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Triptyque – Natalia Górecka

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp.  Triptyque by Natalia Górecka Triptyque - Natalia Górecka Triptyque - a solo piano with electronics album is based on the theme of reminiscences of the past, the transience of memory and recollections. Three pieces create a whole in which the piano part intertwines with electronics, creating the title triptych. Album consists of pieces written by Gaia Aloisi, Katharine Norman and Paul Clouvel. [caption id="attachment_9308" align="alignnone" width="1024"] photo by A. Ożarowska[/caption] Elements III - Paul Clouvel for piano and fixed sound “When you rip off the cloth off the umbrella, it the umbrella still an umbrella?” asks Paul...

VISTAS – Kari Watson & Katinka Kleijn

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp.  VISTAS by Kari Watson & Katinka Kleijn VISTAS - Kari Watson & Katinka Kleijn Kari Watson and Katinka Kleijn bring together a wide range of sounds, merging acoustic, analog, and digital sound sources and often exploring extended aspects of improvisation such as physicality, attunement, and embodiment. Combining cello, modular eurorack synthesizer, Max MSP, and handheld electronics, the two create tactile performance environments for their audiences. Together, Watson & Kleijn have a deep commitment to live performance as a venue for possibility, vulnerability, and variability. The two embrace improvisation as grounds for continual exploration...

leathaidean – Fells & MacGlone

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp.  leathaidean by Fells & MacGlone leathaidean - Fells & MacGlone Leathaidean, meaning ‘slopes’ or ‘hillsides’ in Scottish Gaelic, is a series of improvisations for shakuhachi and double bass recorded in 2022. The music explores playing together as a series of encounters with zones and boundaries – textures and gradients, surfaces and resistances – with a spontaneous sense of purpose or direction, heading to and away from peaks, plateaus and troughs as they appear or fade from sight. The notion of ‘slopes’ or ‘hillsides’ then was a metaphor for the playing; walking, and the effort...

Live in Berlin – lixt

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. Video of the live performance can be watched here for free. live in Berlin by lixt Live in berlin - lixt [sh[i]e[l]d] is an audio visual live coding performance focused on information, noise and video feedback. A way to address the power and misuse of the mass media industry which delivers tons of speculative information to the public causing an endemic socio political vulnerability. This project uses the homepage of well-known newspapers as an arena for debate, creativity and play, neutralizing its imposing aesthetics. The live coding manipulation of the web page through...

Three Names – Sarah Grace Graves

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. Three Names by Sarah Grace Graves Three Names - Sarah Grace Graves Three Names was born of Vespro, the culminating performance of my July 2023 residency at Fondazione Isabella Scelsi in Rome, inspired by Michiko Hirayama’s long-standing interest in Gregorian chant and my own intersecting histories with spirituality and experimental music. Creating Three Names was like weaving a liturgy from life’s manifold threads: the seasons, my lifetime, our current moment, the people whose paths cross mine, the place of performance, the work, the breath. It is impossible to touch all these things intentionally; the ordering of...

Final Day – Jena Jang

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. Final Day by Jena Jang Final Day - Jena Jang What might the end of your world feel like? What echoes will you leave behind? It begins with a quiet unraveling — layers of you peeling away, breath growing faint, until even the sound of life forgets you. And yet, beyond disappearance, you return — not as flesh, but as a thread of spirit. Once again, you step into the light, onto the stage, as you were in the beginning: tender, raw, fiercely alive. You sang through pain — not to survive, but to leave something soft behind, a ripple that lingers...

Schwebstoff – Moritz Gagern – The Present

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. Schwebstoff by Moritz Gagern Schwebstoff - Moritz Gagern - The Present vocal music 8+1 eight solo voices and one voice for spoken word „Schwebstoff“ is a composition and a poem about the voice being the air's daughter. Air may be the condition of breath and sound but often it turns up as their object, too: we encounter a lot of „wind“ and „heaven“ in traditional and modern lyrics of vocal music. This invisible life-giving entity is filled with gods and ideas – and with floating particles. The air’s transparency and balance, which had been...

objects aligned out of time – Manon McCoy – Alice Brookes

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. objects aligned out of time by Manon McCoy + Alice Brookes objects aligned out of time Manon McCoy - Alice Brookes objects aligned out of time is an exploration of the self in company. The album explores the dissonance between image and self, questioning identity through the spaces we make for ourselves and the sounds we find in them. Made with field recordings and live electronics to distort and warp the voices, blending them with found sounds and objects. Using a setup of 1 delay pedal, 1 reverb pedal, a looper, 2 voices, 2...

Inscriptions – David Ryan & OPerta collective

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. Inscriptions by David Ryan Inscriptions David Ryan & OPerta collectivea ‘Inscriptions’ is a an ‘open work’ for a singer, speakers, and variable ensemble. These extracts were recorded live in concert with Cristina Grifone, soprano and OPerta collective directed by David Ryan and theatrically directed by Slovenian opera director Rocc, at Wimbledon College of Arts Theatre, London, July 2023, recorded by Emanuele Costanini. It takes as its starting point texts from the famous Greek Anthology of epigrams (literally translated as ‘inscriptions’ from the Greek). These texts are noteworthy in their development from anonymous epitaphs and...