The Side Effect is a swedish trio composed by Dan Pålsson (Pythagora), Pierre Sjöbring, Frank Berggrensson.
Their last release is Act 1 & 2 published by suRRism-Phonoethics netlabel.
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Archivi autore: Mauro
Dreaming in R’lyeh
The nightmare corpse-city of R’lyeh…was built in measureless eons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars. There lay great Cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy vaults.
[H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu]
R’lyeh is a fictional city that first appeared in the story “The Call of Cthulhu,” by H. P. Lovecraft. R’lyeh is also referred to in Lovecraft’s “The Mound” as Relex. R’lyeh is a sunken city located deep under the Pacific Ocean and is where the godlike being Cthulhu is buried.
R’lyeh is sometimes referred to in the ritualistic phrase “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn“, which roughly translates to “In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming”.
For sure H. P. Lovecraft fans are Josef Nadek and DMAH, the authors of this work published by suRRism-Phonoethics that no longer exists and today it is found on the Internet Archive (click here to download).
Snorkel Quintet
The SuRRism-Phonoethics net label was a Frankfurt, Germany based non-profit netlabel specializing in Experimental music (The domain is now for sale). Some of their releases could be classified as Electronic art music/Electronic music, industrial or experimental music with sub-genres like Electro-Acoustic, Improvisation & Cut-Up.
Their official launch occurred in 2008, with a release for Undress Béton (aka Jaan Patterson). All their releases are free for download under Creative Commons or Copyleft licenses.
SuRRism-Phonoethics production was very interesting, dedicated to artists who wish to push the boundaries.
Today I am pleased to present you the Snorkel Quintet, here on Free Music Archive and here on SoundCloud, a Barcelona-based group of six (yes!) players devoted to improvisation and influenced by contemporary music and jazz.
Some excerpt from their album called Snorkel Quintet – Improvisaciones realizadas entre enero-abril 2010 Barcelona, España. Go to this page to download the whole work.
If it was your home
Go there and center the oil spill around your home.
Imagine a big black blob from Torino to Udine, from Le Havre to Bruxelles, from Cardiff beyond Norwich covering London, from Münster to Berlin…
UPDATE 19/06/2010
The big black blob 10 days after
UPDATE 11/07/2010
The big black blob 30 days after
In C
In C continues to receive numerous performances every year, by professionals, students, and amateurs. It has had repeated recordings since its 1968 LP premiere, and most are still in print. It welcomes performers from a vast range of practices and traditions, from classical to rock to jazz to non-Western. Recordings range from the Chinese Film Orchestra of Shanghai—on traditional Chinese instruments—to the Hungarian “European Music Project” group, joined by two electronica DJs manipulating The Pulse. It rouses audiences to states of ecstasy and near hysteria, all the while projecting an inner serenity that suggests Cage’s definition of music’s purpose—”to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.” In short, it’s not going away.
[Robert Carl]
An interesting analysis/commentary about Terry Riley’s seminal composition by Robert Carl.
The original recording by Terry Riley dated 1964
Here is the execution by the Shanghai Film Orchestra
A funky peformance by Band On A Can group from NYC
2015-02-10 Tate Modern and Africa Express
Boiler Room Amsterdam Live Performance
2022-10-20 The Young Gods present Play Terry Riley In C Documentary & Live from Les Forces Motrices, Geneva
Tesla Coil Music
The sound is really produced by the coils. To play an A at 440 Hz the coil generate 440 lightnings per second. The temperature of the lightning is so high that compress the air around generating an audio wave.
Space Audio
A good site of “sounds of space” collected by U Iowa instruments on various spacecraft.
Here you can find many sounds “recorded” (remember that this are radio frequencies not audio frequencies) by Cassini, Voyagers and Galileo spacecrafts during the Jupiter and Saturn missions.
The site is Space Audio.
Here you can listen to the famous Cassini’s sound recorded near Saturn claimed to resemble to an alien voice if transposed one octave up preserving the duration:
Minimal States
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Thomas Carter has yet another musical project called Minimal States, where he explores ambient soundscapes based on collected samples and field recordings.
‘Like A Photograph‘ is the first set of a trilogy that Thomas intends to release on test tube.
This first work is heavily based on samples taken from the well known Fm3 Buddha Machine and CC field recordings taken from the Quiet American website. With 15 minutes spent with each piece – ‘Circadian Rhythms’ and ‘Stereopsis’ – Minimal States embraces the full spectrum of landscape generative ambient in its true form.
The second album in the trilogy is ‘Liberty Hoax’. Firmly based in the urban, developed and political world, far from the timelessness of the forest and natural world of the first album, it examines the vast, densely populated spaces of the inner-city and the physical and cultural wastelands that surround it.
Moreover, the album is concerned with the place of the individual amongst the masses, and with the concept of identity itself in a world where companies and the State have ever-increasing powers to access and regulate personal data. The album questions whether personal freedom is still a priority for governments and legislators, or if it is now merely a glass wall, a façade, or a mirage that will vanish when approached
Download the first part here and the second here.
Excerpts:
- from Like A Photograph
- from Liberty Hoax
Metathreading
Matt’s (aka Craque) electronic music came to be regarded as a hybrid between edgy improv takes and deep IDM-ish grooves. Both languages come together through Matt’s electronics and form an intricate and complex maze of rhythms, beats and hypnotic grooves.
Metathreading is no exception. Matt took various free improvisation edits – named as ‘threads’ – and some other remixes – called ‘Stacks’ – based on a handful of selected ‘threads’ and put them all together. All this was done on a live setup without a laptop. Matt only used his own prepared instruments, with only the obvious edits (also very few) made after with the aid of software.
Download from Test Tube.
Some tracks:
Backyard Mysteries
«Brian Ruskin is a Ph.D in Geology (Stratigraphy branch) and at the same time a musician and producer from Pittsburgh, USA. Science and Art very close together. The music he makes as Mental Health Consumer falls right in the middle of the Electronic genre, slightly danceable and upbeat variant, without loosing too much focus but admittedly keen on experimental ambient explorations. With his music, Brian tries to achieve that special balance between the calculated and the emotive side of the mind.
Such is ‘Backyard Mysteries’, an extremely interesting and uncompromising collection of tracks with a full range of soft pads, techno inspired beats and soothing soundscapes, but also retaining a very curious experimental ambient side, which will keep you interested all through the end.» – Pedro Leitão
Download from Test Tube.
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