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New artist announcement!
Clinton Green (Australia) is joining NCTMMRN family!

We are happy to announce and welcome Clinton Green, joining our NCTMMRN family with the new album coming later this year!

Clinton Green is an Australian experimental artist and performer. He works with Walkmans, prepared/hacked turntables and found objects as instruments.

Clinton Green makes something akin to music. He has been active in Australian experimental music since the 1990s as a recording and performing artist, curator, facilitator, writer and researcher.

“His reason…is to find out why he’s such a damn fool”
– Harry Smith (on himself).

“To describe or label Clinton Green and his work is difficult as he is akin to a renaissance-man or polymath. Inventor, environmental sound artist, musician, spoken word artist and physical/visual theatre maker, are all fields of endeavour he investigates…He is continually engaged in a dialectic conversation between himself and the world that surrounds him, his art is a product of that conversation.”
– Paul W. Blackman, “An Artist Walks Through A Doorway: an approach to liminal theatre” (May 2018).

The new release:
Clinton Green – Lucid Lucid Lucid Lucid Lucid Lucid (NCT026)
is out September 6th!

STAY TUNED!

More information about the artist:
https://ClintonGreen.com
https://ShameFileMusic.com
https://nctmmrn.com/artists/clinton-green

Clinton Green | NCTMMRN Clinton Green is an Australian experimental artist and performer. He works with Walkmans, prepared/hacked turntables and found objects as instruments.

Tottumiskysymys - Live at Vuotalo CD Tottumiskysymys is a collective that creates unsound combinations of dark noise, children’s toys, musical clichés and weird visualizations. Improvised music from Finland since 2008. After two studio albums, the third one is a live album Live at Vuotalo. It was recorded at the Akusmata Polyphonic ...

Dear friends, this Friday is Bandcamp Friday again. Please support our new releases!

NCT025: Luke Martin | James M. Creed - And There Thy Flight Dissolved From View
NCT024: mycenae bottom - enormous height above us
NCT023: Tottumiskysymys - Live at Vuotalo

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The CDR Limited Edition of "And There Thy Flight Dissolved From View" is coming out later this month, but the mycenae bottom and Tottumiskysymys are already available for shipping (not many left though!).

Thank you all for the support!!

Best regards,
NCTMMRN

NCTMMRN Nothing Comes To My Mind Right Now is an independent record label from Melbourne, Australia. Focused on the experimental music and sound art.

NCT025: Luke Martin & James M. Creed “And There Thy Flight Dissolved From View” is OUT NOW!

Dear friends,
NCTMMRN is very happy to announce the new release!

HANDMADE LIMITED EDITION CDR is available from 06 OCTOBER 2023, pre-orders are open now!

From the artists:
"And There Thy Flight Dissolved From View is two duos, both written to play together while Luke visited James in London in the fall of 2022.

An extremely bright, effulgent light engulfed me takes its title from a phrase in Alice Coltrane’s writings (Divine Revelations, 1995), in which she discusses the subject’s uncertain but positive relation to the absolute. the piece considers this relation as an instance of ‘twoness’: the duo, a melodic connection, the dialectic of in/finitude. as a pair we play, again and again, and always strictly separated, one or two tones from a cyclic harmonic sequence – tracing a melody unknown to us and which teeters between presence and absence. an apprehension of twoness, then, may arise not from underlying harmony, nor the notes we choose, but rather from an intersection of separation, chance, and affirmation. from this self-effacing ‘place’ there is the possibility of constructing, without reason, something without end: a friendship, a melody.

Two Guitars uses live looping to slowly create two masses of sound which both gradually expand and develop their own contours. These sounds continually change and negotiate how they share the same space, before fading to reveal a simple, delicate melody that had already been occurring for some time.

The pieces were first played at The Hill Station in South-East London, and recorded the next morning in James’s room overlooking the Catford Road with the windows open."

Enjoy!

And There Thy Flight Dissolved From View, by Luke Martin | James M. Creed 4 track album

The new release: Luke Martin | James M. Creed - And There Thy Flight Dissolved From View (NCT025) is out September 27th!

"And There Thy Flight Dissolved From View is two duos, both written to play together while Luke visited James in London in the fall of 2022.

An extremely bright, effulgent light engulfed me takes its title from a phrase in Alice Coltrane's writings (Divine Revelations, 1995), in which she discusses the subject's uncertain but positive relation to the absolute. The piece considers this relation as an instance of 'twoness': the duo, a melodic connection, the dialectic of in/finitude. As a pair we play, again and again, and always strictly separated, one or two tones from a cyclic harmonic sequence - tracing a melody unknown to us and which teeters between presence and absence. An apprehension of twoness, then, may arise not from underlying harmony, nor the notes we choose, but rather from an intersection of separation, chance, and affirmation. from this self-effacing 'place' there is the possibility of constructing, without reason, something without end: a friendship, a melody.

Two Guitars uses live looping to slowly create two masses of sound which both gradually expand and develop their own contours. These sounds continually change and negotiate how they share the same space, before fading to reveal a simple, delicate melody that had already been occurring for some time.

The pieces were first played at The Hill Station in South-East London, and recorded the next morning in James’s room overlooking the Catford Road with the windows open."

Luke Martin & James M. Creed
September 2023

Dear friends, we are very happy and excited to welcome the new artist James M. Creed (UK) to our family!

The new release: James M. Creed & Luke Martin – "And There Thy Flight Dissolved From View” is coming later this September on NCTMMRN!

James M. Creed is a composer and guitarist based in Leeds, UK.

His music is concerned with simple materials, even simpler processes, unfixed structures, clowning, and the articulation of these elements in notation. James performs regularly as a soloist and with Outline Ensemble, a loose collective of collaborating friends.

More information about the artist:
https://jamescreedmusic.wixsite.com
https://nctmmrn.com/artists/james-m-creed

James M. Creed | NCTMMRN James M. Creed is a composer and guitarist based in Leeds, UK.

Dear friends, we are very happy and excited to welcome the new artist Luke Martin (USA) to our family!

The new release: James M. Creed & Luke Martin – "And There Thy Flight Dissolved From View” is coming later this September on NCTMMRN!

Luke Martin is an experimental composer, improviser, and plays guitar and the no-input mixing board.

He is in the group Ordinary Affects, co-directs the Co-Incidence Festival, and often works with people in and around the Wandelweiser Group. He is especially interested in silence, chance, and thinking a positive relation between music and truth.

Luke lives in Minneapolis, US.

More information about the artist:
https://www.lukecmartin.com
http://www.coincidencefestival.com
https://nctmmrn.com/artists/luke-martin

Luke Martin | NCTMMRN Luke Martin is an experimental composer, improviser, and plays guitar and the no-input mixing board.

“enormous height above us” by mycenae bottom is OUT NOW!

Dear friends,
NCTMMRN is pleased to announce the release of “enormous height above us” by mycenae bottom, a collaboration project of Feliks Mirenskiy (Brom, Drojji, Catatonic Leisure) and Konstantin Samolovov (Dogs Bite Back, Wozzeck, Mars-96).

The material selected from these two recordings became the album “enormous height above us” accompanied by the following text by Ilia Belorukov: “[This] duo is all about electroacoustic improvisation, or more precisely, free improvisation with percussion and electronics, which implies an active, reactive music – and this is evident to the fullest extent.”

p.s.
HANDMADE LIMITED EDITION CDR is available from 25 JUNE 2023, pre-orders are open now!

Enjoy!
NCTMMRN team

enormous height above us, by mycenae bottom 7 track album

Album review in desibeli.net (only in Finnish) https://www.desibeli.net/juttu/3659

desibeli.net - 22.05.2023: Tottumiskysymys – Live at Vuotalo talkoohenkinen musiikkilehti

We are happy to announce that the new project mycenae bottom (Israel/Russia) is joining our NCTMMRN family!

mycenae bottom is a collaboration of Feliks Mirensky (Brom, Drozhzhi, Catatonic Leisure) and Konstantin Samolovov (Dogs Bite Back, Wozzeck, Mars-96).

Feliks and Konstantin have performed as a duo only a few times, but their collaboration began many years ago. In the spring of 2016, the Spina!rec label in St. Petersburg (Russia), where Konstantin was one of the curators, organized an experimental music festival. The festival's lineup, in the label's typical fashion, was formed by unexpected, fresh, and meticulously crafted collaborations in terms of sound and stage concepts. This led to a joint performance by Konstantin and the Moscow trio Lichna Nega (Andrey Guryanov, Anastasia Kuzmina, Feliks Mirensky), which marked the beginning of a friendship and ongoing collaboration between the musicians.

In 2017, Feliks and Konstantin played as a duo for the first time and recorded the track "Garain" – a garage improvisation in every sense. Feliks dissected the guitar while Konstantin played an old drum kit, all taking place in an actual garage amidst a summer Moscow downpour. In the following years, the duo played together in various formations, such as a quartet with Ilia Belorukov and Andrey Guryanov in a St. Petersburg studio, and as a trio with Alexey Sysoev in a studio session at the Moscow Dom; they also performed as part of the Dogs Bite Back trio, where Feliks supported the group during a concert at Ionoteka.

Finally, in 2021, the musicians deliberately met again, first in a Moscow studio and then in St. Petersburg.

The material selected from these two recordings became the album "enormous height above us" accompanied by the following text by Ilia Belorukov:
"[This] duo is all about electroacoustic improvisation, or more precisely, free improvisation with percussion and electronics, which implies an active, reactive music – and this is evident to the fullest extent."

The album "enormous height above us" will be released earlier next month on NCTMMRN (Australia). Stay tuned!

More:
https://nctmmrn.com/artists/mycenae-bottom/

In case you are not aware, the "I am not Here" album by Kory Reeder is now available on all streaming services! Choose your favourite one and enjoy!

https://tr.ee/dbEsAPJgy6

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Thank you so much to Andrew Doherty and Ave Noctum for reviewing the latest Tottumiskysymys album!

Tottumiskysymys - Live in Vuotalo (NCTMMRN) ⋆ Ave Noctum This album is a live recording from January of this year of a concert from the Akusmata Polyphonic Festival at Vuotalo, a cultural centre in Helsinki. Tottumiskysymys are known for their electronic and experimental soundscapes and improvisations. The two previous... Continue Reading →

Dear friends,

Today is the Bandcamp Friday and NCTMMRN is pleased to announce the release of "Live at Vuotalo" by Tottumiskysymys, the Finnish experimental collective that has been pushing the boundaries of sound since 2008.

Recorded live at the Akusmata Polyphonic Festival in Helsinki on January 19th, 2023, this new release captures the unique improvisational energy and innovative soundscapes that have made Tottumiskysymys a favourite of avant-garde music fans worldwide.

Following on from their impressive previous studio albums on our label, we are delighted to bring you another work from our dear friends and amazing artists. "Live at Vuotalo" showcases their incredible talent and creativity, making it a must-have addition to your collection.

p.s.
HANDMADE LIMITED EDITION CDR is available from 17 APRIL 2023, pre-orders are open now!

Enjoy!
NCTMMRN team

Live at Vuotalo, by Tottumiskysymys 1 track album

Dear friends! NCTMMRN is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of "Live at Vuotalo" by Tottumiskysymys, the Finnish experimental collective that has been pushing the boundaries of sound since 2008.

This live album was recorded on January 19th, 2023, at the Akusmata Polyphonic Festival in Helsinki and is set to be released in April. Stay tuned for the official release date announcement!

We are very excited to bring you another work from our dear friends and amazing artists - Tottumiskysymys, who have already impressed us with their previous studio albums on our label.

"Live at Vuotalo" captures the improvisational energy and innovative soundscapes that have made this collective a favourite of avant-garde music fans worldwide.

Don't miss your chance to experience this captivating and unconventional live performance. Keep an eye out for the official release date announcement, and get ready to immerse yourself in the world of Tottumiskysymys with "Live at Vuotalo" on NCTMMRN (Australia)!

Some of our releases from NCTMMRN will be on Sydney-based 2BOB RADIO this Monday!

13 March 2023
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm AEST/AEDT (Sydney time 24timezones.com/difference) on the www.2bobradio.org.au/lost-and-found-sounds

NCT003: ..dno< sound theater + Dråsa - live in Tallinn, Estonia
NCT020: Yosh*take Kawai - How Sounds Unfold
NCT021: Adam Zuckerman - The Hand, The Grid, And The Red Breeze

Thank you so much Hamish MacKenzie for making this happen!

Tune in to 2BOB RADIO 104.7fm in the Manning Valley or stream through www.2bobradio.org.au

Lost and Found Sounds Show Description: Frank Zappa said "Absurdity is the Only Reality". It is also a philosophy that is liberally applied to Lost And Found Sounds, exploring experimental audioscapes where we delve into...

NEW MUSIC REVIEW on our latest release The Corrupting Sea - Float (NCT022)!

NEW KENTUCKY MUSIC REVIEW!

Shelbyville's soundscape king The Corrupting Sea has released a brand new album in "Float", a singular 37-minute adventure of drifting ambiance and thought-provoking meditation! It's out now via Australian label NCTMMRN and a fine follow-up to the fantastic 2022 album "Lungs Like Lead"!

Read up and muse on the ambiance! https://doodlehound.blogspot.com/2023/01/kentucky-music-review-corrupting-sea.html

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2023!
Thank you for supporting experimental music and sound art, thank you for being with us and for your trust in what we do.

NCT022: The Corrupting Sea – Float | 2022 is out now!
https://nctmmrn.bandcamp.com/album/float

The Corrupting Sea (Jason Lamoreaux) is a soundscape project from the USA, that varies from tense moments to drone moments that “massage the brain”.

The project started in 2008 and released the first album as TCS in 2017 after honing his sound. Jason is on more than eight labels around the world and has played numerous shows in Dallas, Austin, Louisville, Lexington, Evansville (IN), Buffalo, Montpelier, and Laconia (NH).

The Corrupting Sea - Float
Instruments by Jason T. Lamoreaux
Recorded, mixed, and mastered in Somewherecold Studios by Jason T. Lamoreaux

Cover artwork and original images by Sonic Wave Photography

Released December 26, 2022
Links:
https://thecorruptingsea1.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/TheCorruptingSea
https://www.instagram.com/thecorruptingsea

Released by NCTMMRN. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA 2022 – NCT022
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Float, by The Corrupting Sea 1 track album

float, by The Corrupting Sea 2 track album

Welcome to the new artist Jason Lamoreaux and the new release of his project The Corrupting Sea – “Float”. Coming on December 26th 2022 on NCTMMRN!

The Corrupting Sea (Jason Lamoreaux) is a soundscape project from the USA, that varies from tense moments to drone moments that “massage the brain”.

For more, please visit: https://nctmmrn.com/artists/the-corrupting-sea-jason-lamoreaux

Release date: 26th December 2022

Pre-sale:
https://nctmmrn.bandcamp.com/album/float

float, by The Corrupting Sea 2 track album

The new release Adam Zuckerman – The Hand, The Grid, And The Red Breeze | 2022 (NCT021) is out now!
https://nctmmrn.bandcamp.com/album/the-hand-the-grid-and-the-red-breeze

Adam Zuckerman is a musician based in Los Angeles, CA.

Adam works with acoustic, electronic, and environmental materials in the creation of scores, recordings, performances, and installations. At the core of his work is an understanding of music as having a uniquely immediate connection with the pure sensation of sound. Music does not represent anything but exists for itself as an acoustic object which coalesces sound, explores its possibilities, and presents it for aesthetic apprehension. All of the components which make up a piece – its materials, textures, structures, temporal dimensions, conceptual frameworks, concrete performance situations – these serve to allow sound to unfold its rich materiality as a concretization and reiteration of the creative impulses of the world. In this way, music reveals and explores the inherent beauty of sound in a world always full of vibration. Adam’s music aspires to offer an intuition into this vast and folded sonic world as it holds open an immersive space for listening, reflection, and imagination in a celebration and affirmation of existence.

Adam frequently collaborates with other musicians and artists, and he has had work performed and presented by ensembles, labels, and festivals internationally. He holds a B.M. in Music Composition and a B.A. in Ancient Greek from the Bard College and Conservatory of Music as well as an M.F.A. in Experimental Sound Practice from the California Institute of the Arts. Adam teaches composition, theory, piano, guitar, and violin to elementary, middle, and high school students. He also regularly organizes shows and concerts around Los Angeles.

For his release with NCTMMRN, entitled The Hand, The Grid, And The Red Breeze, Adam amplifies the internal dynamics and slow transformations of a single, typically very quiet sound.

Instrumentation:
Acoustic guitar performed by Adam Zuckerman
Field recordings made in Los Angeles by Adam Zuckerman

Recorded and mixed in Los Angeles (USA) by Adam Zuckerman

Cover artwork and original images by Sergei Tumanov
https://sergeitumanov.com
https://photography.sergeitumanov.com

Mastered by Sergei Tumanov & Dmitry Afansiev at NRZK Studio (Melbourne – Saint Petersburg)
https://nrzk.productions

Released October 27, 2022

Links: https://www.adamzuckermanmusic.com
https://nctmmrn.com/artists/adam-zuckerman

Released by NCTMMRN. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA 2022 – NCT021
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The Hand, The Grid, And The Red Breeze, by Adam Zuckerman 2 track album

Dear friends, we are very happy and excited to welcome the new artist Adam Zuckerman (USA) to our family! The new release “The Hand, The Grid, And The Red Breeze” is coming later in October 2022 on NCTMMRN!

For the release, Adam amplifies the internal dynamics and slow transformations of a single, typically very quiet sound.

Adam Zuckerman is a musician based in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Adam works with acoustic, electronic, and environmental materials in the creation of scores, recordings, performances, and installations.

Release date: 27th October 2022

More information about the artist:
www.adamzuckermanmusic.com
https://nctmmrn.com/artists/adam-zuckerman

Adam Zuckerman | NCTMMRN Adam Zuckerman is a musician based in Los Angeles, CA. Adam works with acoustic, electronic, and environmental materials in the creation of scores, recordings, performances, and installations. At the core of his work is an understanding of music as having a uniquely immediate connection with the pur...

15.–21.8.2022 / Charm of Sound – HELSINKI EXTENDED [lumbung radio takeover] For the third week of August, 2022 Äänen Lumo / Charm of Sound takes over lumbung radio presenting every day of the week a new episode of perspectives on sonic practices from the extended sonic art…

It's time for SALE!
We want some of our older releases to go fast so we will make room for new releases!

NCT01: Sergei Tumanov (Australia) - Earth: experience
https://nctmmrn.bandcamp.com/album/earth-experience

NCT02: Sergei Tumanov | Michael McNab (Australia) - live in Melbourne
https://nctmmrn.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-melbourne-australia

NCT03: ..dno< (Russia/Australia) + dråsa (USA/Canada) - live in Tallinn, Estonia
https://nctmmrn.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-tallinn-estonia

NCT04: [ówt krì] (Finland) - Arra
https://nctmmrn.bandcamp.com/album/arra

NCT05: sl_richards (Australia) - closed system
https://nctmmrn.bandcamp.com/album/closed-system

NCT06: Denis Sorokin (Russia) | Eric Wong (USA/Germany) - live at PAS in Berlin
https://nctmmrn.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-pas-in-berlin

Any of those LIMITED EDITION CDRs is only $5 for a limited time!
Grab yours before they sold out!

closed system, by sl_richards 7 track album

The new release Yosh*take Kawai – How Sounds Unfold | 2022 (NCT020) is out now!
https://nctmmrn.bandcamp.com/album/how-sounds-unfold

Limited Edition CDR (only 30 copies) will be available from 6th June 2022. Pre-orders are open already!

Aiming to create an immersive soundscape, Yosh*take used various types of speakers, resonators, mics, and magnetic pickups to capture the sounds from electronic devices as a physical phenomenon of air vibration, not as an electronic signal.

Yosh*take Kawai is a sound artist, from Kyoto Japan. After studying craft and architecture design in art college, he mainly started working with modular synthesizers. Being active since 2017, he has performed at different venues at home and overseas, including the iconic “Make it Up Club” in Melbourne Australia.

For more, please visit:
https://yosh*takekawai.bandcamp.com
https://nctmmrn.com/artists/yosh*take-kawai

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How Sounds Unfold, by Yosh*take Kawai 9 track album

The new release: Yosh*take Kawai “How Sounds Unfold” is coming this June on NCTMMRN!

The new release from a Japanese sound artist Yosh*take Kawai “How Sounds Unfold” is coming this June on NCTMMRN!

Aiming to create an immersive soundscape, Yosh*take used various speakers, resonators, mics, and magnetic pickups to capture the sounds from electronic devices as a physical phenomenon of air vibration, not as an actual electronic signal.

Yosh*take Kawai is a sound artist, from Kyoto Japan. He started working with modular synthesisers right after studying craft and architecture design in art college.

Release date: 3rd June 2022

More information about the artist: https://nctmmrn.com/artists/Yosh*take-Kawai
https://yosh*takekawai.bandcamp.com

Yosh*take Kawai | NCTMMRN Yosh*take Kawai is a sound artist, from Kyoto Japan.After studying craft and architecture design in art college, he mainly started working with modular synthesisers. Being active since 2017, he has performed at different venues at home and overseas, including the iconic "Make it Up Club" in Melbourn...

Limited Edition CDR (30 copies only) of Kory Reeder - I am not Here album (NCT019) is available from today! https://nctmmrn.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-not-here

I am not Here, by Kory Reeder 7 track album

Today is Bandcamp Friday

It doesn't feel right to release music today, not in a world like this, but we can't do otherwise. We believe it is important to release and spread music, even now. We don't know what is next. Maybe it is the last release from nctmmrn, time will tell. This album is a very international collaboration and that's making it even more important for us. It is showing that music has no borders, no nationalities, and most importantly no hate.

- NCTMMRN team | 28 February 2022 -

NEW RELEASE: Kory Reeder – I am not Here | NCT019
https://nctmmrn.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-not-here

Kory Reeder is an American composer and performer whose music is often introspective and atmospheric, investigating ideas of objectivity, place, immediacy, situation, and interaction with pieces ranging from symphonic works to text scores and computer-assisted improvisations.

Kory’s music has been performed in concerts and festivals across North and South America, Asia, Australia, and Europe and he has frequently collaborated with opera, theater, and dance programs, as well as noise, free-improv, and new media artists.

He has been an artist-in-residence at Arts, Letter, and Numbers, The Kimmel, Harding, Nelson Center for the Arts and has been Artist in Residence in the Everglades.

His music has been released on Edition Wandelweiser Records, where one may also find scores of his work, as well as Petrichor Records, Sawyer Editions, Impulsive Habitat, and NCTMMRN.

Kory is from Nebraska and currently resides in Texas where he is an active performer and is currently pursuing a PhD. at the University of North Texas.

Links:
www.koryreeder.com

Released by NCTMMRN. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA 2022 - NCT019
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I am not Here, by Kory Reeder 7 track album