Tsimka & Michael Red Full Performance @ Active/Passive

Full performance video just got posted, from the very lovely Active/Passive Festival. The album is nearly complete. This video shows a more simple version of the songs and energy, which was performed at the other summer festivals 2023 too. The New Forms Festival performance in December showed some of the developement and richer layers and details, bringing cues closer to what the album will fully reveal.

Souns 'Drop Cities'

Souns live performance recording from ‘Drop Cities’ (Feb 19, 2023), a special 2 day festival put together with great care by Hotham Sound, released on bandcamp, and youtube.

live video projections by C130, live camera footage mixed and treated by SPINY JIM and live broadcasted on RedGate TV.

audio materials used: mackie line mixer (using in house reverb) standard microphone mod’d rigsmith dub siren mod’d monotron delay cell phone playing prepared mix of nature sounds (randomly sampled) pioneer rx2, live looping and manipulating tracks:

  • Parisa DUB (ambient)
  • Discovery DUB (raw loop)
  • Discovery DUB
  • Playing with Roses (unreleased)

energy & thoughts present:

  • recently learning about and connecting with sacred datura flower
  • no direct physical practice or plans made for the performance. instead focusing on feeling grounded and present and clear, and responding to the natural energy of the space, time, audience and self
  • deeply reconnecting with an old friend, rmm, at the event and the 3rd act of the night, alexi baris, directly influenced the set (added elements of noise and dramatic gestures)
  • engaging with the idea that ones inner world is a direct reflection of ones outer world, and engaging the space and audience in that way (both a two way interaction and reflection, and also an intentional one way signal path of inner calm & even to the external world)
  • the summed energy from the earlier day and night before (the city, quiet morning coffee, impacted by ’maamawi’ performance & surrounding energy the night before)

Mount Dilaudid DUBS

subtractions and abstractions from
'Mount Dilaudid' by Mahmood Schricker and Michael Red

directly support here: michaelred.bandcamp.com/album/mount-dilaudid-dubs

four versions, created with knowing nods to tradition
- kept raw & immediate, with little pre-emptive thought, and no backwards movements or second-guessing. reacting on instinct and first inspirations. "live" or the spirit of "live".
- no new sounds. only source sounds from the original tracks
- maintaining the original structure of each track in most cases. and when not the case - breaking that structure boldly, but locking to the first new structure mapped out.
- heavy on the hypnotics, delays and reverbs
- heavy-handed on the subtraction. many principle elements of the original work were fully removed immediately, to force a deeper exploration and revealing of what's underneath and beside.
- making sure to actually experiment and come with new ideas and methods. and when using established methods and sounds, doing so respectfully and knowingly.

deepest respect the original dub innovators, and to all who push the sound. thank you to Mahmood, and acknowledgement to the music and players which inspired him. these dubs would not exist with out the originals they abstract from.

mixed, produced and (roughly) mastered by Michael Red
photo by Rojin Surreah

souns (re) [isla19]

(re) is now fully available on extra-warm cassette or digital download. just under 100 minutes of deep ambient and soundscape music. THANK YOU Isla.

Souns - (re) by Souns, released 26 June 2018 1. Red 2. Orange 3. Yellow 4. Green 5. Blue 6. Indigo 7. Violet 8. Rain 9. White 10. Open Tones 11. Frozen Ocean1 12. Frozen Ocean3 13. Frozen Ocean2 14. Frozen Ocean4 ISLA 19 - Just under 100 minutes of deep meditative ambient textures, tones and slow morphings.