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[at088] Víctor Trescolí - States

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Date of release: 02.11.2018  Format:  FILE - MP3 / WAV  Length: 32:00 min  Artwork : Audiotalaia  _ DOWNLOAD RELEASE (WAV) DOWNLOAD RELEASE (MP3) DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE _ _ Víctor Trescolí is one of those rare musicians one encounters in live that has the ability and humbleness of being able to drift, enjoy, make and compose in a wide variety of musical styles. As he always states in conversations "I love all kinds of music". That statement could be something rather simplistic but in fact it just underlines his understanding of music and curiosity for all forms of it, regardless of styles, schools or genres. But not only that is unique from Victor Trescolí, he's also a tirelessly worker and researcher and  advocate of the use of Toy Piano as bast and complex instrument. Six years ago Trescolí released in this very label Not a Toy a statement of intends (fostered by the very Karlheinz Essl) that marked and registered its devotion for this particular instrum...

[atLive_05] Lukas Kühne - SoundWalk / Galeria do Loreto

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Date of release: 02 .11.2018   Format:  Bandcamp Streaming  Length: 60:00 min  Artwork : Audiotalaia  Photo: Vera Marmelo _ [atLive_05] SoundWalk / Galeria do Loreto by Lukas Kühne _ Lukas Kühne was commissioned by Lisboa Soa festival to conduct a series of soundwalks at the underground facilities of the Mãe d'Água reservoir at Lisbon. This building was built in the 19th Century to distribute water into the city of Lisbon. Now a days, the building remains obsolete due to technological advances, still it is visitable and in September 2018 became the venue for the sound art festival curated by Raquel Castro, Lisboa Soa. During the days of the festival Lukas Kühne designed a walk that took visitors from Mãe d'Água reservoir (the main building of this water reservoir system) to the Patriarcal Reservoir. Both underground water reservoirs are connected through and underground 1km long tunnel that crosses the city below the streets of Lisbon. The recording features, ...

[at087] Ferran Lega - Memòria Pétria

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Date of release: 10.09.2018  Format: FILE - MP3 / WAV  Length: 45:00 min  Artwork : Audiotalaia  _ DOWNLOAD RELEASE (WAV)  DOWNLOAD RELEASE (MP3) DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE _ _ Memòria Pétria is a project born from stone and tradition. More specifically Ferran Lega explores the acoustic, timbrical and sonic properties of slate tiles. Those pieces of stone are usually find as the most common rooftop covering in the Catalan Pyrenees. The tiles carry within it a historical background that starts with hardcore rock compression and the formation of sheets of metamorphic rock, commonly know as mountains. From there, slate becomes a basic material for the inhabitants of the mountains across history until the present day where misusage and dereliction has changed habits and uses of this black tiles. Ferran Lega, reckons the deep and rooted into the land background of those tiles and uses them to create soundscapes filed with memories, textures and life of its own by extract...

[at086] Ilir Lluka - An Étude In Two Variations

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Date of release:  05.09.2018 Format:  FILE - MP3 / WAV  Length: 11:25 min Artwork:  Audiotalaia  _ DOWNLOAD AUDIO (MP3) DOWNLOAD AUDIO (WAV) DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE _ Someone could argue the value of keeping a Netlabel alive this days. Many are the reasons to move to other spheres, media or formats but sometimes, there are a projects that by the nature of it, bring along a sense of coherence to what we do.  Even that the concept behind Ilir Lluka's work is not about that, a certain aspect of it, it is. This is maybe the use of a very short span of time to develop a piece of work such as "An Étude In Two Variations" that only last 10 minutes.  By its shortness, one thinks that a net-release is the best way to present this kind of work, and we are glad to find again reasons to keep supporting this kind of craft. "An Étude In Two Variations" is a two track album. Both pieces are the outcome of an exercise in composition in which Lluka stablished a common b...

Summer Camp 2018

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_ This is the release page of the outcome of the 9 days workshop "Audiotalaia Summer Camp" held at El Polell, Montseny, Barcelona, Catalonia between the 13th and the 22nd of July 2018. The works are the result of various exercises proposed by Edu Comelles and the outcome is the what remained of different collective processes taking place within various groups of participants at the Summer Camp. Very short premises where stablished for the exercises giving a big amount of creative freedom and the right amount of constriction. Final presentations open to the public are also featured in this album. These are works done collectively and without creative or technical restrictions. _ Credits: All works done collectively by Joan Cot Ros, Carina Pesch, Martina Weber, Ludwig Meckel, Varun Krishnan, Robert Coleman, Joe Dixon, Tiago Tobias, Arzu Saglam, Emma Fern, Beth Horseman, Robin Meeker-Cummings, Sonia Killmann, Martín Pineda and Constanze Flamme. All videos and photos taken by Bal...

[at085] Durán Vázquez - Le Espectacle de la Société du l'Espectacle

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Date of release:  07.06.2018 Format:  FILE - MP3 / WAV  Length: 5 0:25 min Artwork:  Audiotalaia  _ DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE (WAV) DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE (MP3) hosted at:  archive.org _ Le Espectacle de la Société du l'Espectacle is the latest work by galician artist Durán Vázquez. This album has been divided in three parts that are presented as a continuous reflection on soundscapes of our contemporary life recorded as fragments of common places in our western capitalist contemporary society. Leisure, sports, cultural manifestations, protests and daily life are entangled together to shape a tapestry of how Durán Vázquez perceives his immediate environment. In his own words Vázquez states that those recordings and the fusion between whats fictional and whats truthful aims to portray the implicit political aspects of the daily life soundscape, regardless of what society defines itself. The album is furrowed by electronic sonic structures that detaches the listen...

[atp010] Edu Comelles - Aquí Llega El Invierno

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_ #50 / Riso Printed Postcard Limited Edition + Digital Download Random risography printed postcards on Muncken paper framed within a Fabriano Paper Passepartout (16x16 cm). Includes download links for the full album and a Live Recording. The item comes folded into a sealed Polypropylene bag. Includes unlimited streaming of Aquí Llega El Invierno via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. _ Aquí Llega El Invierno by edu comelles _ Concept. The 11th of December 2017 snow covered Guadalaviar, a village in Central Spain right in the middle of the most unpopulated area of Southern Europe, the so called Spanish Siberia. After the snow storm 5 days followed and clouds give pass to wind, thaw, water and finally the sun. The cicle of cold, snow, ice and thaw has been  something rather usual in Guadalaviar, but its starting to become an exeption. It still snows, and the cold is there, but not as before. Climate is fragile and unpredictable. In Guadalaviar ...