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TODAYS’ DISCOVERY – SYRPHE WEBSITE AND LITTER
The Syrphe site is a treasure trove of wonderful electronic and experimental music and soundscapes from mainly Africa and Asia and was spotlighted by @reaktorplayer on Twitter. I thought that I would take some time this month and through May, to discover for myself and bring you some gems of female artists that are producing creative electronic music from these areas of the world, beginning with Litter aka Elyse Tabet an audio-visual artist based in Beirut, Lebanon. As Syrphe says – “In her first album, omnipresent is the image of a machine running out of power while passing through a stream of hazy, often almost melodic sonic landscapes.”
Strië ~ Struktura
Courtesy of A Closer Listen who pointed me towards this artists’ work.
The third album from the enigmatic Strië (Iden Reinhart) is a lesson in abstraction: an impressionistic set inspired by abstract art, swaths of sound built upon whispers. On this album, Reinhart travels farther down the path she set out upon in Sléptis and fine-tuned in Õhtul. Signposts are still present: a series of beats here, an intense crackle there. And yet, the artist known for her public shyness (despite orchestra tours, only a half-photo seems to exist) continues to disappear, dragging her instruments slowly into the void. The beauty of the set is its chimeric nature; the songs shimmer and shift beneath the ear. The danger is that Strië seems intent on becoming an abstraction herself: a smudged memory, an elusive impression, a series of images scattered in the sun. We fear that one day the artist will fade like fog, molecules made invisible by the heat, leaving only a faint…
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Broadcasting from JAOU Tunis, 28-31 March 2015
Broadcasting from JAOU Tunis, 28-31 March
First interview: Founder Lina Lazaar on Six Pillars, Resonance104.4FM
On air: 28th March 2015 21hrs GMT, repeats: 30th April 2015 16hrs GMT
Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver’s invitation to participate in the third annual JAOU Tunis festival:
“As sound artists we are interested in how the medium of broadcast enables transactions of understanding in open conversations. Through the act fluid of exchange, important catalysts are formed for future ideas and philosophies.”
Bradley-Weaver’s previous arts broadcasting projects include: Frieze Art Fair 2004-9, Serpentine Gallery 2005-06, Profile Intermedia Germany 2006, Tate Modern UBS Weekend 2007, since 2006 continually twice weekly on Resonance104.4FM London, Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art 2008, Vasos Communicantes Columbia 2009, Raven Row Gallery 2011, Art Dubai, UAE 2013-14.
About JAOU
The Kamel Lazaar Foundation host it’s third annual festival of Maghreb arts and culture, JAOU Tunis, May 28-31 at locations throughout…
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THE SUNDAY MIX – VOICES
The final Sunday Mix in celebration of American Poetry Month has the theme Voices.
There is a voice inside of you
that whispers all day long,
‘I feel that this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong.’
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
or wise man can decide
what’s right for you – just listen to
the voice that speaks inside.
Shel Silverstein – 1930 – 1999 – Chicago, Illinois
NOW I make a leaf of Voices–for I have found nothing mightier than
they are,
And I have found that no word spoken, but is beautiful, in its place.
O what is it in me that makes me tremble so at voices?
Surely, whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her I shall
follow,
As the water follows the moon, silently, with fluid steps, anywhere
around the globe.
All waits for the right voices;
Where is the practis’d and perfect organ? Where is the develop’d
Soul?
For I see every word utter’d thence, has deeper, sweeter, new sounds,
impossible on less terms.
I see brains and lips closed–tympans and temples unstruck,
Until that comes which has the quality to strike and to unclose,
Until that comes which has the quality to bring forth what lies
slumbering, forever ready, in all words.
Each small gleam was a voice,
A lantern voice —
In little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.
A chorus of colours came over the water;
The wondrous leaf-shadow no longer wavered,
No pines crooned on the hills,
The blue night was elsewhere a silence,
When the chorus of colours came over the water,
Little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.
Small glowing pebbles
Thrown on the dark plane of evening
Sing good ballads of God
And eternity, with soul’s rest.
Little priests, little holy fathers,
None can doubt the truth of your hymning,
When the marvellous chorus comes over the water,
Songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.
TODAYS’ DISCOVERY – PAPERDOLLHOUSE
Step Right Up: Paper Dollhouse
Courtesy of Fractured Air
Interview with Astrud Steehouder & Nina Bosnic, Paper Dollhouse.
“I feel like the experience and the record took us on a journey, like it had an intention with us rather than the other way round.”
—Nina Bosnic
Words: Mark Carry
I recall first discovering Paper Dollhouse sometime in 2012. The mesmerizing debut album ‘A Box Painted Black’– released on Bird Records, an offshoot from UK’s Finders Keepers Records in 2011 – carved a unique world of cinematic homespun folk creations that contained haunting vocals, acoustic guitar, found sounds, electronic manipulations and slide projector as seamless textures embedded the dark minimal gothic folk framework. Paper Dollhouse began as the alias for London-based artist Astrud Steehouder that would later evolve into a collaborative project with visual artist Nina Bosnic. The resultant sound is masterfully captured on the group’s utterly transcendent sophomore full-length release ‘Aeonflower’, which retains the dense…
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Maria Papadomanolaki, Dawn Scarfe and Grant Smith on Soundcamp
FEMINATRONIC DISCOVERS TODAY – SHIRLEY CASON
Susanna Eastburn on Breadth Charge
Too true…How many composers / artists never have a chance to be heard or played?
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