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Ears Have Ears: Unexplored Territories in Sound
One of the coolest radio shows is the world is Ears Have Ears, featured on Australia’s FBi Radio 94.5fm, every Thursday night from 9-11. Artists love the show so much that they contribute original music, with an emphasis on soundtracks. Ears Have Ears is a great resource, and will provide newcomers with days of new music. Mainstream radio may be stagnant, but the variety of creative contributions on display here is enough to renew one’s faith in radio as a venue for pushing things forward, rather than preserving the status quo. Even better: in the modern era, one need not possess a large transistor radio to tune in to the show. All one needs is a computer and the desire to be engaged!
At A Closer Listen, we review a lot of experimental music and receive five times as much as we review. But to find so much
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Sounding Out! Podcast #32: The World Listening Update – 2014 Edition
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Listen in as Eric Leonardson and Monica Ryan celebrate World Listening Day 2014 by reflecting on the work of R. Murray Schafer and the World Soundscape Project. Interviewees Professor Sabine Breitsameter of Hochschule Darmstadt (Germany) and Professor Barry Truax of Simon Fraser University (Canada) discuss the impact of Schafer’s ideas and offer commentary on contemporary threads within the field of Acoustic Ecology. How does does Acoustic Ecology help us to think through today’s complex environments and how can listeners like you make a difference?
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Eric Leonardson is a Chicago-based audio artist and teacher. He has devoted a majority of his professional career to unorthodox approaches to sound and its instrumentation with a broad…
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FEMINATRONIC MUSICBOX #4
I thought it might be an idea to highlight a collection of tracks available to listen, download and buy, by female electronic artists. Music Box is just like a box of chocolates – varied and sometimes not to everyone’s taste but overall, demonstrating the eclectic nature of music creation. Dive in and sonically eat more than one…
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The groundbreaking new music institution the Deep Listening Institute, has impacted thousands of musicians throughout the world with innovative approaches the new music, Deep Listening courses, arts retreats, festivals, books, recordings, and so much more. Now the Deep Listening Institute is in danger of closing its doors. Composer Pauline Oliveros, legendary proponent of Deep Listening and American 20th century composer icon, now appeals to musicians worldwide to help keep the Deep Listening Institute up and running. Share with your friends, help the Deep Listening Institute, and help preserve this American contemporary music advocate.
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FEMINATRONIC INTRODUCES – PAULINE OLIVEROS
This is a new feature for Feminatronic where each month I will be highlighting the music of women who create and produce electronic music in all its’ forms.
This month, I thought that I would start with one of the giants in electronic music creation, development and innovation –
As her website says:
PAULINE OLIVEROS is a senior figure in contemporary American music. Her career spans fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. In the ’50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists, poets gathered together in San Francisco. Recently awarded the John Cage award for 2012 from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, Oliveros is Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and Darius Milhaud Artist-in-Residence at Mills College. Oliveros has been as interested in finding new sounds as in finding new uses for old ones –her primary instrument is the accordion, an unexpected visitor perhaps to musical cutting edge, but one which she approaches in much the same way that a Zen musician might approach the Japanese shakuhachi. Pauline Oliveros’ life as a composer, performer and humanitarian is about opening her own and others’ sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Since the 1960’s she has influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual. Pauline Oliveros is the founder of “Deep Listening,” which comes from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert music with composition, improvisation and electro-acoustics. Pauline Oliveros describes Deep Listening as a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, of one’s own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening is my life practice,” she explains, simply. Oliveros is founder of Deep Listening Institute, formerly Pauline Oliveros Foundation.
Album: Sanctuary (1995).The Deep Listening Band was founded in 1988 by Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis. David Gamper replaced Panaiotis in 1990. The band is named after Oliveros’ term, concept, program and registered servicemark of the Deep Listening Institute, Ltd., Deep Listening, and specializes in performing and recording in resonant or reverberant spaces such as cathedrals and huge underground cisterns including the 2-million-US-gallon (7,600 m3) Fort Worden Cistern which has a 45 second reverberation time.
FEMINATRONIC ON SOUNDCLOUD #2
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Feminatronic is now on SoundCloud and here is playlist #2
Lucy Claire ~ Collaborations No. 1
Although not technically electronic there is a use of electronics and processing to create Collaborations No 1 and so have reblogged this review – beautiful.
We were extremely impressed with Lucy Claire‘s last EP, Suite, and the follow-up EP, Collaborations No. 1, is equally impressive. While the new EP contains two new tracks and three mixes, the variety makes the 27-minute set work well as an overall collection.
On Collaborations No. 1, the London pianist is joined not only by a string quartet, but by vocalist Alev Lenv and guitarist Bruised Skies. The latter also contributes a remix, while other remixes come from Message to Bears and worriedaboutsatan. These are not the acts one would expect to find among Claire’s friends, but their contributions demonstrate the breadth of her potential reach: beyond modern composition into the realms of ambient and electronic music.
The two main tracks – “Stille” and “Somnus” – are complementary opposites. “Stille” is the more accessible track, the only overt lyric being the title. Mournful strings are laid atop…
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SO! Amplifies: Eric Leonardson and World Listening Day 18 July 2014
SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig. You’re welcome!
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On July 18, 2014 all are invited to participate, observe, engage, and celebrate ways of listening with care for our sonic environment in the annual World Listening Day. This year’s theme is “Listen to you!” But first, listen to Eric Leonardson as he reveals the history of World Listening Day and more to kick off SO!’s third annual World Listening Month.
“Noisolation Headphones” by Flickr user Machine Project, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Five years ago Dan Godston came up with the idea for World Listening Day, inspired by the pioneering work of the World Soundscape Project from the 1970s, and its founder, author, and composer R. Murray Schafer. With a group of Chicago-based sound artists and phonographers we started the World Listening Project
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Birds of a Feather: Final Flight
We’ve greatly enjoyed Flaming Pines’ Birds of a Feather series, which has just reached its conclusion with Philippe Petit‘s The Kookaburra and Kate Carr‘s The Kakapo. Over the past few years, this series of CD3″s has brought us some of the most original work in the field. Before this series was introduced, most field recording fans were used to hearing birdsong without attribution. Birdsong had become (and continues to be) a trope in ambient music as well, but one seldom encounters species identification. Birders might know what they’re hearing, but the untrained ear just hears birds. This lack of clarity was underlined in a scandal a few years back when CBS Sports was busted for adding fake birdsong to its coverage of the Masters Tournament. In the aftermath, the network learned that there is no such thing as generic birdsong.
The final two installments of Birds of…
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