Noise Tunnel #01, the first release of a my new solo project NNN has just been published by Skitnaste Records
(recorded 24 november 2017, published by Skitnaste Records on 18 december 2018)
Releases
After a web collaboration (album Imperceptible,) Onde Poussière return to free improvisation with their 4th album del_din04, made of sessions recorded on 25th and 26th september 2018. For this occasion, they once more experimented with new set-ups, this time with a focus on lo-fi sound. Doedelzak played laptop amplified with cheap computer speakers and occasionnaly flute, while Kecap Tuyul used his z(xW+yW), a low-tech modular system based on tiny battery-powered guitar amplifiers and contact microphones. Through this new change they continue to explore sonic material and techniques that are likely to cause various accidents and usually unwanted sounds, which are an essential part of the ground on which the band build its improvised soundscapes.
Onde Poussière have used the same set-up in a live performance that took place in Paris on september 26th and can be heard on the duo’s freshly launched bandcamp page. For their next live performance (Tiasi, Paris, 9 janvier 2018), they will try something new again, probably focusing on acoustic instruments with occasional lo-fi amplification.
Band info
Click on the picture to visit the download page on archive.org :
direct download links
Bandcamp mirror (streaming only)
Frozen Clinamen is a serie of works started by Failure Circle in autumn 2017. It follows a simple method inspired by the the possibilities of his no-input mixer set-up and the will to use a limited sound material in a posteriori compositions. All the sounds included in these works are recordings of moments that feature no human intervention. Frozen Clinamen #2 was recorded and mixed between april and august 2018, and released on eg0cide productions in november 2018.
Methodology
step (1) Tweaking the set-up until it produces some seemingly autonomously self-sustained sound sequences.
step (2) Stopping tweaking and recording for at least 20 minutes without any intervention on the set-up.
step (3) Repeating steps (1) & (2) several times.
step (4) Using the generated sounds as only source in a posteriori compositions. The only variations used while mixing are equalization, panoramics and volume levels.
step (5) play it at low/high volume with open/closed window while complety asleep / fully conscious.
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Direct download links
Onde Poussière live at La Pointe Lafayette, September 26th 2018
Doedelzak : laptop, flute
Kecap Tuyul : z(xW+yV)
Recorded by Kecap Tuyul
Picture by JJGFree
Half Evidence (free improvisation duo formed in 2012 with Charles premier ) is currently on hiatus since summer 2016 but the story isn’t finished. Some new material will be published in 2019. Before finalizing these projects, the duo has selected four of their favorite tracks that were given to various compilations (namely Necktar 2017 curated by Ed End on his netlabel Le Colibri Nécrophile and Classwar Karaoke). The resulting album Épiphytes brings four insights on the duo’s works and can be a good way to discover their sound universe and its evolution across the years.
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Full album download links :
Free music archive mirror (mp3 only)
Bandcamp mirror (streaming only)
Credits
Charles premier : home-made instruments (tracks 1 to 3), voice (track 1), turntable (track 4)
Kecap Tuyul : guitar (all tracks), voice (tracks 1, 2, 4), feedback (track 1)
- Etincelle : recorded in Saint-Denis on 10th november 2014, 2 days after the sessions that were published on Entreciel (eg0_133, 2015). Firstly published on Necktar 2017 vol. 7
- Crossing the red line : recorded in Champagnac la Prune on 31st december 2012. Firstly published on Necktar 2017 vol. 6
- D’ombre Chavirer : recorded in Champagnac la Prune 11th october 2012. Firstly published on Necktar 2017 vol. .5. (The same day the duo recorded the improvisation published as Le cachot lumineux (eg0_088, 2013)
- Here it was : recorded in Champagnac la Prune on 1st january 2013 around 3 A.M. Firstly published on Classwar Karaoke – 0025 survey (2014).
All the material has been remastered by Charles premier in order to provide a fluid listening while preserving the specificity of each track.
Flowers in the trashbin is now avialable on eg0cide productions. It was the first collaborative work made via file excchange with my good friend Ayato, intitially published in 2010 by HAK lo-fi record as a limited edition CD-R with a special rectangular cardboard cover that is out of print since a long time. Back then we made some kind of experimental songs that I still like a lot.
And after years of doubts and irregular work I’ve finally finished the mixing of our new album “The Shaman won’t come back” that will be published in a few months.
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Full album download links :
– Flac
– MP3
Credits
Ayato : guitars & other sounds
Kecap Tuyul : guitars & voice
Frozen Clinamen is a new serie of works started by Failure Circle in autumn 2017. It follows a simple method inspired by the the possibilities of his no-input mixer set-up and the will to use a limited sound material in a posteriori compositions. Frozen Clinamen #1 was recorded and mixed between november 2017 & june 2018.
Methodology
step (1) Tweaking the set-up until it produces some seemingly autonomously self-sustained sound sequences.
step (2) Stopping tweaking and recording for at least 20 minutes without any intervention on the set-up.
step (3) Repeating steps (1) & (2) several times.
step (4) Using the generated sounds as only source in a posteriori compositions. The only variations used while mixing are equalization, panoramics and volume levels.
step (5) play it at low/high volume with open/closed window while completely asleep / fully conscious.
Video
Florence Artur has created an abstract video called “Interférences” using this piece.
Reviews
Review by Borealiscape on “Recent Music Heroes” Blog
http://agier.blogspot.com/2018/10/failure-circle-frozen-clinamen-1-2018.html
Comment: previously I have said many words about noise music. Noise is something which arouses my mind. It is like a wicked desire to get involved in the life of strangers, in the life of machines in this case. What the machines used to say, what is their singular way to perceive other artefacts and subjects around them. Yet, their singular language may be indecipherable because of consisting of highly galvanized voltage, uncountable chains of broken chords, anonymous hisses and hazy penumbras. Kecap Tuyul aka Failure Circle`s 63-minute track/album embraces all those interrupted chains and disturbed phase changes getting power from every day life`s suppressed anxiety. The machines are created by the human being yet the more a human being gets subjugated to the artificial satellite, the more he/she will be enslaved by it. A history of the human being can be viewed as the coexistence of the aforementioned ones. Could you get rid of this addictive relationship given that the machines help you outdo (I mean, forget) your own mortality. You meet Grim Reaper with a motorised scythe. The throbbing sonic issue is a part of the discography of Eg0cide Productions.
Failure Circle‘s 3rd album “Symphony #3” has just been released by the Murmure Intemporel netlabel. This is not a symphony, and not even the 3rd one.
Full album download links from archive.org
While Failure Circle‘s 1st album 0x0.0 was full of overdubs, the 2nd one “A mistake within a mistake” consist of 3 raw improvisations recorded in Kecap Tuyul’s home studio during winter 2017-2018. It shows another side of this no-input-mixer project: more focused, less frantic, and even minimalist and droney sometimes.
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Full album download links
Free Music archive mirror : soon
M.A.K.T. Sono – Magali Albespy and Kecap Tuyul – was created in february 2018 from a common taste for improvisation forms that rely more on indetermination and surprise than on the mastering of instrumental skills. They both use electronic tools whose complex settings can generate unexpected sound events and unstable situations. Their first album If you were a clarinet consists of 3 selections of slightly edited improvisations recorded in february and march 2018. These improvisation sessions were an opportunity for them to set up their working methodologies and to experiment playful and meditative dialogs between gesture & sound, activity and inactivity, machines and living creatures.
Magali Albespy is a dancer and performer. She likes to question the borders between formats and artistic disciplines. She explores real-time composition with body, video and sound.
Self-taught improviser Kecap Tuyul uses various (and preferably unstable) tools, looking for ways of playing and interacting (with sounds, with other media, with other people) and questionning the traditional ideas of instrumental mastership and composition.
Direct download links :
Credits:
Magali Albespy : moog mother 32, soundbox
Kecap Tuyul: no-input mixer, effects, mix and artwork
NB : Le premier concert du groupe aura lieu le 21 mai à l’Armony (39 rue Edouard Vaillant, 93100 Montreuil), en ouverture d’une soirée XtetX réunissant Haco et Emiko & KiriSute Gomen (Emiko Ota & Julien Omeyer)
XtetX#33 (21 mai, L’Armony) : Haco / KiriSute Gomen (Emiko Ota & Julien Omeyer) / M.A.K.T. Sono
Kecap Tuyul 