The Squid's Ear Magazine
Electroacoustic Composition


 
TRAC (Teddy Ryles / Alexander Cooper): Heavy Nano Ream Aria [2 CDs]
TRAC (Teddy Ryles / Alexander Cooper):
Heavy Nano Ream Aria [2 CDs]

(Bu Lang Tribute Cake -- USA )


Price: $16.95    

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Extending their TRAC debut Cylinder Plus, Teddy Ryles and Alexander Cooper shape a 90-minute two-CD computer-music composition developed with custom source-filter modeling and cepstral-based transfer methods, transforming digital artifacts, modeled resonance, spectral detail, and unstable electronic textures into a long-form electro-acoustic study of timbre, residue, structure, and abstraction.

Gate, The: Scum [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] <i>[Used Item]</i>
Gate, The:
Scum [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] [Used Item]

(Tubapede -- USA )


Price: $6.00    

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A heavy and wild ride in the 9th album from New York's The Gate of composer and tuba player Dan Peck, bass player Tom Blancarte and percussionist Brian Osborne, concise pieces of heavy melodic elements, dark riffs and an ominous attitude, intersecting with plundered asides and anxious pauses, a strong addition to their discography and an engrossing collection of deep disturbance.

Various Artists: 20 Jahre Inventionen VI <i>[Used Item]</i>
Various Artists:
20 Jahre Inventionen VI [Used Item]

(Edition Rz -- Germany )


Price: $11.00    

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New Pricing April 2019: Recordings from the Berlin Inventionen Festivals for New Music 2005 and 2006 featuring compositions by Edgar Barroso ("ODD"); Mario Verandi ("Comme un jeu des images"); Paul Wilson ("Trhough the Rain"); Ricardo Climent ("Wallwoodpeckers"); Vladimir Djambazov ("The Secret Life of a Snare Drum"); and Ludger Brummer ("Glasharle").

Jeffery, Hilary (w/ Delius / Dunmall / Jeffery / Poulou): Green Prism: Music by Keith Tippett
Jeffery, Hilary (w/ Delius / Dunmall / Jeffery / Poulou):
Green Prism: Music by Keith Tippett

(Discus -- UK )


Price: $15.95    

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Rooted in Keith Tippett's late brass suite Winter's Welcome, Hilary Jeffery reimagines the material through multi-tracked brass, computer and improvisational expansions with Julie Tippetts' voice, Tobias Delius' tenor saxophone and clarinet, Paul Dunmall's saxophones and Eleni Poulou's synthesizer and music box, creating a prism-like tribute of resonant harmony, memory, song and exploratory transformation.

+DOG+: The Garden [VINYL]
+DOG+:
The Garden [VINYL]

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


Price: $15.95    

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A new solo work from Steve Davis's long-running +DOG+ project, recorded in Sudbury, Massachusetts across 2025 and 2026, continuing the Love Earth Music founder's exploration of experimental noise, drones, abrasion and collage-like electronics in a raw sound environment where distortion, density and unstable resonance bloom into a tangled, immersive field of sonic growth and decay.

+DOG+: The Garden
+DOG+:
The Garden

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


Price: $8.95    

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A new solo work from Steve Davis's long-running +DOG+ project, recorded in Sudbury, Massachusetts across 2025 and 2026, continuing the Love Earth Music founder's exploration of experimental noise, drones, abrasion and collage-like electronics in a raw sound environment where distortion, density and unstable resonance bloom into a tangled, immersive field of sonic growth and decay.

Rossetto, Vanessa / Lionel Marchetti: The Tower (The City) <i>[Used Item]</i>
Rossetto, Vanessa / Lionel Marchetti:
The Tower (The City) [Used Item]

(erstwhile -- USA )


Price: $11.00    

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Three distinct compositions from the collaborative work of sound artists Vanessa Rossetto and Lionel Marchetti, the first a wonderfully complex work of musique concrète and acousmatic sources guided by the composers' instincts; "The Tower" expands their concepts through the addition of 18 voices, while the final track features the violin of Anouck Genthon.

Homogenized Terrestrials : Shadows Think Twice
Homogenized Terrestrials :
Shadows Think Twice

(Aubjects -- USA )


Price: $9.95    

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An electronic project from Phillip Klampe following his album The Contaminist, this 16-track release assembles cerebral atmospheres and surreal soundscapes from layered textures and abstract tonal fragments, where familiar and obscure elements blur into shifting, otherworldly environments that invite immersive listening and subtle psychological dislocation.

Chabala, Barry / Clara Byom: Bella's Ghost
Chabala, Barry / Clara Byom:
Bella's Ghost

(Squid Note Records -- USA )


Price: $10.00    
Digital-only release. Squidco does not currently sell digital downloads.

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Blending acoustic guitars, clarinets, accordion, voice and found objects, Barry Chabala and Clara Byom craft a deeply intuitive duo session that moves between unedited studio improvs and expanded "extractions," weaving folk-inflected fragments, graphic score realizations and haunting textures into a raw yet lyrical free improv language shaped by trust, contrast and evolving interplay.

Irarrazabal, Amanda: Imprimiendo
Irarrazabal, Amanda:
Imprimiendo

(Relative Pitch -- USA )


Price: $13.95    

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Using field recordings captured inside working printing houses in Santiago, Chile, Amanda Irarrazabal merges industrial machine rhythms, electro-acoustic manipulation, and studio improvisation into immersive sound works that balance hypnotic repetition, dense textural abstraction, and fragile resonant space, transforming mechanical process into fluid and deeply tactile experimental composition.

La Casa, Eric / Francisco Lopez: Collection Supranaturelle: Induction / Mutation [2 CDs]
La Casa, Eric / Francisco Lopez:
Collection Supranaturelle: Induction / Mutation [2 CDs]

(Swarming -- France )


Price: $23.95    

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Beginning with recordings of an electric induction cooktop made in his kitchen, French sound artist Éric La Casa constructs an electroacoustic work from improvisations and environmental sounds, which Spanish composer Francisco López then transforms into a dense studio mutation, the two discs tracing a dialogue of listening, transformation, and immersive sonic textures drawn from everyday objects and resonant spaces.

Bohman, Adam / Gen Ken: Improvised Music
Bohman, Adam / Gen Ken:
Improvised Music

(Tribe Tapes -- USA )


Price: $13.95    

Out of Stock

A trans-continental mail collaboration between sound artists Adam Bohman and Gen Ken Montgomery, channeling their respective roots in experimental acoustic improvisation and sound art into a single continuous electroacoustic dialogue, blending tactile textures, violin, off-kilter spoken word and electronics in a fluid, open-ended exploration of experimental sound.

Aries House Zaes: Network Friction [VINYL]
Aries House Zaes:
Network Friction [VINYL]

(Editions Verde -- USA )


Price: $14.95    

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Forged across continents in Amherst, Bern and Shenzhen, Annie Aries, Brian House and Marcel Zaes transform the glitches, delays and temporal distortions of online connection into rigorously structured rhythm, as locked vinyl grooves and network artifacts collide in a tightly choreographed performance that reframes digital failure as percussive invention.

Vasallo, Nick: The Burning <i>[Used Item]</i>
Vasallo, Nick:
The Burning [Used Item]

(Ars Nova Classics -- USA )


Price: $5.00    

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The 1st release on the Ars Nova Classics label presents 'Eclecticism' composer Nick Vasallo in genre�blurring avant and electro-acoustic works performed by several ensembles.

MusicWorks: #110 Summer 2011 [MAGAZINE + CD] <i>[Used Item]</i>
MusicWorks:
#110 Summer 2011 [MAGAZINE + CD] [Used Item]

(Musicworks -- Canada )


Price: $12.00    

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Summer 2011 issue of Canada's premiere music magazine and CD, with articles and tracks from Gregory Oh, Grimes, Doldrums, The Vegetable Orchestra, Terri Hron, Miguel Azguime, Rachel Wadham, &c.

Lugano, Tony / Frank Rosaly: Pistas
Lugano, Tony / Frank Rosaly:
Pistas

(Utech Records -- USA )


Price: $13.95    

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Rooted in Afro-Caribbean rhythmic traditions yet intent on dismantling them, Tony Lugano and Frank Rosaly engage drums and electronics in a dense, dialogic exploration where traditional Caribbean patterns are fragmented into indiscernible matrices and charged sonic fields, transforming percussion into an act of cultural remembrance, resistance and deeply physical free improvisation.

+Felladog+: II
+Felladog+:
II

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


Price: $8.95    

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The second collaboration between Steve Davis and Jim Fellahean Szudy, recorded in 2025 and unfolding across fifteen carefully shaped tracks that move fluidly between droning loops, harsh noise, hypnotic textures, and death-ambient atmospheres, with each piece functioning as a self-contained narrative while contributing to a cohesive, emotionally charged whole of sustained intensity.

Collins, Nicolas / Birgit Ulher: Spark Gap [CD + DOWNLOAD]
Collins, Nicolas / Birgit Ulher:
Spark Gap [CD + DOWNLOAD]

(Relative Pitch -- USA )


Price: $13.95    

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Two radically reimagined trumpets meet as Nicolas Collins' sensor-driven "!trumpet" electronics and Birgit Ulher's object- and radio-extended brass collide and converge, producing a strikingly unified language of shifting textures, pressured breath, metallic resonance, and quick-fire interplay that constantly blurs the line between acoustic gesture and electronic artefact.

Fortrexx (Phil Zampino): Breathless
Fortrexx (Phil Zampino):
Breathless

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


Price: $12.95    

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Under the Fortrexx moniker, Squidco's own Phil Zampino, aka CHANGES TO blind, shapes field recordings, samples, and electronics into subliminal sonic environments that drift and mutate beneath conscious attention, forming enveloping sound tapestries that fill silence without intrusion and function fluidly at low or high volume for contemplation, altered states, or quiet immersion.

Eventless Plot: Unlearning Noise
Eventless Plot:
Unlearning Noise

(Discreet Archive -- UK )


Price: $15.95    

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Blending field recordings, percussion, tapes, and modular synthesis with Marina Katsarou's voice and text and Eva Matsigou's flute, Eventless Plot reshape urban sound into a finely detailed electroacoustic work that invites listeners to reconsider noise as a living, expressive presence, revealing the shifting textures, hidden meanings, and poetic potential embedded within the everyday sonic fabric of the city.

Allbee, Liz: Breath Vessels [VINYL]
Allbee, Liz:
Breath Vessels [VINYL]

(NI-VU-NI-CONNU -- Luxembourg )


Price: $32.95    

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Using self-built breath vessels alongside tuning forks, sine waves, and voice, Liz Allbee creates a form of speculative folk music shaped by respiratory rhythms, resonant drones, and tactile gestures, unfolding a quietly epic, intimate, and immersive soundworld that imagines future collectivity through shared breath, material resonance, and electro-acoustic communion.

La Casa, Eric / Seijiro Murayama: Paris Public Spaces 2
La Casa, Eric / Seijiro Murayama:
Paris Public Spaces 2

(Swarming -- France )


Price: $15.95    

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Recorded across various public spaces in Paris, this collaborative work extends the practice of Eric La Casa and Seijiro Murayama as they document subtle vocal interventions and field recordings that explore attentive listening, bodily presence, and sonic autonomy, positioning sound-making as a quiet, animist act of witness within complex urban environments.

La Casa, Eric / Jerome Noetinger: Off Tracks
La Casa, Eric / Jerome Noetinger:
Off Tracks

(erstwhile -- USA )


Price: $13.95    

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Compositions from Éric La Casa and Jérôme Noetinger built from site recordings made while exploring buildings emptied of their activities, crossing spaces abandoned by their occupants and drifting through the ghostly traces of vanished presence, revealing a mysterious electroacoustic force that lingers within the shifting textures of these emptied environments.

Deman, Berlinde: Plank 9
Deman, Berlinde:
Plank 9

(Relative Pitch -- USA )


Price: $13.95    

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Exploring the resonant depths of the serpent, a low-pitched lip-reed aerophone, and her own voice through effects and extended techniques, Belgian musician Berlinde Deman crafts an intimate and deeply personal sound world where breath, tone, and distortion intertwine, her slow and deliberate process unfolding like a meditative journey toward balance, discovery, and quiet transformation.

Gate, The : Almost Live [CASSETTE + MAGAZINE]
Gate, The :
Almost Live [CASSETTE + MAGAZINE]

(Imploding Sounds -- USA )


Price: $12.95    

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A cryptic live document from The Gate's expanded lineup — Dan Peck, Tom Blancarte, Brian Osborne and guests — casting subharmonic dread, electroacoustic rupture, and dirge-like trance into two versions of the same ritual, where Almost Live blurs performance and fabrication and the Marston Mix sinks the remains into deeper, uncharted gloom, accompanied by a fractured visual zine of equal disquiet.

Reign of Ferns (Raffa / Weathers): In The Same Room
Reign of Ferns (Raffa / Weathers):
In The Same Room

(Editions Glomar -- USA )


Price: $9.95    

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A transpacific collaboration merging long-distant sonic composition and improvisation between Taipei-based Ryan J Raffa and Texas composer Andrew Weathers, capturing the evolving project Reign of Ferns in an intimate, improvisational exchange of texture and tone, their music shaped by distance, friendship, and the quiet resonance of shared creative presence.

Machida, Yoshio: Documentary Music <i>[Used Item]</i>
Machida, Yoshio:
Documentary Music [Used Item]

(Amorfon -- Japan )


Price: $10.00    

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A collection of Yoshio Machida's soundtracks for NHK documentaries on artists Shinro Ohtake, Junichiro Tanizaki, and Maruyama Okyo recorded between 2020 and 2023, presenting a wide stylistic range from acoustic chamber works and dreamy piano reverberations to glitch electronics, steel pan melodies, funk beats, and jazz, highlighting Machida's versatility as composer and performer.

Machida, Yoshio: Utsusemi <i>[Used Item]</i>
Machida, Yoshio:
Utsusemi [Used Item]

(Amorfon -- Japan )


Price: $10.00    

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An evocative solo album from Yoshio Machida, who performs and overdubs steelpan, piano, bass, drums, and electronics in serene, poetic soundscapes where the transparent timbre of steelpan and keys weave ambient textures of nostalgic beauty, influenced by Buddhist notions of emptiness and form, recalling the refined aesthetics of ECM while creating a deeply personal aural refuge.

Kahn, Jason: All Across The Universe
Kahn, Jason:
All Across The Universe

(Editions -- Switzerland )


Price: $14.95    

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Drawn from field recordings made in Tainan, Taiwan and recomposed in Zurich, this album by Jason Kahn transforms ambient hums, distant voices and architectural resonances into a contemplative sonic map where place becomes material, silence pulses with hidden motion and listening itself is foregrounded as gesture, inviting deep immersion rather than narrative resolution.

Eckhardt, Julia: Blanca
Eckhardt, Julia:
Blanca

(Another Timbre -- UK )


Price: $16.95    

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Developed during a residency in the Spanish town of Blanca, violist Julia Eckhardt's eight compositions trace daily walks through the arid hills as sound, image, and memory, each piece born from field recordings, photographs, and improvisations that echo the wind-swept landscape, transforming the act of walking and listening into meditative musical reflection.

A Magic Whistle: The Solar Cell [VINYL]
A Magic Whistle:
The Solar Cell [VINYL]

(Public Eyesore -- USA )


Price: $24.95    

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Recorded largely in an off-grid mountain hut, the fifth A Magic Whistle album finds Andy Puls uniting the chamber-folk intimacy and minimalist electronics of his earlier work into a vivid, wilderness-shaped soundscape where homemade sequencers, modular synths, guitars, whistles, and his resonant "Cascadian Sympathetic Steel" flow with field recordings and wordless voice.

S*Glass: Benign Neglect
S*Glass:
Benign Neglect

(Public Eyesore -- USA )


Price: $12.95    

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Founding member of Bren't Lewiis Ensemble and Glands of External Secretion, and longtime driver of Bananafish magazine, Seymour Glass (as S*Glass) presents three 20-minute works of surrealist musique concrète, layering loops, cassettes, objects, organ, voice, and field recordings into unsettling yet strangely meditative sound collages that conjure fever dreams and altered states.

McGee, Hal: Columbus Expedition [Cassette w/ Download]
McGee, Hal:
Columbus Expedition [Cassette w/ Download]

(Copy This! -- USA )


Price: $8.95    

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A celebration of friendship, sound, and daily life, Hal McGee�s cassette + download release assembles dictaphone recordings from his June 2025 trip to Ohio, capturing conversations with Chris Phinney, Jeff Chenault, and Jerry Kranitz, the ambience of caf�s, shops, and the Arts Fair, collaborative studio and live performances, and voices from the city, composed into a strangely compelling audio diary.

Zuydervelt, Rutger: The Wonder Of It All
Zuydervelt, Rutger:
The Wonder Of It All

(Machinefabriek -- The Netherlands )


Price: $13.95    

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A 50-minute continuous electronic composition created for choreographer Daniel Linehan's dance work of the same name, blending radiant energy, nostalgic nods to '90s electronic music, and a flowing sense of wonder, as composer Rutger Zuydervelt crafts a joyful, immersive score that evokes transformation, unity, and the ecstatic potential of sound and movement.

Thrash the Flash (Dufourd / Foussat): Viens !
Thrash the Flash (Dufourd / Foussat):
Viens !

(Fou Records -- France )


Price: $16.95    

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A rare meeting across four decades as guitarist Marc Dufourd and synthesist Jean-Marc Foussat revisit their Axolotl roots, juxtaposing the raw collage of their 1982 improvisations — feedback, fractured rhythms, and spectral melodies — with a 2023 counterpart of folk-tinged guitar, toys, and electronics, a reflective dialogue on time, memory, and sound�s restless possibilities.

Jaeger, Kassel: Fernweh [VINYL]
Jaeger, Kassel:
Fernweh [VINYL]

(Black Truffle -- Austria )


Price: $34.95    

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A major work in Kassel Jaeger's catalog, blending musique concrète and electronic synthesis into a drifting, immersive soundscape across two LP sides, shifting through abstract environments rich with elusive textures and hidden detail, as subtle rhythms and concrete sounds evoke a sense of motion, memory, and a yearning that echoes the meaning behind the album's title: a deep longing to travel.

Machida, Yoshio: Utsusemi
Machida, Yoshio:
Utsusemi

(Amorfon -- Japan )


Price: $14.95    

In Stock

An evocative solo album from Yoshio Machida, who performs and overdubs steelpan, piano, bass, drums, and electronics in serene, poetic soundscapes where the transparent timbre of steelpan and keys weave ambient textures of nostalgic beauty, influenced by Buddhist notions of emptiness and form, recalling the refined aesthetics of ECM while creating a deeply personal aural refuge.

Machida, Yoshio: Documentary Music
Machida, Yoshio:
Documentary Music

(Amorfon -- Japan )


Price: $14.95    

In Stock

A collection of Yoshio Machida's soundtracks for NHK documentaries on artists Shinro Ohtake, Junichiro Tanizaki, and Maruyama Okyo recorded between 2020 and 2023, presenting a wide stylistic range from acoustic chamber works and dreamy piano reverberations to glitch electronics, steel pan melodies, funk beats, and jazz, highlighting Machida's versatility as composer and performer.

Lopez, Francisco: Untitled (2021-2022) [2 CDs]
Lopez, Francisco:
Untitled (2021-2022) [2 CDs]

(Bu Lang Tribute Cake -- USA )


Price: $21.95    

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A double CD of composed environmental sound works from Francisco López, assembling raw field recordings from locations including Tenerife, Eswatini, Israel, Georgia, Chile, and the southwestern USA, along with a film soundtrack and a collaboration with Felipe Otondo, creating immersive, abstract electroacoustic pieces with intentional silences and textural extremes.

Dream Weapon: New Blue Lagoon
Dream Weapon:
New Blue Lagoon

(Eternal Music Projects -- Australia )


Price: $15.95    

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Under the alias Dream Weapon, Australian visual artist Ben Björk crafts a lush and immersive sonic journey recorded over five years across five continents, blending ambient, new age, shoegaze, and field recordings into a tropical "AmbienGaze" soundscape that drifts from sunrise serenity to twilight unease in a single day's arc.

Solar Cells: Warm Spell
Solar Cells:
Warm Spell

(Eternal Music Projects -- Australia )


Price: $15.95    

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The debut from the Australian, Naarm-based electronic project Solar Cells presents a hypnotic exploration of modular synthesis and cyclic rhythm, drawing from kosmische traditions and minimalist structures through analog gear and tape effects to create immersive, slowly evolving soundscapes rich in texture, pulse, and experimental clarity.

Baron, Marc / Eric La Casa: Contrefacons
Baron, Marc / Eric La Casa:
Contrefacons

(Swarming -- France )


Price: $15.95    

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Exploring the fragility of recorded memory and the processes of cinematic restoration, Marc Baron and Eric La Casa capture, manipulate, and recontextualize sounds from the Hiventy film laboratories, transforming them through analogue treatments and dynamic re-recording into a compelling meditation on representation, decay, and the shifting nature of perception.

Fishkin, Daniel : Dark Listening [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] <i>[Used Item]</i>
Fishkin, Daniel :
Dark Listening [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] [Used Item]

(Tripticks Tapes -- USA )


Price: $8.00    

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Taking the viola da gamba and the daxophone into uncharted (dark) territories, composer Daniel Fishkin (who studied with daxophone inventor Hans Racheil) presents four works leveraging interference & frequency patterns, performed with an exceptional set of specialists on each instrument, and Fishkin's own 20-foot long instrument, The Lady's Harp, creating long, sustained tones.

Vasallo, Nick: The Burning <i>[Used Item]</i>
Vasallo, Nick:
The Burning [Used Item]

(Ars Nova Classics -- USA )


Price: $6.00    

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The 1st release on the Ars Nova Classics label presents 'Eclecticism' composer Nick Vasallo in genre�blurring avant and electro-acoustic works performed by several ensembles.

Zabelka, Mia / Glen Hall: The Quantum Violin <i>[Used Item]</i>
Zabelka, Mia / Glen Hall:
The Quantum Violin [Used Item]

(FMR -- UK )


Price: $10.00    

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The intersection of Austrian violinist, vocalist and sound artist Mia Zabelka and Canadian sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Glen Hall, using recordings of live improvisations, electronics and unusual applications of software to structure fourteen compositions of accomplished playing and startlingly unpredictable sound, a magnificent and often breathtaking journey.

Klinga, Erik: Elusive Shimmer [VINYL]
Klinga, Erik:
Elusive Shimmer [VINYL]

(thanatosis produktion -- Sweden )


Price: $24.95    

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Swedish composer Erik Klinga crafts radiant electroacoustic works from Buchla synth, pipe organ, drum machine, and field recordings, weaving melodic ambient vignettes that shimmer with warmth and light, moving through celestial textures, gliding rhythms, and bird-like flourishes in a richly detailed debut recorded at Stockholm�s Royal College of Music, the first of a planned trilogy on Thanatosis.

Brass Clouds: Escape Vessels
Brass Clouds:
Escape Vessels

(Bathysphere Records -- USA )


Price: $13.95    

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Multi-instrumentalist and composer Dustin Dybvig crafts a layered and melodic exploration of existence, time, and cosmic themes through his project Brass Clouds, blending psychedelic textures, shimmering beats, and introspective soundscapes into a mesmerizing sonic journey across dimensions and dying worlds.

Olsen, Lance Austin  : Death in the Urban Jungle
Olsen, Lance Austin :
Death in the Urban Jungle

(Confront -- UK )


Price: $13.95    

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A one-track electroacoustic work composed and mixed by Lance Austin Olsen, combining amplified copper plate, shruti box, guitar, flute, found tapes, and processed objects with extended voice and sampler, forming a dynamic and unpredictable narrative that shifts between silence, tension, and resonance in a rich, scored soundscape of urban unease.

Kuvveti, Deli : Kuslar Soyledi [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
Kuvveti, Deli :
Kuslar Soyledi [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]

(Tsss Tapes -- Italy )


Price: $9.95    

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A limited-edition cassette release from Turkish-born, Seattle-based artist Deli Kuvveti, Kuşlar Söyledi presents four studio compositions blending creaking doors, bird and liquid sounds, and minimal drones into a meditative exploration of microsound and sound collage.

Nakayama, Tetsuya: Edo Wan [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
Nakayama, Tetsuya:
Edo Wan [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]

(Tsss Tapes -- Italy )


Price: $9.95    

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Composing with assembled field recordings and environmental textures, Chiba, Japan-based composer Tetsuya Nakayama transforms mundane sounds into poetic events, as water, metal, and incidental noise intertwine in a quiet yet immersive narrative that re-enchants everyday spaces, revealing a new mode of listening shaped by nuance and fleeting detail.

Klinga, Erik: Elusive Shimmer
Klinga, Erik:
Elusive Shimmer

(thanatosis produktion -- Sweden )


Price: $13.95    

In Stock

Swedish composer Erik Klinga crafts radiant electroacoustic works from Buchla synth, pipe organ, drum machine, and field recordings, weaving melodic ambient vignettes that shimmer with warmth and light, moving through celestial textures, gliding rhythms, and bird-like flourishes in a richly detailed debut recorded at Stockholm�s Royal College of Music, the first of a planned trilogy on Thanatosis.

Birge, Jean-Jacques : Perspectives Du Xxiie Siecle
Birge, Jean-Jacques :
Perspectives Du Xxiie Siecle

(Musee d'ethnographie de Geneve -- Switzerland )


Price: $16.95    

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Commissioned by Geneva's Museum of Ethnography, Jean-Jacques Birgé crafts a richly imaginative sonic fiction using field recordings, archival folk material, and electroacoustic composition, with a remarkable ensemble including Nicolas Chedmail, Antonin-Tri Hoang, Jean-François Vrod, Sylvain Lemêtre, and Else Birgé, evoking a post-human journey through reinvention and memory.

CHANGES TO blind (Phil Zampino): Volume 9 - I Wave on a Fine Vile Mist [CD + DOWNLOAD]
CHANGES TO blind (Phil Zampino):
Volume 9 - I Wave on a Fine Vile Mist [CD + DOWNLOAD]

(Squidco -- USA )


Price: $12.95    

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The ninth and first concept album from Phil Zampino's CHANGES TO blind project, composed from synthetics, samples, field recordings, plunders, and voice, draws on a childhood 10" circus record to explore life's strange loop through sonic experimentation, collage, and poetry-blurring memory, absurdity, and existential inquiry in a deeply personal, carousel-like narrative.

Chrysakis, Thanos: Psyche
Chrysakis, Thanos:
Psyche

(Eternal Music Projects -- Australia )


Price: $15.95    

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Exploring the depths and boundaries of the psyche through seven compelling electroacoustic compositions, Greek composer Thanos Chrysakis delivers a deeply psychedelic, mysterious, and immersive sonic journey, masterfully blending electronic textures and acousmatic elements that resonate within the listener's consciousness, psyche, and imagination — a vivid reflection on complex inner landscapes.

Zorn, John (Ikue Mori): The Bagatelles Vol. 4 Ikue Mori
Zorn, John (Ikue Mori):
The Bagatelles Vol. 4 Ikue Mori

(Tzadik -- USA )


Price: $19.95    

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Downtown NY improviser, sound artist and drummer Ikue Mori reimagines John Zorn's compositions from his Bagatelles book through her distinctive electronic lens, crafting a solo album where composed structures meet spontaneous digital improvisation, revealing new dimensions and highlighting her innovative approach to sound and form.

Pek Solo: A Quartet of Peks - Unifications <i>[Used Item]</i>
Pek Solo:
A Quartet of Peks - Unifications [Used Item]

(Evil Clown -- USA )


Price: $5.00    

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Mello, Laura: Esta Verde! <i>[Used Item]</i>
Mello, Laura:
Esta Verde! [Used Item]

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


Price: $12.00    

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Using multiple voices, field recordings and electronics, Brazil-born composer living in Berlin Laura Mello works with spoken language as she explores human perception of acoustic phenomena in relation to spoken language, here in 8 compositions or excerpts that reveal hallucinatory and unusual aspects of speech complemented by elusive aural environments.

del Pino, Francisco / Charlotte Mundy: The Sea [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
del Pino, Francisco / Charlotte Mundy:
The Sea [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]

(Notice Recordings -- USA )


Price: $9.95    

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Composer Francisco del Pino and vocalist Charlotte Mundy create a deeply nuanced and emotionally rich exchange, as Mundy's radiant voice navigates del Pino's intricate, polyphony-tinged compositions, layering syllabic repetition, resonant phrasing, and textural detail into a multitrack performance that evokes mantra, lament, and ecstatic meditation in equal measure.

111 (Michelle / Villamil): Live at Opus 40 [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
111 (Michelle / Villamil):
Live at Opus 40 [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]

(Notice Recordings -- USA )


Price: $8.95    

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The duo of Chantal Michelle and Grace Villamil transform the monumental land sculpture of Opus 40 into a resonant instrument, layering voice and electronics with field recordings and audience interactions to create an immersive, spatially dynamic performance of ambient tension and sonic obliteration, masterfully teetering between composed sound, environmental resonance, and blooming noise.

La Casa, Eric: Zones Portuaires 2
La Casa, Eric:
Zones Portuaires 2

(Swarming -- France )


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Working from recordings made at maritime ports between 2017 and 2023, sound artist Éric La Casa constructs a compelling suite of documentary compositions shaped by the industrial rhythms, constraints, and spatial tensions of global harbours, blending field recording and sonic observation into a tactile, immersive portrait of male-dominated coastal labor environments.

Illusion Of Safety: Float
Illusion Of Safety:
Float

(Full Spectrum -- USA )


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An immersive electroacoustic meditation from Dan Burke's Illusion Of Safety project, exploring the sonic essence of water through field recordings, granular synthesis, and processed textures — an evolving narrative that honors water's beauty and power, while reflecting on our fragile relationship with the natural world through deep listening and multichannel design.

Nil by Nose: Pictures On Trains Repainted
Nil by Nose:
Pictures On Trains Repainted

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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A collage of reinterpretations based on original tracks composed by Nil by Nose to accompany graffiti-covered train videos, this remix album features a diverse range of experimental artists reimagining those quick, raw compositions into a wildly creative and unpredictable audio journey through sound, decay, rhythm, and noise.

+DOG+: Peace
+DOG+:
Peace

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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A long-running experimental noise unit led by Steve Davis and featuring Lob Instagon, +DOG+ craft a subtle and textural set of eighteen lo-fi electroacoustic improvisations recorded in Massachusetts, California, and Rhode Island, blending electronics, field recordings, and minimalist structures with a calm, intimate, and exploratory aesthetic.

Thee Checkered Shoed Dude: A 'Lil Test Of That
Thee Checkered Shoed Dude:
A 'Lil Test Of That

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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Blending layered studio experimentation with raw live performance, the mysterious Thee Checkered Shoe Dude's album traverses glitchy textures, looped electronics, and spontaneous energy, recorded in Miami and on stage in Phoenix and Sacramento, for a vibrant and unpredictable electroacoustic journey that bridges structured sound design and chaotic improvisation.

Zilmrah: Hallucinatory X-Ray Visions
Zilmrah:
Hallucinatory X-Ray Visions

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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The debut full-length from Lawry Romani's noise/drone project Zilmrah blends manipulated samples, modular synths, and handcrafted electroacoustic instruments into intriguingly distorted yet spacious soundscapes, balancing hypnotic rhythms with dadaist absurdity and dense sonic experimentation in a captivating journey of cut-up electronics and immersive drones.

Chase, Caleb: Looking At Bugs Under A Log
Chase, Caleb:
Looking At Bugs Under A Log

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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Experimental composer Caleb Chase presents 15 succinct electroacoustic pieces that delve into intricate sound spatialization and panning techniques, crafting immersive auditory environments where layered textures and dynamic movements reveal hidden sonic details, rewarding attentive listening through headphones or stereo speakers.

Stelzer, Howard: The Flemish Giants (Suburban Observances Vol. 5)
Stelzer, Howard:
The Flemish Giants (Suburban Observances Vol. 5)

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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A large-scale and meticulously deconstructed sonic exploration from Howard Stelzer, weaving layers of manipulated cassette tapes, tape players, and speakers with extensive processing from sonic luminaries Ralf Wehowsky, Brendan Murray, Linda Aubry Bullock, Bruno Duplant, Fani Konstantidou, and Andrew Zukerman — for a dense and unpredictable landscape where textures dissolve and reform in shifting abstractions.

Mori, Ikue: Of Ghosts And Goblins
Mori, Ikue:
Of Ghosts And Goblins

(Tzadik -- USA )


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Electronic innovator Ikue Mori presents a captivating 9-part work drawing inspiration from Lafcadio Hearn's chronicles of Japanese folklore, through intricate laptop electronics and synthesizer work, conjuring a series of instrumental miniatures that evoke the ethereal presence of fox spirits, phantoms, and other spectral entities, a mysteriously enchanting and seductive work.

Birge, Jean-Jacques : Animal Opera
Birge, Jean-Jacques :
Animal Opera

(GRRR -- France )


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Blending the autonomous compositions of Nabaz'mob, his opera for 100 smart rabbits, with the vibrant naturalism of "Dawn at Shimiyacu", a field recording from Peru's Amazon rainforest, Jean-Jacques Birgé along with Antoine Schmitt juxtaposes minimalist robotic orchestrations with raw environmental soundscapes, creating a genre-defying exploration within his signature sonic universe.

Birge, Jean-Jacques : Centenaire De Jean-Jacques Birge - The 100th Anniversary (1952 - 2052)
Birge, Jean-Jacques :
Centenaire De Jean-Jacques Birge - The 100th Anniversary (1952 - 2052)

(GRRR -- France )


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A retrospective spanning ten decades (1958-2018) celebrating Jean-Jacques Birgé's multifaceted career through compositions reflecting each era, blending archival recordings with new works through a remarkable ensemble of longtime collaborators, from brass and strings to electronics and voice; a sonic journey bridging past, present, and imagined futures with impressive orchestration and narrative.

Un Drame Musical Instantane: Qui Vive?
Un Drame Musical Instantane:
Qui Vive?

(GRRR -- France )


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A strikingly inventive work from Un Drame Musical Instantané, as Jean-Jacques Birgé, Bernard Vitet, and Francis Gorgé blend synthesizers, trumpet, guitar, voice, and unconventional instrumentation in a satire of television and religion, merging free improvisation, jazz, electronics, and contemporary composition into a provocative and unclassifiable sonic experience.

Sharp, Elliott (w/ Coleman / Dulberger / Green II / Insell / Jiang / McKenzie / Salomon / Wooley): H
Sharp, Elliott (w/ Coleman / Dulberger / Green II / Insell / Jiang / McKenzie / Salomon / Wooley):
Hudson River Compositions 1973-74

(zOaR Records -- USA )


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Inspired by fireflies, birds, and the flow of the Hudson River while living in Germantown, NY, Elliott Sharp developed these compositions using traditional, graphic, & conceptual scores, presented here in a collage of sessions featuring Sharp on reeds & strings with Anthony Coleman, Nate Wooley, Shayna Dulberger, Hao Jiang, Terry L. Greene, Don McKenzie, Terry L. Green II, Sara Salomon, and Judith Insell.

Abcess Grenk: Erguss Von Licht [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
Abcess Grenk:
Erguss Von Licht [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]

(Copy This! -- USA )


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Marc Myers, recording in Lincoln, Nebraska, is the creative force behind Abcess Grenk, merging analog electronics and experimental guitar in Erguss Von Licht, as a blend of synthesizers, modular synths, a Fender guitar, and a '69 Fender Deluxe Reverb amp, for richly layered and textured improvisations steeped in a DIY aesthetic that reflects Myers' decades-long evolution in sound exploration.

Koch-Schutz-Studer & El Nil Troop: Heavy Cairo Traffic
Koch-Schutz-Studer & El Nil Troop:
Heavy Cairo Traffic

(Intuition -- Germany )


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Documenting a 1995 collaboration between Swiss improvisers Hans Koch, Martin Schütz, and Fredy Studer with Egypt's El Nil Troop, blending live and studio recordings of Egyptian folk music and European jazz improvisation into a dynamic, respectful and ecstatic fusion that preserves the essence of both traditions while adding inventive layers in a versatile and passionately energetic release.

Persson, Rasmus / Lee Noyes : Ratios
Persson, Rasmus / Lee Noyes :
Ratios

(Idealstate Recordings -- Sweden )


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The collaboration between sound artists Lee Noyes and Rasmus initiated during their 2021 residency at Elementstudion in Goteborg, blending feedback electronics to explore balance, restraint, and precision; navigating the unpredictability of their instruments, they use improvisation, negative space and perceptual phenomena to develop these fascinating compositions.

Fagaschinski, Kai / Yan Jun : Graveyard Processions [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD]
Fagaschinski, Kai / Yan Jun :
Graveyard Processions [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD]

(NI-VU-NI-CONNU -- Luxembourg )


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Recorded in Berlin during the summer of 2022, this first collaboration between clarinetist Kai Fagaschinski and Beijing-based sound artist Yan Jun, blends clarinet, voice, and field recordings with objects and inventive sound sources in four pieces that dissolve boundaries between improvisation, composition, and experimental sound design, creating a dizzying, multilayered auditory experience.

Wooden Cities: WORK
Wooden Cities:
WORK

(Infrasonic Press -- USA / Canada )


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Opening with an adaptation of Cornelius Cardew's "Red Flag", the Buffalo-based new music ensemble Wooden Cities Brendan Fitzgerald introduces the first of a trilogy of albums, a set of narrative works that confront topics of work, labor, commodity, and justice through a blend of composition and improvisation, including works by Cardew, Julius Eastman, and Frederic Rzewski.

Jeck, Philip: rpm [2 CDs]
Jeck, Philip:
rpm [2 CDs]

(Touch -- UK )


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Collecting work from Philip Jeck's life and collaborations, including projects with Fennesz, Jah Wobble, Faith Coloccia, Gavin Bryars and Chris Watson, including Oxmardyke completed from Watson's recordings, Jana Winderen's pilot whale track, and reflections on Jeck's groundbreaking audiovisual work Vinyl Requiem (1993), showcasing his legacy of innovation in sound and performance.

Brant, Cody / Carl Kruger: Smoke Detail <i>[Used Item]</i>
Brant, Cody / Carl Kruger:
Smoke Detail [Used Item]

(Chocolate Monk -- UK )


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Developed using recordings made in Oregon and in North Carolina from West Coast sound and multimedia artists Cody Brand and Carl Kruger, Brant expanding Kruger's initial tracks with his own rhythmic additions and sonic embellishments to create twelve compositions with a recommended use of "reflective open-road journeys", noted as "Reality-dream boundary: blurred".

Corcoran, Kevin / Andrew Weathers: Peripheral Residue
Corcoran, Kevin / Andrew Weathers:
Peripheral Residue

(Editions Glomar -- USA )


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Two acoustic improvisations from percussionist Kevin Corcoran and Andrew Weathers on soprano saxophone, recorded in an abandoned garage and using the structure's resonance to shape their playing, with the third and title track being an electroacoustic composition by Corcoran, incorporating field recordings from Mare Island, where they were working.

Garcia, Miguel A. / Fernando Carvalho: Siamese
Garcia, Miguel A. / Fernando Carvalho:
Siamese

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


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Developed as part of the 2024 artist-in-residence program at Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao, this series of nine electroacoustic compositions by Miguel A. García and Fernando Carvalho blends rhythms, synthesizers, and Carvalho's field recordings, all manipulated and transformed by García into distinct sonic worlds, each unveiling or making curious mysteriously fascinating sources.

Cosa Brava  (Frith / Parkins / Kihlstedt / Bossi / Ismaily): Z Sides
Cosa Brava (Frith / Parkins / Kihlstedt / Bossi / Ismaily):
Z Sides

(Klanggalerie -- Austria )


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Guitarist & vocalist Fred Frith leads the highly creative quintet of Zeena Parkins on keys & voice, Carla Kihlstedt on violin & voice, Mathias Bossi on drums and Shahzad Ismaily on bass, merging free improv, rock and experimental forms; drawn from live performances recorded by The Normal Conquest, this set of compositions captures the group's dynamic interplay and remarkable inventiveness.

Brant, Cody / Carl Kruger: Smoke Detail
Brant, Cody / Carl Kruger:
Smoke Detail

(Chocolate Monk -- UK )


Price: $9.95    

In Stock

Developed using recordings made in Oregon and in North Carolina from West Coast sound and multimedia artists Cody Brand and Carl Kruger, Brant expanding Kruger's initial tracks with his own rhythmic additions and sonic embellishments to create twelve compositions with a recommended use of "reflective open-road journeys", noted as "Reality-dream boundary: blurred".

Modelbau: Extricate
Modelbau:
Extricate

(Sublime Retreat -- Poland )


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Re-modeling Modelbau, the long-running project of Frans de Waard (also of Kapotte Muziek, Beequeen, Goem, Zebra, Freiband, Shifts, &c), in a dark and atmospheric hour-long work of multi-tracked sound, evolving organically through 14 seamlessly connected sections that layer rich tonal and textural compositional elements, with a brooding and introspective urgency.

Monteiro, Alfredo Costa : Transient Spaces as Impermanent Lines
Monteiro, Alfredo Costa :
Transient Spaces as Impermanent Lines

(Sublime Retreat -- Poland )


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Unfolding as a sonic drift through varied sound atmospheres, Alfredo Costa Monteiro's large sonic canvas creates a narrative akin to a psychogeographical wander that evokes emotional states of disorientation; inspired by found footage techniques in cinema, it serves as a "cinema for the ear," where found sounds stripped of context form an immersive, unpredictable auditory journey.

 

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