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Counterflows at Home

Started by Mobbd, April 05, 2021, 03:45:59 PM

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Mobbd

Quote from: Mobbd on April 04, 2021, 01:34:00 PM
Counterflows is our local[nb]locally-based; internationally stocked[/nb] underground music festival. In normal times it is a cultural highlight of my year. To support it in a tiny way during lockdown, I just bought their "zine and tape" bundle.

I'm genuinely excited to receive this as I know I'll enjoy reading the zine and handling the tape for a few minutes having not so much as seen one in years. I have no way of playing it though. Will I get a sense of the music if I unspool and eat it?

https://counterflows.com/shop/

Quote from: ProvanFan on April 04, 2021, 02:10:47 PM
I too dig Counterflows

We've probably stroked our chins mere inches from each other, nothing but Russell Haswell between us to prevent intertwinement.

I started a Counterflows-inspired thread elsewhere in Oscillations (https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,86201.0.html), but it's perhaps trivially about the nature of THE TAPE as media. So let's try a proper thread concerning Counterflows at Home, the pandemic-era streaming version of Glasgow's annual avant-garde music festival.

I am yet to dig deep (but I will - oh, yes) but my first pick of something to share is Music for Counterflows by Helena Celle. I'm bluethoothing it to my stereo system as I type this and it sounds great. An evolving hour of beautiful synth.

https://counterflows.com/commission/music-for-counterflows/

Everything I post here (or rather "anything" I post, since I won't carry on if people aren't into it) is free to listen to, obviously.

Famous Mortimer

I'm into it, so please carry on.

Mobbd

This video commission is fun. Artist called Mazen Kerbaj.

https://counterflows.com/commission/mazen-kerbaj-the-musical/

If the silly stuff at the beginning gets you down, jump to the 5-minute point for some more aggressive, scrambly, fuzzy synth work.

To be honest, everything else I'm looking at here is either unsatisfyingly short (1-minute pieces, etc) or interviews. Not sure there's much else to get the teeth into. Maybe they will drop more works as the month progresses. I will post anything new and interesting here.