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Monthly Archives: March 2018
Reiew Reblog – Anne Guthrie ~ Brass Orchids
Brass Orchids is a dense and unusual album, whose outer darkness disguises an inner light. On the surface, it’s a set filled with field recordings, drones and danger. Below the surface is Anne Guthrie‘s ancestry, apparent in piano pieces from the artist’s deceased grandfather. “Spider” includes a segment of tap dancing that would brighten the heart of even a hauntologist. The project challenges our ideas of the past: is it something to be exhumed, feared, celebrated or a mixture of all three? While Guthrie declines to settle on a single answer, she underlines a common theme: that whatever lies in the past is worth excavating.
“Bellona” recalls the work of debris artist Tarab, whose soundscaping often takes place in abandoned buildings and includes scraping, drips and a tone of brokenness. But there’s that piano, throwing everything off. Usually when one hears such a thing, one thinks of “The Shining” or…
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Reblog – DECAYCAST #037: DECAYCAST Premiere: FIRE -TOOLZ Video for “PASSAGEWAYS TO MEETING AREAS” Plus Interview — D E C A Y C A S T
DECAYCAST Premieres: Fire – Toolz Premieres Video for “PASSAGEWAYS TO MEETING AREAS” Plus Interview with Angel Marcloid Angel Marcloid makes music and art under the Fire – Toolz moniker as well as other active projects such as MindSpring Memories , Angelwings Marmalade , and the now defunct Power Windoze, runs two imprints, Rainbow Bridge, a long standing physical editions label […]
Review Reblog – Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Electronic Series Vol 1 : Abstractions
Artist: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Title: Electronic Series Vol 1 : Abstractions
Keyword: experimental
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith comes back with a wonderful eclectic world in which the oddest cartoonish creatures made out fantasy sounds are meeting up with incredible dense synthetic music. This scenery opens up gradually, yet almost instant. As if you had crawled out of the rabbit’s hole instead of in as this fantasy place must surely enough be above ground, playing respects to the sun and all that lives within its realms of light.
When I went for a musical stroll within these so called abstractions, I could actually see this pleasant place and it odd but friendly looking characters as clear as possible. They will explore the fantasy trees, ski on watery pools, jump around like children on jumpy toys, speed away on self engineered speedy vehicles, fly around the elves trees like magical fairies that must…
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Listening to…..
Anna Wærum fragment -al
by Anna Wærum
Electronic collage, experimental, fieldrecording, leftfield or beautiful wistful otherworldly listening.
“In her sound-collages Anna Wærum blurs the boundaries between language, sound and music. From this particular point, a secretive, personal and dreamy sound-scape emerges. According to Anna the collages are made ”out of a wish to examine the moods, stories and poetic qualities which are buried in our aural world, using the everyday sounds I meet in my life. An exploration of the exact moment when a field-recording looses its concrete meaning and becomes something else, something we hear as music”.
The sound-collages are composed of Anna’s private sound archive consisting of phonerecordings made within the last 3-4 years. This archive is continuous and recorded without the purpose of composition, but as diary-recordings of sounds-bits she wants to remember or sample, of thoughts or conversations she wants to revisit.
Review Reblog – Stephanie Merchak – Eine Frage
Artist: Stephanie Merchak
Title: Eine Frage
Keywords: dark minimal dark techno electronic dubtechno experimental electronic Montreal
Label: D.M.T. Records
With a mysterious veil of electronics Stephanie Merchak aims straight at the knee caps, making them spas out involuntary rhythmic ways. It’s like a doctor hitting these special muscles with a cute little hammer to see and measure the response rate of the muscle. Maybe if you are paralyzed this trick might not work, but in all other cases the new music of Stephanie makes one dance with it without consent. The rhythms are simply irresistible and the ghostly ambient artifacts that surround them are like the spirits that make sure to pull you in a deep dancing trance.
They are deep and to the point, aiming directly to the most effective areas with baselines that will pull even the biggest resister into this dazed fancy state of body & mind…
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Review Reblog – Me, Claudius: Back To The Sweat-Out Tower
“Static and debris. Skronk and wail. This is music?”
Yes.
hashtag International Women’s Day pt2
To try to get as many artists some visibility I have been posting compilations. Again, this is not an exhaustive list and are just suggestions of starting points . I may add to it in future.
In no real order or preference and yes, some are diverse….
Latin American sound explorations.
Experimental noise, noisecore, speedcore, harsh noise, noise wall, power electronics Vancouver
A monstrous compilation but only a fraction of french contemporary sound creativity.
Inspired by the new scene of independent female artists and electronic music producers from South America.
An experimental music compilation featuring ten female composers from far east Asia (Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, China).
This multi-genre compilation was inspired by Ionesco’s play ‘Rhinoceros’ with various artists voicing their protest via sound.
Experimental, ambient, electroacoustic, industrial, noise, ritual.
hashtag Everyday is International Women’s Day
I’ve been neglecting here recently and today is no exception as although it is International Women’s Day, I’ve spent a lot of time recently doing what I love.. creating electronic music.
Anyway, everyday is IWD here but I did try a little experiment.
How much electronic music of all genres is being created by artists who just happen to identify as female?
So the following playlists are made up of tracks that i’ve listened to but not all, in the last month. I haven’t included some due to their length and for that I apologise if you are one of those artists. Of course, there are many many artists that I haven’t heard as yet.
As always, these are in no way an exhaustive list. I’m always just skimming the surface of creativity and as ever they are just starting points…it really is the tip of the iceberg of some of the music I’ve listened to this past few weeks and doesn’t cover all the artists I am following or who follow.
I just wanted to see for myself how many artists are out there creating a huge range of sounds and I’ve deliberately not put them in any order to underline how eclectic they are. Brace yourselves for IWD2018 playlists –
Artists on the list in no particular order or preference….
Una Lee, Lesley Romano, Sarah Peebles, Anne Guthrie,Yara Mekawei,Brona Martin, Ivonne Paredes, Deutsche Wertarbeit, Carlotta Jacobi, Orphan Ann, Lola de la Mata, Sonae, Shelley Parker, tay_ploops, Daina Dieva, K.M Ende, Suzanne Doucet, Fetter, nosnetrom, Matzumi, Madoka, Nina Kardec, Jane Weaver, Chloe March, Xsara Dion, Immaculate Degenerate, Klara Lewis, flor.con.venas, Lyndsie Alguire, RYO, Jingg Yu, Alyssa Moxley, Georgina Canifru, Caterina Barbieri, Morita, Jayne Dent, Silvia Kastel, Michele Abondano, Gail Priest, Jelena Glazova, Lyn Goeringer, Heidrun Schramm, Carolina Eyck, Norah Lorway, NKISI, Donna Maya, Marlene Claudine Radice, Felicia Lush, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Suzanne Ciani, Margaret Noble, Ekin Fil, Christine Ott, pinnel, LauraNetzAnaKravanja, dibuk, Ikonika, Alisu, Aylu, Zoe McPherson and Shams Asma.
Artists on the list in no particular order or preference….
Laurel Halo, Flora Holderbaum, Madeleine Cocolas, Asterisk Untitled, Lea Bertucci, Gazelle Twin, Vanessa Rossetto, Puce Mary, Orphan Fairytale, Nadia Khan,Nomadamonada,Kobto, Mirna Castro, Rumblin_Cynth_Rampo, aardor, TAHNZZ, brthlns glnds, France Jobin, piksel, Paper Dollhouse, iPodrido, Bana Haffar, La Cosa Preziosa, Isabel Porto Nogueira, Belly Full of Stars, Wilted Woman, Alma Laprida, Renata Roman, Elyssia Crampton, Dalot and Sound Awakener, Patrizia Mattioli, Aurora Halal, A’Bear, Zalys, Sky High Diamonds, Lucia Luna, Lizzie Kindred, Akane Hosaka, Cyberian Noise, Swan Meat, Alina Herandez, Katrina, Anna Xambo, Marta SmiLga, salama,Tiffany Lunn, Plum, Viv Corringham, Natasha Barrett, Helena Krobarth
Artists on the list in no particular order or preference….
Yonneda Lemma, Jo Thomas, SHE / MACHINE, Enchanted Lands, Hiro Kone, sadfem, Panic Girl, Jaslyn Robertson, Julia Kent, A.R.Auditory Rhythms, Kathy Hinde, Giganta, Sarah Thompson, Kalalunatic, Shiva Feshareki, Karen Power, Michaela Melian, April Larson, Blevin Blectum, Anna Peaker, Christin Light, Poly Garbo, SHITNEY, Lucrecia Dalt, Sandunes, Sad Miranda, Maggi Payne, Irradiation, Natalie TBA Beridze, Aisha Devi, Nadia Lena Blue, Kate Carr, Ingenstansland, Mila Chiral, Slow Spin, Alexandra Spence, Jen Kirby, Corset Lore, Chaines, The Violet Black, Just Her, Marta SmiLga, Christina Vantzou, Marjorie Van Halteren and Ana Maria Avram.
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