Audio Entropy (with dl!)

Same post from the other day, now with a download link :)

Eleveneleven podcast

For some time I've been a fan of the eleveneleven podcast series, now part of Alias Frequencies. I'm super excited to report that I'm this month's guest programmer!

You can stream and download here. Right click to download of course.

Hope it's as fun to listen to as it was to create!

An(other) Unmix!

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Yea, back so soon with another unfoundsound mix! Enjoy these rippin, funky ditties made with some sounds from our small world.

• Roberto Clementi -Valencia
• Alex Medina - 2 Bailes Con Martini Sisters
• Kriss - Jazz Club
• Roberto Clementi - 1939
• Alex Medina - Dinner in Jakarta
• Ben Parris - Chris Needs a Nickname (seph mix)
• Mike Uzzi and Ben Recht - A Fitness Counterrevolution (Ben Parris rmx)
• David Last - Where it Falls (suz rip up the rug rmx)
• Miskate - Strange String

Unfoundsound: An Unmix

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Somewhat vaguely similar to my appreciation of art welded from junk, I am fascinated by the capture, tweaking, and collaging of raw sounds in order to make music. Beauty can come from lots of things- even discarded metal, or random noise waves propogating through the air.

That's why I've got lots of love for Unfoundsound! A netlabel out of Philly, they release quirky, dj friendly dance music that is made with (among other things) found sounds and field recordings from natural or unnatural environments. Besides releasing great music under creative commons licensing, they also have a series of field recordings which make for great fun in making your own music.

From their site:

through monthly releases, unfoundsound offers worldwide exposure to promising new artists as well as established artists from around the globe. in addition, unfoundsound provides a series of free downloadable field recordings (the unfields) available to everyone for creative sampling, musical composition and whatever your fuzzy, little heart desires. enjoy!

Damn Skippy! Thanks to Unfoundsound for their really solid, interesting releases. I hope everyone enjoys this little collection of songs which I put together rather roughly. Also check out their sister label Foundsound for more great music.

* Ditch - Yack
* David Last - Halitosis Rockers
* Kriss - Undersun
* Mike Uzzi and Ben Recht - Slack Talk Space Dub
* So Inagawa - Kada
* Ben Parris - Desktop Willage
* Theilaxu - Highlite (Marc Ashken remix)
* Roberto Clementi - Real Fun
*Ben Parris - Breakfast with Thorialanus (Seth Troxler rmx)
*Alex Medina - Too Much Botox
*Roberto Clementi - Exigent

Room40: Various Artists Airport Symphony -Virtual Terminal

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As with a lot of my posts, this is best heard with a nice pair of headphones. Here's a free release from Room40 that came out last year.

From Room40.com:
The virtual terminal is a freely downloadable companion edition to the Airport Symphony 2CD. It is available from the QMF website.

As Alain De Botton suggests in his book ‘The Art Of Travel’, the act of transit between social, cultural and geographic circumstance is far more than mere bodily movement. Language, architecture, food, gesture, landscape and sound all play a part in travel and ultimately contribute to the sensations of excitement, exoticism, disorientation and even fear that occupy the daily life of the traveller.

At points of departure and arrival on these journeys increasingly lies an airport. Like business hotels across the globe, the airport acts as a uniform presence – rotating gates, the clunk of baggage, the vague chatter of tourist and traveller alike and the occasional interruption of muffled announcements. Vast halls echoing with the shifting of bodies intent on exodus and return.

As Socrates wrote, ‘Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives [sic]’. Indeed, as the choreography of pre-flight checks is conducted following the gentle rock of the plane leaving the air bridge to a soundtrack of gentle pressurised drone and air conditioned hiss, a meditation commences. This moment of consideration is heightened, as the reflected sound of the engines scorching the tarmac surface is vacuumed into the void of open air and as the plane leaves the earth there is (in every traveller no matter how experienced) still a sense of silent awe at the marvels of the physics of flight.

Airport Symphony, commissioned by the Queensland Music Festival and Brisbane Airport Corporation, documents and synthesises the experiences of travel. Each piece represents a personal meditation on aspects of travel in the modern age and suggests ways in which we control, augment and ultimately exists in a time where almost no part of the face of the planet is inaccessible. Each of the pieces features a source recording made in and around Brisbane Airport between March and June 2007 –in a raw form or transformed by processing.

Audio diary entries cataloguing the epic possibilities of flight, aero-passage and human bodies in motion and even at rest.

Anticipate Recordings Summer Tour Remix Volume 1

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One artist I have been listening to a lot lately is Ezekiel Honig, who has a record label named Anticipate Recordings. This label combines elements of ambient, electro-acoustics, slow motion techno, and found house. Over the last several months I have been listening to quite a bit of music from that label, and wanted to throw the most recent web release up here for all a listen.

From www.anticipaterecordings.com:
We're pleased to bring you an exclusive digital release: Summer Tour Remix Volume 1, which, as the title suggests, is a collection of remixes of Sawako's Summer Tour field recordings. 11 tracks from label friends and associates that are all based on the original field recordings, with plenty of instrumental straying from the source…

The concept is simple. Take the sounds from Sawako's Summer Tour field recordings, and make new material with them. That's all the artists were asked to do. The result is a collection that displays the range of artists and the range of approaches. Some use only the original source sounds. Some use them sparingly in the context of a new song. Some add new instrumentation to an otherwise field recording-heavy piece. The common thread is that we love them all. A big thank you to the artists who took the time to participate and bring us such excellent work. Enjoy.

The Commute, Part 2: The Ride Home

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Continuing on the theme of electronic music made with field recordings and found sounds, here are some more upbeat, funky ditties for the fun ride home.

The Suffragettes: "Rikson", Gunsi EP. Goosehound
Nicholas Sauser and Ditch: "Very Vrey Whales", Minlove 06
Socks & Sandals: "Spaced", Rishi Saturn EP, Microcosm Music
Someone Else: "Happiness for Our Time", Happiness for Our Time. Microcosm Music
Pocket Pet: "Noctiluca Falls", Minlove 06

The Commute, Part 1: To Work

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Compiled with the pre-sunrise, groggy commuter in mind. In sequence, this podcast includes:
Ezekiel Honig "Going Sailing Refrain 1" from Scattered Practices, Microcosm Records
Ezekiel Honig "Oceans and Living Rooms" from Scattered Practices, Microcosm Records
Antiguo Automata Mexicano "Extirpe" from Kraut Slut, Static Disco
DB "December 75" from Background Records [mnlv07]
Dave Miller "Down the Line From Harvey" from Mitchells Raccolta, Background Records
Ezekiel Honig, "The Breeze of Hibernation" from It's Getting Cold Outside, Unfoundsound
Morgan Packard "Dappled" from Airships Fill the Sky, Anticipate Records