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Australian experimental label, founded in the early 2000s by Lawrence English. The huge catalogue includes releases by Chris Abrahams, David Toop, Norman Westberg, Chihei Hatakeyama, Janek Schaefer, John Chantler, David Shea, Ross Manning, Tim Hecker any many others.

 
releases May 19, 2023 "During the Covid lockdown period I started on line long distance collaborations with a team of friends and made Oceans Of Milk and Treacle for Room40. A family of long time associates plus some more recent and one that I have never met in ...
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RM4209 | ROOM40
releases June 9, 2023 ""Neural" places sound surfaces as its central focus and is inspired by the idea that neural networks develop a memory when they repeatedly send information. The ensemble focuses on vibrations and rhythmic variations of the overtones, which are ...
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RM4191 | ROOM40
"Atmospheres and Disturbances registers the changes in high altitude ecologies caused by increasing global temperatures. The composition is based on field work undertaken at the High-Altitude Research Station at Jungfraujoch, Switzerland where for four weeks I deployed ...
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RM4202 | ROOM40
"Stephen sent me acoustic guitar, some ebow which I love, and some experimental abstraction of guitar. Later he sent some tracks with Molly on them. We both went at the material and did a series of back and forths. Stephen arranged some of my Piano samples into a lovely ...
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RM4201 | ROOM40
"Empty, Expanding, Collapsing was recorded in the months after the release of 2021's No Lasting Form. Whilst No Lasting Form documented a return to the creative process after a long period away, Empty, Expanding, Collapsing comes from a more confident and assured place. ...
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RM4197 | ROOM40
"This is the second Room 40 release of collaborations between Australian chamber ensemble Decibel, and French music concrète composer Lionel Marchetti, after 'The Last Days of Reality' in 2018. This release consists of two pieces: Inland Lake (le lac intérieur (2019), ...
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RM4198 | ROOM40
"Coming from a background as a performer and clarinet player, the opportunity to record my own music opened up a whole new context to think about music. Sounds are freed from being confined to one place, one time, or even one perspective. I wanted the recording to have ...
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RM4194 | ROOM40
Peter Knight - trumpet, voice, synthesisers, laptop electronics, Revox B77 reel-to-reel, Fia Fiell - synthesiser (Eunoia), Jacques Emery - bass (The Softened Shore), Katherine Philp - cello (The Softened Shore), Rachael Kim - violin (The Softened Shore), Tamara Saulwick ...
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RM4153 | ROOM40
"This recording documents Manuel Mota's and my first public performance as a duo. We had played together previously for a recording session-a relaxed afternoon at Lisbon's ZDB, where I recall zoning out, guitar in my hands, watching the endless throng of people ...
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EDRM431 | ROOM40
"In the summer of 2010 I had the opportunity to visit Antarctica through an invitation extended by the Argentine Antarctic Division. It was nothing short of life-altering, as I am sure anyone would suspect. Upon departing from Buenos Aires for the iced continent the ...
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RM4190 | ROOM40
"'Oionos' was created for the exhibition The Grand Promenade, in Athens, Greece. The exhibition took place in various archaeological and historical sites in central Athens, creating a situation for contemporary site specific works to be in dialogue with their historical ...
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RM4174 | ROOM40
"In late months of 2008, I had the great fortune to spend some weeks in the Amazon. The visit, facilitated through Francisco Lopez's Mamori Artlab residency, remains one of the most deeply affecting experiences I have had. Each time I hear a Screaming Piha, which many ...
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RM4140 | ROOM40
Vladislav Delay - electronics, Eivind Aarset - guitar "Finland's Sasu Ripatti aka Vladislav Delay has been responsible for some of the most radically positioned rhythmic electronic music of the past few decades. His willingness to abandon measured and progression senses ...
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RM4161 | ROOM40
"Every blissful moment of the divine process of music-making, that goes back to a sacred process of a child at play - a burning response to the intensity of the neigh to invisible blueness of half-formed ice. The span of time for this music reminds me of my Dad's ...
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RM4168 | ROOM40
releases August 5, 2022 please pre-order "Deafened by the Noise of Time is a speculative take on how sound might decay and disappear; a reflection on the unavoidable entropy and dislocation of all things over time through 4 compositions, one with video. The titled is ...
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RM4149 | ROOM40
"Spectral is built on a foundation of sounds I collected from my immediate surroundings in recent times. It's a familiar story, casting your ears close to home. I captured these sounds as a type of aural diary to mark days and weeks as they passed. As our physical ...
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RM4167 | ROOM40
"From Yui Onodera?These pieces are what can be described as almost static ambient tracks. They are about a recognition of perceived stillness, even when there is change in the sounds' relationships with each other, and with the listener. "Too Ne" is an old Japanese word ...
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RM4172 | ROOM40
"Spectral Organ was played and recorded with no over dubs in Kemiö Island, in a 14th century church on 22/9/2019. We have these acoustically amazing spaces even in the smallest villages and towns in Finland. In every space there are these unique & solid, super complex ...
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RM4142 | ROOM40
"Ghosts And Others is a singular work in the Phill Niblock canon. It's singular not just in its material content, but also in its methodology and approach. It represents a highly focused exercise in editing, location recording and acoustic observation. There's a sense ...
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RM4181 | ROOM40
warehouse find: released in 2009 "I visited Saya and Ueno at the Majikick house in June last year to catch-up, hang out and chat about what another record from them on ROOM40 might feel like. I'd come fresh from RM40 HQ in Brisbane, working with Lawrence on Noriko's 'U' ...
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RM436 | ROOM40
"Array expresses the experience of a remote Antarctic research station through the convergence of sound, site and performance. The result is an immersive and affective experience of the spaces, protocols and conditions comprising the bracing polar environment. Array is ...
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RM4152 | ROOM40
"While I was making this record, I found myself coming back to the idea of escapism and how focused psychological exploration plays a role in that. The primary purpose of the project became a process of seeking to encourage a disengagement from the forefront of ...
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RM4166 | ROOM40
"'For Leolanda' was created during the lockdown in Melbourne 2020. Listening to and making music was healing and I'm very grateful I was able to create during that time. Most of the pieces are inspired by listening to Kulintang music of the Philippines; some of the ...
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RM4141 | ROOM40
"When I was child I had two recurring dreams. Both these dreams were tethered to the house I lived in. It was a rambling home which was high set but underneath it was largely unfinished. The underside of the house was a labyrinth of small rooms, concrete pits and a ...
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RM4150 | ROOM40
"Flare Blues reimagines two of Merzbow's long out of print EPs from 1994, Flare Gun and White Blues. Revisiting the original pieces and adding previously unreleased materials recorded during these sessions, Flare Blues tethers together a set of Merzbow's most ...
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RM4147 | ROOM40