RIZOSFERA AMERICA IS PROUD TO PRESENT THE REISSUE OF CLOCK DVA’S EXT VOL. 1
AVAILABLE AGAIN ON 33RPM VINYL & CD

The First Exclusive Release From Rizosfera America

The second edition will be released in the USA/AMERICA in September 2025, coinciding with Clock DVA’s North American tour. Marking the first collaboration between Rizosfera + Coalescesion.

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1. Thinking Mirrors
2. Pharmaceutics
3. Falling Star
4. Second Window
5. The Black Corridor
6. Time Whirlpools
7. Meridians *

Total Time: 51:57

* CD Bonus Track

Signed by Adi Newton, includes a 4-page, 12″ twill paper booklet + CD. Limited to 50 hand-numbered copies. This edition is standalone and not bundled with any other product (vinyl or A5 digipak CD).

A1. Thinking Mirrors
A2. Pharmaceutics
A3. Falling Star
B1. Second Window
B2. The Black Corridor
B3. Time Whirlpools

Total Time: 39:00

This volume presents the first of a series of collected compositions based on sonic material recorded at Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm between the 18th and 24th of April, 2016.

Improvisational in nature and open to creative experimentation, they form the base of new original tracks for this and subsequent editions of the CLOCK DVA EXT volumes. Music improvisation, also known as musical extemporisation, is the creative activity of immediate (“unmediated, in the moment”) musical composition which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians. Furthermore, it is related to psychic automatism and precognitive action. These actions are the direct result of an intuitive creative process which is further amplified and expanded by artists who access this resource of creativity between one another. It is through this process that the emotional and unconscious can be made audible and expressed. Although improvisational and containing chance elements, these recordings also contain the spirit—which is what separates them from purely aleatory music. Within them, one can hear some of the tentative sound experiments that would be further developed into the album NOESIS.

This volume presents the first of a series of collected compositions based on sonic material recorded at Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm between the 18th and 24th of April, 2016.

Improvisational in nature and open to creative experimentation, they form the base of new original tracks for this and subsequent editions of the CLOCK DVA EXT volumes. Music improvisation, also known as musical extemporisation, is the creative activity of immediate (“unmediated, in the moment”) musical composition which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians. Furthermore, it is related to psychic automatism and precognitive action. These actions are the direct result of an intuitive creative process which is further amplified and expanded by artists who access this resource of creativity between one another. It is through this process that the emotional and unconscious can be made audible and expressed. Although improvisational and containing chance elements, these recordings also contain the spirit—which is what separates them from purely aleatory music. Within them, one can hear some of the tentative sound experiments that would be further developed into the album NOESIS.

Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm was formed in 1964 as part of Sveriges Radio. After five years, Sveriges Radio renounced its leadership of EMS and in 1969 EMS became a state-funded foundation. In 1970, the large computer studio at EMS became operational. At this time, the studio was housed at Kungsgatan 8 in Sveriges Radio’s old premises. The technology in the studio, with its hybrid design of digital computer control and analog synthesis, was world-leading. This attracted a wide number of composers from several countries, which in turn led to the studio’s early establishment as an important international player. In addition to the large computer studio, there was also a smaller studio for analog sound processing called the Klangverkstaden. During our seven days, we utilised the facilities at Studio 3 where the Buchla 200 system is housed and Studio 6 containing the Serge modular synthesizer, which can be interfaced with from the studio computer through a Kenton Pro 2000 mkII MIDI-CV interface.

It is with this history and spirit that the resulting recordings were inspired and made at EMS.

(Adi Newton / Maurizio TeZ Martinucci, London and Amsterdam, 2024)

Personnel on these recordings: Adi Newton and TeZ Maurizio Martinucci

All compositions: Newton / Martinucci published by Mute Song

Post-production at A.I. Mission (UK) & Optofonica (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 2023

Publishing & Copyright by Rizosfera and Clock DVA

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, 2024

Front cover image: generated with ASPIRAL code developed by TeZ – http://www.tez.it/aspiral

Back cover photographs: E. Gabriel Edvy

Eternal thanks to Michael Von Hausswolff, who arranged the sessions and remains an enduring friend and artist. Special thanks to Giancarlo Ibtaba Cotticelli for his support & E. Gabriel Edvy for being there with us throughout and documenting the sessions