Video for “Circa” by Daniel Hopkins. “Circa” taken from the Maps and Diagrams album “The Town Beneath The Sea” on Nomadic Kids Republic (best viewed large). The video is going to be shown from February 2 – March 1, 2012 at the exhibition – 17 Days at the Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Frostic School [...]

CITY::GENETIC is an on-going project, a creative adventure and a meeting of inspired minds. A number of artists from different disciplines are sowing the seeds for a “genetic” experiment. They start with a single piece that represents the beginning of a story. Then they pass the seed to a second artist who makes the story [...]

The Atlantis CD is now sold out. Thanks to all that have brought the CD and supported Handstitched*

Video for “Pollen Tube” taken from the new Atlantis album “The Day The Music Died”. Video produced by The New Honey Shade. (Mark Kuykendall). Available now for pre-order, released 2 December 2011. Purchase digital or physical CD over at Bandcamp…

  “The Day The Music Died” is the new album from Atlantis, this sonic expedition ventures into new, unchartered worlds which before have only been visualised by explorers and scientists alike. As on previous releases, Atlantis uses self-experimentation to conjure a vision of imagination and nostalgic intrigue. Written, recorded and produced at Roadmap Studios, Cambs [...]

27/11/2011 marks the release of the Snowglobe EP by Maps and Diagrams, six exclusive tracks recorded for Sutemos. The Snowglobe EP marks a return to a rhythmic structure for Maps and Diagrams who has spent the past few years on an ambient-acoustic kosmiche journey creating textural soundscapes and drone work. Appearing on this release are [...]

SEQUENCE2 by Various Get more info on the compilation at FutureSEQUENCE.

Next up are two new albums by Maps and Diagrams on the Nomadic Kids Republic label, release dates vary in the UK but both albums are already released in Japan and the US. Check the reviews for both The Town Beneath the Sea and Lights Will Call On You over at Fluid Radio. Lights Will [...]

SEQUENCE1 by Futuresequence Get more info on the compilation at FutureSEQUENCE.

Taken from the forthcoming album “The Day The Music Died” by Atlantis. Released on Handstitched* 2011. – Applying antediluvian, contemporary and illusory charts and graphs, tonal topographer Tim Martin (Maps and Diagrams) embarks upon a quest as Atlantis to find the lost acoustic continent that has eluded all other ambient explorers for centuries. With his [...]

Maps and Diagrams Get Lost, reviews, info and buy: Time Released Sound Stashed Goods Future Sequence Fluid Radio Norman Records Resident Advisor. Maps and Diagrams The Voices of Time, reviews, info and buy: From Norman Records…. Not content with the awesome Get Lost CD which landed a couple of weeks ago here’s another brand new [...]

Maps and Diagrams has made an exclusive mix for Fluid Radio… Maps and Diagrams – Atoms in your head by Fluid Radio on Mixcloud

Video by Levan Kakabadze for Floating Sculptures from the album Get Lost on US label Time Released Sound. TRS-05 is available via Time Released Sound, Norman Records & Stashed Goods.

Over the course of his career, Martin has maintained dual obsessions: electro-acoustic ambient music, and handmade artwork to package it in. He’s a prolific studio artist, having put out ten albums in less than a decade, plus a smattering of cassettes, 7-inches and CD-Rs. Voices of Time is his second album this month, after Get [...]

Released today Kanshin is a double CD compilation album compiled by Fluid Audio & Hibernate that presents a collection of sound design work from some of the scene’s finest artists from across the globe. It has been put together to raise money for the current recovery in Japan following March’s earthquake for distribution via our [...]

As Maps and Diagrams Get Lost is released on Time Released Sound (see below for details) another Maps and Diagrams album is lurking, waiting for release; The Voices of Time features on Fluid Radio with a review… The reputation garnered by a slew of excellent releases on labels such as Static Caravan, Fluid Audio, Smallfish, Moamoo and [...]

Get Lost, the new album by UK- based sound artist Tim Martin aka Maps and Diagrams certainly embodies this statement to perfection. Over the course of nearly an hour, Martin explores strange and beautiful worlds, in a vein not dissimilar to On Land by Eno himself – worlds all unique in their own way, familiar and yet profoundly alien. (Fluid Radio)

Maps and Diagrams features on Tokafi…. It’s been a busy month for British experimental electronic composer/producer Tim Martin, the sole member of Maps and Diagrams. The band name is a perfect fit for his music, which floats non-linearly in celestial patterns, moving from slow-motion post-rock figures to swirling nebulae of sound to driving minimalist rhythms. [...]

The obvious digital element is dealt in such a way that it is not often identifiable as such (no visibly obvious ones and zeroes) meaning the more tactile elements like the instrumentation then sit in the mix without leaping out as obviously separate tones. Read the full review at Cyclic Defrost

Unofficial video by Levan Kakabadze for Waking up from Red Moon Rising by Maps and Diagrams on the Chemical Tapes label. Also appearing on the Chemical Tapes stellar line-up is Machinefabriek, Flotel, Indian Weapons, Mohave Triangles, Drekka and Relmic Statute with more to follow…to listen to all songs featured on Red Moon Rising or for [...]

Maps and Diagrams new album Red Moon Rising is out today (4 April) on the Chemical Tapes label and is available on cassette, featuring 9 new and exclusive songs focusing on the ever-evolving sounds of Kosmische. Strictly limited to 100 copies. Also appearing on the Chemical Tapes stellar line-up are Machinefabriek, Flotel, Indian Weapons, Mohave [...]

  Almost instantly after the release Get Lost on Time Released Sound is another long-player by Maps and Diagrams. The Voices of Time is released on Handstitched* and features 13 new songs, focusing on compositional space, sound source and dimensional musical mechanics. The Voices of Time deploys de-automised production with a transfer away from technologically driven [...]

Some new releases have landed here at Handstitched* HQ from Time Released Sound over in the US; Founded in 2011, Time Released Sound is a lovingly hand made, limited edition release music label that is as much an art project as it is a musical outlet. Focusing primarily on classically infused and folk based ambient [...]

Maps and Diagrams announces the new album “Get Lost” on the wonderful label Time Released Sound -release date to be announced shortly. Other releases scheduled on Time Released Sound include; Shaula, Fabio Orsi and Allessio Ballerini. More info can be found here Two short edits from the forthcoming album “Get Lost” maps and diagrams – Angle of Acceptance [...]

Released: January 31, 2011. Compilation featuring The Remote Viewer, Leyland Kirby, The Seven Fields Of Aphelion, Lackluster, Manual, Maps and Diagrams, Ian Hawgood, Hessien, Green Kingdom, Hakobune…. and many more. All profits go to The Humane Society and UNICEF.

Review from Igloomag, read the article here Vibrant and consistent, both show Martin’s continual relevance in the continually changing landscape of the style he was centrally involved in developing. Maps And Diagrams ‘A Pulsating History’  Tim Martin’s work as Maps And Diagrams over the last several years has focused increasingly on texture, mood and increasingly [...]

Hidden Landscapes compilation on Audio Gourmet in conjunction with Hibernate Records; features some great music, including an exclusive song by Hessien “Hypothesis” Audio Gourmet presents Hidden Landscapes… A limited edition CD of just 200 copies. More info here For the first full compilation to be released on Audio Gourmet, we have teamed together with Hibernate [...]

First things first, 2 new Maps and Diagrams-related releases on behalf on the Beko Digital Single Label in France. First: “The worst of us” is a collaborative effort between UK-based sound artist Maps and Diagrams and Chilean poet Estela Lamat. For this haunting EP, Maps and Diagrams has engineered richly textured soundscapes to accompany Lamat’s [...]

Newsflash – “Home is where the Ghost is” is now sold out. Thanks to everyone that supported.  OK, so, there aren’t many copies left of the debut album by Hessien “Home is where the Ghost is”. Norman records have sold out but there are copies winging their way over to Experimedia in the US and also White Noise [...]

For sale at Normans Records now – Hessien ”Home is where the Ghost is” here’s what they had to say about it…. ‘Home Is Where The Ghost Is’ is the debut full length record from collaborators Tim Martin and Charles Sage, known collectively as Hessien. They are creators of a super restrained form of ambient music that merges [...]

Maps and Diagrams appears on the Audio Gourmet label with “Tintinnbulate”. The work is a continuation of the conceptual drone-based sounds of “Koom” and “Foel” that was released on the Handstitched* imprint in 2009. This continuation sees the recycled use of original source material, layers and processed sound created during the making of the pre-mentioned releases. [...]

“….Working under their Hessien guise, acoustic sound artists Charles Sage and Tim Diagram produce beautifully crafted works that merge the acoustic and electronic together to form a seamless whole. Home… is noticeably sparser than Hessien’s previous works, allowing the album to grow as a whole over a longer period of time.” For the full, in-depth review [...]

Hessien – Home is where the Ghost is. Released mid-November. Placing Shells – 3:11 Part of You – 4:40 The Invisible Man – 4:39 Sasparilla – 4:00 Get Polanski – 2:56 Overarchangel – 3:48 The Death of Abba – 4:57 Thuilm – 2:36 Loch Quoich – 4:29 Deep in the Mountains – 5:16 Rontgen’s Vibrations [...]

Out today (14 October) “Broken” by Hessien, a 3-track ep, released on the Audio Gourmet label…. The muffled voices in the walls and the murmurs behind doors of Hessien continue on “Broken” — the new release on Audio Gourmet. Something of a departure from recently released material, this outing sees a subdued and distant approach to [...]

A short visual piece for “A Letter from Engels” edit from the ep “Obelisk|Stelea” out now on Handstitched* and Fluid Audio. Reviews in for Obelisk|Stelea from: Was is Das, Fluid Radio

Released today. . . . Release date: 4 October, limited to 200 copies for the world. Fluid Audio and Handstitched* have joined forces to release an EP by Hessien entitled “Obelisk|Stelea” including exclusive reworking of the original source material by Solo Andata, Jasper TX, Zelienople and Konntinent. “Obelisk” – as Hessien’s landscape evolves, the sound [...]

From the forthcoming album “Home is where the Ghost is” by Hessien, an animation-piece for the track “Part of You” by zenbullets in a super square format.

Released mid-November after the release of “Obelisk|Stelea” is the album by Hessien “Home is where the Ghost is” released in a limited edition run of 100 digipak, cd album.

After the highly praised “Fyris Swan” (Hefty) and “S/T” (12K), Solo Andata return with “Ritual”, a meticulously-crafted album emphasizing an engagement with the unknown. ‘Ritual’ is Solo Andata’s third full-length album and also the inaugural release for the Buffalo-based label, ‘Desire Path Recordings’. This limited edition 12”LP consists of four glorious sonic ‘topographies’ that are [...]

Special project in benefit of the victims of the earthquake + tsunami in Chile. Book+CD+DVD @ porchile.net MUSIC Andrea Gabriele / A Red Cat in the Dog House / J.Cardema aka R.Kaard / Peter Yu Yung Ta / Bobby Kebab / Colossius / Digi Galessio / Planet Soap / Lluvia Acida / Maps And Diagrams [...]

Review for Skujn just in from Etherreal

Now up on Soundcloud – Cubiculo by Maps and Diagrams — Released by Fluid Audio, catalogue number: FA 004. Follow the link….FluidAudio

After much demand for ‘Skurjn’ to be released in digital format, the ep is now available at Bandcamp. Below are reviews from Cyclic Defrost (AUS) and Norman Records (UK). _____ The long-distance collaboration between “acoustic noise artist” Charles Sage in Australia and Tim Diagram of the band Maps and Diagrams in the UK, Hessien makes its [...]

‘Skurjn’ by Hessien was released 29 January 2010 as a limited edition mini cd, housed in hand-stitched cork sleeves on the Handstitched* label (UK). The video was produced by Tom Hudson in 2010. Music by Hessien 2010. To hear audio samples or buy ‘Skurjn’ visit Norman Records, the most highly skilled handlers of music in [...]

This self-titled Hessien ep was originally released for free download from Hessiens’ web site in December 09 as a prelude to the ‘Skurjn’ ep on Handstitched* Recordings. After much demand for these songs to be released in flac/lossless formats they have been remastered and now appear at Bandcamp for easy, accessible downloading. There is also [...]

Hessien appear on Fluid Radio Friday 19 March with an exclusive hour-long mix, tune in at 7pm BST. Fluid Radio and now available to listen to via mixcloud Tobis Lilja – Days Pass Faster Spinform – Yppersta Utposten On! Air! Library! – 195 Hessien – Monsoon Tarantel – When We Almost Killed Ourselves Library Tapes [...]

Taking some time out from making music with Charles Sage as Hessien, Tim Martin brings his Maps and Diagrams project back to the surface with four exclusive songs for Fluid Audio. ‘Cubiculo’ features a more structured, loop-based arrangement, drawing attention to a rounded and melodic stencil with focus on subtle, crystalised, micro-rhythm, surrounded by self-assurance and tangled [...]

Released 1 march - two new and exclusive tracks by Hessien on the wonderful French label Beko. ’To the Finland Station’ and ‘The Book of Lost Tales’ are available for free download,  for more information and to download more of Beko’s digital catalogue visit Beko ….and dont forget, for fans of the Beko_33 ep there’s still some free, downloads of Hessien music [...]

New release from Maps and Diagrams on the I, Absentee label. A continuation of ‘The Giant Woods’ album that was released on Yuki Yaki late last year. ‘Tööpuudus’ is made up of 3 songs spanning 20 minutes. to purchase a copy or for more information visit the I, Absentee website here Norman Records says this about [...]