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Antonio Gallucci – Hope for Nothingness as Something (Dinzu Artefacts)

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A two-chapter suite for modular & FM synth, wind & string instruments, electronics, sound objects and field recordings. The work is structured as a two-chapter descent from concrete score to analog & digital abstraction. It begins with the tangible written material and human presence of the performers, which are systematically subjected to a process of erosion. The initial components are reduced to “digital dust” — meaningless data fragments — then recombined algorithmically. This process entirely empties the material of its original structure and meaning. The work culminates in a final, unreal space, becoming a meditation on the transformation of human intention into pure, post-human data.

The notion of Hope for Nothingness as Something is a radical philosophical pivot, shifting the focus of human aspiration from tangible acquisition to ultimate negation. There’s a profound psychological shift: the very concept we often fear or dismiss as empty can be re-framed as an object of desire, value, or ultimate meaning. This concept draws its discursive power from its inherent paradox: desiring an absence and treating that absence as the most valuable presence.

“Is nothingness the same as nothing? Everything evolves around that. Absolute discardment, because there is hope only where nothing is retained. The fullness of nothingness. That is the reason for the insistence on the zero point.”

– T. Adorno

All tracks composed, played, mixed and mastered by Antonio Gallucci @ Mercurial Studio in Pistoia (Italy) between May and October 2025.

Antonio Gallucci is a musician, sound engineer, and digital technology expert born and raised in South Italy. He lives and works in Tuscany. His works reveal a poetic and conceptual dimension that leverages the use of new and old technologies, found objects and sounds, and the extreme
manipulation of sources, within a reflective and conscious aural experience. Over the past 25 years, he has collaborated with museums, theaters, artists, and international record labels.

Cover art by Aaron Owens

Anne Efternøler With Maria Laurette Friis And Johanna Borchert – We are. Profoundly. Predisposed. To drowning. (Relative Pitch Records)

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The music of this trio is an ongoing conversation between three women about life as it unfolds between artistic practice and daily routines. Compassioned conversations about being someone’s mother, someone’s daughter, someone’s partner, someone’s friend seamlessly float into the musical sphere, where words and emotions are transformed into pitches, harmonies, rhythms and artistic gestures.

Three strong artists from the creative music scene of northern Europe has formed a trio that feeds from the compassioned relationship between its members. Danish Anne Efternøler is a desired trumpet player on the Scandinavian scene, while German Johanna Borchert´s distinct approach to the prepared piano has given her a prominent place between the heaviest pianoplayers(sic) of her generation. For more than 25 years vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Maria Laurette Friis has been pushing the musical borders leaving a remarkable contribution to the field of abstract music.

Maria Laurette Friis – vocals
Johanna Borchert – prepared piano and vocals
Anne Efternøler – trumpet, flute and objects

Track 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 Recorded at Hobby Horse Studio, Copenhagen, January 10. 2022 By Simon Mariagaard.
Track 2, 4, 7, 8 Recorded live at KoncertKirken, Copenhagen, July 5 2023 By Mads Madsen.
All music By Anne Efternøler, Maria Laurette Friis, Johanna Borchert.

Converter – The Four Last Things (Ant-Zen)

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CONVERTER is the seminal power-noise project of american composer scott sturgis, a foundational figure in the evolution of rhythmic industrial music. emerging in the late 1990s, sturgis moved beyond the conventional structures of his earlier work with pain station to develop a more visceral and abstract sonic language. his debut album, ‘shock front’ (1999), stands as a cornerstone of the ant-zen catalogue, widely regarded for its masterful synthesis of harsh, distorted rhythms, brooding atmospheres, and precise, machine-driven grooves.

through layers of clattering percussion and cold analog pulses, CONVERTER transforms noise into a refined rhythmic architecture, delineating the sonic contours of a dystopian, mechanized era. converter’s work occupies a charged space between violent sonic confrontation and cinematic isolation, revealing an uncommon ability to uncover structural beauty within dissonance while evoking the vast, haunting loneliness of the post-industrial landscape.

original songs by scott sturgis.

dismantled, deformed, destroyed, constructed, inspired and built by daniel myer / architect. linktr.ee/danielmyer

mastered by anatoly grinberg
artwork by stefan alt

this is ant-zen act493 

more releases of converter:
bandcamp.com/discover/converter

Severed+Said – SEER (Image Research Records)

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Severed+Said sounds like music made in a dark room with one flickering candle and a head full of unsent letters.

It lives in that shadowy realm between darkwave and post-industrial. The beats aren’t there to make you dance so much as take you inward, inspiring a reflective trance. Mechanical pulses tick like anxious thoughts. Synths stretch and moan, often detuned, uneasy, like they don’t trust themselves. Melody shows up, but it’s wounded, scarred, and limping. Beautiful because it’s alive, existing in the nether zone.

The latest offering, ‘SEER’, takes the ethos to unseen heights. Soaring in a murky, watercolor world. Somewhere between the dark of night and the soft glow of dawn. The kind of record that sits with you in your own uncertainty, pulling you closer, seeing you as you are. – HPT

Written and recorded by John Touchton
Mixed and mastered by Jeremiah Ezekiel Johnson
Art and design by Jason Gvvl
Cassette Design by Justin Myers

Colin Stetson / Greg Fox / Trevor Dunn – Nethering (Envision Records)

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Label Description: Recorded in 2018, the friends improvised and let their creativity go wild. The album is the first in a collaboration series Colin Stetson has been working on between soundtrack and solo projects over the past few years. Envision Records (North America) along with their label partner Invada (ROW) will be releasing Colin Stetson’s series of minimal free jazz and improvised collaborations – essentially, snapshots of sonic and visual moments in time.

Alphabet Dust – Over Here, Asteroid (Self-Released)

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All organised noise by Kenneth Brown
except: Peter Russell, Clarinet on Euphrosyne

Recorded in the Cupboard Studio, Stirling
Pallas is an excerpt from a live performance at
The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, 4th July 2024

© Another “Bite The Hand That Feeds” Production 2026

Robert Dallas Gray – Missals (Self-Released)

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Part of the practice of making music involves arriving at and maintaining a sort of coherence and continuity – a heuristic that defines personal rules and parameters, however loosely. These parameters can always be pushed outwards or arbitrarily compressed, but the shape of things needs to make sense, over shorter and longer spans of time and collections of work.

Missals represents something of a suspension of my own rules; it has its own internal language, although it exists in a dialogue with the other records.

There are some obvious entries in the lexicon – some technical, some iconographic. Every track uses my Dynacord tape echo; the overall shape of the record is a cycle; influences are left as pure colours, rather than elided and absorbed.

It is a (rather compact) concept album, in short, and a way both to get some musical ideas off my chest and to kick some of my personal parameters outward a little. Its conceit allows me to take the devotional aspects that seemed to emerge on The Vallum and push them as far as I can within my own worldview.

Missals is presented with heartfelt thanks to Kris Boyle for his extraordinary accompanying video works, and to LADYfingers for their beautiful artwork. Both of these feature in the attached digital booklet.

The opening track, Morning Portal, first appeared on the compilation One More Tune, and is dedicated to the memory of Keith McIvor.

Jarl – Nerve Cell Threads Electronics (Zoharum)

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We are glad to present the new album of Jarl titled „Nerve Cell Threads Electronics”. The Swedish musician refers to the themes that accompanied the creation of the trilogy on the brain and the nervous system, making the new publication an informal, fourth part of the series in which he touched on the topics of neurotransmitters, receptors and synapses. The album contains four tracks called „Electrical Impulse 1 – 4”, filling nearly 60 minutes. This time the tracks has a little darker tone/sound, but still psychedelic, melodic, restrained and sometimes intense with percussive layers and sequencer based with thick analogue sounds that slowly changes into other sounds.
The album is available on CD in a six-panel digipack, on cassette and in digital format.
 

Composed, recorded and mixed by Erik Jarl.
Cover artwork & design by Karolina Urbaniak.
Mastered by Peter Andersson