Category: Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound

Artist:
Fractal Void

Title:
Elemental Collection

Label:
Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound

Cat#:
IRIS017

Release Date:
10th May 2024

Format:
vinyl, download& streaming

Tracklist Vinyl:
01.
Eutetic Point

02.
Growth Rings

03.
Heat

04.
Rain

Tracklist:
01.
Eutetic Point

02.
Growth Rings

03.
Heat

04.
Rain

05.
Heart And Lung

Press Info:
1)
Fractal Void is a conceptual duo project based in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Their experimental music forms a mixture of electronic and contemporary compositions blended into emotional landscapes and unsettled futuristic elements.

Morphing field recordings to artificial organic signals, Fractal Void sculpts an auditory world from contemplative sensations to overgrown energetic polyrhythmics and expansive deconstruction.

The upcoming debut album „Elemental Collection“ puts field recordings of nature and anorganic sounds at the heart of each track.

During their live sets, Fractal Void create vertical reflections by processing sounds through software and interaction with real instruments in every unique musical performance like the Chinese art form Dishu.

The persons behind Fractal Void:
Back in 2008, their musical journey began with winning a Spectrasonics competition using field recording of a locker door, that was implemented as a bass synth. Their collaboration was continued as producers of the eight-piece electronic jazz project „Mothers of Guru“.

Marcus Scheltinga is a composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist.
Besides studying jazz trombone at the Conservatorium Hilversum and the Folkwanghochschule, he works as a musical director, lecturer and coach in 39 countries around the world. From ZDF sound design to live and studio performances with international greats, his own productions have included such as Grammy winner Larry Carlton and Peter Erskine. Mid-east and Indian inspired, Marcus is a true story teller as a dedicated musician and composer.

BORGBORG is a producer and DJ from Düsseldorf, Germany. She moves freely in different styles of electronic music with a focus on avant-garde driving techno, dark hypnotic vibes seamlessly blended with deconstructed beats, noise and timeless elements of IDM. She is a member of About Repetition, a group of artists dedicated to the research of repetition through artistic means, collaborating with a wide range of other collectives across Europe.

2) ….”sound-wise located somewhere in the field of musical tension between Experimental, Drone, HalfStep, and floor-affine IDM“…. (Genre-Beschreibung von Claus Bachor)

3) …“ it can be the similarities between two people that draw them together, but it’s the differences between them that create something special“ (Teil eines Reviews von Pan-Pot, den ich auch für Marcus und mich sehr passend finde)

Snippets:

Full Track Streaming:
“Growth Rings”

“Rain”

“Eutetic Point”

Special:
“SITH UTR 674.fm”

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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.

Snippets:

Special:
“POOLcast 033”

Recommendations:
compilation “Moments 01” w/ Schloss Mirabell on I/Y Music
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Websites:
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