Outside Supercolor
"Lionel Palun and I met in 2003 in a context of social struggle. Aware of an inevitable downfall, we decided to discuss our respective practices. Sound for me and image for him. Then there were the basic questions: "What does it do if you connect a video output to a sound input?"; "What does a sound output do to a video input?" Then the tinkering that goes with it, like opening a Scart socket and plugging directly into it. And to finish, we discovered that as always, everything has already been …
Underlying The Vast Ruin This Civilization Has Caused, Is Not Human Nature, But The Opposite: Human Nature Denied.
"In his 1919 essay “The Uncanny,” Sigmund Freud defines the term as follows: “the ‘uncanny’ is that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar.” To this end, a feeling of uncanniness distinguishes itself from just being afraid because of its relation to what we already know, a disturbing variation of what we expect to see when we look in the mirror or the kind of horror that comes from inside the house. The uncanny valley, for instance, describes t…
New Rules, Same Game, Less Instruction
*2023 stock. 250 copies limited edition* The second release in the new CD series "SYM" from Drone Records, sounds from realms of Symbolization & Symmetrization! These are new recordings from Chicago's Illusion of Safety: microscopic audio events, loops, heavily processed material of all kinds form seven multi-layered tracks that seem to be full of electro-magnetic static, morphing and transforming like a hallucinogenic object.
Nuova Sauna Possibile 2
The visionary Italian imprint, Ivreatronic, returns with yet another quest into the shadowy reaches of the contemporary Italian underground with a brand new batch of three LPs, Tiresia’s “Sirene”, Hawaii8 & Friends’s “Archivi 1999/2021”, and Alien Alien / Prokofiev / Foresta’s “Visioni Fuggitive”. Issued on vinyl in individual editions or as a special bundle of four LPs, whether regarded singularly or collectively, they represent a fascinating immersion into electronic process that spans a remar…
Sirene
* Deluxe edition of 200 copies, comes with an insert * This is a project by Bruno Dorella (Ovo, Ronin, Sigillum S) and Stefano Ghittoni (The Dining Rooms, Le Petit). Inspired by the mythological character, both male and female, fortune-teller and fugitive, that has lived multiple lives, Tiresia is also the name of one of the main character in the movie “I Cannibali” (1970) by director Liliana Cavani.Played by Pierre Clementi, he is a sort of mystic that speaks an obscure language trying to rise …
Cone
Tim Olive: radios, tuning forks, magnetic pickups, synthesizerRecorded and mixed August 2022, KobeMastered by Jack ArmstrongCover by Chris Gibson
Stoneface
*300 copies limited edition* Accumulation and assembly in the Derbyshire Dales in the Caroline K studios. Digital mastery achieved in Silver Octopus studios Buxton, Derbyshire, England, 29th July 1989. Mastering : Paul Lavigne March 2023. Layout : Pole Ka. Dedicated to the new active listener.
Áhkká
Pauline Hogstrand's music – and Áhkká, in particular – is deeply inspired by both inner and outer influences, by the mystical as well as the rock-solid, by fictitious conversations and the queen mountain of Lappland (Áhkká).
Considerable
*200 copies limited edition (hand-numbered).* Ned Milligan is a New York based elementary school teacher and occasional musician. He’s behind the great small-run label Florabelle since 2015. This is his sixth solo album. "My work in the past five years has been grounded in recording and playing outdoors, trying to communicate the meaning of being in a particular location and finding meaning in interacting with whatever sounds or elements are equally present. I'm still excited by all of it! This …
Continuous Hole
Continuous Hole, a collaborative album by Drew Daniel (Matmos) and John Wiese. The fruit of over ten years of home recordings in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Baltimore, “Continuous Hole” melds improvisation and musique concrète composition into a uniquely sweaty document of labor-intensive rhythm. A finger puzzle of reconciled opposites: lockstep structure and constant flux. Many of the tracks reflect the unique blending of the disparate backgrounds of its creators: on “Abhorred Shears”, “Slee…
Last Index Of…
*123 copies limited edition!!* *cassette edition of sold out vinyl* Properly absorbing electronic enigmas from Zaheer Gulamhusein (Xvarr, Waswaas) and JustinTripp (Georgia), following their noses down the rabbit hole into aether-chamber interzonesadjacent to Coil, Conrad Schnitzler, Werkbund, and Jeff Mills’ deep space missions. A strong case of two artists transcending the sum of their parts, String present an immersiveexploration of the unknown, realising a “virtual vacation” from which they n…
Jackson-Pratt & Shredded Nerve
In this split two masters of their craft each make a sonic homage to a different painter. The sounds from both Shredded Nerve and Jackson Pratt capture varying degrees of reflected light. Jackson Pratt places us inside what feels like a painter’s studio, spacious and sun soaked with large northeast facing windows. Every sound flits in the sunlight with room to expand and contract. Stark forms emerge from a sparseness which defies titles. Seany’s compositions evoke a sense of endless variation mu…
Actoma
300 copies limited edition "Actoma" is the new full length record by New York–based musician James Emrick. Emrick may be best known for his work with Kinet Media, handling sound design and scoring for a number of their projects. He utilizes an array of granular and feedback processes within Max/MSP environments to arrive at an idiosyncratic form of computer music that feels willfully opposed to operating within the sediments of the genre. Techniques such as real-time granulation of samples, Shep…
V
Osso Exótico is an experimental, drone music project from Portugal formed in 1989. Utilizing a range of mainly acoustic instruments (often modified) such as glass harmonica, piano strings, percussion, violin, the ensemble created drone, at times mystical and psychedelic ambiences that can be found in their extensive discography. With an always evolving line-up, brothers André and David Maranha have been, since the early times to the present day, the core of this band, that would later, incorpora…
The End Of An Era
*300 copies limited edition* Lary 7 is a New York downtown legend who has blessed the city’s experimental music scene with his creative presence since the early 80s. As a musician, he has worked and/or collaborated with artists and bands such as The Jickets, Swans, Jarboe, Jimi Tenor, Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten, to name but a few, and he has a yet unfinished album together with Tom Verlaine to come. As a photographer, Lary 7 has worked with artists including Matthew Barney and The…
Monumento Fiume
*300 copies limited edition* In 2021, the Municipality of Cotignola, Ravenna invited sound artist and composer Giovanni Lami to participate in an artist residency as part of a broader project aiming to investigate the anthropic landscape of the local area. The two-piece composition Monumento Fiume stems from the huge body of field recordings collected by Lami throughout his residency period, which is going to contribute to the soon-to-be Sound archive of Cotignola. As Massimiliano Fabbri points …
Soundscape-Komposition. Aktuelle Positionen
"Field recordings and recordings of everyday sounds are considered essential materials for Soundscape Composition. The term is not to be understood as a generic category for any compositional approach in which original sound is used. Rather, Soundscape Composition is based on a specific concept that shapes the compositional, formative process ad artistic statement of a production.[.] Soundscape Composition artistically points in (at least) two different directions: On the one hand, it points to …
No 4 - H
Tip! *In process of stocking. 2023 stock* XQX is a Music outfit founded by performance artist John Bock and audiovisual artist Kris Limbach. N°4H is a Hybrid Live/Studio release based on a performance at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden Baden and precedent recordings.
AKP
Tip! *200 copies imited edition. 2023 stock. In process of stocking* Try to imagine an astonishing reversal of the traditional widespread subservience of sound to story-telling: instead of sound effects providing realism to a narrative, the open shell of an apparent narrative becoming sound work… or perhaps even a new form of weird experimental music that only requires a willingness to listen to the actual sonic matter itself, precisely when it appears to be something else.
The Shining Space
Franco-Argentinian composer Daniel Teruggi follows in the footsteps of the Paris-based GRM (Groupe de Recherche Musicale) and their illustrious founders Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry and Francois Bayle, representing the next generation of eletroacoustic explorers. 'The Shining Space' includes works written between 1997 and 1999 and each composition uses a single instrument; piano, electric guitar, voice, etc, as original sound source which is then transformed by the GRM's own processing tools (…