Early radio. Plaque on wall of building next to San Jose Museum of Art. #soundstudies
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Beats Within Beats
A new track from Tokyo's Hideyuki Kuromiya
This track, “hb22,” by Hideyuki Kuromiya is best experienced on repeat. It’s a beat, intended for looping and layering. So many fine elements comprise the beat: the quick little inhale, the bits of surface noise, the up’n’down of the wood-block”“like percussion, the pause every few repeats, the little glitch within that pause. And within each of those elements are more elements. The voice has its own meter, an up’n’down that parallels the main beat. The little glitch within that pause is followed by a textured thud, a bit like a little rewind, or a needle hitting vinyl. With each repeat the beats within the beats become more and more clear, and then there are the beats within those. Dig in.
Track originally posted for free download at [soundcloud.com/kuromiya-hideyuki](https://soundcloud.com/kuromiya-hideyuki/hb22). More from Kuromiya, who is based in Tokyo, Japan, at [twitter.com/hideyukitchen](https://twitter.com/hideyukitchen).
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Adding simple gestural control to my modular synth activity. #eurorack
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Kate Carr Makes Do
A song in spare parts
Kate Carr’s six-minute arrangement of transformed field recordings and pre-existing material has a self-explanatory name. It is titled, in full, “I Made This Song from Wind, Hunting Signs and Music I Secretly Recorded.” The “song-ness” of it relies on a gentle swell, a sedately ominous sway that suggests Angelo Badalamenti on an especially somber day. It merges with white noise foundation and is occasionally embellished with bug noise and distant sounds, clangs and static.
Track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/katecarr](https://soundcloud.com/katecarr/i-made-this-song-from-wind-hunting-signs-and-music-i-secretly-recorded). Carr runs the Flaming Pines record label and travels a lot. More from her at [gleamingsilverribbon.wordpress.com](https://gleamingsilverribbon.wordpress.com/) and [twitter.com/flamingpines](https://twitter.com/flamingpines).
Two Chords and the Ghostly Truth
A brief interstitial by Old Clone
In this dolorous little bit of electro-pop minimalism, just two alternating notes, Old Clone sums up a simple scenario: “the loneliest ghost spends valentines day wishing it’s dead heart no longer felt love for the living.” The piece appears between the two dreamy, super slow songs that constitute *Sang the Lonely Ghost on Valentines Day*. It’s quite lovely how two simple, briefly held notes can capture the sort of world-weary homespun techno fictions of a Kid Koala or a Douglas Dare, and Old Clone has managed it. Get the full set, streaming below, at [soundcloud.com/oldclone](https://soundcloud.com/oldclone/sets/sang-the-lonely-ghost-on-valentines-day).
More from Old Clone, based in Denton, Texas, at [oldclone.bandcamp.com](https://oldclone.bandcamp.com/).