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Siro800 - The Noise Compilation

10/21/2016

You can now submit your track for Siro800 but you must follow some rules:

-Your track must be noise: Harsh Noise, HNW, Ambient Noise, Power Noise... everything related to noise.
-One track for one project, if you've different aliases you can submit one for each.
-Track must be encoded in mp3 320kbps.
-Track must be correctly tagged.
-Track must be unreleased.
-You must send your work to this special email adress created for this comp: siro800noise@gmail.com
-Deadline is November 15th.

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Thank you!

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Interview - Pollux

10/17/2016

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Artist based in France
Interview by Justin Thomas Squires and taken from the website YIKIS. Written in 2014

Arnaud my old friend! How are you today?

I’m excellent, day has been good and I feel like maybe I have never been so happy in my whole life! Everything’s fine!

I noticed you have been pretty active with Pollux lately, putting up all your releases on the bandcamp,
and coming out with a few new ones. What should we expect to see from Pollux this year?

I have been very active in the beginning of the year but a little less since because of the lack of time and not really being in a creative mood. Putting all my stuff on bandcamp was a challenge… it took me ages but I’m very happy to have done this because it’s a little bit more easy for people who discovered my stuff recently to find my whole stuff (or close too, cause i’ve some inedit releases in physical edition).

I’m restarting making sound very slowy and I just started to work on a lobit ep (not sure of the format right now). I’m also working on a 8kbps lobit track for a compilation which comes sometimes in September or October called “Extreme Lobit“ (finally, "The 8kbps Compilation").

I’m also since more than one maybe two year, a big lover of the ASMR scene (just write ASMR on youtube and you will see). This is something which relax me a lot and I wanna try to make an ASMR album or EP full of relaxing field recordings and a lot of whispering (in french), and maybe some ambient drone background, but i’m not sure yet about that!

BTW. I really enjoyed your Medusa ambient/drone ep!

Oh thank you, these 2 tracks been recorded live. At first I recorded something like 5 or 6 tracks on the same vein but I felt like the other (tracks) sucks and the audio quality wasnt good, so I choose to only release a very short format with a coherence and a correct sound. I like to record thing in a punk way and I also love short format, so that one follow this logic!

If anyone were to check out your discography, they would see that you create a large variety of electronic sounds. What is your favorite genre to work with?

Yeah I’ve work on different genres with my project Pollux, Ambient, Drone, Electronica, Noise, Experimental, Field Recordings… etc but I must admit that my favorite genre to work with is Ambient Drone mostly because I feel like the minimalism of drone music makes it even more emotional! It goes to the essential, the most important point to me and touch the essence of what I’m searching for, for my sound. It’s kinda hard for me to explain but yeah definitly drone!

Walk us through your creative process, how do you go about making new music?

I generally think about nothing and don’t prepare myself in any way. I have no ritual and I just start recording and everything flows! I’m sometimes really surpised about what I’m hearing and I’m like “did I just record that?” It’s quite rare that I have a plan about what I record, all I want is to make sound in adequacy with my emotions at a specific time, nothing more have importance!

Sirona is as busy as ever! How many releases do you have out on your net label now?

We are at 732 releases… so yeah that’s a lot of stuff, and a lot are still in waiting since months (I’m sorry for that)! I have no idea when it will stop and I hope it will never but what is sure is that I love every of this 732 releases and I will enjoy all the coming albums and eps here!

Do you ever plan on expanding Sirona to physical releases?

Really, NO, the netlabel part is actually a really big work for me (maybe too big) and I wouldn’t be able to make a physical section. Also I feel unable to delegate the work and all must be exactly how I want, so it really is a nightmare for me to not do everything. I feel like it’s like my baby and I can't pass it to anyone… yeah it sounds really selfish said like that but, yeah whatever, it’s a fact! And also I don’t wanna deal with any form of money and prefer to put everything for free because this is something I love. Even if I respect DIY labels a lot for what they do and I buy physical releases, this is just not the vision I wanna work on.

What do you plan for Sirona’s future?

I havent a real plan for it, the only thing I want is in the continuity… more releases, more compilations, more artists involved, …etc. But if I had more time I think I would also work on a radio section for the website! This is something I would like to do but this is actually too much work and I have no idea how to make it work without being connected 24/7. I also love the new interviews section on the website/blog, this is something I find really great to know a little more about some artists involved, so I think you can expect more and more progressively!

How do you find time to do all the great things that you do Arnaud, with the label and your music? Do you ever get burnt out from it all?

I have no idea! I imagine it’s because Sirona & my music became obsessions! At the beginning of Sirona, I worked 20 hours by day on the website. I’m not an hyperactive guy in life, i’m more someone lazy but not for my passions and the biggest one is the underground so… I think that’s why! But yeah I’ve actually less time for all of this because I’m not single now and sharing life with the person I love take a lot of time and same for my work and everything related. Also I lost a little bit motivation recently because of different war on social network between some artists and the pressure put on by people who don’t want to wait and ask me every 3 days when their release will come! Some people don’t understand all I do with Sirona is on my free time and I win zero money with it and it takes a massive part of my life. I love that but it’s a lot of effort!

What is your favorite thing about running Sirona?

I would also say organizing massive compilations, which is something hard to do (and I’m always affraid to forget tracks) but the result is always beyond my hope! And for finnishing, just watching all what we’ve done with Sirona these years… and rethinking and when I started it and expected nothing more than a few releases, a hundred downloads and not so much interest.

Through Sirona, you have created a community of artists (with your facebook groups ect.) I personally think it is awesome to see the relationships that have been formed by such collaborations! What are some of your favorite things that have happened because of these friendships?

Lot of great things happened, some fantastic collaborative effort or split, but I think the best one was Siro200, Your Name’s album! For people who have no clue, Your Name is an anonymous project we created in 2011 where people put music on a soundcloud without saying who made it and we compiled everything under the alias “Your Name”. The result is really fantastic and I recommend to anyone this diversified album full of pearls! And what is even more awesome about that project is that we even created a megalomaniac character, cause yeah Your Name is now a real person with a gigantic ego! Now my hope is about a second Your Name’s album, I will speak with him about that!

Well, that about raps it up my French friend. Is there anything you would like to say before we close this interview?

Yeah I would thank the whole underground scene, the netlabel scene, the DIY scene, everyone involved on it! I wanna say a BIGGER THANKS to 5 person I consider like brothers even if we never met (but I’m sure we will): Adam Crammond aka Graffiti Mechanism, Patrick Doyle aka Redsk, Kai Nobuko aka Toxic Chicken, Shaun Phelps aka Flat Affect & Christopher Arnett aka Consistency Nature.
These 5 guys changed my vision of music and life some years ago and I wouldn’t do 5% of what I do now without them. I would also like to thanks some other great artists who inspired me a lot with there music and humanity: Master Toad, Swin Deorin, Rainbow Valley, Doomettes, Joel nobody, The Merricks, Alex Spalding, Razxca, The Captain Kirk On LSD Experience, Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt, Hlo, The Musk-rat Cult, Hectic Head, 2nnt, … etc etc etc etc I can add hundreds of name here but it will take an eternity, if you read this, you’re probably on this list… I’m sorry to not name everyone but just THANK YOU!

Website:
http://pollux0.bandcamp.com

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Interview - Robotic Joe

10/16/2016

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Artist based in USA

How and when did you start making music?

To answer your first question I was always very highly influenced by the arts. My mom went to Columbus Collage of art and design. My sister is an awesome artist and the music I heard from growing up around her highly influenced me to make the music I make today. So when I first started my best friend and brother like figure in my life Richard a.k.a. Splfk and some other old friends i had started a punk band called anti-socialz in 1998 - 1999 we never got anywhere but we rocked and were crusty as fuck. from there afterwards around 2000 - 2002 I was shown a program from Splfk called Fruity Loops 3.0 this was back when FL Studio lacked the features it has now but I was fascinated by it and how limitless it was. So i started making some unique music on it and from then on it was music history.

Why the name Robotic Joe?

I was first called Robotic Joe by my best friend Splfk he was making music and asked if he could sample me talking i said ok he came up with robotic because i collected and still do robots from the 1980's and then just added My Name Joe.

How do you influence your project? music? other sources?

My music is influenced by art both audio and visual and whatever going on in my mind. I developed bi-polar / manic depression at a young age like 9 or 10 years old so that's prolly. why my music is so chaotic in parts, random in parts and then mellow in parts and i don't change it for anyone. I am myself, what you hear is what you get. my music is not really classified as any genre it is it's own genre. I'm all genres blenderized.

What is your relationship with Netlabels?

Netlabels are very important to me and I'm on a family of about 7 so far besides v.a. compilations i'm on. Obviously Sirona Records lol, SP Recordings (also did writings called Dream Status for sprag) Proc-Records, cOmaRecOrdz, Scolex Recordings, Ende Records, and my very first releases were on the defunk net-label Splatterfunk that's no longer around.

Do you have some other passions than music, artistic or not ?

Yes i like to paint and also use my pc to develop various digital art with vibrant and high saturation on colors

How would you define your sound for someone who has strictly no idea what you do?

Since I already answered the question of how to define my sound, I just wanted to thank everyone who has been a robotic joe fan since the beginning and has stuck by me through thick n' thin other the years THANX!

How is the futur of Robotic Joe in your mind? Some projects?

Robotic Joe is going good right now I have an etire album called B.O.15.T. Which is full of 2015 tracks on the back burner until Scolex Recordings is ready to release it and then I also have some various side projects I'm working on slowly but surely with different artists one called Necromancy Manifestation which includes me and Betty Koster a.k.a. PHANTASM NOCTURNES. I'm in another side project with my best friend and bro like figure in my life Tony and were not sure on a group name yet but our album will be called Double Trouble.

Last words are yours!

Basically the only last words I can say is: The more technical your style gets the more fun & <3 you have for it! p.s. stay off the drugs too kids it's way more fun to create with your mind & soul then your soul being rotted away by drugs and being a clique. Fuck Drugs! Sincerely, Joseph Paul Moore a.k.a. Robotic Joe

Websites:

http://joeyszone.wixsite.com/roboticjoe
https://soundcloud.com/robotic-joe
https://roboticjoe.bandcamp.com

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Sirona Mixtape #12

10/15/2016

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Interview - Consistency Nature

10/12/2016

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Artist based in USA

How and when did you start making music?

Thank you for asking, and thanks too for inviting me to share. Consistency Nature had it’s beginnings, oh, 2009. Up until then I had been exposed to nothing but the Black Eyed Peas and at best Beethoven. I even remember telling people how indifferent I was to music entirely. I’m only 23 now so do the math. I was just a kid. My friend Thomas Baragona, who has his album “Stress Soudtrack” here in Sirona, shared a song by Eluvium for me entitled “Zerthis Was a Shivering Human Image.” He also turned me on to an incredible French duo “Natural Snow Buildings.” Their song “Ghost Pathways Towards Midgard” was also played for me. My heart cracked open in an instant and my love for sound filled my blood with sweet wine. I’ve been drunk ever since. The world became music. The air conditioner was a choir of imprisoned seraphim. Silence is filled with the music of the spheres. I began recording every single sound I heard like I was shopping for exotic spices. I would take them home and mix them together and get the stove fire going strong. My music feeds me.

Why the name Consistency Nature?

I can take no credit for the name. My father was a sound engineer all his life, and so like me these days often enjoys recording things. When he was around my age he and a friend lived in what could only have been an attic above an old theater. Some nights they would hear the screamed madness of a homeless man in the alley beside them, and one night they had the rather intrusive idea of lowering a microphone out of the window to pick up his shouts. The best part of the recording is the last five minutes, when the man began singing at the top of his voice the phrase “Consistency Nature, Option Word In!”. My music often explored concepts surrounding certain types of madness, the kinds I feel trace amounts of within myself. Hunger for beauty and numinosity run amok. It’s a melancholy meditation.

What are your principal influences from the most famous to the underground?

Beside the abovementioned Eluvium and Natural Snow Buildings, I would have to include my friend Daniel Wymark, known in the netlabel scene as “Ploof”. He was my first close and loyal collaborator, and he was the one who gave me the name Dishdawash, if anybody was curious. He helped me stick tenaciously to the craft by making me feel less alone in my passion. Mandie Jones, who encouraged us both a great deal and released some sounds under the name “Calypso Bizaar”.

Some more well-known musicians that touch me deeply include Tim Hecker, Current 93, Birchville Cat Motel, Gorecki and Lionel Marchetti. But really, it was my fellow netlabel musicians, Kai Nobuko is a man who needs no introduction here, and I hope the same goes for Rainbow Valley, Adam Crammond and Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt. Ars Sonor is a stunning project too, and I wonder who among you knows Pollux?!

Since your beginning you released a very big part of your stuff in the netlabel scene. Why? How was your entry in this community?

My music is not tailored to large numbers of people. My early explorations were just immediate reflex responses to epiphanies. Some were brought on by certain books, mushrooms certainly had something to do with it, not to mention sex. That said, it was about the process of making the music. Some of my early creations were deleted, because they had done their magic on me and that was the point. Through an artist named Saito Koji I stumbled on netlabels, and quickly found proc, I listened through their discography and heard other music that sounded intensely personal, like little prayers or abandoned sigils.

It was only until later that I found that I had a passion for the concept of free music. At first, I was turned off by netlabels, the sheer number of albums, huge archives of all styles. I called it cultural over-production, think I swiped it from a Tim Hecker song title. After a while, after travelling and seeing horrible living situations, and through avid reading about the contemporary world, where to this day there are people held as abject slaves, bundled in the millions, I have come to own my little individual freedoms. If it isn’t forced labor or other such blatant human trafficking, it is artistic slavery too, thought slavery, slavery of the spirit. It’s so ubiquitous on earth now and has been for millennia that I feel any little shred of space to think freely and explore creativity freely must be seized immediately. All of us who aren’t shackled are downright lazy not to band together and celebrate the near-infinite potential of human creativity. What other option do we have but self-destruction? Take any opportunity to sing on a mountaintop. Never stop creating. Create even when you die. Create a corpse. As Henry Miller said “A billion men seeking peace cannot be enslaved”. Create freely while you can.

You're also an actor of the lobit aka low bitrate scene, what is your point of view about it?

Yes, it’s true. I drank the lo-bit kool-aid. There were just so many labels releasing incredibly sublime music. Some of my favorite albums are compressed this way. Being one to foray into ambient music with a long-form or minimal edge, lo-bit was that extra filter on the already ephemeral sound, to make it that much closer to disappearing into nothingness. It made the crunchy dark ambient dread that much more dreadful, and the glacial synth chords and wind recordings made that much more quiet, reserved. Rainbow Valley and Covolux is the gold standard of lo-bit ambience. Seek out their works.

You're not only talented with music and sound manipulation but also very open minded, working on writing, dancing, ...etc different form of art. How do you feel about all this mix of art you're doing? Is it something complementary for you?

Life and art are one and the same. The different approaches I take are like rivers meeting at the confluence of my body. Writing has been with me the longest, for as long as I could write. Music came in teenage years and dancing is new. I wanted to push the boundaries of my own music further, so decided to take about a year and a half break from ambience. I decided to listen. I travelled to Central America to listen to new sounds, to feel new textures, to see new colors, and to have new dreams. Hungry for more, I then took myself to India, Nepal and Bangladesh. I couldn’t only listen, so I started studying some of their approaches to vocal music practice, especially in the Baul tradition of Bengal. It did wonders for my voice and understanding of music, but I didn’t find it beautiful enough ultimately.

When I came home to the United States, disillusioned and exhausted, I discovered Butoh dance, which has become the center of my art. Butoh is often called the dance of darkness, because it often explores themes of nightmares, grief, unconsciousness or violence. It had it’s beginnings in Japan in the 1950s, and my teacher is a student of the co-founder Kazuo Ohno. Beneath the surface of our day-to-day consciousness is a restless ocean of different primordial instincts and energies. These are often nothing more than feelings in the body, but can also emerge as inexplicable happiness or despair. In order to act normal, we often ignore or repress these feelings. I conjecture that this is not healthy, and that full embodiment, acceptance and recognition of these tides in us ENRICHES life. When I dance, I ride the crests and troughs of these waves of ineffable experience, and with music I try to make a portrait of them, an artifact. Dance and music have stolen me away like a rough tide.

You're the operator of Effluvia Recordings, famous netlabel in the underground scene now. Could you speak a little about it? Your vision of Effluvia?

Famous! Haha. Effluvia is a beautiful sounding word, and it means a harsh and dangerous odor, a malevolent cloud of stench. On second thought, the name feels a bit rude to the many beautiful gems of personal expression that have found their way in the catalog. It was never supposed to get more than a dozen albums out to a small audience before sinking under it’s own flimsiness. But the submissions kept coming, and suddenly from countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Ukraine, Thailand, Germany, the Czech Republic, Sweden, France. I had often never heard music remotely like it. You all turned the effluvia into wonderful perfume. Thank you. Effluvia has ended, but my eyes are on the horizon for a begotten son, an heir to the Effluvial throne. Patience.

When you look at your back and all what you did this last years, how do you feel about it? And what about the future?

I’m deeply and utterly unsatisfied and will be until the original revelations that fueled Consistency Nature have reached their ripe fulfillment. CN is over. The adventures had in my time off to listen and sing and dance were too radically life-altering. A new piece is in the works, has been in all year. It may not see the light of day for some time, but it will still retain a certain essence of CN's madness. I'm drawing more inspiration from more classical approaches and instrumentation. Perhaps I've said too much.

Your last release is a sort of "restropective" of your diversified work, but not only a retrospective, it's way cooler than that. Could you explain to us that project? And what about the name, Silent Thalia?

After a long period of neglect towards my old work, I returned to them as though with new ears. Each song I revisited felt somehow related to all the others, so much so that none felt complete by themselves. Placing them all together in a common string worked to my ears like magnetism, and the collection got longer and longer, until it made sense to divide it into four chapters. Four of the tracks are collages of dozens of songs I’ve put out over the years, drawing from some pieces so obscure that for the longest time I had even forgotten them. The opening track “Erosion Without Friction” is especially dear to my heart, being a compendium of my favorite sounds. There are also places throughout the whole album where I recorded original vocals, very roughly and spontaneously, without warming up. These melodies were inspired closely by the time I spent with Lakshman Das Baul in Kerala.

With the help of dear friends Cesar Naves, Saren Meserkhani, Dylan Roth, Judy Jun, and David Choi, three videos have been made to accompany the album. I live far away from where I grew up, but through inspiration pulled from Butoh, I felt called to return to sites of past importance throughout my life, many of which happening in my own town of La Crescenta, around which the footage was gathered. The dances you see are my regression back into broken childhood, with it’s confusion and clumsiness. It was even a regression back into the shadows where departed ancestors long-since flew, imparting a sense of joy and sometimes terror.

I pulled the name “Silent Thalia” out of an interesting story which Joseph Campbell shares in his book “Creative Mythology”. Look for it.

Last words are yours!

Feel welcome to connect! We’re all woven into this earth together. Our arms are meant to stretch out and meet. Reach out your ganglionic feelers in search for kindred spirits. Newsungsails@gmail.com . Thank you for having me Arnaud, and thanks for the immeasurable love you have given to everybody in the free music community.

Website:

https://consistencynature.wordpress.com

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