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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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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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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
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Documentary Electro-Acoustic Experimental Musique Concrète

Discovering Electronic Music (1983)

“We live in an age of technology in which machines touch every part of our lives. It is not surprising that music has also been influenced by technology.”

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Art Avant Garde Experimental Film Musique Concrète

Loren Chase | KQED Spark

Join KQED’s Spark and take a listening lesson from sound artist Loren Chasse, as he mines the aural riches that surround us.

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Art Avant Garde Electro-Acoustic Experimental Musique Concrète

OHM – THE EARLY GURUS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC

OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music is a compilation of early electronic music and excerpts from the period of 1948 to 1980. Many included works are essentially experiments with sound, using a variety of non-traditional instruments including homemade circuits, tape ribbon and early synthesisers.

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Ambient Avant Garde Beats Drone Electro-Acoustic Experimental House Industrial Minimal Wave Musique Concrète Radio Synth

Flatland Frequencies – Mutant Radio Show (Oct 2021)

Out latest session on Mutant Radio is now online, with resident selectors Luke Sanger, Jeran Portis, Toby Tobias and Sseagulls. Only the finest Elektronische, Musique Concrete, industrial no wave, om shanti house and library core.

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Avant Garde Electro-Acoustic Experimental Musique Concrète Review

T. Jervell – (K) En sommerdag i Kroken (Ruter)

Picked this up on Bandcamp last week after casually scrolling over a post on the Ciat-Lonbarde FB group. Glad I clicked, as what awaited was a magical sound world, weaving electronic and found sounds into a tapestry of molten and frazzled textures. In parts it reminds me of Cornelius, especially the wry humour.

The nerd in me enjoyed listening out for the signature Ciat-Lonbarde sounds, especially noticeable on the aliased destruction of samples the Cocoquantus imparts on everything it touches. However, this shouldn’t detract from what is a really original, fun and considered body of work.

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Ambient Drone Experimental Minimal Musique Concrète Synth

Luke Sanger prepares new LP ‘Languid Gongue’ on Balmat

Balmat – Release: August 13th 2021

Balmat’s first release comes from Luke Sanger, a Norwich, UK-based artist whose two decades of electronic music-making have encompassed a range of tools and techniques, from MaxMSP to modular synthesis. Along the way he has built an extensive catalog encompassing ambient atmospheres, abstract soundscaping, and more. With Languid Gongue, he puts multiple approaches into play. Experiments in microtonal composition balance out pieces in standard tunings, while esoteric electronic machines merge with familiar acoustic treatments and microphone techniques. 

The result is a constellation of his signature sounds: freeform new-age fantasia; spring-loaded toytronic arpeggios; quartz-driven braindance clockworks. Drifting between consonant, almost lyrical compositions and shape-shifting textural sketches, the album drifts with the nonchalance of a sky-high cirrus cloud, and it glows as if illuminated from within. When we heard the material, we knew that it was the perfect choice to launch the label. To us, it sounds like a roadmap for points unknown.

Pre-order now via Balmat