Official Aphonia Recordings Podcast

In performance The Precambrian utilizes home-made max/msp applications and various transducers to transform unassuming instruments, voices and occasional household items intodense, Ligeti-esque tone clusters.

phØnØn creates soundtracks with elements of ambience, noise, microtonality, chance processes and live improvisation. Chris Hanis and Adam Reza met in early 2007 through a shared interest in innovative electronic music. They are working in their studio on recordings for their first album.

Many divergent influences have inspired myello to create music. The music available here straddles a wish toward dance, while being motivated by an interest in textures and awkward composition that somewhat undermines that aspiration. Myello understands the compositional choices he makes to be informed and influenced by chance events, improvisation, societal pressures (the clutter of modernity), consumer electronics, credit cards, disposability, mercury, and plastic bags.

Problems is an Olympia based group composed of Ian Ackerman, Joe Kuta, Warren Lee and Gabe Will. Through just intonation, the music of Problems exposes a rich variety of microstructures and polyforms within a structure of sustained tones. Their instrumentation has included violin, viola, steel pedal guitar, and re-tuned farfisa. Recently Problems (along with fellow Aphonia Recordings artist, 'Myello') was commissioned by the Satsop Residency Program and Environmental Aesthetics Collective to compose and record within an abandoned nuclear power project on the Chehalis river.

Paintings for Animals is the vocal and electronic music of Pearson Wallace-Hoyt. In performance, Hoyt captures and manipulates sampled content and performances by a variety of collaborators. The resultant collage can be likened to tuning the radio dial on some phantom world.

The Precambrian is a live collaboration between Aphonia Recordings founders, Ben L. Robertson andq Andrew Senna. In performance, The Precambrian explores the digital transformation of minute sounds within the context of a series of absurd one-act narratives. Language and gesture become the object of discreet resonances, mictrotonal clusters, and algorithmic deconstruction. By means of home-made piezoelectric transducers, microphones, and algorithms developed in Max/MSP, incidental sounds are captured and processed in realtime.

Aphonia Recordings co-founder runs down the top three albums and top ten singles off of the Aphonia Recordings online store. In addition, previewed is an upcoming podcast regarding 20th Century music, ambient sound and the relationship to how we listen.

Enjoy this half informative conversation between Aphonia Recordings artists Ben L. Robertson and Andrew Senna. Enjoy their ramblings on psychoacoustics, acoustics, tuning systems, microtonality and other lofty sound/music related nerd stuff.