Sound Propositions

The second part of a special double feature, returning us to Krakow’s Unsound festival, where we began with Episode 1. The inaugural episode featured Resina and Lea Bertucci, from Poland and New York, respectively, and so for the sake of symmetry, this episode pairs Antonina Nowacka and Dreamcrusher, two artists who make affective, vocal-based music, but to very different affects. That is to say, this is an episode that leans into contrasts: the US and Europe, home and away, morning and night, quiet and noise. We discuss non-dance DJ sets, the relationship between music and fashion, the joys and difficulties of traveling as an artist, and the adventurous programming of Unsound.

TRACKLIST

ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Antonina Nowacka - “Transit” (Sylphine Soporifera, Mondoj, 2024)
Antonina Nowacka - “Part 7” (Lamunan, Mondoj, 2020) 
Antonina Nowacka - “KOGUT 2” (Vocal Sketches From Oaxaca, Takuroku/Mondoj, 2021)A.N.R.S - “III” (A.N.R.S., Requiem Records, 2016)Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka - “Behind The Hill” Languoria, Mondoj, 2022)
WIDT - “Soma” (WIDT, Zoharum, 2016)
Antonina Nowacka - “Turning Into Dolphins” (Sylphine Soporifera, Mondoj, 2024)
Mentos Gulgendo - "Ionesendr" (Mentos Gulgendo, 2020)
DREAMCRUSHER - “CISHET” (CISHET, 2019)
DREAMCRUSHER - “Shopping” (Suite TWO, PTP, 2023)
DREAMCRUSHER - “Side A [excerpt]” (Another Country, PTP, 2020)DREAMCRUSHER - “Sick World” (Sick World, 2016)Kill Alters - live excerpt (Unsound Krakow, 2023)
DREAMCRUSHER (ft. Dis Fig) - Chrysalis (Chrysalis (Suite), Bandcamp, 2022)
KING VISION ULTRA - “UNTRAPPINGS (with Dreamcrusher)” (Shook World (Hosted by Algiers), PTP, 2023)
KING VISION ULTRA - “Paper Chase (with Dreamcrusher)” (Shook World (Hosted by Algiers), PTP, 2023)
Armand Hammer - “Gripewater” (BLK LBL, 2024) Armand Hammer - “[Dreamcrusher interlude] (We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, Fat Possum, 2023)DREAMCRUSHER - (Side B [excerpt]” (Panopticon!, PTP, 2020)
Centennial Gardens - “dreamstate” (archive live 03​.​26​.​2023 mucho stereo, PTP, 2023) 
DREAMCRUSHER - “In Due Time”  (Suite ONE, PTP, 2023)DREAMCRUSHER - “Antifa Baker”  (Suite TWO, PTP, 2023)
SP Outro

—-Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

Negativland has always been about media literacy; their pranks are not only humorous but reveal something about how media function. But in recent years, as the world has changed around them, their  relationship to this aspect of their practice has had to evolve. What was subversive in the 80s is mostly met with a shrug today. While sampling has become less essential to their work, the group continues to reappropriate and recontextualize human speech, and in an age of AI voice clones, the importance of using actual voices becomes even more significant. Last fall, I sat down with Negativland’s Mark Hosler and Jon Leidecker (Wobbly) at Krakow, Poland’s Unsound festival to discuss the history of their long running group, the importance of radio, and how the changing mediascape has transformed the meaning of their work as collage has gone mainstream.

TRACKLIST

ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)

Negativland - “Is It Or Isn’t It” (Speech Free: Recorded Music For Film, Radio, Internet and Television, Seeland, 2022)

SP INTRO

Don Joyce - “We'll Be Right Back [excerpt]” (Mort Aux Vaches, Mort Aux Vaches,  2020)
Negativland - “Content” - (The World Will Decide, Seeland, 2020)

Negativland - “5” (Negativland, Seeland, 1980)
Negativland - “The Answer Is…” (Points, Seeland, 1981)

Negativland - “Christianity is Stupid” (Escape from Noise, SST/Seeland, 1987)

New Order - “Blue Monday” (Blue Monday 12”, Factory, 1983)

Negativland - “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For” (U2, Seeland, SST, 1991)
Sarah Davachi - “ghosts and all” (Vergers, Important Records 2016)

iPad Synth demo youtube Ipad Synth or Original IVCS3 compared to EMS Synthi AKS

Negativland - “[Excerpt]” (Live at Unsound, 2023)

Edgard Varèse  - “Poème électronique” [1958] (Poème Electronique And Other Selections, EAV Lexington, 1973)

Karlheinz Stockhausen  - “Kontakte” [1958–60] (Kontakte, WERGO, 1963)
Wobbly - Failure Analyst (Failure Analyst, Bandcamp, 2024)
Christian Marclay - “Excerpt” (Live on Night Music 1988)
Charli - “Apple” [tiktok] (brat, 2024)
Negativland - “Failure” (The World Will Decide, Seeland,2020)
Negativland - “True or False” (True False, Seeland, 2019)

Negativland - “The Stain of Music”  (Over The Edge Vol. 9: The Chopping Channel, Seeland, 2016)
Negativland - “Death Is Optional” (Speech Free: Recorded Music For Film, Radio, Internet and Television, Seeland, 2022)
Negativland - “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For” (U2, Seeland, SST, 1991)
Negativland - “Algorithmic Me” (Speech Free: Recorded Music For Film, Radio, Internet and Television, Seeland, 2022)

Chopping Channel - “Happiness Is The New Productivity” (Independent Therapy, 2016)

Bana Haffar - “Castles in Beirut” (Castles in Beirut, Bandcamp, 2019)

Negativland - “The World Will Decide” (The World Will Decide, Bandcamp, 2020)

Over the Edge - “1991/06/06” (The Best of Over the Edge, Archive.org, 6 June 1991)

E L U C I D  - “[excerpt]” [2020] (SEERSHIP!, PTP, 2022)

Ween - “I Hate Morrissey (Home Demo)” (Boognish Rising 2013 Sampler, 2013)

Negativland - “A Nice Place To Live” (Points, Seeland, 1981)

Chopping Channel - “Safe Place Orientation” (Independent Therapy, Seeland, 2016)

Don Joyce - “We'll Be Right Back [excerpt]” (Mort Aux Vaches, Mort Aux Vaches,  2020)

—-Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

Ukrainian Field Notes - 20 November 2024

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Tracklist

Alexander Stratonov - Traces of Ember

Hockins - Arzamas On Fire

Juli Riot - Bozhevillia

Zahvat - Bouquet for Olha

Septim - Cyber Thoughts

Phite Noise - Hydrogen

Myroslav Trofymuk aka. AЙKTRONER - 31.03.24

Kirik & Sidletskyi - area of passive recreation

Ukrainian Field Notes - 16 October 2024 - with the North Azovian Greek NGO Надазовські греки

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Tracklist

Folk Group Fos - Bugdanku

Sartanskie Samotsvety ensemble - Of, mana, vay!

Nadiia Kalus - Ditty (udrama) "Ela miia kamiia"

Bir Taifa group - Dushenkalar

Bir Taifa group - Chikhmakh Khirimda

Vasyl Tanacha - track 9 (button accordion)

Suren Voskanian, Yaryna Dron, Andrii Levchenko - Vari-ava

Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 September 2024 - with Whaler

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

tracklist:

Matana Roberts is a multidisciplinary artist, saxophonist, composer, and performer. With the release of In the Garden…, their ongoing, projected 12-chapter series COIN COIN is near its midpoint. Roberts has developed a composition system for the series based on mixed media scores combining graphic notation, visual art, film, and ephemera, channeling the images and (hi)stories left behind. Coming out of the fertile hybrid music scenes of Chicago, Roberts resists being pigeon-holed into any one genre, and has a particularly complicated relationship being labeled as a “jazz” musician. In fact, as they point out in this episode, Roberts rejects binaries in general, preferring to explore other ways of being, a theme which is also reflected in the narratives of each of the chapters of COIN COIN. In this episode, we discuss Chapter Five, the loss of jaimie branch, and the lessons they learned from Montreal. 

LINKS

Matana Roberts

Bandcamp

Constellation

No Sound Left Behind

Improvisation, Community and Social Practice (ICASP)

Suoni per il Popolo

—-Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

Read more, including tracklist, at https://acloserlisten.com/2024/09/15/sp-episode-38-dis-placed-with-matana-roberts-podcast/

France Jobin has been exploring quantum theory for many years now, an interest that has shown up in her compositions, sound installations, and work with VR. But the pandemic finally afforded the Montreal-based minimalist composer time for deeper study with a personal brain trust of physicists she’d assembled over the years. Jobin recently released Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2) on the great Room40 label.We sat down in Montreal to discuss her formative sonic experiences, her origin in a blues band, her interest in physics, and a growing body of audio-visual work with Markus Heckmann.

TRACKLIST

ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)

France Jobin - “Superposition [excerpt]” (Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2), Room40, 2024)

SP INTRO

Christopher Tyng - “Futurama Theme” (Futurama, 1999)

Pierre Henry / Michel Colombier - “Messe Pour Le Temps Présent: Psyché Rock” (Les Jerks Électroniques De La Messe Pour Le Temps Présent Et Musiques Concrètes Pour Maurice Béjart, Philips, 1968)

I8U (France Jobin) - “29 Palms [excerpt]” (29 Palms, Dragon’s Eye, 2010)

France Jobin + Fabio Perletta - “Parallel” (Mirror Neurons, Dragon’s Eye, 2015)

Son House - “Forever On My Mind” [1964] (Forever On My Mind, Easy Eye Sound, 2022)

Marc Nerenberg - “Cocaine Blues [edit]” (Live at the Yellow Door Hootenanny, Montreal, Nov 2023) 

The Twelve Bar Bluesband - “Life is Hard (when you play the blues)” (Live at bluesmoose Radio, 2014)

I8U -  “10³³CM [excerpt]” (10³³CM,  Room40, 2009)

France Jobin and Stephan Mathieu - “Sea Song IV” (RADIANCE II: Music for the Answer, Schwebung, 2016) 

France Jobin - “The Fluidity Of Time Does Not Exist” (The Fluidity Of Time Does Not Exist, Room40, 2021)

France Jobin - “Unified Quantum State” (Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2), Room 40, 2024)

France Jobin - “f6e36b” (Hues, SUPERPANG, 2021)

France Jobin  - “Random” (Source of Uncertainty, Luminous Drift, 2022)

France Jobin + Richard Chartier - “DUO 4” (DUO, Matter, 2018)

France Jobin - “Casino Music” (Casino Music, 2023)

France Jobin - “EMS Synthi” (#evenmoresynthporn, 2020)

France Jobin - “A little buchla something​.​.​.” (A little buchla something​.​.​., 2022)

France Jobin - “Dégel” (Symbiose X - Dix Ans De Musiques Expérimentales - Ten Years Of Experimental Music, [walnut + locust] – wl076, Symbiose, 2022)

France Jobin - “Superposition [excerpt]” (Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2), Room 40, 2024)

—-Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 July 2024 - with Ostap Manulyak

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

tracklist:

* Ostap Manulyak - "Aeolian processes" [Fragment]

* Myroslav Trofymuk - "Місто" [The City] [excerpt]

* Dallek - "Arpeggio Disorder"


* "Unspeakable Weight" - A multichannel audiovisual installation by Andriy Linik, Ostap Manuliak, Yurii Vovkohon, Yevhenia Nesterovych, based on the Yevhen Hulevych's recordings

* Edgard Varese - "Ionisation" [excerpt]

* Ostap Manulyak - "Reprogression" (Fragment 2)

* Alla Zagaykevych - "Mithe IV: K.S." [excerpt]

* Valentin Silvestrov - Maidan Requiem - Cycle IV - "Prayer For Ukraine"

Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 June 2024 - with Lostlojic and Clasps

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Tracklist

Lostlojic - Майструймо гучну культуру ( Let's make a loud culture)

Clasps - Re-Rooting (ft. Daryna Panas)

Lostlojic - Bayraktar (excerpt)

Lostlojic - Night Explode (excerpt)

Distortion (UA) - Jaguar (excerpt)

Clasps - Shibboleth (excerpt)

Clasps - Take Charge And Move In (excerpt)

Slava Los - Snus (excerpt)

C. Lavender is a sound artist, sound healing practitioner, educator, and author of Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives. She has worked with labels including Editions Mego, RVNG, Longform Editions, and most recently iDEAL, who have just released Rupture In The Eternal Realm, a sonic reinterpretation of a Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice. In this episode of the Sound Propositions podcast, we discuss the influence of Pauline Oliveros, how working as an educator led to writing Transcendent Waves, and the evolution of the relationship between her practice as a sound artist and sound healer.

LINKS

C. Lavender
BandcampiDEAL
Transcendent Waves

TRACKLIST

ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)

C. Lavender - “The Blue Expanse” (Rupture In The Eternal Realm, iDEAL, 2024)SP INTRO

C. Lavender - “Dream Within A Dream” (Ubuweb, Edit from live performance at Union Pool, Brooklyn, 12 November 2019)

C. Lavender - I've Become Aware (live edit 2014) (Don't Trip, NTS, 2014)Oliveros and Ione - “The Nubian Word for Flowers: a Phantom Opera” (The International Contemporary Ensemble, Live, 22 February 2020)

Bunnybrains - “Foregone Occlusion” (Foregone Occlusion, Bandcamp, 2024)

Matmos - “On the Team” [C. Lavender section] (The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form, Thrill Jockey, 2020)

John Wiese - “Magnetic Stencil 1-1” (Magnetic Stencil 1, Helicopter, 2020)

Pauline Oliveros - “Tuning Meditation” (Live at Fuentidueña Chapel, The Met Cloisters, NYC, 2016)

Pauline Oliveros - “King Kong Sing Along Simultaneously” (Good Morning Mr. Orwell 2014,  Live at Nam June Paik Art Center, South Korea, 2014)

Late Music Ensemble / Pauline Oliveros - “Sonic Meditation I” ("Teach Yourself to Fly", York Unitarian Chapel, 1 August 2015)

Paid in Puke + Buckets of Bile - “Case in Point” (Split, Speed Tapes, 2018)

Wolf Eyes - “Mnesmosyne Moments” (IN SPLATTERED TIME, Disciples, 2023) 

C. Lavender - “Opening The Gates” (Fortitude In Wintarmanoth, Ecstatic Peace!, 2013) 

C. Lavender - “White Oleander​/​Delphic Oracle Enters The Chasm” (Peaceful Protest, RVNG, 2017)

C. Lavender - “Remedy Potion” (Myth of Equilibrium, Editions Mego, 2020) 

C. Lavender - “Terraforming a Sanctuary” (Installation, The Lincoln Park Conservatory | Experimental Sound Studio "Florasonic" Commission | Chicago, IL | 2019)

C. Lavender - “Ocean Of Ambrosia” (Rupture In The Eternal Realm, iDEAL, 2024)

C. Lavender - “Escape From The Pendulum” (V/A: Alone In The Dark, Hot Releases, 2019)

C. Lavender - “Myth of Equilibrium” (Myth of Equilibrium, Editions Mego, 2020) C. Lavender - “Assimilation/Incineration” (Serpentine Fever Dream, psychic liberation, 2017)

Aaron Dilloway & C. Lavender - “Secret Destroyed Instantly 1” (Secret Destroyed Instantly, Hanson, 2018)

John Cage / Aaron Dilloway - “Rozart Mix” (Rozart Mix, Hanson, 2024) C. Lavender - “Transient Seclusion” (Transient Seclusion, Longform Editions, 2021)

C. Lavender - “Melt Into Light” (Rupture In The Eternal Realm, iDEAL, 2024)C. Lavender - “Emptiness Itself” (Rupture In The Eternal Realm, iDEAL, 2024)

—-Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.