Music and sounds around the human and the mechanical – coffee machines, heaters, telegraphs, elements, decay, physicality, bodies, time. With music by Tatsuhiso Yamamoto, Annie Gosfield/Lisa Moore, Xenia Pestova Bennett and Jenn Kirby, plus machine interludes.

Tracklist:

-Machine Intro-
Tatsuhisa Yamamoto: Heater
-Machine Interlude I-
Lisa Moore/Annie Gosfield: Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers I & III
-Machine Interlude II-
Xenia Pestova Bennett: Radon
Xenia Pestova Bennett: Actinium
-Machine Interlude III-
Jenn Kirby: Time Being

Listen: https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/kontakt-02nd-august-2022/

Legacies, bodies, identities. With music from Moor Mother, Charmaine Lee, Eartheater, Holly Herndon, OLAibi, Áine O’Dwyer and Natalia Merlano Gómez.

Tracklist:
Moor Mother: Repeater (feat. Dali de Saint Paul)
Moor Mother: Don’t Die
– Blood/Breath Interlude I –
OLAibi: 「roots grown swoll」
Natalia Merlano Gómez/Diana Ortiz: Pavana lanzada a la brisa
– Blood/Breath Interlude II –
Charmaine Lee: Exuberant Bodies (for Yan Jun)
Holly Herndon: Crawler
– Blood/Breath Interlude III –
Natalia Merlano Gómez/Annea Lockwood: I give you back
Áine O’Dwyer: Hounds of Hades
– Blood/Breath Interlude IV –
OLAibi:​​「round smooth stones」
Eartheater: Trespasses
– Blood/Breath Interlude V –
Moor Mother: After Images

*Note: this one is a tough listen [cw: mentions of sexual assault, death, trauma]

https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/kontakt-30th-august-2022/

Mechanical, physical, tactile sounds and objects – a selection of tracks from recent releases on cassette. Tracks from Kashual Plastik’s compilation ‘Field of Progress’, Jennifer Walshe, Sarah Davachi and Branton Schnüre plus the sounds of cassettes wrap around Susan Geaney’s ‘Tape Melt’.

Tracklist:

– Warm Tape intro –
Jennifer Walshe: John Dunstable- Quam Pulchra Es, Motet (A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1- Ancient to Renaissance)
Feronia Wennborg: Window ( Field of Progress)
– Warm Tape Interlude I –
Susan Geaney: Tape Melt (Tape Melt)
Sarah Davachi: Chorus Scene (Antiphonals)
– Warm Tape Interlude II –
JS: Størung der heiligen Einsamkeit (Field of Progress)
Brannten Schnüre: Ruhloser Kopf (Two Years Of Spring)
Laura Not: Latent Heat of Fusion (Field of Progress)
– Warm Tape Interlude III –
Jennifer Walshe: Tomás Luis De Victoria- O Magnum Mysterium, Motet (A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1- Ancient to Renaissance)
– Warm Tape Outro –

https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/kontakt-27th-september-2022/

Words, nonsense, vocal improvisations, automatic writing and meditations – recordings at and by the participants of the ‘Music, Words and Non-Words’ course at CAMP, led by Julia Holter. Featuring recordings of class activities, and work created in response - and some hints of the sounds of Aulus-les-Bains

Tracklist:

Pyrenean Normal Music Group: Exquisite Corpse Score pt1
Anna Clock: Hard Things: Things That Are Hard
Group exercise: Happy Birthday 1
Inês Malheiro: second sleep
Jayne Dent: A Meditation
Group exercise: Happy Birthday 2
Hayley Jenkins: Fragments 1. Breathe
Helène Greenwood: aulus spa guide
Group exercise: improvisation on
Pauline Oliveros ‘One Word’
Anna Murray: Babble
Josh Herring: Nothing More Perfect (live)
Julia Holter with group: MeYou (live)
Jevin Almazan with Lucy Duncan: Bioregrettable
Group exercise: Happy Birthday 3

Marking the release of Crash Ensemble’s [REACTIONS] album on 25th November. Music by duos – reactions, interactions and relationships. With live sets from Sebastian Adams/Jonathan Nangle, and Anna Murray/Malachy Robinson (at a Kontakt live show earlier this year), and [REACTIONS] tracks by Sebastian Adams (Roddy O’Keefe and Alex Petcu), Seán Ó Dálaigh (Barry O’Halpin and Alex Petcu) and Siobhán Cleary (Lisa Dowdall and Malachy Robinson).

Tracklist

Anna Murray/Malachy Robinson: Live Improvisation at Kontakt April 2022

Seán Ó Dálaigh/Crash Ensemble (Barry O’Halpin and Alex Petcu): Proximity Studies

Siobhán Cleary/Crash Ensemble (Lisa Dowdall and Malachy Robinson): The Dust Veil

Sebastian Adams/Crash Ensemble (Roddy O’Keefe and Alex Petcu): trombone, transducer, tam-tam

Sebastian Adams/Jonathan Nangle: Fumbally Stables Set Two

Fragility, transparency, vulnerability – and the courage to bring things to the point of breaking, and rest there. Music by Beth Gibbons, James Tenney, Tujiko Noriko, Cat Lamb, Elaine Mitchener, Garrett Sholdice, Aisha Orazbayeva and Owen Pallett, with fragmentary responses.

Tracklist:

– Fragile I –
Beth Gibbons, Rustin Man: Show
Eve Egoyan/James Tenney: To Weave (A Meditation)
Tujiko Noriko: Pure
Ensemble Dedalus/Catherine Lamb: Overlays Transparent/Opaque: #5
Maya Homburger & Barry Guy/Garrett Sholdice: Sonate
– Fragile II –
Tujiko Noriko: Mugen Kyuukou
Schallfeld/Elaine Mitchener: Owner’s Manual: Version 2 Free
Ensemble Dedalus/Catherine Lamb: Overlays Transparent/Opaque: #1
Aisha Orazbayeva: Ring
– Fragile III –
Owen Pallett: Fire-Mare

Marking the new year with a show of some recent releases from Ireland, centred around four tracks from the Contemporary Music Centre’s ‘new music::new Ireland 4’ compilation. With music by Seán Clancy, Izumi Kimura and Cora Venus Lunny (Farpoint Recordings), Katie Kim, Neil O’Connor, Judith Ring, Linda Buckley, Rhona Clarke, and Michael Lightborne (Department of Energy). No additional tracks, recordings or interventions this time.

Tues 17 Jan at 13.00 CET/12.00 GMT at http://listen.camp

Tracklist:
Seán Clancy: peso (radio edit)
Katie Kim: Gentle Little Bird
Judith Ring: Invisible Scamper from WILDWOOD
Neil O’Connor: Bog Braon
Izumi Kimura and Cora Venus Lunny: Chant
Rhona Clarke: Seen from Above - movement 2
Michael Lightborne: Black water
Linda Buckley: Fridur

If you hear something you like, consider picking up the album:

Seán Clancy – PESO; Katie Kim – Hour of the Ox; Izumi Kimura and Cora Venus Lunny – Invisible Resistances; Michael Lightborne – Slí na Fírinne; The Contemporary Music Centre, VA – new music::new Ireland four

2023.02.14 - Subvoice

Words emerging, words submerging - sound, voice, language, meaning and abstraction in poetry and music. Including Hildegard von Bingen’s only work in her made-up language Lingua Ignota (remixed), early phonograph recordings, sound poetry from Jaap Blonk, Andy Hamilton/Michelle O’Rourke’s glorious channel-skipping, Nakul Krishnamurthy’s generative mosaics, Jeanne Lee’s intimate vocals, Áine O’Dwyer’s echoing keen, and Yannis Kyriakides’ Cypriot storytelling.

“Good sound poetry is very direct communication, the human voice speaking out immediately, not bothering about meanings.” (Jaap Blonk)

Tracklist:
Field Recording: Phonograph
Jaap Blonk: just a thought
Áine O’Dwyer: Corpophone
Michelle O’Rourke/Andy Hamilton: O’ROURKE
Hildegard von Bingen: O orzchis Ecclesia
– Subvoice I –
Nakul Krishnamurthy: Anudhatthamudhatthassvaritham
Jeanne Lee: Yeh Come T' Be
Jaap Blonk/Hugo Ball: Seepferdchen und Flugfische
– Subvoice Ecclesia –
Sigur Ros: Intro (extract)
Yannis Kyriakides: Paramyth
– Subvoice II –

If you hear something you like, consider picking up the album:

Jaap Blonk — Flux de Bouche; Áine O’Dwyer — Gallarais; Nakul Krishnamurthy — Tesserae; Yannis Kyriakides — Subvoice; Jeanne Lee — Conspiracy.

Information flow, modelling and patterns – music based on data and patterns, both physical and digital. With music by Nick Roth (Kirkos Ensemble), Debit, Jlin, Arash Akbari, Ryoji Ikeda and Cat Lamb, plus some NASA sonifications of astronomical data.

Tracklist:
Kirkos Ensemble/Nick Roth: Flocking III Sunrise
Arash Akbari: The Lower Tail
Ryoji Ikeda: Ultratronics 06
Debit: Numbering feat. Dj Earl
Arash Akbari: Departure
NASA/SYSTEM Sounds: Messier 51 Sonification
Catherine Lamb: tone/noise (emergence patterns)
Ryoji Ikeda: Ultratronics 10
Jlin: Carbon 7 (161)
Ryoji Ikeda: Ultratronics 02 Amnestic Continuum
NASA/SYSTEM Sounds: Cat’s Eye Nebula Sonification
Kirkos Ensemble/Nick Roth: Flocking III Sunset

If you hear something you like, consider picking up the album:

Arash Akbari — Amnestic Continuum; Ryoji Ikeda — Ultratronics; Debit — SYSTEM; Catherine Lamb — periphery; Jlin — Black Origami.

Paths, lines and wires, with a live performance of Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise at Reception Dublin, Yarn|Wire performing Ann Cleare’s I should live in wires for leaving you behind and two tracks from my own new album Rndr III, all about paths, travel and transience.

Tracklist:

Anna Murray: Rndr 12 (Paths)

Rob Casey (organ)/Rhodri Davies (harp)/David Lacey (percussion & electronics)/Aonghus McEvoy (guitar)/Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh (viola): Cornelius Cardew's 'Treatise' live at Reception Dublin

Yarn|Wire/Ann Cleare: I should live in wires for leaving you behind

Anna Murray: Rndr 14 (Drift)

Building from source - building textures from limited sources, whether voice or piano, a whole gamelan ensemble or a single gamelan instrument. With music by Hatis Noit, Anna Thorvaldsdottir (Justin DeHart), Dewa Alit and Gamelan Salukat, and improvisations on slenthem samples.

Tracklist:

Hatis Noit: Aura
Anna Thorvaldsdottir/Justin DeHart: Hidden - Inwards
– Aura –
Anna Thorvaldsdottir/Justin DeHart: Hidden - Stay
Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat: Genetic
– Aura II –
Anna Thorvaldsdottir/Justin DeHart: Hidden - Past and Present
Hatis Noit: Sir Etok
– Aura III –

If you hear something you like, consider picking up the album:

Hatis Noit – Aura; Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Rhízōma; Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat – Genetic

Marking the passing of the great Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho; music of longing, distance and time for voice and electronics, featuring her work Lonh performed by Dawn Upshaw. With music by Pamela Z, Benjamin Britten, serpentwithfeet and Michelle O’Rourke/Anna Murray.

Tracklist:

Kaija Saariaho/Dawn Upshaw: Lonh
Pamela Z: Timepiece Triptych - Declaratives in the First Person
serpentwithfeet: messy
Pamela Z: Timepiece Triptych - Syrinx
Kaija Saariaho: Jardin secret I
Benjamin Britten/Peter Pears/LSO/Barry Tuckwell : Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Op. 31: Elegy - Oh rose, thou art sick
Anna Murray/Michelle O’Rourke: LIT (live)
Pamela Z: Timepiece Triptych - De-Spangled
serpentwithfeet: slow syrup
Benjamin Britten/Peter Pears/LSO/Barry Tuckwell : Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Op. 31: Epilogue

Music and sounds from scenes and spaces across the world - the ephemeral and the constant, marking the preciousness of the specific.

Tracklist:

– from a Greek balcony: crickets –
Asuka Kakitani/Eri Isomura: January (Big White Devil)
Óscar Mascareñas: Burren
– from a Greek balcony: waves and birds –
David Toop: Sheep Wind Fence Flute, recorded on Dartmoor, 1971
Gayle Young/Xenia Pestova Bennett: Ice Creek Low
– from a Greek balcony: crickets II –
Karen Power: crickets interrupted
David Toop: Rain In the Face, “Do the Bathosphere”, c. 1974
Asuka Kakitani/Eri Isomura: July (Lost in the Deep Woods)
– from a Greek balcony: waves and birds II –
Karen Power: beneath the living sand dunes @ Gobabeb (with Rishin Singh)
Óscar Mascareñas: Loch
Karen Power: bats of Namibia (with John Godfrey)
Gayle Young/Xenia Pestova Bennett: Forest Ephemerals
Óscar Mascareñas: Sliabh Rua
Asuka Kakitani/Eri Isomura: February (Improvisation)
Anohni: 4 Degrees
– from a Greek balcony: crickets III –

If you hear something you like, consider picking up the album:

Asuka Kakitani — Twelve Months in Minnesota; Óscar Mascareñas — Burrenscapes; Karen Power — Human Nature; David Toop — Field Recordings And Fox Spirits; Gayle Young/Xenia Pestova Bennett — As Trees Grow; Anohni — Hopelessness.

Conversations with past and present composers and musicians on art, technology and connection surround Stockhausen’s Kontakte* - a new recording of the early electronic music made using cutting edge binaural techniques. With interruptions of conversations processed through ML-trained Holly+.

*the piece from which this show gets its title!

Featuring:
- Interruptions from Holly+ -
Björk (unknown interview)
Pauline Oliveros + Annea Lockwood (Ode to Gravity, KPFA-FM, 1972)
The Politics and Music of Cornelius Cardew (KPFA-FM, 1975)
Holly Herndon TED Talk (2019)
John Cage and Morton Feldman in Conversation (WBAI, 1967)
The Different Computer of Laurie Spiegel (WBAI, 1979)
Stockhausen/George Barton & Siwan Rhys: Kontakte

1 hour extract from the 6-hour Sonic Vigil live improvisation marathon, Cork Opera House, 16 September

Potentially featuring some/all of:

David Toop

Danny Mc Carthy, Mick O’ Shea, Irene Murphy, Karen Power, John Godfrey, Imna Pavon, Harry Moore, Vicky Langan, Anthony Kelly, David Stalling, Robin Parmar, Tony Langlois, Sean Taylor, Eimear Reidy, Cathal Roche, Katie O’ Looney, Anne Marie Deacy, Claudia Barton, Andy Ingamells, David Bremner, Billy Kemp, Pierre Berthet + Rie Nakajima.

Recorded by Karen Power