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Avant Garde Experimental Field Recording Musique Concrète Review

T. Jervell & ChromaDots – Faksfjord / Fragsfjord

Gorgeous hand-printed cassette sleeves, which accompany the raw, crunchy dadaism of T.Jervell and ChromaDots with their magical wooden machines. Limited tapes available now at SteepGloss Bandcamp

Sounds from an old wooden house situated in the rural North Norwegian countryside, as heard by a Norwegian and an Irelander.

Field recordings, found sounds, and Tetrax recorded on a Sony M-670 microcassette recorder, in Faksfjord summer 2022.

On Faksfjord the source material is cut up and rearranged utilizing an 8-bit hardware sampler, in Gravdal, Lofoten.

A collection of hiss and crackles, textures, and sound.

Fragsfjord involves breaking down the sounds found on the Faksfjord tapes to their smallest form and organising these sonic fragments using sections of the original recordings as a source of triggers, while recapturing them within a new space, in Munich.

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Ambient Electro-Acoustic Experimental Review

Audio Obscura – The Xenakis Station

Interesting, washed-out radio fuzz trades places with intermittent synth, chimes and drum loops, giving a distinctly haunted vibe. Sometimes nudging towards BoC’s bleaker moments (ala Tommorow’s Harvest), The Xenakis Station keeps things tense, without going full darkside.
Not sure if there is any reference to composer Iannis Xenakis here, as the music is certainly not similar, other than in name.. Curious!

Either way, here is the accompanying release blurb:

The Xenakis Station. A long abandoned research station. A place always officially denied. The place now a fiction where shards of disputed truth remain.

The location, still not declassified. Remnants destroyed.

Last winter we got a phone call to say graffiti on an abandoned building on Redpoint Sound states” ‘Xenakis broadcasts were made here’ but official enquiries are still met with silence.

Release Date: 06/10/2023
Via: Woodford Halse

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Avant Garde Electro-Acoustic Experimental Musique Concrète

Trond Jervell – 2nd Two

More Ciat-Lonbarde based experiments that we’ve come to know and love, from the Maestro, Trond Jervell. VERY Limited cassettes up now on Moonside Tapes bandcamp

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Avant Garde Drone Electro-Acoustic Experimental

Phil Archer – Atalanta Fugiens I​-​X

First published in 1617, Atalanta Fugiens is a collection of 50 alchemical discourses, each with its own illustration, verse, and musical composition. This release is a realisation of the first 10 of these Fugues, performed using circuit-bent Yamaha home keyboards and a variety of acoustic instruments.

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Ambient Avant Garde Experimental Minimal Radio

Flatland Frequencies 30/8/23

NameArtistAlbumYear
FlowstateCate BrooksEasel Studies2023
Warm CurrentsPolyporesAzure2020
Jamestown (Accra)Luke SangerField Recordings
AmuletIEPome LP2018
Tchaikovsky, Valse SentimentaleClara RockmoreOhm – The Early Gurus of Electronic Music 1948-19802000
CurigCate BrooksEasel Studies2023
Delphic (Extended Mix)YeonIn The Flow2023
thai_mountain_ambLuke SangerField Recordings
ClockworksLaurie SpiegelThe Expanding Universe2012
Outline of NatureTwilight SequenceOutline of Nature2023
False AzureNight GestaltStaring Light2023
learning the doordan derksphylum2019
Soft MeadowGreen-HouseSix Songs for Invisible Gardens2020
A Fresh Dawn For North Cheshire Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development PlanBuilding a New Town 2023
all the way to kangroyabound2020
A Sonic Womb Part IIISuzanne CianiA Sonic Womb: Live Buchla Performance at Lapsus 2020
uume 24 extended mixClaude & Olauume2023
Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)Brian EnoOhm – The Early Gurus of Electronic Music 1948-19802000
TelepathBoards of CanadaTomorrow’s Harvest2013
Sacred Transparency INight GestaltStaring Light2023
An Act Of Surrender – Part 1Thomas StoneAn Act Of Surrender2022
Lichwake FamiliarsFood PeopleMirrors & Vegetables2020
Before this Body is ForsakenAeonsInto Eternity’s Embrace2023
crumple your cryptoroyabound2020
hiroshima_frogsLuke SangerField Recordings
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Avant Garde Experimental Live Synth

Karlheinz Essl: Coastline #46 @ CERN’s CMS

Live performance of Karlheinz Essl’s “Coastline” project for modular synth patched as an unstable dynamic system. Performed in the CMS assembly hall SX55 in front of the CMS life size image (18m x 18m) at CERN P5- CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid experiment) at CERN, the European Centre for Particle Physics on August 17, 2023. Filmed by Michael Hoch.

https://www.essl.at/works/coastlines.html

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Ambient Avant Garde Drone Electro-Acoustic Experimental Field Recording Radio

Flatland Frequencies 2/8/23

NameArtistAlbumYear
Coded Music Apparatus: Patterns On The Pitch GraphHugh Le CaineCompositions Demonstrations 1946-19741955
like lightningAdam BosargeStructures Without Rooms2023
Interview 1963 (WRVR, Riverside Radio, NYC)Tod DockstaderInterview 1963 (WRVR, Riverside Radio, NYC)1963
Sunrise Of The Planetary Dream CollectorTerry Riley & Don CherryLive Köln 19751975
A Room of One’s OwnEd HerbersComing of Age2023
Windy broad (Field Recording)Luke SangerField Recordings SD702T2014
polymerarovanepolymer2023
The Oak Of The Golden DreamsRichard Maxfield / Harold BuddThe Oak Of The Golden Dreams1970
Mouth Cavity Oscillator With MKI Touch Sensitive OrganHugh Le CaineCompositions Demonstrations 1946-19741955
bend toward the light.Adam BosargeStructures Without Rooms2023
ajatikarovanepolymer2023
Angel FixPauline OliverosReverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-19702012
PerseidsS. CostaThe Radiant Point2023
PipesTod DockstaderAerial #22005
The Radiant PointS. CostaThe Radiant Point2023
Music For ExpoHugh Le CaineCompositions Demonstrations 1946-19741967
Sitting in the dunes (Field Recording)Luke SangerField Recordings SD702T2014
Fantasy In SpaceLueningTape Recorder Music1955
물먹는하마YetsubyWater Flash EP2023
Field RecordingLuke SangerField Recordings SD702T2014
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Ambient Experimental Review Synth

S.Costa – The Radiant Point

Lovely selection of 7 works centred around the Yamaha TG33, Buchla Easel Command and OP-1 for sequencing. There’s a positivity and familiarity in the harmonic content throughout these tunes, while still still sounding very much it’s own.
Some tracks feature Laurie Spiegel-esque Buchla arpeggiations floating in and out of the stereo field, balanced with some more shiny FM-centric pieces.
Recommended.

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Ambient Drone Electro-Acoustic Experimental Field Recording Musique Concrète Radio Synth

Flatland Frequencies 5/7/23

Tai-chi Seminars in LeverkusenJönsMusic for Euronews
Still, WaitingThe Lifted IndexA Still Voice
Kontu Folktale (vinyl exerpt)Verna GillisFrom Slavery to Freedom (Music of the Suramaka Maroons, Suriname)
KitchenyyuKaraoke
Râles (vinyl excerpt)Pierre HenryVariations Pour Une Porte Et Un Soupir
Night DrivePulseloversNorthern Minimalism
Consagish (feat. Moon Wiring Club)Dolly DollyAntimacassar
Dawn RainCloud TearsSongs For Summer Rain
Love (vinyl excerpt)Maharishi Mahesh YogiMaharishi Mahesh Yogi
SmileUllaTumbling Towards a Wall
A Ship With No CaptainLo FivePersistence Of Love
Look Back To DifferentationAkhira SanoPhase Contrast From Recollection
SoakUllaTumbling Towards a Wall
An Audio Obstacle Course (vinyl excerpt)ShureTrackability Test Record (TTR 101) For Stereo Cartridges
ConfluentAkhira SanoPhase Contrast From Recollection
My Queen is Dead (Long Live The Queen)Dolly DollyAntimacassar
The Kindest Touch‘t GeruisTerre, Poussière
Sea Fishing. A Survey by Clive Gammon (vinyl excerpt)BBCGone Fishing
As WellBetweenLow Flying Owls
SICKDolly DollyAntimacassar
Shell PatternsCoral SeaIf Memory Serves Me
A Tesco for LiberecJönsMusic for Euronews
KnowBetweenLow Flying Owls
DreamyyuKaraoke
Selte 2 vinyl excerpt)Das Lied der VölkerHawaii
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Ambient Avant Garde Beats Drone Electro-Acoustic Experimental Field Recording Minimal Musique Concrète Radio Synth

Threads Radio – Flatland Frequencies (Pilot Show)

We’re back on the airwaves with a new monthly residency.
Come check every four weeks for the finest horizontal sounds of the flatlands, now via London’s Threads Radio!
First show proper will be 5th July, 1.5 hours of the best new and old experimental electronic music.
In the meantime, get your ears into the pilot episode:

NameArtistAlbumYear
LatticePolyporesPraedormitium2023
a spearhead in my pocketthe humble beelichen cloak on a white stone2023
Spectral Interference (Datassette version)MüchaHello Caller2023
Fõrste snõfall over GravdalT. JervellUndergangen (Håp)2022
QuantisPOSVN0022023
Halftime BluesKalabreseLet Love Rumpel – Part 22022
currykingeikooGikrit2021
a7_rippled_quick editLuke SangerFools Fayre2023
日帰り旅行Psychedelic Digestion TherapyPsychedelic Digestion Therapy2021
SoapUmlaut
2019
Wind for Weighted KeysAndrew CS & GliaNimi2022
The Chance to Jump OffTony RolandoShared System2022
Synthesizer Voice (Legowelt Remix) Pampidoo
2023
GnawLoula YorkePartials III2023