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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 19h

It's hard to describe how excited I am about the next 2 DAAM releases. They are both phenomenal. Get your wallets ready - you won't regret picking them up.

Look forward to two delights from Falmouth, including a wonderful album of hazy ambience from @heavycloud.bsky.social.

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 3d

It's coming.

@heavycloud.bsky.social #drone #ambient #experimental #collage #soundart

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to everyone who threw down a few ‘bucks’ on the DAAM / MEANS bandcamp yesterday.

Your support keeps us going!

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 5d

Head over to the DAAM bandcamp to win!

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 5d

cool @bandcamp.com friday release vol 4:

Intelligent rap from @bofbriz.bsky.social (with some wonderfully strange musical choices in the backdrop):

bofbriz.bandcamp.com/album/solace

Solace, by B of Briz

6 track album

bofbriz.bandcamp.com

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 5d

cool @bandcamp.com friday music vol 3:

Mind-meltingly intense sound-design from the ever-awesome @capgrasman.bsky.social:

siavashamini.bandcamp.com/album/severe...

Severed Like The Red Moon, by Siavash Amini

4 track album

siavashamini.bandcamp.com

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 5d

cool @bandcamp.com friday stuff, vol 2:

Mildly erratic solo piano meanderings on @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social:

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/celest...

Celestina, by Laura Fisher

1 track album

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 5d

cool @bandcamp.com friday stuff, vol 1:

New percussion thing on Nyege Nyege. If you know the label you already know this is beyond reproach.

nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/phanto...

Phantom Keys, by Nakibemebe Embaire Group & Naoyuki Uchida

4 track album

nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 5d

Head over to the DAAM bandcamp to win!

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 6d

Pretty happy with the first couple of Patreon posts.

Did you know I have a PhD in electronic music, and teach at one of the world’s most renowned conservatoires?

All that knowledge could be yours!

Head over to my Patreon for weekly posts and stuff.

www.patreon.com/DifficultArt...

Bring Back the Avant-Garde

www.patreon.com

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 6d

Pretty happy with the first couple of Patreon posts.

Did you know I have a PhD in electronic music, and teach at one of the world’s most renowned conservatoires?

All that knowledge could be yours!

Head over to my Patreon for weekly posts and stuff.

www.patreon.com/DifficultArt...

Bring Back the Avant-Garde

www.patreon.com

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 7d

New DAAM Patreon post exploring experimental granular synthesis. Head over to the Patreon to check it out in full!

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 7d

New DAAM Patreon post exploring experimental granular synthesis. Head over to the Patreon to check it out in full!

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 7d

New track and compositional breakdown over on the DAAM Patreon!

www.patreon.com/posts/rats-i...

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 8d

Doing some research on repetition - anyone know any good writers / films / musicians / etc. that deal with the subject?

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 9d

great - what's your email?

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 9d

New releases are about to blog, radio shows, and magazines. If that sounds like you, get in touch and we'll add you to the Difficult Art and Music promo mailing list.

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 10d

What better way to spend Sunday morning that reading about some great under-sung grassroots artists on @meansmagazine.bsky.social?

meansmag.substack.com/p/featured-a...

Featured Artists #3: Zoë Douglas-Cain / Adarsha Ajay

MEANS explores the work of two exciting visual artists

meansmag.substack.com

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 10d

What better way to spend Sunday morning that reading about some great under-sung grassroots artists on @meansmagazine.bsky.social?

meansmag.substack.com/p/featured-a...

Featured Artists #3: Zoë Douglas-Cain / Adarsha Ajay

MEANS explores the work of two exciting visual artists

meansmag.substack.com

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AnalogueTrash @analoguetrash.com · 12d

Happy new EP day to @hawaiiworms.bsky.social! The Kiosk 67 EP is out now everywhere, and you can catch HawaiiWorms' live debut in a couple of weeks with Spray and This Bliss in Manchester, Sheffield, and Todmorden.

🎶 snd.click/Kiosk67
🎟️ snd.click/@sprayontour

HawaiiWoOoOoOorms @hawaiiworms.bsky.social · 12d

IT'S RELEASE DAY! My new EP "Kiosk 67" is out - it's on streaming everywhere BUT the really cool kids are getting it from Bandcamp where you can also pick up a sexy limited edition cassette version for just £6.

hawaiiworms.bandcamp.com/album/kiosk-67

www.analoguetrash.com/release/hawa...

An open cardboard box contains several copies of a cassette tape release. The majority of the items are bright yellow cassette cases. The artwork on the cassette j-cards features an abstract design of an upward-pointing triangle composed of overlapping orange, red, purple and blue shapes. One cassette tape is lying on the bottom of the box, visible out of its case, and is bright red. The labels on the red tape, as well as the spine of the yellow cases, show the artist name as HawaiiWorms, the release title as Kiosk 67, and the tracklist: Side A: 1. Mirrors 2. Egg and Side B: 1. Prism 2. Sand. The bottom of the box is lined with shredded brown packing material.

Album artwork for the HawaiiWorms EP Kiosk 67. A colourful triangle-like shape made up of overlapping orange, red, blue and purple shapes on a dark grey background that gets lighter towards the top right corner

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 13d

MEANS 3 is barely out the gate (and we've still yet to profile many of the artists involved - watch this space!), but we're now launching the call-out for MEANS 4.

Get involved!

meansmag.substack.com/p/submissions

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 13d

No one else is on Patreon? There must be a crew of experimentally-minded folk there somewhere!

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 13d

We just launched a patreon! It's free to join with paid tiers if you like what we're up to

It would be great to connect with other people already using the platform. I know @capgrasman.bsky.social and @chelidonframe.bsky.social have patreons: who else is out there?

www.patreon.com/DifficultArt...

Bring Back the Avant-Garde

www.patreon.com

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 14d

First #synthesis #sound #music #experimental #art tutorial up on the DAAM patreon!

Be wonderful to have you join us!

www.patreon.com/DifficultArt...

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 14d

First #synthesis #sound #music #experimental #art tutorial up on the DAAM patreon!

Be wonderful to have you join us!

www.patreon.com/DifficultArt...

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