★Creative Sources

The association between Ulrich Mitzlaff and Miguel Mira promises an unforeseeable sound meeting. The specific, personal and different ways of their distinguished expression is the base for their very dynamic and interactive music. They create sounds where the improvisation moves with great fluency between the establishing of textures and abstract musical ideas and the switching in the musical discourse to singular, rhythmic and melodic affirmations. They construct the sonar explorations using th…

'Ernesto Rodrigues - viola, harp, metronomes, objects. Guilherme Rodrigues - cello. Gil Gonçalves - tuba. Nuno Torres - alto saxophone. Abdul Moimeme - prepared electric guitars. Armando Pereira - accordion, toy piano. Carlos Santos - electronics, piezo elements. José Oliveira - percussion.' (label info)

Jonas KOCHER: accordion, objects, electronics. 'Using several extended technics, his practice is situeted at the border between sound, noise and theatrality. The instrument is considerated in his globality as sound & noise producer.' Recorded at Steim, Amsterdam, january 2009. Mastered by Christian Weber.

Carlos GALVEZ Taroncher (bassclarinet)-Magda MAYAS (piano)-Koen NUTTERS (acoustic bass)-Morten J. OLSEN (percussion). Recorded on 28 August 2006, Berlin.

'Computer (Laptop), guitar: Mark Trayle. Percussion, Synthesizer (Analog), Composed By (Graphical Score) : Jason Kahn. Piano (Prepared): Olivia Block. Saxophone (Alto, Sopranino), electronics (Live-electronics): Ulrich Krieger. Recorded by Clay Chaplin April 25, 2008 in Los Angeles at the Cal Arts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology Festival.'

Urs Leimgruber (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone), Alexander Schubert (electronics, violin), Oliver Schwerdt (piano, percussion, organ) and Christian Lillinger (drums, percussion). Recorded April 17th 2008, Leipzig.

Ernesto RODRIGUES (viola), Neil Davidson (acoustic guitar), Guilherme RODRIGUES (cello) and Hernâni Faustino (double bass). Recorded in Lisbon 18-11-07. Neil Davidson has taken his acoustic guitar on many fascinating sonic adventures, forever pushing the language of sounds possible with this instrument to new places. Here he joins a group of musicians from Portugal led by the rather legendary Ernesto RODRIGUES on viola and also featuring his son Guilherme RODRIGUES on 'cello and Hernani Faustino…

Richard Bamford, drums, percussion. Stuart Brown, drums, percussion. John Burgess, bass clarinet. George Burt, acoustic guitar. Matthew Cairns, trumpet. Aileen Campbell, voice. Neil Davidson, electric guitar. Nick Fells, shakuhachi. Krzysztof Hladowski, bouzouki. George Lyle, double bass. Raymond MacDonald, soprano & alto saxophones. George Murray, trombone. Peter Nicholson, cello, voice. Emma Roche, flute, baroque flute. Ernesto Rodrigues, viola. Guilherme Rodrigues, cello. Matthew Studdert-Ken…

Ursula Maehr, recorder. Carles Peris, saxophone, flute. Francis Petter, saxophone, bass clarinet. Valentin Vecellio, basset horn. Marco von Orelli, trumpet. Sabine von Werra, voice. Christoph Baumann, piano. Markus Fischer, double bass. Jacques Widmer, drums. Recorded 9-11 November 2007

Dario Sanfilippo, computer, FeNeBaNo-LiDiSProS Project (Feedback Network Based Non-Linear Digital Signal Processing System). Recorded, mixed and mastered in 2008. Dario sanfilippo was born in Agrigento, Italy in 1983. He started working on electro-acoustic music in about 1997. Since then, his research concentrated on experimental and non-conventional music, both composed and improvised. His current main projects are based on computer for the creation of non-linear DSP systems through feedback-ne…

Ute Wassermann (voice, whistle), Phil Minton (voice), Thomas Lehn (analog synthesizer) and Martin Blüme (percussion). Recorded in Bochum and Köln 2008. Mixed and mastered by Thomas Lehn.

This is Sylvain Chauveau record #8. Sylvain Chauveau, piano. Recorded in 2008 by John McEntire in Chicago. 'Touching down lightly is a new full-length (surprise) album out on the Creative Sources imprint. Performed by Sylvain Chauveau (piano), recorded and mixed by John McEntire in Chicago. This is not the song-based album started early 2007 (still unfinished for now). Touching down lightly is the result of one day of improvisation at Soma Electronic Music Studio late November 2008: a way to cre…

2009 release ** Rhodri Davies: Harp, electronics - Stéphane Rives: Soprano Saxophone - Ernesto Rodrigues: Viola - Guilherme Rodrigues: Cello - Carlos Santos: computer, electronics.

2009 release ** "Millefleurs is a vocal ensemble led by Christoph Schiller. More precisely: an experimental choir. Imagine a dozen vocalists in the vein of Phil Minton and Joane Hétu joining forces. It’s a nice surprise. Twelve pieces, each featuring a different line-up of singers (between one and ten). Abstract, textural, guttural pieces without words. It gets long (70 minutes), and with two or three selected tracks edited out the album would have been tighter and better sustained the listener’…

an awesome debut by Luca Mari, the I/O band guitarist: elaborate doomy guitar-themed minimalism-drones, with quiet electro-acoustic pieces atmospheres and some abstract digitalia. As said, it's awesome!Luca Mauri, attuale chitarrista degli I/o e polistrumentista dei Two Dead Bodies, già batterista dei Kokoro Mayikibo e detentore dei progetti personali a nome 00 e Looke, è giunto pienamente alla carriera solista con il suo album di debutto, “Between Love And Hate”, per chitarra, piatti e editing …

Sound design recorded at National Sculpture Factory, Cork November 2007. Mark O'Leary was born in Cork City Ireland. Being mainly auto didactic on guitar he moved to Los Angeles at the age of 17 to study at Musicians Institute,from where he later graduated. He has presented his music in 29 countries and has played at some of the worlds top Jazz festivals and contemporary Jazz venues.

Maximilian Marcoll, electronics. Hannes Galette Seidl, electronics. The piece 'Ian W. Coel' is built around the video installation 'MSTM Wall' (Short Time Memory Wall) by british media artist Ian W. Coel (*1952) from 1988. 'STM Wall&rduo' is a video wall, equiped with cameras and set up in a public space, taking pictures of its surrounding in front and behind the wall and displaying these pictures on its video screens. Newer pictures are drawn on top of older ones, which are still visible. So, o…

Martin Küchen: prepared and non prepared alto saxophone. David Stackens: guitar, low-budget electronics. Recorded at Fylkingen, Stockholm by Andreas Berthling, 16th of May 2004. Mastered by Andreas Berthling, David Stackens and Martin Küchen.

Franz Hautzinger: trumpet. Mazen Kerbaj: trumpet. All music improvised, no cuts no overdubbing. Recorded on august 26 2003 at Khalifesh studio lebanon by Raymond Khalifeh. Mix by Mazen Kerbaj and Raymond Khalifeh.