Update

Two new releases out this month - the debut by Sveið (577 Records) and a first time duet with Lawrence Casserley (Bead Records)

Hello everyone,

Hope you’re keeping well.

This month I’m happy to announce two new releases, both heavily electronic infused.

First up is the trio Sveið featuring Federico Reuben (laptop improvisation and live coding) and James Mainwaring (saxophones).

Our debut album Latent Imprints blurs the lines between free jazz, improvisation, electronic music, and artificial intelligence. We use and train AI models to generate sounds (neural audio synthesis) that are created and manipulated in real-time. The unpredictability of these sounds, influence the intense and energetic musical performance captured in a single recording session.

The album explores the uncanny, mythological qualities of AI-generated outputs, it imagines AI as a contemporary, post-digital myth: a repository of glitched, shape-shifting creatures whose uncanny sounds both disrupt and extend human music-making. Each track is named after mythological creatures from diverse traditions, glitched and reimagined by AI.

“if we talk about the avant-garde of the first quarter of the 21st century, then no one fits this definition better than the British trio Sveið” - Leonid Auskern, jazzquad

Read more about the project here and pick up a copy from 577 Records

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The second release is my first duet with the great Lawrence Casserley (signal processing instrument)

Lawrence has devoted his professional career to the creation and performance of real-time electroacoustic music, culminating in the development of his own unique device—The Signal Processing Instrument. A key aspect of this device is the manipulation of musical time, and it might be likened to a kind of musical time machine. It allows him to use physical gestures to control the processing and to direct the morphology of the sounds.

“Cinematic textures that trigger unpredictable ways of constructing the listener’s conceptions of time and sonic memory” - Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts

credits
Recorded in Phipps Hall at Huddersfield University, 13th October 2023 Joe Christman
Mixed, edited and mastered by Lawrence Casserley
Cover photo, artwork and design by Emil Karlsen
Produced by Emil Karlsen for Bead Records

BEAD 52

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Thanks for reading so far and happy listening

all best,

Emil