Author: Markus Hetheier

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alto radio Sonic Journey #004

You can now listen back to my fourth mix for alto radio as part of my new Sonic Journeys show.

Voices, drones, beats, wild patterns, synthetic and organic instruments, electronica, jazz, lightness, melancholia, floating, longing, exploring…

Hope you enjoy.

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The are the tracks played:

Vashti Bunyan: Window Over the Bay

Boards of Canada: Hiscores

DJ Python: Pia

Doctor Rockit: How Do You Do?

Modeselektor: Concrete Jungle

Plaid: B Born Droid

Brian Eno and David Byrne: Come With Us

Rabit: Flesh Covers The Bone

Vessel: Drowned in Water and Light

Current 93: The Beautiful Dancing Dust

Afrodeutsche: The_Beginning

Matmos: Teen Paranormal Romance

Skee Mask: Cerroverb

Miles Davis: Le Petit Bal (Take 1)

Björk: I Dansi Med Per

Aphex Twin: ΔMi−1 = −αΣn=1NDi[n][Σj∈C{i}Fji[n − 1] + Fexti[[n−1]]

Marvin Gaye: Inner City Blues

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Soundpaths

Soundpaths is a project by Manchester based music charity Brighter Sound as part of SICK Festival‘s MINDSCAPES programme. It is a digital soundmap in the form of a running and walking app for residents of Moston and Harpurhey. Greater Manchester artists were invited to contribute site specific sounds to the soundtrack of the app which was composed by composer Yoni Collier. I sonically represented the Blue Bell pub through combining field recordings of the surrounding areas and a sound recording of an old Facebook video that shows guests of the pub singing together, merging the sonic present and past, evoking a sense of nostalgia. Follow this link to download and use the app.

Soundpaths soundscape composition

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One off radio show for Reform Radio

I produced special one of show for Reform Radio  presenting Manchester’s experimental electronic music producers: listen back here.

I start presenting my project and my most recent collaborative EP with Hervé also known as Nevsky Perspective  – we conducted a sound walk interview in Alexandra Park which I will play to you. Other guests in this show are sound artist Gary Fisher, genre-bending electronic music producers PERiiSU, Iceboy Violet and Clay . This show will be a journey through field recordings, conversations, interviews, sounds, beats, ranging from abstract to danceable, from acoustic to synthetic. We will talk about sound art, electronic music, compositional and production strategies, the role of improvisation and all the exciting projects we are all involved in despite lockdown.

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alto radio Sonic Journey #003

You can now listen back to my third mix for alto radio as part of my new Sonic Journeys show. This mix is all about patterns, structures and experimentation. Expect repetition, surprises. Noises, orchestras. Overlaps, crossfades. New sensations. Hope you enjoy!

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These are the tracks played:

Floating Points (feat. London Symphony Orchestra): Movement 1 / Gary Fisher: Listen The Birds / Iceboy Violet: I LUV YOU ghost edit

Blanck Mass: Phase 1 / David Hykes (feat. Harmonic Choir): Arc Descents / peb: Like a Semicircular Slash Across the Full-Glown Plum -Spivak / Gary Fisher: Listen The Birds

Floating Points (feat. London Symphony Orchestra): Movement 3 / peb: Round I -Aria- / Doctor Rockit: Photos and Pebbles / peb: Round II -Squeeze, Squeeze, Squeeze-

Floating Points (feat. London Symphony Orchestra): Movement / Gary Fisher: Listen The Birds

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alto radio Sonic Journeys #002

You can now listen back to my second mix for alto radio as part of my new Sonic Journeys show. This time a journey through eerie rhythms and drums, from ambient to abrasive… Going all the way up to 140 bpm!! Hope you enjoy the mix!

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The tracks played are:

Clay: Spin

raaz: the first key

raaz: somebody’s out there?

raaz: YR

Cong Burn: Fold (F MIX)

Cong Burn: Mad Downer

Rayme: Heat of the Drums

French II: Control

Mr. Ho: Stons Got Up

Astrosuka: RSi1V2S3222

Nevsky Perspective: I’m Here You’re There

Oni Ayhun: OAR001-B (Original Mix)

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alto radio Sonic Journeys #001

I am happy to announce that I started a monthly residency at alto radio where I will take you on a Sonic Journey every first Friday of the month from 7-8.

My first mix from the 5th of February 2021 is now online – click here to have a listen.

I hope you enjoy!

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The tracks played are:

Industries feat. Nevsky Perspective: A Walk I

Henrietta Smith-Rolla: A Song For Him

Caterina Barbieri: SOTRS

Floating Points: Falaise

Skee Mask: Rev8617

Lianne La Havas: Paper Thin

Mica Kevi: Love

Four Tet: Parallel 6

Oil Thief: Dead Finks Don’t Listen

Industries feat. Nevsky Perspective: A Walk II

Jonny Greenwood: Alma

Melanie De Biasia: I’m Gonna Leave You (The Cinematic Orchestra Remix)

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Music Video for ‘A Walk 2’

New music video alert!

This music video for ‘A Walk 2‘ is the polar opposite to the video for ‘A Walk 1’. Whereas the first video was serving warm vintage ambient vibes, this one is serving nightmarish Stranger Things vibes.

Buy the full EP here: https://industriesmcr.bandcamp.com/album/a-walk

And while you’re at, watch the music video for ‘A Walk 1 ’ here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoFhVska9XQ

Hope you enjoy!

Markus

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Credits:

Music written and produced by Markus Hetheier and Hervé Girardin. 

Music edited and mixed by Markus Hetheier. 

Music mastered by Darren Withaker. 

Video shot by Timothy Gallagher. 

Video edited by Markus Hetheier. 

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New EP ‘A Walk’ Out Now plus Music Video Premiere

My new EP ‘A Walk’ featuring Nevsky Perspective is out now!

Purchase the EP on Bandcamp.

‘A Walk’ is the result of a jam session between Hervé and me. He visited me in the late Summer of 2020 and we set ourselves up in the spare room, also known as the creative space. He brought his laptop, synth and mic and I used my laptop and MIDI controller and had a couple of samples and effects prepared. For the next two hours we just experimented, sipped tea, ate biscuits and didn’t talk. I then sat down and edited the recording and crafted two tracks that I think are representative of the sonic journey we created that night. Here’s to more jamming in electronic music and more collaborations amongst different electronic music producers and sound artists!

A special thank you to Luca Shaw who created the beautiful artwork for this release.

To celebrate the release, I want to share the music video for A Walk I with you. The video was a lockdown DIY experiment. My housemate Timothy who had just started his Visual Anthropology MA grabbed his camera and we went to Alexandra Park. He filmed me walking through the Autumn leaves and got different shots of the trees to match the rhythms and vibes of the song.

Hope you enjoy!

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Credits:

Music written and produced by Markus Hetheier and Hervé Girardin.

Music edited and mixed by Markus Hetheier.

Music mastered by Darren Withaker.

Video shot by Timothy Gallagher.

Video edited by Markus Hetheier.