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Date of release: 11.11.2019
Format: FILE - MP3 / WAV
Length: 34 min
Artwork: Audiotalaia / Romain Arnette
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Jean Ray is the sound project of multidisciplinary artist Romain Arnette, based in Paris and initially formed in London in 2009.

Experimentation is at the heart of his creative process. He uses different instruments such as guitar, harmonica, percussions, also fields recordings to create a bank of textures and sounds that he transforms and manipulates. The superposition of these fragments combined with electronic sound sources and some software such as pool creates minimalist compositions, an enveloping sound mass where repetitive structures meet sometimes abstract rhythms. 

"Le Refuge" album was composed at the end of a two-years stay in Canada, from 2017 to 2019. This album is marked by several isolation experiments in various natural environments, during his crossing of Canada from east to the west by the road.

It also reflects the gradual slowing down of time that allowed him to observe more precisely the environment in which he has evolved, and brought him to moments of deeper introspections.

All tracks recorded and mixed by Jean Ray.
Mastering by Jan Wysozky.
Date of release: 11.11.2019
Format: FILE - MP3 / WAV
Length: 41 min
Artwork: Audiotalaia / JL Maire
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Goodness



This piece continues the exploration used on my previous works. It is based on a selection of different proportions of the western tempered scale. In this case, a series of intervals belonging to the 7-limit, 11-limit o 13-limit systems.

The book of tables of intervals by french musicologist Alain Daniélou its been fundamental to the process of selection of the scales and intervals, apart from the usual software to elaborate those.

The system used for Goodness and for other pieces done over the years has been a careful selection of specific series of harmonics of a concrete scale. Through that process I explore the new combinations arose between frequency intervals. Aside form that, common concert practice and studio rehearsals has been a fundamental part of this process. It entangles a learning curve, a process of adjustment in convergence with the relationships that are happening between frequencies. Either on the concert context and the studio work, the exploration is being inspired directly by works of American Minimalism and its relationship with the physics of sound (Éliane Radigue, Tony Conrad, Catherine Christer Hennix, etc.), as well as non-western musical theories 

The listening process as a daily workflow is unattainable and endless from a compositional stand point. It matches with readings of multi-species encounters. On those, are described encounters through various interdisciplinary approaches (ethology, musicology, History of species, aesthetics...). To contrast inter-species communication, to observe their facets and duelings are, primarily, process of attention, and listening of the unthinkable and the unattainable.

Gear used: Elaboration of the intervals (Hayward Tuning Vine), modules eurorack, modules Buchla, PinMix Hinton and Korg PS-3200

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Chords from The Elysian Fields

La Monte Young played The Well-Tuned Piano 65 times. Last one was recorded on May 10th 1987. He explored the main scale of that work over the years. He stablished various sections around chords perfectly identifiable within the notes of the recording session and video. Among them are (with their specific motives and clouds) The Opening Chord, The Early Romantic Chord o The Magic Chord. Each of it also include a variety of frequencies.

This work uses the title - and the well-tuned scale - on one of the sections of the Well-Tuned Piano, an area entitled  The Elysian Fields. On the concert 6 hours, 24 minutes and 6 seconds long, that chord starts right at the end around the 5 hours, 54 minutes and 48 seconds mark.

The Elysian Fields uses a well-tuned scale (with the fundamental 1/1 on D) different from the main scale on the work. On this specific piece, the used frequencies belong to the main tuning of The Well-Tuned Piano. La Monte Young concerts require the most precise piano tuning ever use live. Despite this, La Monte Young preferred to use analog synths, such as the Moog, afterwards he shifted to digital synths. Currently his installations work on this type of synth that fixes all the variations of the tuning produced by shifts in temperature on analogue synths.

Thats the reason why I just worked with analogue oscillators, with the intention of not trying to find the right tune (which is an impossible task) but rather finding approximations and modulations between a state of tuning and a certain deviation. Those oscillators allow also for a more direct relationship with the sound and the usage of various feedback techniques ( which enables filters and delays to achieve timbers and grades of saturation imposible to replicate digitally).


Gear Used: Modules eurorack, Modules Buchla, PinMix Hinton y Korg PS-3200.

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Goodness



Esta pieza, que continúa la exploración utilizada en obras anteriores, se basa en la selección de proporciones diferentes a las de la escala temperada occidental. En este caso, se trata de intervalos que pertenecen a los sistemas 7-limit, 11-limit o 13-limit. 


El libro de tablas de intervalos del musicólogo e indólogo francés Alain Daniélou ha sido fundamental en el proceso de selección de escalas e intervalos (a parte de los softwares típicos para la elaboración de escalas). 


El sistema utilizado para Goodness y para las piezas elaboradas en los últimos años: mediante la selección de una determinada serie de armónicos o mediante la construcción de una escala específica, se exploran las relaciones, inéditas para mí, que surgen entre los intervalos de frecuencias. Después, el trabajo continúa mediante la práctica de los conciertos o en el trabajo de estudio. Es decir, es un sistema de continuo aprendizaje y de ajuste en el que se convive con las nuevas frecuencias y sus relaciones. En ambas situaciones, en el directo y el estudio, se exploran diversas técnicas que provienen del minimalismo norteamericano, de obras relacionadas con la física del sonido (Éliane Radigue, Tony Conrad, Catherine Christer Hennix, etc.), así como de teorías musicales no occidentales.


Este proceso de apertura de la escucha, con un trabajo casi diario, inabarcable e inacabable desde el punto de vista de la práctica compositiva, coincide con varias de mis lecturas relacionadas con encuentros multiespecie. En ellas aparecen descritos encuentros que siempre han tenido lugar, pero que en la actualidad comienzan a ser atendidos desde varias aproximaciones interdisciplinares (la etología, la musicología, la historia de las especies, la estética…). Constatar la comunicación de otras especies, observar sus rostros y sus duelos son, en primer lugar, procesos de atención y de escucha de lo
impensable y de lo inefable.

Equipo utilizado: elaboración de intervalos (Hayward Tuning Vine), módulos eurorack, módulos Buchla, PinMix Hinton y Korg PS-3200
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Chords from The Elysian Fields

La Monte Young interpretó The Well-Tuned Piano 65 veces. 
La última se grabó en vídeo el 10 de mayo de 1987. Exploró la escala principal de esta obra durante décadas y fue estableciendo varias secciones alrededor de acordes perfectamente identificados en las notas de la grabación sonora y en el vídeo. Entre ellos, están (con sus correspondientes motivos y clouds): The Opening Chord, The Early Romantic Chord o The Magic Chord. Cada una de estas secciones introduce, además, nuevas frecuencias. 


Esta pieza retoma el título —y la escala en afinación justa— utilizada en una de las últimas secciones incorporadas a The Well-Tuned Piano, un área modal denominada The Elysian Fields. En el concierto de 6 horas, 24 minutos y 6 segundos, este acorde comienza casi al final, a las 5 horas, 54 minutos, 48 segundos.


The Elysian Fields utiliza una escala en afinación justa (con la fundamental 1/1 en D) diferente a la principal escala de la obra.


Durante los últimos años he realizado varios conciertos en los que he explorado y suspendido varios acordes, primero el The Magic Chord, después una transición entre el The Opening Chord y el The Magic Chord, etc.


En esta pieza, Chords from The Elysian Fields, las frecuencias utilizadas pertenecen a la afinación propia de esta sección de The Well-Tuned Piano. Los conciertos de La Monte Young requieren la afinación más precisa de un piano que se haya realizado nunca en directo. Sin embargo, aunque La Monte Young, en un principio, utilizó osciladores analógicos, por ejemplo osciladores de la casa MOOG, después prefirió trabajar con un sintetizador digital. Sus instalaciones permanentes utilizan este tipo de sintetizador, que solventa las variaciones de afinación que produce, por los cambios de temperatura, el oscilador analógico.


Por este motivo, para la elaboración de esta obra solo he recurrido a osciladores analógicos, con la intención no de alcanzar una afinación perfecta (lo cual es una tarea imposible), sino de encontrar aproximaciones y modulaciones entre un estado de afinación preciso y su desviación. Estos osciladores permiten también una relación más directa con el sonido y la aplicación de técnicas diferentes de feedback (con las que los filtros y delays analógicos alcanzan timbres y grados de saturación irrealizables con herramientas digitales). 

Equipo utilizado: módulos eurorack, módulos Buchla, PinMix Hinton y Korg PS-3200.

JL Maire.
Date of release: 03.10.2019
Format: FILE - MP3 / WAV
Length: 21 min
Artwork: Audiotalaia
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Hydromancy: ancient method of divination by means of water, its colour, movement or ripples, aiming to understand the past and to foresee the future.

Just as hydromancy uses water as a medium, Subespai (moniker of Mauri Edo, experimental musician born in Barcelona but currently operating from Sydney) used water as the main component for this record. His interpretation of "Hydromancy" mixes multiple aquatic recordings and samples to create a set of soundscapes representing the stages of a fictitious divination session. 

Armed with a long history of fascination with and respect for the occult, Subespai delivers four ominous pieces filled with underwater ambiance, haunting bubbly noises, distant clanks and other unexplained sounds, bringing images of sunken ships, cursed lakes and ghostly rivers to the attentive listener.

With "Hydromancy", Mauri perseveres in his attempt to walk the line between ambient and noise, field recordings and experimentation. He delivers short works consistent with the rushed times we live in, but still offering a treat to deep listeners, producing tracks full of nuances and hidden details, ready to drown into it.

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Review:

Hydromancy is a dark ambient mini-album themed around water and its use as a divination method. Released by Subespai, the solo project of Mauri Edo, at the beginning of October, it’s described as telling the story of a divination session gone wrong, which sounds like a great concept for an album to me. With that in mind, I let each of the tracks speak to me in their own way, wondering what visions they would bring to my mind.

The opening track is Rough Start, a track that features the deep rumbling of distant water currents alongside what I’d describe as a fast “ticking” sound. The rumbling you get deep underwater is always a sound that I find quite awe-inspiring, so I instantly appreciated this track. After awhile, the “ping” of sonar can be heard, which opens up the soundscape nicely and makes it seem a much larger space. As I became used to the sonar pings, it occurred to me that the sound could equally be some kind of crystal bell ringing in the deeps, summoning forth who knows what from the abyss below.

The next track, A Face in the Ripples, is my favourite track on the album. Opening with a siren-like sound and a rumbling drone, the very first image it brought to my mind was that of a large ocean liner, sinking deeper and deeper into the murky depths, with me watching from the outside, hearing the muted siren as it slowly falls past me. Then, I found myself watching a kind of Lovecraftian undersea race of fish people, sitting at their dinner tables eating in the eerie green glow of fungal illumination, the massive ship floating past their abyss-facing windows. The denizens stop chewing and look on in mild interest, wondering if the Elder Gods will destroy it without thought or keep it to toy with later. The odd clang here and there seems to suggest its not a smooth descent for the ship, but by then, the diners have already returned to their meals.

The third track is Revelations, and this also brought some interesting images to mind. It begins with a staticy hiss and some plinking sounds, and the general acoustics of the soundscape brought to mind a strange machine surfacing in an underwater cave, with water running from its strange angles and curves. A regular knocking sound begins, which to me, suggested someone trying to get out but finding the exit door sealed. I really liked this image, the illusion of emerging into safety but then being stuck in the craft that got you there. As the track nears its end, a deep vibration sounds, like a frog croak, but much deeper and more rumbling. I wondered if something was approaching the stricken craft, something that would open it up in more ways than one.

The final track is Bleak Consequences. This track, for me, was an above-ground track, as it seemed to feature the sound of rain or a stream flowing. After a deep opening and a kind of fast rhythm set by one of the sounds, it painted a picture of a really grey day, the kind where the clouds are almost black and the scenery looks leached of colour. A stream runs through a valley, but something isn't right with it. Glugging bubbles begin to pop on its surface; oily blisters smearing a glowing ooze into its currents. I’d guess for me, this track is saying that what happens deep in the ocean will eventually affect the land-dwellers too. A bit like watching Jaws and feeling safe if you stay on land, and how you’d then feel if you heard that sharks could get you on land anyway. Near the end of the track, the water stops flowing, which is also an intriguing end to events.

Before I listened to Hydromancy, I knew that it was themed around water, I was interested but not expecting to be wowed. Hydromancy did wow me though, as I’d forgotten how dark water could really be! I’m saying this as a Lovecraft fan who is well acquainted with the goosebumps that might arise when thinking about the watery abysses of the Earth and what they might contain. I’m also saying this as someone who has listened to a lot of dark ambient that features water in some way. Often though, the water is a flavour or scene-setting sound rather than the main event. Or, the water might be represented by other sounds in a more abstract way. The exception that immediately comes to mind is Ugasanie & Xerxes the Dark’s Abysmal, which is also a great water-based dark ambient album. If you liked that one, I think you will like Hydromancy. If you check out Hydromancy and enjoy it, you now know the other one I’d recommend.

Hydromancy is a free download from Audiotalaia, and if you’re a fan of dark ambient and deep sea horror, I’d really recommend you go and download yourself a copy as it is well worth listening to.

Casey Douglass, 
https://www.casey-douglass.com/2019/10/dark-ambient-review-hydromancy.html
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Date of release: 03.10.2019
Format: FILE - MP3 / WAV
Length: 44 min
Artwork: Audiotalaia
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En el inicio la conversación. El primer contacto siempre es el personal, los “yo” artísticos muestran sus dientes y olisquean la debilidad del otro. De este preámbulo queda la sensación de conformidad y la unión de ideas.

Se siguen una serie de mensajes cruzados ,en su gran mayoría de texto, firmando las bases del acuerdo y se marca la ruta a seguir.

Siempre uno de los dos saca cabeza al otro e inicia la composición derrochando las pistas que dan velocidad y espacio a los pies; o en este caso a las manos. En esta ocasión es Jaula.

La ruta es inexistente, no es necesario porque el contacto es al 100%. Simplemente fluyen las ideas y se entremezclan. No hay segundas tomas, no hace falta ni corrección ni balance; todo está ahí esperando a que se ordene y de forma, en bruto y sin barreras.

La primera toma de los cinco temas es la que prevalece, dejando que la rabia original tome el mando. Las capas de sonido surgen y se funden entre ellas, hay un matrimonio sónico que lo cubre todo sin dejar espacio para las dudas. Jaula sobre Suero, Suero sobre Jaula.

La fusión a veces es complicada, hay que posicionarse, tomar el espacio y hacerlo tuyo. Desarrollar un campo común en el que ambos nos sumergimos habitualmente tiene sus complicaciones. Los papeles varían y se cambian. Las adaptaciones son necesarias y los ajustes entre ambos una necesidad empujada por las grabaciones originales de Jaula.

Es necesaria la búsqueda y desarrollo de nuevos sonidos que enlacen y unan las composiciones. Hay que buscar los huecos y trabajar texturas que se adapten. La labor de Suero es esta; unir, incluso apaciguar la maquinaria de Jaula. A veces sutil y otras digamos que no tanto.

El resultado final pasa por poca alteración, el imperativo es mantener la crudeza inicial. La producción se limita al motivo de la escucha, las texturas y el desarrollo de un ambiente, nada más que esto. Suficiente.”

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Deal at the Swamp. Acoustics and Composition.

At the beginning there is a conversation. The first acquaintance is personal, each artistic egos show their teeth and smell each others weaknesses. From this preamble a feeling of accordance and union of ideas prevails.

A stream of crossed messages follows, mostly text, signing the basis of the agreement, a roadmap is established.

Always there is one of the two take the lead initiating a composition, throwing into the mix tracks gaining speed to each of the hands. Jaula is the one that begins.

The roadmap reveals itself as inexistent, there is no need since, contact is at 100%. Ideas just simply flow and intertwine. There are no second takes, there is no room for correction or balance; all is there, waiting to be assembled and ordered, raw, without barriers.

The first take is the one that prevails in all five tracks, letting the primal rage take control. Layers of sound fade in and merge between them, there is a sonic marriage shadowing it all, erasing all trace of doubt. Jaula over Suero, Suero over Jaula.

Fusion is sometimes complicated, one must choose a side, take the space and own it. To develop a common ground to immerse ourselves has its perks. Roles are constantly shifting and changing. Adaptations are necessary, and shared adjustments are a need pushed by the original Jaula recordings.

There is a further need to seek and develop new sounds to tide together all compositions. Gaps must be found, textures have to be accommodated. That's Sueros task, unite, and somehow constrain the Jaulas machinery, sometimes subtle and sometimes not that much subtle.

The outcome goes through a process of alteration, but keeping the primal rawness. Production is limited to the listening, textures and the knitting of an ambience, nothing more, enough.

Nacho Jaula y Carlos Suero.
Translated by Edu Comelles.

Date of release: 02.09.2019
Format: FILE - MP3 / WAV
Length: 41:20 min
Artwork: Audiotalaia
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This release, presents the outcome of the process and culmination of a concert held the final day of the Ur Tanta Summer Camp 2019. The work was developed by a small group formed by Miriam Matthys, Simon Bahr, George Chinnery, Riccardo Martorana, Jack Hyde and Alberto Garcia Aznar. Through their own words, this project is explained:

At the heart of the composition was a process, born out of a desire to find a collective and inclusive methodology, to create a group concert that truly everyone was a part of. The final score was a culmination of the community we formed during the residency, and a document of our incredible time spent together at the Ur Tanta Summer Camp.

To achieve this, all participants were invited to plot the course of one day at Ur Tanta, on a graph, on which the X axis represented the 24 hours of the day, with the parameter of the Y remaining undefined, and open to the interpretation of the individual. After all graphs had been completed, we collated an average and plotted a single trajectory of our collective experience. This line formed the basis of the composition.



The group, through self selection, was subdivided into three sonic categories, and in this way an orchestra of Voices (singing and vocalization), Field Recordings/ Sounding Objects and Electric/ Acoustic Instruments was created. Informed by the dynamics of the graph and a sensitivity to the unfolding narrative and rhythms of the day, Miriam Matthys composed an arrangement of three atmospheres. Beginning outside, the first movement represents ‘Sounds surrounding the house’ before progressing into ‘Sounds within the house" and ending with the ‘Sounds of the people’, in which George Chinnery, together with Emma Camell read a specially composed poem.

The resulting concert was a three-part work in which the main composition ‘Three Hundred and Thirty-Six’ was preceded by ‘Opening’, a spontaneous composition, emerging naturally from a warm-up and succeeded by ‘Closing’, another spontaneous improvisation, just because we couldn't get enough of playing together!

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The full composition has been released as an album on the Audiotalaia Digital Catalogue. That contains a preliminary improvisation ‘Opening’ and a final jam session ‘Closing’ as well as the whole composed and performed piece ‘Three Hundred and Thirty-Six’ worked out by all members of the Ur Tanta Summer Camp.

Concept and Composed by: Miriam Matthys in co-creation with Simon Bahr, George Chinnery, Riccardo Martorana, Jack Hyde and Alberto Garcia Aznar.

Conducted by: Miriam Matthys

Performed by: Alberto Garcia Aznar, Thibaut Quinchon, Andreas von Stosch, Mandy Fox, Simon Bahr, Chloe Brenan, Miriam Matthys, Riccardo Martorana, Ida Blom, Konstantin Guz, George Chinnery, Jack Hyde, Krysia Kordecki and Emma Camell

Recorded by: Edu Comelles
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Date of release: 03.04.2019
Format: FILE - MP3 / WAV
Length: 70:00 min
Artwork: Avelino Saavedra 
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¿Cómo conseguir que el transcurrir del tiempo parezca detenerse solo por medio del sonido ? ¿Cómo sostener hasta casi el infinito una radiografía sónica de un instante? ¿Cómo virar y revirar en milisegundos una vibración que parece no tener fin? Y sobre todo, ¿cómo conseguir todo eso sin fotocopiar lo que otros ya han hecho en ese mismo terreno, cómo hacerlo aportando un plus diferenciador? Todas estas preguntas se contestan, casi sin querer encontrar la respuesta, de forma intuitiva, en este extenso discurrir por un espacio cerrado y cercado por el sonido que es “Shoganai”, el nuevo disco de David Area.

Es imposible separar el concepto sonoro de “Shoganai” de la idea de extensión y largo recorrido. Porque ese moverse sin moverse requiere de espacio, densidad, expansión. Requiere el silencio, la pausa y la respiración contenida del antes y el después. Y espirar luego lentamente el aire, en forma de audio, en minutos de tránsito… Un fluir de clara inspiración Radiguiana, deuda con la gran Eliane que en ningún momento se esconde. Pero quizá sea en el discurrir de ese tránsito, precisamente, en el que este trabajo de David aporte ese algo especial y tan personal. Porque más allá del drone y la densidad, se dibuja aquí una variación constante, que parece imperceptible, un camino trazado recto que, bajo una lupa de aumento, zigzaguea, oscila, vibra, muta, se entierra y se desentierra en un profundo vacío lleno de requiebros y envolventes…

Durante estos últimos meses he asistido a la gestación de “Shoganai”. Lo he hecho como oyente cómplice, escuchando, valorando y a veces (pocas) aconsejando. Conozco desde hace algunos años a David y sabía de su talento, pero el descubrimiento de ese otro David Area que en su estudio comienza a practicar estas minimales espirales sonoras, ha supuesto un continuo proceso de confirmación. Y es que hay mucho talento, y visión del sonido como ente físico, en esa generación de audio a través de diferentes aparatos configurados para emitir un tono continuo que en su discurrir va siendo filtrado por medio de la ecualización y el ajuste del volumen, procesando el conjunto con capas de delay y reverb de diferentes intensidades y longitudes. Un trabajo muy manual y estático que tiene en la manipulación de la mesa de mezclas su modus operandi.

De todo ese material trabajado a lo largo de los últimos meses surgen las cuatro piezas que dan forma a “Shoganai”, concepto japonés que esconde detrás la aceptación de aquello que no podemos cambiar ni evitar, todo ello sin el menor atisbo de resignación, muy ligado al término “Gaman”, que viene a expresar la idea del soportar lo aparentemente insoportable con paciencia y dignidad… Precisamente “Gaman" da título a los tres primeros temas, tres partes de un todo que levita grave, flotando sin ser atmosférico ni ambiental, guiñando un ojo a la hipnosis del oyente, la vista fija en los altavoces y los oídos envueltos en la frecuencia que se descompone. Los más de 45 minutos de “Gaman”, estructurados en esas tres partes que beben de una misma fuente y punto de partida, se extienden por territorios paralelos que nunca llegan a cruzarse entre sí. En cada una de ellas se trabaja una vuelta de tuerca a sí misma para hacer que el sonido mute de forma diferente. O lo que viene a ser lo mismo, inducen al oyente a experimentar distinsos estados de inmersión sonora a través de mínimas vibraciones repetidas y la alteración de las mismas: como en distintas fases de un mismo sueño que vuelve una y otra vez a sucederse a sí mismo.

El colofón a este microscópico big bang sonoro llega con la pieza final, la que da título a todo el trabajo: “Shoganai”. Veintiseis minutos derivando hacia un mínimo resquebrajamiento de la propia estructura del tema, que avanza en su imperturbable fluir hasta terminar descomponiéndose en pequeños surcos de ruido en su parte final. De algún modo se rompe la dimensionalidad física y palpable del sonido, se fractura, pero siempre con el lento y constante moverse como territorio y guión…

Inmensa inmersión, es lo que se me viene finalmente a la cabeza tras la escucha profunda y completa de este disco. Me ha costado escribir del mismo. No es fácil, créanme. Es tal la propiedad hipnótica que envuelve al oyente, tal el poder de atrapar la atención y desintegrar la pulsión matemática del tiempo, que mientras lo escucha uno olvida escribir y simplemente acepta el sonido que le envuelve...

Javier Piñango.

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¿How to achieve a timeless and idle momentum just by using sound? How to sustain almost till infinite a sonic scan of an instant? How to shift and tweak an endless tone in milliseconds and still feel timeless? And on top of that, how to achieve all of the above without carbon-copy what others have been doing on that same field? All those questions are unintentionally being answered, intuitively, on this expansive stroll though the confined space of Shoganai, the latest album by David Area.

Is impossible to tear apart the sonic concept of Shoganai from the idea of extension and vast development. Because that stillness, that non-movement requieres, space, density, and expansion. It requieres silence, pause, breath content before, during and after. It requieres a slow exhalation, with the shape of audio, with minutes of transit ... A Radigue-inspired flow, consequently reverentious to Elianes legacy. Maybe its through the stroll that David takes, were it lies that specificity, that uniqueness of his labour. Beyond the drones and the different densities, a constant variable draws itself a straight line, an invisible path under a magnifying glass oscillates, vibrates, mutes goes under and overground unearthing deep and profound emptiness of envelopes ...

On the last few months I have witnessed the creation of "Shoganai". I have done it as a complice listener, hearing and evaluating, and even sometimes (a few), advising. I known David since a few years and I have always known about his talent, this time I've discovered a new David Area, one that starts working in his private studio and sumerges himself into the sonic spiral that his music is. And that's just been confirmation of something I was already certain. And this is that, as a matter of fact, there is raw talent within David, an understanding of sound as a physical matter passed through its array tools where sound matter circulates and by passing by is being filtered, EQed, gain adjusted, reverberated and delayed into a vast field of amplitudes, lengths and intensities. Overall, a handcrafted and static process of work that has the mixing desk at the core center of the workflow.


From this process, four pieces arouse to shape "Shoganai". The word, a Japanese concept that describes that acceptance of what we cannot change or avoid without the slightest feeling of resignation. The term is also tided to another concept "Gaman" that encompasses the idea of enduring the apparently unbearable with patience and dignity. Effectively, "Gaman" is the title given to the three-first pieces of this album, a low levitation effortlessly being non atmospheric or ambient, secretly trying to hypnotize the listener glazing straight to the speaker cone and tiding ears into decomposed frequencies. 

The more than 45 minutes that shape "Gaman" fed from one single stream of sound and a starting point, from there, it expands through parallel territories that never quite meet each other. In each part, a single tweak has been used to makeshift a change in sound that differs from the others. The pieces induce the listener to states of sonic inmersiveness through slight shifts in iterated vibrations and the subsequent alterations of those, like phases of a dream repeating itself once and again.

The end of the album is a microscopic sonic big bang that comes at hand with the last piece, "Shoganai". A 27 minute long piece enduring a faint-less fracture of the structure of the pieces that advances, tirelessly flowing, towards its own end in silky waves of noise. Somehow, it all breaks loose from its dimensional physicality and palpable sound, it fractures, but always lead by this idleness as a territory and as a script.


Mesmerizing inmersiveness is what comes to my mind after the deep listening of this album. It's been hard writing about itself. Is not easy at all, trust me. The hypnotic entity that surrounds the committed listener, the power of capturing attention and the disintegration of the mathematic pulse of time is such that one forgets how to write and simple embraces the sound around myself. 


Javier Piñango
(Free-translated by Edu Comelles)

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Tracklist:

1. Gaman I
2. Gaman II
3. Gaman III
4. Shoganai

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Credits:

Recorded and mastered by David Area at Detruita Sonon, Madrid during Fall 2018.
Special thanks to Javier Piñango.

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Reviews:

A certainty - An unique certainty is possible, the acceptance of the immutable. Tending towards the inescapable stiffening of a suspension of time and sound space in powerful sedimentary strata is a challenge.

With these 4 magnificent evolutionary constructions of shoganai, David Area has just achieved it more than masterfully!

Thierry Massard / 9 avril 2019 - 18:56
Date of release: 18.02.2019
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Length: 16:00 min
Artwork: Audiotalaia / Cuneta
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Músicas Brutas (Raw Music in Spanish) is a project developed by Cuneta (Alba Murcia and Vicent Pelechano) since 2013. The project exists halfway through the school and the artistic sphere. The aim of the project is to merge experimental music and media arts within different social groups. They usually work with collectives that have no linkage or involvement in any artistic scene hence they are not conditioned by preconceptions, restrictions and constrains from this creative spheres. 

Murcia and Pelechano in constant search of the spontaneous, accesible and unique capabilities that can rise from any human being regardless of their condition, background or origin.  A good exemple of the freedom and breaking-boundary attitude is their previous instalment in the series released in Audiotalaia back in 2014 while working in the UK with the National Star Collegue.

This time around, Músicas Brutas III goes one step beyond into weirdness with those 6 new tracks that unfold as sonic collage of scenes, musics, melodies, effects and field recordings that breath experimentation, spontaneity, playfulness and a limitless horizon of imaginative turning points that leave the listener wandering what lead to each minute of this vivid tapestry of sounds.

Músicas Brutas III was commissioned by Cerca Sonora project by Equip 351, an artistic program putting music creation in various middle schools in Valencia (Spain).  The four central pieces of the album where composed and re-configurated to be presented as an sound installation. Original works where done inspired by pieces from Agnés Pe, Isabel Latorre, José Vicente Fuentes and Cuneta themselves. Theu were then re-played and re-interpreted by High School Students..

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Tracklist:

01. Éter (3:24). 
Cuneta Improv.

02. Xativarum Especulae Xilofonito (Loop 2:16) 
Collage of various recordings and pieces done by students at IES Josep de Ribera de Xàtiva.

03. La porta d'Algemesí (Loop 2:39) 
Collage of various recordings and pieces done by students at IES Bernat Guinovart d'Algemesí.

04. Zira Zira Bé (Loop 3:12)
Collage of various recordings and pieces done by students at IES Número 4 d'Alzira.

05. Catavaldi Vivarroja Computer Fantasy (Loop 2:22)
Collage of various recordings and pieces done by students at  IES Berenguer Dalmau de Catarroja.

06. Ki kiki a ka ki (1:45)
Cuneta Improv.
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Original idea, mix and mastering by Cuneta (Alba Murcia and Vicent Pelechano) 2018.

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Date of release: 15.01.2019 
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Length: 49:00 min 
Artwork: Audiotalaia / José Venditti
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«de um simples sopro

nasce a vontade de mergulhar no infinito.

primeiro um passo em sussurro

depois uma descida aos infernos e ao núcleo da existência.

sorrateiramente como embrião primeiro

o peixe de onde emanam os anfíbios, viaja-se calmamente

entre o profundo conhecimento de uma dor radical

e o desejo intrínseco de sucumbir às paixões

é hora de adormecer, voltar à terra,

revestir-se de cores primárias

escolher um novo sopro

e encontrar os estalidos que o corpo faz

de cada vez que acordas.»


João Sousa

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"Infinit" by Paco Arráez is one of those albums that rise from a very personal pulse and specific need at certain moments of your live. The six tracks forming this muffled joint of electronic soundscapes are part of a intensive workflow in which playfulness, intuition and a sense of letting-it-go cover the overall length of the album.

Arráez, on a very moody season of the year enclosed himself into the studio and cuddled in sound assembled this multi-layered tapestry of atmospheres, states and spaces drawn by sound, effects and distant sonic objects.

Sometimes what might seem like a very compelling personal experience can transcend the on-your-own-ness and become something enjoyable for a wider audience. Beyond what you did that day, and the cathartic need to get lost in sound, there is always a foot on the ground and the necessity of sharing with other ears. "Infinit" is a good example of that.

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Tracklist:

01. Nucleus
02. Hombre Pez - Ambar Negro
03. Vglis
04. Le Voyage
05. Nana
06. Ambar Succino

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All music, composed, mixed and recorded by Paco Arráez.

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Date of release: 15.01.2019 
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Length: 19:00 min 
Artwork: Audiotalaia / José Venditti
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In The Ecological Thought, Timothy Morton employed the term hyperobjects to describe objects that are so massively distributed in time and space as to transcend spatiotemporal specificity, such as global warming, styrofoam, and radioactive plutonium. He has subsequently enumerated five characteristics of hyperobjects:


Viscous: Hyperobjects adhere to any other object they touch, no matter how hard an object tries to resist. In this way, hyperobjects overrule ironic distance, meaning that the more an object tries to resist a hyperobject, the more glued to the hyperobject it becomes



Molten: Hyperobjects are so massive that they refute the idea that spacetime is fixed, concrete, and consistent.



Nonlocal: Hyperobjects are massively distributed in time and space to the extent that their totality cannot be realized in any particular local manifestation. For example, global warming is a hyperobject that impacts meteorological conditions, such as tornado formation. According to Morton, though, objects don't feel global warming, but instead experience tornadoes as they cause damage in specific places. Thus, nonlocality describes the manner in which a hyperobject becomes more substantial than the local manifestations they produce.



Phased: Hyperobjects occupy a higher-dimensional space than other entities can normally perceive. Thus, hyperobjects appear to come and go in three-dimensional space, but would appear differently if an observer could have a higher multidimensional view.



Interobjective: Hyperobjects are formed by relations between more than one object. Consequently, objects are only able to perceive to the imprint, or "footprint," of a hyperobject upon other objects, revealed as information. For example, global warming is formed by interactions between the Sun, fossil fuels, and carbon dioxide, among other objects. Yet, global warming is made apparent through emissions levels, temperature changes, and ocean levels, making it seem as if global warming is a product of scientific models, rather than an object that predated its own measurement.



According to Morton, hyperobjects not only become visible during an age of ecological crisis, but alert humans to the ecological dilemmas defining the age in which they live.[33] Additionally, the existential capacity of hyperobjects to outlast a turn toward less materialistic cultural values, coupled with the threat many such objects pose toward organic matter (what Morton calls a "demonic inversion of the sacred substances of religion"), gives them a potential spiritual quality, in which their treatment by future societies may become indistinguishable from reverential care.[34]



Though the concept of hyperobjects has been widely adopted by artists, literary critics, and some philosophers, it is not without its critics. Ecocritic Ursule Heise, for example, notes that in Morton's definition, everything can be considered a hyperobject, which seems to make the concept somewhat meaningless, not to mention seemingly impossible to define clearly. As a result, Heise argues that Morton makes "so many self-cancelling claims about hyperobjects that coherent argument vanishes like the octopi that disappear in several chapters in their clouds of ink, Morton's favorite metaphor for the withdrawal of objects from the grasp of human knowledge."


Transcript from Wikipedia.

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José Venditti has been travelling and touring for over 6 months around Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia. Camboya and Hong Kong. During this trip Venditti has been reading and researching on Timothy Morton's idea of the hyperobjects.

Inspired by it, he started to work on the four pieces here presented. The pieces have been made trying to create sonic hyperobjects assembled using recorded and found sounds and old materials form previous performances. Overall, a magma of deconstructed sax and cello loops, jungle and urban field recordings as well as de-humanized  and synthetized melodies drift in space and time through this sonic collage of ideas and fleeting moments.

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Tracklist:

01. Zomig
02. Hiperobjetos
03. Everything You Have Experienced As A Human Being Has Been Experienced only by You
04. La Bola en el Techo

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All music, composed, mixed and recorded by José Venditti.
Cello (track 3) by Itxaso Navarro
Fx Voices by Paola Fernandez
Sax and Granular synth by José Venditti

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Date of release: 17.12.2018 
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Length: 50:00 min 
Artwork: Audiotalaia 
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It was inevitable that sooner or later David Area, Guillermo Torres and Tomás Gris would assemble, record and mix one of the numerous improvisations they have been working on since a while back. The three of them are part of the almost-historic collective maDam based in Madrid. This variable ensemble has been operating since almost 10 years and has been at the core center of the improvisation movement in the capital of Spain. Its latest iteration has been very close related to the trio here presented.

Beyond the musical links, the three of them share a friendship forged over the years and a listening understanding of each other cristalized also in the shared project with Madrid based artists Mario Sarramián which whom they have recorded and played under the name Nanimo.

The trio explores silence, tension, the audible and repetition as a process. The tension arosed from the intent of finding a common ground is what drives the music of this three. Contradiction, dynamics and staticity are also elements of play and rules of engagement in this project.

The pieces that form this album are all a reflection of their daily live, and the struggles of a obscure and almost intimate musical scene. The fact that the recordings allow to listen to Madrid soundscape beyond the windows of the room, exposes the simplicity and grounded nature of the music of Area, Torres and Gris.

The title of the album obscures inner jokes by the authors and exposes their struggles within the scene, the uncertainty of a hyper-underground cultural network and its internal tentions between artists, schools, genres and styles. Again, a reflection of the daily live of this liminar form of music.

This album, beyond its intentions, and thematics talks about a proximity music, honest, direct and raw. A playground for small sounds and affordable electronics. Dig in.


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Tracklist:

01. La Culture
02. C'est
03. Comme
04. La Confuture
05. Moins On
06. En A
07. Plus On
08. Létale
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Guillermo Torres: flugelhorn
Tomás Gris: Guitar

David Area: turntable & electronics

Recorded in Madrid in 2018.

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Date of release: 17.12.2018 
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Length: 09:06 min 
Artwork: Audiotalaia 
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On Patterns is a sound diptych that explores the concept of violence in sound gestuality. Through digital aesthetics and concrete sounds Carlos Gonzalez unfolds ideas, concepts and tentatives towards an experimental practice in two main directions, recorded sounds and digital processing.

The first piece has been entirely generated from synthetic sounds, is obsessively developed from an initial motif that leads to gestures of a generative nature. On the contrary, the second piece explores diverse cyclical patterns, mechanical gestures and granular textures from a recorded sample of scratched plastic.

Both pieces are intended to transport the listener into a world of sounds of apparent certainty, whose sources and behaviors we believe we are able to decipher, only to be eventually evaded.

This is the first released work by Canarian young artist and composer Carlos González Bolaños (1991). We are thrilled to discover the talent from this young composer and the prospects of what his creativity might lead to.

The synthesis and shaping of gestures and sound patterns has been designed and synthesized with SuperCollider. The pieces have been mixed and mastered with Logic Pro X.

On Patterns was included in the list of highly commended pieces in the XII edition of Forum Wallis Ars Electronica.


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Tracklist:

01. On Patterns I
02. On Patterns II

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Mixed, Composed and arranged by Carlos González Bolaños. 
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Date of release: 02.11.2018 
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Length: 32:00 min 
Artwork: Audiotalaia 
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Víctor Trescolí is one of those rare musicians one encounters in live that has the ability and humbleness of being able to drift, enjoy, make and compose in a wide variety of musical styles. As he always states in conversations "I love all kinds of music". That statement could be something rather simplistic but in fact it just underlines his understanding of music and curiosity for all forms of it, regardless of styles, schools or genres.

But not only that is unique from Victor Trescolí, he's also a tirelessly worker and researcher and  advocate of the use of Toy Piano as bast and complex instrument. Six years ago Trescolí released in this very label Not a Toy a statement of intends (fostered by the very Karlheinz Essl) that marked and registered its devotion for this particular instrument and the certainty of its sonic and creative capabilities.

After all this time, Trescolí has find the time in his daily live to thoroughly compose the four pieces that shape this "States" a tour-the-force in which to embrace the full potential of Toy Piano and its expansion through the use of electronics, field recordings and live signal processing.

States is about funneling, filtering and tweaking the instrument to resemble nature, to reflect on it. States is about small elements that can become a whole galaxy. States is about a very tiny instrument with the capabilities of imitating nature, physics and the world around us. States is about how powerful creative self-limitations and hard-working stubbornness can lead to something bold, self-aware and gentle as what Victor Trescolí does with a Toy Piano.

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Mixed, Composed and arranged by Victor Trescolí. 
Recorded at Taller de Pepe March, Valencia. The 24th of June 2018.

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Date of release: 10.09.2018 
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Length: 45:00 min 
Artwork: Audiotalaia 
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Memòria Pétria is a project born from stone and tradition. More specifically Ferran Lega explores the acoustic, timbrical and sonic properties of slate tiles. Those pieces of stone are usually find as the most common rooftop covering in the Catalan Pyrenees. The tiles carry within it a historical background that starts with hardcore rock compression and the formation of sheets of metamorphic rock, commonly know as mountains. From there, slate becomes a basic material for the inhabitants of the mountains across history until the present day where misusage and dereliction has changed habits and uses of this black tiles.

Ferran Lega, reckons the deep and rooted into the land background of those tiles and uses them to create soundscapes filed with memories, textures and life of its own by extracting the electroacoustic trademark of this partially resonant materials.

As a homage to the way those rocks are formed and its transformation through centuries, Ferran Lega treats the sounds extracted from the slate tiles in the same way. Through a process of layering, filtering and morphing of long term recordings using contact microphones and exposing the tiles into various situations designed to activate the resonant capabilities of the material.

The outcome is this album, a series of recordings, compositions and textures echoing the burden of centuries of usage and homaging, sonically materials that become sonic textures.

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Recorded, produced and edited by Ferran Lega Lladós, field assisted by Cleo Campuzano at Espot, Pallars Sobirà (Catalonia) between summer 2016 and spring 2017.

Thank you to Mingo Roca Cecilia, (casa Xaulet) for providing their ancient rooftop tiles, and the spaces where to record. And thanks to Cleofé Campuzano Marco for priceless support and passion upon my work.

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