Category Archives: Crossover

Musica di confine / Crossover music

Eno for wine

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cover“Long Now (aka Pelissero Wine)” is a rare, limited edition promotional CD by Brian Eno, produced in 2002 to celebrate an Italian wine and offered to wine sellers. The wine is the Pelissero’s Long Now, so named in honour of the Long Now Foundation.

It features five unreleased tracks, in the same mood as his 2003 album, “January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now“: these compositions experiment possible melodies and atmospheres for bell towers.

Relying on digital bell sounds (from FM synthesizers such as the Yamaha DX7), processed through various reverbs and delays, these compositions create strange and hypnotic soundscapes, between ambient and experimentation, with cycles of repetition ruled by mathematical laws.

The Azienda Agricola Pelissero is a family-run vine-growing estate located in the district of Treiso, in the heart of the zone of production of Barbaresco [in Piemonte, Italy].

Here we can hear excerpts from tracks 1 and 3.

c4 – transient

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coverDalla netlabel Abulia Concepts, specializzata in 8-bit e lo-fi music, eccovi il gruppo denominato c4 di cui presentiamo transient, una piccola raccolta di loop, rigorosamente lo-fi e distribuiti in ogg a 12 kbps

each file is intended to be looped for an indefinate period of time by itself, rather than all 3 files played in succession

Tutti i file sono in formato ogg (forse con windoze dovrete avere un player come vlc o simili).

Potete scaricare l’intero album qui in un unico zip.

Jliat

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La home page del sito del rumorista inglese Jliat (James Whitehead) è quanto di più pazzesco io abbia mai visto, tuttavia chi riesce a superare lo sbarramento iniziale ci trova dentro ottime cose, come una serie di drones liberamente scaricabili, esempi:

I suoi lavori si collocano sempre agli estremi: nella più assoluta cacofonia o nella quiete più totale. In ogni caso vivono in una immobilità irraggiungibile.

Si possono scaricare da Youtube e Soundcloud

We will become insects, someday

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Osoroshisa (Japanese for “the amount of terror”) is the moniker of Tim Salden from Belgium, who has both a good command of Japanese (speaking and writing).

Some notes from the author:

What does the main title mean:
Itsuka, Oretachi Mushi Ni Naru means We will become insects, someday. I kinda thought of Buddhism and  reïncarnation. And since I’m studying Japanese at the University, I wanted to write all the titles in Japanese.

Songmeanings:
The first song [Gakushou 1 – Hotaru No Shoumetsu] means: Movement 1 – Extinction Of The Firefly

Why those title:
I love the view of fireflies during summer, so I tried to recreate a summernight,
but with a bit more tension. Starting from the middle part, the fireflies start to shine their light.

Excerpt:

Listen to and download the whole album from Rain netlabel

SOCIAL [net.work music]

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logoDrawing influence from both contemporary DJ culture and the Fluxus musicial traditions of artists like Ben Vautier and John Cage, SOCIAL [net.work music] is a new improvised network sound project and performance which utilizes the MySpace Music social network as its core sound library.

Recently, I’ve been interested in the the aural connections created through the MySpace Music social network. By navigating the “Friends Space” link section on each member’s page, reminiscent of web 1.0 webrings, the user can access an interconnected network of each artists influences, friends and label mates, allowing them to discover new artists and different genres of music. Most of the pages feature a jukebox with samples of the musicians work which automatically begin to play once the page has finished loading.

The SOCIAL [net.work music] project and performance begins on my own MySpace Music page. I select at random an artist from my “Friends Space” list and allow the page to load. Once the music begins to play, i select a friend link from that artist’s list and open the page in a new tab. This permits the music to layer over top of the previous track. The process continues until, eventually from the inability to handle the incoming data load, the browser crashes, bringing the composition to an end.

Each performance yields a spontaneous and unique, layered score without the use of  sample preparation, sophisticated hardware or software. All of the resulting audio produced in each performance is unedited and live in the moment. These works can be created  and performed anywhere at anytime with simply a web browser and internet connection. I sculpt the layered audio on my end with a hacked kaoss pad, to add my own color to the sonic collage.

[Jason Sloan]

Jason Sloan is a new media artist, electronic musician, composer and professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

Go to SOCIAL [net.work music] to listen.

Commute

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Description by Off Land (aka Tim Dwyer, the author):

coverLet’s go back to 2006.
I used to hate my job, the dead-end brainless work.
Even more, I used to hate my commute.
An hour by subway what would take 20 minutes by car if I had owned one.
Everyday I walked to the subway, switching lines in town and took a 2nd line to the end.
I dreamed that one day the subway would take me past the last stop, just keep going.
Or maybe I would end up somewhere else, somewhere new.
Music was my salvation, my soundtrack, those two hours each day.
With or without music the commute was a score I listened to countless times.
On two occasions, for posterity, I recorded the commute.
Now it’s 2009 and my life has changed so much.
I look back into the dust of times and accompany a soundtrack to those days of travel.
This was my commute.

The Process: Commute is an experimental concept album about commuting. The album is the length of my commute in 2006. I recorded my commute four times (2 out and 2 back), overlapping all four audio recordings into one 68 minute sound collage. This soundscape became the foundation of the composition and the subtle ambiance heard throughout Commute. Tones were designated to various sounds; watery piano for people & chimes, dulcimer drones for cars, drums for rain & subway tracks, low drones for subway cars, and synths for general ambient noise. The structure was entirely in the hands of the field recording collage. It was my conscious decision however to break Commute up into three sections. Each section represents a different leg of the commute (1 – The walk to the subway / 2 – The ride downtown / 3 – The 2nd line outbound).

Published by Resting Bell netlabel. Download from here.

bewilderment

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coverSylvie Walder and entia non (James McDougall) are well-known names in the netlabel-world and beyond. Sylvie Walder released collaboration-albums with Phillip Wilkerson, Siegmar Fricke, and “_” (as Kakitsubata). entia non has released solo-works on test tube, IOD, u-cover, Resting Bell and contributions on compilations for duckbay and Slow Flow Recs.

On “bewilderment“ Sylvie and James create a rich and deep organic sound-cosmos. Droning background-layers, instrumental fragments, field recordings, voices, athmospheric glitches and crackles, all assembled to a breathing, living collage. Especially the first three tracks work with this sound-model. Based on Sylvie’s piano recordings, James built up an impressive ambience by processing, re-arranging and re-structuring the material. The last track “le petit lac“ is more guided by Sylvie’s piano playing with only very subtle accouterments and mastering by James. The artists cooperate together over the huge distance between France and Australia, but the result actually sounds like they have sit together in the same studio and knew eath other since their school days.

Published by Resting Bell netlabel. Download from here.

Excerpts:

Dea Varanus

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coverMatúš Mikula, aka 900piesek, è slovacco, uno dei giovani musicisti elettroacustici europei che creano una sorta di science fiction ambient con un po’ di nostalgia degli anni ’70.

L’album, dal titolo Dea Varanus, è pubblicato da Test Tube ed è scaricabile qui.

All four tracks emanate sound through a dense and foggy underwater-like world… as if we were in a different dimension. Audio data is served to you using computers and machines from another time. Referencially, this is ambient electronics circa 1970’s, while some keyboards sound definitely like Vangelis, Blade Runner period, which is actually very appropriate.

Dear listener, we recommend the use of headphones throughout this journey, as the fine subtleties of the atmospheric and environmental audio pieces you’re hearing will surely gain much detail simply because of their use.
This is a ‘vintage modern classic’, with drones. Enjoy. – [Pedro Leitão]

Excerpts:

  • 900piesek – Ra

Morsure Souffle

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coverLaurent Peter è un musicista svizzero (Ginevra) più noto come d’incise, attivo nell’area elettronica /dub / free jazz / found / environmental sound. Morsure Souffle è il suo album più recente, distribuito dalla netlabel Test Tube.

Morsure Souffle, has all the audio hallmarks of a highly subtle sound collage. Released on Portugese netlabel Testube, it is at once found/environmental sound collected, collated and fused into shapes. Then moments of sound echo of improvisational jazz, or at least the stripped echoes of the oeuvre, or even semi-precise mimicry triggering found moments in the audience. Yet the action of extreme electronic manipulation is never far from the palette and the guise of nature as a backdrop to audio acoustic experimentation is as sensible a template as any. Even the sound of the chime, catching the wind, or the approximation of it combined with a sonic hum/purr and gently advancing triangle alarm is enough of a sound argument. Then there is the central track la Banquise living up to its name, a feast of noise terror, (a humorous notion in itself), mutating in to crisp audio action of imaginary violated string experiments on a vanquished piano; reason enough to display control and succinctness of digital prowess.
[innerversitysound [Cyclic Defrost] / May 02, 2009]

L’intero album è scaricabile qui. Alcuni estratti:

Let’s Drink 100% Healthy Milk and Study Hard!

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Visto che gli esami si avvicinano, anzi, per qualcuno sono già qui, mi sembra adatto.

Henry Kaiser – Let’s Drink 100% Healthy Milk and Study Hard!