Miori promo still

Once again, Miori graces us with another vibrant teaser for his upcoming sophomore release. Be sure to subscribe, and keep a watchful eye for more delicious visuals to come.

Tags: Audio-Visual, Cinemtography, Electronic Music, miori, Motion Graphics, Music Video, Nueva Forma, Video Teaser

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 6:32 am and is filed under Artists, Music, Videos. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

miori teaser 2

miori teaser 2

miori teaser 2

Once again, Miori graces us with this beautiful teaser of surrealistic cinematography, 3D rendered composites, and a beautiful ambient track; an excerpt from an up-and-coming new Miori release, right here on Nueva Forma. If you enjoy what you see, let us know by sounding off in the comments below. Cheers!

Tags: 3D rendering, Adobe, After Effects, Ambient, C4D, Cinema 4D, Cinematography, compositing, Electronic Music, miori, Mograph, Motion Graphics, Nueva Forma

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 10th, 2011 at 6:46 pm and is filed under Artists, Music, Videos. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Monthly podcast: Nueva Forma Listening Pleasures

Arriving with Episode 18 of Listening Pleasures, Miori presents us with an eclectic but refreshingly uncomplicated mix of his recent synth pop and downtempo inspirations. Blending obscure talent and close colleagues with seasoned and established artists, this mix glides high above the noise and the clatter, providing you with the perfect autumnal transition into the winter months. Woody opens up during a hypnotic trance, Dandelion Council floats your speakers, and the Little Dragon Remix is sexy as hell.

Podcast: Download (51.3 MB) 43:54

Tags: aaron sjogren, downtempo, Electronica, listening pleasures, miori, mix, Music, Nueva Forma, Podcasts, pop, synth

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 at 11:26 am and is filed under Artists, Music, Podcasts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

We’re anticipating an amazing follow-up from Miori, to I Have No Memory Of This Place. Until then, please enjoy this teaser spot from Miori, [see below] (with more to follow). Also, make sure to subscribe for more updates and details on new music from Nueva Forma. Enjoy!

Miori teaser (still)

Tags: aaron sjogren, Electronic Music, miori, Motion Graphics, new releases, Nueva Forma, Subscribe, Teaser, video

This entry was posted on Friday, September 23rd, 2011 at 11:23 am and is filed under Artists, Music, Videos. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

KONTRAST event logo (click to enlarge)

KONTRAST event partners (click to enlarge)

Venue generously provided by Ziba (click to enlarge)

Ziba auditorium (click to enlarge)

Ziba auditorium (click to enlarge)

Ziba auditorium (click to enlarge)

Ziba auditorium (click to enlarge)

KONTRAST is a Nueva Forma curated, audio / visual electronic music event.

Location:
Ziba Auditorium
810 NW Marshall St. (corner of NW 9th & Marshall; side entrance)
Portland, OR 97209

Feb. 4, 2011: 7 PM – Midnight
Free; All Ages
Free snacks, beer, and wine provided

We see our mission with the concert series as three-fold. First and foremost, we would like to see creative electronic music move away from cramped clubs and into more eclectic and ornate settings where the artistry of the medium can be better explored and appreciated. We feel that Portland is an emerging experimental and creative hub in the art world and …are doing our part to expand the boundaries of electronic music, meaning not just what you hear but how you experience it.

Beyond this, we are a label of forward-thinking designers with an eye for greatness in the visual realm. We are therefore, along with our sister graphic design firm Colorcubic, looking for ways to best integrate this passion into the concert experience. We are currently lining up spaces with projection capabilities and seating that are conducive to the full a/v aesthetic experience.

Finally, but most importantly, we’ve seen a downward trend in the once ubiquitous nature of electronic music in Portland, Oregon. With Kontrast, we are hoping to make the genre once again more accessible by hosting (potentially) bi-annual events throughout the city. This first event will be hosted at Ziba design, in their auditorium, Friday, February 4th 2011

As the inaugural launch of this event, there will be no cover charge. There will also be food and drinks, but seating is limited to 175 people in the auditorium. There is additional space in the Ziba cafeteria, which holds an additional 100+ people. So please only RSVP if you’re serious about attending.

KONTRAST event partners:

• Colorcubic
• Behance
• Filter
• Umpqua
• DWR (Design Within Reach)
• Henry V
• Nueva Forma
• MacForce
• ThinkAV

KONTRAST venue:

• Ziba auditorium
  

KONTRAST event performing artists:

• etbonz (DJ set)
• cloudburst (live audio set)
• creta (live audio set)
• masmöd (live audio set)
• miori (VJ set)
• sleepyhead (live audio set)
• marcus fischer (live audio set)
• exit signs (pinscape) (live audio set)
• mark henrickson (VJ set)

[We'll be updating our list of performing artists and additional event partners throughout the week. Please check back regularly for more details.]

Tags: Audio / Visual electronic music event, auditorium, Cloudburst, Colorcubic, Creta, Design Within Reach, DWR, Electronic Music, Etbonz, Exit Signs, Filter, Henry V, Kontrast, Marcus Fischer, Mark Henrickson, Masmod, miori, Pinscape, sleepyhead, Umpqua Bank, Ziba, zibatorium

This entry was posted on Monday, January 10th, 2011 at 6:08 pm and is filed under Artists, Events, Music. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Monthly podcast: Nueva Forma Listening Pleasures

Our tenth episode, curated by Wolfe+585, promises plenty of gorgeous sounds fit for fall. Creta (formerly known as White Car) debuts a brand new track from his forthcoming album (to be released this winter), and thrown into the mix are cuts by Miori and Lapse. All three tracks are available as free downloads (see download links below).

Podcast: Download (67.6MB) 57:43

Tags: baths, billie holiday, Colorcubic, data howler, hudson mohawke, jean jaques perrey, jega, junior boys, lapse, listening pleasures, luke vibert, miori, mount kimbie, Nueva Forma, otograph, pablo ribot, parov stelar, people press play, sun electric, wax tailor

This entry was posted on Monday, October 25th, 2010 at 11:20 am and is filed under Artists, Music, Podcasts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Monthly podcast: Nueva Forma Listening Pleasures

As a temporary farewell to summer, we bring you our 9th installment of Nueva Forma Listening Pleasures curated by A Gap Between.

We’ve also made four tracks available as free downloads. Click on the download links in the tracklisting to get your tunes courtesy of A Gap Between, The Bear & The Sea, and Miori.

Podcast: Download (60.1MB) 51:38

Tags: a gap between, airliner, blackbird blackbird, boat club, boy eats drum machine, cfcf, Colorcubic, cosmic sound, datahowler, houses, listening pleasures, millionyoung, miori, Nueva Forma, Péninsolar, tanlines, the bear and the sea

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 at 7:38 am and is filed under Artists, Music, Podcasts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

While the days are getting shorter and the ice cream trucks creep through the neighborhoods playing their siren songs with dwindling frequency, we here at Nueva Forma are taking advantage of the lengthening nights of September to bring you more great music out of the darkness. New additions to our catalog this month include releases by roster members Miori and Lapse. Drink up, ladies and gentlemen…

Miori - I Have No Memory Of This Place

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Imagine Aaron Sjogren, aka Miori, as your tour guide through an ethereal, illusory land. I Have No Memory of This Place has this sense about it. Miori invites the listener into his domain with open arms for a half-hour exploration of its terrain and inhabitants: mellow grooves, eerie synth patches, acousmatic layering, a filtered and detached voice surfacing here and there. A timeless sense of music emerges from the album as tracks fade in and out, swirling in the atmosphere of its planet. You may find the title fitting as everything feels new while at the same time familiar and comfortable. Sjogren is the conduit, not the architect. Let him show you what he has found. Samples are available here and the full 11-track album is up for purchase at shopnuevaforma.com.

Lapse - The Living Lucid

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If you want to witness, in a single sitting, the budding and decay of a flower, or perhaps someone driving from Los Angeles to New York City, check out the art of time-lapse photography. If you want to listen to a composer who can successfully and coherently develop a single track through a multitude of concise musical themes, look no further than Lapse. The Living Lucid is not exactly what you’d expect from an IDM artist. Straying from pop sensibilities, the ten cuts on this release have deeper bows to improvising jazz artists of the mid-20th century than to the more immediate predecessors of techno and glitch. Strong polyrhythmic layers permeate the electronic beats while the guitar-driven melodies wander freely from one idea to the next in a stream-of-consciousness bliss. Listen to segmented motifs here and head on over to shopnuevaforma.com for your unabridged version.

Insert your earbuds and enjoy. And while you are doing so, check back for the next installment of our podcast, Listening Pleasures Vol. 9, coming to a music player near you, in a time near now. See you soon!

Tags: aaron sjogren, albums, Ambient, charles garcia, Colorcubic, downtempo, Electronica, i have no memory of this place, IDM, lapse, miori, new music, Nueva Forma, Releases, the living lucid

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 at 4:02 pm and is filed under Artists, Music, News, Releases. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

July was a busy month for us here at Nueva Forma. And while we look ahead to August, please allow us our momentary rest and reflection of our laurels. We dropped the newest installment of Listening Pleasures (Episode 8 for those keeping score), which with its mellow grooves and warm resonance you could say is an ode to a mid-summer’s night garden party with ghetto blasters. We also cut exciting new releases from two members of our label’s roster, iameb 57 and Hello Square.

iameb 57 - Tipsy Hax

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Tipsy Hax, the newest album from iameb 57, will have you at its mercy from the first beat drop to the final echoing tones. We urge you to give into the sensation and get lost in the encapsulating melodies and deeply-textured layers of this 19-track offering. Creating some of the most beautiful compositions and eclectic mixes this side of the mainstream, iameb 57 has done more than make an album; he’s reinvigorated our love for IDM. Check out free streaming previews of the tunes right here and purchase all 19 complete mp3 tracks for only $8.00 USD at shopnuevaforma.com. With rumors spreading that IDM is dead, you can take iameb 57′s word that it is indeed alive and well.

Hello Square - Office Jargon

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To round out July’s releases, we offer you Hello Square’s beautiful debut single, Office Jargon. Featuring a fabulous combination of vocal-driven melodies and danceable synthetic beats, this track is perfect for the more pop-minded listener. Included in the package are remixes by the aforementioned iameb 57 and Nueva Forma’s newest artist, A Gap Between. We think you’ll dig the treatments and transformations. The single, along with the two remixes, is up for grabs for only $0.99 USD at shopnuevaforma.com. Three cuts, one low price. Come and get it!

We hope you enjoy these releases as much as we do. And as the summer rolls along, be sure to keep your eyes peeled for more releases, sign up for our newsletter to never miss another beat, and hold your breath for some serious music coming from Pinscape and Miori in the coming weeks. Cheers, and with love -

- your Nueva Forma team

Tags: a gap between, Album, Colorcubic, Hello Square, iameb 57, IDM, miori, new releases, Nueva Forma, office jargon, Pinscape, Podcasts, single, tipsy hax

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at 7:42 am and is filed under Artists, Music, News, Releases. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.