Conversation about 4’33”
Saturday, 25 July 2015
Email from LibriVox Reader
Wednesday, 27 May 2015
When you use public domain (and CC) recordings to make your music, sometimes you get nice emails from the people you sample!
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I used Michael Westra’s voice on the track “Fast Hands” from my album Awkward Hugs on the BumpFoot netlabel. You can find that work here:
https://archive.org/details/foot229
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His reading from “Complete Hypnosis” can be found on LibriVox here:
https://librivox.org/complete-hypnotism-by-a-alpheus/
Fan art
Friday, 8 May 2015
Little David Porter (16, Portland, Oregon) sent in this cool fan art:
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That’s cool David!
Look for your free subscription to Boy’s NoiseLife to start arriving soon!
Two new compilations
Sunday, 3 May 2015
I have tracks on two cool new comps.
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One is put together by Tom Ellard, re-igniting his old Terse Tapes imprint.
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It’s called Oompa Loopma Riot, named after a riot at a darts competition.
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I rather like my track on that one, hope you do too!
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I also have a track on this compilation of Taylor Swift cover versions. Yes for real.
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SwiftNoise
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diggum
Noise / Drone jam April 25, 2015
Saturday, 25 April 2015
Who comes up with these sounds, I wonder?
Saturday, 14 February 2015
The second feature was a fairly normal sex flick, which meant it was even more boring than the first. It had lots of oral sex scenes, and every time they started doing fellatio or cunnilingus or sixty-nine the soundtrack would fill the theater with loud sucking or slurping sound effects. Listening to them, I felt strangely moved to think that I was living out my life on this odd planet of ours. “Who comes up with these sounds, I wonder,” I said to Midori. “I think they’re great!” she said. There was also a sound for a penis moving back and forth in a vagina. I had never realized that such sounds even existed. The man was into a lot of heavy breathing.
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– Haruki Murakami – “Norwegian Wood”
Review in Avant Music News
Saturday, 7 February 2015
- Not Subliminal
was reviewed in Avant Music News.
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Daniel Barbiero writes:
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C. Reider’s Not Subliminal, a collection of five mostly real-time improvisations for multiple cassette decks, is an essay in post-acousmatic sound art carrying echoes of an age of mechanical reproduction past.
Reider’s sound sources are cast-off audio tapes he found in thrift stores as well as a video tape cut down to play on an audio cassette deck. One or more tapes were run and manipulated while a separate deck recorded the resulting sounds, in addition to any ambient sounds present. Underneath the hissing of tape and the humming of the decks’ playback machinery some of the sounds of this audio salon des refusés jump out and identify themselves: Various talking heads, bits of now-unpopular pop music, scrambled fragments of a theatrically delivered monologue on Scientology.
As with much of Reider’s work process is brought to the foreground, in this case as embodied in the sounds of the machines constructing the work—the squeal of spindles turning, the general rattle and buzz of moving parts. The artist’s hand is also audible, snapping cartridges onto sponsons, pressing buttons, picking up the next tape to go into the deck. In the end what isn’t subliminal here are the immediate, explicitly indicated sonic traces of the conditions and means of these improvisations’ production.
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- Not Subliminal
can be downloaded for free from the Control Valve netlabel.
End of year list mentions
Tuesday, 6 January 2015
David Nemeth’s excellent roundup of his favorite netlabel releases of the year is worthy reading for anyone into free experimental music. Load your computer or iPod or whatever up, tons of good stuff here:
Interesting Albums of 2014
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I was pleased to see a mention of Daniel Barbiero’s “After 30 x 12 (for C. Reider)” (to which I contributed electronic sound),
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my first release of 2014 “Distressing“,
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and also to Martin Rach’s excellent 2014 release on Vuzh Music, “Mongrel Drone Set“,
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There’s also some crossover with my list of recommended netlabel releases from 2014, so there ya go.
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Finally, somewhat stunningly, my album “the Plangents” was nominated for the Brainwashed end of year reader’s poll, and actually received enough votes to place on the list. I’m very pleasantly surprised about that. Dig it:
17th Annual Brainwashed 2014 Reader’s Poll
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A little love for “Not Subliminal”
Tuesday, 6 January 2015
David Nemeth wrote a piece about “Not Subliminal” in the latest blog post from Acts of Silence:
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I was very pleased when I heard that C. Reider had released a new album based on experimenting with cassettes and cassette recorders. Not Subliminal cries out to be released on a cassette, but Reider bucked that trend and went digital. Don’t get me wrong, if he released a cassette of this type, my PayPal account would be all over it.
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The premise of the Not Subliminal, Reider writes, “involved recording some stuff onto one tape while playing back previously recorded stuff on the other tape players, and letting it all mix together out loud … recording everything onto the shitty little onboard microphones that these handheld tape recorders had.” Not Subliminal‘s dissonance and self-referential audio recordings point the work into the genre of manipulated field recordings as well as the experimental. Genre lines are usually quite gray with Reider.
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Over the last year, Reider has been releasing a lot of older work which bordered on “real music” [see my review of Malaventura’s Malaventura04], so this reviewer was quite happy to read that Reider will be releasing more of this cassette work in the future.
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“Not Subliminal” is still available for free download from
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2014 – Recommended Netlabel Releases
Sunday, 28 December 2014
Two lists, as usual. One is the stuff I did in 2014, the second is the stuff I liked that was available in the worldwide netlabel underground during the year.
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Netlabeling entails releasing music for free (or name your price), accordingly every single thing here can be downloaded for free (and usually streamed too). The distinguishing factor between the standard model of releasing music and the netlabel model is this open accessibility without the barrier of a price. As such, those self-releasing artists who release their music for free are a vital part of the netlabel world. The “label” part of the term “netlabel” is a misnomer in some respects. In fact, the term is problematic in some other ways that I’ll probably write about in the future. Much of this music is released under various Creative Commons licenses. Some of these CC licenses allow “derivs” (short for “derivatives”). What that means is that anyone can remix or sample the work to make new music, it’s allowed in the license. I like it when people choose to make their music accessible for remixing/sampling, so I’ve denoted whether the release allows or disallows derivs in green or red script.
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I dig experimental / drone / noise / improv / abstract musics… and so you’ll find a lot of that here, but there’s also some stuff with melody & beat.
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Previous year’s lists:
2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009.
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By the way, this is all listed in alphabetical order based on the album titles, not #1, #2… etc.
Not counting my stuff, there’s 71 releases listed! Well over two entire days worth of listening!
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So I also made a long DJ mix of many tracks from this list. Download it here (link) or stream with the widget below.
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2014 Netlabel Mix by Vuzh on Mixcloud
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Self-serving List of my own releases for 2014!
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Daniel Barbiero – After 30 x 12 (for C. Reider)
http://opensoundgroup.wordpress.com/2014/07/26/release-daniel-barbiero-after-30-x-12-for-c-reider/
Open Sound Group || CC BY NC Derivs allowed!
Composition for double bass and electronics.
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C. Reider – Awkward Hugs
http://www.bumpfoot.net/foot229.html
BumpFoot || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Minimal techno, sorta – okay not really.
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C. Reider – Detritus 1&2
https://c-reider.bandcamp.com/album/detritus-1-2
Self Released || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Odds & ends, phone messages, field recordings, musical snippets.
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C. Reider – Disrepair
https://c-reider.bandcamp.com/album/disrepair
Self Released || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Spacious ambient guitar improvisation
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C. Reider – Distressing
http://eg0cide.com/2014/01/18/eg0_107-c-reider-distressing/
Eg0cide || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Exploring glitch & degradation from stretching, using “annoying” sounds as a base
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C. Reider – I’d’ve
https://c-reider.bandcamp.com/album/idve
Vuzh Music || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Autumnal drones
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C. Reider – Not Subliminal
http://controlvalve.net
Control Valve || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Gritty, lo-fi experimentations with cassettes
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C. Reider – The Plangents
http://www.vuzhmusic.com/releases/plangents.html
Vuzh Music || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Repetitive themes remembered from dreams.
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Recommended Netlabel Releases of 2014
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Mysterybear – Absence Sleeps Between The Buildings At Night
http://www.stasisfield.com/releases/year12/sf-12001.html
Stasisfield || Copyright No derivs!
Electronic drones paired with field recordings. Works exceptionally well.
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Jay-Dea Lopez – AC
http://www.galaverna.org/?p=3003
Galaverna || CC BY NC ND No derivs!
A composition of field recordings made in domestic locations.
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Félix Blume – A los cuatro vientos
https://sonicterrain.bandcamp.com/album/str-020-a-los-cuatro-vientos
Sonic Terrain || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Rich, full, captivating sounds. Based on field recordings. Simply amazing.
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Eucci – apt.
http://euc.cx/rive/034/index.html
Rive || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Six hour-long recordings of the interior ambience of an apartment, with all six hours layered to make a one hour album. The idea was to record when no one was in the apartment, but someone entered, unplanned.
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Chris Lynn & Daniel Barbiero – Augmented Landscapes
https://zeromoon.bandcamp.com/album/augmented-landscapes
Zeromoon || CC BY NC ND No derivs!
Double bass plus field recordings.
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Schemawound – A Young Person’s Guide To Time Travel
http://music.schemawound.com/album/a-young-persons-guide-to-time-travel
Self-Released || CC BY NC Derivs allowed!
Evocative electronic compositions based on the theme of time travel.
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Tom Ellard – Barbara Channel 3
https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/barbara-channel-3
Self Released || Copyright No derivs!
Ellard describes it as “EZ Listening Tones and Numbers”. Seven musical environments presented as one long track.
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Iris Garrelfs – Bedroom Symphonies
https://linearobsessional.bandcamp.com/album/bedroom-symphonies
Linear Obsessional || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Compositions based around heavily effected vocals.
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Guy Birkin – Bits
http://basicsounds.ca/2014/06/02/bsc_046/
Basic Sounds || CC BY NC ND No derivs!
Algorithmically generative quasi-techno. Bips & boops.
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Paints ov Anima – Brassica
http://www.controlvalve.net/blog/index.blog?entry_id=2322846
Control Valve || No License Listed No derivs!
Muscley noise drone.
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303 – Brownian Motion
https://archive.org/details/JAM001
Cota303 || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Sorta 90s chillout ambient techno but with glitchy noise drone influences. Not quite like microsound-techno.
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Cinchel – Circle
https://cinchel.bandcamp.com/album/circle
Self Released || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Music from an installation. The cover art is a set of instructions for setting up the installation. Each track is a long drone work meant to be a single channel in the multi-channel piece. I haven’t listened to this in its intended form, but it does work very nicely as a set of individual drone pieces.
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Martin Rach – Concerto For Imaginary Ensemble and Electronics
http://www.audiotalaia.net/catalogue/at051-martin-rach/
Audiotalaia || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Traditional instruments paired with noise electronics & processing. The musical approach is sorta jazz meets new music, with harshness. I hope this approach is further explored.
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John Kannenberg – Cordolium
https://johnkannenberg.bandcamp.com/album/cordolium
Self Released || Copyright No derivs!
Processed field recordings intended to be audio poetry.
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Disconnector – dark/sky
https://disconnector.bandcamp.com/album/dark-sky
Self Released || Copyright No derivs!
Fine contemporary ambient, some of it reminiscent of Loscil. Very crisp & modern sounding (which almost puts me off, actually… but it’s too good to pass up.)
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oier iruretagoiena – Ebaki
https://archive.org/details/EBAKI_201407
Chirria Sello || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Electronic insect sounds.
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Lee Rosevere – Echo Peace
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Echo_Peace/
Happy Puppy Records || CC BY NC Derivs allowed!
Relaxing and groovy chill techno stuff, some krautrock influences detected, but mostly in the FSOL vein. It’s really well put together, and a testament to its quality is the fact that I just don’t spend much time with “this kind of music”, but I’ve been digging this a lot.
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Christian Doil – Ein Stück Ostsee
http://rainnetlabel.blogspot.com/2014/11/ein-stuck-ostsee-rain057.html
Rain Netlabel || CC BY NC ND No derivs!
Sort of a nautical sound to this ambient music… the first track sounds like 20 story tall windchimes sounding next to a foggy seaside. The second is more granular, but still with the occasional seagull passing by.
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Spectrical – Emergent Forms
http://www.con-v.org/cnv79.html
Con-V || CC BY NC ND No derivs!
An everchanging longform piece of dingedrone, occasionally light breaks through the clouds…
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Lauren Redhead – entoptic landscape
http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/pyr123-lauren-redhead-entoptic-landscape/
Pan Y Rosas Discos || CC BY NC ND No derivs!
Four performances of a composition with open notation. Each of them sounds totally different. A pleasant variety of experimental sounds inspired by a visual phenomenon.
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Eucci – envi.
http://euc.cx/rive/065/index.html
Rive || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Industrial ambient composition, akin to NWW / Hafler Trio.
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Ryzykowna Wyprawa Batyskafem – ep
https://idealstatenonumberseries.bandcamp.com/album/ep-2
IdealState No Number Series || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Highly textured improv featuring processed sax, odds & ends and electronics.
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Eren Silence – Eren III
https://erensilence.bandcamp.com/album/eren-iii
Self-Released || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Drifting, yet highly dissonant dronescapes. Tense & relaxing all at the same time.
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Colin Webster and Graham Dunning – Estigate
https://linearobsessional.bandcamp.com/album/estigate
Linear Obsessional || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
A bunch of gritty improvs with Webster’s sax & Dunning’s unique modified turntable setup.
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The Inner Shore – Extracts from an Unknown Science
https://eg0cide.bandcamp.com/album/eg0-115-the-inner-shore-extracts-from-an-unknown-science
Eg0cide || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Harmonics-laden drone with an alien sheen.
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Stephanie (Lak) Germaine – Free #98B3E
http://www.controlvalve.net/blog/index.blog?entry_id=2346476
Control Valve || No License Listed No derivs!
Tortured noise-synth circuitry and some plodding drum machine, and some muffled singing, and some plunky guitar, and some squelchy sounds, and… and … and…
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D’Incise – Graphein
http://www.audiotalaia.net/catalogue/at071-dincise/
Audiotalaia || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Very understated piece using only the sounds of pencils on paper.
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Chris Whitehead – Habitat for Metal Plants
https://linearobsessional.bandcamp.com/album/habitats-for-metal-plants
Linear Obsessional || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Compositions made from improvised performances made during location recordings. I think he recorded at least some of this at industrial locations, if I read his twitter feed correctly. I may be mistaken. The metal plants in question are supposed to be metallo-botanical.
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Carlo Barbagallo – Haikus
https://archive.org/details/HK10CarloBarbagallo
Subterranean Tide || CC BY NC Derivs allowed!
Concise, indescribable little vignettes of abstracted sound. As with the rest of Subterranean Tide’s Haiku series, the first track is five minutes long, the second is seven, and the third is five minutes long again.
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Jeff Kolar – Hallmark Cards Vol. 2: Happy Birthday To You
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jeff_Kolar/Hallmark_Cards_Vol_2_Happy_Birthday_To_You/02HappyBirthdayToYou
HAK Lo-Fi Record || CC BY NC ND No derivs!
Birthday themed Hallmark cards with audio chips were circuit bent. Alternately annoying, fascinating and amusing.
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Lucie Vitková – Ideas and Techniques
http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/pyr100-lucie-vitkova-ideas-and-techniques/
Pan Y Rosas Discos || CC BY NC ND No derivs!
Improvisations for accordian, harmonica and voice. Intense restraint… quite beautiful.
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Graham Dunning – Kiosk One
https://grahamdunning.bandcamp.com/album/kiosk-one
Self-Released || Copyright No derivs!
Documentation of Dunning’s adventures in modified turntable. This has actually got some really funky grooves.
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Francisco Meirino – Knowing More How Than Why
http://impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihab086.htm
Impulsive Habitat || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
A diverse presentation of many fascinating sounds. This is kinda pretty much unmissable, I love this record.
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Radere – Koschei
http://basicsounds.ca/2014/08/01/bsc_048/
Basic Sounds || CC BY NC ND No derivs!
Colorado guitar-drone czar fills yr head with fuzz.
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Norah Lorway – Kulør
https://xylemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kul-r-2
Xylem || Mixed Licenses Some tracks allow derivs, others don’t
Droning compositions with samples from numbers stations.
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Eucci – Like the City, We’re Bound to Last
http://euc.cx/rive/068/index.html
Rive || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
A couple of wandering collages filled with all manner of interesting abstracted sounds from unknown sources.
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Marlo Eggplant – Live
https://museumofmicrocassetteart.bandcamp.com/album/moma118-marlo-eggplant-live
Museum of Microcassette Art || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Marlo getting down with ‘harpy’ the autoharp plus piezo & looper. Two live performances recorded to lo-fi microcassette.
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‘kirchenkampf’ – Live April 2014
https://kirchenkampf.bandcamp.com/track/live-april-2014
Self-Released || Copyright No derivs!
Live spacey synth stuff. Nice to hear something like this from this longtime colleague.
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Hexeneiche – Meditation Mishaps
http://www.controlvalve.net/blog/index.blog/2341507/ctrl_vlv_052__hexeneiche__meditation-mishaps/
Control Valve || No License Listed No derivs!
Loopy lo-fi sample-based thingie… at times jackhammery, other times almost relaxing.
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PCRV – Mobile Research Music
http://www.controlvalve.net/blog/index.blog/2344211/ctrl_vlv_053__pcrv__mobile-research-music/
Control Valve || No License Listed No derivs!
Very diverse album of noise made with various smartphone apps. Ranges from oddball collages to synth smear to all out noise assault.
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Jakob Draminsky Højmark – Musique d’ameublement
https://archive.org/details/hr085
Hazard Records || CC0 Derivs allowed!
A live improv of processed bass clarinet.
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Stuart Chalmers – Night Butterfly
https://archive.org/details/StuartChalmers-NightButterfly
Open Sound Group || CC BY NC ND No derivs!
Sound work based on performances with tape. Loops and warbles. Possibly classify under hauntology?
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Petej Amon – Noise Psychotic Episodes
https://archive.org/details/HAZE298
Haze Netlabel || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Rough, distorted and noisy, somehow strangely hypnotizing.
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Pedro Chambel – Nothing Ever Happens – Chance Music Number 1
http://www.impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihab096.htm
Impulsive Habitat || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Glassy electronic tonescape.
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Miquel Parera – NXA005PD-2014-01-05_03_32_07 / NXA005PD-2014-01-21_22_29_57
https://petroglyphmusic.bandcamp.com/album/miquel-parera-two-iterations-of-nxa005pd
Petroglyph Music || Copyright No derivs!
Algorithmically generated soundfields made in puredata & processing.
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Ene – Paper Tigers
https://enemusic23.bandcamp.com/album/paper-tigers
Self Released || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
A big hot mess of beats and things.
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PBK & Brent Gutzeit – PBK BMG 1
https://pbksound.bandcamp.com/album/pbk-bmg-1-2007
PBKSound || Copyright No derivs!
Noiseambient. I like it very much.
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Half Evidence – Rain Spirits
http://eg0cide.com/2014/03/20/eg0_111-half-evidence-rain-spirits/
Eg0cide || Multiple Licenses Some tracks allow derivs, others don’t
Pretty together sounding group guitar improvs, percussive & scrapey.
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Andrew Weathers – Raised High in Badwater Basin
http://basicsounds.ca/2014/12/01/bsc_052/
Basic Sounds || CC BY NC ND No derivs!
Look, I’m sorry… it’s hard to go wrong with something flavored like Terry Riley + krautrock. The second track is more Eno-ish than Riley-ish.
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Phirnis & The Euphoric Hum – Red Light
http://fwonk.co.uk/135/
Fwonk || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
A document of a live performance with modular synth, guitar & laptop
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Cinchel – Reign Water
https://subterraneantide.bandcamp.com/album/reign-water
Subterranean Tide || CC BY NC ND No derivs!
Cinchel picks up a synth and lays down the jams. The oddbient jams.
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Longstone – -リサイクル risaikuru
https://linearobsessional.bandcamp.com/album/risaikuru
Linear Obsessional || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Musical interpretations of photographs paired with location recordings. All inspired by the catastrophic 2011 earthquake, and tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan. Given the subject material, this is not very dark music, it’s quite lovely. Also out on a 12″ vinyl record.
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The Glittering Hand – Rising
https://theglitteringhand.bandcamp.com/
Self Released || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Very interesting & constantly transforming lo bit-rate drone music, it reminds me in some ways of the spooky ambient soundtrack to Doom64.
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Malaventura – Salaam Shalom
https://archive.org/details/MalaventuraSalaamShalom
Self Released || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Remixes of some Arabic / Jewish / Andalusian music from vinyl. Hard to ignore the Muslimgauze-ish sound, but that’s no bad thing in my book.
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rngmnn – Selected Dark Ambient Works (98-14)
http://1798.1mhz.org/album/selected-dark-ambient-works-98-14
1798 Records || Copyright No derivs!
Pretty much like it says. A big release lotsa good stuff here.
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Atilio Doreste – Shifting Boundaries
http://www.audiotalaia.net/catalogue/at072-atilio-doreste/
Audiotalaia || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Circuit bending + location recordings.
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Restive – Small Tales for Urban Living
http://mahorka.org/release/145
Mahorka || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
New work by one of my favorite underground abstract composers. This time he incorporates more urban field recordings into the mix.
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Osvaldo Ciblis – soundart2014
http://osvaldocibils.com/soundart/soundart2014.html
Self Released || CC BY NC Derivs allowed!
A massive, sprawling 15 release set of abstract electronic textures. I haven’t been able to listen to it all, as I’ve just discovered it thanks to a recommendation from Miquel Parera… but I’d feel remiss if I didn’t include it here, because what I’ve heard is fantastic.
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offthesky – stationaryrace
http://basicsounds.ca/2014/04/01/bsc_044/
Basic Sounds || CC BY NC ND No derivs!
Another Colorado colleague, this is some super lush contemporary ambient.
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Dr. NoiseM – Suicide City
https://archive.org/details/PLATARECS72
Plataforma Recs || CC BY ND No derivs!
Kinda electronic subway sounds, constantly passing by.
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Jess Lemont – They Sound Like 80s Telephones and Squirrels & Cats with Little Laser Beams [Jess Lemont 10-28-14… and, also, the laser beams are fake, by the way]
https://jesslemont.bandcamp.com/album/ep-they-sound-like-80s-telephones-and-squirrels-cats-with-little-laser-beams-jess-lemont-10-28-14-and-also-the-laser-beams-are-fake-by-the-way
Self Released || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Blammo! Hyper-frenetic jams with drums & electronics and some other instruments. Kinda hard to really describe it, but it’s good.
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Cinchel – The Timing Was Right For A Walk In the Woods (Take 2)
https://theavocadotapes.bandcamp.com/track/the-timing-was-right-for-a-walk-in-the-woods-take-2
The Avocado Tapes || Copyright No derivs!
Yummy live cincheltronic guitar performance.
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Gregg Skloff – This Time The Ride Belongs To Us
https://greggskloff.bandcamp.com/album/this-time-the-ride-belongs-to-us
Self Released || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Ambient in the good way.
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‘kirchenkampf’ – transmissions
https://kirchenkampf.bandcamp.com/album/transmissions-3
Self Released || Copyright No derivs!
This is some pretty minimal and dark stuff from this artist, love it. Hissing synth geysers.
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Chimess – Tujiko Noriko
https://archive.org/details/foot232
BumpFoot || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
A diverse collection of not-quite ambient music, odd but pretty calm.
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Jeph Jerman / Tony Whitehead – Underwater
http://impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihab089.htm
Impulsive Habitat || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Improvisations with objects underwater. The master tape was submerged in a creek for a time.
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Yann Leguay – Unstatic
http://www.impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihab100.htm
Impulsive Habitat || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Based on induction coil recordings of hard drives.
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The Inner Shore – Waves on a Pure Surface
http://textural-rec.com/waves-on-a-pure-surface/
Textural Records || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Glistening, pinging drones.
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PBK – Winterscrubbed
https://museumofmicrocassetteart.bandcamp.com/album/moma102-winterscrubbed
Museum of Microcassette Art || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Lo-fi noise from this master.
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Tahnzz – XILA
https://tahnzz.bandcamp.com/album/xila
Self Released || Copyright No derivs!
New Mexico noise. Abrasive and laid-back. I have to mention the cover art, because I like it, so…
ETA: OOOPS. I just noticed that this actually came out in 2013, but I’m leaving it on this list anyway, ’cause that’s how I roll.
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Martin Rach – Zitherphonics
https://surrism-phonoethics.bandcamp.com/album/zitherphonics
SuRRism Phonoethics || CC BY NC SA Derivs allowed!
Martin plays his zither with a little electronic fan.
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