#SUPERPANG

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France Jobin - #F6E36B From France Jobin - Hues (SUPERPANG, 2021)

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Shapes

Fax - Shapes

Out now on the ever excellent Superpang label!

Shapes was produced, recorded, mixed and processed by FAX. All music by Rubén A. Tamayo (ASCAP) 2023. Mastered at Facsimile Sound, Mexicali, Mexico. Gracias CDV. Dedicated to A + B. www.faxmusik.com

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Superpang

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William Fields - Fictions - continuing to push the boundaries of generative music, making it sound both introspective and playful

William Fields, the electronic musician working in areas of algorithmic composition and improvisation, makes his debut on GOTO with “Fictions”. Continuing a slew of releases across labels such as Superpang, Tokinogake and Conditional, “Fictions” is a perfect slice of Fields’ computer music – never robotic, constantly shifting and, at times, straight up jazzy. Fields is keen to state that these pieces are performed, with several of the tracks taken directly from public live appearances. Nevertheless, each composition retains structure and familiarity, both somewhat rarities in the majority of music made via similar processes. The eight tracks here display a wide range of aesthetic approaches, however, ranging from the raucous, freeform “Febih” through the computer jazz of “Obu” to the more luscious atmospheres of “Athal” and “Ifotux”. Fields has been working in electronic music since 1998, performing regularly between the United States and Canada. A frequent collaborator, his work has received high praise from peers internationally. For several years, Fields has developed his own music software, “FieldsOS”, from which the majority of his output is produced. A particular highlight in the construction of “FieldsOS” was a weekly spot on Resonance Extra in 2019, where the system generated an hour of algorithmic music each week, broadcast without any edits. As time progresses, so does Fields’ “music system,” with “Fictions” exhibiting some of his most organic machine-music to date. May William Fields guide you through his world of musical spaces and systems. Performed and mixed by William Fields. Mastered for compact disc by Finlay Shakespeare. Artwork by Meggie Wood.

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Le Religione degli Insetti

Superpang

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TOUCH ME NOT - HARA ALONSO

Hara Alonso is a pianist, composer and sound artist from Spain.

Her compositional process is based on bodily experience, exploring multisensory practices, memory, imagination and space as tools for sound creation. In recent years she has expanded the sonic and performative possibilities of the piano through extended techniques, somatic practices and signal processing. Her sonic universe, described as 'gloomy bubbling electronic power ambient', navigates between lush landscapes, minimal rhythms and hypnotic layers with a strong micro-lyrical presence. 

Her music has been presented as an ensemble, soloist and sound installation at numerous festivals such as Mutek (CDMX), She Makes Noise (Madrid), STRP (the Netherlands), Keroxen (Tenerife), OUT.SIDE (Barcelona) or Malmö festivalen (Sweden) among others.

In 2018 her first EP. 'Pianoïse' for piano and electronics, was released by the label Keroxen.  In 2021, Eotrax released her acclaimed first solo album ‘Somatic Suspension’. Free jazz album ‘Ritual para acercarse’ came out in 2022 in collaboration with Susana Santos Silva, Elsa Bergman and Camila Nebbia by Ramble Records. ‘Notions of hope', released on pianoandcoffee records, came out in autumn 2023 with 10 meditative piano tracks. In 2024 he released together with Mexican artist Concepción Huerta the album ‘Hacia la melancolía del futuro’ on the Superpang label.

Hara Alonso works as a researcher in the project ‘Body as Ears’ at the Stockholm University of the Arts. She lectures composition, music programming and improvisation at the Royal College of Music (KMH) in Stockholm and has been a guest lecturer at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona and the Escuela de Música Creativa in Madrid.

PROJECT

touch•me•not emerges as a reflection on the corporeal relationship between the skin and the surrounds a surface, the ocean, a dried flower.

Hara Alonso's new album delves deep into our approach to sensoriality as bodies and sentient beings, by refusing to operate a discrimination of species. In that sense, it invites us to forget the tyranny of the visual, the lineal and the logic and pay attention to the haptic, evoked through a touching sound. It raises the question about the place we inhabit in a world that is weeping to be reenchanted and touched.

In the 18th century, Emanuel Swedenborg introduces the idea of correspondence and takes seriously the senses and the events of the sensual world as a proof of the spiritual world. A century later, Baudelaire, inspired by the Swedish theologian, writes the poem Correspondances, in which the senses are confused, immersed in a synesthetic hallucination.

Hara Alonso takes us on a walk not far away from the path Baudelaire strolled, through meadows, symbols, light and perfumes, entering a dimension of inverted senses where the body spills into a circle of desiring sensations and sensational desires, enclosing an innocent memory surrendered to the whole.

Accompanied by the percussions of Ryan Packard, the double bass of Ville Bromander and Ellen Söderhult’s voice, Hara Alonso weaves a loom composed of halos of harmonies, field recordings, Juno 6 and prepared piano.

touch•me•not will be released as vinyl in February 2025 in the Berlin based label FUU.

Hara Alonso :: https://haraalonso.com/ :: Bandcamp :: IG ::

Press kit and stills :: download here ::

Head photo by Virginia Delfino

HARA ALONSO

Hara Alonso es una pianista, compositora y artista sonora española. Su proceso compositivo se basa en la experiencia corporal, explorando prácticas multisensoriales, la memoria, la imaginación y el espacio como herramientas para la creación sonora. En los últimos años ha ampliado las posibilidades sonoras y performativas del piano a través de técnicas expandidas, prácticas somáticas y procesamiento de señales. Su universo sonoro, descrito como «power ambient, electrónico, burbujeante y sombrío», navega entre paisajes exuberantes, ritmos mínimos y capas hipnóticas con una fuerte presencia microlírica.

Su música se ha presentado como ensemble, solista e instalación sonora en numerosos festivales como Mutek (CDMX), She Makes Noise (Madrid), STRP (Holanda), Keroxen (Tenerife), OUT.SIDE (Barcelona) o Malmö festivalen (Suecia) entre otros.

En 2018 su primer EP, Pianoïse para piano y electrónica, fue publicado por el sello Keroxen.

En 2021, Eotrax publica su aclamado primer álbum en solitario Somatic Suspension. El álbum de free jazz Ritual para acercarse salió en 2022 en colaboración con Susana Santos Silva, Elsa Bergman y Camila Nebbia por Ramble Records. Notions of hope publicado en pianoandcoffee records, salió en otoño de 2023 con 10 temas meditativos para piano. En 2024 publicó junto a la artista mexicana, Concepción Huerta el álbum Hacia la melancolía del futuro, en el sello Superpang.

Hara trabaja como investigadora en el proyecto Body as Ears de la Universidad de las Artes de Estocolmo. Imparte clases de composición, programación musical e improvisación en el Royal College of Music (KMH) de Estocolmo y ha sido profesora invitada en la Escuela Superior de Música de Catalu��a (ESMUC) de Barcelona y en la Escuela de Música Creativa de Madrid.

PROYECTO

touch-me-not surge como una reflexión sobre la relación corpórea entre la piel y lo que la rodea, una superficie, el océano o una flor seca. El nuevo álbum de Hara Alonso ahonda en nuestra aproximación a la sensorialidad y a una no discriminación entre especies, invitándonos a olvidar la tiranía de lo visual, lo lineal y lo entendido como lógico y prestar atención a lo háptico, evocado a través de un sonido conmovedor. Plantea la cuestión del lugar que habitamos en un mundo que llora por ser reencantado y tocado. En el siglo XVIII, Emanuel Swedenborg introduce la idea de correspondencia y pone el foco en los sentidos y los acontecimientos del mundo sensorial como prueba del mundo espiritual. Un siglo más tarde, Baudelaire, inspirado por el teólogo sueco, escribe el poema, Correspondances, en el que los sentidos se confunden, inmersos en una alucinación sinestésica.

Hara Alonso nos lleva a un paseo no muy lejano del que recorrió Baudelaire, a través de prados, símbolos, luz y perfumes, adentrándonos en una dimensión de sentidos invertidos donde el cuerpo se derrama en un círculo de sensaciones deseantes y deseos, encerrando una inocente memoria entregada al todo.

En el directo está acompañada por Elle Söderhult a la voz y el percusionista, Ryan Packard.

touch•me•not saldrá en formato vinilo en Febrero de 2025, editado por el sello berlinés, FUU.

Hara Alonso :: https://haraalonso.com/ :: Bandcamp :: IG ::

Dossier de prensa e imágenes :: descargar aquí ::

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Listen/purchase: Stridulations 1-14 by Robert Schwarz

25 October 2024 | PANG21 | SUPERPANG

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Angelforces - Spun

Mutant Finnish experimental electronics alert! Popcorn Brain is like SOPHIE at her weirdest, but weirder still. I'm so in! -Kris

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2023.12.15 (fri) “Fancy Trio Music” @Shimokitazawa Apollo

Live : Yannick Duppon (Dr, Syn from Belgium) Billie Jean (Sax) Atsuko Hatano (viola)

Bar charge ¥800＋1d / Tip for musicians 19:00 open/ 19:30 start 会場: 下北沢Apollo

ブリュッセルから来日中のドラマーYannick Duppon, 気鋭のサックス奏者Bille Jean、5弦ヴィオラの波多野敦子の初トリオ・ライブ。

◉ Profile ◉ Yannick Duppon I ヤニック・デュポン ベルギーのブリュッセルを拠点に活動するマルチインストゥルメンタリスト（ドラム、ベース、キーボード）、作曲家。 実験音楽からポップミュージックまで幅広く演奏する。ブリュッセルを拠点とする集団 "Yôkaï "の共同リーダー兼メイン・コンポーザーであり、即興音楽変化バンド "impro-club "のリーダーでもある。 現在、Monolithe Noir、Adam Green、Echo Beatty、Jawharとも共演。日本では「ブラックライトオーケストラ」でツアーを行い、波多野敦子、高岡大佑、デグルチーニ、日本橋コレクティブのコドモ巨人らと共演。

Billie Jean I ビリージーン 1999年滋賀県出身。 サックスを吹く母親、ドラムを叩く父親の影響で幼少の頃から幅広く様々な音楽に触れる。 現在はサックスとボーカルを務める自身のバンド”DEATH RABBIT”の他、南博”Blondie Jean South”、山下久美子バンド等にも参加し活動している。 https://www.instagram.com/z0mbilli3/

Atsuko Hatano I 波多野敦子 ストリング・プレイヤー 主に５弦ヴィオラを使い、エフェクティブなサウンドを融合させた演奏でライブを行っている。独自の手法で弦楽オーケストラを形成するコンセプチュアルなシリーズ作品「Cells#2」「Cells#5」(米Important Records)をリリース。近年ではコラボレーションアルバムとしてGiovanni di Domenicoと「Rinka」(伊Superpang)を、Midori Hiranoと「Water Ladder」(独Alien Transistor)をリリース。別名義、弦楽プロジェクトTRIOLAの最新作「Scapegoat」が2023年10月にConstructive(UK)よりリリースされたばかり。 https://linktr.ee/atsukohatano

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Listen/purchase: Tom Mudd - Good Vibrations badly arranged for solo guitar simulation from Tour Mode by SUPERPANG

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Himera esittää: John McCowen

Nykytaidetila Kutomo la 27.5.2023 Klo. 18:00 10/5€

Himeran toukokuisessa konsertissa Nykytaidetila Kutomolla John McCowen esittää soolotöitään kontrabassoklarinetille vuonna 2022 ilmestyneeltä levyltään Models of Duration. Keskiössä ovat soittimen mahdollisuudet polyfonian tuottajana. Käsittelemällä tarkasti klarinetin äänten kirjoa syntyy lieriön luonnollisten yläsävelten kieli. Musiikissa on monia itsekseen liikkuvia horisontteja, jotka yksi akustinen äänilähde saa aikaan. Mikrofonien tarkan sijoittelun avulla kuuntelija tuodaan soittimen sisään, ääntä ei tuoteta elektronisesti.

John McCowen on säveltäjä ja klarinetisti, joka keskittyy laajentamaan kontrabassoklarinetin ja muiden soitinten mahdollisuuksia. The New Yorker kuvaili hänen työtään äänen tutkimiseksi mikroskoopin avulla. McCowenin soittotapa syleilee droneja, erotusääniä ja yläsäveliä, hän puristaa yhdestä akustisesta äänilähteestä ulos sen sävellyksellisiä mahdollisuuksia. McCowen asuu tällä hetkellä Reykjavikissa, missä hän opettaa improvisaatiota Islannin taideyliopistolla.

ENG

In Himera’s May concert at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo John McCowen performs works for solo contrabass clarinet from his 2022 album Models of Duration. These works showcase the contrabass clarinet as a polyphonic instrument. By finessing the instrument’s sonic spectrum, a language based in the natural harmonics of a cylinder is developed. Put simply, the music features multiple, independent moving lines from one acoustic sound source. With specific microphone placement, the listener is brought inside the instrument. There are no electronically generated sounds. This is acoustic music.

John McCowen is a composer and clarinetist focused on extending the possibilities of the contrabass clarinet and other instruments. His work has been described by The New Yorker as the sonic equivalent of microscopic life viewed on a slide. McCowen’s multiphonic approach embraces drones, difference tones, and beating harmonics as a means to extrude the compositional potential within a single, acoustic sound source. Documents of this practice have been released by International Anthem, Edition Wandelweiser, Astral Spirits/Monofonus Press, Dinzu Artefacts, Cairn Desk, SUPERPANG, and others. He currently resides in Reykjavík, Iceland where he teaches improvisation at the Iceland University of the Arts.

johnmccowen.com Kuva / photo: Viðar Logi

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Philippe Petit & Porya Hatami - PPPH 01 from: Philippe Petit & Porya Hatami - PPPH 1 (Precise Point Positioning Humans) (Superpang, 2022)

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On the decks

Superpang is one of the more interesting labels that appeared on Bandcamp during the pandemic. It quickly became a favorite and something to look forward to with each new release.

This week, let's listen to a couple recent favorites:

Beautiful and captivating droney material made by this heretofore unknown to me percussionist and composer Sébastien Forrester. Noted as:

A reverie on Aveyron, an homage to the bourrée of the elders

Sébastien Forrester - Occitanian tambour, metal percussion, tambourine, FM pipes, synthesizer Gabriel Delfour - additional hurdy-gurdy Gaston Vialard - additional cabrette bagpipe

A delightful new recording by Greg Davis and someone unknown to me previously, E. Jason Gibbs. This one is a delicate interplay between the two sound artists/musicians, defining their own language through minimalist sounds.

[viciogame]

🎮 Super Buster Bros (Super Nintendo)

Complete Gameplay: https://youtu.be/K4RTvh9Vx4s

#SuperPang #SuperBusterBros #Capcom #Arcade #SNES #SuperNes #SuperNintendo #SuperFamicom #Nintendo #ニンテンドー #スーパーファミコン #スーパーパン #BusterBros #Pang #Viciogame #Gameplay #Walkthrough #Playthrough #Longplay #LetsPlay

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William Fields - quube

The limits of control. Turning the idea of 'limit' on its head - taking it as a generative, rather than a destructive approach. A dream that - if impossible to reach in human societies - has its natural space in algorithmic artistic practices. Here, paths can be created, drawn and followed on the borders of control - lines of code, functions, variables. William Fields' latest EP, quube - to appear in April 2024 on SØVN Records - traces pathways through this dream in four pieces that were recorded with the attitude of a dancer rather than that of a composer: following and constantly reinterpreting the performative flow. The music in quube, drawing from a relatively restricted palette of simple waves and minimal processing, is often exciting - conveying an urgency similar to the one which is felt in a free improv concert. It is not surprising, then, to learn that the four pieces were recorded as a live take, with no editing or overdubs. The flow of sounds becomes almost playful in its enthusiastic impatience, eager to cross the limits of control only to bounce back for another unexpected dance step. William Fields is an electronic musician from Philadelphia, USA, working from 30 years at the intersection between algorithmic composition and improvisation. His music has been described by the legendary Richard Devine as “some of the most mind-blowing algorithmically generated music I'd ever heard” and has been published by - among others - SUPERPANG, tokinogake, EVEL, 3OP.

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Zbigniew Karkowski & Brent Gutzeit - Universal Torus (2022)

Recorded March 12, 2006 in Chicago by Todd Carter Mixed & mastered by Zbigniew Karkowski at EMS, Stockholm, November 2013

RIP Zbigniew Karkowski (1958-2013)