Following on from the review of Dzera in Yeah I Know it Sucks, I discovered this collection of ambient voice / fieldscapes from Yoko Higashi
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Yôko Higashi – Dzera
Courtesy for this review to Yeah I Know it Sucks
Artist: Yôko Higashi
title: Dzera
keywords: electronic, electroacoustic, experimental, electronic, experimental, pop, France
reviewer: Willem van O.
Copy and pasted from the artist bandcamp page for informational exchange:
Yôko Higashi – hamaYoko (born in Japan) is a performer,
vocalist, butoh dancer based in Lyon, France.
Dzera is a track of around 8 minutes, if Google translate can be trusted it was made out of improvisations, in the image of Dzerassae , a legendary fallen goddess named Nartes… Yes, I know.. I have no idea what it means too; but you know the French language sometimes can be L’horrible for non-French speaking and reading people / or lacking google translators. So let’s listen to a language everyone in the world could understand; music… Or maybe even better: Sound.
Yôko Higashi’s Dzera comes to me across as an unreal world,
a soundscape in which the air to inhale has made way for…
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Sitar, Circuit Bent, Slide Projectors + Electronics. Poulomi Desai at Supernormal Festival:2013
Ok, this is too good not to post here and gives you an idea of what to expect at Supernormal Festival –
Poulomi Desai is also involved in Usurp Zone 5 Film Festival details here
EVENTS – Supernormal Festival 2015
This is the season of the Festival and I am giving a plug to those that look interesting and include many of the artists that Feminatronic has highlighted,( also discovering new artists along the way). Last weekend was Full of Noises in Cumbria http://fonfestival.org/ which included such artists as Andie Brown, Leslie Deere, Aine O’Dwyer and Helen Frosi among the great line up overall. Will have more on this soon.
Next weekend – August 7-9th,is Supernormal Festival http://www.supernormalfestival.co.uk/ and artists include Jennifer Walshe, Karen Gwyer, Vicky Langan amongst another eclectic and looks like, joyful arts experience. Here is Poulomi Desai performing at Supernormal 2013.
Performance and film screenings at Supernormal Festival 2013: Sitar, Circuit Bent, Slide Projectors, axe, knives, kitchen implements + Electronics.
The full series of “Experiments with Noise” videos were also screened at the festival.
Supernormal Festival (Braziers Park) is a wonderful small festival of experimental arts and music. Big thanks to Sam Francis. See: http://www.supernormalfestival.co.uk/programme/2013
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
SUNDAY MIX – SLEEP
Once a month Feminatronic combines two favourite things, electronic music and poetry, to bring an oasis of calm and this month is no exception as the mix is about Sleep.
Sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings,
Little blue pigeon with velvet eyes;
Sleep to the singing of mother-bird swinging—
Swinging the nest where her little one lies.
Away out yonder I see a star,—
Silvery star with a tinkling song;
To the soft dew falling I hear it calling—
Calling and tinkling the night along.
In through the window a moonbeam comes,—
Little gold moonbeam with misty wings;
All silently creeping, it asks, “Is he sleeping—
Sleeping and dreaming while mother sings?”
Up from the sea there floats the sob
Of the waves that are breaking upon the shore,
As though they were groaning in anguish, and moaning—
Bemoaning the ship that shall come no more.
But sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings,—
Little blue pigeon with mournful eyes;
Am I not singing?—see, I am swinging—
Swinging the nest where my darling lies.
Japanese Lullaby – Eugene Field (1892)
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,
Dreaming in the joys of night;
Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep
Little sorrows sit and weep.
Sweet babe, in thy face
Soft desires I can trace,
Secret joys and secret smiles,
Little pretty infant wiles.
As thy softest limbs I feel
Smiles as of the morning steal
O’er thy cheek, and o’er thy breast
Where thy little heart doth rest.
O the cunning wiles that creep
In thy little heart asleep!
When thy little heart doth wake,
Then the dreadful night shall break.
Cradle Song – William Blake (1757 – 1827)
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
A Dream within a Dream – Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849)
TODAYS DISCOVERY – SYNTHESIS VOL 2 – DIXIE TREICHEL
TODAYS DISCOVERY – SYNTHESIS VOL. 2
Here is Todays Discovery thanks to Alan Gleeson. I will be returning to some of the artists on this collection in the near future.
Excited to have a track selected for this compilation which is released today. SYNTHESIS VOL. 2 is an International compilation of intelligent works produced by professional sound artists and musicians from South Korea, Uruguay, Ireland, Venezuela, Greece, Belgium, Brazil, Sweden, France, Poland, Mexico, Denmark, Israel, the UK, Colombia, Italy and the US. A big thanks to Vero Mota & Urban Arts Berlin for the time and effort taken to organise and release this. Listen, enjoy, buy and share. Cover image by Daniel Palacios
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MNM at the ZKM
Sometimes whilst wandering around the web I caught in it and come across blogs that catch my eye. Here is a recent discovery, Alan Gleesons’ sound art blog. I came across it quite by accident and glad I did as there are lots of eclectic posts which I will be reposting here, starting with this…
While the R&D for Feeedback5 moves ahead with lots of exciting developments MNM has been out on tour, this time to the ZKM in Karlsruhe. MNM is conceptualized & directed by Christian Graupner/Humatic and features Mieko Suzuki & Ming Poon. The software has been programmed by João Pais with the support of Musical Interaction Team at IRCAM Centre Pompidou / Norbert Schnell with tech & music collaboration from myself. While it has been displayed in the past as an standalone installation we have also developed a stage version, which is what we performed at the ZKM last week, with DJ Meiko Suzuki at the controls.
Thriving on Chaos – Karen Weigold
Really interesting to read these ‘ the reality of my work’ pieces and gives a great insight into the varied opportunities out there.
Courtesy to SoundGirls.org for the reblog.
TODAYS DISCOVERY – Selma Raziel – Ontologia I
This is challenging experimental music but the review gives you a very good idea of the release . Well worth a listen and Selma Raziel is my discovery today thanks to Yeah I Know it Sucks.
Artist: Selma Raziel
title: Ontologia I
format: cassette / digital
keywords: alternative, experimental, binaural, beats, ritual, spoken word, Krakow, Poland
The first track on this album is named ‘parasomnie’ and transports us instantly inside a boiler room in which an avant-garde orchestra made out of rhythmically played boiler equipment and goose like chattering sounds, forms the music backdrop of Selma Raziel’s spoken word.
tchnął ducha’ begins more soft, as if the artist is stroking her both hands together to form a rhythm, while the legs are playing with some stuff that has been lying on the floor. With this sound situation Selma sets a very close and intimate atmosphere which she only enlarges by singing and talking softly in your ears.
With ‘dokąd zdąża teraz ‘the artist let listeners experience the full bennefits of focusing her music in a stereophonic way. Both left and right ear are being assigned to…
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