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CD and download. Available on my Bandcamp page and streaming services (spotify, apple music etc). Buy here
OUT NOW!ย
CD and download. Available on my Bandcamp page and streaming services (spotify, apple music etc). Buy here
all sounds recorded in the Balkans
all ambient layers recorded in Rotterdam
2022-2023
artwork by Niels Vrijdag
color combination and words byย Rutger Zuydervelt ย (Machinefabriek)
โ๐๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด, ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ข, ๐๐ญ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ข, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ข. ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ด. ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ด๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ต, ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ฆ๐จ๐ข๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ. ๐๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐จ๐ฐ, ๐ข ๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ข๐บ.”
Enjoy listening!
“Het is een schitterend kleinood en reisdocument(aire) geworden”
De Subjectivisten
“The ambient backdrop Ard Bit waves as to underline the quiet and slow country life depicted in the field recordings”
Vital Weekly
“….over the course of seven tracks and 21 minutes Janssen amalgamates a plethora of often times washed out, cut up or otherwise unidentifiable fragments of Field Recordings with experimental electro-acoustic treatments….”
Nitestylez.de
OUT NOW!ย
Vinyl and digital. Available on bandcamp, streaming services, Clone distribution.
Music For Delirious Episodes
Hand numbered LP limited to 250 copies, order here
Composed and produced by Ard Janssen
Artwork & Design by Niels Vrijdag
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu (Schwebung Mastering)
Distributed by Clone Distribution
Phainomena 2022
Instead of looking outside, at your surroundings, it is worth going inside. You find happiness in yourself. And that happiness can only be experienced when there is balance with yourself. Happiness from within apart from expectations from the outside. It is essential to seek the silence to escape from who we think we are and experience who we really are. I like to reach out to that light. I record sound we hear every day, it is a part of life captured in it, a moment when everything happens, where everything can be heard. I focus on that because it is just there but we may have forgotten it, standing still in sound is my silence
Stay close to yourself, with love, Ard โฅ
Music for Delirious Episodes brings together eleven compositions. Ard Bit is known for his delicate, almost brittle, works. This collection focuses on that same fragility that fascinates Janssen.
From the first steps of โTroubled Veilโ, the listener is absorbed into a digital weave of field recordings, everyday undulations, other day modulations and loose harmony. Traditional instruments, string and wind, are filtered and re-imagined. The mundane echoes of routines are reborn as the percussive hum of pieces like โStrippedโ and โBroken Respirator (White Funnel).โ Behind the shifts and shuffles lurks something triumphal. Memories are given new form through audio carvings. Birdsong is handcrafted through knob tweaks, elephant trumpets bellow past swells of electronic insects as a glowing sun rises through the speaker. Hazes of static are shorn back, as in โSeppukuโ, to allow moments of intense focus and reflection. And then we return, to that ephemeral beauty that permeates this record, with the final embrace of โAwakening Delusion.โ An artist who finds the extraordinary in the often overlooked, orย unheard.
“These microsound textures and tones offer bewildered nostalgia; taking us far, far away. How Ard Bit manages to create such vast sound fields, so precisely layered, with an abstracted trajectory, is beyond comprehension. Each piece gliding through each other, whether played in sequential or shuffled order, these are tunes and trips for the next plateau. Where baffling yet minimalist forms infinity stretch and low-flying sonic structures expand beyond our universeโ
“….this is a soundtrack that gently builds up the proper level of drama and like a guide leads the listener along. Music For Delirious Episodes is a persistent process of exploring sound, leading to a clear, believable result. The album should be treated like a soundtrack: each scene is clearly delineated here, forming a coherent whole picture.”
“The field recordings have reached a level of abstraction that renders the original sound impossible to hear. Maybe animals, children, or some kind of mechanical process? I don’t always know. The album walks a fine line between ambient and modern music. Nothing here shocks the listener, even when some of the sounds are droning away. Quite a pleasant record, indeed”
Premiered at Igloo Magazine
Video by Jelmer Noordeman a.k.a. Void_3_4_
Graphic Design by Niels Vrijdag
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu (Schwebung Mastering)
Distributed byย Clone Distribution
September 29, 2022
Live performance โMusic For Delirious Episodesโ at Roodkapje Rotterdam
Visuals by Void_3_4_