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EXPERIMENTAL SEASON – TWO COMPOSERS
As part of the season highlighting the huge variety of experimental electronic artists I came across this piece by Elizabeth Veldon and it connects well with a pioneer of experimental electronic muisc – Eliane Radigue.
elizabeth veldon – “Eliane Radigue is one of the finest living composers”
Bérangère Maximin – Dangerous Orbits
Courtesy to Dalston Sound for this review. Worth clicking through to Crammed Discs to hear clips from the album. Wonderfully atmospheric.
On Whiteness and Sound Studies
Monday is becoming Feminatronics’ regular day to feature reblogs that get you thinking and as always Sounding Out provides some of the most thought provoking articles out there.
This is the first post in Sounding Out!’s 4th annual July forum on listening in observation of World Listening Day on July 18th, 2015. World Listening Day is a time to think about the impacts we have on our auditory environments and, in turn, their effects on us. For Sounding Out! World Listening Day necessitates discussions of the politics of listening and listening as a political act, beginning this year with Gustavus Stadler’s timely provocation. –Editor-in-Chief JS
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Many amusing incidents attend the exhibition of the Edison phonograph and graphophone, especially in the South, where a negro can be frightened to death almost by a ‘talking machine.’ Western Electrician May 11, 1889, (255).
What does an ever-nearer, ever-louder police siren sound like in an urban neighborhood, depending on the listener’s racial identity? Rescue or invasion? Impending succor or potential violence? These dichotomies are perhaps overly neat, divorced as they are from context. Nonetheless…
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Teresa Rampazzi website
I have recently discovered Laura Zattras Website and it is a mine of information about the Electronic Experimentalists of Italy, of which Teresa Rampazzi is one.
Hi all,
just a quick note to remind you that, finally, the website dedicated to Italian electroacoustic music pioneer Teresa Rampazzi, has a new address: http://www.teresarampazzi.it/.
I apologize to everyone who has been trying lately to access the old website and couldn’t.
Rampazzi giving a talk in 1979 (Padova, Circolo Pozzetto)
The Reach of Resonance: A Meditation on the Meaning of Music
Courtesy to A Closer Listen – This review fits in well with the Experimental focus on Feminatronic and includes Miya Masaoka.Here are a couple examples of her creativity –
MIYA MASAOKA: LED KIMONO PROJECT 5 MINUTES from Miya Masaoka on Vimeo.
Steve Elkins’ thoughtful, fascinating film about experimental music and musicians has been making the festival rounds for the past few years, and is finally available to screen on demand. It’s exactly what our site is about, and is highly recommended to all of our readers.
One need not be familiar with our site, or even with experimental music, to be familiar with one of the names: last year, John Luther Adams won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy for Becoming Ocean. In a coup of sorts, this film captures the composer as he’s becoming inspired to create that very work. It’s a perfect starting point for the film, because Adams’ music, although intensely creative, is still accessible to mainstream audiences. Meanwhile, Misa Masaoka interacts with the natural world while Jon Rose and Bob Ostertag explore the porous line between music and politics. Their subject matter could not be…
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The colour of sound: orange
Courtesy to Sounds Like Noise for this interesting series.
A short sample from the colour of sound: orange
To listen to the full version go to the Radio National Soundproof program.
Orange is the next colour to feature on the ABC Radio National series on colour and sound. In this episode we follow the story of Bainbridge Bishop who believed that sound could best be heard where two colours meet, that sonic energy vibrates between the shades of one colour to the next.
His inspiration?
Rainbows.
Bishop describes the orange seen at twilight, a soft warm colour. It is this description that set the tone for this latest instalment in the Colour of Sound series.
I was happy to get the talented Australian actress Belinda McClory to read for this episode. Belinda might be familiar to you as the character Switch in The Matrix.
Only two more colours to go in the series, Indigo and Violet. I hope…
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NEWS – LUME is 2!
As Feminatronic is looking at the world of experimental electronic music here is the LUME project of Dee Byrne, who combines Saxophone and Electronics in her music. – LUME is a night of original and improvised music run by musicians Cath Roberts and Dee Byrne, taking place every Thursday at Long White Cloud, Hoxton, in London. Dee and Cath also curate the monthly ‘LUME Presents…’ series of gigs at the Vortex Jazz Club. LUME gigs feature artists from across the London and UK creative music scene, acting as a space for new work and experimental music-making.
Join us at the Hundred Years Gallery on 9th July to celebrate two years of putting on cutting edge, exciting, risk-taking, innovative, in-the-moment original and improvised music at LUME!
WEB FOCUS – FRACTAL MEAT ON A SPONGY BONE
So, Feminatronic is looking at Experimental Music and this web focus is a good place to start with contemporary experimentalism –
Early morning sound art, noise, found tapes and electronics radio show on NTS. Presented by artist Graham Dunning with guests live in session on every show. It is
An audio scrapbook compiled by sound artist and musician Graham Dunning, comprised of sonic art and experiments, improvised music, textures and rhythms, as well as selections from Dunning’s archive of found home tape recordings, and a variety of semi-regular features.
http://ntslive.co.uk/shows/fractalmeat
FRIDAYS / 8AM-10AM / BI-WEEKLY
Here are a couple of shows from Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone on Mixcloud archive that include amongst others, Dephine Dora, Sarah Angliss, Iris Garrelfs, Leslie Deere,Shelley Parker, as well as other great artists.
Live in session: Phantom Chips
Spending an afternoon looking through the Experimental artists as part of the season I am doing on Experimental Electronic Music and Fractal Meat on Spongy Bone is a good place to start.
Here is someone that is on my radar – Phantom Chips
Phantom Chips plays live this Friday 28th November – tune in via NTS, 8-10am
Phantom Chips performs with an array of home made electronic instruments, samplers and wearable noisemakers. Concocting rhythms from manipulated found and recorded sounds Phantom Chips invites the audience to wear and play her costumes and join in with the audio. The costumes create sound through movement and allow audience members to experiment with a brand-new form of musical expression. The deliberately clumsy and awkward interfaces invite playfulness and improvisation.
Australian-born Tara Pattenden works in the field of analog electronics, noise performance and soft circuitry. She has been making noise and mess for over 15 years performing with kunt, monster zoku onsomb and as schmelfhelp.
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