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A yearly local roundtable for Netlabel Day, this time going back to the usual compilation of track format, but again (as couple of times before, but not a rule): we are proud to present works by FLINTA* artists responding to the theme of authority: beepblip, ala pecula, Oka, Veronika Valdés, OR poiesis, Karmen Ponikvar, Prince Lucija, Czajka i Puchacz, and Kikiriki.
“I remember wondering if my brother was queer too,” writes Joe Brainard. Wondering: an attempt to formulate a question. What if we start thinking about making sound compositions that say nothing, but ask instead? Wouldn’t that, a question, be the next possible course of movement for an art sphere which clearly has a lot of beef with what is conventionally termed authority? Wouldn’t that be a kind of renunciation of one’s own authority? I do wonder..
Nina Dragičević, from liner notes
The release includes, again, also a ZINE with a QR-code boomarker, the former lovingly printed with an offset technique that brings us fascinatingly satisfactory results. This zine is a not-for-sale item (but name-your-price), which we often give together with purchases of other merch.
Tracklist
About the artists
beepblip (Ida Hiršenfelder) is a sound artist and archivist. She makes immersive bleepy psychogeographical soundscapes with analogue electronics, DIY and modular synths, field recordings and computer manipulations. She is interested in bioacoustics, experimental music and sound spatialisation. She was a member of the Theremidi Orchestra (2011–2015) and is currently a member of the Jata C group for bioacoustics and sound ecologies (2018–) and the Clockwork Voltage community for modular synthesis. Her solo albums Noise for Strings, Vol. 1 (2019) and Noise for Strings, Vol. 2 (2020) were published by the Kamizdat label. She completed her Master of Sonology studies at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (2023).
▶beepblip.org
ala pecula is a project dedicated to sound exploration by an artist that in the past decade made sonic appearances on a Slovene music scene through various collaborations and experimental research of sound and video.
▶alapecula.zone
Oka (Eva Mulej) is a vocalist, producer, performer and sound artist. Her work moves between electro-acoustic, ambient and experimental music with a focus on poetics of the voice. She explores the tonal qualities of melodies, words and sounds, using a variety of acoustic instruments, field recordings and objects to create an intimate sound world. Together with Karmen Ponikvar, she also works in the duo Lip Rouge.
▶instagram.com/oka
Veronika Valdés is first and foremost a dancer, choreographer and teacher, but she is also very passionate about her original music. She worked as a music composer in the production of the short dance film RED FOUNTAIN, the stylisation of music for dance miniatures at the Opus1 dance competition, and original music for the annual productions of the Ljubljana Conservatory of Music and Ballet in the Department of Contemporary Dance. In collaboration with Enya Belak, she scored the film Stranger for the Fashion film VAG (London) in 2014 and 2017, and ISOLATED for the 60seconds online dance film competition London. Above all, she is an artist with an expressive note in trying out different possibilities of creativity and approach to music and does not define herself to a particular style.
▶soundcloud.com/veronika-valdes
OR poiesis (a.k.a. Petra Kapš) is an artist, composer, and researcher specializing in the fields of bio- and geo-acoustics, hydroacoustics, sound art, auditory perception, interactive sound performance in concrete and acoustic spaces, digitally augmented reality, web transmission, and art radio. Her creative work traverses sound art, radio, space-time poetry, performance, and photography. She employs her primary medium, words, to expand into the sonorous realms of space-time poetry. Petra Kapš engages in a performative practice of field recording, exploring and enacting possibilities within the author’s radio space, and delving into the aurality of spatialized memory and temporal wells.
▶orpoiesis.blogspot.com
Karmen Ponikvar is a Slovenian sound artist, performer, and researcher in the field of electronic and electroacoustic music. Inspired by the gift of hearing and the practice of listening, she approaches sound with searching and curious ears. Her sonic terrain, portraying the transmutation of one material into another, blends molten fragments of synthesized electronic sounds and modulated field recordings. She is currently studying sound at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, the Netherlands. Her piece “It sings softly to those who pause to listen” is a sonic exploration of a historic building designed by Jože Plečnik in 1925, in Ljubljana. The stadium’s locked walls create tension and provoke reflection on the inaccessibility of a green space. It signifies a loss of cultural heritage and highlights the issue of authority over public access. It draws from reflection on the anthropocene relationship to the economy of spaces and nature, emphasizing the need to reimagine and actively protect these precious areas from authoritative neglect.
▶instagram.com/karmenponikvar
Prince Lucija is a gender-queer artist exploring computer sound and artistic expressions of technofeminism and corporeal desire through composition of time, language, software, community, and machines.
▶prin.lu
The Slovenian based duo Czajka & Puchacz released their first, predominantly acoustic album Bivališča in July 2020, and followed up with a retro-avant-pop single Entschuldigung of their alter duo Kiebitz & Uhu a year later. Since their second release, which explored experimental songwriting within a field of existentialism and abstraction of daily life, the pair has continued exploring ways to merge instant songwriting with the aesthetics of European school of free improvisation and the idiom of musique concrete present on Bivališča. Their piece Trudne Sprawy was recorded live at Ad Libitum/Warsaw Autumn festival, Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio, September 2023 with Kaja Draksler on prepared piano, keyboard, percussion and Szymon Gąsiorek on drums, vocal, and OPZ.
▶kajadraksler.com
▶pimpon.info
Kikiriki (Nina Farič) is a noise artist playing experimental freestyle noise of all kinds. She uses different DIY gadgets such as synths and micro theremins. She has released numerous albums of studio and live recordings.
▶kikiriki.bandcamp.com
About Access Frame
The series of compilations titled Access Frame aim to present a wide spectrum of local alternative music (with emphasis on electronic and experimental music) that has found its safe haven on the internet. The never before encountered entwinement of technology, society, making music and ownership rights has been causing a serious conflict between free culture and the outdated and exploitative concepts of copyright. Adhering to the spirit of free access, online labels are the first in the struggle for equal access and a more fair copyright (facilitated by the introduction of the Creative Commons license).
About Netlabel Day
In this spirit we are supporting the annual celebration of netlabel culture every July 14th. Every year labels participate and release free music releases specifically for the event to support the initiative by M.I.S.T. Records in Chile and curated now by The Seattle Star. More at http://netlabelday.org.
Credits
Luka Prinčič · editing, mix, mastering
Tina Ivezić · graphic design
Nina Dragičević · liner notes
Katja Kosi · proofreading
Maruša Hren · booklet bookbinding and printing
Luka T. Zagoričnik, Luka Prinčič · executive production, promotion
produced by Emanat
with support from the City of Ljubljana
