It’s been quite a long time, since I posted here, which doesn’t mean nothing happend in between, on the contrary! There is a lot of new music I published and there is a new project I’m engaged in. First about the new project, because it is very close to my heart.

The name of the new project is RED CUT, a name I did not invent, but totally can relate to. I’m very happy with this name, which was invented by my band mate in RED CUT. Yes, RED CUT is not a solo project, it’s a duo of me on electronics, synths and field recordings and Josephine Damar (aka María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán), who is an assistant professor in ethnomusicology at the University of Vienna and a violinist. She is a cat lover and loves all of my three cats. One of them I use to call the red cat. After one of our impro sessions we decided that we are a duo and will continue to make music as a duo. Of course we needed a name. María called me shortly after leaving and said she’s found the perfect name: RED CUT. We both thought it’s perfect because we are musicians and RED CAT RED CUT RED CAT RED CUT … is a perfect musical pattern, almost a beat. And here is the red cat listening to my music:

Our music making is very improvisational to this point. We just come together and then someone makes some sounds and the other responds. This approach has been working for us from the start and both of us feel save and happy in the duo environment. María knows my music very well and she was the one to propose the duo project. I only knew one piece of her, music she did for a video: même violence, même pâleur. María’s piece had such a profound impact on me that I felt the strong impulse to react musically. The piece I produced developed from a radical remix to some kind of continuation or supplement of the original: même fragilité. We decided to publish the two versions together:

Then we met to improvise together and I think it was only the second time we met, when we recorded a longform improvisation for the following instalment of the ongoing online concert series Under Szubcult online, which I am a long-time regular contributor as you know. You can find it on YouTube and decide yourself if the musical chemistry is working between us two. I definitely feel it is.

So that’s RED CUT, stay tuned for what’s to come!

There is also a lot of new music by my solo project Ausgesuchtestenohren. You can find all of my new albums when you head over to the releases section of this page. Here I’ll just highlight one of them: A Darker Place. This release is an example for what I like to refer to as radical ambient, ambient which is not escapism, but a reaction of radical love to a culture of hate, which has taken over in the USA and many other places too in the world, which was one of the reasons for me to relocate from Hungary to Vienna. But even Vienna is not free of this culture of hate, where empathy is seen as weakness and racism rules. I have been living in Vienna for a year and have continued my field recording practice here. I have experienced a multilingualism and cultural plurality that have made this place worth living in. At the same time, I have increasingly experienced a political coldness, an (everyday) racism that must be resisted. Noise music has always been a form of resistance, while drone music and deep listening are simultaneously an alternative to a society of coldness. This is what A Darker Place is about: