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snwv – music at a distance 317 (Self-Released)

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Label Description: The music that was available this week manifested as something gentle and generous. There are some complexities in the upper partials of some notes, particularly as they interact with other higher notes, but the vibe here is very approachable. Timbres have a lot of breath in them, sounding a bit like reed instruments (bassoon, accordion), as well as the flute family. There’s plenty of space, and consideration for listeners joining us on this journey. It’s a good reintroduction to the home-built Res-O-Glas and this series.

Sending best wishes and oscillations to everyone listening, particularly for anyone facing challenges.

The titles this week are references to the visual art of Verena Bachl. Thank you for listening!

Maurice Rickard: Guitar, programming

Signal chain: Home-built Res-O-Glas Belmont > JHS Colourbox 10, Reuss Effects Understate, Reuss Effects Repeater Fuzz, Balls Effects KWB > Vox Wah > Dunlop Stereo Uni-Vibe, Hungry Robot Wardenclyffe Deluxe > Moyo Volume > Max/MSP eight-delay patch with FFT pitch shift, tremolo, convolution reverb, AudioThing Reels.

Impulses: Inchindown Oil Tanks (Matt Gray mattg.co.uk ), silent5 Biamp MR/140 (Curves 1_1_0_1), Huddersfield Town Hall (near), Fort Worden Cistern

Bogatir – Decomposition (Self-Released)

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Label Description:

decomposition was recorded during the autumn of 2023. inspired by the season and its various manifestations of decay, the album came together through hours of introspection, reflection, prediction, predication, hyperfixated porings over media from and about experimental artists, a deep delve into the behaviors of magnetic tape, observations of nature interacting with and juxtaposed against fabrication, experimentation with tape loops, analog synthesizers, digital synthesizers, drifting, phasing, found art, scanning, speeding, slowing, stretching, condensing, reversing, repeating, recording, analog deterioration, digital degradation, drones, microcasettes, arrangement, disarrangement, agreement, disagreement, composition, and decomposition.

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released December 21, 2023

decomposition:

written and performed by Max Platitsyn
engineered and recorded by Max Platitsyn
mastered by Caeleigh Featherstone

guitar on “dissolution” and «титры» written, performed, and recorded by Sweet Teeth

educational video and audio sample on “danse decomposition” from «Коррозия металлов, способы защиты от неё»

«что же будет с родиной и с нами?» is a cover of the song «Что такое осень» by the band ДДТ. lyrics by Yuri Shevchuk (Юрий Шевчук).

inspired by Emil Cioran, Philippe Soupault, Harold Budd, Renaldo & The Loaf, Eugeniusz Rudnik, Gavin Bryars, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Jon Brion, Colin Stetson, Emile Mosseri, Leonard Bernstein, Milton Babbitt, Puce Mary, Sofia Gubaidulina, Delia Derbyshire, Solmaz Sharif, and more.

artwork and design by Max Platitsyn – decomposition triptych, distorted scans of a postcard of H.N. Werkman’s print Composition (1925)

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