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Reconvening in the downsized 12” format, Galcher Lustwerk and Alvin Aronson’s Studio OST smartly turn out a quartet of productions geared towards the more inventive selectors.
Studio OST – Eventide / Ascension EP (LWKMUS 005)
A1 Eventide
A2 Eventide (Beatless)
A2 Eventide (Beatless)
B1 Ascension
B2 Ascension (Drums)
B2 Ascension (Drums)
2016, Format: Digital, 12” Stream Vinyl Digital Bandcamp Review
Mix for Level Radio
A mix recorded following the Brooklyn White Material label showcase & ACLU benefit. Featured in Pitchfork’s 11 Best DJ Mixes of November 2016
Effortlessly controlled even when it tips toward mayhem. – Pitchfork
2016, Format: MP3 (1:59:27) Stream
Études Studio - Mix №15
A mix for Études’ AW16, which explores the zeitgeist of the hallucination generation and revisits the introspective tribalism of 90s subculture.
2016, Format: MP3 (1:06:40) Stream
Berlin Atonal
DJ set @ Berlin Atonal, Saturday August 27, 2016
2016, Berlin Atonal
rejected mix for dekmantel – Studio OST
Featured in Pitchfork’s Top 10 Mixes of June 2016
2016, Format: MP3 (1:05:50) Stream
Studio OST is a collaboration with Galcher Lustwerk and Alvin Aronson. Their debut LP Scenes 2012-2015 pairs cinematic ambience alongside Rust Belt club tracks. “These are not so much songs as spatial fields: You enter and walk around, admiring the ingenious architecture.”
Studio OST – Scenes: 2012-2015 (LWKMUS 003)
A1 Prelude
A2 Speed City
B1 Above the Waves
B2 Bent Light
A2 Speed City
B1 Above the Waves
B2 Bent Light
C1 ITCZ
C2 Unnatural City
D1 1 Parsec
D2 Session
D3 Whitesands
C2 Unnatural City
D1 1 Parsec
D2 Session
D3 Whitesands
One of the year’s most generously proportioned techno long-players — one far more sumptuous than its modest profile would ever suggest. – Pitchfork
Featured in Pitchfork’s 20 Best Electonic Albums of 2016
2016, Format: Digital, 2x12” Stream Vinyl Digital Merch
As close to perfect as any set I’ve heard in a good while. –
Pitchfork
2016, Format: MP3 (1:07:57) Stream
Los Angeles, January 8, 2016
An EP released by Danish label Nord compiling original tracks alongside collaborations with Morgan Louis and Galcher Lustwerk. Sonifying vertigo in the high rise city.
Alvin Aronson - High Rise [NORD009]
A1 Brain Gray (ft. Galcher Lustwerk)
A2 Black Car
A2 Black Car
B1 High Rise (ft. Morgan Louis)
B2 Mat
B2 Mat
A dangerous talent. – RA
Debut EP on White Material Records
Alvin Aronson - City EP [WM007]
A1 Aevus
A2 Fog City
A3 Extension
A2 Fog City
A3 Extension
B1 Hominid
B2 Drone Techno
B3 City 2
B2 Drone Techno
B3 City 2
2015, Format: 12” Stream Buy Bandcamp
Other Projects
Alexa Karolinski and Ingo Nierman’s Army of Love is docu-fictional video exploring utopian solutions to the societal malady of loneliness in the era of romantic commodification. Score composed by Alvin Aronson. Part of Berlin Biennale 9. Watch it on Ubuweb
2016, Format: Looping Video Soundtrack (40:07) K-W Institute Berlin Ubuweb Info Exhibition
Negative Entropy — Mika Tajima, 2014
Mika Tajima’s Total Body Conditioning takes its name from a physical conditioning program developed to adapt the body to an exercise regimen emphasizing endurance, flexibility, and performance through the seriation of time and the partitioning of bodily space. The exhibition’s three scenes—display, work, and fitness— invoke technologies developed to control and affect the body, from factory assembly lines to therapeutic “after work” locations.
The soundtrack, created by Alvin Aronson in collaboration with Tajima’s band New Humans, uses the same industrial field recordings from Toyota-powered Jacquard looms, a Toyota car assembly line in Japan, and a server colocation center. The field recordings are broken into very short sound particles and rearranged into placid washes of sound, with cardiac bassdrums periodically breaking the surface. Here the process mimics Toyota’s “jidoka” production methodology, which defines the relationship between machines and workers (referred to as “automation with a human touch.”) Through extreme organization of both sonic and rhythmic time, the soundtrack expands on Tajima’s exploration of the tensions between the natural body and the machinic body.
2014, Format: Looping Audio (16:00) Eleven Rivington NYC Stream excerpt Catalog