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Weekend Highlights:

- Polaroid PX Cartridges.
- Almost 450 downloads from “Cromosoma” in 9 days..so nice!
- My American Typewriter vinyls finally at home!! Thanks Pep!
- EHX Freezer looping thru guitar, mic, synths..lovely and funny device.
- DX7 Programming after one year reading tips about how to make it (love the aliasing of this machine, but it´s a nightmare to program manually!).
- Watching “Pola X” from Leos Carax, listening “Chemist” from The Necks.

Listening:

Ken Ikeda – Kosame (Spekk)
Talvihorros – Music in Four Movements (Hibernate)
F.S.Blumm & Nils Frahm – Music For Lovers, Music Versus Time (Sonic Pieces)
Giuseppe Ielasi – 15 Tapes (Senufo)
Gunter Müller & Federico Barabino – Merging Layers (Triple Bath)
Darin Gray & Loren Mazzacane Connors – The Lost Mariner (Family Vineyard)

[Miga40] “Cromosoma” is a minimalistic exercise that follows the line established on his last work [escala1:5] “Vertice”, in which Alex explores the most experimental side of his own music. Vibrant, hypnotic microdub with ambient landscapes rounded by warm atmospheres. Sustainer is part of an extensive group of national indispensable artists, distiguished by their quality and perseverance.

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Tracklisting:
1-cromosoma_A  (06:52)
2-cromosoma_B  (08:04)
3-cromosoma_C  (08:51)
4-cromosoma_D  (07:17)

Download + release info here

– MP3 320kbps (Stereo) – 44.100 Khz.
– License Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 by Creative Commons
– Cover Design: Javier Valenzuela at Sophistique Studio
– Mastering: Giuseppe Ielasi

*Tracks composed on winter-2009. Sound generated+sequenced entirely with Nord Modular+OS9.

– www.miga-label.org
– www.creativecommons.org

You are invited to participate in the first World Listening Day, which happens on Sunday, July 18, 2010. The purposes of World Listening Day are:

• to celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the world around us, environmental awareness, and acoustic ecology
• to raise awareness about issues related to the World Soundscape Project, World Listening Project, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and individual and group efforts to creatively explore phonography
• to design and implement educational initiatives which explore these concepts and practices

July 18 was chosen as the date for World Listening Day because it is the birthday of the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer. Schafer is one of the founders of the Acoustic Ecology movement. The World Soundscape Project, which he directed, is an important organization which has inspired a lot of activity in this field, and his book Soundscape: The Tuning of the World helped to define many of the terms and background behind the acoustic ecology movement.

- Here is how you can participate in World Listening Day:
· You can set aside some time when you pay attention to your soundscape.
· You can organize a listening party when people play field recordings.
· You can organize a soundwalk.
· Other possibilities…

More info here

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Quiet  week…few sounds. Re-stringing all my guitars after two years (or more!) using the same strings (electric, acoustic, classical). Great chance to clean recordings now…they sound brighter than ever!

No sounds, but I dumped into computer a bunch of guitar loops I made during winter with the JamMan (nearly 70 ones, 1 minute long each one aprox.). Quiet as always.  Listen to some of them:

There´s a  track from me (previously released on  Audiotalaia) on a new netlabel-compilation released on Music Numbers blog. This site covers lots of info & news about experimental music/sound net-releases. Music Numbers is also a netlabel and hosts some releases from the man behind the site, Miquel Parera, under his  Computerneix alias. I found great names from the net-scene on his compilations.

You can click on the img to download (directly) this compilation featuring my track (I´m doing it right now!)

Talking about Audiotalaia, there´s a new project involving his label-owner Edu Comelles, which catched my eye this week, named Sonic Walkie:

Sonic Walkie: A series of dislocalised soundscape compositions by Andrea Pazos & Edu Comelles

“Sonic Walkie is a project in distance, a project that aims to build bridges between cities and people. Through a process of collaboration Andrea and Edu are trying to build sonic portraits of two cities juxtaposed, sonifying the semantic net we have in life.No matter how, where and when a bell sounds, it´s still a bell and it still refers to a church and a lot more from there. The proposal is a game of distances and complicities in which common sonic environments meet in a space in between that shortens the line that separates two locations and people.  Sonic Walkie is about the poetics of distance, the sound similarities and differences between territories and the space between people. Sonic Walkie is an outstretched hand through remoteness between people.”

Last week I was diving into an old computer I´ve at my parents house…and presto! I found a folder of files containing hundreds of  recordings I made with my old and beloved  sharp minidisc/sony stereo condenser circa 2002-2003.  They´re basically short field recordings from little objects like wood, metals, ceramic, paper, glass, water, tools, etc I made inside-outside my parents house in the country. While editing  a bunch of them this week I realized myself, once again,  what a great sound generator we had surrounding us each day.

Samples (3 stereo files, 2 sounds per channel, subtle processed with Audiomulch):

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Updated: a submission from mine has been pre-selected to play (not me, just the looping piece) at In-Sonora Festival, located in Madrid. I´ll update the date-hour soon.
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Looped Guitar Sketches:

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