arbitrary

10/08/2024

arbitrary21 (10”)
Available to pre-order via
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Mads Emil Nielsen + Chromacolor: Heartbeats

Out 06 September 2024

03/08/2024

EDIT: lecture / Paweł Szroniak - Organizacja dźwięku. O performatywności utworów Johna Cage'a is taking place today at 12:00.

Here's the schedule for today's Sanatorium of Sound 10.

↘︎ The 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲 is located in Kinoteatr Zdrowie Sokołowsko, where tickets and festival information are available and you can exchange passes for a festival wristband. 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝘄𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟭𝟮:𝟬𝟬 𝘁𝗼 𝟮𝟭:𝟬𝟬.

↘︎ Visit the openings of sound installations ⎯ artists such as Paweł Romańczuk, Hanna Grześkiewicz, Julian Rieken, and Piotr Kurka will be present and ready to give curatorial speeches.

Enjoy!

10/07/2024

🔜: arbitrary21 10”
Out 06 September 2024

Info + audio (side A - excerpt) + pre-order via BC.
arbitrary.bandcamp.com

21/06/2024

This Sunday in Berlin:
Sonic Matters II – Independent Label Market

silent green
23.06.2024
14 - 20

with:
Anomic Records, Arbitrary, Black Truffle, Corvo Records, C4 Records, Feral Note, Karlrecords, kontralamakina, Kotra, !K7, Mansions and Millions, miasmah, Mirror World Music, Modisch Aber Unrentabel, Picture Disk, Seismographic Records, Sinnbus Records, Staalplaat, Tax Free Records, Zéhra
green

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“A number of independent record labels from Berlin are opening their stock for our second record market – experimental sounds, musique concrète and ambient sounds, new music, noise, electronica – friends of contemporary and electro-acoustic music will find what they’re looking for here.”

https://www.silent-green.net/en/programme

11/05/2024

Available in Japan via
Denseland / arbitrary20 💿

tobirarecords.com/collections/arbitrary

🇯🇵

03/05/2024

🔊: arbitrary20 - 06
Denseland / Moss, Leichtmann, Strobl

📷: Michael Tewes

21/04/2024

Code & Melody / arbitrary20 💿

https://arbitrarydenseland.bandcamp.com/album/code-melody

11/04/2024

arbitrary20, out 26 April 2024
David Moss, Hanno Leichtmann, Hannes Strobl

Denseland – Code & Melody (CD/DL)

“Just because Denseland take inspiration from the past, doesn’t mean they're stuck in it. On their first album since 2017, their second for arbitrary, the Berlin-based trio instead ventures slowly but steadily into unknown territory. Hanno Leichtmann and Hannes Strobl’s dub- infused, bass-heavy rhythmic minimalism in combination with lyricist David Moss’s sonorous yet deadpan delivery opens up a space that feels both claustrophobic and infinitely wide.
Like previous Denseland albums, »Code & Melody« picks up on the sparse side of dub-enamoured post-punk, no wave, post-rock, adventurous electronic and improvised acoustic music and blends this with a vocal performance marked by a Lou Reedian cool, a confrontationalism à la Lydia Lunch and, occasionally, an experimentalism akin to Scott Walker."

w + p by Denseland, 2023. Text: Kristoffer Cornils

Edition of 300 - Digipak: 4c + Pantone / metallic print

https://arbitraryproject.com/Code-Melody

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Available to pre-order via Forced Exposure, anost.net,
Norman Records, Boomkat.com, Juno Records
arbitrary.bandcamp.com

14/03/2024

20% off via bc, March 2024 … 📦

code: arbi20

arbitrary.bandcamp.com

🗂️

image, top:
Richard Scott - Delirious Cartographies
Mads Emil Nielsen - Black Box 3
[LP/CD]

24/02/2024

Spotted in NYC..
2022 & 23 releases in stock at Printed Matter, Inc.

231 11th Avenue

https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/publisher/15819

10/12/2023

arbitrary19 (CD + print) is now available via:

Morr / anost.net
Forced Exposure
Les presses du réel
Norman Records
Printed Matter, Inc.
SoundOhm
Boomkat.com
Tobira Records
Juno Records

https://arbitraryproject.com/Terrain-Vague

📦

24/11/2023

arbitrary19, out today:
Mesmer - Terrain Vague

The debut album of Danish group MESMER. The album is a series of (deconstructed) live-recordings taken from three live concerts. The sounds on this record are taken from two years’ worth of sound research and creative outbursts with inspiration from field trips to the outskirts of Copenhagen. Intrigued by the auditive landscapes of places where nature and culture meet and challenge each other.

Listening to the field-recordings led MESMER to interpret the moods, musical qualities, and inherent energy of the sounds from these areas. Thus, creating melodies, harmonies and rhythmical structures that, together with the field recordings, paved the way for this album.

CD: Digipak - Pantone / metallic, 4c print
fold-out insert - riso print

24 November 2023

Numbered, limited to 300

Recorded and produced by Mesmer, 2021 & 2022

Mix: Mads Emil Nielsen

Master: Kassian Troyer

Cover art, graphic design: Mesmer / Mads Emil Nielsen

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insert:
Maps: © Geodatastyrelsen, edit: Emil Jensen
Graphic design: Mads Emil Nielsen

info + audio + links on the website

arbitraryproject.com

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MESMER consists of the three musicians & composers Emil Jensen, Victor Dybbroe and Anders Filipsen, who have been creating music together over the last 15 years in various groups. MESMER is fascinated by how sound (and its absence) influences us as people and how the different natural and cultural environments create different musical scenarios.








mastering

06/11/2023

Available to pre-order via Norman Records (UK)

https://www.normanrecords.com/label/9454-arbitrary

arbitrary19 💿 / A5 transparent wallet with fold-out insert / riso print (text, maps)

02/11/2023

https://neural.it/2023/10/mads-emil-nielsen-black-box-3/

Neural [music review]
"... is mainly based on the pieces produced for Sprækker (Cracks), a 2021 dance performance and installation, whose scores originated from improvisations developed with the dancers. These six pieces, were mostly made..."
Mads Emil Nielsen – Black Box 3
arbitrary
(review in the first comment)

16/10/2023

https://soundcloud.com/arbitraryproject/mesmer-terrain-vague-01-intro

arbitrary19 | 24 November 2023 CD + DL Edition of 300 Digipak - Pantone / metallic, 4c print incl. fold-out insert (text, maps - riso print) arbitrary presents Terrain Vague – the debut album of Dan

04/10/2023

arbitrary13, arbitrary19



Graphic design: ; Mesmer / Mads Emil Nielsen

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Delirious Cartographies (2022)
CD + riso print, 6 digital prints

Terrain Vague (2023) *
CD, pantone/metallic, riso print

* Numbered, limited to 300!

01/10/2023

Mesmer - Terrain Vague, out 24 November 2023

arbitrary19 (CD/DL)

MESMER consists of the three musicians & composers Emil Jensen, Victor Dybbroe and Anders Filipsen, who have been creating music together over the last 15 years in various groups. MESMER is fascinated by how sound (and its absence) influences us as people and how the different natural and cultural environments create different musical scenarios.

More information 🔜

https://arbitrarymesmer.bandcamp.com/album/terrain-vague

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CD - Digipak, print: Pantone / metallic
incl. fold-out insert (text, maps - riso print)

Cover art, graphic design: Mesmer / Mads Emil Nielsen

04/07/2023

Boris Baltschun: Desert Dictionary - B - excerpt (Mongezi Ncombo)

arbitrary16 (LP/DL)

Boris Baltschun: Desert Dictionary arbitrary16, June 2023 Desert Dictionary navigates sonic territories oscillating between language and landscape, between notation and noise. Voices responding and

23/06/2023

arbitrary16, out now:
Boris Baltschun - Desert Dictionary

Desert Dictionary navigates sonic territories oscillating between language and landscape, between notation and noise. Voices responding and contributing to a complementary narrative, connecting personal memories, political considerations and psychological effects of a landscape seemingly empty and quiet. Adjacent, beneath and intertwined a modular synthesizer score based on field notes – a synthesized soundscape appearing as imaginary field recordings, at the same time resembling and unalike the place in question.

Recorded in South Africa over a period of three months in 2020 and 2021 - written & produced by Boris Baltschun, 2021-2022.

Mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer at D&M, Berlin

Photo & map by Boris Baltschun

Graphic design by Joe Gilmore

https://arbitraryproject.com/Desert-Dictionary

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arbitrary16

LP (black)
Edition of 300, inside-out sleeve, printed innersleeve, incl. DL

Available via Morr Music Distribution / anost.net
Forced Exposure (US)
SoundOhm (IT)
Les presses du réel (FR)

https://arbitrary.bandcamp.com

13/06/2023

https://mzin.de/printsvinylmisc/

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04/06/2023

Spotted in Gent, BE

Chromacolor - LP and more by , now available via Objects & Sounds

29/05/2023

https://mzin.de/shop/chromacolor/

new in stock: chromacolor, vinyl lp, published

19/05/2023

Chromacolor - via anost.net:

https://www.anost.net/release/F5DF/chromacolor%2fchromacolor

»Chromacolor«, the self titled LP by Hanno Leichtmann's project, draws on rhythmic minimalism as a guiding principle, but also incorporates jazzy moments. Ambient in its light and uplifting form, released via and shipping now from anost.net

https://www.anost.net/release/F5DF/chromacolor%2fchromacolor

12/05/2023

via Objects & Sounds - Gent, BE

Under the direction of Mads Emil Nielsen, the label puts strong emphasis on raw rhythmic structures in its releases.

07/05/2023

Pre-order: Chromacolor (LP)

https://shop.arbitraryproject.com/products/chromacolor

»Chromacolor« is one of those records that immediately feels like home even though it is hard to locate stylistically. Written and recorded by Hanno Leichtmann in Berlin and Madeira between 2020 and 2022. Artwork: Hanno Leichtmann and Mads Emil Nielsen. Pre-order - 19 May 2023. LP (black) year: 20...

16/04/2023

20 - 50% off previous releases via the archive / mailorder page: arbitrary - Shop (April 2023)*

https://shop.arbitraryproject.com

* Does not apply to pre-orders (arbitrary15), Framework 3 (Reprint, 2023)

06/04/2023

Black Box 3

Mads Emil Nielsen (arbitrary14)

via Motto Distribution / Motto Berlin

http://www.mottodistribution.com/shop/publishers/arbitrary/black-box-3-mads-emil-nielsen-arbitrary-5706274011364.html

Mads Emil Nielsen

04/04/2023

Pre-order: arbitrary18 (LP)

Chromacolor (s/t)

"»Chromacolor« is one of those records that immediately feels like home even though it is hard to locate stylistically. Written and recorded by Hanno Leichtmann in Berlin and Madeira between 2020 and 2022, it draws on rhythmic minimalism as a guiding principle and might call to mind organic, instrument-based ambient music, but also incorporates jazzy moments as well as Annie Garlids multi-layered vocals that permeate through these nine pieces."

https://arbitraryproject.com/Chromacolor

via anost.net, Norman Records, BC

Video / single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2YrhWinKoQ

02/04/2023

The Wire Tapper 61 CD

incl. "Installation – 2" by Mads Emil Nielsen feat. Victor Dybbroe

From Black Box 3 (arbitrary14)

https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/the-wire-tapper/the-wire-tapper-61/10

The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music - 470 / April 2023

30/03/2023

Antoine Hubineau - Dissolvè / Scillions (7")

21 April 2023

Available to pre-order via
https://arbitrary.bandcamp.com
Forced Exposure
Les presses du réel
Motto Berlin
Juno Records
HHV Records
arbitrary - Shop

https://arbitraryproject.com/Dissolve-Scillions

Dissolvè / Scillions Antoine Hubineau: Dissolvè / Scillions arbitrary presents Dissolvè / Scillions by Antoine Hubineau. Derived from the same...