Composed with materials generated by Miguel A. GarcÃa and Oscar Martin in a meeting in the town of Apodaka, in Alava, Basque country, in the year 2015, this electroacoustic piece was originally released by the label Rhizome.s. Never completely satisfied with the result, during this confinement, Miguel A. GarcÃa decided to revise it, reworking the mix, giving another dimension …
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L’incertitude, is Bruno Duplant and Rutger Zuydervelt’s first album as a duo. It came together very naturally, as if they played together for years already. There were no long discussions or conceptual heavy-handedness, these two tracks of pure sound exploration in the most intuitive sense, just flowed from the remote collaboration and the back-and-forth swapping of materials and …
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A100, the sound of the Berlin city highway. The A100 is not just an infrastructural system occupying expanses of urban space, it is also a city-building force with massive physical, media and political presence. It generates a pulse of city life. It exerts influence over Berlin’s identity as a symbol of progress, of self-promotion and …
Boa-LÃngua is the second album by SÃria. It departs from her former work, Cuspo, using it as a foundation for structure and duration, while following very different pulses. Boa-LÃngua was made from recordings of practice sessions that were not originally intended to be used or worked as songs. Boa-LÃngua means “good tongueâ€, used in opposition to “má-lÃnguaâ€, literally “bad tongueâ€, a Portuguese …
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Arturas BumÅ¡teinas started the Organ Safari project in 2007, compiling recordings of various church organs into a growing sound archive. These recordings are later used in various contexts, such as performances, installations, radio programmes, and releases such as this. The organ sounds in this album were collected in February 2017 in Saxony, Germany, when Arturas BumÅ¡teinas, GailÄ— GriciÅ«tÄ— …
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Located in the north-east corner of South Africa, bisected by the Tropic of Capricorn, is Kruger National Park. Bordered by Zimbabwe and Mozambique, the subtropical park is approximately 360 kilometres long and 65 kilometres wide, and takes in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga. Aside from abundant wildlife, the landscape contains assorted vegetation including red …
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Shay Nassi works as Mise_en_Scene and is based in Tel Aviv, where he studied sound engineering and subsequently put his skills to good use by producing music where he delicately integrates elements of minimalism and noise. Following a compilation of remixes, Leftovers (Reworked) (060~2011) and three solo releases, 443 (075~2013), Primary Fields (106~2016) and Constellation …
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The collaborative album Ekkert Nafn was composed from sound materials collected by Francisco López and Miguel A. GarcÃa. Some of these materials were derived from field recordings, others from electrical and mechanical devices, all were manipulated with digital tools to varying degrees. After compiling the collection of sounds, both artists proceeded to compose independently, arriving to pieces …
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Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais have been working as @c since 2000, publishing several albums (some of which in Crónica), composing music for audiovisuals and theatre, performing extensively, and creating site-specific sound installations. Having been invited to develop a new work for the Exhibitions Pavilion of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, to …
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Buenos Aires’s native Guido Flichman has been involved in experimental music for a decade and a half, collaborating in the duo Termotank and the electronic pop band Programa besides working solo under his own name or as Depuratumba. Since 2006 he has also been running the website Latinoise a platform for information and promotion of noise and experimental musicians in Latin America. Clorofila …
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