out soon: Schloss Mirabell – Requiem For Robots [Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound]

 

Artist:
Schloss Mirabell

 

Title:
Requiem For Robots

 

Label:
Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound

 

Cat#:
IRIS012

 

Release Date:
16th June 2023

 

Format:
vinyl, download& streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Omittere

02.
Demittere

 

Press Info:
The Intergalactic Research Institute for Sounds is proud to present Requiem for Robots. For this latest transmission, Florina Speth aka Schloss Mirabell joined forces with a group of robots that were built by Kay Sievers (versioduo.com). The musical question this record states is: “Who animates what?”

The physical body of these robots consists of a wooden cuboid, a single string around which a round, internally strung bow revolves, and a motorized finger which can press down the string. They produce sounds that are very similar to the cello. They display unusual characteristics such as motor noises, infinite sounds or sometimes scratchy and gruff qualities. In addition, there is the extraordinary level of kinetic expression created by the bow circling around the string. Taken together, precisely these peculiarities form a unique instrument profile, a character which is emphasized in the presented project.
Florina Speth, born 1983 in the mountains near Salzburg, started playing the cello and piano at the age of 6 and began studying music at the “University Mozarteum Salzburg” at Clemens Hagen when she was 11. She won several prizes and was part of orchestras such as the Bayerisches Landesjugend Orchester and Salzburger Junge Philharmonie. Always keenly interested in contemporary music, she loves bridging experimental arts with science. She composes and works with cello and cello robots. She regularly collaborates with Dasha Rush, Hüma Utuku, Nicholas Bussmann, Lucile Desamory and Larissa Lackner.

V2 Cello-1-robots
The physical body of such a robot consists of a wooden cuboid, a single string around which a round, internally strung bow revolves, and a motorized finger which can press down the string. Various parameters such as bow speed, bow pressure, finger position and finger pressure can be controlled via MIDI. The robots produce sounds that are very similar to the sound of a cello or viola. Due to their physicality, they exhibit very unique and unusual characteristics such as motor noises, infinite sounds or sometimes scratchy, sometimes gruff qualities, which in turn differ from the usual string sound of a cello. In addition, there is the extraordinary level of kinetic expression created by the bow circling around the string. Taken together, precisely these peculiarities form a unique instrument profile, a character which is emphasized in the presented project.

 

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“POOLcast 033”

 

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out now: Various – Staub 007 [Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound]

 

Artist:
Various

 

Title:
Staub 007

 

Label:
Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound

 

Cat#:
IRIS013

 

Release Date:
March 2023 (colored vinyl at Staub party)
21st April 2023 (vinyl & digital in other stores)

 

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Unknown Artist
STAUB 007 A1

02.
Unknown Artist
STAUB 007 A2

04.
Unknown Artist
STAUB 007 B1

05.
Unknown Artist
STAUB 007 B2

05.
Unknown Artist
STAUB 007 B3

Actually no artist names are given.

 

Press Info:
For our birthday episode, you can expect the techno fairies to visit ://about blank on February 11th. It will last 24 hours and be the opportunity to present the latest EP in our STAUB series. As usual it is a Various Artists released by Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound. These five tunes represent what you can hear at STAUB, music that ranges from leftfield to drum and bass, from ambient soundscapes to booming techno.

Once upon a time, a little girl felt something was missing in her life. She searched and looked everywhere in the world. As she longingly stared at the clear blue sky, she noticed puffy white trails behind airplanes. For days and nights she walked – sometimes ran – behind these sinister tracks made of vapor. Extraterrestrial entities seemed to blink in the darkest nights and approved of her mission. After a year she finally arrived at its source. When she asked around what it was, the answer was a word full of mysterious energy: STAUB.

 

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Unknown Artist – “STAUB 007 A2”

 

Video:
Unknown Artist – “STAUB 007 B1”

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someone or someone else – “Mixes recorded at Staub parties”

 

Recommendations:
sampler “Staub 006” on Intergalactic Research Institute…
sampler “Staub 005” on Intergalactic Research Institute…
sampler “Staub 004” on Intergalactic Research Institute…
sampler “Staub 003” on I/Y Music
sampler “Staub 002” on I/Y Music
sampler “Staub 001” on I/Y Music
sampler EP “Moments” on I/Y Music
sampler EP “Moments 2” on I/Y Music
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out now: Banu – TransSoundScapes [Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound]

 

Artist:
Banu

 

Title:
TransSoundScapes

 

Label:
Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound

 

Cat#:
IRIS011

 

Release Date:
07th October 2022

 

Format:
vinyl, download& streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Transitioning (Part 1)

02.
Surgery

03.
Transitioning (Part 2)

04.
First Time
[feat. Patricia]

05.
Bianka (In Memory Of)

06.
Harem
[feat. Prince Emrah]

07.
We
[feat. Aerea Negrot]

 

Press Info:
South-east Turkey born DJ, sound artist and producer Banu uses music as a political tool. For her, the strong message carried through sound is a vehicle to express emotions as well as a means of fighting against oppression. Using participation, social design, ecology, feminist and queer theory to create multimedia installations with sound as a main element, Banu‘s practice is closer to contemporary art and activist spaces than the club realm.

Banu‘s debut album TransSoundScapes is an exercise in female solidarity between her as a migrant woman and her sisters from the trans community, where an artist from one marginalised group is showing support towards her trans sisters, using her platform to help them amplify their voices and building a bridge towards a mutual understanding of femininity.

Conceptually, TransSoundScapes comes in continuation of Banu‘s previous research-based work, using music as a positive tool for change while working with various marginalised communities. The album originated from the very real experience of being confronted with verbal harassment in Berlin on a daily basis, particularly aimed at her transfeminine friends and companions. As a queer woman of Turkish and Kurdish origin, Banu did not only observe the verbal aggression directed at her friends, but also understood most of the insults shouted in languages such as Arabic. Seeing how she got significantly more verbal violence directed at them when in company of trans people made a lasting impression on her, so she wanted to try and use her relative privilege to amplify transfeminine voices through her music.

Coming from a very conservative family, making music has been her lifelong dream. It was the moment she had the opportunity to work with the iconic Arp 2600 synthesiser (a younger sibling to Eliane Radigue‘s infamous 2500 machine) that all her disparate interests came into place to create an empowering soundscape with the aid of analogue drum machines. TransSoundScapes has a very full, porous sound, where every element that comes into play sounds soft yet clear. Across the 7 tracks, Banu conjures pounding subterraneous bassy techno („Surgery“), slithering tentacular EBM („First Time“) and pulsating cavernous soundscapes („Harem“), where oversized dancefloor elements are woven with poetic spoken word passages, resulting in sensusous yet political anthems. Banu artfully merges loosely related genres such as techno, electro, dub and sound poems into a sound that is at once deeply personal and extremely compelling.

All of the tracks are collaborative efforts, Banu seeing the process as an exchange of care and shared experiences, while integrating research into her writing process. The lyrics in „Transition (part 1+2)‘‘ are an adaptation of Sara Ahmed’s “Living a Feminist Life”, while „Surgery“ was born out of series of interviews with trans people, channeling the metallic sounds of a surgery room to refer to society‘s perception of transness as a medical condition. Tracks like „First Time feat. Patricia“, „Harem feat. Prince Emrah“ or „We feat. Aérea Negrot“ document her encounters with various trans women, centering their life experiences while also developing a deep dialogue through the process of making music together.

The darkest and perhaps the most emblematic track is ‚‘Bianka (In Memory Of)‘‘, dedicated to the late Bianka Shigurova, a 22-year old Georgian actress found dead in her apartment. It was her Tbilisi photographer friend George Nebriedze who told her Bianka‘s tragic story, whose death is suspected to be an assasination due to transphobia. Banu chose one of Nebriedze‘s analogue photos of Bianka as the album‘s cover art.

 

Snippets:

 

Full Track Streaming:
“Bianka (In Memory Of)”

 

Video:
“First Time” [feat. Patricia]

 

Special:
“Mutant Radio [06.08.2021]”

 

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out now: Lasha Chkhaidze – Agartha [Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound]

 

Artist:
Lasha Chkhaidze

 

Title:
Agartha

 

Label:
Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound

 

Cat#:
IRIS010

 

Release Date:
29th July 2022

 

Format:
vinyl, download& streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Dog Days


02.
Indigenous Tribes


03.
Train To Asylum


04.
The First Drone


05.
On The Ledge


06.
Even The Sun Goes To Sleep

 

Press Info:
As the legend says, Agartha is a lost kingdom, located in the earth’s core.

Only the bravest found courage to go to the journey to find it.

As you go deeper, the road gets darker, scarier… The journey to Agartha symbolizes the journey to the untraveled parts of human consciousness, which often frightens us, but as we observe and heal our dark parts we no longer need to compress and hide them. Facing our main fears will make our road mor adventurous, and one day the whole journey will become a tale. Tale of a man who found the lost kingdom of Agartha.

The Institute is happy to present a newcomer in its ranks: Lasha Chkhaidze, one of the 13 members of collective “If Strangers.” Georgia is home to melancholia and many exciting musicians, something we have shown in many of our previous releases. Lasha’s first album is part of this theme.

These six tracks gently pull you into a subtle and immersive journey. Listen and soon you find yourself pulled into the beauty of sadness – surrounded by these carefully crafted soundscapes which offer a perfect opportunity for a moment of introspection. The young Georgian delivers ambient and piano at its finest on this first LP.

 

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“Train To Asylum”

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Video:
“On The Ledge”

Video made by futureerror

 

Special:
“TASCAM 0055”

 

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out now: Various – Staub 006 [Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound]

 

Artist:
Various

 

Title:
Staub 006

 

Label:
Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound

 

Cat#:
IRIS009

 

Release Date:
18th September 2021 (bandcamp & release party)
01st October 2021 (all other stores)

 

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Unknown Artist
STAUB 006 A1

02.
Unknown Artist
STAUB 006 A2

03.
Unknown Artist
STAUB 006 A3

04.
Unknown Artist
STAUB 006 B1

05.
Unknown Artist
STAUB 006 B2

Actually no artist names are given.

 

Press Info:
Techno can be happy, techno can be sad, techno can be fast, techno can be slow, it can be deep or banging, it can be straightforward as well as abstract. It might be the soundtrack of hell but may bring you to paradise.

Techno has many faces and this compilation shows but some of them.

STAUB has always been about the unknown and about diversity: newcomers come on stage after old-timers, peak time happens anytime. Line-ups are not announced. The rules of the game are blurred.

STAUB 006 will be released on 18th September 2021 during the record release party – all other stores will have it from the 1st October. A record that embraces the very idea of various with 5 tracks and 5 shades of a genre we love and sometimes live for.

 

Snippets:

 

Full Track Streaming:
Unknown Artist – “STAUB 006 B2”

Unknown Artist – “STAUB 006 A1”

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Videos:
soon

 

Recommendations:
sampler “Staub 005” on Intergalactic Research Institute…
sampler “Staub 004” on Intergalactic Research Institute…
sampler “Staub 003” on I/Y Music
sampler “Staub 002” on I/Y Music
sampler “Staub 001” on I/Y Music
sampler EP “Moments” on I/Y Music
sampler EP “Moments 2” on I/Y Music
all stuff on Intergalactic Research Institute…

 

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