Coming soon!
Organelles - Kate Carr and Matt Atkins
Out January 24, 2025
What goes on inside a cell? What might it sound like?
Inspired by tiny processes and interactions Organelles presents a sonic imaginary of intracellular operations.
Cells are busy: folding proteins, exchanging gases, creating energy, growing, dividing, mutating and communicating. Likened to minute factories or warehouses, organelles are the entities which perform the specialised tasks which enable cellular life.
So often explored visually, this album offers one version of what the aural life of these tiny, fantastically-shaped organelles might sound like.
Their ongoing and sporadic processes, small rhythms and exchanges and the everyday and cataclysmic events and encounters that might unfold on this smallest of scales.
With both Atkins and Carr's practices rooted in the amplification and looping of small objects, instruments and gestures, the pair came to the idea of Organelles via the process of improvisation itself.
In the encounter between Atkins' and Carr's iterations and conglomerations of small vibrating objects, Organelles emerged as a collection of spluttering rhythms, creaks, rustles, strikes and chimes.
A minature world of speculative microsound which lurches between spiky textures, wonky rhythms, static, and the occasional off kilter melody.
Out now!
Can You Hear Me - David Evans
Out November 22, 2024
The premise of Can You Hear Me is an unlikely one: an exercise in sonic manipulation this album unfolds from David Evans' attempts to create the calls of endangered birds from the cry of a human baby.
It is comprised of only three sound sources: a baby's vocalisations, in vitro heartbeat and autoharp, yet from this simple starting point Evans' work asks us to consider a number of complex questions: the different meanings of a cry, the link between human activity and environmental degradation and the increasingly difficult prospect of hope.
How might we find ways to hope for the future of any human baby? How might we hope for a world where endangered species recover and thrive?
Evans is Australian, a country which leads the world in extinctions of its plant and animal species. A country too which has experienced particularly intense instances of extreme weather in the form of bushfires, droughts and floods. Each of the Australian birds featured on this album is endangered. Some, such as the Western Ground Parrot, hover on the very edge of extinction. Others like the Regent Honeyeater are being re-taught their own song via playback, as so few are left in the wild they have forgotten how to sing.
The only exception to Evans' attempts to recreate the calls of endangered birds comes in Billy's Theme, a tribute to Billy Kellerman, the four month old baby whose cries have been transposed and transformed.
In this imaginative and sonically striking album Evans offers a distinctive take on the plasticity of sound, finding in its malleability ways of thinking not only how a threatened bird and a young human share common ground in an uncertain and precarious present, but also how we might imagine a different and more hopeful future for all species.
It is a difficult but urgent task.
All profits from this release will be donated to Bird Life Australia.
birdlife.org.au
Out now!
Live at Parking Lots - Nicholas Maloney and Yama Yuki
Out October 6
Turning to woodchips, farming equipment, sticks, stones and rubbish as instruments, Nicholas Maloney and Yama Yuki transformed carparks in Tokyo, Bologna and Nashville into performance venues to produce this unlikely album of gestures and textures.
Performing alone mainly at night, the pair produced these pieces from simple actions of scratching, walking in circles, vibrating and striking the asphalt and gravel surfaces of their carpark concert venues.
Electromagentic tones too are explored, as the two scratched, scrunched and scuffed along to the vibratory emissions produced by the lights which dimly lit the empty car parks within which they moved.
In re-purposing these empty venues Maloney and Yuki have produced a strangely hopeful album. One in which creative practice haunts the most unlikely of locations, finding new possibilities amid grease, gravel and spluttering lights.
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Nicholas Maloney is a sound artist based in Nashville, TN. They create concrète compositions from field recordings under their given name, fluid ambient music as Blanket Swimming, and are 1/2 of the experimental music duo, Picture Rather Muted. Maloney works with field recording, guitar, synthesizers, and a variety of processed instruments/sound sources to create an abstract world of immense depth and range. Maloney's work expresses stillness and activity, lightness and dark, in order to provide a rich imaginative space for listeners to explore. They also curate the longform music label, Asonu and operate their self-publishing banner, Open Colour Imprint.
www.nicholasmaloney.com
Yama Yuki is a Tokyo-based sound assembler, archive/label owner, and one-third of the organizer collective MIMINOIMI. Under his own name, as well as the aliases odoma and sorta opalka, he employs diverse approaches to produce and assemble sound, always maintaining an experimental quality. He not only focuses on the final result of the composed materials but also on the process of composition. Through his archive/label activities, Yama researches the history of sound culture and music, publishing works from a fresh perspective.
ato-archives.org
atoarchives.bandcamp.com
yamayuki.bandcamp.com
Latest episode of our radio show
Airs each month on Resonance Extra.
Atmospheric Densities episode 22
Aired May 28, 2024
This is the Flaming Pines radio show featuring new releases, mixes and experiments in field recording, sound art and experimental music, hosted by Kate Carr and guests.
Tam Lin opens this episode introducing their album bluelightnospaceflattime which comes out on Flaming Pines on June 14 2024.
We also dip into two other forthcoming releases: East by Fortresses, an EP which comes out of Sam Ashton's move from London to Portland, and an excerpt from Zippered Time, Winged Dialogue by the trio of David Birchall, Tullis Rennie and Kate Carr.
The final hour of the show is a special mix by Tam Lin of music which relates to the themes and compositional approach they took in bluelightnospaceflattime.