice speaking a nonhuman language. The vocal database and AI voice became the raw material for five remixes — by AGF, Chino Amobi, Harrga, Savvas Metaxas, Trustfall and Lafawndah.
https://hypermedium.bandcamp.com/album/future-chorus
Gerard Lebik, Piotr Damasiewicz, Gabriel Ferrandini.
electronics, trumpet, drums
https://bocian.bandcamp.com/album/venn-circles
Morton Subotnick.
Born 1933, Morton Subotnick is a key figure in the progress of electronic music: along with Pauline Oliveros and Ramon Sender he co-founded the San Francisco Tape Music Center in 1961 and from 1963 on he worked with Don Buchla on the development of the early synthesizer “Buchla Series 100”. In 1967 the composer and musician released his debut “Silver Apples Of The Moon”, which proved to be one of the most influential albums and an undoubted milestone in electronic music (which was even selected for the Library Of Congress in 2009). A year later Morton Subotnick presented his adventurous follow-up “The Wild Bull”. Loosely based on / inspired by an ancient Sumerian poem of the same name – a lament about loss and death caused by war – the two parts embark on further explorations into the hitherto unimagined creative possibilities of the synthesizer. 46 years after its initial release, “The Wild Bull” has not lost a single bit of its visionary magnitude and is still an adventurous sonic trip
https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-wild-bull
Rabit.
Rabit is Houston-based producer Eric C. Burton.
https://gangstalkers.bandcamp.com/album/what-dreams-may-come
Huerco S.
Kansas born producer and DJ, currently based in Germany.
Founder of West Mineral Ltd.
https://airtexture.bandcamp.com/album/air-texture-viii
Francesco Fonassi & Marta Salogni.
“lʼebbrezza delle grandi profondità” is the outcome from the first collaboration between sonic artist Francesco Fonassi and producer Marta Salogni.
Recorded live at Spettro (Brescia, Italy) in September 2021 during a ‘tape mazeʼ live performance, the ten tracks take us in a cinematic journey towards the oceanic forests explored and described by Jacques-Yves Cousteauʼs ‘The Silent Worldʼ.
The inebriation of being underwater is at the epicentre of a drifting sonic narrative where the listener is invited to get lost in. The pallet of sounds reflects both the marine landscapes and the altered state of mind that deep diving induces.
An exploration and a homage to a world where silence and wander reigns.
https://cantimagnetici.bandcamp.com/album/lebbrezza-delle-grandi-profondit
Chiho Oka & Aoi Tagami.
Chiho Oka is a computer music player and sound artist. Aoi Tagami specializes in improvised voice performance and is also a singer-songwriter, performing songs with her own lyrics and music. A solo CD by each of these artists, produced as part of the “Ftarri Fukubukuro CD 2021” series, was presented to those who attended concerts at Ftarri in the 2020/2021 New Year period. Released for sale to the public in February 2021, the CDs are Chiho Oka’s “Manipulating Automated Manipulated Automation” (hitorri-882) and Aoi Tagami’s “LIVE on October 26, 2020” (ftarri uta 221).
https://ftarrilabel.bandcamp.com/album/the-best-concert-ever-by-chiho-oka-and-aoi-tagami
Felicia Atkinson.
Felicia Atkinson’s music always puts the listener somewhere in particular. There are two categories of place that are important to Image Language: the house and the landscape. Inside and outside, different ways of orienting a body towards the world. They are in dialogue, insofar as in the places Atkinson made this record—Leman Lake, during a residency at La Becque in Switzerland, and at her home on the wild coast of Normandy—the landscape is what is waiting for you when you leave the house, and vice-versa. Each threatens—or is it offers, kindly, even promises?—to dissolve the other. Recognizing the normalization of home studios these days, she revisited twentieth-century women artists who variously chose, and were chosen by, their homes as a place to work: the desert retreats of Agnes Martin and Georgia O’Keefe, the life and death of Sylvia Plath. Building a record is like building a house: a structure in which one can encounter oneself, each room a song with its own function in the project of everyday life.
https://feliciaatkinson.bandcamp.com/album/image-langage
Harry Bertoia.
n 1970 Harry Bertoia had been developing his sonic sculptures for over ten years. He had only been composing/recording for two years and the four long pieces chosen for this CD find him starting to arrive at the sonic forms he had been searching for.
Hints Of Things To Come is one of the most unique and melodic pieces discovered so far in the Bertoia tape archive. In this piece we hear him slowly create and articulate a musical riff. Bertoia builds this phrase patiently until the composition r
https://sonambient.bandcamp.com/album/hints-of-things-to-come
Hobo Sonn.
Ian Murphy.
https://ianmurphy.bandcamp.com/
Unix Systems.
Celestial Electronics Vol. 1 Rozselini ( Roz Selini) is an ambient experimental compilation, taking into account the rapidly changing ways of experiencing sounds and music, the consequences Body and space refer to vital and interrelated dimensions in the experience of sounds.
https://phormixrecords.bandcamp.com/album/celestial-electronics-vol-1-rozselini
Antoine Läng.
“Each track is made of a combination of specific preparation and tuning of the jaw harp, emphasis on the same gesture and rhythm of the fingers, variations in mouth opening, jaw tension and modulations of the breath, on the ability to repeat, by resistance or by accident, what each of these parameters can hold, deviate or give up, to release a sound with different layers and times from one simple action.”
https://insub.bandcamp.com/album/idiophasies-certains-gestes-semblent-devoir-se-r-p-ter-pour-mieux-m-chapper
Daniel Bachman.
“Almanac Behind” is both an anagram of Daniel Bachman’s name and a reference to the fact that rapid environmental changes have rendered traditional weather forecasting methods woefully unable to accurately predict our future. Over fifteen tracks, “Almanac Behind” guides the listener through natural disaster and its aftermath, via a series of field recordings by Bachman and his collaborators. The guitar, banjo, fiddle, and other instruments are presented in neutral modal tunings, avoiding conventional harmonic representations of mood and sentiment, and are often digitally altered in both subtle and obvious ways. At its core, “Almanac Behind” is powered by the sounds of the Earth, tones inherently familiar to the billions of people who have experienced extreme weather. It is an attempt to emotionally contend with and foster connection over a shared global experience.
https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/almanac-behind
Wave Temples.
Six years after landing at the Isle Enchanted in 2016, and after much inland exploration, native assimilation, and deep study in the pure duality of nature – not long after recent years of chasing the ancient mysteries hidden in the wood and cresting the highs towards Oceana 4D – we suddenly find ourselves… without explanation… Another Night In Peru.
https://wavetemples.bandcamp.com/album/another-night-in-peru
Amateur Hour.
This album stays true to the Amateur Hour formula, a mix of dreamy indie pop and harsh industrial soundscapes, all held together with wobbly tape loops and no-fi production.
If the previous two albums had been the result of improvisational jams and songs made up as they were recorded, this album shows a more deliberate approach to the songwriting.
https://amateurhourgbg.bandcamp.com/album/kr-kta-tankar-och-br-nda-vanor
Tujiko Noriko.
Noriko’s particular synthesis of electronic abstraction, melody, voice and atmosphere has few peers as sound gently circles her mystical words morphing into a succession of emotive aural experiments framed as songs.
https://tujikonoriko1.bandcamp.com/album/cr-puscule-i-ii
Yannis Kyriakides.
Amiandos (or Amiantos) is the name of the asbestos mine in the Troodos mountains in Cyprus, operating between 1904 and 1988. It was also the birthplace of my father — my grandfather worked there as an electrical engineer. A village and community grew around the mine as it expanded to become one of the largest asbestos producers in Europe, producing in its history about 1 million tons. The gradual realisation through the 20th century of the darker side of asbestos has been well documented. Even though millions have suffered and died from cancers caused by the inhalation of the thin fibres of the rock, asbestos continues to be mined in many parts of the world, regardless of the safety of its workers. A beautiful and dangerous rock. I remember as a child receiving a box of stones of Cyprus for my birthday and being taken aback by the splendour of the chrysotile rock, the type of asbestos found in Amiandos. The seven pieces in this album relate to some strands of history of Amiandos.
https://unsounds.bandcamp.com/album/amiandos