Monday, May 12, 2025
Non-Music Roundup (April 25)
Peter Wullen is a Belgian poet, writer, sound artist and field recordist. He has released a variety of works (both solo and collaborative) - independently and through various labels.
'Master of Inertia' is a kind of (if I understand correctly) a cross between a sound art experimental and a one-man/one-act stage play, based on Samuel Beckett's ''Knapp's Last Tape''. The album consists of seven tracks, created from field recordings taken on Zebrastraat in Gent, Belgium. It's worth reading the descriptive text on Bandcamp before listening to this, in order to have a better understanding of what you're hearing...
It begins with a quiet eerie soundscape filled with rapidly stuttering drones, hissing electrical static, distant knocks and ominous vibrations that swirl slowly and moodily around this dark abstract environment.
Different sounds and textural layers weave in and out, and if you listen closely - you will hear a variety of intriguing background noises, all of which make the whole thing rather trance-inducing...
After that you will hear wooden creaking noises, mechanical ambience and the faintest wisps of some kind of beautiful distant music emerging through the mix...
Throughout the rest of the tracks, you will hear a series of mesmerizing rattles, altered frequencies, wailing police sirens, soft crunching noises, atonal ambience, trembling tones, haunting drones and subtle environmental sounds...
'Master of Inertia' is a spellbinding album of eerie field recordings, atmospheric dronescapes, haunting vibrations and abstract sound manipulation. The mood of these pieces are lonesome and troubling, yet oddly comforting. A wonderful slice of absurd realism, and a highly engrossing listening experience...
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, August 2024
Fletina and Peter Wullen
Trophallaxis
Trophallaxis is the process of sharing food among social insects like ants, termites, or bees. For the Scottish sound artist Fletina and Belgian field recordist Peter Wullen, though, it also describes the back-and-forth of ideas between collaborating artists, the sharing of materials that keeps the project productive. The title was inspired by one of the sources here, a beehive at Ghent’s Klein Begijnhof, a type of convent for lay religious women dating from 1235. But the trophallaxis between artists means that many more sounds were shared from towns scattered across the UK and Belgium. We hear water dripping in a cemetery, people talking, birds singing, and throughout, the repeated bell-ringing and calling of a priest from Bela Tarr’s epic film Sátántangó. The effect is like traveling back in time to that convent, where the only news comes from what you can hear around you: overheard conversations, messages from the town crier, and what can be gleaned from the buzzing of bees or the cawing of crows.
12-21-24 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - The Most Interesting Releases of 2024, Part 1
Rocket Man - Eva Novoa - Novoa / Drew Gress / Devin Gray Trio, Vol. 1 - 577 Records
https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/novoa-gress-gray-trio-vol-1
Political Technology - Devin Gray feat. Ralph Alessi (trumpet) & Myslaure ( “Meez-Lor”) Augustin (piano) - Melt All The Guns II - Rataplan Records (2024)
Second Meditation - Joseph Benzola - Stained Glass Meditation - Amanita Music (2024)
O Ignee Spiritus - Larum - The Music of Hildegard von Bingen | Live at Public Records - Puremagnetik (2024)
The Sea of Chairs - Denman Maroney Quintet - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare - Neuma Records (2024)
Tweks (Part 4) (Demo) - Petridisch - Tweks (Remastered) - Fish Prints (2024)
Zu sagen was ist (To say what is.) - David Wallraf/Monad Node - Un culte sans rêve et sans merci (A cult without dreams and without mercy) - digital release (2024)
Away - David Zucchi - Mandi - People | Places | Records (2024)
Act II (feat. Philippe Melanson on e-drums) - bass: Dan Fortin - Cannon - Elastic Recordings (2024)
A Solitude of Space / A Solitude of Sea / A Solitude of Death / An Everywhere of Silver - Heavy Cloud - shore)lines - digital release (2024)
The Basin - Parade - Lullabies After Storms and Floods - Elastic Recordings (2024)
Polytempo Music: Opening / Clockwise - composer: Brian Baumbusch / emsemble: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players - Polytempo Music - Other Minds Records (2024)
Trophallaxis (pt. 1) - Fletina & Peter Wullen - Trophallaxis - digital release (2024)
Enormous Wings - tttc - Foretold - Fruit Exports (2024)
3-1-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
Loop II & Solo - Robert Fripp - Houston Hall Philadelphia United States: 2-20-1981 - DGM digital (1981)
R.I.P. Susan Alcorn
Brack Water Waltz (ft. Susan Alcorn) - Astroturf Noise (Sam Day Harmet: Mandolin/fx, Sana Nagano: Violin/fx, Zachary Swanson: Bass) - Blazing/Freezing - 577 Records (2023)
Thollem / Susan Alcorn 2 - keyboards: Thollem McDonas / pedal steel guitar: Susan Alcorn - Thollem / Susan Alcorn - Thollem's Astral Traveling Sessions - digital release (2021)
Dream Crossed Twilight - Sirius Quartet / composer: Mark Edwards Wilson - Playing On The Edge 3 - Navona Records (2022)
New November - Simon Jermyn - Obsany - Elastic Recordings (2025)
Time Dilation - Andre LaFosse - Entry Level: An Introduction to Andre LaFosse - 7d Media (2025)
Master of Inertia 3 - Peter Wullen - Master of Inertia - digital release (2025)
mysterious - P.U.M.A. - ITINERE - The Church of Noisy Goat (2025)
Official Facsimile - Neverending Audit - High Notes - Ingrown Records (2024)
FIREFLIES for third-bridge acoustic guitar and electronics - Mike Frengel - Music For Guitar & Electronics - Ravona Records (2020)
First Chirality - Kevin Kastning / Carl Clements / Soheil Peyghambari - Triple Helix - greydisc (2025)
Josephine's Fresh Cuts - Jack O' The Clock - Portraits - digital release (2025)
Playing The Game - Gentle Giant - Power and the Glory - Capitol Records (1974)
Curious Corn - Ozric Tentacles - Curious Corn - Snapper Music (1997)
A Duck in a Tree 2025-04-19 | A Sunrise Séance in a Burning House
00 :zoviet*france - Intro
01 Vumseplutten1709 - Beansmilled
02 Application - Manifesto 03
03 Julie Berry / SE Trains - stb_crt
04 The London Sound Survey - Fountain by the Old Grosvenor Canal, Chelsea
05 International Roller Canary Breeders Association - A Suitable Teacher for Young Roller Canaries
06 Peter Wullen - Mother Moorhen (Globoscuro Edit)
07 Conrad Schnitzler - III Kugeln – 2:04
08 acs272 - Washing Machine A (Monaural) – Spin 2
09 Fossil Aerosol Mining Project - Slumber Vox Study
10 Ben Ponton - Faulty Fluorescent Light in the Stairwell, Commercial Union House, Newcastle upon Tyne, 25 May 2018
11 :retreat: - rtrt001 – Movement 7
12 Forelight - Midnight
13 Nula.cc - Columns of Air
14 Matt Wand - Anything Is Trying to Sell You Nobody
15 Manja Ristić - Live at Beton Kino [extract]
16 Mutant Beatniks - Omega
17 Jake Cassavetes - So Little of Light
18 Accou - Slowly Illuminated
++ :zoviet*france - Outro
A Duck in a Tree - 22 April 2025 (A Sunrise Séance in a Burning House)
00 :zoviet*france - Intro
01 Vumseplutten1709 - Beansmilled
02 Application - Manifesto 03
03 Julie Berry / SE Trains - stb_crt
04 The London Sound Survey - Fountain by the Old Grosvenor Canal, Chelsea
05 International Roller Canary Breeders Association - A Suitable Teacher for Young Roller Canaries
06 Peter Wullen - Mother Moorhen (Globoscuro Edit)
07 Conrad Schnitzler - III Kugeln – 2:04
08 acs272 - Washing Machine A (Monaural) – Spin 2
09 Fossil Aerosol Mining Project - Slumber Vox Study
10 Ben Ponton - Faulty Fluorescent Light in the Stairwell, Commercial Union House, Newcastle upon Tyne, 25 May 2018
11 :retreat: - rtrt001 – Movement 7
12 Forelight - Midnight
13 Nula.cc - Columns of Air
14 Matt Wand - Anything Is Trying to Sell You Nobody
15 Manja Ristić - Live at Beton Kino [extract]
16 Mutant Beatniks - Omega
17 Jake Cassavetes - So Little of Light
18 Accou - Slowly Illuminated
++ :zoviet*france - Outro
Sonification / 17th April 2025
Tracklisting - Ep. 41 [April 17, 2025]:
Laura Cocks - To Beget
Huntsville - [Ok]
U.e. (Ulla Straus) - Drain The House
Smokey Emery - Live at LACDA 03.27.25
Peter Wullen - Master of Slowness
Lee Fraser - Live at Parken, Vienna, 05.08.23 (Excerpt)
Gnäw - Derakhshesh, Su Su, Koor Su
Florence Cats - void
Kali Malone - Locus of Repetition (Excerpt)
framework #926 - 30 March 2025
[time / artist / track / release / label]
00:00 – 03:13 / steve barsotti, framework introduction, recorded in the united states
02:14 – 12:57 / p.andré / chickens, birds, farmworkers, airplane / monte real, pt / aporee maps
06:30 – 10:55 / anne-f jacques / brackish-water fiddler / crab-shapedness / superpang
09:53 – 18:30 / balam ronan / genève-servette hc vs hc fribourg-gottéron / carte sonore de (mon) genève / [self-released]
10:31 – 18:39 / peter wullen / master of inertia / master of inertia / [self-released]
15:00 – 26:18 / greg hooper / [excerpt 1] / inside / leaf /// wave sound
19:09 – 23:03 / coline de valence / vernissage ter-ter soigner le quartier / orléans, fr / aporee maps
22:01 – 29:43 / balam ronan / skatepark de la plaine de plainpalais / carte sonore de (mon) genève / [self-released]
26:18 – 30:37 / peter wullen / master of inertia 1 / master of inertia / [self-released]
29:43 – 34:18 / dsi thomson / frogs at night / russellville, us / aporee soundmaps
34:18 – 39:06 / anne-f jacques / shielded-back kelp / crab-shapedness / superpang
36:06 – 51:54 / greg hooper / [excerpt 1] / inside / leaf /// wave sound
37:56 – 48:00 / peter wullen / master of slowness / master of inertia / [self-released]
45:27 – 56:08 / anne-f jacques / sargassum / crab-shapedness / superpang
50:14 – 57:14 / balam ronan / bains de pâquis / carte sonore de (mon) genève / [self-released]
54:35 – 59:00 / noa timmermans / binaurale recording midden congresplein / brussels, be / aporee maps
framework #926: 2025.03.30
[time / artist / track / release / label]
00:00 – 03:13 / steve barsotti, framework introduction, recorded in the united states
02:14 – 12:57 / p.andré / chickens, birds, farmworkers, airplane / monte real, pt / aporee maps
06:30 – 10:55 / anne-f jacques / brackish-water fiddler / crab-shapedness / superpang
09:53 – 18:30 / balam ronan / genève-servette hc vs hc fribourg-gottéron / carte sonore de (mon) genève / [self-released]
10:31 – 18:39 / peter wullen / master of inertia / master of inertia / [self-released]
15:00 – 26:18 / greg hooper / [excerpt 1] / inside / leaf /// wave sound
19:09 – 23:03 / coline de valence / vernissage ter-ter soigner le quartier / orléans, fr / aporee maps
22:01 – 29:43 / balam ronan / skatepark de la plaine de plainpalais / carte sonore de (mon) genève / [self-released]
26:18 – 30:37 / peter wullen / master of inertia 1 / master of inertia / [self-released]
29:43 – 34:18 / dsi thomson / frogs at night / russellville, us / aporee soundmaps
34:18 – 39:06 / anne-f jacques / shielded-back kelp / crab-shapedness / superpang
36:06 – 51:54 / greg hooper / [excerpt 1] / inside / leaf /// wave sound
37:56 – 48:00 / peter wullen / master of slowness / master of inertia / [self-released]
45:27 – 56:08 / anne-f jacques / sargassum / crab-shapedness / superpang
50:14 – 57:14 / balam ronan / bains de pâquis / carte sonore de (mon) genève / [self-released]
54:35 – 59:00 / noa timmermans / binaurale recording midden congresplein / brussels, be / aporee maps
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