‘Selected Network Studies’ collects audio/visual experiments carried out by the Network Ensemble since 2015.
This limited edition, UV-printed, vacuum-sealed mylar package contains a 2GB SD Card featuring one hour of video material and 45 minutes of sound material. Texts and images documenting the hardware and software built for network exploration are included, alongside details of the data collection and performance sites.
CONTENTS:
Selected Network Studies.txt Network Study I / Annotations.txt Network Study I - Docklands.mp4 Network Study I / Documentation Network Study IV—X / Annotations.txt Network Study IV - Flight D82644.mp4 Network Study V - Fiumicino.mp4 Network Study VI - Garbatella.mp4 Network Study VII - Vatican City.mp4 Network Study VIII - US Embassy.mp4 Network Study IX - Piazza Navona.mp4 Network Study X - Flight FR4215.mp4 Network Study IV—X / Documentation Network Study XI / Annotations.txt Network Study XI - Stansted.mp4 Network Study XII—XIII / Annotations.txt Network Study XII / Prelude for Machines.mp3 Network Study XII / Humans.mp3 Network Study XII / Ghosts.mp3 Network Study XIII / Invocation.mp3 Network Study XIII / Act I — Machines.mp3 Network Study XIII / Act II — Bodies.mp3 Network Study XIII / Act III — Mystique.mp3 Network Study XII—XIII / Documentation Glossary.txt Includes unlimited streaming of Selected Network Studies via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Digital Album
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. The digital version of 'Selected Network Studies' contains recordings of sound performances carried out in Berlin and London, and an audiovisual Network Study focusing on Stansted Airport. Texts and images documenting both the hardware and software built for the network exploration are included, alongside details of the data collection and performance sites.
Network Ensemble
London,UK
Founded by Oliver Smith and Francesco Tacchini, the Network Ensemble transforms WiFi communications into sound in real time using custom-made machines.
Listen the sounds below:
CONTENTS:
Selected Network Studies.txt Network Study XI / Annotations.txt Network Study XI - Stansted.mp4 Network Study XII—XIII / Annotations.txt Network Study XII / Prelude for Machines.wav Network Study XII / Humans.wav Network Study XII / Ghosts.wav Network Study XIII / Invocation.wav Network Study XIII / Act I — Machines.wav Network Study XIII / Act II — Bodies.wav Network Study XIII / Act III — Mystique.wav Network Study XII—XIII / Documentation Glossary.txt released June 13, 2017 Label: Rizosfera
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As one of the most socially conscious young composers in contemporary classical music, Ted Hearne has drawn on a multitude of influences to create Sound from the Bench—his first project for Cantaloupe Music.
The title piece also features the edgy electric guitars of Dither’s Taylor Levine and James Moore, as well as the rhythmic flourishes of percussionist Ron Wiltrout. Taken as a whole, this is some of Hearne’s most wide-ranging and adventurous work—a siren call that resonates with unusual passion in these politically charged times. Clocking in at 40 minutes, this probing exploration of the Supreme Court's Citizen's United decision is brilliantly scored for choir, electric guitars, and drums/percussion. Hearne lifts texts from Jena Osman's Corporate Relations, a collection of poems that follows the historical trajectory of corporate personhood in the United States. The five movements combine language taken from landmark Supreme Court Cases with words from ventriloquism textbooks. As the piece progresses, the human voices are "thrown" and thrown over by the mechanical and menacing voices of the electric guitars. Says Hearne, "I strive toward a polyphony of oppositional voices and perspectives in my music, and to bring the chaotic forces of life into the work itself. It was this impulse, and the unabashedly political tone of Osman's poetry, that made me want to set some part of Corporate Relations to music.” Sound from the Bench shares a program with three other recent pieces by Hearne that, in the words of The Crossing's conductor, Donald Nally, are “fundamentally about asking questions—questions about the world we live in, about art, and about language and music.” Hearne’s virtuosic and hauntingly beautiful musical settings entice, repulse, and surprise in turns, as he interweaves texts from the Iraq War Logs ('Ripple'), Bill Moyer’s 2009 interview with The Wire creator David Simon ('Privilege'), and the 2013 case of rape by high school students in Steubenville, Ohio ('Consent'). The Crossing has recorded these four works for release on Cantaloupe Music, on an album produced by Nick Tipp and titled after the anchoring work.
released March 24, 2017
Rather than circling a solitary music style, the Heliocentric's far reaching jams winding out into incalculable worlds of sound. The U.K. troupe has invested years pressing pieces of hip-hop, jazz, psych, and krautrock into their sleep inducing, droning structures since appearing on DJ Shadow's 2006 album The Outsider. The group’s fourth album, A World of Masks, brags a comparable mix of sounds, yet the expansion of Slovakian vocalist Barbora Patkova brings a crisp component, putting their minor-enter grooves into exciting new setting. A World of Masks alludes to each one of those styles, since musical diversity is heated into the Heliocentric's music DNA. Be that as it may, all through 11 tracks totaling 45 minutes, the gathering focuses principally on supernatural psych-funk. Each piece feels like some portion of a general suite, a sort of boundless infinite stick the band could apparently play until the end of time. Heliocentrics tunes dependably begin from ad lib, yet that is clearer this time around. The free way of their liberated adventures summon European aggregates like Can and Träd, Gräs och Stenar as much as space voyagers like Funkadelic and Sun Ra (who, not incidentally, made two albums in the '60s called The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra). The focus on A World of Masks comes in part from another advancement. Heliocentrics tunes are generally instrumental, however on the greater part the collection's tunes, Slovokian vocalist Barbora Patkova ad libs verses, regularly in her local dialect. Her vocals are similarly as space-bound as the Heliocentrics' music – now and again she brings out the striking Sun Ra Arkestra artist June Tyson – yet they additionally give a system to the band's flexible jams. The collection opens with her most out-front execution, as she burns over the moderate form of "Made of the Sun," manufacturing a vocal-instrumental advantageous interaction that holds on all through A World of Masks. Release date: 26.05.17 Tracklist: Made Of The Sun Time Human Zoo A World Of Masks Capital Of Alone Dawn Chorus The Silverback Oh Brother The Wake Square Wave The Uncertainty Principle
German dark ambient project Ager Sonus catch sight of ‘Book of the Black Earth’ released on Cryo Chamberoulder.
Arise in 2014, “Ager Sonus” is the Dark Ambient project of German musician Thomas Langewehr
Experiencing childhood in a time where the Cold War was all the while going solid, becoming acquainted with the dim history of Nazi-Germany and the greater part of the catastrophe und experiencing that came it, it made a solid sentiment coerce that will be with him until the end of time. He saw the Chernobyl-disaster, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of East-and West-Germany and in addition the ruin of the Soviet Union. The primary Iraq War, where he recalls individuals sitting frightened before their Tvs mulling over purchasing gas covers in light of the fact that the media conjectured about the aftermath achieving Europe.
A considerable measure of extremely important occasions in history that demonstrated a great deal of murkiness, incomprehensible levels of human enduring and only level out abhorrence, additionally motivation from individuals willing to battle and remain for a superior place to live. So haziness has dependably been a piece of his life which at last showed in his music. Getting motivation for his music additionally originates from long strolls through the outside with his sound recorder dependably good to go to catch the climate of the phase of war.
From the primary discharge in 2014 to the most recent he investigated many ways to deal with encompassing music. From field recordings, customary synthesizers, glitches to utilizing a great deal of symphonic instruments and vocals. Later collections began recounting a collection long stories, directing far from making single tracks with contained subjects.
Cryo Chamber is now releasing “Book of the Black Earth” which offers what the label calls “dark bass drone rumbles in the caverns under long forgotten cities”. Note that this time Ager Sonus created an Egyptian backdrop using flutes and atmospheric layerings.
You can preview the album below. Note that the album can be downloaded via Bandcamp or purchased as a full-color 6-panel digipak, also via Bandcamp. The release is featuring – as usual – great artwork by Simon Heath.
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