Whilst scrolling to research record label Mappa's home town of Lučenec in Slovakia, I found many photos of the regions architecture. The Slovak heritage art Facebook page provided some photos of abandoned historical architecture and for me the thought occurred of what memories these Slovakian spaces hold.

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Over the time during the pandemic, one of the satisfactions was viewing artists practices on social media as a hopefully temporary replacement for live music. One artist who I was infatuated with was Colin Fisher and their unrelenting musical drive. Their multi-instrumentalist abilities evoked notes of Allan Holdsworth, Sonny Sharrock, and Milford Graves with some touches of eastern disciplines as they posted almost daily their solo performances. These sessions often produced winding improvisations that include complicated scalar patterns and flowing timing sensibilities. When Halocline Trance announced Colin's new LP Reflections of the Invisible World, I dove right in and was delighted in what I experienced.

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Copyright 420 is a collective of media explorers who seemingly draw like minded individuals across the United States together, but the core ensemble lives in Asheville, North Carolina. These adventurers take from humor and "digital content" as they please but always combine the results with a love for an almost platonic notion of Music.

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Granular synthesis is a simple concept with amazing results. If you have any list of object, you could pick from this list and re-organize it to your liking. With audio in the time domain, you can apply this method of sorting amplitude values within a section of a stored recording and get new jumbled results. The essence of this concept could be applied to any array of data and composer / educator Michele Zaccagnini is currently demonstrating this with existing musical score data from Debussy via Max in this tutorial below:

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Nestup really shines at creating simple mathematical expressions for dividing up a measure. This means you can also have odd numbered sub-divisions that result in complex swing that only a select few musicians could physically play. It also seems like a nice direction for algorave-esque live performance and would pair vary nicely with Timo Hoogland's Texteditor for Jitter. Happy patching and make sure its all odd.

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Argentinian performace artist, sculptor, illustrator and now club diva El Pelele has dropped one of the most psychotic and fun releases I have heard in recent years via London's Quantum Natives. Quantum Natives is the perfect home for this record as their catalog embodies much of this chaotic energy from all over the globe but each artist always brings their personal culture to the table. The beauty of this is now we have a great perspective of what powerful sound art for the club / brain could look like in China and Argentina. 

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Soft audio recording label Cached Media has been active for only a short amount of time but has been a lovely home for pruveyors of gentle ideas and whispery sounds. Their newest offering is a collaborative record from Brin, Dntel, and More Eaze, each of whom have a very distinct style ranging from synthetic pop orchestration, driving computers with drums to summon extraterrestrial textures, and the frail beauty of "emo ambient".

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Audio style-transfer is an exciting new form of audio generation that takes the nuances from a digitized instrument signal (which it was likely trained to understand with a neural network) and then with an additional neural network will replace the old audio signal with a new sound.

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