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Object of Projection by Lawrence English from the album Cruel Optimism

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Yuko Araki - IV

A note from Yuko Araki This might sound a little antithetical, but I am interested in making noise music that is free from unnecessary noise. I do realise how this sounds, but it is absolutely at the core of my new recording. I want to create maximum impact and dynamics in the music through using only the essential elements and materials. I am a huge fan of noise music, and in many cases I enjoy the excessive nature of that music. For my own work though I am interested in reducing this, boiling it down, to the very critical parts that can allow the music to profoundly affect those who choose to listen to it. I want to use what I have at my disposal with intent and with force. I also wanted to deepen my connection to, and place in, this music. To this end I have started to explore how it is I fit into the work. I explored how is my body part of this project beyond being a gestural interface between the various machines I use to make it. I’ve started to think about voice a lot and this has come into the process of the recording. I’m not so much interested in the way voice can speak to stories or singing for that matter. I’m more interested in how voice might haunt the music. I invited another artist, Taichi Nagura from the band Endon, to contribute some voice to this album too. He is featured on Sloshing and his voice absolutely captures this quality I am interested in exploring. It’s as if he is trapped in that piece, fight for and against the other materials in the sound. This tension captures, for me at least, the relationships I think are so powerful about making, and also listening to music.  Design by T.Pakioufakis

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Chihei Hatakeyama ‎– Mirror. 2011 : Room40.

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Sleep Space 9.2

27.01.2025

Golden Hallway Music – Evening Sky People (Yaman Dream) – 00:00 Kilometre Club – Per Rinse – 07:04 Sun Rain – To Morrow – 07:52 Crystal Voyager, UFOm – Transfer Onto the New Earth – 11:42 Francis Morning – Dissolve – 13:46 Mick Chillage – Memories, Moods & Moogs Pt.1 – 17:46 Yann Novak – Traversing the Substrate feat. G. Brenner – 33:45 Stefano Guzzetti – Claudia – 38:26 Kilometre Club – harmony of sleep – 40:03 Sun Rain – Eternal – 48:20 Wodwo – Spillikin #5 – 51:23 Wodwo – spillikin #1 – 52:45 little forest – sit – 53:30 Voyage Futur – Night Falls – 56:06 Kilometre Club – Open Skies (Center Of Attention Rework) – 01:00:25 Dialect – New Sun – 01:03:06 Autumn Of Communion – Splendor Solis – 01:05:56 Memory Scale – The Armillary Sphere We All Need – 01:17:23 anthéne – deeper in the valley – 01:22:27 Metric System 1981 – Down To The Sea (Kilometre Club Rework) – 01:27:21 Jogging House & The Lifted Index – Ancient Siblings – 01:30:14 Perry Frank – The Last Time – 01:36:04

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Best of 2024

Yuko Araki - Ubidus from: Yuko Araki - Zenjitsutan 前日譚 (Room40, 2024)

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Olivia Block - Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea

Room40

2021

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Special Michael Rother show with Hans Lampe (La Duesseldorf, drums), Franz Bargmann (ex-CAMERA, guitar) and Vittoria Maccabruni (electronics & vocals) at the beautiful City Recital Hall (Sydney) on Thursday 22 February.

Organised by Lawrence English / Room40

Supported by The Goethe-Institut Australien

Tickets: https://tickets.cityrecitalhall.com/events/6890

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Lawrence English_________''Hammering A Screw'' (2016)______abum 'Cruel Optimism'______label 'Room40'.

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David Toop & Lawrence English - The Shell That Speaks The Sea - "the affective realm that haunts, rather than describes, experience"

A note from Lawrence English I first met David Toop some 20 years ago. I think we were in touch shortly before that, but our first meeting took place when I invited him to Australia to perform and to speak as part of REV, a festival held at Brisbane Powerhouse. It was a memorable meeting, I vividly remember his solo performance and the edition A Picturesque View, Ignored, documents an improvised meeting during that time. Over the years, David and I have shared an interest in both the material and immaterial implications of sound (amongst other things). Moreover we’ve connected many times on matters which lie at the fringes of how we might choose to think about audition, our interests seeking in the affective realm that haunts, rather than describes, experience. The Shell That Speaks The Sea very much resonates from this shared fascination. I’m not exactly sure when we first mooted this duet, but I sense its initial trace is now more than a decade ago. I tend to live by the motto of ‘right place, right time’ and I believe David likely also subscribes to this methodology. A couple of years ago, David and I reignited the duet conversation and began exchanging materials. As a jumping off point, I explored a series of field recordings that, for me at least, captured something of this affective haunting that I mentioned previously. One such recording was of a Tawny Frogmouth at Nugum (White Rock) on the lands of the Yugarabul people. The frogmouth is an utterly elusive creature whose voice is like a modulating low frequency oscillator. They are a magical bird, and like the Potoo, have captivated David and I at various points in our lives. The recording seemed to suggest a whole way of approaching sound and, for me at least, it opened an entirely new range of sound worlds which are present in the final version of this recording. This edition is the product of spontaneous burst of exchanges, buffered by periods of tempered silence. A patient work, charged with unexpected dynamics. It’s with great pleasure we share this recording with you.  David Toop - Voice, digital electronics, Spanish, electric and lapsteel guitars, bowing, whistling, percussion, flutes. Lawrence English - Electronics, field recordings, shortwave radio, bass drum, ghost flute, bamboo, stones.

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Scanner — Earthbound Transmissions. 2021 : Room40.

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Aerial Space Echo

19.01.2025

Mikkel Hess – The Bear Jukebox – 00:00 Erik Wøllo – Disc 1: Aerial – 02:25 36 – State Space – 09:08 Sophos – Ancient Wisdom – 12:13 Martin Stürtzer – Sinus est – 18:07 Sulk Rooms – They Don’t Believe It – 22:38 Alluste – Desde Turín a Buenos Aires – 25:59 Sven Phalanx – Dreamcatcher – 31:46 Yann Novak – Seeing Light Without Knowing Darkness feat. G. Brenner – 34:49 BRIAN DUFFY – Echo – 42:48 HDRF – Spectralis Part Two – 46:18 Tsone – Compass North – 47:38 Elin Piel – Gården – 52:32

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Also, Black Rain's soundtrack for the 1994 Neuromancer audiobook was reissued this month by Lawrence English's Room40 label. Black Rain was the same group famously slated to score Johnny Mnemonic, back when it was being planned as a black & white arthouse film.

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The periphery. The forgotten. The static in between.

Christina Giannone - Reality Opposition from: Christina Giannone - Reality Opposition (Room40, 2023)

releases July 14, 2023