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Supercat in flight here is rolling around on the lawn in the late summer sun, after having come to get me at 10.10 to tell me it’s morning and he needs his snack before we go outside. And then drooling on my face when I gave him some fuss.
TODAY:
- Blood moon lunar eclipse on Sunday
- Putin’s petrostate faces a kamikaze petrol crisis
- Bandcamp Friday tomorrow
OPERATIONS: I have to lock down the newsletter and ten pages of script today, no time to fart around. And I just got two big chunks of art to look through, which I probably need to do first.
STATUS: Inbox 98, barely 7 hours sleep, Gmail on iOS has stopped popping notifications AGAIN. Today I am back in a heavy workshirt for the first time since the end of May, as the chill starts creeping in. Putting the Apple Watch on because I have a feeling I’m going to need help keeping up today….
READING: OUR DEBTS TO THE PAST by Ed James (UK) (US+)
LISTENING: Dark Ambient Noisescapes
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- January 07003 | Bell Studies For The Clock Of The Long Now, Brian Eno
The album was built from field recordings captured at megalithic sites in Ireland, underwater sounds recorded with hydrophones in the rivers of Asturias, and electromagnetic wave scans from Birmingham. These sonic landscapes are interwoven with synthesizers, digital harmonium, experimental “sonic triangle,” multi-effects, percussion, and López’s voice — serving as a thread between the inner and the outer worlds.
It is a fantastic journey of a record. Something for the imagination under a summer sky. Which is how I enjoyed it. I have long adored Susana’s work, but this feels like a milestone.
Only available on digital or vinyl, but Susana knows my preference for CD and sent me this!
I remain a very lucky person.
PREVIOUSLY: STUPOR MUNDI, Susan Drone
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The third track is absolutely brilliant and caused me to need this record on physical media.
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What happens when you ask an AI to interpret a series of images not for facts, but for feeling?
Sound and noise played a vital role in the artistic revolution of the 20th century, mainly through the urban soundscape. Italian Futurists such as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Luigi Russolo embraced noise as a new aesthetic reflecting modern life. In his 1913 manifesto, The Art of Noise, Russolo advocated for the inclusion of mechanical and industrial sounds in music, fundamentally redefining its boundaries
In August 2023, as part of the Hilo project curated by Bjørnar Habbestad (NyMusikk), Gerard Lebik (Sanatorium of Sound Festival 2015-2024), and led by Zuzanna Fogtt (Foundation of Contemporary Art In Situ), we had the opportunity to present three new compositions commissioned specifically for The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners.
This unique sixteen-person ensemble, directed by Luciano Chessa, performs on meticulously reconstructed Intonarumori – experimental instruments originally designed in the early 20th century by Luigi Russolo, a key figure of the Futurist movement initiated by Filippo Marinetti.
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LYRELYRELYRE is the 11th solo album from Laura Cannell, the UK based Composer, Performer and Improviser. Cannell calls upon an ancient Lyre that was buried in the epic landscape of the Suffolk Coastline to sound once more. She wakes it from its 14 centurylong slumber and coaxes it’s shrouded sounds onto her new offering.
Cannell delves deep into the history of the lyre, finding a way to bring this ancient instrument back into the landscape it once lived in and into her fold of feral chamber music. The Lyre lives again alongside haunting bass recorders and double reeded battle cries of the crumhorn.
Takes me right back to the Laura Cannell gig at the Cafe Oto last month.
Comments closedNot actually daily, but I discovered this while tending my podcast list last night.
Ambient Daily is a podcast series dedicated to ambient music: discover the latest ambient and new-age releases through weekly mixes, curated by Le Code. These mixes are commercial-free, so you can relax and listen to calm music, inviting you to meditate.
Here’s some THE BRUTALIST vibes: Arkpro Studio designs concrete church in Albania as “new village centre.”
As I noted here, the soundtrack for THE BRUTALIST was excellent. The soundtrack by Daniel Blumberg is being released on CD next month (UK) (US+). The cover, of course, is the still that’s going to become one of the defining filmic images of the first half of the 21st Century.
It’s even floating around as a phone wallpaper now.
Personally, I’ve gone with something else this season:
Blumberg has his own bandcamp page that I want to dig through soon.
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Comments closedThis was superb. Absolute dreamspace.
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