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musicktoplayinthedark · 5 months

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My albums selection for the next week:

Oculus Tapageur - Le souffle des pierres

Edgar Broughton Band - Sing Brother Sing

Marja Ahti - Tender Membranes

Anima-Sound – Musik Für Alle

Graveyards – Bare Those Excellent Teeth Vol. I

Maria Moles - For Leolanda

Joseph Nechvatal – Sleep

Anastasia Masloboeva – Russian Folksongs In The Key Of Winter

Final – One

Aidan Baker - Diaphaneities

#musical selction #oculus tapageur #edgar broughton band #marja ahti #anima sound #graveyards #maria moles #joseph nechvatal #a #anastasia masloboeva #final #aidan baker #experimental music

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zef-zef · 4 months

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Marja Ahti (Marja Johansson) February 22, 2020 @ Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands

source: sonicacts 📸: Pieter Kers

#photography #artist photograpy #Marja Ahti #Marja Johansson #Sweden #women in electronic music #photo by Pieter Kers

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barthel · 6 months

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A fairly experimental Bandcamp Friday, which is still going on (and still, you know, ethically kosher)

#music #Bandcamp #yumi zouma #Marja ahti #Johnny nash #Trixie Whitley

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dustedmagazine · 6 months

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Marja Ahti — Tender Membranes (Black Truffle)

Photo by Kitti Nurmi

“Vibration and resonance are at the heart of everything. Some of it falls within our hearing range and we call it sound.” This is the ethos under which Marja Ahti operates. The Swedish-Finnish sound artist is open to the possibility that all creation, both human and natural, can be a source for her art. Emerging from the Finnish psychedelic folk underground decades ago, her work as Tsembla revolved around samples that she pulled from the internet. Ahti eventually shifted her focus toward sound creation and environmental recording, releasing new works of art under her own name. Across multiple solo and duo recordings, Ahti explores liminality and transformation, the spaces between states. This fluidity within her work, evokes a gradual diffusion or osmosis that she manages to capture as its happening. Her pieces are also visceral. They churn and writhe, the vibrations radiating outward, provoking a satisfying frisson as they waft through the air.

Ahti is interested in minimizing dichotomy in favor of something more tenuous. This tendency is reflected in the raw materials she sources for her compositions, and how she uses them. Both acoustic and synthetic sounds find their way into the mix, along with field recordings and recordings of her day-to-day activities. Ahti weaves each thread in such a way as to make the individual elements second to the overarching tapestry of harmony that she constructs. The harmonic temperament may arise from an electronic feedback loop, a manipulated bell, a garden sprinkler, or the manipulation of small objects, but it unfolds gradually and commands patience from the listener.

With Tender Membranes, Ahti positions our sensory organs as gateways between our inner and outer selves. She has honed her sound art practice such that the compositions are mature in their subtlety. The tonal palette is deep and rich. Dynamically, there is variety, but the transitions feel incredibly gradual. Microscopic shifts in the harmonic field show that Ahti has fine-tuned her technique, blurring the inside/outside binary into an entire spectrum of experiences.

There is also a sense of disorientation at play. It’s difficult to pick out what’s happening in a piece until it has completely unraveled. The process is akin to a well-written story with many twists and turns; it’s only at the conclusion when the true narrative arc reveals itself. Nature plays a huge role across the album: insects, birds, and running water play off Ahti’s synthetic emanations. She emulates the textures of the natural world with her electronics, which provokes the question of whether we’re experiencing reality or an artificial construct. Ahti chooses not to answer this question. She’d rather we succumb to the uncanny beauty of the sounds.

Bryon Hayes

#dusted magazine #albumreview #marja ahti #tender membranes #black truffle #bryon hayes #electro-acoustic #musique concrète #field recording

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jgthirlwell · 2 years

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playlist 05.30.22

The Winstons The Winstons (AMS Records) Marja Ahti The Current Inside (Hallow Ground) Raum Daughter (Grouper) So Percussion Amid The Noise (So Percussion ) Twinkranes SpektrumTheattre Snakes (BMusic) Ingram Marshall Kingdom Cime (Nonesuch) Arcade Fire WE (Interscope) Aleksandra Gryka Interialcell (Kairos) Tera Melos X-ed Out (Sargent House) David Berkman Hand Made (Palmetto) Circulatory System Circulatory System (Cloud Recordings) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Omnium Gatherum (KGLW) The Tubes Remote Control (A & M) Rockonteurs Podcast (YouTube etc) Skip LaPlante Detritus (Skip LaPlante)

#The Winstons #Marja Ahti #Raum #playlist #So Percussion #Twinkranes #Ingram Marshall #Arcade Fire #Aleksandra Gryka #Tera Melos #David Berkman #Circulatory System #King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard #The Tubes #Rockonteurs #Skip LaPlante

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studentsofdecay · 1 year

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Niko-Matti Ahti - Kaivajaiset

Kaivajaiset by Niko-Matti Ahti

Students of Decay presents "Kaivajaiset" by Finnish composer Niko-Matti Ahti. Best known for his work alongside his partner Marja as Ahti & Ahti, Niko-Matti has been an active participant in the Finnish underground since the late 1990s. "Kaivajaiset" is his first solo recording and was originally conceived of as an installation. Part horspiel, part musique concrete, it is a piece of music that draws comparisons to the work of pioneering avant-garde composers such as Henning Christiansen, Annea Lockwood, Luc Ferrari, and Pierre Mariétan. Ahti weaves vivid foley and domestic recordings together with oration and classical instrumentation (violin, clarinet, bass clarinet, and flute) to arrive at an expansive, narrative, and at times thrilling composition. “Kaivajaiset" was exhibited in two Finnish galleries: B-Galleria in Turku (2019) and 3H+K in Pori (2020). The installation drew inspiration from The Diggers' 1649 pamphlet and Michel Foucault's extension of Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of genealogy, and consisted of sounds, opinion pieces, a print copy of the pamphlet, and four cardboard collages. This record is a summary of the sounds of the installation.

LP ships on or before 04/07/2023 Forced Exposure (US)ANOST (EU)

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himeraturku · 2 months

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Himera esittää: Ryan Packard

Himera esityää: Ryan Packard - Garden Variety

Nykytaidetila Kutomo La 27.4.2024 Klo. 19:00 (ovet 18:30) Liput: 10/5€

Himeran konsertti-illassa osana Ehkä-tuotannon Spring Roll -festivaalia kuullaan Tukholmassa toimivan yhdysvaltalaisen perkussionisti ja äänitaiteilija Ryan Packardin Garden Variety -esitys.

Ryan Packardin taiteellinen kieli keskittyy intimiteettiin, keskinäiseen riippuvuuteen sekä äänen kehollisiin ja hermostollisiin suhteisiin. Spring Roll-festivaalilla Packard esittää muutaman osan Garden Variety -sarjastaan - teoksia vahvistetuille perkussiolle.

Himera on neljän turkulaisen musiikintekijän ja äänitaiteilijan, Marja Ahdin, Niko-Matti Ahdin, Antti Tolvin ja Rasmus Östlingin työryhmä, jonka toiminnan ytimessä on kokeellisen musiikin festivaalin ja konserttien järjestäminen. Ryhmä on ollut aktiivinen vuodesta 2012 lähtien.

Konsertti Nykytaidetila Kutomolla osana Spring Roll -festivaalin ohjelmaa. Tuotanto: Ehkä-tuotanto ja Himera Kuva: Nicola Jones

https://ryanpackardsounds.org/

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Himera presents: Ryan Packard - Garden Variety

Contemporary Art Space Kutomo Sat 27.4.2024 Concert 19:00 (doors 18:30) Tickets: 10/5€

As part of Ehkä-production’s Spring Roll festival Himera’s concert evening presents the Stockholm based American percussionist and sound artist Ryan Packard with music from the series Garden Variety.

Packard’s compositional language is concerned with intimacy, interdependence and sympathetic relationships. At Spring Roll Festival he will present a few pieces from his series Garden Variety, works for various highly amplified solo percussion.

Himera is a collective of four Turku-based musicians and sound artists Marja Ahti, Niko-Matti Ahti, Antti Tolvi and Rasmus Östling, organizing a festival and concerts focused on different expressions of experimental music and sonic art. The group has been active since 2012.

Concert at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo as part of the Spring Roll festival.

The event is supported by the City of Turku. Production: Ehkä-production and Himera Photo: Nicola Jones

https://ryanpackardsounds.org/

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theparanoid · 3 months

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Marja Ahti & Judith Hamann - Saint Eustache, Paris, October / Apricating Doves / Aligned, Trembling / Brumal Aspects

From The Album: A Coincidence Is Perfect, Intimate Attunement (2022)

[Musique concrète, Field Recordings]

#music #musique concrete #field recordings #Youtube

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13melekradyo · 4 months

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6 Ocak 2024 tarihli program kaydı.

Güncel alan kayıtlarından bir seçki // A selection of recent field recordings. Download.

01 – Aki Onda – Part I (excerpt) 02 – Ian Wellman – Wind 03 – Philip Samartzis – Wind (excerpt) 04 – Jana Winderen – The Art Of Listening Under Water (excerpt) 05 – Manja Ristić – Water Memory Pt. I (excerpt) 06 – Action Pyramid & Jack Greenhalgh – Submersion 07 – Ká – Meadows In A Mist 08 – Lucie Páchová – Na Terase 09 – Marja Ahti – Oh Fragrant Witness 10 – Standard Grey – Grevol Tora (excerpt) 11 – Nicola Di Croce – Furnas

#drone #ambient #yeni #new

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nnjzz · 6 months

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SHAKEEB ABU HAMDAN & SHOLTO DOBIE + SYDNAY KOKENDOVITCH aka SLAYLOR MOON + JOACHIM MONTESSUIS + STRIE

JEUDI 16.11

SHAKEEB ABU HAMDAN & SHOLTO DOBIE lb / uk SYDNEY KOKENDOVITCH aka SLAYLOR MOON / ca JOACHIM MONTESSUIS / fr STRIE / fr aux NAUTES 1 Quai des Célestins 75004 M° Sully-Morland

20:00 portes

20:45 action

P.A.F. 6€

SHAKEEB ABU HAMDAN & SHOLTO DOBIE lb / uk Sholto Dobie est écossais, vit et travaille à Vilnius mais surtout voyage beaucoup avec ses performances et installations sonores - " intuitives, délicates, évocatrices et absurdes". Il utilise tout ce qui lui tombe sous la main, bricole ses propres instruments, des orgues ou cornemuses approximatives, notamment, assemblés grossièrement à partir de matériaux divers tels que des anches, des sifflets, des sacs poubelles, des ventilateurs ou des compresseurs d'air, pour s'adapter aux lieux, aux corps et aux situations dans lesquels il se trouve.

Il a présenté des performances au Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, au Café OTO, au Glasgow International, au Scottish Sculpture Workshop, au C.N.E.A.I, Paris et au CCA, à Glasgow. Il travaille régulièrement avec Ben Pritchard et Lia Mazzari, et a collaboré avec entre autres, Rie Nakajima, Ashley Paul, Judith Hamann, Antonina Nowacka, Lucia Nimcova, Marja Ahti & Nico Mahti Athi, Malvern Brume, , Alvaro Daguer, Billy Steiger, Ivor Kallin, Mark Harwood, . Il dirige également la série d'événements Muckle Mouth qu'il a fondée en 2014. Shakeeb Abu Hamdan est un artiste et musicien vivant à Beyrouth, au Liban. Ses enregistrements sonores et ses performances live s’articulent autour de l’utilisation de tambours, de métaux collectés, de cloches et de cymbales qu’il augmente et amplifie avec des transducteurs de surface, des microphones, des effets de modulation de hauteur et de rythme, des mégaphones en boucle bon marché et d’autres appareils électroniques lo-tech. Un équilibre précaire entre les sons acoustiques et amplifiés.

Il a également travaillé sur la conception sonore et la musique pour les performances et les films.

Son travail visuel prend la forme de publications et d'installations d'impression/dessin dans lesquelles il utilise des systèmes d'images et des textes trouvés aux côtés de ses propres écrits et dessins pour examiner les façons étranges dont le récit historique est construit.

Son livre A Life Like Mine, That's Impossible a été publié par Samandal Comics en 2021.

https://davidfpresents.com/2023/01/28/sholto-dobie/

SYDNEY KOKENDOVITCH aka SLAYLOR MOON / ca

" Experimental electronics from a gay ex-neuroscientist " Artiste et musicienne multidisciplinaire, elle partage son temps entre Strasbourg, Paris, Leeds et Calgary (au Canada ) .

Neuroscientifique de formation, son travail s'inspire des thèmes de la détection de formes, du signal/bruit, de l'optique et de la phénoménologie. Elle défend la neurodiversité et la représentation/expression queer dans les arts. Ses projets musicaux sont très divers et incluent l'électronique abstraite, la musique de danse expérimentale et la no wave. " { ( Elle fit notamment partie du trio indie The Courtneys ou du combo " expé-punk " SHEARING PINX… et nous l'avons déjà accueillie avec son projet cut-up électroniqueTWO FORM A CLICK formé avec Lurch / Gretchen ( PETRONN SPHENE ) . ) ] }

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JOACHIM MONTESSUIS / fr Attention : nouvel avatar déjà testé lors d'un confidentiel concert d'appartement récent et au Chair de Poule. Guitare, moult effets pour une chevauchée psych-folk-noisy pastorale et embrumée / embuée du plus bel effet. Projet nouveau - tellement nouveau que pour l'instant aucun lien internautique ne serait disponible... " Guitare possédée et canalisation d’entités UHF. " Figure obscure du panorama poético-bruitiste français, a choisi l’exil et la rareté pour mieux contextualiser ses actions.

https://erratum.org/

STRIE / fr Augustin Bette | batterie Alexandre du Closel | cadre de piano

Le duo pour batterie et cadre de piano STRIE interprète une musique dépouillée, suite de miniatures répétitives où il n'y a de développement qu’involontaire, produit par la perfectibilité de gestes contraints. Le choix de ces contraintes constitue la composition.

Fly - Jo L'Indien

#Bandcamp #Youtube

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musicktoplayinthedark · 1 year

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My albums selection for the next week:

Sarry & Michel Henritzi - Watashi tachi ha nanimonoka

Fusiller - Les Disciplines Miroirs

Cruel Diagonals - Fractured Whole

Marek Pospieszalski - Joyous

Erik Baron - d-zAkord - 58'

Fabio Keiner - Six Prayers

Marja Ahti - The Current Inside

Hermann Nitsch – Weinviertel Sinfonie

Maurizio Bianchi – Menstruum Regles

Ryuichi Sakamoto / Illuha / Taylor Deupree – Perpetual

#musical selection #musical sugestion #sarry #michel henritzi #fusiller #cruel diagonals #marek pospieszalski #erik baron #fabio keiner #marja ahti #hermann nitsch #maurizio bianchi #experimental music #ryuichi sakamoto

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zef-zef · 4 months

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Marja Ahti - Tender Membranes (Black Truffle, 2023)

#2020s #Sweden #Marja Ahti #Electronic #Musique Concrète #Electroacoustic #Field Recording #Experimental #Ambient #Drone #women in electronic music #Black Truffle #2023 #week 04 2024 #Bandcamp

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laurihyvarinen · 7 months

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Sähkökitarakvartetti albums I-IV out now. https://sahkokitarakvartetti.bandcamp.com/ https://linktr.ee/sahkokitarakvartetti I 1. Laura Naukkarinen: Lfolfolfos 2. Sami Klemola: Chiaroscuro Etydes 3. Daniel M Karlsson: Mutually Exclusive Continuities II 1. Marja Ahti: The Threshold 2. Lauri Hyvärinen: Tropes 3. Clara de Asís: everyday less, less everyday III 1. Pauli Lyytinen: Särmiö 2. Sergio Castrillón: 12 Miniatures 3. Hafdis Bjarnadottir: Hyrnan IV 4. Juhani Grönroos: Orb 5. Kalle Kalima: Ajan Haju IV 1. Aili Järvelä: Satama 2. Riikka Talvitie: Energiavaje 3. Meriheini Luoto: Dust Devil 4. Aino Juutilainen: Melting, Flowing, Freezing, Ice 5. Sigurdur Rögnvaldsson: Dettifoss Sähkökitarakvartetti: Juhani Grönroos, Lauri Hyvärinen, Jukka Kääriäinen, Sigurdur Rögnvaldsson - electric guitar Featuring: Jenni Kinnunen - electric guitar on "Mutually Exclusive Continuities Sergio Castrillón - cello on "12 Miniatures" Recorded, mixed and mastered by: Teemu Korpipää Recorded at: Ambience Studios, Helsinki Cover art: Aino-Maija Metsola Layout: Georgi Eremenko

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abraxame · 2 years

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tomdork · 4 years

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MARJA AHTI – Vegetal Negatives Hallow Ground

#marja ahti #vegetal negatives #hallow ground

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dustedmagazine · 5 years

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Marja Ahti — Vegetal Negatives (Hallow Ground)

Photo by T. Tereko nuotr

MARJA AHTI – Vegetal Negatives by Marja Ahti

Vegetal Negatives takes inspiration from René Daumal’s “On pataphotograms,” an essay which plays with the idea of understanding natural forms as separate. A pataphysicist, Daumal states: “for each animal form there exists a corresponding vegetal form. The man who would find his vegetal negative and unite with it would restore the integrity of the cosmos.” Throughout Vegetal Negatives, Finnish composer Marja Ahti inverts tones of fields recordings and synthesizers to complement one another, creating a series of glistening symbiotic associations.

Ahti has been a prominent musician in the Finnish scene for close to ten years. As Tsembla, Ahti combines field recordings and synthesis; on her last release, The Hole in the Landscape on NNA Tapes, Japanese field recordings from cross weave with sparse, rhythmic electronics that seem discretely guided by lurching pulses. As a part of the electronic psych trio Kemialliset Ystävät, led by Jan Anderzén, Ahti contributes to a churning stew of tones and rhythms, certainly free form but tethered by a sense of meter.

With her first album under her own name, Ahti doesn’t concern the various trajectories of her compositions with meeting a meter in attempt to make them more sensible or palatable, rather she plays into narratives the she draws from the tones themselves. Marja uses a similar instrumentation as in her past projects: field recordings, Buchla and ARP synths, harmonium, and electronic feedback. Rather than latching this instrumentation onto a beat or rhythmic backbone, Ahti finely selects, curates, and processes each component allowing their reverberations and tones to reflect off one another.

Four compositions in total, each one conjures its own sensation, but all juxtapose processed or unprocessed field recordings with filtered synthesizer. “Coastal Inversion” follows the sounds of a coastline, from the gurgling waves or distant bells to the sounds of stretching floor boards of a nearby boat with items rolling across its cockpit lead into a cast of purring synthesizers. Ahti skillfully confuses the two sets of sounds; the synthesizers’ fluxing frequencies mimic the effect that a creaking floorboard has in your ear. And “Chora” ends the album with a chorus of wheezing tones which leads into an indistinguishable recorded voice surrounded by dull, arrhythmic thuds and something that could just as easily be scratching of the tweeting of a bird.

The types of traversing reveries this travelogue-like approach lays out coerces you into a fluid understanding of each sound’s origin, often placing you at acute intersections of multiple sound-specific areas. The pace of each piece is slow and deliberate, nothing is forced; it’s like a walk through a vibrant garden, allowing time to perceive intentional and unintentional details, sharpening its color and character. Much like the work of Annea Lockwood, Ahti displays a fascination of sound and a patience to hear each one out.

Ian Forsythe

#marja ahti #vegetal negatives #hallow ground #René Daumal #pataphysics #tsembla #nna tapes #Kemialliset Ystävät #Annea Lockwood #field recordings #ian forsythe #albumreview #dusted magazine #buchla

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