Bio:
I am an artist from New Zealand with a love for exploring sound-design and worlds in audio.

Links:
https://wilieu.carrd.co/

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John Kingston is a guitarist and performer based in Wellington, New Zealand. Box Of Hammers is his solo ambient project based on painterly use of guitar tones and drones.

Links:

https://boxofhammers.bandcamp.com/

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NUMBER FOUR (Parts 1-3) was composed for a short experimental film work that was never released. The soundtrack explores a vibrancy across phenomena, considering the possible sounds of various light states & a choreography of light / lit figures in space.

Bio:
Interdisciplinary artist Frances Libeau works at the intersection of sonic composition, text & performance with an interest in queer remediations of narrative & technologies. Their composition, sound design, writing & performance works have been commissioned by artists & organisations across fields of music, fine art, film, theatre & dance. Libeau draws on their practice as a composer & poet in their recorded/performance work as i.e. crazy, synthesising neo-folk, industrial sonics & power balladry through exploratory modes of aural collage & narrative songwriting.

Links:

https://iecrazy.com/

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Recorded 01 December 2022 at Blue Hills, VIC Australia

Bio:
M Faisandier's immersive composition and performance works unravel synchronistically through the release of control. In this expansive space, new experiential potentials of sound are invited to visit. Electro-magnetic resonances propagate to create vast and unique sound worlds inviting deep listening, reflection, surrender and transcendence - themes which converge creatively within their work.

Links:
https://sonorouscircle.com/artists/m-faisandier/

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Positive feedback was created by centering a microphone in the middle of two upright speakers. This was used to simultaneously record and playback vocal samples, creating the feedback heard throughout the track, attempting to take the idea of aggressive feedback, which is usually surrounded by negative reactions, and put a more positive spin on it.

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/synthesizedwaves/
https://synthesizedwaves.bandcamp.com

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Metal Machine Mezcal (excerpt) – a spontaneous radio performance @ 107diffusion Redfern NSW by Hethre Contant and Jon Panther. We created an assemblage analogous to Lou Reed’s feedback masterpiece, Metal Machine Music, replacing electric guitars with mobile phones. Two phones had instances running of August Black’s ("novel telematic service that allows multiple constituents to fluidly participate in broadcast-like scenarios") MEZCAL – one panned left and the other panned right while monitored. Due to the networking/streaming of Mezcal devices talking to each other via a server in Singapore and MEZCAL output streamed to a server in New York and back, we counted a rather delightful nine second delay between input here in Sydney, Australia and output monitoring via Wave Farm Transmit Partners web player in the studio.

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What beauty hides the world!? And all that is needed is to slip away from the form we expect from it.

Composition made entirely out of bells samples recorded at Felczyński Bell Foundry in Taciszów, Poland.

Bio:
"As a contemporary composer interested in instrumental, vocal, and electro-acoustic music, Przemysław Scheller explores the nature of sound. He is developing various dimensions of time and space, searching for the bond between past and present.

Born in 1990 in Poland, he graduated from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice (Poland) & and Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Lyon (France), and received Ph.D. in music composition in 2018. He works as an assistant professor at the Academy of Music in Katowice."

Links:

https://scheller.bandcamp.com
www.scheller.com.pl

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Tangaroa tells the story of the whale Tutarakauika guiding the wahine navigator Waitaha to Aotearoa through Te Moana Nui a Kiwa. Manipulated stone, water field recordings and Pūtatara render the physical journey into sonic form.

Bio:
Having established himself as one of Aotearoa's leading drummers performing with the likes of dDub, Corrella and in New Zealand's premier percussion ensemble Strike! Percussion, Tom Scrase is forging a new path in composition under the moniker Aotūroa.

Creating sound design for dance, film and installation, this creative outlet sees elements of ambient, textural soundscapes blended with complex and hypnotic rhythms and field recordings. Dense and challenging, these sounds are manipulated while retaining the primal sense of connection that permeates Aotūroa's music.

Links:
https://tomscrase.com/

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Around 2020 I got a cheap keyboard at an opshop and ran it through a guitar pedal. Then I stretched it out in Audacity. It was kinda crazy how it sounded like a choir when that happened. It's a bit harsh and you can also hear my breathing (sorry), but thats cause it was also recorded on my cell phone in my bedroom. I was nerding out over Hildegard of Bingen heaps while researching at AUT and also so much grief was coming to the surface around this time... especially with the lockdowns and isolation - thats why i wanted the name to reflect the grief of the moment but also the activity of art making as an extension or form of prayer.

Links:
https://softrocksonicrocks.bandcamp.com/

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Pleasure and Pain is an electroacoustically processed piano and vocal re-imagining of 1980s goth rock, filtered into obscurity through magnetic tape, delay, and reverb.

Bio:
Jamie Awakshidar are a dream-pop duo from Te-Whanganui-a-Tara. They specialise in creating experimental works that warp familiar sounds into uncanny and unnerving soundscapes.

Links:
https://jamieawakshidar.bandcamp.com/
https://skaventhrone.bandcamp.com/album/kriptobiologiya