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Cedric Pigot is a French installation - sound-artist, responsible for a wide range in soundtracks for performances, films and installations. His work on itself shows a very thick and layered wall of sound in which tiny but detailed happenings and transitions occur. You could call his sound rythmical because of repetitive elements, coming from short pulses and loops, popping and ticking up in the well-filled soup of noises. You could also call his sound soundscapish, because of the long stretched…
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Wrikken is a collaboration between Dutchmen Joris van Perlo and Ivo Bol. Both having played in several punk and new age-bands, both being bored with those genres, both discovering the possibilities of electronic composition and processing...The combination of electronics and their former acoustic instruments, or rather the electronic re-interpretation of those, is like a red line through their work. Although not recognisable as such, the sound of wrikken is based on sampling and distillating the…
Live in Groningen
Dutch electro-acoustic ensemble Thu20 is the co-operation between Roel Meelkop, Peter Duimelinks, Sjac van Bussel and Ios Smolders. Live in Groningen is an edited version of a performance they did during the Casa Electronica festival high up north in the Netherlands. The hearplay-like character of their set/ music is very much imaginative and holds a lot of reminding -- but not recognisable -- elements. It's almost as if a parallel world of sound is created, making the one it refers to as estran…
Schulterblatt
Rechenzentrum's John Peel sessions- cd release was generally received as a very fine recording. The delicate interaction between sharp rhythmical elements and noises or fieldrecordings, makes their sound mysterious but still transparent. It consists of several layers, interacting on different levels of musicality, shifting between traditional obviousness and hard to define abstractness in sound. They succeed very well in bridging between the more accessable underground music and noise, to use a …
Veertiende Mixer - Dissectio / Environmental Cleaning Moments
Two composers thriving to create musical aesthetics out of cold, clinical electronic sound. Although Kaffe Matthews' recorded works are mostly based upon improvisational sessions and Martux' is purely composed, both clearly show that it's ideas that weigh, more so than the use of affective or anecdotal material. Last Copies
L’incandescence de l’étoile
L'incanDescence De l'étoile is a Musique Concrète piece based on the everlasting universal (re)cycle. It is it's own modulator, oscillating at immense speed, almost standing still. The composer has interpreted and given an auditive representation of these cosmic forces, melted together in a solid musical gesture , perpetuated on a little disc. Captured time, but where to next? L'incanDescence De l'étoile is a great example of the fine craftmanship of Marchetti, it's been composed up to it's most…
Location stories
Janek Schaefer has gained a reputation when it comes to fieldrecording-based soundworks. Using his sonic surroundings, manipulated or not, Schaefer comes up with unique and intimate results. location stories is another collection of found-sound stories, that Stichting Mixer is proud of to release. A: Minneapolis Office Max Messages. A collage of the messages I found left on the display model of a mini digital dictaphone bought at a Branch of Office Max in Minneapolis. In a condensed period of ti…
Beo bio
GoodiePal is the Danish Kristian Vester, computerprogrammer for the world famous Lego-imperium, founded a long time ago by his grandfather. Relevant because this urge to program can be heard on 'beo bio'. 'beo bio' consists of 4 pieces, all coming from the same original, a track made years ago with the same name. Through different algo-rythms the work has been processed and arranged, without losing it's recognisability and character. Therefor it requires patience to discover the mostly minimal d…
Bratra
Bratra shows some well build rhythmical tracks, as the debut release of Boca Raton. Completely constructed of manipulated or synthesized (contact) mic-recordings, bratra moves on the edges of lo-fi sound and noises in an almost hypnotizing way. These tracks bring a certain sedated feeling which usually appears with the use of drones, isn't it that these tracks are hardly to be labeled droney. There's several layers and elements moving in and out of place, and also in and out of sound so to say, …
Dertiende Mixer - Cacerolada / Cleavage of acoustics
Both Justin Bennett and Toshiya Tsunoda have gained a reputation when it comes to fieldrecording-based soundworks. Using their sonic surroundings as the startingpoint for their work, both are unique in approach and result. Last copies.
DelayOnMyPillow
Over the past few years AGF has been critically well acclaimed for her poetry-based music and soundworks. Sound and speech have melted into one unique entity. The delicacy and intimacy AGF displays in her work knows very little equals in todays electronic and digital musics. delayonmypillow is no exception and simply is a great piece. Stichting Mixer is very proud to release this excellent work of integration of the human touch in the clinical digital domain of sound.