Support great music by checking out Free Form Freakout. Purveyors of a wide range of underground and experimental music.
http://fffreakout.blogspot.com/2013/10/fffour-kmsu-benefit-release-for-kmsus.html
20131018
.mf contributes a track to FFFreakout/KMSU benefit compilation
Support great music by checking out Free Form Freakout. Purveyors of a wide range of underground and experimental music.
http://fffreakout.blogspot.com/2013/10/fffour-kmsu-benefit-release-for-kmsus.html
20130918
Nada Mix 02: Fall
01 Bismillahi ‘Rrahman ‘Rrahim - Harold Budd
02 Piece 2 (Koln Concert 1975) - Terry Riley And Don Cherry
03 Side A - Nuno Canavarro
04 Promises - Nathan McLaughlin
05 Kalimba Sketch - The Green Kingdom
06 Music in Circular Motions - John Celona
07 Myoshini Temple (AD 698), Kyoto, Hanazono (Ukyo) with drums - Japanese Temple Bells
08 Maximum Alpha - Mkwaju ensemble
09 Nachbugzerlo - General Magic
10 Them Their - Jan Jelinek
11 Scarescarab - MT Coast
12 Ennio Mazzon - 26 of December
13 The Siamese Level - Cedric Stevens
14 Excerpt from String Quartet #5 - Mehldau/Hays
15 Utakata No Hibi - Mariah
20130714
I Prefer the Term Artificial Person Myself
.mf contributes a track to new digital compilation of automatic, generative, aleatory, and stochastic musics:
20130711
Latest Happenings
Recently made a visit to the beautiful city of Chicago. During my stay I was able to visit and record Harry Bertoia's "Sounding Sculpture." The following recording was made 8:30 am on June 20th amongst the bustle of Chicago's Near East Side:
Take some time to check out what people are saying about nada releases:
Tim Blechmann/Manuel Knapp - viii
http://www.thewatchfulear.com/?p=8481
http://olewnick.blogspot.com/2013/05/andrea-borghi-vetrale-obs_6.html
Lali Barrière, Noish and Xedh - icgs el
http://acloserlisten.com/2013/06/28/lali-barriere-noish-and-xedh-icgs-el/
Also, look out for some new "tape music" from Nathan McLaughlin coming soon to Nada. In the mean time, check out his excellent Karen Studies from Scissor Tail Editions: http://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/karen-studies
Lots of love to all who've supported Nada over the years. More to come soon...
Take some time to check out what people are saying about nada releases:
Tim Blechmann/Manuel Knapp - viii
http://www.thewatchfulear.com/?p=8481
http://olewnick.blogspot.com/2013/05/andrea-borghi-vetrale-obs_6.html
Lali Barrière, Noish and Xedh - icgs el
http://acloserlisten.com/2013/06/28/lali-barriere-noish-and-xedh-icgs-el/
Also, look out for some new "tape music" from Nathan McLaughlin coming soon to Nada. In the mean time, check out his excellent Karen Studies from Scissor Tail Editions: http://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/karen-studies
Lots of love to all who've supported Nada over the years. More to come soon...
20130522
nada 14
Lali Barrière, Noish and Xedh - icgs el
Edition of 50, CDr
nada 14
Two long form pieces of amplified objects, electronics, and computer.
Professionally printed sleeves and discs featuring macrophotography of minerals by A. Lighfoot
Professionally printed sleeves and discs featuring macrophotography of minerals by A. Lighfoot
Lali Barriere is active in the scene of free improvisation in Barcelona. She works with acoustic and amplified objects, electronic devices, field recordings and computer programming.
Noish is the moniker of experimental programmer and musician Oscar Martin. He bases his work on the deconstruction of field recordings, non-conventional synthesis and the creative use of technological errors.
Miguel A. García (aka Xedh) from the Basque country, is one of the most dynamic sound artists in the Spanish scene. His work focuses mainly on composition and electro-acoustic improvisation. He uses sounds taken from electronic residue, often interrelated with field recordings or acoustic instruments, in the search of an intimate, intense and immersive experience.
SOLD OUT
20130331
20130315
Blechmann/Knapp - VIII review
via vitalweekly:
TIM BLECHMANN & MANUEL KNAPP - VIII (CDR by Nada)
A work of laptops and electronics that started in the world of improvised music, more or less that is. Tim Blechmann studied informatics and is 'predominately' an improviser with laptop and a composer of computer music, while Knapp studied painting in Vienna and computer music and electronic music at the University of the same city. I assume this forty minute piece is the result of playing together and taping that, rather then the product of endless shaping and editing of recordings. A very linear work here with atmospheric drone at the core and slow building of the final composition. Buzzing static, humming, but with some interesting variety of sounds here. What I like about this is the fact that is doesn't stay in the perfectly nice drone scapes world, but rather adds a whole bunch of nasty sounds and makes it almost aggressively loud. It's like they found a bunch of recordings made inside airplanes and added those the music. When it gets loud, say around the twelve minute mark it stays loud almost until the very end, but it end is again delicate. It's the louder mechanical machine humm that made this for me into a very nice work. It borders to the edges of noise music but has so much more to offer. (FdW)
TIM BLECHMANN & MANUEL KNAPP - VIII (CDR by Nada)
A work of laptops and electronics that started in the world of improvised music, more or less that is. Tim Blechmann studied informatics and is 'predominately' an improviser with laptop and a composer of computer music, while Knapp studied painting in Vienna and computer music and electronic music at the University of the same city. I assume this forty minute piece is the result of playing together and taping that, rather then the product of endless shaping and editing of recordings. A very linear work here with atmospheric drone at the core and slow building of the final composition. Buzzing static, humming, but with some interesting variety of sounds here. What I like about this is the fact that is doesn't stay in the perfectly nice drone scapes world, but rather adds a whole bunch of nasty sounds and makes it almost aggressively loud. It's like they found a bunch of recordings made inside airplanes and added those the music. When it gets loud, say around the twelve minute mark it stays loud almost until the very end, but it end is again delicate. It's the louder mechanical machine humm that made this for me into a very nice work. It borders to the edges of noise music but has so much more to offer. (FdW)
20130220
nada 13
Tim Blechmann and Manuel Knapp - viii
Edition of 100, CDr
nada 13
Tim Blechmann – laptop
Manuel Knapp – electronics
Nada is very proud to release VIII, the latest in a series of collaborations between Tim Blechmann and Manuel Knapp. A single 40+ minute piece of ominous digital static and humming electronics. Slow building with strong linear momentum eventually swells into a dense cloud of digital grain and electronic skree. A late night burner.
Featuring original artwork from Manuel Knapp.
Tim Blechmann studied music informatics in Tübingen, Stuttgart and Vienna. Blechmann's musical work is predominately as an improviser with laptop and composer of computer music. He lives and works in Vienna.
tim.klingt.org
Manuel Knapp studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and computermusic and electroacoustic music at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Knapp works as an artist in the fields of painting, graphics, animation and electroacoustic music. Currently, he splits his time between both Vienna and Tokyo.
knapp.klingt.org
the music of Tim Blechmann has shown itself to be able to charm me easily.
- Richard Pinnell
reviews:
http://olewnick.blogspot.com/2013/05/andrea-borghi-vetrale-obs_6.html
http://www.vitalweekly.net/872.html
http://www.thewatchfulear.com/?p=8481
Manuel Knapp – electronics
Nada is very proud to release VIII, the latest in a series of collaborations between Tim Blechmann and Manuel Knapp. A single 40+ minute piece of ominous digital static and humming electronics. Slow building with strong linear momentum eventually swells into a dense cloud of digital grain and electronic skree. A late night burner.
Featuring original artwork from Manuel Knapp.
Tim Blechmann studied music informatics in Tübingen, Stuttgart and Vienna. Blechmann's musical work is predominately as an improviser with laptop and composer of computer music. He lives and works in Vienna.
tim.klingt.org
Manuel Knapp studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and computermusic and electroacoustic music at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Knapp works as an artist in the fields of painting, graphics, animation and electroacoustic music. Currently, he splits his time between both Vienna and Tokyo.
knapp.klingt.org
the music of Tim Blechmann has shown itself to be able to charm me easily.
- Richard Pinnell
reviews:
http://olewnick.blogspot.com/2013/05/andrea-borghi-vetrale-obs_6.html
http://www.vitalweekly.net/872.html
http://www.thewatchfulear.com/?p=8481
20130216
Tuesday February 19
Tuesday, February 19
Paul Metzger, Tim Glenn, Andrew Broder
Michael Flora
Jonathan Kaiser
at
Madame
3401 Chicago Ave
8pm
20130128
nada 12
.mf - Throwing Shapes
limited edition CDr
nada 12
Throwing Shapes is the first CD release of computer music by California born and Minneapolis based Michael Flora. Deeply inspired by a love of techno's repetition and sequencer based compositions, modern minimalism, as well as the extreme computer music of the 90's Mego label. The disc features recordings of different patches created through Miller Puckette's Pure Data. Only sine waves are used, sometimes showcasing the pure frequency of the wave itself or often subjected to further abstractions.
01 NOISE
02 PVRC
03 ACIDPAN
04 PATTRN2
05 ACI3
06 246
07 EDIT10SEC
08 MNMLC
09 IMPROV
What people are saying: "Sounds like a modem connecting in slow motion." - A.L.
20130122
field recordings
recently added a field recording page for focused listening here
"Listening is key. Having the ability to listen is a learned function. It is a very creative activity, not passive and important for all aspects of our daily lives. Listening is not a light artistic whim, it is quite a deep emotional and creative experience. Where as hearing, we hear everything, but we rarely get the chance to focus and listen."- chris watson
"Listening is key. Having the ability to listen is a learned function. It is a very creative activity, not passive and important for all aspects of our daily lives. Listening is not a light artistic whim, it is quite a deep emotional and creative experience. Where as hearing, we hear everything, but we rarely get the chance to focus and listen."- chris watson
20121129
nada eleven
fnl - ep 3 now available for dl and streaming via.
http://fnlrecs.bandcamp.com/album/ep3
also, new music coming soon from:
tim blechmann and manuel knapp
zachary james watkins
and
michael flora
fnl - ep 3 now available for dl and streaming via.
http://fnlrecs.bandcamp.com/album/ep3
also, new music coming soon from:
tim blechmann and manuel knapp
zachary james watkins
and
michael flora
20121005
nada eleven
FNL - ep3
cassette, c30
edition of 25
A
01 alap
02 1063
03 1171
04 1224
05 eaigphtreieln
06 modular processed pd signal...
07 m ay4rhy thm
B
01 solo
02 adrnp
03 1095
New EP of contemporary electronic music from FNL utilizing experimental composition techniques. Featuring improvised, generative and process based compositions.
cassette mastered at Dong-Min Studios
fnlrecs.bandcamp.com
SOLD OUT
20120831
FNL Upcoming Dates
Thursday October 11
FNL (pdx)
Ascetic (Florida/Sacramento)
Lotion (Davis)
@Chillanova house, Davis
http://www.facebook.com/events/504186066272096/permalink/504218292935540/
Friday October 12
Black Spirituals (Zachary James Watkins)
Orbless
Headboggle
FNL (Portland, OR)
w/ DJ Meta Wave
@the Cave, San Francisco
http://www.facebook.com/events/274933029285633/
FNL (pdx)
Ascetic (Florida/Sacramento)
Lotion (Davis)
@Chillanova house, Davis
http://www.facebook.com/events/504186066272096/permalink/504218292935540/
Friday October 12
Black Spirituals (Zachary James Watkins)
Orbless
Headboggle
FNL (Portland, OR)
w/ DJ Meta Wave
@the Cave, San Francisco
http://www.facebook.com/events/274933029285633/
20120718
20120711
nada 10
01 (2:52)
02 (7:27)
03 (1:05)
04 (1:31)
physical: limited edition CDr *inquire: mptyvssl@gmail.com
digital: http://fnlrecs.bandcamp.com/
New EP featuring FNL's latest forays into sound design. Four compositions investigate a contemporary approach to the arrangement of sound, with a focus on microsound, rhythm, and the extreme ends of the audible frequency spectrum.
Intended to be played on systems with a wide frequency response.
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