Tennota [née теплота] is Tom Wheatley & Grundik Kasyansky. The two worked in mutual orbit for some years, in and outside of various passing projects, before forming in 2019.
Their work is potential relationships between physical and digital worlds, relating obsessive learning cycles in acoustic improvisation to heuristic interaction with recursive yet pliant machines.
Taking primary materials - gut strings, sine waves, tree sap, feedback - they flex them over contemporary technologies, into an elemental suspension.
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18/04/2025
Tornamented Walls
Tennota & Rosa Anschütz
Meakusma
“Anschütz’s symbolic prose is at the heart of the music, emotionally direct yet haunted by a translucent potential of meaning. In lockstep with the voice, Tennota dissolve the dense rhythmic complexity of their recent work into a creeping mantra, the material interrogated until the patina of the sound is the music itself.”
Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker.
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03/02/2023
Skynned
Accidental Meetings
Club-focused, fusing a spontaneous interplay orthogonally over cyclical structures, with techno as perpetual fulcrum.
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux.
>> live from the Skynned record launch at Cafe OTO
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23/01/2023
Жужжалка [Zhuzhzhalka]
Mindseye Records
Speculative guest mix for Russian ghost-radio UVB-76, or “The Buzzer”.
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15/12/2022
Guest Mix for Accidental Meetings
Noods Radio
Hour one Lucien Douglas, hour two Tennota.
Excerpt from Voiceless Essay - John Cage
The Millenium Bug Or The Bald And The Beautiful - Anne Wellmer
Music Room (Kindergarten, Pripyat) - Peter Cusack
Cho II For Gagaku Orchestra - Tōru Takemitsu
対不破 (野弦太刀無銘) - Jigen
Encored Dust (1995) - Anne Gillis
Spoon River I - Taku Sugimoto
Untitled - DJ Rescue
Breath 1 - Pierre Henry
Allégeance volatile - Régis Renouard Larivière
R8 - Sil Electronics
Der Lauf Der Dinge/Slide Of The Things - Thomas Brinkmann
Agent Orange - Thomas Brinkmann
The Millenium Bug Or The Bald And The Beautiful - Anne Wellmer
Aotama Michi - John Zorn
Fractals - Bernard Fort
Adhesive - Container
Les Larmes de l’inconnu - Beatriz Ferreyra
Bermondsey Breakdown - Eddie Prévost
A Step Into It, Imagining 1001 Years (excerpt - Entering Ancient Rooms) - Maryanne Amacher
Spoon River II - Taku Sugimoto
Radiokemia - Pan sonic
Sembrador - Tecuexe Band
Invadbl - Anne Gillis
Untitled - Tomito Satori
Invadbl - Anne Gillis
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01/11/2022
Tennota DJ
Kindred
https://kindredeverything.com/TENNOTA-01-11-22
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xx/xx/2021 [all]
ЭС
Year-long research project into the semi-synthetic environment.
Released in single format on the 1st of each month.
Selects remain.
ЭС-1: Working Body
ЭС-2: Heat Engine
ЭС-3: Ideal Cycles
ЭС-4: Vapours
ЭС-5: (It’s) Time
ЭС-6: Potentials
ЭС-7: Departure Function
ЭС-8: Steady State
ЭС-9: Contact Manifold
ЭС-10: Ultraparallels
ЭС-11: Azeotrope
ЭС-12: Phases
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28/10/2020
HEAT/WORK
Cafe OTO TakuRoku
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/heatwork/
The foundation of HEAT/WORK was recorded in late 2019 onto a mangled metal tape, live in Cafe OTO’s Project Space. It was reconstructed/reimagined by Tennota over the first half of 2020, as they focused on dub, redub & overdub as creative agents to play off against one another. The result is a techno of the swamp - the origin of each sound half-obscured in the sludge.