<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.9.2">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://pearamirezag.github.io/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://pearamirezag.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2022-10-15T18:36:42+00:00</updated><id>https://pearamirezag.github.io/feed.xml</id><title type="html">airpopcrack</title><subtitle>A blog by Pedro A. Ramirez</subtitle><entry><title type="html">apc on nina</title><link href="https://pearamirezag.github.io/apc_now_on_nina/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="apc on nina" /><published>2022-03-24T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2022-03-24T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://pearamirezag.github.io/apc_now_on_nina</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://pearamirezag.github.io/apc_now_on_nina/">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/VOL_3_negro_apc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;VOL_3_negro_apc.jpg&quot; /&gt;
Nina is something I’ve been hearing about since late last year… a new perspective on sharing independent music in a post-platform era of web3.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It’s kind of NFT but uses &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solana_(blockchain_platform)&quot;&gt;Solana&lt;/a&gt; instead of Ethereum, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.arweave.org/&quot;&gt;arweave&lt;/a&gt; which stores it’s content in a ‘permanent’ way… (I have learned the hard way that it’s no liable to trust private companies to store your data… like when myspace lost every song on their older catalog)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I think we are all kind of traumatized by all the NFT buzz there has been since last year but despite all of that I have faith in the decentralized aims of web3…&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;My new song is called ascetic redux. Assembled on recordings of my early norns explorations. hope u like it&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;iframe iframe=&quot;&quot; allow=&quot;autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;450&quot; style=&quot;width:100%;max-width:450px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;&quot; sandbox=&quot;allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation&quot; src=&quot;https://www.ninaprotocol.com/player/63FWNpwkNjHPwp2UCSjyVsdoaxrfGrCBYmcZP1eoVFHm&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html">Nina is something I’ve been hearing about since late last year… a new perspective on sharing independent music in a post-platform era of web3.</summary></entry><entry><title type="html">softrax</title><link href="https://pearamirezag.github.io/softrax/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="softrax" /><published>2022-03-09T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2022-03-09T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://pearamirezag.github.io/softrax</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://pearamirezag.github.io/softrax/">&lt;p&gt;a little selection on softrax&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;reminiscent of a bright red october sunset
&lt;br /&gt;
in the Andean mountains
&lt;br /&gt;
later mistaking the 5ams for surveillance lightbulbs on fenced windows
&lt;br /&gt;
maybe i can not feel but maybe i can dance at least 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;iframe allow=&quot;autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;450&quot; style=&quot;width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;&quot; sandbox=&quot;allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation&quot; src=&quot;https://embed.music.apple.com/co/playlist/softrax/pl.u-8aAVodVu7ZZvka?l=en&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html">a little selection on softrax</summary></entry><entry><title type="html">On sharing</title><link href="https://pearamirezag.github.io/On_Sharing/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="On sharing" /><published>2022-02-24T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2022-02-24T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://pearamirezag.github.io/On_Sharing</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://pearamirezag.github.io/On_Sharing/">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/resma_bocetos.jpeg&quot; alt=&quot;resma_bocetos.jpeg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id=&quot;on-170221-i-wrote&quot;&gt;on 17.02.21 i wrote:&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have a huge brick-like pile of drawings and sketches that I’ve been collecting for the past semester of so, since I took a break form using my iPad as my main drawing tool.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Last week i gathered with a friend because she wanted a drawing of mine. We drank tee, talked and looked at this scribbles for nearly 5 hours and didn’t even finished looking at them all.. There are indeed a LOT of drawings.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I mean, the point in this post is to release a feeling I’m holding right now… I could publish them on instagram, yeah sure, each by each, but why?… Why share at all? Make them public so I can grow my “audience” somehow (?), to receive likes from the same 5 people who are aware and care of what I do (?) (don’t get me wrong, I appreciate a lot their support).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;_“The novice says to the master, ‘What does one do before enlightenment?’
‘Chop wood. Carry water,’ replies the master.
The novice asks, ‘What, then, does one do after enlightenment?’
‘Chop wood. Carry water.’”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;“My daily activities are not unusual,
I’m just naturally in harmony with them.
Grasping nothing, discarding nothing.
In every place there’s no hindrance, no conflict.
My supernatural power and marvelous activity:
Drawing water and chopping wood.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;“How miraculous and wondrous,
Hauling water and carrying firewood!”_&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;˜˜˜˜˜˜˜&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To be done project arose from those desperate lines. 
&lt;br /&gt;
Eager to find, to learn and to connect with my already favorite fellows on earth.
&lt;br /&gt;
Would I ever tell them I love them?
&lt;br /&gt;
in that heater of a land, two fortunate souls together
&lt;br /&gt;
bothered to hell,
&lt;br /&gt;
and bored
&lt;br /&gt;
yet making myself 
&lt;br /&gt;
feeling
&lt;br /&gt;
so full&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/scan8.jpeg&quot; alt=&quot;Scan 8.jpeg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html">on 17.02.21 i wrote: I have a huge brick-like pile of drawings and sketches that I’ve been collecting for the past semester of so, since I took a break form using my iPad as my main drawing tool.</summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Air, Pop, Crack S2 Ep. 10 &amp;amp;#58 Opaal, influencias</title><link href="https://pearamirezag.github.io/apc_s2_ep1/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Air, Pop, Crack S2 Ep. 10 &amp;amp;#58 Opaal, influencias" /><published>2021-02-23T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2021-02-23T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://pearamirezag.github.io/apc_s2_ep1</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://pearamirezag.github.io/apc_s2_ep1/">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/apc_s2_ep1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Foto por Juan B Cano&quot; /&gt;
Conmemorando los 4 años del debut de la “ahora-difunta” banda Bogotana. Una guía sobre las impresiones del rock de vanguardia que influenciaron la escritura de “KRAKATOA”, el más grande acierto discográfico del proyecto.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Revisando sus influencias, se pretende evidenciar el hilo común que tejió la narrativa sonora del álbum. La música de fondo de aquellas conversaciones e interminables discusiones con Jerónimo Velasquez sobre la forma en la obra de arte y su posible traducción al formato de banda de punk.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Repetición como forma de cambio, sobre la destreza en una búsqueda de nuevas maneras de interpretación, Textura - color - contraste, la intensidad y sobre la innegable cuestión de la virilidad rock.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;tracklist&quot;&gt;Tracklist&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Oneida - Sheets of Easter&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Deerhoof - Dog on the Sidewalk&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Shit &amp;amp; Shine - Working on my Fitness&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Melt Banana Lite - Feedback Deficiency&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Uniform - Buyers Remorse&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Sister Iodine - Terminal Pain&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;US Maple - Hey King&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Sonic Youth - Theresa’s Sound World&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Bronte - I (Agora)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/Apc_s2_ep1_opaal_s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Pedales&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/apc_s2_ep1_opaal_2_s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jero+Rafa&quot; /&gt;
Fotos por Juan B Cano&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;spreaker-player&quot; href=&quot;https://www.spreaker.com/user/cordilleraradio/opaal-mixtape&quot; data-resource=&quot;episode_id=43601198&quot; data-theme=&quot;light&quot; data-autoplay=&quot;false&quot; data-playlist=&quot;false&quot; data-cover=&quot;https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/images.spreaker.com/original/d00278b5f459b28006b1eed814ae6751.jpg&quot; data-width=&quot;100%&quot; data-height=&quot;400px&quot;&gt;Listen to “Episodio 10: Opaal, influencias” on Spreaker.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script async=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="podcast" /><summary type="html">Conmemorando los 4 años del debut de la “ahora-difunta” banda Bogotana. Una guía sobre las impresiones del rock de vanguardia que influenciaron la escritura de “KRAKATOA”, el más grande acierto discográfico del proyecto.</summary></entry><entry><title type="html">I’m back!</title><link href="https://pearamirezag.github.io/Im-back/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="I’m back!" /><published>2021-02-10T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2021-02-10T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://pearamirezag.github.io/Im-back</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://pearamirezag.github.io/Im-back/">&lt;p&gt;Last week I spoke with Sergio about blogs… We shared perspectives and he showed me both &lt;a href=&quot;https://drumsoverbogota.com/&quot;&gt;his personal blog&lt;/a&gt; as well as an archival of local punk records (&lt;a href=&quot;https://elmuladar.com/&quot;&gt;link here&lt;/a&gt;)
&lt;br /&gt;
I’ve been thinking a lot about this particular topic… about a space which is mantained outside corporations and their own particular political interests…
&lt;br /&gt;
I decided to keep up with mine, to subjectivize myself towards the action of self-writing… 
&lt;br /&gt;
There’s been a lot of things I’ve been meaning to write, but today i will share something simple:
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img src=&quot;/images/noisoto_1.jpeg&quot; alt=&quot;day&quot; /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Several weeks ago, me alongside Oto Duarte, recorded some Harsh Noise, Electronic, drums and objects jam. The original goal is to make a track for a compilation of noisy tracks around the punk cosmology.
It was plenty fun. The real challenge is to make the actual track… We decided to make it cut-up-ish, in the style of the Harsh Noise trend around late 90s early 2000s.
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img src=&quot;/images/apc_max_1.gif&quot; alt=&quot;apc_max_1.gif&quot; /&gt;
Either way, I decided to make some experiments with those recordings, running them through several max patches I’ve been coding over the course of the last months. In this particular example I’m using a multichannel 2d sampler using the object mc.2d.wave~, 
&lt;br /&gt;
It lets me to use phasors (some sort of sawtooth wave used mainly for linear control) to control either the playback speed and where the sound is being played. The MC portion of the patch is being used to control the phase and (a)synchronization of each playhead (represented by the orange markers that travel over the waveform)
&lt;br /&gt;
I have control of their pitch as well as their position on the sound file.
The patch is heavily based on this &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/0dAQ524sXsU&quot;&gt;tutorial&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I only really implemented some bpatchers in order to make the mc part a little more pleasant to the eye and easier to perform with.
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The recording I’m about to drop was the first try of an audio file of the rehearsal in my system.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;iframe width=&quot;100%&quot; height=&quot;166&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; frameborder=&quot;no&quot; allow=&quot;autoplay&quot; src=&quot;https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/982952143%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-FZzAhJdtmRY&amp;amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;amp;auto_play=false&amp;amp;hide_related=false&amp;amp;show_comments=true&amp;amp;show_user=true&amp;amp;show_reposts=false&amp;amp;show_teaser=true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://soundcloud.com/pedro-ram-rez&quot; title=&quot;Pedro Ramírez&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; style=&quot;color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Pedro Ramírez&lt;/a&gt; · &lt;a href=&quot;https://soundcloud.com/pedro-ram-rez/hellishmp3/s-FZzAhJdtmRY&quot; title=&quot;Hellish.mp3&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; style=&quot;color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Hellish.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I liked how massive it is, the slow progression towards maximum intensity, the stereo-field which was completely automated…
&lt;br /&gt;
The feedback squeal at the beggining, due to the multichannel spatialization makes a really well starting point for an introduction to the piece. The electronics in general are favored by this stereophonic travels.
&lt;br /&gt;
Oto’s screams pitched down sub-harmonically (due to the harmonic deviation of the mc objects) made me think of the maximalist chaos and confusion of Florian Hecker compositions of the early 2000s, my mental image of his “Sun Pandaemonium”… a multitude of events traveling across the listener’s head. The name “Hellish” comes from this and a hint to “Sheer Hellish Miasma” by Kevin Drumm.
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It’s a kind of tribute on the work of &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/15ijY1HqzgQ&quot;&gt;Carl Stone&lt;/a&gt;, a composer known for his extensive use of the 2d.wave~ object. 
&lt;br /&gt;
I discovered his work last year and have been obsessed with it’s simplicity and effectiveness… Full compositions unfold starting from only several seconds of audio. A journey. A self-explanatory art piece… 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
As of today, I already finished one candidate, I will upload it soon I guess… 
&lt;br /&gt;
Sorry for my choppy english… I’m lazy today.&lt;/p&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="art" /><summary type="html">Last week I spoke with Sergio about blogs… We shared perspectives and he showed me both his personal blog as well as an archival of local punk records (link here) I’ve been thinking a lot about this particular topic… about a space which is mantained outside corporations and their own particular political interests… I decided to keep up with mine, to subjectivize myself towards the action of self-writing… There’s been a lot of things I’ve been meaning to write, but today i will share something simple: Several weeks ago, me alongside Oto Duarte, recorded some Harsh Noise, Electronic, drums and objects jam. The original goal is to make a track for a compilation of noisy tracks around the punk cosmology. It was plenty fun. The real challenge is to make the actual track… We decided to make it cut-up-ish, in the style of the Harsh Noise trend around late 90s early 2000s. Either way, I decided to make some experiments with those recordings, running them through several max patches I’ve been coding over the course of the last months. In this particular example I’m using a multichannel 2d sampler using the object mc.2d.wave~, It lets me to use phasors (some sort of sawtooth wave used mainly for linear control) to control either the playback speed and where the sound is being played. The MC portion of the patch is being used to control the phase and (a)synchronization of each playhead (represented by the orange markers that travel over the waveform) I have control of their pitch as well as their position on the sound file. The patch is heavily based on this tutorial. I only really implemented some bpatchers in order to make the mc part a little more pleasant to the eye and easier to perform with.</summary></entry><entry><title type="html">An Echo on Another’s mind</title><link href="https://pearamirezag.github.io/An-echo-minicomic/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="An Echo on Another’s mind" /><published>2020-02-10T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2020-02-10T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://pearamirezag.github.io/An-echo-minicomic</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://pearamirezag.github.io/An-echo-minicomic/">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/murmur_vol4_AEIAM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;an_echo&quot; /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Yesterday I was sharing with friends and found myself in a room. The same room I was partying 5 years ago.
At that time, halfway through my fine art studies I was filled with hope: I wanted to apply to an exchange program abroad, the comic book editorial with our friends was just starting out and my then-active bands were at it’s peak of creativity. 
&lt;br /&gt;
I keep thinking about the years after these moments, where I stood still in front of everything, frozen. I couldn’t get anything done, nothing but small sketches and crooked artistic masturbation that led nowhere. 
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Anyways, I now make publicy available my first short comic in about 5 years after a deep struggle with myself trying to discover what I really like.
&lt;br /&gt;
As everything described on this blog, I don’t care whether it’s good or not. My mood has a vector these days  with only one direction and it’s to create loads of work. Nevertheless I am more than open to any comments, criticism, things I should do better or whatever the readers find appropiate to say about my work. 
&lt;br /&gt;
I share the comic in this fancy 3d render because the software I use offers it and actually looks pretty similar to the actual printed one. And as I’m paying for the software, better use the tools they offer hehe
&lt;br /&gt;
The title is a reference from a &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/4KFPLJkH2fI?t=1593&quot;&gt;Derek Bailey’s song&lt;/a&gt; on the Aida record. Actually the shirt of the guy in the cover says Aida as well.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h6 id=&quot;things-to-do-next-time&quot;&gt;Things to do next time:&lt;/h6&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Try to figure out a more straight forward narrative. I come from an art comic world and to be honest I’ve been way more interested in the visual part of the drawings than the stories themselves. In this one I’ve found myself struggling with the end. It was extremely difficult to make a shocking end without making a reminiscence of Junju Ito’s work lol. Also as the reader may already noticed, the speech bubbles are empty. I really couldn’t figure out what to fit in but on the other hand I enjoy the suggestion that the characters are talking.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;iframe width=&quot;485&quot; height=&quot;686&quot; src=&quot;https://share.clip-studio.com/es-es/contents/embed?code=f3f06f84-b56c-4893-9438-55b70b78fa2d&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="art" /><summary type="html">Yesterday I was sharing with friends and found myself in a room. The same room I was partying 5 years ago. At that time, halfway through my fine art studies I was filled with hope: I wanted to apply to an exchange program abroad, the comic book editorial with our friends was just starting out and my then-active bands were at it’s peak of creativity. I keep thinking about the years after these moments, where I stood still in front of everything, frozen. I couldn’t get anything done, nothing but small sketches and crooked artistic masturbation that led nowhere. Anyways, I now make publicy available my first short comic in about 5 years after a deep struggle with myself trying to discover what I really like. As everything described on this blog, I don’t care whether it’s good or not. My mood has a vector these days with only one direction and it’s to create loads of work. Nevertheless I am more than open to any comments, criticism, things I should do better or whatever the readers find appropiate to say about my work. I share the comic in this fancy 3d render because the software I use offers it and actually looks pretty similar to the actual printed one. And as I’m paying for the software, better use the tools they offer hehe The title is a reference from a Derek Bailey’s song on the Aida record. Actually the shirt of the guy in the cover says Aida as well.</summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Lo mejor del 2019</title><link href="https://pearamirezag.github.io/Best-of-19/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Lo mejor del 2019" /><published>2019-12-27T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2019-12-27T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://pearamirezag.github.io/Best-of-19</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://pearamirezag.github.io/Best-of-19/">&lt;p&gt;Sin algún orden en particular, estos fueron los álbumes que más rodaron en mis reproductores de música este año:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;joão-gilberto---joão-gilberto-1973&quot;&gt;João gilberto - João Gilberto (1973)&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/joaogilberto_1973.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;joaogilberto&quot; /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ya era fan de la música del Gilberto pero no conocía más allá de su música más popular. Este álbum lo descubrí el día de su muerte y siento que logra capturar precisamente las características de un performance íntimo y emocional. Undiú es uno de mis temas favoritos puesto que sólo va, afuera del lenguaje, repitiendo esa palabra a través de sutiles cambios de acordes. Su voz es cantada tan suave que se craquela en momentos y le da al álbum una impresión de intimidad y vulnerabilidad inefable.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;kali-malone--the-sacrificial-code&quot;&gt;Kali Malone -The Sacrificial Code&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/kalimalone_sacrificial.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;kalimalone&quot; /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hay cosas que me desconciertan de la música de Malone. La ausencia de dinamismo, la riqueza del tono, los pasajes estáticos y los batidos de la entonación justa. Aún cuando me propuse dejar la escucha de este álbum en un segundo plano, quedé paralizado esta mañana observando la nada. Sintiendo esos batidos resonando en mi vientre, en mis manos sobre el teclado. Siempre he admirado a Malone por su madurez y claridad visión artística. Tan transparente y elocuente de alguien tan joven. Este álbum me resulta perfecto por su misma capacidad de estirar la experiencia del tiempo con patrones compuestos para los juncos del órgano.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;celer---xièxie&quot;&gt;Celer - Xièxie&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/celer_xiexie.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;celer&quot; /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Este álbum fue la coloración favorita del espacio este año.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;jon-collin---from-a-petrified-forest&quot;&gt;Jon Collin - From a Petrified Forest&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/joncollins_petrified.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;joncollin&quot; /&gt;
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Desde un bosque petrificado, mediationes de guitarra diseminadas en un ancho paisaje natural. Abstracciones de blues que me remiten a la nostalgia de Mazzacane Connors y a la quietud de los compositores Wandelweiser. Justo antes de empezar a escribir este comentario descubro que Collins es sueco y visualizo la sobriedad aquel paisaje.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;kim-gordon---no-home-record&quot;&gt;Kim Gordon - No Home Record&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/kimgordon_nohomerec.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;kimgordon&quot; /&gt;
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Este álbum me tomó por sorpresa este año. Una mirada refrescante al estilo vocal y las influencias No-Wave de Gordon. Me interesaron particularmente las eclécticas influencias que se sienten a lo largo del álbum.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;liturgy---haqq&quot;&gt;Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/liturgy_haqq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;liturgy&quot; /&gt;
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Aesthethica llegó en un momento cuando se me quedaba corta la música. Todo lo encontraba homogéneo y no veía un nexo fuerte entre el hardcore/metal/punk y la música de vanguardia que escuchaba en ese entonces. 
A través de la música, los documentos y entrevistas a Hunt-Hendrix se iluminaron mis ojos al contemplar una mente tan brillante con conexiones tan acertadas. 
Sin embargo en ese entonces todo seguía siendo críptico y el internet sólo vomitaba odio. Ahora pareciera que este es el año dorado para entender la música de Liturgy pues Hunt-Hendrix ha decidido no sólo publicar extensos documentos en su página si no que inició un podcast, abrió una página de preguntas anónimas y parece estar más abierto que nunca a compartir sobre su cosmovisión. 
HAQQ tiene todo lo bueno de Aesthethica y todo lo bueno de the Ark Work. Burst Beats, Stutters Glitch y estructuras narrativas increíbles en la composición.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;michael-morley---we-are-here-because-of-you-2018&quot;&gt;Michael Morley - We are here because of you (2018)&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/michaelmorley_.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;morley&quot; /&gt;
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Escojo este álbum, pero descubrir su música fue de mis grandes sucesos del 2019&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;pissgrave---posthumous-humiliation&quot;&gt;Pissgrave - Posthumous Humiliation&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/Pissgrave.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;pissgrave&quot; /&gt;
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Usualmente busco los extremos en la música, pues es allí donde encuentro los elementos más interesantes. En este caso de maximalismo puro me atrae la música de Pissgrave.
Hiperdensa y deformada violentamente. Sus portadas me cautivan como espejo gráfico de su asalto sonoro. 
Revisando su discografía en youtube encontré un comentario singular haciendo alusión a una foto de un cuerpo humano disuelto en una piscina de ácido: 
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&lt;blockquote&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Alguna vez me emocioné por el gore y esas cosas, pero una vez empiezas a practicar el ocultismo y trasciendes la visión del mundo materialista, 
el gore, el cuerpo humano no resulta siendo nada más que muebles, por tanto esta foto es tan interesante como una mesa rota, o la espuma de adentro de un cojín roto… aburrido, eh?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2 id=&quot;sickness---i-have-become-the-disease-that-made-me-2002&quot;&gt;Sickness - I Have Become the Disease that Made Me. (2002)&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/sicknes.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;sickness&quot; /&gt;
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Joya del harsh noise norteamericano.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;death-kneel---adaptive-emotional-use&quot;&gt;Death Kneel - Adaptive Emotional Use&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/death_kneel.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;deathkneel&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;oren-ambarchi-mark-fell-will-guthrie-y-sam-shalabi---oglon-day&quot;&gt;Oren Ambarchi, Mark Fell, Will Guthrie y Sam Shalabi - OGLON DAY&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/oglon_day.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;oglon&quot; /&gt;
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Mi lanzamiento favorito “Bailable” del año. Me sorprende cada vez lo bien que se conectan los diversos estilos de los colaboradores de este proyecto.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;france---pau-2011&quot;&gt;France - Pau (2011)&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/france_pau.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;france&quot; /&gt;
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Un gran descubrimiento que le agradezco a Sebastián “de la Loma”. France es una de esas bandas que hace lo que siempre quise hacer. Una idea vieja para un disco de Opaal que nunca salió.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;elia-y-elizabeth---la-onda-de-elia-y-elizabeth&quot;&gt;Elia y Elizabeth - La Onda de Elia y Elizabeth&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/elia_y_elizabeth.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;elizabeth&quot; /&gt;
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Un disco Colombiano de los setentas, reeditado recientemente por un sello español. Escuché este álbum repetidamente tratando de imaginarme dos hermanas adolescentes escribiendo canciones en un Barranquilla de hace 45 años. Realmente todo el disco es una joya. Canciones con letras inocentes e infantiles con misterio y dulzura.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Toshiya Tsunoda - Extract From Field Recording Archive
 ———&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/tsunoda.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;tsunoda&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html">Sin algún orden en particular, estos fueron los álbumes que más rodaron en mis reproductores de música este año:</summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Recent Shows Documentation</title><link href="https://pearamirezag.github.io/Recent-Show-Documentation/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Recent Shows Documentation" /><published>2019-11-04T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2019-11-04T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://pearamirezag.github.io/Recent-Show-Documentation</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://pearamirezag.github.io/Recent-Show-Documentation/">&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;
&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/YoH43RJrYm8&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
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It’s been a long time since I publish something in here, but I would like to keep
things moving. Since I don’t record my music that much I think it could be interesting
to share about videos and audio that has been recorded from my live shows:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This one was made by Luminaria Vespertina, which is conformed by Wilson Lozano on his Go-Pro camera.
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Actually there are a several videos of this date, some with better quality than others.
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This video got a got general impression of how the concert sounded but I personally loved the last minute recorded by Juan Manuel Jaramillo:
&lt;i&gt;(warning: Loud volume video)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;I think it captured the high level volume of the excellent sound system in Matik-Matik.
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On the technical side of things, I’m really enjoying the stutter pedal programming I did on my Axoloti-driven pedal.
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It’s the metal box in the right, with the knobs and the footswitches
&lt;img src=&quot;/images/190905_amng_setup.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;amgn_setup&quot; /&gt;
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Since I got that board, around 2016 after my trip to Germany, I was really interested into programming my own stutter, granular and other
buffer-modification effects but never actually got it to work out. Recently, after exploring Max/Msp again, finally understood typical applications for buffer and made myself a stutter pedal
with Ring Modulation :)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/zh1uMhxQ23k&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
This was another concert of mine recorded last week in which I was invited sporadically to the “Taller de Alto Desempleo” concert sessions organized by my friend Daniel Piedrahita in his art-studio in Rat Trap.
One of the conditions of the concerts is to play music at moderate levels of volume, just because his atelier is in a residential area and it’s not acoustically prepared for loud concerts.
My take on this challenge was to play music on a Bose Soundlink+ system, in mono, and use the built-in iPhone. I really liked the quality of the recording although the details of the sounds out of my phone were not captured.
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The apps I used for this concert were mainly &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jhhl.net/iPhone/Droneo/&quot;&gt; Droneo &lt;/a&gt; and a File Player running in &lt;a href=&quot;http://kymatica.com/apps/aum&quot;&gt;AUM&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://ruismaker.com/ripplemaker/&quot;&gt; Ripplemaker &lt;/a&gt; running on my iPhone.
That week I was exploring a the possibilities of Droneo, and thinking about Just Intonation and other tuning systems. I really like that feature but I’m only on my way to learn to use it properly yet.&lt;/p&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html">It’s been a long time since I publish something in here, but I would like to keep things moving. Since I don’t record my music that much I think it could be interesting to share about videos and audio that has been recorded from my live shows:</summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Air, Pop, Crack Episodio 9 &amp;amp;#58 Frozen Académies</title><link href="https://pearamirezag.github.io/apc_frozen-academies/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Air, Pop, Crack Episodio 9 &amp;amp;#58 Frozen Académies" /><published>2019-09-18T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2019-09-18T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://pearamirezag.github.io/apc_frozen-academies</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://pearamirezag.github.io/apc_frozen-academies/">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/Frozen_academies.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;frozenacademies&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Architecture is frozen music” Wolfgang von Goethe&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Los trabajos de piedra tallada en las motivos de las catedrales góticas son repetidos en sus arquitecturas como en la música. Ritmos, contrapuntos y recorridos. A su vez, el siglo  XVII de Wolfgang von Goethe aún se encontraba lejos de los soportes de registro sonoro y la arquitectura era entonces, con la posibilidad de moldear entornos acústicos, la única manera de conservar la experiencia de la reproducción aural.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A finales del siglo XIX se encontró por fin otro soporte, que no sólo permitía la captura si no también la reproducción de sonido. La música verdaderamente congelada en los cilindros mecánicos del fonógrafo de Thomas Edison. Esta nueva era expandió de una manera sin precedentes las capacidades y concepciones de lo que se entendía por sonido. La música ya no dependería de intérpretes ni de partituras, si no que podía yacer congelada y usarse al gusto en los soportes, conservando las cualidades intrínsecas de su propagación en el espacio hasta llegar a los micrófonos y nuestros oídos.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Frozen Académies es una lista curada especialmente en el contexto de ARTBO Libro de Artista 2019, para RR f.m de Relámpago. El criterio de selección está basado en las canciones, sonidos y textos de una academia de arte contemporánea. Grabaciones que fijan para siempre las ideas de los artistas multidisciplinares, quienes usualmente se escapan de la concepción más tradicional de música y cuyo motivo de estudio no necesariamente es el sonido per se.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;En este programa escucharemos manifestos, difusiones radiofónicas, registros de performances, reinterpretaciones, malinterpretaciones y composiciones capturadas por artistas visuales, conceptuales o de performance.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Playlist:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Allan Kaprow - How to make a Happening&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Christian Marclay - Record Without a Cover&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Mike Kelley - The Peristaltic Airwaves&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Mugre - Minuto de Dios&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Malcolm Middleton &amp;amp; David Shirley - The Story&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Joseph Beuys - Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Martin Kippenberger - Ja, Ja, Ja, Nee, Nee, Nee (Für Die Jugend)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Mark Leckey - Soundtrack for GreenScreenRefrigerator 2010&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Anne Imhof, Cast of Faust - Suicide is Painless&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Elkin Calderón, Adriana García Galán - Soy Rebelde&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Bruce Nauman - Thank You&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;spreaker-player&quot; href=&quot;https://www.spreaker.com/user/cordilleraradio/frozenacademies&quot; data-resource=&quot;episode_id=19139655&quot; data-theme=&quot;light&quot; data-autoplay=&quot;false&quot; data-playlist=&quot;false&quot; data-cover=&quot;https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/images.spreaker.com/original/481c85953779300a2365f0570ed18ca6.jpg&quot; data-width=&quot;100%&quot; data-height=&quot;400px&quot;&gt;Escucha”Episodio 9: Frozen Academies” en Spreaker.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script async=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="podcast" /><summary type="html"></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Air, Pop, Crack Episodio 8 &amp;amp;#58 Water Music</title><link href="https://pearamirezag.github.io/watermusic/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Air, Pop, Crack Episodio 8 &amp;amp;#58 Water Music" /><published>2019-09-11T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2019-09-11T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://pearamirezag.github.io/watermusic</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://pearamirezag.github.io/watermusic/">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/radio_water_music.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;watermusic&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Water music, una selección de piezas trabajando con el concepto de agua en sus composiciones.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Escucharemos a Tomoko Sauvage, una artista japonesa radicada en francia quien después de su educación en Jazz se interesó por el Jalatharangam, un instrumento tradicional carnatico hecho de tazones cerámicos llenos con agua. Sauvage interpreta los tazones de agua (Waterbowls), un instrumento hecho por ella misma que combina tazones cerámicos, gotas de agua, ondulaciones y burbujas así como también feedback hidrófonico y sonidos electrónicos.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Después seguiremos con Michel Redolfi, un compositor francés de musique-concrète con una pieza titulada ‘Immersion Totale’. Además de sus exploraciones en los campos de música electroacústica de difusión multicanal, Redolfi ha trabajado especialmente en música compuesta para ser escuchada debajo del agua. Esto lo ha llevado a trabajar en piscinas y otros cuerpos de agua, haciendo conciertos que se pueden escuchar afuera o bajo la superficie. 
Escucharemos también dos versiones de la composición ‘Weight’ del álbum Oceanic por la banda norteamericana ISIS; siendo la primera de estas versiones una reinterpretación abstracta del austriaco Fennezs.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;‘Permafrost’ es el título de la siguiente canción, lanzada en el álbum homónimo en 1993 por Thomas Köner. Permafrost (Permahielo o Gelisuelo en español) hace referencia a una capa de suelo permanentemente congelada, pero no permanentemente cubierta de hielo o nieve, propia de las regiones muy frías o periglaciares, como la tundra.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Titanic Lament hace parte de uno de los trabajos de la obra ‘ The Sinking of the Titanic’ de Gavin Bryars, quien a través de las décadas se ha embarcado en la investigación sobre el sonido de los últimos momentos del hundimiento del titanic. Sus exploraciones abarcan desde el repertorio que el conjunto de cuerdas interpretaba durante el hundimiento, hasta posibles maneras de recrear la difusión del sonido en altamar en el norte del atlántico, tanto encima como debajo del agua.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Por último un fragmento de un performance de Hana Hartman en Berlin en 2018. Hartman es una compositora y artista sonora sueca radicada en Alemania. Sus performance en vivo incluye objetos no convencionales que activa frotando, soplando o, por ejemplo, dejando caer monedas huecas en delgadas columnas metálicas.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;spreaker-player&quot; href=&quot;https://www.spreaker.com/user/cordilleraradio/watermusic&quot; data-resource=&quot;episode_id=19069383&quot; data-theme=&quot;light&quot; data-autoplay=&quot;false&quot; data-playlist=&quot;false&quot; data-cover=&quot;https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/images.spreaker.com/original/30adaa286c201ac7dba86505062530bb.jpg&quot; data-width=&quot;100%&quot; data-height=&quot;400px&quot;&gt;Listen to “Episodio 7: Water Music” on Spreaker.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script async=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="podcast" /><summary type="html"></summary></entry></feed>