Review Mark Tamea: Tessellation

Another reviewer has beaten me to the line in declaring this album as Modern Classical, and I would agree wholeheartedly with that assertion. It would play in any art space and would support performance. There is the air and space, the drama and the fluidity that …

The death of Power-Knowledge and the connections to classical contexts of Rhetoric

The death of Power-Knowledge and the connections to classical contexts of Rhetoric
Following the philosophies of the Stoics and Cynics, journeying through Determinism and Rhetoric; on to Modernism and Post Modernism I draw conclusions on the formation of small internet …

The application of the Golden Section in Adobe Photoshop

The application of the Golden Section in Adobe Photoshop is quite easy to set up, and provides an invaluable template for composing image composition.

The Golden Section is a fundamental ratio of composition defined by the proportions 1.61803 to 1. It was defined in …

Search engine optimisation

My masterplan to get to Google page one has been a success.

I am now number one slot for the word LANDSCAHFT which means countryside in German. Also AMBIENT MUSIC LANDSCHAFT The key to my success has been

high keyword density on my www site at …

The Chronicals of Lake Narocz by Mieczyslaw Lisiewicz, 1945

The Chronicals of Lake Narocz by Mieczyslaw Lisiewicz, 1945, published in full with extensive (and growing) commentary and additional background material. I have spent several years, on and off, transcribing the work, picking up new snippets of information along the …

Neuro-economics and the applications to Drone

An article in the financial pages of the Sunday Telegraph pronounced on this new field of psychology: that financial market events trigger the same neural responses as in the wild; that fight and flight kick in at the onset of bad news. This part of the piece …

Indistinct Borders - redux

A busy busy month. Putting the finishing touches on a long project in support of my Indistinct Borders album - the inspiration for the music in fact - transcription of a long out of print Polish book "Chronicals of Lake Narocz" by Mieczyslaw Lisiewicz written …

A peaceful reflection for today this day of remembrance

In a reductive, stripped bare way, I am trying to arrest the process of degeneration of memory. With my tone sculptures and selective investigation and exposition of the small histories that have been passed over. Memories as ripples; echoing in concentric circles of …

Some reflections on Tarkovsky's "Mirror"

Mirror
Tarkovsky's "Mirror", a wide weave of sepia archive footage and remembered history. Without discernable plot, pinpoints of light and scene capture precisely those snapshots moments from childhood that distill the experiences of years to vigette visual poems. …

A letter to a friend

I'm glad you like my Indistinct Borders theme. The book that inspired it and my Karelia album was written before WWII - "Chronicals of Lake Narocz", a travelogue based in what is now Belarus, but was then part of greater Poland. It is long out of print. By the wonder …

Two days in a life of travel: Mon 15 and Tues 16 October 2007

These words, my thoughts commuting to London and Reading.

Monday 15 October: My London Commute day. A walk down Charring Cross Road and a dip into my regular port of call, Henry Pordes Books. Two books of film poster art "The Queer Movie Poster Book" and "Polish …

Landschaft now on Wikipaedia

I have decided to start cleaning up the Wikipaedia Ambient page and it's child pages. It's a bit inaccurate and very incomplete. As a start I've added Landschaft! It's on the English edition at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_music - scroll down and see me in …

Another Landschaft release pending...

I have found a forgotten couple of pieces in the Landschaft vaults that I recorded one late night on my trusty Korg Karma. Well they are super Combis really that I built to learn how the instrument works. Lots of cascading glissando vibes and the like. I think they …

Review Formication: Icons for a New Religion

1. Arise or Originate
Rotate, reverberate, melody. A search in the void. Searchlights across an empty sea. Nihilistic exposition across the void to an audience of zero,,,, Formication, in this opening to their audience hold out an olive branch, a white flag, place …

Review Mark Tamea: Buried Traktora

This album achieves a rare success - extremity with meaning. This stream of conciousness review flowed straight from the Landschaft pen - here it is warts and all!

1. Switched and 2. Behind Orderly digits
Are one piece - Tamea's familiar diptych foirmat - one piece …

Review Mark Tamea: Energy Does Matter

1. Caapi and 2. Lutea Pixeluna
Starts off with some nice radio noise and a gutsy swoopy bass, taking us into a held note, building suspense, then seamlessly into a big melodic tension build-up and on to a closely sequenced metalic percussion. Transitions, working down …

Living in the past ...

Readers of this blog will know Landschaft's fascination/obsession with nostaligia; our idealised interpretation of the past. Today I took a trip over to the US Holocaust Memorial (USHMM) website at http://www.ushmm.org/ I found an image of Narocz, the inspiration for …

Policy statement Landschaft CDs

My cunning viral marketing plan is this:

I provide to my VIRB friends CDs at cost of postage plus £4-00 GBP. The £4-00 is to cover duplication cost, box (some are super jewel cases that are expensive - see http://www.superjewelbox.co.uk/ ) and artwork (some is …

Wendingen - intrigued read on ...

I chanced across the Princeton Architectural Press book about this amazing publication, "Wendingen" ISBN 1-56898-276-3 on the Charring Cross Road -book Nirvana as those who know it will testify. Wendingen is graphic art heaven from the fertile peroid between the wars. …

A little more about Landschaft

The potted history of Landschaft (translation "countryside") is at my main website at http://www.landschaft.co.uk/ (see the first column sub-heading Manifesto). I call myself Landschaft via a fascination with old maps photographs and travelogues of Central and Eastern …