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Time for a music post for this post midnight interlude. More classic chilled out electronica.

Biosphere - Poa Alpina



Banco de Gaia - Last Train To Lhasa (edit)



Thomas Köner - Permafrost




Thomas Köner, born 1965 in Germany, attended the Music college in Dortmund and studied electronic music at the CEM-Studio in Arnhem. Until 1994 he worked with film sound as sound engineer. 2000 the Montreal International Festival New Cinema New Media awarded him the "New Media Prize". While studying, he dedicated himself to intensive sound research in the recording studio. His first impulse consisted in avoiding rhythm and melody and focusing instead on the phenomenon of sound colour. To intensify the experience of sound, he decided to work with other media, resulting at first in the collaboration with film artist Jürgen Reble and the live performance Alchemie (1992). Following this, he started to compose film soundtracks and electronic live music to accompany old silent films for the Louvre Museum, Paris. Köner's interest in combining visual and auditory experiences and in extending the effectiveness of his sound works was conducive to an involvement with installation work and led to the collaboration with Max Eastley in which the combination between sound sculpture and performance became central. "List Of Japanese Winds" , a collaboration of Max Eastley and Thomas Köner, is an installation piece that was commissioned by the Hayward Gallery, London. The Centre Georges Pompidou commissioned him the sound work for an installation with filmmaker Yann Beauvais. Another field of sound exploration and radical sound design presents itself in today's club culture, which Köner sees as an ideal milieu for intensive and physical listening. As Porter Ricks, a collaboration with Andy Mellwig, he became an acclaimed producer of progressive techno, resulting in remix commissions for "nine inch nails" and a Claude Debussy remix for Universal Music.



Amorphous Androgynous - In Mind



Alan Lamb - Meditation On Spring 8



Born in 1944 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Alan Lamb had little early formal musical education other than joining a secondary school choir and learning the piano privately from age 8 to 17. He spent his childhood in the countryside near the village of Dunning in Perthshire, under the care of a nanny he called 'My' and to whom he owes his first awareness of 'wire music'.
Now a Perth-based composer and biomedical research scientist, Lamb has originated a body of innovative composition based on the resonance of 'singing wires'. One of Lamb's favorite devices is to make gongs and flutes from short pieces of wire and from wooden and metal rods and tubes, and hang them by strings from the wires. When activated by the wind, many different kinds of sounds and rhythms are transmitted into the wires. The strings themselves also create a distinctive sound. When the wind makes them sing in a pitch which resonates with one of the wire frequencies, a sound like Pan's pipes is heard.

Date: 2015-09-14 01:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thespian15.livejournal.com
I was getting ready to ask if there was anything on that third video, but about 3 1/2 minutes in I finally started to hear something. :o

I always thought of electronica as like Techno. Apparently not. :o

I would say the first one was my favorite out of the bunch.
Hugs, Jon

Date: 2015-09-14 10:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davesmusictank.livejournal.com
Electronica (a Wire mag term) has been around for years. Even the Theremin is a device used in early sci-fi films and the whole score of Forbidden Planet from the fifties, and introduced us to Robbie The Robot, was an electronic score.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unSrf-htPbk&ab_channel=GerriC.D.DiTanno

This is a classic sci-fi movie of the fifties

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qADmHaVZ74M&ab_channel=VIALEDELDIAVOLO


Edited Date: 2015-09-14 10:10 am (UTC)

Date: 2015-09-14 02:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thespian15.livejournal.com
Good movie. :)

post midnight

Date: 2015-09-14 03:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pigshitpoet.livejournal.com
aaah... baaach!!

; )

that last train was one of my favourites when it came out. i was also into african head charge..



Heading to glory

Date: 2015-09-14 03:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elenbarathi.livejournal.com
There's a glitch in the code in your post here - what I see is a huge rectangle of white space blocking out the entire middle of the post, leaving only about 15 characters of space to each side of it.

Date: 2015-09-14 10:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davesmusictank.livejournal.com
Just checked. Seems okay to me,

Date: 2015-09-14 09:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eliki.livejournal.com
Blimey, I haven't heard anyone else ever mention Amorphous Androgynous. I've long been a big fan of Future Sound Of London, so I was very pleased when I heard about their other project. One of my favourites of theirs was "Mountain Goat."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qkKh7o1Tzg

Date: 2015-09-14 03:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davesmusictank.livejournal.com
Yep, another great track!

Date: 2015-09-17 09:12 pm (UTC)

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