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[at040] Avelino Saavedra - Ink Soundsketches

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Date of release: 12.04.11 Format: FILE - MP3 Lenght: 36:32 min Artwork: Avelino Saavedra _ DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE (MP3) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (JPG) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (PDF) hosted at:  archive.org _ Avelino Saavedra is a multidisciplinary artist currently living in Valencia, Spain. His work ranges from ink drawings to sound performance, video and painting. Musically trained as a drummer, Saavedra has been involved since many years in various projects of free improvisation, jazz, performance arts, noise, experimentation and hardcore. Collaborations include pieces with well known spanish performer Bartolomé Ferrando, Truna and Martí Guillem (AttA). Currently he is involved in the improvisation ensemble created at La Clinica Mundana, La Orquesta Mundana, a joint of various experimental musicians from Valencia. The very specificity of Saavedra’s sound is based on the usage of infinite variety of instruments, objects and materials. He builds his own flutes and collects anything that can produce...

[at039] Agustín Medina - Fascination For Seeing the Invisible

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Date of release: 03.03.11 Format: FILE - MP3 Length: 24:02 min Artwork: Agustín Medina _ DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE (MP3) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (JPG) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (PDF) hosted at:  archive.org _ Agustín Medina is a sound artist from Seville (Spain). Previously he was known as Medinadifez. Now a days he’s best known by its collaboration with ambient project Carrier To Noise Ratio based in Seville as well. Medina has a minimalistic and abstract way to understand sound and composition. Medina focus its interest on creating complex sound structures in which we can hear a deep understanding of sound synthesis. As well Medina pays special attention on graving sound samples extracted from many sources as well as soundscapes. His works have been part of different projects ranging from art to theatre working hand by hand with Cirque Du Soleil and with Atalaya TNT, 2008’s National Prize of Theatre. Fascination For Seeing The Invisible is a short EP that runs for 24 minutes. Nevertheless, with this...

[at038] Arturas Bumšteinas - Eternidays News (Vol.1)

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Date of release: 05.02.11 Format: FILE - MP3 Length: 46:08 min Artwork: Jan Marcin Szancer _ DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE (MP3) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (JPG) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (PDF) hosted at:  archive.org _ Arturas Bumšteinas is a well regarded musician and visual artist from Vilnius, Lithuania. He is involved in many projects in the fields of contemporary and experimental music. His compositions have been published by many labels as physical and online releases. Bumšteinas also has a prolific career as visual artist, working on techniques ranging from video to drawings, sound installations or photography. Eterniday News (Vol. 1) is a compilation of four compositions centred on many aspects of soundscape composition, sampling and recombination. Composer has prepared quite a long oeuvre that portraits different moments during his touring around Europe. In general the whole release is a tour around different aspects of Bumšteinas interest in contemporary composition. A tour that generates an imagi...

[at037] Juanjo Palacios - Portuario

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Date of release: 14.01.11 Format: FILE - MP3 Lenght: 33:50 min Artwork: Javier Bejarano, Juanjo Palacios _ DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE (MP3) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (JPG) hosted at:  archive.org _ I personally met Juanjo Palacios a few months ago. We had the opportunity to gather in Madrid for a gig organized by our friends of Latimeria (Juan Antonio Nieto and Almudena Villar). I had been chatting on the net with him since I found it’s release as Blezna, released at Alg-a Netlabel. Since always we had in mind a future collaboration and I wanted him to work on a project for Audiotalaia. Finally after a wait that was worth here we have Portuario. The new installment of Juanjo Palacios is a four track EP that combines all the interests of this particular artist. Palacios defines himself as a phonographer and sound artist and he has been involved in many projects regarding Soundscapism. He combines the materials and soundscapes that he captures on field trips with processed drones and ambient textu...

[at036] Cello + Laptop - Live at El Niu, Barcelona

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Date of release: 24.12.10 Format: FILE - MP3 Length: 38:35 min Artwork: Edu Comelles _ DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE (MP3) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (JPG) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (PDF) hosted at:  archive.org _ Cello + Laptop is an experimental ensemble exploring the sound dialogues between classical instrumentation with electronic sound. The project was born in Valencia (Spain) and consists in a series of experimental compositions mixing the ambient sonorities of Mensa project and the textures and acoustic of the cello. _ Tracklist: 01. Live at El Niu, Barcelona _ Credits: Produced and arranged by Sara Galán and Edu Comelles. 2010. The following release is a live recording done at El Niu in Barcelona the past 3th of December 2010. _ Live at El Niu, Barcelona by Sara Galán, Edu Comelles is licensed under a  Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 Unported License.  Based on a work at www.archive.org.  Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at ht...

[at035] tsone - A Sea Beyond Reckoning

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Date of release: 13.11.10 Format: FILE - MP3 Length: 48:02 min Artwork: Jay Hardin _ DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE (MP3) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (JPG) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (PDF) hosted at:  archive.org _ Getting into December, we are glad to receive the work of american artist Tsone. We first met him while building up our 25th release, Circles Around The World. Gladly surprised by the consistency of his oeuvre we asked Tony Obr to work out an album for Audiotalaia. Finally, here it is this A Sea Beyond Reckoning. This album has been conceived as a closed project in which all the elements forming that release are interconnected and related to each other in terms of compositions and sound design. Asking the artist about this work he stated the following: These works were primarily composed and arranged using a battery of custom built software instruments and effects. I designed the software to function as complex interconnected systems that allow creation to emerge. In this sense much of the aesthetic ...

[at034] Inane - Til hamingju með afmælið

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Date of release: 13.11.10 Format: FILE - MP3 Lenght: 48:02 min Artwork: Andrea Pazos _ DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE (MP3) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (JPG) DOWNLOAD ARTWORK (PDF) hosted at:  archive.org _ Since 2006 Óscar Yuste (aka Inane) has been self-releasing all his works at his webpage. After some gigs around Spain this artist from Zaragoza has decided to spread his work an reedit it on different labels. Óscar Yuste considers his project Inane as a hybrid proposal in which to merge photography, design, improvisation and audiovisual experimentation. This project started with its homonymous album called Inane in which he settled down the basis of it's very own language. After editing an EP homaging Eraserhead from David Lynch, Inane releases Til hamingju með afmælið that now comes to Audiotalaia as a reedited version ready to download. Til hamingju með afmælið its probably the album that sets the tempo of Inane's creative path, if we listen his following release called "Ensemble" w...