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Surreal Transit
SURREAL TRANSIT * state of transition • ª intuitive connection ª ¡ overheard conversation ¡ ¶ diffuse reaction ¶ § gentle revolution § credits released December 1, 2024 All music & field recordings by Joseph Sannicandro & Jordan Christoff Source artwork by Taras Yakobchuk [dropsumart] www.instagram.com/dropsumart/ Design & layout by Tim Six ! SUPPORT…
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Transmissions in Silver
TRANSMISSIONS IN SILVER “I see this as spiritual music, it is translating the spirit of my life in those moments that I shared with Joseph in ways that are impossible to put into words, which is why I love it.” – Stefan The next chapter in the ongoing artistic conversation between two friends, shaped and…
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Stuttering Music
By 2006, more than a decade and a half after the conclusion of the Lebanese Civil War, the city of Beirut seemed to be experiencing an era of cultural resurgence. The Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon had finally ended in 2000, and free of the association with conflict, Beirut’s cultural vibrancy was becoming a regular…
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ØKSE
New York hip-hop label Backwoodz Studioz continues their hot streak with the self-titled debut from international experimental jazz quartet ØKSE: California-raised NYC-based drummer Savannah Harris, Danish saxophonist Mette Rasmussen, Swede Petter Eldh on double bass, synths and sampler, and Haitian electronic musician Val Jeanty. Known for their genre-expanding underground hip-hop, it should come as no…
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Living Room Pieces
“Here’s something genuinely new for you.” We receive many submissions that make such a claim, but rarely have they lived up to their promise so fully as Michael J. Schumacher’s Living Room Pieces. A sound installation designed for living spaces, the work consists of a Raspberry Pi (small computer) in a metal case connected to two…
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FASHION (or, MONEY IS FERTILIZER)
The second part of a special double feature, returning us to Krakow’s Unsound festival, where we began with Episode 1. The inaugural episode featured Resina and Lea Bertucci, from Poland and New York, respectively, and so for the sake of symmetry, this episode pairs Antonina Nowacka and Dreamcrusher, two artists who make affective, vocal-based music,…
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REVERSE POLARITY
Negativland has always been about media literacy; their sound collages and pranks are not only humorous but reveal something about how media function. But in recent years, as the world has changed around them, their relationship to this aspect of their practice has had to evolve. What was subversive in the 80s is mostly met…
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CREATIVE LISTENING
C. Lavender is a sound artist, sound healing practitioner, educator, and author of Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives. She has worked with labels including Editions Mego, RVNG, Longform Editions, and most recently iDEAL, who have just released Rupture In The Eternal Realm, a sonic reinterpretation of a Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice. In this episode of the Sound Propositions podcast,…
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QUANTUM BLUES
France Jobin has been exploring quantum theory for many years now, an interest that has shown up in her compositions, sound installations, and work with VR. But the pandemic finally afforded the Montreal-based minimalist composer time for deeper study with a personal brain trust of physicists she’d assembled over the years. Jobin recently released Infinite…
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DIS/PLACED
Matana Roberts is a multidisciplinary artist, saxophonist, composer, and performer. With the release of In the Garden…, their ongoing, projected 12-chapter series COIN COIN is near its midpoint. Roberts has developed a composition system for the series based on mixed media scores combining graphic notation, visual art, film, and ephemera, channeling the images and (hi)stories…
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DIS/CONTENT
AGF is a powerful poemproducer. She first described herself in these terms on a track of that title from Westernization Completed, her Ars Electronica winning breakthrough album. Poemproducer became her “internet name,” and has come to stand in for her idiosyncratic approach to vocal-based electronic music. Last November, AGF quietly released Poemproducer, almost exactly 20 years after Westernization Completed.…
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DIS/EMBODIED
Having first captured our attention with Monolithic Nuance (2018) for Longform Editions, Megan Mitchell’s Cruel Diagonals has continued to impress with each new work. With Fractured Whole, she set herself the task of producing an album using nothing but her voice as raw material. While she deserves recognition as a gifted vocalist, she deserves at least as much praise for her…
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