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[at054] Regina Burbach - Serendipity Effects

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Date of release:  09.07.12 Format:  FILE - MP3 Length:  42:37 min Artwork:  Lisi Gonzalez / Miguel Angel Pasalodos (photo) _ DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE (MP3) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (JPG) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (PDF) hosted at:  archive.org NOTICE: This Work Contains Binaural Field Recordings, Headphones required _ We are proud to host the first online release by Regina Burbach, a german sound artist based in Bremen. Burbach presents a two-track album full of field recordings and foley materials. Both pieces presented can be heard as a soundscape collage from different locations, sites and places. The two compositions are a very good example of the way Burbach understands as soundscape composition and its usage as musical material. Field recordings are combined with music, sound effects, voice and a plethora of sonorities that expand through time. Even that the time is short (the album just lasts for 24 minutes) what Burbach fits in this window of time its quite a bast amount of ...

[at053] Xesús Valle - Gently Annoying

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Date of release: 09.07.12 Format: FILE - MP3 Length: 42:37 min Artwork: Lisi Gonzalez / Miguel Angel Pasalodos (photo) _ DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE (MP3) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (JPG) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (PDF) hosted at:  archive.org _ Gently Annoying is the latest album by Galician artists Xesús Valle. We are glad to receive this collection of complex compositions based on analogue and granular synthesis. This new instalment on Valle’s investigation take the listener in a tour around different scenarios where field recordings are tweaked until irrecognition and granular synthesis is used a moulding tool over soundscapes and a few works by J. S. Bach himself. The album goes from glitchy pieces where a few sound objects are spread across time to, compositions such as Uetamitos that has a certain resemblance to works by Steve Reich or Morton Feldman. The whole album seems, after a few listenings, a history trip across electronic music from the first approaches on synthesis until contemporary elect...