#murmer

[dustedmagazine]

Manja Ristic and Murmer — The Scaffold (Unfathomless)

Here is a remarkable and rare take on the art of collaboration. To call Manja Ristic and Patrick Tubin McGinley, who is known as Murmer, field recording practitioners is almost as misleading as it is to call these two odysseys collaborations, true but not the truth. Both artists freeze the verity of liquid instants and then render them calmly molten, transforming size and proximity into a syntax all their own. While most collaborations involve a concerto approach in which identity switches pride of place from moment to moment, The Scaffold is an exquisitely powerful melding out of which narrative rivers flow.

We’re told that Ristic and Murmer worked from 2020-2022 on this palimpsestic immersion, recording using sound sources from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Estonia. Like the album’s title though, those locations are only means to a sonically inclusive end. Murmer describes the difficulties of capturing a scaffold “singing,” a wonderfully anthropomorphic descriptor that might just as easily be applied to every sound and space opened up as the music eases onward. Michael Pisaro’s groundbreaking Transparent City series laid the groundwork for this “musical” transfiguration of place, or environment, and we hear that process as room tones are augmented in “zamišljena sjena vjetra”’s opening moments. Tone, point and timbre converge in increasing and amalgamating contrapuntal layers, each sound containing and negating its environment, scaffolding to construct a new one. The mechanical sounds and attendant squeaks beginning at 7:54 transform themselves into birdsong in listener perception, just as isolated rain drops lend their pitches to delicately aperiodic rhythmic occurrences beginning at 2:01 of the second piece, “kaugpääs; antenn.” Those sounds and their outcomes unify the pieces, individually and as a pair, various shades of rushing water ultimately taking on the characteristics of a busy speech-scape or the morphing drone perfectly complemented by the singing scaffold as it supports the first piece’s second half.

Magical moments abound. What is that gorgeous shift of focus, that transparent but iridescently pitched liquid, foregrounded with glassy certainty at 13:14 of the first piece, dead-center of the soundstage and highlighting the sonic clusters surrounding it? Can there be anything more ravishingly reverberant than those multi-frequency interjections 2:07 into the second piece? In their echoing repetition, they prefigure the best of all, the Requiem chant coalescing symbiotically with all that has preceded it but sitting comfortably behind it, worlds within worlds in transcendent correspondence, a support system as uneasy but as natural as the rush of voices and motorized life that brings the album from church to town in a life-affirming conclusion. These days, there’s little chance of a bad recording. What’s done with the recordings is the crux of each situation, and The Scaffold is a winner at all levels.

Marc Medwin

[ozkar-krapo]

MURMER

"In their Homes and in their Heads"

(7"EP. Drone rcds. 2007 / rec. 2005) [US]

[mr-kiwi-the-wizard]

What is the meaning of life¿

The worth of life, our life, another's life?

What is the meaning of life to a plant.

Grow. Consume nutrients. Bathe. sit. Reproduce. Grow some more. Get eaten or die.

We know their meaning and nurture them or prune then and even selectively breed and grow them because we know their meaning and purpose. Both given and apparent.

And us humans?

We seem to seek much the same.

[restwaerme]

some new records from the drone records mailorder, thanks for the free “his divine grace” cd, stefan.

COLLEY, JOE - acting as if 10inch MURMER - in their homes and in their heads 7inch SUDDEN INFANT - buddhist nihilism LP SUDDEN INFANT - lunatic asylum CD KALLABRIS - red circle LP SMALL CRUEL PARTY - e vago fior del tempo LP THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS - the museum of human happiness 2LP PSYCHIC TV - those who do not 2LP ILLUSION OF SAFETY - new rules CD I.CORAX - from gOLDem flesh to silverb ONE CD

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

That was it! Danny officially hated CPS! They were so annoying. How did they even keep finding him?! Hes in the rural area of Tennessee and they keep catching up to him. They had kept pace with him through the past three states (was this really cps?) and kept spouting nonsense about his powers being dangerous and needing to be taught how to use them before he hurts himself or others. Jokes on them, Dannys already dead!

Luckly they only seem to be able to track Phantom and not Fenton but after his spooky self got shot by one of these creeps he ducked into a free health clinic for teens and kids. The only problem is that he has to put down a valid Emergency contact. His parents and friends won't work since they don't exist in this dimension and he didn't know anyone else.

So he put down the name of a random Wayne family member because they are confirmed to be real and he doubted any of them would come if called.

He was wrong.

The only real question is which one did he put down

[kirbyliker12]

today marks the day i Finally get return to dreamland deluxe (yeah. ive never played rtdl/rtdldx. idk i just didnt get it even though i really really Really wanted it #lol)

[convolutedcake]

@todaysbird a group have starlings have started murmerations every afternoon at sunset. It's made for a gorgeous end of the day.

[sumpix]

Watch with sound on

[h0t-p1nk-ch33tah-pr1nt]

UH OH I FEEL A GUSH POST COMING O

Yall please... ik me nd my little minons cannon hobie as more shy when he flirts, BUT HES SO TEMDER WITH KATH, Lucy inspired this bit and maybe Marly, but Hobie can sing, he performs on stage all the time wdym his voice doesn't get a lil raspy. But it's the little songs he does for her, she thinks it's so cheesy, she'd come home after going out, her whole body aches, kicking off her heels while Hobie is by the stove, slumping over he just beckons her to come near the hot stove to sit down,

He doesn't infantilise her, not at all, he knows how overstimulating it gets running about, the little questions of "can I touch you?" Or "do you need me to do this?" OUGH, after she's done and cleaned up, all they do is lay on the couch Hobie humming his song to try and hit a good high note, Kath gives him a little forehead kiss.

"Don't ruin your voice for me."

"I'm not." He says rubbing his throat.

[breadhalfburnt]

good morning everyone

there is a cat outside so now i can’t sleep

what are fun, relatively quiet activities to enjoy on this god awful occasion?

[gochujangst]

Accidentally glued a torpedo to my shield and fell to my death, more at noon

[inflammatory]

tagged by rory of tunes fame @rorytunes to do the 5 fav albums from your 5 fav artists poll

that’s the 5 if i’m true to my heart anyway tags go @oraclebykittie @dreamingrobots @prettybefore if u got a minute to play a tag game ;)

[jarfullofbubbles]

Spoilers for Piranesi and Ordinary Monsters

[saintbarou]

javier and his horrible tendency to draw out your orgasm by keeping his thumb at your clit even when you are tight and cumming around his cock to the point of tears