Cosmin TRG - Ecstatic Data (Feral Note)
Alëna Korolëva - Premonitions (forms of minutiae)
"Whenever I go, I can't help but notice signs of a looming change. I eavesdrop on conversations of creatures big and small, and like me, they seem uneasy and uncertain about what's to come. Something is in the air, dark clouds gather, winds are shifting course. Amidst the confusion and restlessness, the voices of non-human and human worlds blend in a worrisome symphony. This piece is an ode to anticipation, to the beauty of different forms of life on the brink of the sixth mass extinction. Joining in the chorus are the American toad, northern winds, an old kettle, Mr. Cat, tawny owl, crickets, domestic chickens and pigs, trumpeter swans, honey bees, truck horns, cormorants, seagulls and other elements and critters." - Alëna Korolëva
Arne Eigenfeldt - A Walk to Meryton (Redshift Music)
North Vancouver-based composer Arne Eigenfeldt provides a compelling contrast to the all-too-pervasive narrative of "encroachment" around artificial intelligence in music. Having designed and employed his own generative/ real-time interactive music software since the 1980's, he's a veteran in this field and that's the key to his more charitable outlook. The Double LP set
A Walk to Meryton employs an an open-ended, modular AI scheme that he began developing around 2013, Musebots.
Bégayer - Évohé Bègue (Murailles Music - Via Parigi - Le Saule)
French Chanson, Noise, echoes of music from faraway and long ago, modified radio transistors and other old electronic gear, French song, noisemakers, rumours of ancient and distant music, handmade instruments, modified transistor radios and other old electronic objects, Bégayer is looking for a gesture for those without folklore, for the offspring of this culture of lack, born as much from the twilight of popular habitus as from noisemakers' howling, from village squares as from the swarming of digital streams, for an unprecedented kind of rapsod-aliens.
Carme López - Quintela (Warm Winters Ltd.)
Quintela, the debut album by Carme López, a performer, teacher and researcher of traditional oral music from Galicia, is a new experimental work for Galician bagpipe. Influenced by the approach of composers like Éliane Radigue or Pauline Oliveros, the Spanish composer creates slowly modulating sound environments, and stretches the sonic the possibilities of the bagpipe to its absolute limit.
Quintela is structured in four movements, plus a prologue and an epilogue, which serve as a link to the contemporary language of the instrument.
C_C - Six Crossings (zamzamrec)
Édouard Ribouillault (C_C) is known for his unique mix of bass distortions, and breaks, his love for dub, as well as his hypnotic (infinite) performances with a table brimming with various gadgets and electronics.
Six Crossings is c_c’s ultimate recording with the electronic setup he has honed for nearly 10 years of live performances: several drum machines and a sampler interconnected to a mixing system and feedback effects, analog and digital hybrid.
Cosmin TRG - Ecstatic Data (Feral Note)
"The ritualistic notion of ecstasy is largely lost in the Anthropocene: the body high, the mental, the chemical have replaced, prosaically, a state of being that recedes language. In our current stage we extract, exploit and regurgitate vast amounts of digital ooze that has become our mode of being, flattening experience. Uniformity in conformity, ethically and aesthetically. Between our physicality and our projected avatars seeking dopamine hits and euphoric meltdowns:
Ecstatic Data."
