Un vortice di bassa presione is a project by Attilio Novellino (born in Catanzaro in 1983) in which guitar loops, samples, electronic filtering, field recordings and piano melodies are used to build dreamy and melancholy soundscapes, to draw floating layers of material that decomposes slowly, to launch dronic textures that become noises. Reflective and descriptive ambient music, streaked with misty romanticism, characterized by a pronounced emotional side that combines post-industrial visions, classicist glows, pictures and memories into static electricity in turmoil.
Tracklisting: 01 Awaking 2m 33s 02 Stanly Park 5m 13s 03 Childhood 8m 8s 04 Lost Lagoon 6m 16s 05 Sigh 3m 58s 06 The River Has Frozen Over 5m 16s 07 Asleeping in the Sunshine 6m 39s 08 Night Bugs sing silently 5m 48s 09 Moonlight 5m 12s 10 Looking for my constellation 5m 36s 11 Fireworks 5m 41s 12s Starbright Reflected in the Rivers of Canada 10m 11s 13s Smile and Yawn 2m 57s
Tracklisting: 01 - Through the Window 02 - Family 03 - Tragedy of Our Field 04 - A Few Minutes Before the Dawn 05 - The Southern Cross 06 - Two Horses 07 - Song Before You Came 08 - Duck Pond Evening 09 - Mom Piano 10 - A Cat See the World Spinning Round 11 - Homeward Bound download in 320kbps
A leading figure of Japan’s postminimalism movement, Mamoru Fujieda was born in 1955 and first studied composition at the Tokyo College of Music, then received his Ph.D. in music from University of California, San Diego in 1988. Fujieda is internationally recognized as one of music’s outstanding younger composers. Working with artists such as John Zorn, Yuji Takahashi, and Malcolm Goldstein, he composes music that emerges from his fascination with the essentially collaborative formation of music. Fujieda has developed methods of composition that depart from the minimalist tradition, charting a new terrain that liberates music from subjectivity by immersing it in a network of relationships.
Among his numerous methods, he has pioneered a new structure of composition that he calls `parasitic´, since it consists of grafting new material onto a `rhizome´ of original melody borrowed from sources such as Bach, Gregorian chant, or medieval secular music. Whether working with the Butoh dancer Setsuko Yamada to produce sound sculptures that emerge from a mutual reaction between the dancer and objects that she touches, or reading the minute electrical currents flowing through an orchid to express nature’s undulations, Fujieda’s work represents an innovative approach that fuses technology to biology, composer to performer, and music to audience. His The Night Chant and the first six collections of Patterns of Plants appear on the Tzadik label. [last.fm]
"Por desgracia al final ninguno de mis amigos pudo presentarse, así que decidí grabar de todas maneras yo solo. El proceso tuvo lugar los días 20 a 28 de febrero de 2010, días de frío, viento, lluvia y nieve en Madrid. Este album es el resultado de esos nueve días de invierno, un disco melancólico, intimista y minimalista. Los temas son todos improvisados conforme la música surgía, grabados directamente en primera toma. Espero que lo disfrutéis. La portada es obra de mi gran amigo y mejor fotógrafo Diego Sevilla.
Unfortunately, none of my friends could join me for that nine days, so I decided to play and record them myself. The process took place between the 20th and 28th of February, days of cold weather, rain, wind and snow here in Madrid. This album is the result of that nine days of winter, a disc of melancholic, intimate, minimalist music. The songs are all improvised as they were recorded just while the music was being played, directly in first takes. Hope you'll enjoy it. The cover pic is the work of my good friend and best photographer Diego Sevilla."
Tracklisting: 01 6:00 am (6:39) 02 Copos de nieve (3:08) 03 Escapaste por el ventanal abierto (2:10) 04 Cierra los ojos un momento, recuerda... (3:50) 05 El transcurrir de las horas (3:14) 06 El peso del silencio (5:02) 07 Un rayo de luz entró por la ventana y, por un instante, me encontré en paz conmigo mismo (3:19) 08 Una hora de lluvia incesante (1:33) 09 Puedo ver tu casa desde aquí (1:29) 10 Nueve días de invierno (3:42)
silent audiographies | 静默的散文 is a series of 12 minimalist sound and music expositions recorded over a period of one and a half years from 2008 to 2009; accompanied by 12 proses and passages written by sonicbrat.
info:recorded in one afternoon, in one take, on his fathers piano.
Tracklisting:
1. The Big Bang Movement (5:51) 2. The Evolution Movement (6:15) 3. The History Movement (3:02) 4. The Present Movement (4:08) 5. The Apocalypse Movement (6:52) 6. The Unknown Movement (5:08) 7. The Recovery Movement (4:28) 8. The Exiting Movement (4:22) Download in 160 kbps
"Two studies for electric guitar, sine generator and ring modulator. Personal revelation through deconstruction. Footsteps on marble. Fever reverie. Coming to in the snow.
Note: These tracks contain frequencies far below the capabilities of earbuds and computer speakers. Please listen accordingly"
Tracklisting: 1. with broken heart and sharp mind 7:22 2. this, our good stone Mother 7:28
Yuichiro Fujimoto (born 1981) achieves to create little sketches of music accompanied by field recordings. The songs have a very light and unfinnished character - they are representing moments or situations rather than a long time of work in the studio. Fujimoto uses mostly acoustic instruments like guitars, xylophones, piano. In a very sensetive way some of the compositions are edited by digital processing. web
Yuichiro Fujimoto - The Mountain Record
Tracklisting:
1 Lsten To November Steps (2:54) 2 Open Window (For Piano) (3:49) 3 Handwritten Map To Sea (2:36) 4 To Make A Fire In That Old Stove (9:24) 5 Wooden Minimal Music (2:17) 6 Fruit Shapes (3:53) 7 Birds, Cows, Dogs And Bells (3:59) 8 History Of Dreams (4:09) 9 The Tale Of Setting Sun (3:39)
1 In The Grove (0:21) 2 Drawing Of Stars (6:30) 3 Afterrain (3:56) 4 Morning Dance (6:25) 5 Cook Doodle Doo Is Music (1:27) 6 Kid Play, Mom Nap (2:37) 7 Without Mabataki (4:29) 8 Listen To Grandpa's Youth (3:59) 9 Harmony (6:53) 10 Sunday Music Club (1:45) 11 An Octave Of Shells (4:30) 12 Forest's Name (4:03) 13 Old Bird Tape (1:22)
Tracklist: 01 - Alneodie I 02 - Alneodie II 03 - Alneodie III 04 - Alneodie IV 05 - Alneodie V 06 - Alneodie VI 07 - Alneodie VII 08 - Alneodie VIII 09 - Alneodie IX 10 - Alneodie X
01 Elephant 02 Sound Check 03 Tonight 04 Early Morning Life 05 Miniature 06 Drawing 07 Two Am At Winter 08 Shame 09 September 2 10 Saturday 11 Where's Winter There's Home
Tracklist 1 Impulses I 2:10 2 Impulses II 2:35 3 Impulses III 1:28 4 Impulses IV 2:27 5 Impulses V 1:52 6 Impulses VI 2:12 7 Impulses VII 1:25 8 Impulses VIII 1:58 9 Impulses IX 1:59
Tracklist 01 Handwriting (Part I) 02 Etude IV 03 The Blue Cathedral 04 Death of a Dream 05 Etude III 06 Hope/Again/Sleep 07 A Rural Place 08 Handwriting (Part II)
Tracklist 1. The Deer By the Lake 2. The Snail In Love 3. The Thirsty Pond 4. The Beast On The Frozen Lake 5. The Axe In The Swamp 6. The Kind Wolf 7. The Worn Dancing Shoes 8. The Sparkling Feather 9. The Misled Bat 10.The Song Written By A Rabbit 11. The Boat In The Mist
myspace Tracklisting: 1. Debout, Décharges Passives 2. Comme Suspendu A Regarder Passer, Sans Jamais Toucher 3. Le Point Culminant, Le Réveil, Les Mains Brumeuses 4. Effleurer Du Doigt, Déplacer Les Masses 5. Remuer Les Pieds Dans L'Eau, Les Yeux Clairs 6. Aurore, Lettres Manuscrites (G. Hoepffner) 7. Départs Et Décalages 8. Marcher A L'Envers Et Detourner Le Regard. Sur Le Rebord 9. Photographies, Emulsion. Intérprétations
Tracklisting: 1. Union Square 2. Maple And South Parkway 3. Evening 4. Eight 5. Sisyphus With A Lantern 6. Ariadne 7. Parthenon 8. Error 9. Stack Overflow 10. Centripetal 11. Maple And North Parkway 12. Everything 13. Ytiytijy
