Photographer Korobok N, IG.
I am tempted to start a new series here called I Am Looking For A New House.
(which he did...)
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1946 - sUB rOSA mUSIC and more via Warren Ellis(which he did...)
I am indebted to writer and humanist intellectual Warren Ellis (not the musician who works with Nick Cave) for his continued commitment to share music and other small oddities while being "off the Internet" or maybe that's just "off social media."
Thank you Warren.
So... Bandcamp is doing another fund raiser as I posted in Sunday's Hodge Podge, and I will re-post right here just in case you, dear reader, want to buy music AND donate at the same time:
In addition, on Friday, June 19th, we’re donating 100% of our share of sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, a racial justice organization with a long history of effectively enacting change through litigation, advocacy, and public education. Please read our statement here.
The recent killings of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Sean Reed, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and the ongoing state-sanctioned violence against black people in the US and around the world are horrific tragedies. We stand with those rightfully demanding justice, equality, and change, and people of color everywhere who live with racism every single day, including many of our fellow employees and artists and fans in the Bandcamp community.
So this coming Juneteenth (June 19, from midnight to midnight PDT) and every Juneteenth hereafter, for any purchase you make on Bandcamp, we will be donating 100% of our share of sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, a national organization that has a long history of effectively enacting racial justice and change through litigation, advocacy, and public education. We’re also allocating an additional $30,000 per year to partner with organizations that fight for racial justice and create opportunities for people of color.
The current moment is part of a long-standing, widespread, and entrenched system of structural oppression of people of color, and real progress requires a sustained and sincere commitment to political, social, and economic racial justice and change. We’ll continue to promote diversity and opportunity through our mission to support artists, the products we build to empower them, who we promote through the Bandcamp Daily, our relationships with local artists and organizations through our Oakland space, how we operate as a team, and who and how we hire.
Beyond that, we encourage everyone in the Bandcamp community to look for ways to support racial equality in your own local community, and as a company we’ll continue to look for more opportunities to support racial justice, equality and change.
Awesome, yes?
Juneteenth celebration.
I had already declared in a whole blog post that I had a whole shopping list for the next Bandcamp special day in which more money goes to artists. I posted that here:
Even though I created MULTIPLE reminders for myself, work carried me away on its tides and I did not see all the reminders and thus forgot until the next day when it was over.
So sadly, now, I am going to spend some of my limited free cash for such things on a day when artists earn 0% but the NAACP Legal Defense fund earns 100%.
And if Bandcamp does another day for artists in July, I will spend more there, too.
So here's the Warren Ellis generated collection of mostly ambient and electronic musicals with a little writing and art and art photography mixed in.
It's raining, and I have to put the trash out.
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| Moebius - Arzach |
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| Visitors Clifford Simak |
https://warrenellis.ltd/library/andre-stordeur/
At this point, I should probably just give Sub Rosa Label my bank account details, as they can apparently sell me anything.
“Belgian electronic music composer André Stordeur born 1941. His musical career started in 1973 with a tape composition for the soundtrack to a film on Gordon Matta-Clark titled Office Baroque. Later in the 1970s, he participated to avantgarde music ensemble Studio voor Experimentele Muziek, founded in Antwerp, Flanders, by Joris De Laet. Since 1980, Stordeur composes exclusively on Serge synthesizer, either a Serge series 79 and a Serge prototype 1980, which was especially built for him by Serge Tcherepnin himself. In 1981, Stordeur composed the music of Belgian film director Christian Mesnil’s documentary Du Zaïre au Congo. He studied at IRCAM in 1981 with David Wessel and then flew to the US to study with Morton Subotnick.”
Three CD set with sleeve notes and booklet. Nice.
Big Nordic ritual ambient.
So my WordPress iOS app is now set to post to the category timestamp by default. I take a photo, load it into a new WordPress post on the app (which takes an extra tap these days, as I have to select the “image” block), and press Send. Not quite seamless, not quite fast enough, but it does the job of sending an “I’m alive” signal into the ether first thing in the day. The image doesn’t crosspost to Twitter any more, which, again, is not ideal for my purposes. But, if that doesn’t get fixed or worked around, then I guess Twitter doesn’t want me crossposting images from WordPress to Twitter any more, and that’s a clear enough signal that my distancing from social media displeases social media and I should just fuck off for good.
This is actually kind of interesting to me. Facebook long ago began depreciating posts that don’t originate from inside Facebook, making sure fewer people see them. If Twitter is now reaching the point where it only wants you to see images that are posted from inside Twitter… well, that’s an interesting corner to turn, isn’t it?
With work dropping out of 1000mphclub speeds and giving me a little space to think, I turn again to this blogchain. Because, as a commercial writer, I need some kind of regular pulse on the internets, but, as a fair facsimile of a human being, I need to live in my own private way and outside social media. And LTD is the ongoing development of a personal solution to these issues.
Interesting post on WPtavern by Justin Tadlock:
“More than anything, I want personal websites to be more personal.
“We’re still in a somewhat frustrating transitional period where WordPress is not even halfway to becoming the platform that it will be. We are still beholden to our themes, though less so than before.
“Whether it is a digital garden, a plain ol’ blog, or some new thing we do not have a term for yet, we will all be able to put our unique spin on our personal spaces. It is part of the web that we lost in the last couple of decades with the emergence of the CMS. “
(Note that I’m bolding quotes now because I don’t like the blockquote style on this theme and haven’t had the time to figure out how to rewrite it yet.)
While I personally like the chronological timeline, he also makes the point that a personal site doesn’t have to be that, which may be a useful thought for someone out there who hasn’t gone full wiki directory (hello, Kicks Condor, I can see you).
I realise, of course, that nobody anywhere wants to look at photos of my food. But it does help me remember to eat. Personal log, right? Off I go into the tall weeds of the internet, never to be seen again…
In another month, I’ll have enough wall space to break out another whiteboard and do some visual planning on how this space works. It will not look like the picture on this blog post, which hurts me to look at.
“Letters To The Farthest Star is an ambitious and deeply personal dispatch: a far-reaching sojourn into the diverse ambient/electronic influences that helped shape the last three decades of Fang’s unique “Fourth World” style. Like messages from a universe without geographic borders, these pieces shift from dark, organic ambient passages to emotional, melodic interludes.
projektrecords.bandcamp.com to the rescue again.
“The 2020 release from Australian composer, Steve Roberts aka. Amongst Myselves, takes you on a wander through the history of an Australian landscape and its inhabitants. From the first signs of life to humans looking towards their future in the stars.”
Photographer Samuel Gunter on IG:
“The main monument in the ruins of Brest Fortress, ‘Courage’ – a huge 33 metre tall concrete head stares down towards an eternal flame and the graves of the defenders.”
We do like a bit of Hakobune.
Since Bandcamp are waiving all fees for musicians selling through Bandcamp today, here’s everything I’ve ever bought from them. If you’ve got nothing better to do, have a flick through and see if anything appeals to you.
“Stuart Hyatt returns with another sonic wonder in the Field Works series, bringing the listener into truly uncharted acoustic territory. Ultrasonic is perhaps the first-ever album to use the echolocations of bats as compositional source material. For this special album, Hyatt has assembled an extraordinary group of contributors: Eluvium, Christina Vantzou, Sarah Davachi, Ben Lukas Boysen, Machinefabriek, Mary Lattimore, Felicia Atkinson, Noveller, Chihei Hatakeyama, John Also Bennett, Kelly Moran, Taylor Deupree, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Julien Marchal, and Player Piano. Ultrasonic is part of a broader storytelling project about the federally endangered Indiana bat. Generously funded by the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute and the National Geographic Society, each album contains an official printed booklet of The Endangered Species Act of 1973.”
“Amalgaam is a raw and unpolished album. Which doesn’t mean that it’s blunt or trite. The grainy, textural sounds on this record have a fleeting, cinematic quality to them, combining spaciousness with a sense of intimacy – at times interrupted by noisier outbursts. The album is based on a series of improvisations on a very hands-on hardware setup, with an old tone generator, effects pedals, dictaphones, contact mics, etc. This material was then mixed and edited into the pieces on this album, while retaining the liveliness of the source material.”
Sorting out the afternoon listening. Inbox 30, and 45 emails in the Bandcamp tag because today bandcamp.com are waiving their fees and giving the full whack of every sale to artists. This means that bandcamp.com will start breaking in about an hour, so keep reloading if pages fail. I have about twenty different things to touch today, so I’m going to be quiet. Visit Bandcamp instead.
Note: I bought all these records through Bandcamp.
I do love learning about electronic music.
“Bülent Arel was a Turkish-born American composer of electronic and contemporary classical music. He was also a devoted teacher, a sculptor, and a painter. From 1940 until 1947 Arel studied composition, piano, and 20th century classical music at the Ankara Conservatory. In 1959 Arel came to the U.S. on a grant by the Rockefeller Foundation to work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. By that time the center had just started out under its director Vladimir Ussachevsky. During Arel’s work in Princeton he also met Edgard Varèse with whom in 1962 he worked on the electronic sections of Varèse’s ‘Déserts'”
I’ve been listening to syndae forever. Usually when walking. I’m going to embed this one right here, then direct you back to the website to learn more.
Ben Blackett – Leap of Faith (Portals)
John Gregorius – The Expansive Sky (Full of Life)
Divine Matrix – 9 Planets (Helios)
Ian Boddy – Omicron (Portals / Compilation)
Eleon – Secretly Meeting With You (Rendezvous)
Catalin Marin – Art of Darkness (Art of Darkness)
John Gregorius – The Expansive Sky (Full of Life)
Divine Matrix – 9 Planets (Helios)
Ian Boddy – Omicron (Portals / Compilation)
Eleon – Secretly Meeting With You (Rendezvous)
Catalin Marin – Art of Darkness (Art of Darkness)
Name-your-price digital EP. Remarkable atmospherics.
Mark Shields’ The Monday Graveyard seems to have given up on tracklistings, but you can listen and get the subscribe details at this link here and be assured that for 197 episodes — and I’ve listened to most of them, I think! — it’s always been a good show filled with fine ambient/drone/electronic/calm musics.
SEQUENCES is a podcast I recently discovered.
“We welcome you to another special edition, the music of David Parsons, an influential musician who has been so important in our genre of electronic sounds…. his experiences traveling through Central Asia over the years have given him an insight into his own music. The darkness that has remained a defining element of his sound today, he says, “not darkness, really. It’s more like a sense of awe. You go to the Himalayas and you hear the rumble of the ice and the low long horns of the monastery. Tibetan Buddhism has that darkness: it’s not evil, it’s the awesome power of the universe, the sound of Om. That’s the darkness I’m drawn to.””
Nice to see the return of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast.
All money from this release will be donated to bail and mutual aid funds, and racial justice organisers. And it’s wonderful.
Radigue has a huge catalogue. I discovered this through a random YouTube wander, and then found a copy via Ulixes selling through Discogs. I love Discogs. Here’s a nice article about JETSUN MILA. Double CD, 84 minutes or so. Marvellous.
Just arrived, an excellent dose of medieval dark ambient. Keywords are “desolate journey.”
Via SocMod.
Joan Pope’s collage work always delights me. Check out her IG feed.
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- Days ago = 1810 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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