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I am an electronic musician who, as someone recently said to me, set up Feminatronic to act as "soft PR" for female electronic artists from all genres and styles. If I can give a little helping hand then why not?

MONDAY REBLOG – World Listening Day 2015: Mendi + Keith Obadike’s “Blues Speaker [for James Baldwin]” (2015) #WLD2015

It’s Monday reblog time and here is a recent post from Sounding Out in celebration of World Listening Day 2015. I have been following the work of Mendi and Keith Obadike for some time as their art looks in detail at Race and Sound in America. I will repost the previous piece above from SO! Amplifies – recommended. Courtesy to Sounding Out for this post.

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World Listening Month3For World Listening Day 2015, Sounding Out! is honored to debut Mendi + Keith Obadike’s  new documentary video about their recent large-scale urban installation at The New School’s University Center in New York City, “Blues Speaker [for James Baldwin]” (April 2015), dedicated to writer and public intellectual James Baldwin (1924-1987). –JS

As Mendi + Keith describe, “For Baldwin sound, music, and the blues in particular were sources of inspiration. The multichannel sound art work meditates on a politics of listening found at the intersection of Baldwinʼs language and the sound worlds invoked in his work. It uses the glass façade of The New School’s University Center as delivery system for the sound, turning the building itself into a speaker. The 12-hour piece is created using slow moving harmonies, melodicized language from Baldwinʼs writings, ambient recordings from the streets of Harlem, and an inventory of sounds contained in Baldwin’s story…

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WORLD LISTENING DAY 2015

Today is World Listening Day and the focus this year is H20. Below is a wonderful post from World Listener in Japan and here is Feminatronics’ homage to Water.

水中の禅 – Underwater Zen

Courtesy to World Listener for this post and fits in well with Feminatronic’ focus on World Listening Day.

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First of all, happy World Listening Day !

I didn’t have much time this year to submit anything to the Sonic-Terrain W.L.D. compilation. So, instead I will share this very simple yet magical underwater sound, recorded at the coral reef of the East China Sea off Ishigaki island, Japan.

The recorder was on while no one was on the boat, and everyone was pretty far from it. There is not much happening beside those sporadic sounds from the anchor and divers (which I can’t understand how got picked up since we were pretty far from the hydrophone). However, this constant 12 inch vinyl like cracking sound brings me so much joy and peace that I can’t explain. Does it remind me of those sounds I heard in the womb? Is it my personal memory of the calm feeling I experience underwater? I really don’t know. The fact is I really enjoy it. Like the spinning forgotten…

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EVENTS ROUNDUP

Here are a few of the Events that have come to my attention via Twitter lately and decided to also post here in case you missed them.

 

 

 

 

 

Fri 17 July – Cafe Oto London

This came to my attention just in time for posting as part of the Friday Events roundup.

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Looking forward to this tonight at 8pm: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/cordyceps-is-your-friend-july-2015

Sonic seeds and spores from thunderous electronic artist Petrels – presenting the London debut of the full 5-piece Petrels band line-up following the release of new album ‘Flailing Tomb’; extraordinary and otherworldly noise duo Conspirators of Pleasure – aka Simon Underwood (founder member of The Pop Group) and Poulomi Desai (ex Dead Jalebies); CIYF favourite Laid Eyes, presenting the premiere screening of new film ‘I Want In But I Don’t Know To What’; enthralling quartet performance from müllZimmer’s Jonas Gustafsson (percussion) and Lia Mazzari (cello), with Clay Gold (electric bass) and Florian Zeisig (percussion); plus Tartaruga DJing throughout and till late.

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PIONEERS OF EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONIC MUSIC – Musica Endoscopica (Limited Vinyl Edition) by TERESA RAMPAZZI – LP

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Teresa Rampazzi

Although it is very difficult to get hold of Teresa Rampazzis’ music you can hear samples of her work here.

Thanks to Laura Zattra  for highlighting the Italian Pioneers of Electronic Music on her blog.

Fractured Air 39: Call Across Rooms (A Mixtape by Julianna Barwick)

Courtesy to Fractured Air. Well worth checking out the other varied mixtapes in the collection.

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The Brooklyn-based composer Julianna Barwick has firmly established herself as truly one of the most wholly unique artists making music today. Barwick has released three LPs to date: ‘Sanguine’, her 2006 self-released debut full length; ‘The Magic Place’ (Asthmatic Kitty, 2011) and ‘Nepenthe’ (Dead Oceans, 2013). Barwick has also recorded as a duo (alongside fellow Asthmatic Kitty artist Helado Negro) under the OMBRE guise; the stunning collaboration has thus far resulted in debut LP ‘Believe You Me’ (Asthmatic Kitty, 2012). Born in Louisianna and raised in Missouri, Barwick’s love for music stemmed from her participation in school choirs during her formative years. Current LP ‘Nepenthe’ (in Greek literature ‘nepenthe’ was a magic drug to wipe out grief and sorrow) was recorded in Reykjavík and features contributions from some of Iceland’s most treasured artists (Amiina, múm guitarist Robert Reynisson and producer Alex Somers).

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Furchick and friends – Hung out to dry

Courtesy to Yeah I Know it Sucks for this review. Well worth visiting the site for quirky and relaxed reviews and very eclectic.

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Artist: Furchick and friends
title: Hung out to dry
keywords: electronic, ambient, experimental, field recordings, noise, punk, weird, London
label: Fag Ash Records

Furchick is at the moment working hard to burn her latest albums on CD’s in preperation for a massive upcoming world tour. Tomorrow she will be hitting Melbourne by storm, then New York City. Cincinnati. London. Berlin. Arnhem.. maybe even Rotterdam and Amsterdam… In the wait for Furchick to hit the stage in a place near you, it is a good idea to get hyped up and enjoy her freely available album ‘Hung out to dry’. It’s an album in which Furchick teamed up with like minded freaks to create… well.. to create this ‘Hung out to dry’ audio adventure! Let’s take a look at the tracks available (or if you want to skip that and dive straight in; check the link at the bottom!)…

The moon…

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TODAYS DISCOVERY – NEOTROPIC

RIZ MASLEN – NEOTROPIC

HOLLY HERNDON – BODY SOUND

I was thinking about the Sounding Out post and about the Fluxus movement and here is a wonderful modern piece utilising the body as an instrument.

If you visit the Infinite Greyscale site here, you can read further about the release.

There is a great review at A Closer Listen and worth a revisit (as I did today).