Vertical Music

11/03/2024

Zürich-based landscape sound artist Ludwig Berger (Vertical Music / Sonic Topologies) presents eco-fiction music on new EP 'Species Loneliness' 🌱 🐞 👂

Eerie, lush, playful ambient, electro-acoustic minimalism & interwoven field recordings - RIYL Jan Jelinek, Eli Keszler, Oval, Felicia Atkinson, Bellows, Susumu Yokota

Exploring 1970s eco-horror films, anthropogenic decline and a longing for meaning & environmental restoration

Out digitally on 29th March via -OUS

Listen to 'Sea of Decay' / Pre-Order: https://ludwigberger.bandcamp.com/album/species-loneliness

23/08/2023

In October 2021, and developed a sound residency project based on the exploration of the old wastelands behind . Today, we are happy to share the recorded and remixed results of that experience, published via .music

Listen to RADURA ;)
Link in Bio

01/08/2023

Verity Sharp embarks on another musical adventure to the farthest reaches of sound.

24/07/2023

Grabaciones de campo que se convierten en arte contemporáneo en manos de Yoichi Kamimura y France Jobin.

09/06/2023

We are glad to announce a new double tape batch. These releases will be the final ones of our Vertical Music transparent cassette series.

This batch features poetic compositions of field recordings from a thermal bath, an abandoned greenhouse and flooded amazonian forests ♨️🌿💧

With Yoichi Kamimura & France Jobin, Vittoria Assembri & Gaia Ginevra Giorgi and pablo sanz.

⇾ Listen & Preorder: https://vertical-music.bandcamp.com/merch/vertical-music-batch-10-12

14/03/2022

We are really glad to announce our late winter batch of soundscape tapes from Northern Europe. 🤍💜💚 Limited edition of transparent cassettes. Preorder on Bandcamp: https://vertical-music.bandcamp.com

Featuring a field recording collage with birds and foxes from iceland by Abby Lee Tee, Amplifications of the cold and silent winter in Finland by Rasmus Östling and recomposed experiments in Northern Europe by Signe Lidén and Espen Sommer Eide.

Design by Nicolas Turki Duchesnay, printed and duplicated at Tapedub, pictures by Johannes Berger, curation by Ludwig Berger

11/08/2021

Great mix by Patricia Wolf including a piece from Alyssa Moxley's "Underdrift" ~ ~ ~ https://soundcloud.com/lapsus-records/lapsus-radio-323-patricia-wolf

This is the last episode of the seventh Lapsus Radio at Radio 3 season, and for the occasion we have invited a very special guest: Patricia Wolf (). Portland (Oregon) producer deli

04/08/2021

Nicola Di Croce's "Hearing voices" is featured in the Top 10 of July 2021 at Joyful Union Cassette Blog, opening their mix: https://www.mixcloud.com/JoyfulUnionCassetteBlog/joyful-union-best-of-july-2021/

We’ve featured over 155 tapes on our blog in July! Here are the top 10 tapes of the month! 1. Nicola Di Croce - Hearing Voices (Vertical Music) 2. Linda Smith - Untitled 1-10 Plus 1 (Self-Released) 3. Ass Cop, Nefertiti Abstract Movie, and Satoshi Nakamoto's Dopenet - Beat Detectives (Kiew Central...

03/08/2021

Alyssa Moxley's volcano music "Underdrift" reviewed at The Quietus' Spool's Out: "spooky whistles… gorgeous burbling … a mysterious drama of moos, squeaks and chirps"
https://thequietus.com/articles/30294-bulbils-sally-decker-grand-veymont-tape-review-2
Picture by Stéphane Charpentier

02/08/2021

Glad to announce that our cassettes are now available at Soundohm, labelled as "Best of 2021"! https://www.soundohm.com/product/vertical-music-batch-04-0

**70 copies** This bundle includes the following tapes:Nicola Di Croce - Hearing Voices (Vertical Music 04)"Craco is a small town in southern Italy, completely abandoned after a landslide in 1963. Si…

26/07/2021

Remember our first batch? 🏢🎸🌳

Happy Monday! https://bandcamp.com/yum

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25/07/2021

Nicola Di Croce's "Hearing Voices" reviewed at Deepest Currents:
https://www.deepestcurrents.com/post/recommended-listening-nicola-di-croce-hearing-voices
Thank you Nathan Yoder!

Di Croce is a Venice-based artist whose research and sonic output focuses primarily on the relationship between territory and sound. To rec

24/07/2021

Alyssa Moxley's tape featured in A Closer Listen's Recommendation list: "This volcano music is so good, we even want to listen to it during a heat wave. From grazing sheep to subterranean rumbles, Moxley’s field recordings are a geographical audio-biopic featuring a cast of compelling characters."

https://acloserlisten.com/recommendations/

23/07/2021

"Shuta Hiraki's tape reviewed at Cerberus: "Cirrus speaks to how we all internalize sound-as-memory and return to it when we need it most. […] It’s well worth the journey, especially when in a meditative and contemplative mood." (Justin Spicer)

Featuring Dolphin Midwives, Arushi Jain, The Reds, Pinks, and Purples, Shuta Hiraki, and Répéter

23/07/2021

Out now ~ "Underdrift" by Alyssa Moxley
🌋🦇🐄 Digital audio & red transparent cassette, ed. of 70: https://vertical-music.bandcamp.com/album/underdrift
"Early spring on the volcanic island of Nisyros, Greece: Bees swarm over almond trees on the caldera's edge. On the fertile crater soil, livestock graze. Mud pits burble and sulfur vents puff out thick v***r clouds. Solitary men ring the bells, call to their animals, and sing to themselves. Scops owls and bats call into the night."

15/07/2021

Out now: "絹雲 Cirrus" by Shuta Hiraki
⚓🏭⛓️ Digital audio & fluo transparent cassette, ed. of 70: https://vertical-music.bandcamp.com/album/cirrus
"Sounds drifting or hiding in the area in which I live. A vacant lot, a port at midnight, broken furniture, childhood toys, voices of machines. Overlooked, abandoned and malfunctioning sounds. Sometimes I record them, sometimes I miss them. 2014-2018, Nagasaki, Japan."

14/07/2021

Out now: "Hearing Voices" by Nicola Di Croce – a surreal soundscape of an abandoned town in southern Italy, finding new alliances with non-humans, taking care of the human’s debris.
🦗🍂👄 Digital download and transparent cassette, edition of 70: https://vertical-music.bandcamp.com/album/hearing-voices

29/06/2021

Glad to announce our summer tape batch! It includes an atmospheric portrait of an abandoned town in Italy by Nicola Di Croce, intimate soundscapes from the Japanese coast by Shuta Hiraki and mesmerizing recordings from a volcanic island in Greece by Alyssa Moxley.
Preorder now: https://vertical-music.bandcamp.com/merch/vertical-music-batch-04-06

Design by Nicolas Turki Duchesnay, Pictures by Johannes Berger, Duplication and Print by Tapedub, curation by Ludwig Berger.

02/09/2018

No drama, no sentimentality, no escapism. Presence of things, places and beings. No beginning, no climax, no end.

02/09/2018

Vertical Music Tape 01 – Rubén Dhers – Release in Fall 2018

02/09/2018

First tape batch – Fall 2018
Rubén Dhers
Jen Reimer & Max Stein
Ludwig Berger

02/09/2018

Vertical Music Tape 03 – Jen Reimer & Max Stein – Fall 2018

Vertical Music Tape 02 (release in Fall 2018)

02/09/2018

Vertical Music Tape 03 – Ludwig Berger – Release in Fall 2018

02/09/2018

No drama, no sentimentality, no escapism.

New tape label curated by Ludwig Berger. Graphic design by Nicolas Turki Duchesnay.