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19/04/2022

Sonner-résonner – Gilles Fresnais

You can listen preview of this new piece on this page, or buy it on our shop or go to our Bandcamp album page. Sonner - résonner Sonner-résonner was composed using different materials—a metal plate and a crystal glass, both filled with varying levels of water—that were struck, rubbed, and allowed to resonate. A microphone was placed up against the plate and the glass, and the sounds it captured opened up a whole palette of colours that could be brought to life with digital processing. This piece was inspired by the potential similarity of the sounds from two very different materials, as well as the melodic variation created by changing the water levels in each container. Gilles...

Black Mind - Thu Bird
11/03/2022

black mind – Thu Bird

You can listen preview of this album on this page, on Bandcamp or buy it on our shop. black mind The album inspiration was fictionalized as the depiction of the dark thoughts lost in the mind on the sound. Throughout the pieces, the disturbing silence of the emotions that you want to escape is broken. A way of speaking about a ghost wandering in a crowded city. For a ghost, the crowded city is only empty streets. Not seen, not heard, not felt. The sounds it hears begin to inspire it. The moment it begins to speak, language turns into sounds, not words. In this album, we listen to what the ghost wants to...

21/12/2021

VOX AETERNA – The Covid Variations project – Rafael Bresciani

You can listen preview of this album on this page, on Bandcamp or buy it on our shop. You can also visit Rafael Bresciani's website. VOX AETERNA – The Covid Variations The voices from those who left us. That’s what you will hear in VOX AETERNA – The Covid Variations. A choir of five voices, result of Sars-CoV-2 mortality data during 2020, composed and interpreted by a sonification algorithm with use of sampled voices. Each second represents a day and the age of each registered death tells us in which voice that person belongs to. As the numbers raises, new notes are included in the harmony of each of the five parts. The result is a series of ten...

14/12/2021

De la nature des sons – Gilles Fresnais

You can listen preview of this album on this page, buy it on our shop or go to our Bandcamp album page. De la nature des sons  Les chants de la mer ("Songs of the sea")  The sea isn’t actually the silent world that Commandant Cousteau described. A whole world exists here; you’ll hear calls to travel, calls from fellows or rallying cries. I tried to put the life and the musicality of this world into music. These sounds truly reveal the incredible diversity of the inhabitants of the deep. Lithophones en folie Primitive instruments, made from stone slabs of varying origins and struck with an assortment of mallets, create a rich tapestry of sounds underpinned with...

22/11/2021

Invisible Shapes – Gustavo Chab

You can listen preview of this album on this page, on Bandcamp or buy it on our shop. Please also visit Gustavo blogspot or Facebook page. Invisible Shapes Stellar Pulsations for piano and fixed media Inés Victoria Sabatini, piano Inspired by the idea of regular fluctuations and pulsations, I started working on this piece. Stellar involves different kind of transformations of sounds like expansions and contraction to maintain a certain equilibrium; different times scales, regular alternations in the pulsation cycles and evolution of the sound in space. Regular behavior is in contrast with the variability of sound (amplitude an imaginary stellar). Taking different samples of the piano as a form of matter, a selective spatial position of sounds and their trajectories, are some...

05/11/2021

Lichens – zBlug

You can listen preview of this album on this page, on Bandcamp or buy it on our shop. Please also visit zBlug's Website and Tiri Carreras' Website. Read more about the project with the reviews in Musicologie (in French) in Jazzword (in English), and in Zarbalib (in French). Lichens Lichen is an association between a fungus and an alga. The fungus protects the alga and gives it water and minerals. The alga produces sugars and other products that it shares with the fungus. This is a true symbiosis where the relationship is mutually beneficial and even essential to the symbionts. zBlug is a duo of improvised music mixing electronics and acoustic percussions. Tiri Carreras on the horizontal bass drum, cymbals...

25/08/2021

Voces con Memorias – Voices with Memories

You can listen preview of this album on this page or buy it on our shop.   Voces con Memorias - Voices with Memories Gonzalo Biffarella & Diego Montes   Diego Montes remembers: After finishing a contemporary music concert, a Chilean playwright and writer friend approached me to congratulate me and tell me that the only thing that was missing was the word. Although this happened a long time ago, I have ever since kept thinking: words, music, music, words. For the communion of these worlds I had to look for someone who enjoyed a vast compositional experience and who had worked in these worlds. My friend and composer Gonzalo Biffarella would be the tinder and, later, the bonfire. The...

08/07/2021

Unkodifizierte Gefahr – Uncoded Danger – Peligro no codificado – Diego Montes

You can listen preview of this album on this page, buy it on our shop or go to our Bandcamp album page. Please also visit Diego Montes' website.   Unkodifizierte Gefahr - Uncoded Danger - Peligro no codificado Music for Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and Electronics The musical work that is an ideal of Diego Montes' life led him to produce these recordings for clarinet, bass clarinet and electronics. Sound, shaped by composition, the realization of a musical work: the exchange of ideas, their realization and the conversations about interpretation shaped the works that were created in 2020 and early 2021. Diego Montes thanks the composers for their wonderful music. „Uncoded Danger“ is a compilation of pieces that originated not only out...

27/04/2021

Memorias – Gonzalo Biffarella

You can listen preview of this album on this page, on Bandcamp or buy it on our shop.   MEMORIAS These three pieces focus on keeping alive the memories of some of the most difficult moments in the history of Argentina, country of Gonzalo Biffarella. The three pieces were commissioned by the IMEB (International Institute of Electroacoustic Music) Bourges – France Each of these short texts were written by Gonzalo Biffarella on the occasion of the premiere of each piece. 1 - Memorias de rituals cotidianos - 2008 Upon receiving Bourges' invitation to do a new work, I spent long hours searching, with the little help of my bad memory, in the catalog of sounds that I have accumulated over the years....

14/04/2021

Les Macrotonalités – Vladan Kuzmanović

You can listen preview of this album on this page, on Bandcamp or buy it on our shop. Please also visit Vladan Kuzmanović soundcloud. Les Macrotonalités Vladan Kuzmanović experiments with ultrasonic, subsonic music, compositions beyond the threshold of acoustic audibility in the works "Few exoacoustic pieces". 2020 is the year of macrotonal tests, which are obtained by defining a macroton and its distinctions through the triple microton-ton-macroton scheme. At the same time, he strives to reach the limits of macrotones, and above all to determine the limits and possibilities of macrotonal music. Ambient and electroacoustic music, as well as the author's tonal albums, have already opened up great possibilities for macrotonal works. The tone / macroton sound exhibits...