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)

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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

• 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

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:

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.”

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The new baby from Electro-Harmonix seems useful and funny for  the lazy dronemakers. I love it when EHX come out with weird unprecedented stuff. Seems like its my favorite part of the Cathedral in a compact less expensive package. If it´s cheap,  I´ll pick one for sure.

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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Listening:
S.Mathieu &  J.Schaefer – Hidden Name (Crónica)
Bedhead-What Fun Life Was (Trance Syndicate)
Ambarchi / O’Rourke / Haino – “Tima Formosa” (Black Truffle)
Chris Abrahams / Mike Cooper – Oceanic Feeling-Like (Room 40)

Looped Guitar Sketches: