Name | Artist | Album | Year |
Flowstate | Cate Brooks | Easel Studies | 2023 |
Warm Currents | Polypores | Azure | 2020 |
Jamestown (Accra) | Luke Sanger | Field Recordings | |
Amulet | IE | Pome LP | 2018 |
Tchaikovsky, Valse Sentimentale | Clara Rockmore | Ohm – The Early Gurus of Electronic Music 1948-1980 | 2000 |
Curig | Cate Brooks | Easel Studies | 2023 |
Delphic (Extended Mix) | Yeon | In The Flow | 2023 |
thai_mountain_amb | Luke Sanger | Field Recordings | |
Clockworks | Laurie Spiegel | The Expanding Universe | 2012 |
Outline of Nature | Twilight Sequence | Outline of Nature | 2023 |
False Azure | Night Gestalt | Staring Light | 2023 |
learning the door | dan derks | phylum | 2019 |
Soft Meadow | Green-House | Six Songs for Invisible Gardens | 2020 |
A Fresh Dawn For North Cheshire | Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan | Building a New Town | 2023 |
all the way to kang | roya | bound | 2020 |
A Sonic Womb Part III | Suzanne Ciani | A Sonic Womb: Live Buchla Performance at Lapsus | 2020 |
uume 24 extended mix | Claude & Ola | uume | 2023 |
Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) | Brian Eno | Ohm – The Early Gurus of Electronic Music 1948-1980 | 2000 |
Telepath | Boards of Canada | Tomorrow’s Harvest | 2013 |
Sacred Transparency I | Night Gestalt | Staring Light | 2023 |
An Act Of Surrender – Part 1 | Thomas Stone | An Act Of Surrender | 2022 |
Lichwake Familiars | Food People | Mirrors & Vegetables | 2020 |
Before this Body is Forsaken | Aeons | Into Eternity’s Embrace | 2023 |
crumple your crypto | roya | bound | 2020 |
hiroshima_frogs | Luke Sanger | Field Recordings |
Category: Ambient
After a couple of years intensely researching, saving (and selling), in 2015 I finally ordered this instrument. The excitement was real and I was totally ready for a complete paradigm shift in making and performing music and the Shared System filled that role, inspiring many records in the process. However in that time, I haven’t made a full release completely focused on it.
All the tracks on this album were recorded in single takes using the Make Noise Shared System and an external spring reverb.
Composed in June – August 2023, the motive for recording this album was to focus and build on ideas that would only briefly surface during fleeting moments in a live performance or undocumented jam, giving priority and space to develop those themes.
Anyway, hopefully the music will tell it’s own story, but the gear and background info is there for anyone interested!
Name | Artist | Album | Year |
Coded Music Apparatus: Patterns On The Pitch Graph | Hugh Le Caine | Compositions Demonstrations 1946-1974 | 1955 |
like lightning | Adam Bosarge | Structures Without Rooms | 2023 |
Interview 1963 (WRVR, Riverside Radio, NYC) | Tod Dockstader | Interview 1963 (WRVR, Riverside Radio, NYC) | 1963 |
Sunrise Of The Planetary Dream Collector | Terry Riley & Don Cherry | Live Köln 1975 | 1975 |
A Room of One’s Own | Ed Herbers | Coming of Age | 2023 |
Windy broad (Field Recording) | Luke Sanger | Field Recordings SD702T | 2014 |
polymer | arovane | polymer | 2023 |
The Oak Of The Golden Dreams | Richard Maxfield / Harold Budd | The Oak Of The Golden Dreams | 1970 |
Mouth Cavity Oscillator With MKI Touch Sensitive Organ | Hugh Le Caine | Compositions Demonstrations 1946-1974 | 1955 |
bend toward the light. | Adam Bosarge | Structures Without Rooms | 2023 |
ajatik | arovane | polymer | 2023 |
Angel Fix | Pauline Oliveros | Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 | 2012 |
Perseids | S. Costa | The Radiant Point | 2023 |
Pipes | Tod Dockstader | Aerial #2 | 2005 |
The Radiant Point | S. Costa | The Radiant Point | 2023 |
Music For Expo | Hugh Le Caine | Compositions Demonstrations 1946-1974 | 1967 |
Sitting in the dunes (Field Recording) | Luke Sanger | Field Recordings SD702T | 2014 |
Fantasy In Space | Luening | Tape Recorder Music | 1955 |
물먹는하마 | Yetsuby | Water Flash EP | 2023 |
Field Recording | Luke Sanger | Field Recordings SD702T | 2014 |
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.
Tai-chi Seminars in Leverkusen | Jöns | Music for Euronews |
Still, Waiting | The Lifted Index | A Still Voice |
Kontu Folktale (vinyl exerpt) | Verna Gillis | From Slavery to Freedom (Music of the Suramaka Maroons, Suriname) |
Kitchen | yyu | Karaoke |
Râles (vinyl excerpt) | Pierre Henry | Variations Pour Une Porte Et Un Soupir |
Night Drive | Pulselovers | Northern Minimalism |
Consagish (feat. Moon Wiring Club) | Dolly Dolly | Antimacassar |
Dawn Rain | Cloud Tears | Songs For Summer Rain |
Love (vinyl excerpt) | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
Smile | Ulla | Tumbling Towards a Wall |
A Ship With No Captain | Lo Five | Persistence Of Love |
Look Back To Differentation | Akhira Sano | Phase Contrast From Recollection |
Soak | Ulla | Tumbling Towards a Wall |
An Audio Obstacle Course (vinyl excerpt) | Shure | Trackability Test Record (TTR 101) For Stereo Cartridges |
Confluent | Akhira Sano | Phase Contrast From Recollection |
My Queen is Dead (Long Live The Queen) | Dolly Dolly | Antimacassar |
The Kindest Touch | ‘t Geruis | Terre, Poussière |
Sea Fishing. A Survey by Clive Gammon (vinyl excerpt) | BBC | Gone Fishing |
As Well | Between | Low Flying Owls |
SICK | Dolly Dolly | Antimacassar |
Shell Patterns | Coral Sea | If Memory Serves Me |
A Tesco for Liberec | Jöns | Music for Euronews |
Know | Between | Low Flying Owls |
Dream | yyu | Karaoke |
Selte 2 vinyl excerpt) | Das Lied der Völker | Hawaii |
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:
Name | Artist | Album | Year |
Lattice | Polypores | Praedormitium | 2023 |
a spearhead in my pocket | the humble bee | lichen cloak on a white stone | 2023 |
Spectral Interference (Datassette version) | Mücha | Hello Caller | 2023 |
Fõrste snõfall over Gravdal | T. Jervell | Undergangen (Håp) | 2022 |
Quantis | POS | VN002 | 2023 |
Halftime Blues | Kalabrese | Let Love Rumpel – Part 2 | 2022 |
curryking | eikoo | Gikrit | 2021 |
a7_rippled_quick edit | Luke Sanger | Fools Fayre | 2023 |
日帰り旅行 | Psychedelic Digestion Therapy | Psychedelic Digestion Therapy | 2021 |
Soap | Umlaut | 2019 | |
Wind for Weighted Keys | Andrew CS & Glia | Nimi | 2022 |
The Chance to Jump Off | Tony Rolando | Shared System | 2022 |
Synthesizer Voice (Legowelt Remix) | Pampidoo | 2023 | |
Gnaw | Loula Yorke | Partials III | 2023 |
Flatland Freq’s editor Luke gets his feet wet with the awesome orgnwrms script (by andrewcs_ 🪱) for Monome Norns open-source sound computer and appreciates the contrast and interplay of the analog vs digital FM between the two instruments.
Frequency Domain making a welcome return to the fold in 2023 with a string of releases announced, starting with part 3 in their partials various artists series. Featuring familiar names to the labels as well as some new faces, the comp covers a range of styles, but keeping the F.D deepness we’ve come to love and expect.
“We said we’d never do another label comp (as it’s a lot of work), but we’re over the moon with how this one’s turned out. The third edition of our Partials series curates 18 new tracks over two sides of a C90 tape. There’s music from Frequency Domain artists Luke Sanger, Mücha, Jo Johnson, Apologist, Polypores, Datassette, Linnley, Plant43, Quiet Clapping and Matt Whitehead, plus label friends Loula Yorke, Fields We Found, Virusmoto, D1G and Golden Shields. The release also features a handful of collaborative projects between FD artists, appearing here as Trappist, Blue Lamps and Spiral Wrack. All proceeds from the compilation will support the work of UK NGO, the Refugee Council.”
Out Friday 3rd Feb via their bandcamp
Taking prompts from walks in the wild, Sundheim armed with an iphone and recording app, brings home quiet and considered blends of found sound and synthesised accompaniment. “Glades of Flowering Stone is a like a gentle forest bath, dissolving any tension and restoring balance.”
Out now on VHS, cassette and digi via bandcamp