Sunday, July 24, 2022

Time to Listen - by Peter van Cooten of Ambientblog

 

Peter van Cooten runs the excellent Ambientblog website which has great reviews and, of course, wonderful mixes. Anytime Peter reaches out with a mix idea or a a set he'd like to cross-post on both of our platforms, I will always jump at the chance.

As I said on Peter's last guest mix, his sets are different from mine in that they are more intricate. He does not use full tracks, instead opting for excerpts and samples piled on each other, sometimes 2, 3, or 4 tracks play simultaneously, to create a new sound collage.

Here's what Peter says about this mix:

"Apart from its opening sample – ‘It is time to stop seeing. It is time to stop speaking. It is time to listen’, from David Cronenberg’s Crimes Of the Future – this mix has no central theme or story. It’s up to you, the listener to take the time to listen and go with the flow. Let your fantasy tell you the story. And, after you did, I’d love to hear what you heard.

This mix is created using many fragments and samples from longer pieces of music, often presented in multiple layers. Check the original compositions using the tracklist below."

Here's a map of the mix, layer upon layer of the 31 tracks used in the collage.


Check out Peter's work here:

https://www.ambientblog.net/blog/  He also does surround sound mixes, which you can find here: https://www.ambientblog.net/blog/the-surround-mix-versions/

And Peter is on Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/ambientblog/  https://www.mixcloud.com/DreamScenes/

Cheers!




T R A C K L I S T - Start time - Sample Length - Artist - Title
Album - Year - Label

00:00 01:12  David Cronenberg - Time To Listen Sample
Crimes Of The Future, 2022 

00:04 03:35  Dronny Darko & Protou - Sin Eater
Liberty: Compilation Of Experimental Music From Ukraine, 2022, Flaming Pines

02:28 02:42  William St. Hugh - Voice Of The Dolphins
Dominion, 2022, self-released

04:31 02:16  Tapani Rinne & Teho Majamaki - Lucid Dream
On The Border, 2022, Signature Dark

06:13 02:36  Ivan Cebrian & Victor Cerdan - Enemigo Intimo
Inside // Outside, 2022, Oigovisiones

06:40 02:30  Park Jiha - At Dawn
The Gleam, 2022, Glitterbeat

08:49 02:39  Benedicte Maurseth - Eidfyrder
Hárr, 2022, Hubro

10:47 03:51  Bill Fontana - Imaginary Sonic Visions
MSCTY Expo Unknown Pleasures Zone, 2022, MSCTY Editions

12:40 02:18  Alva Noto - Odradek (for Jhonn Balance)
For, 2006, Line

13:31 01:50  Jacek & Ewa Doroszenko - Night Masque
Bodyfulness, 2022, Audiobulb Records

14:17 02:27  Higher Intelligence Agency - The Black Patch
Song Of The Machine, 2022, self-released

15:58 02:50  Siddhartha Barnhoorn - Final Ascension
Out There, Oceans Of Time, vol. 1, 2022, self-released

18:27 02:24  Mike Lazarev - All That Remains
When You Are, 2022, Slowcraft Recordings

20:27 03:17  Orghanon - Dronework V
Droneworks I-V, 2022, St.An.Da

22:13 03:27  Aleksi Myllykoski ft Wimme - Composition VI: Inherently Destructive Contamination
St. Virus, 2021, Signature Dark

24:37 04:13  Peter Phippen, Rahbi Crawford, Invar Lunde Jr. - Andromeda
Galaxies, 2022, Projekt Records

28:46 02:30  Jóhann Jóhansson & Echo Collective - Shell
12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann, 2019, Deutsche Grammophon

29:46 05:29  Maggi Payne - Distant Thunder
Arctic Winds, 2010, Innova Recordings

33:08 03:07  Leo Kupper - Litanea 1987
Complete Electronic & Voices Works 1961-1987, 2022, Sub Rosa

36:22 04:35  Monty Adkins - Remote Communion
Remote Communion, 2020, Cronica

38:56 01:28  Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Thunder Continues In The Afternoon
Landfall, 2018, Nonesuch

40:11 04:35  Cell - Passive Control Part 1
Onwards System, 2022, Ultimae Records

43:27 03:59  Alphaxone & Protou - Sub Signal
Stardust, 2017, Cryo Chamber

45:51 03:03  Wil Bolton & Francis Gri - The Ripples Theory
Imaginary Tales, 2022, Krysalisound

47:54 02:11  Xqui - Narrator
Pieces Part 2, 2022, Somewherecold Records

48:45 03:57  Michel Banabila - Alienation
Monochromes, 2022, Tapu Records

52:21 00:55  Stuart A. Staples - Fluids
Music For Claire Denis' High Life, 2019, Lucky Dog 

52:31 01:13  Helge Sten - Quad 2
Monochromes, 2014, Bôlt

52:45 02:29  Dean Hurley - Girl Appears /Black Smoke
Anthology Resource Vol. I: △△, 2017, Sacred Bones Records

54:00 01:55  I Wound - To Wind, Wound, Wound
Homework Year 1, Taâlem

54:52 05:07  Francois Robin & Mathias Delplanque - Le Puits
L'Ombre De La Bête, 2022, Parenthèses Records

60:00 end



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fantastic mix!! Thank you

Low Light Mixes said...

Thanks for checking out the mix!

The Interstellar Radio Station said...

Re: "...his sets are different from mine in that they are more intricate. He does not use full tracks, instead opting for excerpts and samples piled on each other, sometimes 2, 3, or 4 tracks play simultaneously, to create a new sound collage."

Although PVC's approach is more laborious, the results are much more interesting and less legally perilous.

One draw of a mix is that one hears something interesting they won't hear listening in the original tracks. Another is, if one doesn't like the current track, they don't have to wait long for it to change. Mixing full length tracks pre-empts what is most liked about mixes.