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5/13/12 – Deliver (Backyard Gypsy Remix)

Deliver will be a single in july

remixes from Richard Chartier/Pinkcourtesyphone, Best Fwends, Paul Heslin +++

write me for promo copies

5/1/12 – Ilse : soundtracks vol. 4

an unreleased track of mine “overpass” appears in this compilation by Ilse music

download it for free here

4/21/12 – Colossus music video

music video for my track colossus, directed by jeremy bailey

4/16/12 – Airing pre-order

Airing is available for pre-order today,

the pre-order will be up for a month until it is released May 15th

I have decided to go with “pay what you will” for the pre-order only!

head over to bandcamp to purchase

4/14/12 – WGXC visit

I was the visiting artist at WGXC’s studios today

to discuss Airing and my upcoming EP Radio Mantras

I also played a short dj set of 10 songs by other artists i’m enjoying at the moment

download mp3 of the show here [176 MB]

dj set tracklist:

Spirits – Dendrite
Hand – AGF
Thailand Chord Droner – Gold Panda
Rain Rhythm – Mikah Meyer / Derek Piotr
Focus (edit) – Derek Piotr
Lungs (demo) – Zach Thorpe
Leikau – Gabriel Ananda
Icarus – Santogold
I’ll Come When I Can – Black Pus
Sanctus – Alfred Schnittke

4/12/12 – Deliver video, remixes & AGF at EMPAC

today was amazing !

I filmed the rest of the footage for the deliver music video with carahanni:

deliver will be a single in July, expect remixes from best fwends & pinkcourtesyphone

and visited EMPAC to see AGF & Sue.C perform their piece infinite jest, finally met antye in reality !!!

4/3/12 – Airing medley at sLow Audycja – miniature007

an interesting medley of Airing tracks is part of this week’s mixtape

at sLow Audycja as part of their miniatures series. 14/15 tracks were used!

mp3 here [34.2mb]

tracklist:

1. Marsz Ducha
2. Vehicle
3. Insects
4. Guides
5. Święty Marsz
6. Radimantra
7. Sixmonth
8. Clandestine Spread
9. Marsz Żalu
10. Nineweek
11. Will Rise (Will Love)
12. Deliver
13. Islets
14. Glass Broadcast

3/26/12 – interview & review with everythingischemical.com

a new interview with me & a glowing review for AGORA

have just been posted at everythingischemical.com

enjoy!

3/22/12 – Airing 5.15.12

3/19/12 – Airing reviews are in

two pre-release reviews have been posted for my second record, Airing.

one is at a future in noise and the other at beach sloth‘s blog

to request review copies email me

3/13/12 – music videos & more

I am pleased to announce Jeremy Bailey is working on a music video for Colossus, out soon

another track, Deliver, will be out as a single in July along with remixes

and here is the front cover of Airing, pre-order will begin April 16th, for review copies email me

2/22/12 – Radio Mantras on Mantra Radio

UPDATE: listen to the mantras here

tune in 3pm eastern time on monday, Feb 27 to Mantra Radio

to catch the premiere of new works of mine, Radio Mantras

Radio Mantras or रेडियो मंत्र will be released as an EP in Spring

alongside my second solo record, Airing

they are extended forms of a track on Airing called Radimantra

there will also be remixes

stream Radio Mantra III:

2/20/12 – Associates

I contributed a cover to this compilation. grab it free at bit-phalanx.com

2/14/12 – Airing is coming…

photo by meire todao

my second solo record, Airing, will be out in three months.

some of the pieces on the record were performed in october. you can listen to them here

stream the first track of the record, Colossus:

2/4/12 – featured on this music wins

focus (jhom’s repetez remix) was featured in a mixshow for resonance.fm

courtesy of this music wins, listen here

1/23/12 – Overtaker (Twenty Knives Remix) video

dir. Ivan Cheng, from my remix album AGORA Regathered

download this remix over at XLR8R

Ivan and I have a project called gobs

1/20/12 – Glass Broadcast video

dir. Pierre-Henri Ramboz, from my upcoming full-length Airing, due in spring

1/18/12

1/9/12 – Scrape EP is released!

Scrape is an AGORA track that is close to my heart, yet it did not receive any remixes in time for my remix album, AGORA Regathered. now however, I present three new versions: a version “II” that I composed myself but never released, a remix by Jari Pitkänen and a remix by Anki Toner, also known as File Under Toner.
Marc Doudin has also remixed Belief, which is the only other track to not receive a remix in time for Regathered. I have also chosen a version of Behaviour State that I created for the split release with Salakapakka Sound System, but which was not released. this EP is only available as an mp3 download (zipped) from this site.
LINK

12/29/11 – countertenor work & radio mantras

I have been working with countertenor Mikah Meyer on a project to be released soon

we recorded in a cathedral earlier this month

I also am at work on an EP based around a track on my upcoming album Airing (due spring 2012).

the EP will be called Radio Mantras or रेडियो मंत्र and will feature two remixes

12/5/11 – AGORA Regathered

AGORA Regathered is released!

photos from the release party are here

buy here OR here OR here [physical]

many of the tracks have been featured in this Polish radio show

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some reviews

by the needle drop

“a consistently perplexing remix album”

by xlr8r

“experimentation and otherworldly vocal manipulation…stimulating”

by beach sloth

“a solidly strange remix album”

by caliper music

“such a sense of musical community…impressive gathering of experimental people”

AGORA Regathered

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photography courtesy of meire todao

Derek Piotr – AGORA Regathered

a selection of remixes from AGORA
released by bitsquare records on 12.5.11
FULL INFO HERE [PDF]
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after releasing my solo record AGORA earlier this year, on which AGF assisted in production, I decided to release a remix album, titled AGORA Regathered. Regathered features input from Scanner, Blevin Blectum, and Steinbrüchel among many others. over half a year was spent curating this material and the final collection of remixes was carefully cherry picked. I see these tracks as not simply remixes but essential extensions of the original ideas.

AGORA Regathered was a chance for me to expand on the initial concept of the AGORA record by gathering together diverse re-presentations of my work. I carefully chose mixers from widely different demographics, both notable and obscure, but all of whom are dear to my heart. this echoes the concept of the ancient agora, by uniting people from various backgrounds into a single moment.

as is reflected in the final outcome, their approaches varied, but after placing calls for several versions of each track on AGORA from a vast range of artists I deeply respect, I patiently selected the remixes that I felt best exemplified a natural extension of my original tracks. the result is a collection which takes my compositions to their core and magnifies their essence. this was an exciting and rewarding record to curate; I send endless thanks to everyone involved and especially to my listeners.

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tracklisting:
1. Focus (jhom’s Repetez Remix)
2. Overtaker (HeeG Remix)
3. Remain (Scanner 90 Mix)
4. Remain (Steinbrüchel Remix)
5. From Whiteness (Protofuse Incision Edit)
6. Value System (Dendrite Remix)
7. Overtaker (Twenty Knives Remix)
8. Winter Consummation (Zach Thorpe Mix)
9. Invoce (Lemosh Remix)
10. From Whiteness (Blevin Blectum Remix)
11. Overtaker (Chaircrusher Rmx)
12. Behaviour State (Salakapakka Sound System Remix)
13. Flood Circuit (Thone Holo Remix)
14. Focus (Pitkänen’s Kohti)

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listen to an interview with me on curating this remix album as an mp3 here [21.2mb]

or read the interview online here

if you want a physical copy of this record: write me!
radio stations or blogs wanting digital or physical promos should do the same

endless thanks to those interested,
derek piotr

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remix releases

in anticipation of my remix album coming in december (more details soon! in the meantime

read an interview on my work curating the remix album as a PDF here)

I have begun releasing a string of remix eps and singles:

the first of these was the behaviour state split with salakapakka sound system

available here digital

or on a CD, email marko

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now I have a remix ep for my track focus released on feedbackloop label

I was invited to be the first in their new series of “rework” releases:

available here digital

or as a limited CD, email me

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and I suppose it is time for me to reveal the cover of my remix album

titled AGORA Regathered:

I have been working on it basically all year, it will be released soon

however, zach thorpe’s version of winter consummation

is available as an advance stream:

UPDATE:

scanner’s remix of remain is available for stream, too:

& heeg’s mix of overtaker:

all cover photos courtesy of meire todao

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gobs

 gobs is a new collaboration between myself and ivan cheng

vocal only. improvisation. raw production. impulse filesharing.

an excercise in purity

we have a release out already

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signal festival 2011

my time at signalfest this year was wonderful

having the opportunity to lecture as well as perform was flattering

I was extremely satisfied with the other artists at this festival; their work is inspiring!

I met with tomas phillips who also gave a nice lecture for the festival

I experienced a coincidence with dino felipe, who was in town to play nightlight for his own reasons

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audio was recorded from my set at nightlight club

I assembled a live EP from the performance:

some of the pieces I performed are forthcoming

on my next full-length, Airing

photo & video soon

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my lecture at UNC was on the voice within experimental & electronic music

it is available as an mp3 file here (102mb)

I played examples during my lecture: of agf, björk, myself, maja ratkje, mike patton

if you want a listening list to further explore experimental vocal artists, email me

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there is a lot of extra media I have not yet released

from other projects & events

I should start putting it out there

so here also are two short excerpts

from my interview with zack schuster for his blog:

1. the use of the dictaphone on my AGORA record

2. about improvised lyrics & song form

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review repository

AGORA has been reviewed:

by the needle drop

“an eerie series of sonic explorations…some are noisy, some are surprisingly accessible.”

by vital weekly

“like the ancient Agora, the meeting place, Piotr samples together voices from various cultures…altogether a most promising start”

by everythingischemical

“extremely playful…(quite possibly) way ahead of it’s time.”

by violet currents

“the blueprint of AGORA is a beauty: rigid in form, but rife with variation”

by steve roggenbuck

“vocals are cut up and used like any other instrument”

by lisa marie ackerly

“every sound is precise and deliberately placed…will evoke thought from all who hear it”

by pennyblackmusic

“minimal beauty…industrial, yet compositional and melodic”

by beach sloth

“this isn’t some ambient recording; it’s a living, breathing, moving album that refuses to sit still”

by completely fictional

“well-made sound art…makes good use of symbols and leitmotif”

by broken chip

“an album that is wonderfully well crafted…well worth checking it out.”

by a future in noise

“an impressive series of sound collages”

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Live at Nightlight has been reviewed:

by beach sloth

“besides the fantastic fidelity, Derek busts out a couple of new tracks along with a few old favorites from AGORA…there’s something about that pulse which just makes me so happy”

[covered] by INQ Mag

link

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AGORA Regathered has been reviewed:

by the needle drop

“a consistently perplexing remix album”

by xlr8r

“experimentation and otherworldly vocal manipulation…stimulating”

by beach sloth

“a solidly strange remix album”

by caliper music

“such a sense of musical community…impressive gathering of experimental people”

by vital weekly

“original voice matter can be detected…with extra ornaments”

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Paul Lansky interview

When I compose, my main area of interest and exploration is the human voice. Likewise, I am drawn to other composers who focus on this element (AGF, Meredith Monk, etc.), so I was incredibly fortunate to obtain a brief interview with Paul Lansky. Lansky is one of the first electroacoustic composers who worked directly with the voice.

Paul Lansky (born 1944) is widely considered one of the original electronic music or computer music composers, and has been producing works from the 1970s up to the present day. He is currently a professor of music composition at Princeton University. He was a pioneer in the development of computer music languages for algorithmic composition, and is a former student of Milton Babbitt and Edward Cone.

the interview:

Derek Piotr: My first question concerns your first involvement with sound. How did that begin? Do you come from a musical background?

Paul Lansky: I do come from a musical background. My first interest in “sound” as opposed to “music” came in the mid 1970′s when I first worked with speech synthesis.

DP: My next question is directed at your concern with the human voice. It’s a unique sound to work with, being literally the most personal sound on the planet, the most emotional. Words and language are also an important element in human vocalizations, colloquialisms of speech etc. Which aspect is more relevant to you – the language aspect or the emotional impact/directness the voice can convey?

PL: I became interested in the voice because of its expressive qualities within an electronic context. It added something nothing else could.

DP: Now I’d like to ask you for some history on Idle Chatter – it seems very much rooted in aspects of colloquial speech. Am I correct in this? How did the piece come about?

PL: Idle Chatter was directly influenced by my first experiences with rap music in the early 1980′s.

DP: On UbuWeb’s archive there is another vocal piece of yours called Artifice (on Ferdinand’s Reflection). It reminded me very much of the speech experiments of Charles Dodge – was this something you were both using at the time, this speech synthesis?

PL: The piece on the ubu website is my first speech piece and it uses Linear Predictive Coding, as do my Campion Fantasies and the first three of the idle chatter set. I abandoned this technique in pieces like Smalltalk, Now and Then, Things She Carried etc, since it works best at low sampling rates and basically sounds crummy.

DP: Who has had the greatest influence on your work?

PL: Mozart.

DP: Lastly, what works have you yet to complete/accomplish that you hope to in the future? Where do your compositions move from here?

PL: I’ve been working on orchestral music recently. I haven’t done any electronic music since 2005 and probably won’t come back to it any time soon.

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AGF’s Wire Radio Mix

on 5/27 at 9pm, AGF’s mixshow for the Wire’s Adventures in Modern Music was broadcast.

It premiered some exciting new works of hers, and many projects in progress, such as Gedichterbe (Poem Heritage), her partner’s upcoming Vladislav Delay Quartet Project

and her project with me.

you can download the mix here

tracklisting:

1 Wimme Saari – Beaiveloddi (The Butterfly) – Instinct – Northside Records
2 Reflect the light of your past past past peoples (AGF shouting)
3 Derek Piotr – Have Fallen (for Who Will Fall)
4 AGF reading Paul Celan – Fadensonnen – preview for Gedichterbe (2011)
5 Rafael Toral – II.I – Space Elements Vol. II – Staubgold
6 ANBB – One – Ret Marut Handshake – Raster Noton
7 Eosin – U8
8 AGF reading Paul Celan – preview for Gedichterbe (2011)
9 Greie Gut Fraktion – Cutting Trees – Baustelle – Monika Enterprise
10 Klangwart – Schnappschuss – Staubgold
11 Jahcoozi – Read The Books – Barefoot Wanderer – Bpitch Control
12 Mika Vaino – Vandals – Vandal EP – Raster Noton
13 Autechre – Qplay – Oversteps – Warp Records
14 AGF reading Else Lasker Schueler – preview for Gedichterbe (2011)
15 Zavoloka VS Kotra – Micrmes / Micrmes Welt (Remix – Zavoloka) – Kotra – Revolt – Kvitnu
16 Jahcoozi – Wasteland – Barefoot Wanderer – Bpitch Control
17 Luomo – Sistol – Reissue 2010 – Phthalo Records
18 AGF – Writing – For Orlando 2010
19 Greie Gut Fraktion – Wir bauen eine neue Stadt – Wolfgang Voigt – Freiland Klaviermix 1
20 Vladislav Delay Quartet – Take 12
21 TBA – What About Things Like Bullets – What About Things Like Bullets EP – Monika Enterprise
22 Craig Armstrong & AGF – Orlando Compositions

 

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DPCKCS

my collaborative EP with Kevin C. Smith of The Artificial Sea is done:

it was released on very nice noise

DOWNLOAD (FREE)

if that doesn’t work

DOWNLOAD

(you’ll just have to tag them yourself)

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