LEAH KARDOS

The Sampler Mixtape #52

Check out my playlist for Sound and Music's The Sampler Mixtape #53, as heard on Resonance FM on Friday 9 June 2023 at noon (it will be repeated on Monday 12 June 2023 at 9am).

Featuring tracks by Andrew Poppy, Mica Levi, Kai Whiston, Fire-Toolz, Zubin Kanga, Fragile Self, Mira Calix, Ben Carey, Gunnar Gunnsteinsson, Neil Gaiman + FourPlay and more.


2020 Dissolve

2020_dissolve

Here's my 2020 mix for Juno Daily. New (and new to me) music that made me feel grateful to be alive on Earth this year. Feat. William Basinski, clipping., Arca, Xyla, Daisuke Tanabe, Tangents, Rob Maruek/Exploding Star Orchestra, Kassa Overall, Cassilda and Carcosa and more.

https://www.juno.co.uk/junodaily/2021/01/05/leah-kardos-kicks-off-juno-dailys-in-the-mix-series



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Mix for Headphone Commute

It was a honour to curate this mix for Headphone Commute, featuring music from my excellent label mates at Bigo & Twigetti.

"Here are some of my favourite pieces from some of my favourite people who have released music with my label Bigo & Twigetti. I feel very proud to be part of this creative community, and honoured to be asked to sequence this listening experience for you. I hope you might discover your next favourite artist here. The sequence was chosen with the seasonal turn in mind, as it feels like the longest lockdown summer is finally drawing in. Best enjoyed, I think, on a grey day with a favourite cardigan."



Brother Tree Sound - ‘Interstice 2’ from Interstices
Julia Gjertsen - ‘Detached’ from Perceptions
Olof Cornéer - ‘Waves, Breaths and Dead Cities Part 2 (Night Gestalt Version)’ from Waves, Breaths and Dead Cities
William Ryan Fritch - ‘Disproportionate Joys’ from Scale
Jim Perkins - ‘Foundling’ from Constance
Nonsemble - ‘Practical Mechanics Mvt II (Meek Sounds remix)’ - from Go Part 3c
Night Gestalt & Lisa Rydberg - ‘The Sunken Machine’ from Sudden Rituals Vol. 1
Jeremy Keenan - ‘Untitled for Umia’ [excerpt] from Immaterial
Madeleine Cocolas - ‘My Winter Eyes’ from Winter
Heinali - ‘A Glass Island’ from Autumn
Madeleine Cocolas - ‘Riley, Blaze 1’ from Metropolitan
Liam J Hennessy - ‘Flow’ from In The Half Light
Fiona Brice - ‘Mvt. 1 - Holographic Field Rework’ from String Quartet No. 1
Cenes - ‘Approaching’ from Carried
Ed Carlsen - ‘Loom’ from The Exquisite Corpse
Jim Perkins - ‘Held (Holographic Field Re-work)’ from Pools Re-Works
Luca Longobardi - ‘Autumna’ from Autumn
Various Artists - ‘Detachment’ from Variables
Brother Tree Sound - ‘Interstice 1’ from Interstices
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My mix for Headphone Commute

I was chuffed to be invited to create a Headphone Commute mix to coincide with Rococochet's release! It features some of my tracks, alongside music by Brian Eno, Library Tapes, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Somnambulist, kučka, and some random audio recordings from my phone, all pushed through my grotty 1/4" tape return.

Currently 1st place on the Experimental and Eclectic mixcloud charts! If you're heading to work this morning, give it a go and enjoy.




Track Listing:
0:00: Malio Malio – Leah Kardos (Rococochet 2017)
2:28: Stillness – Hilary Hahn & Hauschka (Silfra 2012) (tape return)
3:54: Contact Mic – Leah Kardos (The Exquisite Corpse 2017)
7:17: Fragment II – Library Tapes (Fragment 2008)
7:40: Voicemail: Singing Telegram, 22nd August 2012
8:42: Innocenti (excerpt) – Brian Eno (The Shutov Assembly 1992)
9:05: Phone recording: Crickets in the Smoky Mountains, Tennessee, 31st August 2013
9:55: My Cumulus Veil – Leah Kardos (Rococochet 2017)
14:16: Hypnopompia – Somnambulist (Automating 2012) (tape return)
14:44: sun moon blood night – kučka (kučka EP 2012)
19:42 Cat’s Eye – Leah Kardos (Rococochet 2017)
24:14 Buffering Landscape (excerpt) – Kara-Lis Coverdale & LXV (Electronica 2015)
28:20: DFACE Alt Mix (extended) – Leah Kardos (SEQUENCE3 2012)
35:00: Highly Active Girls (instrumental remix) – Leah Kardos (Machines 2013)
39:22: Somnia Tape Loop – Leah Kardos (outtake 2017)
40:15: By This River – Brian Eno (Before and after Science 1977)
43:00: Streuung Teil Ii (excerpt) – Atom ™ (Winterreise 2012)
44:02: Phone recording: drunken recipe research, Bedford, 11th August 2012
44:25: Somnia Dub – Leah Kardos (Rococochet 2017)

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Ears Have Ears - Exclusive mix

Here's a special mix that I put together for Ears Have Ears: Unexplored Territories in Sound, a weekly experimental music show on FBi Radio Sydney. This mix features stems and reconfigured elements from some of my pieces from the past.



Check it out, if you wanna.

Listen to the radio program in full here: http://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears/2017-05-18/

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Seeing my name appear on a list along side this guy… *squee*
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I Care If You Listen - Spring 2013 Mixtape

Click on the cover image to check out the Spring 2013 mixtape, a free download compilation put together by the guys at I Care If You Listen, which I'm very chuffed to have been included on.

Lots of fabulous music that you can download and enjoy guilt free. :)

Spring-2013-Mixtape-Cover

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CUBO on Deep Bleep

Check out this mix by Brazilian producer CUBO for Deepbleep.com - the last track (at 32.11) is a collaboration with Cubo and Ana Eliza Colomar that uses some takes from Feather Hammer's 'The Waiting'. I think it's just lovely.

If you can understand Portugese, check out a short interview from the man himself over on
deepbleep.com.br



00:00 | DIGIGARDEN (with Panais Bouki) – Chronos 01 | 2008
03:12 | PABX (with Estevan Sinkovitz) – Chuva [remix] | 2009
06:25 | CUBO – K7 Demagnetizer: It’s A Fine Day In The Hidden Place [mashup] | 2011
09:30 | NEUTRA (with Fernando de França) – Under Empty Places | 1998
13:15 | THE LAPTOP BOYS (with Panais Bouki) – “Wonder”, to Claudia Wonder [demo] | 2006
14:18 | CUBO – Cry feat. Dot Allison [remix] | 2008
17:40 | CUBO – Copal: Sétimo Sonho (with Astrid Hage and Gabriel Levy) [demo] | 2009
19:35 | CUBO – K7 Demagnetizer: Intro + Rolling In The Time [mashup] | 2011
23:06 | VISAVIS (with Panais Bouki) – Despedida | 2004
25:37 | PABX (with Estevan Sinkovitz) – Rádio [remix] | 2010
29:05 | VISAVIS (with Panais Bouki) – Degradê | 2005
32:11 | CUBO – Copal: Dia (with Leah Kardos and Ana Eliza Colomar) [demo] | 2009

And while you're listening to the mix, you really should feast your eyes on this wonderful art book that accompanies the project:

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Sonic Fascination

A while back I was honoured to be asked by my record label (Bigo & Twigetti) to come up with a playlist for February. It features a selection of pop, experimental and classical composers stepping over genre boundaries and borrowing from each other. It's also a celebration of studio composition; where the sonic elements, like timbre, texture and ambience, communicate ideas just as effectively as words, notes, harmonies and rhythms do. Have a close listen, be fascinated and enjoy.



Click here to listen to it via 8 tracks

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