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A Vibration Of Strings by Lowlight on Mixcloud

Every now and again we take a look through other profiles on the Mixcloud web site to try and find new and diverse selections. Today I came across a rather lovely installation from Low Light entitled ‘A vibration of strings’…

I ran into the track “The Last Message” by John Murphy on a mix at A Strangely Isolated Place and it got me thingking about doing another classical-ish mix.

The Murphy track is in there, along with new tunes(Maya Beiser, Max Richter, Nils Frahm, etc) and old tunes(Steve Reich, Peter Gabriel, Gavin Bryars, etc).

There’s really not much more to say except that I hope you enjoy this collection of ambient, soundtrack, minimal & neo-classical tunes. – Low Light

Track List:

David Byrne – The Lodger
Maya Beiser – Memories
Max Richter – The Haunted Ocean 2
Nils Frahm & Anne Müller – Reminds To Teeth
Olan Mill – Country
John Murphy – The Last Message
Chihei Hatakeyama – Light Drizzle
Hummingbird – Starfish Seastar
Tarwater – Clock
Terry Riley – Is In C In F (R. Luke Dubois Remix)
Steve Reich – Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices & Organ
Sufjan Stevens – Movement Iii – Linear Tableau With Intersecting Surprise
Max Richter – Infra 2
Kyle Bobby Dunn – The Tributary (For Voices Lost)
P Jorgensen – Palimpsest Ii
Gavin Bryars – Epilogue From Wonder Lawn
Peter Gabriel – The Nest That Sailed The Sky

www.lowlightmixes.blogspot.com
www.mixcloud.com/lowlight

The new edition of Yeti magazine is available and is the perfect read for those on the voyage of discovering obscure and ‘out there’ music…

On the 80-minute CD: all rare/unreleased music – lots of raw, wonderful stuff this time, including Indian music from 78s selected by Rob Millis and three Pip Proud songs never on CD before! Also: Fantastic Palace, the Art Museums, Ko + Friends, Bobby Charles, Rhythmical Wright Singers, Rev. Lonnie Farris, Bishop R. Mcdaniel, Puppy Hearts, Las Aias, Teenage Panzerkorps, US Girls, Geoff Soule, Spencer Moody, Plankton Wat, Reading Rainbow, Human Eye, X-Ray Eyeballs, Modern Women, and Marisa Anderson.

Inside the 200-page book: Dean Wareham’s photo tour diary; two archival interviews with electronics pioneer Maryanne Amacher; David Nichols on the bizarre, whispery, often revelatory work of Pip Proud; reprints from Tuli Kupferberg’s wonderful Birth Press titles from the 1960s; Erik Davis in conversation with our favorite contemporary British folkie, Alasdair Roberts; lengthy 1970s interview with groundbreaking artist Bruce Conner; awesome comics from Lizz Hickey, James Turek, and Beatriz Monteavaro; new drawings by intrepid artist/musician Arrington de Dionyso; fiction by Mimi Lipson and Joaquin V. Gonzalez; groovy article by Rob Millis on Indian music critic and 78 collector VAK Ranga Rao; recent works on paper by Alisha Wessler.

Europe and UK purchase from Boomkat here
Worldwide purchase from Yeti here

www.yetipublishing.com

Another in my series of experimental, filmic, soundscape, found sound, ambient, folk, classical montage mixes…

Headphones recommended. Darker in tone than my previous mixes, but that darkness is punctuated by positivity and possibly resolved.

Listening in eeries places (like whilst on the London Underground alone) is perhaps not recommended. – Type

00:00 First Commercial Message (1890) – P T Barnum
00:09 For Francis Bacon (Part 2) – Anduin
06:42 Terrified Bad Music Will Be Made Into Records – Sir Arthur Sullivan
07:11 Past Tense Kitchen Movement – Ezekiel Honig
10:58 Saffron Revolution – Fennesz
16:06 Reeds of Brown Lake – Lawrence English
17:48 Footpath Apparition – Loren Chasse
22:40 Melodia (li) – Johann Johansson
24:16 Porselein – Machinefabriek
30:47 Last Light – Svarte Greiner
37:57 Intercepted Communications – Lawrence English
38:02 The Raven – Edgar Allen Poe
41:14 Terminal Motor – Lawrence English
45:01 Silver Wings – Inca Ore
50:11 Figase – Gultskra Arikler
55:06 Forest Mountain – Nalle
61:15 San Solomon – Balmorhea
63:24 Final Farewell – Florence Nightingale
64:05 Voice in the Headphones – Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron And Fred Squire

www.typerecords.com

Rough Guide Vol.1 - Adrian Orange by Fluid Radio on Mixcloud

RE-POST: The Rough Guide series is a new edition to Fluid Radio. It involves mixes that gather a selection of material from an artist’s catalogue and paints a musical ‘journey’ of their career….

The first in the series is presented by Wim Maesschalck as he looks at compositions from the talented Adrian Orange. Here is what Wim had to say:

Because I miss Thanksgiving and the warm person I met during a few European tours, I asked Dan to compile a selection of my favourite Adrian Orange songs instead of doing a regular folkmix. Without new releases he’s bound to be forgotten by the new-loving internet music-community. He generously agreed and so here it is.. a mixtape sung by Adrian Orange. Do try and get your hands on any LP or CD he made, in my opinion they’re bound to go out of print if they haven’t already.

The songs on the mixtape are grouped by record and ordered by my favourite records of his. To finish I included some songs I found on compilations and a 7″

Adrian Orange was born in 1986 – living in Portland, Oregan for the bigger part of his life. He released his first record “We Could Be Each Other’s Evidence” in 2002, at the age of 16. A year later he released “Nothing” the first release on Marriage Records.

In 2004 he released an amazing and crackly 7″ (The Lake At Night / The “In The Lake”), a humble ep with only sparse acoustic guitar and his trembling voice titled “Now It Is All Over Like The Birds” but also his masterpiece “Welcome Nowhere”.  Recorded with the help of Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie – and also the first record to be released on Elverum’s PW Elverum & Sun label. The sound of it is so delicate, humble, simple modest and thankful. It makes you want to say thank you to nature, wind, forests, mountains, just being thankful that you’re alive and that you’re in this world. Don’t expect well performed or well recorded songs matching todays standards, but a true lofi gem. Originally pressed on 600 it has been repressed with outtakes and a vinyl version of the ep “The Ghost & The Eyes With Trees In The Ground” from 2005.

Also in 2005 Adrian managed to release a triple LP simply called “Thanksgiving”. It is probably the record which covers the most aspects of his carreer, but sometimes it’s a difficulat listen with the abundance of songs. Then there’s “The “In The World”" 12″ which sounds similar to “Welcome Nowhere”, but is not as captivating. If that wasn’t enough, he also released a cd on Hive-Fi Records called The River. It is a wonderful Will Oldham-esque folk record with a little more arrangements. Still lofi, still not really what one would call a “tight production”, but it has some incredible songwriting. By the age of 21, Adrian managed to release 5 albums and 3 ep’s, full of wisdom, calmness and honesty.

After “Cave Days And Moments” in 2006 he chose to record under his given name. He recorded 2 albums: one very similar to the thanksgiving sound, another one more playful incorporating styles as dub and afrobeat in 2007. After that he seems to have stopped releasing stuff, getting focussed on electronic music, weed and hiphop. Unfortunately, that’s not for the better as far as I can tell. - Wim

Track List:

1. Welcome – Welcome Nowhere & Extra’s 2LP+CD on PW Elverum & Sun (2007)
2. Rich (Homeless) – Welcome Nowhere & Extra’s 2LP+CD on PW Elverum & Sun (2007)
3. Nowhere – Welcome Nowhere & Extra’s 2LP+CD on PW Elverum & Sun (2007)
4. Responsibility – The River CD on Hive-Fi (2005)
5. Storyteller – The River CD on Hive-Fi (2005)
6. Oh Well – The River CD on Hive-Fi (2005)
7. Around The World – Thanksgiving 3LP+CD (Marriage Recs/Pw Elverum & Sun (2005)
8. Dead Deer & Other Animals – Thanksgiving 3LP+CD (Marriage Recs/Pw Elverum & Sun (2005)
9. Oregon – Thanksgiving 3LP+CD (Marriage Recs/Pw Elverum & Sun (2005)
10. (You Belong To The) Blood – Cave Days & Moments CD – Marriage Recs (2006)
11. The Old Graveyard – Cave Days & Moments CD – Marriage Recs (2006)
12. Fire Dream – Adrian Orange & Her Band s.t. LP (2007)
13. Save The World – Bitches Is Lord CD (as Adrian Orange) (2006)
14. Bad World – The “In The World” 12″ – Marriage Recs (2005)
15. The Ghost & The Eyes – The Ghost & The Eyes With Trees In The Ground CD – States Rights Records (2005)
16. Untitled Track 01 – Now It Is All Over Like The Birds CD – Marriage Recs (2004)
17. The Lake At Night – 7″ – Marriage Recs (2004)
18. Grandfather Dawn – Own Zone Compilation – States Rights Records (2004)

www.marriagerecs.com
www.pwelverumandsun.com
www.en.wikipedia.org
www.last.fm/music/Adrian+Orange

www.myspace.com/wixel

One for the diary this coming September has to be a live performance from alt folk husband and wife duo Arborea at Cafe OTO, London. Also performing on the evening will be the fabulous Vanishing Twins and Two Wings. Now that is one hell of a line up! I can’t see these tickets being around for long so chop chop…

Wednesday 1st September 2010
Cafe OTO
Time : 8pm
Tickets : £5 adv. / £6
Early Tickets here

Since 2006 Maine based Alt Folk duo Arborea (wife and husband Shanti and Buck Curran) has released 3 cds, performed shows and festivals in the U.S., U.K (Green Man Fest), and Europe…including a session for the BBC World on 3 program in London in 2009.

Arborea is currently supporting their latest cd ‘House of Sticks’ released on Borne! Recordings. Buck Curran has also curated and produced a compilation cd titled ‘Leaves of Life’ that was released during the summer of 2009. Leaves of Life includes artists such as Alela Diane, Devendra Banhart, Starless and Bible Black, and Marissa Nadler. All proceeds from the sales of the record are going to support vital hunger relief programs run by the UN World Food Program.

Arborea is also part of an Odetta tribute that was just released by the UK magazine Wears the Trousers. Buck has curated a Robbie Basho tribute cd that is due out on Important Records in April of 2010 and features Meg Baird, Fern Knight, Arborea, Helena Espvall, Glenn Jones, Steffen Basho Junghans, Iraqi born (and Grammy nominated) Oud player Rahim Alhaj, and Irish guitarist Cian Nugent.

Arborea will also be playing another London gig on August 31st at The Gladstone in Borough www.myspace.com/theglad

www.myspace.com/arborea2
www.myspace.com/jeannevsmonsters
www.myspace.com/nallemusic
www.myspace.com/benreynoldsmusic
www.cafeoto.co.uk

If you are in the London area this coming Friday make sure to check Chris Corsano & Paul Dunmall at Cafe OTO performing a rare duo gig after their recent album release on ESP…

Friday 23rd July 2010
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £6 adv. / £7 on the door

Tickets can be purchased here

Chris Corsano has collaborated with such distinguished musicians as Paul Flaherty, Thurston Moore and Björk developing a percussive language of extraordinary amplitude and infinite resources. He is capable of generating narrative out of permanent ecstasy, leading the eternal cry of sax players and blowers of the 60′s to its logical consequence – a supreme continuous howl, marveling us with the resonances and with all the plastic/acoustic possibilities of the skin on his kit. Capable of interacting in the most disparate creative and vocabular settings (he’s got a wide interest in many musical forms), he never ceases to be profoundly affirmative and imposing of his language, and being an absolute and charismatic virtuoso, he simultaneously is one of the most noble and generous improvisers of the few last decades.

Paul Dunmall has been called “one of the most accomplished reedists on the planet” (Ken Waxman, Jazz Weekly) and he is certainly one of the most fluent and powerful saxophonists playing in Britain today. Over his forty year career he has played with Alice Coltrane, Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, Keith Tippett, and Evan Parker amongst many others. Recently he has amazed audiences world wide with his performances in The Profound Sound Trio, with free jazz legends Andrew Cyrille and Henry Grimes.

The recent album on ESP can be obtained here

www.cor-sano.com
www.pauldunmall.com
www.cafeoto.co.uk

It gives me great pleasure to announce we will be radio sponsors for Alpha-ville 2010, a two day international festival of digital arts & culture…

Day 1- Friday 17th September @ The Whitechapel Gallery
Day 2- Saturday 18th September @ The Rich Mix

Alpha-ville, London’s new organisation dedicated to digital arts and culture, today announced its annual festival: Alpha-ville 2010, introducing the theme – Visionary Cities (17-18 September 2010). The Festival, in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery and Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, will fill two days with groundbreaking live music and visual performances including advanced electronic music, live cinema, interactive media installations, 3D visual performances, a moving image competition and a screening programme.

In its second year, Alpha-ville presents a strong curatorial programme focusing on increasing the exposure of quality digital arts within an interdisciplinary context. Under the theme ‘Visionary Cities’, Alpha-ville 2010 aims to break the boundaries of traditional disciplines, fostering new collaborations that use innovation and creativity to develop unique experiences.

Highlights of the programme include a rare live appearance by IDM pioneer Bola (aka Darrell Fitton), a special live set by internationally recognised electronic sound artist Scanner, an exquisite portrait of contemporary and up and coming electronic music artists such us modern classical duo the Boats and hyperdub’s talent Subeena. The Festival will also showcase ‘live cinema’ performances – the latest trend in audio-visual art – including a 3D commission by Alpha-ville that brings together Pixel, a pioneer electronic music composer from the German label Raster Noton and Graphset, Alpha-ville’s visual creator.

Carmen Salas, creative director of Alpha-ville said: “Alpha-ville 2010 invites the public to see the city and society of tomorrow through the eyes of pioneering digital artists who have made use of the latest technology to explore social, emotional and environmental issues. Our cities are continuously developing, growing and interconnecting, controlled by the demands of the 21st century metropolis. New technologies are transforming human relations and the built environment and there are increasing concerns for the future of urban spaces and society. The 2010 festival will provide a space for reflection on this theme.”

In close collaboration with the pioneer contemporary institution the Whitechapel Gallery, the Festival brings together two east London venues, taking digital art to the core of contemporary art to create a dialogue between a leading cultural institution and Rich Mix, its neighbouring up-and-coming arts centre. Alpha-ville Festival will create a virtual itinerary for the public by using the latest social media applications, such as Foursquare. (http://www.foursquare.com).

Rebecca Page, curator of Late Nights at the Whitechapel Gallery said: “As part of the Whitechapel Gallery’s Late Nights programme, that aims to provide a platform for emerging talent, we also recognise the need to promote areas of the performing arts that can be neglected by other art institutions. Digital Arts is one such genre, and we are really proud to be working with Alpha-ville on this project to create a moment for an international selection of leading digital artists to be seen and heard.”

Mark Amerika, artist and pioneer in New Media Art, named a “Time Magazine 100 Innovator” said: “The passion of a cultural underground is alive and well in live audiovisual festivals such as Cimatics in Brussels and Sonar in Barcelona. Now London has a digital art and performance festival that it can proudly call its own. This festival is Alpha-ville — a Central Collaboration Zone for the next generation of digital artists to converge.”

www.alphavillefestival.co.uk

About the project:

The Alpha-ville organisation was set up in 2009 in response to a gap in the London’s cultural scene for innovative events that promote and support the development of high quality digital arts and culture. The annual festival is a new pioneer platform for creativity, inspiration and forward thinking, acting as a center stage for important trends and new visions within digital arts, design and culture. The festival offers a unique opportunity for artists to create, collaborate and growth through the conception of new projects in an international and enriching environment. It also provides excellent networking opportunities for professionals, artists, students, creative business and “followers” of the digital culture.

Festival programme:

DAY 1: Alpha-ville 2010 takes over 5 rooms at the Whitechapel Gallery presenting a rare opportunity to enjoy an extraordinary mixture of multidisciplinary events including live electronic music, a selection of cutting edge digital media screenings alongside interactive media installations and 3D audio-visual performances.

Digital Screenings

Bartlett’s Unit 15 Showcase: Talk & Screening
Showcase of work by the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) final year students curated and presented by Nic Clear – course Director. Unit 15 is a postgraduate design unit that specialises in the use of film, CGI, animation and motion graphics to explore and investigate new forms of architecture.

Moving Image Competition – “Visionary Cities”
Alpha-ville Festival presents an online driven competition in partnership with video leading site Vimeo. Alpha-ville wants to initiate a discourse about the city and society of tomorrow and invite digital artists to present and share their vision of the future city. “Visionary cities” is an international competition open to artists working across digital animation (2D and 3D), short film, stop-frame animation, CGI and motion graphics.

Alpha-ville Screening Programme
Alpha-ville presents a stunning curated compilation of screenings, featuring groundbreaking talents from across digital formats. Among these include:

Seide, Tränensalz, 2009, Germany.
Kaamos Trilogy, Mia Makela, 2008, Finland.
Occupation: Movement I, Eric Schockmel, 2009, United Kingdom.
The Formula, SubBlue, 2010, United Kingdom.
Recursion, Maxim Zhestkov, 2010, Russia.
Augmented Sculpture, Grosse8 and Lichfront, 2010, Germany.

Live Electronic Music

A celebration of live advanced electronic music showcasing pioneers and up-and-coming talents, illustrating a selection of some of the most innovative electronic music artists from the UK.

Bola (Skam, UK)

A rare live appearance by IDM pioneer Bola (aka Darrell Fitton) who has recorded under various pseudonyms including Bola and Jello. Bola has collaborated with Autechre and Gescom. His music is equally informed by the expansive emotions of electronica together with sensible melodies and cinematic atmospheres.

www.myspace.com/darrelfitton

Scanner (Bine, UK)

Scanner (Robin Rimbaud) is a electronic musician, writer and media critic that has earned a reputation as boundary pushing experimentalist. Rimbaud has collaborated with Michael Nyman, Carsten Nicolai, Radiohead and Michelangelo Antonioni amongst others.

www.myspace.com/scanner

Subeena (Planet Mu, UK)

One of the UK’s most up and coming talents that has received support from UK’s pioneering electronic critics such us BBC’s Mary Anne Hobbs. Young producer embarked in an exciting musical venture called ‘Hyperdub’. Subeena combines elements of nu-Soul R’n'B, techno, electronica and dubstep with beautiful melodies.

www.myspace.com/subeena

The Boats (Home Normal, UK)

The Boats are the prolific duo Craig Tattersall and Andrew Hargreaves. They have previously recorded under Hood, the Archivist and The Remote Viewer. Innovative experiment in modern classical music exploring new areas of creation with influences from Michael Nyman & Ryuichi Sakamoto.

www.myspace.com/bepputheboats

Soundhacker (Smallfish, UK)

Soundhacker is an electronic music duo producing deeply atmospheric digital noise and melodic tones. Their debut album entitled ‘Spiked’ is due for release in the summer of 2010 on AMP BIT IF GO Recordings.

www.myspace.com/soundhackeraudio

Uniform (Planet Mu, UK)

Uniform is a multi discliplinary project formed by 3 sound artists who create a dark blend of fractured electronic soundscapes. They are also involved in various sound-art installations such us Ear Cinema.

www.myspace.com/uniformuk

Michael Santos (Home Normal, UK)

Michael Santos is a talented young electronic music composer who uses audio software to carve out textured hazes of sound, layering them to build dynamic song structures. Structurally, Michael’s music is impulsive sometimes minimal and succinct while at others bustling with activity.

www.myspace.com/listentomichaelsantos

Interactive Space

A creative laboratory and performance space will invite participants to explore the modes and effects of interactive new media design, encouraging active participation and fostering creativity. The unique performances will be staged making use of sound and 3D audio-visual mapping.

DAY 2: Unique evening dedicated to “live cinema” – a newly formed movement consisting of live digital music and real time visual performances.

Live Cinema Performances:

Pixel + Graphset (FR + DE)

‘Visionary City’, 2010: Alpha-ville is proud to present an extraordinary collaboration in which Paris-based digital artist (Graphset) joins forces with Pixel (Jon Egeskov) a pioneer of the German electronic music label, Raster Noton.  This innovative audio-visual performance will explore the construction of a 3D virtual city and its surrounding environment through the music played, creating intense sound and visual atmospheres, aural textures and landscapes.

Pixel (Raster Noton, DE)

Danish talented composer and producer Jon Egeskov studied jazz at Copenhagen conservatory with saxophone as his main instrument. These studies allowed an unconventional approach to modern electronic music. His music represents the philosophy of Raster Noton, one of the world’s leading labels for experimental sound art and design.

www.myspace.com/jonegeskov

Graphset (Alpha-ville, FR)

Graphset, Mikka Doczekalski, is responsible for Alpha-ville’s image and graphics. His work focuses on creating 3D landscapes and evocative environments using the latest video techniques. He has focused on research around print, motion designs and collaborative projects including photography & architecture.

www.graphset.net

Gangpol und Mit (FR)

Gangpol & Mit are Sylvain Quément and Guillaume Castagne. This cutting edge audio-visual performance will present these international rising stars, formed by an electronic music composer and a digital & interactive artist working on a unique world of cartoon inhabited by colorful and geometrical creatures.

www.gangpol.free.fr

Alba G. Corral + Nikka (ES)
‘The Space in Between’

Creative collaboration between two female artists working across different disciplines in which digital music and generative art embark upon a unique relationship. ‘The Space in Between’ is an impressive example of how visual compositions created with real time processing graphics and melancholic digital sounds can create complex new performance phenomena.

Zan Lyons (UK)

Violinist, electronic composer and filmmaker, his live show fuses live viola looping with frenetic distorted beats and real-time remixing of his own stunning films, some of which have been screened at Cannes and Raindance.

www.myspace.com/zanlyons

Workshop:

DAY 2 @ the Whitechapel Gallery will feature a Digital Music Technology Workshop for girls aged 14-19.
The workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to investigate the technology and processes used in the production and reproduction of sound in the context of the moving image, dance and mixed media installations. Free admission, limited spaces -booking essential.

www.alphavillefestival.co.uk

Hummingbird has been busy in the studio over the past month reconstructing the recent ‘Our Fearful Symmetry’ album to bring you elleven new remixes forthcoming on Fluid Audio’s new sub-label. Full information on the new label and release details will be coming soon. For now here is a sneak preview of what’s to come…