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Andrea Ermke

Walks

Recorded at Maple Studio in Berlin-Spandau during January 2023, Walks is a collaborative effort between the musician Andrea Ermke, Andrew Lafkas (acting in the role of producer in a sense), and Bryan Eubanks (mastering). Ermke recorded several takes of her unique music, a process she has developed over the past 20 years based on a constantly expanding library field recordings made to mini-disc and mixed in real time for each performance...

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Oceans Roar 1000 Drums

Gowanus

Recorded on April 1st, 2022 in Gowanus Brooklyn, Gowanus is the first release from Andrew Lafkas, Todd Capp, and Bryan Eubanks since 2019's eponymous LP on Sacred Realism. They are here augmented by the modular synthesis of Xavier Lopez, who often plays with the trio in Berlin. Lopez overdubbed synth on a couple of tracks in 2023. The music on these recordings sparkles with an energy

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Bryan Eubanks

Series (E/A)

Three live recordings of an electro-acoustic work developed and performed in 2013. A mesmerizing fusion of sine tones, open-circuit electronics/feedback, samples, and tuned noise, these structuralist compositions navigate the intersection of compositional rigor and the spontaneous energy of live performance. Captured during a double solo tour across the Northeastern USA alongside Hong Chulki in February 2013..

Albany, NY, FEB2013

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Ustad Mohi Bahauddin Dagar

Ragas Bihag & Ragvardhani, February 19th, 2023 Berlin

Sacred Realism is proud to present this intimate recording of the leading master of the Rudra Veena in concert on February 19th, 2023 in Berlin. Presenting two expansive Ragas in the Dagarbani Druphad style of Hindustani Classical Music these recordings span nearly 2 hours and are an important document of the continuing presence of Druphad and the Dagar lineage in Berlin.

Raag Ragvardhani

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Cenk Ergün

Inseln

A multi-channel sound work by Turkish-American composer Cenk Ergün, Inseln was first realized as an installation for six loudspeakers at Zionskirche, Berlin in March 2021. 44 minutes in length, the work is solely made up of long tones and melodic fragments sung by countertenor Rupert Enticknap. Throughout the piece, isolated tones alternate with dense, choir-like textures comprising up to 12

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Sean Meehan

Magazine

Magazine is a new work for solo cowbell by Sean Meehan. It began with the serendipitous purchase of a small cowbell from the bric-a-brac section of a charity shop, and was composed initially on walks in the city and country, as the bell was an easy companion. As the piece was beginning to take form Meehan was visiting Governors Island, off of the southern tip of Manhattan. There he happened upon the powder magazine of Fort Jay and began finishing the piece over

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Bryan Eubanks & Xavier Lopez

Natural Realms

Between 2014 and 2018 Bryan Eubanks and Xavier Lopez developed an analog networked duo music based on the harmonics of random feedback, using this information to shape generative rhythms and other juxtapositions in real time. Adding soprano saxophone and percussion to the mix made what could be a stable machine system human again

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The Mighty Cloud

Especially Songs

Conjure in your mind's ear a conference room with a reverberation time of 0.6 seconds. Now forget all that because The Mighty Cloud creates an entirely alien sense of time, both collapsing and expanding acoustic behavior until your conference room is a parking structure, your childhood bathroom, the Voynich Manuscript, a field

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Catherine Lamb / Harmonic Space Orchestra

Prisma Interius VII & VIII

In Catherine Lamb's Prisma Interius series the unpredictability of the outside articulates the field of perception through precise bandpass filters, while acoustic instruments and musicians guide the unfolding of its harmonic space. The series consists of nine pieces exploring the potential of the Secondary Rainbow synthesizer

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Marc Sabat / Harmonic Space Orchestra

Gioseffo Zarlino (2015/2019)

Marc Sabat's Gioseffo Zarlino is "the third in a series of pieces inspired by ideas in the history of music theory, which I seek to experience and unfold in a sounding world" (taken from the liner notes by the composer). In the piece, unfolding cyclically over 70 minutes, voices, strings, harp, and flute, weave through each other exploring a novel tonal space

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Oceans Roar 1000 Drums

After 10 years of making music together, Oceans Roar 1000 Drums is finally releasing a proper vinyl document of their work. Although their music is best experienced live, this warm recording is the first release in 5 years and genuinely captures their energy and depth of communication

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Don Brown & Dan Reynolds

D=D

Presented by Sacred Realism Press, D=D is the culmination of 15 years of work and the latest and most ambitious installment of Bryan Eubanks and Joe Foster's Don (now Dan) Brown and Dan Reynolds' project. The book itself contains 391 pages of letters, notes, aphorisms, scores, images, and commentary from Brown and Reynolds

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Andrew Lafkas

Two Paths with Active Shadows Under Three Moons and Surveillance

This piece and group developed over the course of a year. It was presented in concert over three initial phases. The concert recorded here (second phase) occurred 6 months into this process. However, this is not completely accurate; in different forms, the group continues to develop. This recording documents one of many possible manifestations

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Peter Ablinger

Augmented Study (2012) for 16 violins

This is a study version composed in the studio from a single recording of a violin glissando. It was never intended to be performed live. The final version for 7 violins was the result of this study

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Andrew Lafkas

1+1 = year zero(water/moon)

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Catherine Lamb

in/gradient

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Bryan Eubanks

Anamorphosis

Three compositions for instruments and electronics with performances from Johnny Chang and Catherine Lamb....

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Andrew Lafkas

Making Words

Between 2006 and 2014 Andrew Lafkas organized the performance of many large, partially improvised, ensemble works. This performance, recorded in concert in Brooklyn, NY in 2010, features an exceptional ensemble of players from New York who were regular participants in Lafkas' music projects during this period...

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Bryan Eubanks & Catherine Lamb

untitled 12 (after agnes)

Untitled 12 (after agnes) takes it's title from a painting the American artist Agnes Martin made during her "gray" period in the 1980's. The work was completed in 1984. In this painting nothing in particular stands out, nothing garners any particular attention until one pauses and enters the painting

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