Ich w?rde ja gern mehr als vier St?cke ins Programm aufnehmen, aber auf Anfrage beim Projekt selbst bekam ich nur einen Link auf einen Life-Mitschnitt einer Noise-Party. Werds nochmal bei einem Label versuchen.
Cisfinitum schien Ende letztes Jahr zusammen mit Troum mal in Deutschland getourt zu haben -- schade, h?tte ich mir gern mal angeh?rt. Irgendwie erfahre ich von den meisten Sachen immer erst danach und so bald d?rften sie lange Anreise aus Russland wohl nicht wiederholen...
Von DarkAmbient:
Update: Hab das Album 'Malgyl' gefunden, das wie 'Landschaft' ebenfalls unter einer Creative Commons Lizenz frei zum Download zur Verf?gung steht.
Von DarkAmbient:
Ein weiteres Album hinzugef?gt: "Bezdna"
"Composed, recorded and mixed by Evgeny Voronovsky, 2003-2005
Using soviet synths: ANS, Polyvox, RMIF-TI3, Faemi Mini, Yunost-21,
Formanta UDS, Venetz AP-01 processor, Tom 1501, LM 1229 delay
Other instruments: violin, accordion, SP-303, SP-808, piano, voice, samples and tapes"
Album-Info und offizielle Presse-Info zu Bezdna:
"New album of Moscow-based project Cisfinitum is the experiment in more emotional rather than in musical domain. Deep and profound, it's touching the most dark corners of human soul and takes it to the imaginary otherworlds. This peculiar quality of Cisfinitum music is achieved through extensive use of soviet analogue synthesizers (ANS, Polyvox, Yunost-21, Formanta amongst others), but the spiritual beauty of "Bezdna" is also created by violin and omnipresent voices. Psychoactive dark ambient combined with melodic incantations.
'Bezdna' is transliteration of russian word that means hellhole. This album is like the look into future, which override curiosity by fear and constraint. The eerie atmosphere is getting even more dark because of guideline loss. No more chances left that it will ever be found again. The music is like to feel one's way, it gives you the clear statement of imminent disaster which can occur at any moment. On the more personal level, it can symbolize disappointment. But we can't witness disaster - stepping over the crucial moment, we just fall into prostration, where dreams become memories. The final part of album contains very depressive but solid and dense images, which forms the final impression of this album. It comprises yearning, insularity, deep mental drama, something usually hidden from public while going down with the weight sitting heavy on the heart. The reflexive aspiration for loneliness, raptured in despair, bring you to the somehow loss of gravity."
Weitere Infos von Monochrome Vision zum Projekt:
"Cisfinitum is the most promising project from Moscow. For some years, nothing was released except two CDRs, both distributed by obscure Insofar Vapour Bulk label through small like-minded mailorders (Drone Records always supported them and released 7" recently). The origins of Cisfinitum can be found in the first one, '0 vs. 0' - compilation of early tapes marked by the sign of conceptual radicalism. The second one, 'Landschaft', is most acclaimed up to date, premium quality dark ambient sounscapes divided into 4 parts. It combines atonality and melody, faded colours and crispness, psychological issues and lo-fi sound attitude. This unique approach credited by broken semiprofessional gear, soviet analogue synths, acoustic instruments and musique concr?te elements. Cisfinitum means the system of 0 categories, invented by soviet paradoxical writer and philosopher Daniel Harms. The neolatin word 'cisfinitum' can be translated also as 'endless non-existence logic' and denotes irrational philosophical-mathematical system. This is the system of developing and iteration for irrational segments, which are containing in some relative entities with null factor. The descending numbers aren't restricted but embraced by null. This null-based scale of notation is defined by cisfinitum exploration. Unlike 'Landschaft', the next 'Malgyl' is more aggressive and diverse in terms of sound. Ultra dark and oppressive atmosphere is alternates with ataractic melodic fragments in Maeror Tri or Bad Sector type of vein. This 50-minutes long industrial symphony was intended to be released by Musica Maxima Magnetica, but still delayed. The most recent production of Cisfinitum is enchanced-CD 'V', released in 2003 by Waystyx and distributed by Cold Lands, presents the audiochemy methods, amalgamating classical compositions and tonal noise into continuos flow of sound. The music of Cisfinitum is physically exceptional, alienated, impartial. It takes you to the point of existance negation, where the time stops and world ending. Long-term state transitions, unexpected dynamic outbursts, desolate spaces, mind-frightening and psychoactive trainings... The sound quality turned inside out, fine introspection took over the belligerence. Something like sci-fi soundtracks from 80s - cold, dark and mysterious, but open-minded, challenging and realistic."
Dank an Dmitry Vasilyev von Monochrome Vision f?r Musik und Infos.
Von nexi:
sehr schickes bild zum Landschaftsalbum musik muss ich mir noch anh?ren
Von sediment:
ein geniales projekt. kennt einer die neue devotio? klasse teil, finde ich ...
Stream Status
Stream is on air / Stream ist auf Sendung.
Hörer momentan: 27 von maximal 60
Bitrate: 192 kbits/s
Zuhören / Listen by downloading a .pls file to open in your media player or copy the raw http link via clipboard to open the stream:
Recently Played Tracks
Cisfinitum - Deep Down Land Fire - Glasslike substances False Mirror - The Sea Of Oblivion Northaunt - Night Came To Us Dilate - Frozen East Council of Nine - The 7 Seals Tvmvlvs Seraphim - Europe Before The Rain Dahlia's Tear - Forlorn Whispers on a Moonlit Path spheric lounge - intention decayed Troum - Wrota sfer
RefreshDark Ambient Radio recommends the VLC Media Player -- it's available for Linux, Windows & Mac
For half a year I was working on a new radio setup that no longer requires me to maintain a Windows 10 virtual machine on my poor Mac Mini. Now ezstream is up and running on a Linux Debian VM without the former waste of resources (the Mac's power consumtion has halved since). This is not completely due to the inefficiency of Windows as a VM but also due to ezstream not recoding the mp3s on the fly to 192 kbit/s. I had to recode each and every track manually beforehand for this to work, sometimes ripping the tracks from CD again to maintain high quality. I think, it was worth the effort.
You, as a listener, shouldn't notice any difference, except that hopefully there shouldn't be so much downtimes any more and that crossfading won't take place any longer. If you experience too much silence before or after a track -- or a too abrubt transition between tracks -- leave me a note and I will edit the track(s) manually using mp3DirectCut.
I just wanted to repair the Recently Played Tracks list that was displayed wrong on the site but got in the flow... The site should now be much more readable on mobile phones. And if you ever wanted to post DAR's URL on a social network: The site now has got an open graph image that is being added automatically to the post:
Problems with the Shoutcast Service / The DAR Review Workflow
Sorry for the program interruption you are currently experiencing. I try to solve it but Viastreaming support currently isn't responding.
In the meantime, I'm still further preparing the change of the radio software. Maybe this has some effect on the problem.
While in need of some more fruitful task, I vibecoded my proven review workflow into a little app that should speed up the process of adding new music to the stream. This is how it looks:
redeem review code with Bandcamp (optionally drop zip or folder to the album list on the left)
unzip album to a folder
archive it in original kbit/s
recode to 192 kbit/s (using ffmpg)
normalize to 86 dB (using mp3gain)
normalize artist or album title (there are really many keyboards with stuck caps lock key around)
put it in my review folder
decide which tracks to accept and which to reject
finally move the reviewed album folder with the accepted tracks to the airplay folder
I currently don't provide binaries: This is quite a special drill and people most likely want to adapt their own steps. If you need help or encounter some problem, open an issue on Github.
The New York City based coop Subvert aims at being an artist-owned replacement for Bandcamp. Bandcamps recent ownership changes has raised doubts that the platform still can be trusted. Maybe subvert.fm is worth giving it a try...
From Saturday on, it will be available for 6? on Bandcamp. All money goes to the contributing artists (after taxes, of course).
We worked on the release the bigger part of the year 2022. Everything is mixed & mastered with love. We hope to give you a piece of solace in this dark time of the year. Enjoy!
It seems many people still use Winamp to listen to the stream.
Two weeks ago, my radio software SAM Broadcaster began to create unaccaptable bad sound and I wasn't able to solve it. So I looked for an alternative and found a nice freeware: RadioDJ. Because the AltaCast plugin didn't work with the AAC+ encoder, I needed to connect RadioDJ to the stand-alone version of AltaCast via a virtual audio cable (VB-Audio). Getting it running was a rather painful experience.
But I got complaints from Winamp users being not able to listen to the stream anymore. So I requested some technical support to get SAM Broadcaster running again. This is how it looks, btw., a user interface style from 20 years ago:
I think, I will switch to a Linux server somewhere in the far future and use Opus instead of AAC+. Hopefully more people have abandoned Winamp by then. But maybe bandwidth will be cheap enough to provide a mp3 stream for nostalgic reasons. :-p
It's the 1st of December and many organizations put their hat on the data highway and beat the drums to collect donatins.
A special case this year is the San Francisco based Internet Archive that wants to make a backup of its collection in Canada -- maybe to escape the reach of a Trumpian administration.
Since many years now, before soundcloud or even MySpace existed, I always found some pearls when I delved into the audio library. It seems to be the best place to carve something in stone on the internet. So if you have some bugs left in your pocket and you are thinking about donating it for some good cause, consider good old archive.org.
Cover art in ID3 tags seemed to interfere with ezstream, leading to invalid frames sent to the Shoutcast server. We will see how long Shoutcast will make it this time...
It's done! First track playing with ezstream: solsidia Terasol - Viisiteur Du Fond.
Bye bye SAM Broadcaster! Still Have to fix the Recently Played Tracks list though...
