New Clothes for the New World

ooh have we got a video? YES WE”VE GOT A VIDEO!

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:42:53 -0400

ooh have we got a video?

YES WE”VE GOT A VIDEO!

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:56:49 -0400

Tea time for MONOLITH

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:43:23 -0400

Tea time for MONOLITH

DOG ACT (all caps) two in the pink

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:08:39 -0400

DOG ACT (all caps) two in the pink

The Greater Horny Coke Owl

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:46:29 -0500

The Greater Horny Coke Owl

Vital Weekly review of SLR016

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:35:00 -0500

Vital Weekly review of SLR016:

SLR016 (cassette by Second Language Records)
A compilation from Australia with four bands, two of them clocking in at ten minutes and two at just under fifteen. Dark Monolith I don’t think ever made it to these pages, the other bands did. Constant Light open up here with a fine piece of darker than life ambience, of humming analogue synthesizers and likewise old sound processing devices. Cosmic music anyone? No, not really. This is just black hole music. Very nice. On this side we also find Peter James and Zac Keiller, also known as Dark Monolith, who one afternoon last year recorded ‘field recordings and drones’ of a more lo-fi nature. This reminded me very much of older New Zealand music, rusty drones captured by a microcassette, cleaned up on the computer. A particular fruitful afternoon that was. Seaworthy are perhaps the best known band from this lot, from a Vital Weekly perspective, for he had releases on 12K. Maybe it’s because it’s on a cassette, but it seems to me that he’s in a bit more noisier mood than usual, and could perhaps easily be lumped in with Dark Monolith with some almost violent ambient drone onslaught. Excellent change-over! Scattered Order might be the most well-known band here, but no doubt of a different generation, and here team up with a band called Breathing Shrine, whom I actually don’t know. The loud drone mood is continued here, and doesn’t that much like Scattered Order (as far as I know them!), but it’s in turn the heaviest slab on this fine cassette. I normally don’t like compilations but with such lengthy pieces its always easier I guess, including the nice music. Obviously. (FdW)

Vital Weekly review of 'Somnambulist'

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:12:58 -0500

AUTOMATING - SOMNABULIST (CDR by Second Language Records)
More music by one Sasha from Melbourne. The digital version of this is released by the netlabel Wood And Wire, while Sasha has a few copies of this on CDR with a handmade package on his own Second Language Records. “Originally conceived as a demonstrative show reel for various psychoacoustic techniques as a form of data delivery and an approach to a philosophical understanding of the world”. About sleep states, hypnagogia, why we need to sleep and source material from field recordings, found sound, tape manipulation, noise and effects units. While it has been cut into eighteen tracks, with as many titles, it sounds like all of this music belongs together with all of these flowing straight into each other. While its not the same in some ways I am reminded of the older Hafler Trio most of the times, with some ambient textures, collaged voices and processed field recordings but all in a more rougher state. Like things recorded on dictaphones before being processed into shady loops and slowed down voices. Maybe alike ‘A Thirsty Fish’. Maybe it’s because the Hafler Trio came up in conversation a few times last week. From the three releases I heard by them so far, I thought this was by far their best release. An excellent example of raw musique concrete, philosophical thought and fine execution through minimal means. (FdW)

Audio

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:14:49 -0500

Can’t deny it…

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:32:45 -0500

Can’t deny it…

SLR016 cassette, featuring Constant Light, Dark Monolith, Seaworthy, and Breathing Shrine & Scattered Order

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:22:07 -0400

SLR016 cassette, featuring Constant Light, Dark Monolith, Seaworthy, and Breathing Shrine & Scattered Order

Crawlspace on 'Acoustic Encoding'

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:20:00 -0400

Crawlspace on 'Acoustic Encoding':

Automating is the solo project of Sasha Margolis, who is based in Melbourne, though I believe he may have been traipsing through Europe for a bit there, as musicians like this are wont to do. Anyway, Margolis has a bunch of releases under his belt, but this track is taken from a new Wood & Wire digital release called Somnambulist, which you can either download for free or buy in a fancy handcrafted CD-R edition.

‘Acoustic Decoding’ is a time-lapsed trip through chromatic, emphatically dodgy hyper-futurist smog. Your ship is weaving through a canopy of Emirates high-rises several centuries after Our Death. So what the hell are you doing there, in your ship? Nice stuff, anyway.

TinyMixTapes on 'Somnambulist'

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:46:01 -0400

TinyMixTapes on 'Somnambulist':

Amazing Australian artist Automating (how’s that for alliteration) makes screechy industrial-tinged experimental music, mixed with murky strings and plenty of drone. They also release free albums. Somnambulist consists of 18 bits of avant-garde goodness specifically designed to tickle your primary auditory cortex. With track titles like “Alpha Wave” (there’s also Beta, Gamma, and Theta), “EEG Test,” and “Lucid Dreaming,” and appropriately mind-bending tunes to match, listening to this album is like getting your brain picked by the most expert of audiophiles — and it’s a blast.

AUTOMATING - SOMNAMBULIST

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 07:06:39 -0400

‘Somnambulist’ is finished. After some eighteen months of material collection, composition, and mixing; the end result is this.

It’s free to download here

and as an extremely limited edition handmade release with covers and poetry by Stella Severain here

Audio

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:03:11 -0400

Automating - Soundoffsoundoffsound

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:14:28 -0400

Automating - Soundoffsoundoffsound:

Vital Weekly review:

From Melbourne, Australia we have Sasha, who works as Automating. Through bandcamp we find one album of thirteen tracks ready for download, but there is also this particular release, which lasts very close to eighty minutes, so way too long to be put on bandcamp, I should think. According to the same bandcamp, Automating uses field recordings, found sound, tape manipulation, noise and effects unites, “currently pursuing live and studio created binaural soundscapes and archaic tape based drones”. That is certainly the case on this massive piece of work. Whatever Sasha found along the road or in any sort of state, he takes it down to the computer and expands it into one tonal drift, of very slow moving, shifting sounds. Only in movements of slow minutes you hear something has changed here, but change is inevitably there. Its all quite raw. Maybe the time stretching was done in an analogue manner, whereby a small portion of sound has been slowed down on an ancient reel-to-reel recorder ad infinitum and colored up with a likewise ancient graphic equalizer. That makes this particular alley of drone music a bit more intense and a bit more raw than many of his peers are doing. Quite a heavy rock that rolls down the mountain here. (FdW)

Taken with instagram

Mon, 21 May 2012 02:15:31 -0400

Taken with instagram

Mon, 21 May 2012 02:14:56 -0400

Taken with instagram

Mon, 21 May 2012 02:09:03 -0400

Taken with instagram

Hello, Hello, I’m Back Again

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:18:09 -0400

Hello, Hello, I’m Back Again

grey day

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:35:12 -0400

grey day