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.
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 artistGary 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.
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
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!
Tune into my new Spotify playlist that I carefully curated for the School of Electronic Music including my own tracks amongst my favourite left-field electronica producers — adventurous and inspiring music guaranteed.
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)
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.
‘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.
2020 has been a year of reflection for many people. I am grateful to say that it helped me to focus on developing myself as an artist. First, I collaborated with Bella Probyn on Open Field, a collage of my poem and her photograph that set out my good intentions for the year. In February, I visited my family in Germany as my travel plans for China couldn’t go ahead. I spontaneously organised two concerts, one in the contemporary art gallery Automat and one in the Kaverne Hookah Lounge, and one 5 hour DJ set on a Friday night in my favourite bar Stadtschenke a Choperia. It was with the help of the local School of Art and friends who provided me with equipment and audience members who donated generously that this mini tour could go ahead and that I earned money from it. Just before the first lockdown and back in Manchester, I played two Limbo Radio shows, two one on my own and one with the wonderful Antoin from Kiss Me Again. When the pandemic hit, I wrote a blog post for my work place Contact reflecting on the electronic music scene and the need for community in the face of the pandemic. I then focused on my music and finally released my first two singles Air and Reform on Bandcamp and on all streaming platforms. To celebrate each single release I streamed a concert and a DJ set from home. I then also performed an online concert for the The Vale and deejayed for the first ever Silver Pride, both recorded from my living room including my housemates as background dancers for the DJ set. When visiting Germany again in the Summer, I stood model for Volker Schütz and Johannes-Maria Schlorke’s Geisterspiel exhibition. I worked with Bella Probyn on an audio-visual commission for whatsticks theatre where we documented the view from the window of different participants as part of the Project Isolate; I also participated on Susanna Amato’s lockdown project Once This Is Over. I recorded my final show for Limbo Radio from home where I also recorded mixes for my Reform Radio takeover and the School of Electronic Music, the latter being selected as Mix of the Month in October. In Autumn I started my practice-based PhD at the Manchester School of Art where I am working on an interdisciplinary digital media project that will explore the relationship between Manchester and the self through soundmaps and psychogeography. To end the year, I released a philosophical manifesto on my website explaining my Industries brand and announced my first collaborative EP with Nevsky Perspective that will be released in January 2021.
