A'phreaq
audio/visual agitator based in Baltimore, MD
Currently I'm exploring the sounds of techno
09 March 13 - Out of Order at Belvedere's - Pittsburgh, PA
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- Building a modular
- getting back into synth DIY
- Finishing an album before the end of June
AMY SCHISSEL. CYBERFIELDS, 2 OF 9 PANELS, 2012, ACRYLIC, INK, CHARCOAL, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (with detail views)
- Attentat Mix up on Make Make Mistakes
http://makemistakes.us/2013/04/mixed-mistakes-attentat/
“Check the stylee of our man Attentat, as he weaves together a limited edition teaser mix of selection of tracks that will be available for purchase on Beatport on various other online stores. We are beyond words excited to see this come to fruition, it has been a long time in the works….Make Mistakes Digital.”
featuring my forthcoming track “Warming Trend” Ben Britton, thing:78765, Sycamore Seed Model (2013)
Take a second and look at this.
This morning a man named Ben Britton in Wellington, New Zealand touched an idea of the future. This is, in part, what the future looks like.
You know what a Sycamore seed is. Ever since you were a kid you’ve seen them helicoptering down in your neighborhood. You’ve played with them and maybe learned a little bit about propellers from them. The seed is the fruit of the Sycamore tree.
This is a 3D printable model of a Sycamore seed. It has no purpose but as an analogous representation of a sycamore seed. It flies like one and is the same size. With appropriate painting and consideration one would not be able to tell the differences of the analog to it’s original.
There’s something fundamentally representative of the future in this. I can’t point it out exactly but I know it is there. What do you think?
Oh and someone notify Bruce Sterling of this.
yes.
Taoism and Zen informs a great deal of my work, this outlines some concepts I attempt to put into practice quite well..
- Equestrian Ottoman EP - March 26th
Equestrian Ottoman EP
1. Lomez - Patience of the Samurai
2. Lomez - Montebello
3. Lomez - Dead Language featuring A’phreaqThe latest offering from Better on Foot features Lomez, as he defects to a stripped down EP of deep minimal house. Patience of the Samurai begins things with a spacial groove, sultry sub bass, and vocoder overtones. Montebello picks up the pace quickly, adding a dirty, chugging synth line. Rounding out the 3-tracker is Dead Language, a strong collaboration between Lomez and new face A’phreaq. Taking things to a more peak moment with rolling tribal drums and catchy clave work, this cut rounds out a mature package for a special class of DJ.
Available on Beatport.com March 26th. I’ve been fascinated and borderline obsessed with cymatics over the past few months. Which is the idea that certain frequencies can resonate and cause 3D forms and pattern symmetry. As my own personal first processing project from scratch I developed a sketch that simulated this idea. Controlled by iPad using OSC, minim library and the Lemur app.
Feeling pretty accomplished with the first draft.
- Lesson for the week.
Never stop studying. You’re not just an artist, you’re a craftsman.
- Getulio AlvianiSuperficie a tessitura vibratile 16 quadrati O.V1962 (36 x 36cm)
Neil Jussila, Black Sound (2006), acrylic on canvas
Read this very closely.
Take interest in what you have interest in. Do not be a slave to general zeitgeist, memetic net culture OR fandom juggernauts. Take interest in only that which interests you. Fuck everything else and anyone that would deride you for your interest or call you pretentious for what you love. Take interest in that which is particular to you.
Go find the things you love. Find what it is about them you love, how they were made, who made them. Go to the places those things come from and trace them to where they end up. Even in those moments where you feel like it separates you from other people, keep going.
Eventually you will find what it is about you that causes you to like these things and at that point you will find the core operators of an idea called ‘self’. Once you have found that point you will have found those people to share that core with. Take part in that feedback loop.
Learn to, as NYT Op-Ed columnist David Brooks put’s it:
”…appreciate the tremendous power of particularity. If your identity is formed by hard boundaries, if your concerns are expressed through a specific paracosm, you are going to have more depth and definition than you are if you grew up in the far-flung networks of pluralism and eclecticism, surfing from one spot to the next, sampling one style then the next, your identity formed by soft boundaries, or none at all.”
It is good to be particular, for particularity is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Tremendous bit of sudden perspective and clarity.
- Yay Skudge live.
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- Moving this one to mixcloud sooner than later
(No streaming audio available)69 plays - DJ set at Make Mistakes on December 28th 2012 Tracklist forthcoming
(No streaming audio available)82 plays - absvsn: Rrose [ EAUX / Sandwell District ] USAhttp://rrose.rohttp://eaux.rowww.smkmachine.com www.facebook.com/SmokeMachineOfficial
(No streaming audio available)7404 plays - reaktortips: Friends, I am getting very excited over the direction this new Reaktor instrument is taking. Not to blow my own horn but it not only sounds great, the sequenced component is doing things I hadn’t anticipated, and they are *good things*. :D Yesterday I got slur and glide working perfectly and the next step is to finish the GUI. COMING SOON sounds pretty ace
(No streaming audio available)345 plays - A little side project action.
(No streaming audio available)92 plays - Something different, Summer Mixtape from More records… http://www.morerecords.org/
(No streaming audio available)104 plays - Put this in your ear holes.
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(No streaming audio available)53 plays - Ground Loop has a great sound, so far this mix is great. Ground Loop - Gynoid Audio Podcast [gynpod004] 01. Shifted - Disconnected // Mote-Evolver 02. Kirill Mamin - React // DMOM 03. The Black Dog - Silent Escape // Soma 04. Shed - That beats everything! // Ostgut Ton 05. Mattias Fridell - Spherical Vault (Advanced Human Remix) // Gynoid Audio 06. Developer - Tiburon // Gynoid Audio 07. Bas Mooy - Recoil // Gynoid Audio 08. Peter Van Hoesen - Defense against the self (Lucy remix) // Time To Express 09. Antonio De Angelis - Frektor // Translucent 10. Mattias Fridell - Decollat // M-Grey 11. Donor // Truss - Sude 5 // Thema 12. Mary Velo - Siginification // Gynoid Audio 13. Antigone - The Colonists // Construct Re-form 14. Donor // Truss - Endo 3 // Perc Trax 15. Shed - My R-Class // Ostgut Ton 16. Benny Rodrigues - I like acid (Mike Dehnert remix) // Be As One 17. Blawan - Lavender // R & S 18. Milton Bradley - Sequence #1 // Ann Aimee 19. Marco Pieovesan - E-xperiment (Conrad Van Orton remix) // Gynoid Audio 20. Ground Loop - Begin // Gynoid Audio
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(No streaming audio available)0 plays - This something new I’m working on, it will be a series of tracks, each one named for a different gemstone. This is Diamond. I’m not sure whether I’m doing Lapis or Ruby next.
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Tweets
- A little layered bit of weirdness I've been working on A'phreaq - going staying http://t.co/g5bSz02XEB on #SoundCloud
- RT @Angel_Alanis: "Hone your you character, then your craft. Watch your life flourish."May 22, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- so it begins... http://t.co/vRrVdL02zT
- So I'm thinking an arturia minibrute will complement my eventual move towards modular quite well
- Super! RT @nonseries: Raffaele Attanasio - Envlp [non007] http://t.co/pcmozObArI
- RT @ScubaUK: All the problems with electronic music in 2013 distilled into 6 words... http://t.co/MCbAWVx2mB
- RT @EckTOLLEQuotes: All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
- Relative Q - Cast EP up on @beatport featuring a remix from yours truly... @betteronfoot http://t.co/FpmO49ajXD
- Mystery circuit that was sitting in my project box, unsoldered.. what is it? http://t.co/py2qNP0BBsMay 11, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Most of the time eggs are broken during shipment of living your dreams.
- lots of soldering in the future..
- Foamy naptime jams @bran_der: @BezBiddle WTF is seapunk?
- RT @beyondbooking: Whoa just realized my man @PeterVanHoesen is on http://t.co/YmaKkkCle1 Dropping some classic Emmanuel Top atm!
- I think I may have settled on something lots of @pghmodular and @intellijel in this one http://t.co/DY8SNhsVulMay 09, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Christmas is cancelled.
- @cheakywillie we should get together again
- I want a 4069 based waveshaper
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Wall
- Retweeted Pulse Radio (@PulseRadio): REVIEW: Lomez releases the brilliant Equestrian Ottoman on @betteronfoot http://t.co/H3Dl401gw5
- kind words.
- http://t.co/yg52FIV0VN Profile and information on the new release from @guttermagazine Thanks!
- some kind words from @forwarddisco regarding the new release on @betteronfoot http://t.co/BsYiGWAQJ8
- Thanks Blisspop was completely awesome, I quite enjoyed it, a lot of great people dancing at U Street Music Hall and we had some great techno!
- My twitter seemed to have been hacked, only one thing about acai was published, hopefully it's taken care of
- Tonight at Blisspop Locals Techno Showcase, U Street Music Hall .. I'm on early. Going for a more subdued textured dub techno set this time, but who knows... it's always different
- Photo: http://t.co/1uPAsQQNet
- Really great thread. RT @subsekt: Analog warmth (Valves, tubes, compressors, saturation)Production Forum on subsekt. http://t.co/g2cjhYvCgL
- Something to watch this morning! RT @Truss_101: Donor on Dummune right now. Tune in http://t.co/jvc8T3kOt1
- My new sounds: JamSession-00100000 http://t.co/FyKIMZ2ykO on #SoundCloud
- Next Saturday: https://www.facebook.com/events/470266723043283/
- someone remind me not to look @RichardDevine 's @makenoisemusic demos of the Shared System
- Thanks for the great time Pittsburgh! and especially Humanaut
- Equestrian Ottoman EP - March 26th Equestrian Ottoman EP 1. Lomez - Patience of the Samurai 2. Lomez - Montebello 3. Lomez - Dead Language featuring A’phreaq The latest offering from Better on Foot features Lomez, as he defects to a stripped down EP...
- New date: March 23rd, U Street Music Hall, Washington, DC
- It's thursday, jam's have been going well getting ready for this: http://t.co/xY9Hw54IK7
- in other news I had a great practice session today, before my rain delayed work, ready for ya pittsburgh
- You need to be watchin @boilerroom RIGHT NOW #brtv
- forthcoming collaboration with Lomez out soon @betteronfoot March 26th http://t.co/kjJJnZ1vtI
- Retweeted Prologue (@Prologuemusic): Test succesfully passed.. cassegrain 2 x 12" Tiamat is on the way ... Sounds amazing... http://t.co/cXYf68AKIF
- sorting samples is boring, yet stimulating...
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Sets
- 8 tracks (9:35:48)I'm moving the dj mixes to MixCloud very soon download while you still can
- 16 tracks (1:22:18)
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