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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

Bounded by the sheathed noise and strained elocution lessons of 'somewhere between the 8th and 9th floor' and 'backsliding' - which arrived through personal backstory at something akin to a communal mission statement, as she uttered in plainspoken fashion amid the footwork, grime and other deconstructed club phantasms 'It's been four years now I've been trading places, evading faces,...

Eight years in the making, the found sound purveyor Janek Schaefer and frayed loop master William Basinski reshape a piano passage from their collective archive in a meditation on the mirrored facades and iridescent flickers of memory. Inspired by the memoir The Torch in My Ear by Elias Canetti, the percussionist Vasco Trilla explores improvisation as a form of...