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Miki Yui: Small Sounds, the Cosmos
Thanks to MUSES for this very interesting article about Miki Yui, reblogged by Feminatronic as part of a season of exploration into Sound Art.
Echoes and Dust ~ Musical Therapy
The connection between artistry and depression is often termed “the creative fire”. The website Echoes and Dust has launched a brand new series on the topic, including contributions from musicians, counselors and more. We highly recommend it to our readers.
The specific connection is rather unique. Echoes and Dust covers the harder edge of music, including post-rock and metal, but devotes a large percentage of its time to instrumental music. In fact, the first installment of the series (“Let’s just say I wasn’t always a rock star”) comes from Hannah Morgan, the violist of The Rumour Cubes. Her bold entry seems like a regular memoir until we encounter the words, “I tried to kill myself.” First off, directly to Hannah, thank you for saying the words. Part of the problem with depression is the stigma that is attached to any conversation about the subject. Second, how wonderful it is to…
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FEMINATRONIC CONNECT NEWS
It occurred to me that not everyone is on Facebook and often there are interesting news items that come up on the Feminatronic Connect Facebook page that not everyone can see. So I thought that I would have the occasional posts that grouped together some of these items and hopefully bring them to a wider audience. So here goes..
Musician explores gender in electronic genre
Preserving Audio For The Future Is A Race Against Time
FEMINATRONIC MUSIC BOX #1
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…
CFP: Sound Art Curating Conference
We’d like to draw your attention to the following Call For Papers. Go here for the full information.
Histories, Theories and Practices of Sound Art
Call for Papers
Histories, Theories and Practices of Sound Art
May 15 – 16 – 17, 2014
Venues: Goldsmiths, University of London, May 15 and 16, 2014;
The Courtauld Institute of Art, May 17, 2014.
http://ocradst.org/soundartcurating/
Traditionally, the curator has been affiliated to the modern museum as the persona who manages an archive, and arranges and communicates knowledge to an audience, according to fields of expertise (art, archaeology, cultural or natural history etc.). However, in the later part of the 20th century the role of the curator changes – first on the art-scene and later in other more traditional institutions – into a more free-floating, organizational and ’constructive’ activity that allows the curator to create and design new wider relations, interpretations of knowledge modalities of…
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FEMINATRONIC CONNECT NEWS
It occurred to me that not everyone is on Facebook and often there are interesting news items that come up on the Feminatronic Connect Facebook page that not everyone can see. So I thought that I would have the occasional posts that grouped together some of these items and hopefully bring them to a wider audience. So here goes..
SELECTED RAMBLINGS OF ELIZABETH VELDON
FEMINATRONIC SHORT DIGEST #9
I thought that it might be best to put together short Digests of about 5 or 6 items that may be of interest on this blog. This will be easier for you to read and keep up with and for me to put together. So here goes…
A BLOG ABOUT WOMEN IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC
HERBEATS / WOMEN IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC
INTERNATIONAL WOMENS’ DAY – MARCH 8th 2014
Apologies for the late post but somehow the time zones got mixed and it didn’t post when I wanted it to but better late than never
ELIZABETH VELDON TRACK IN AID OF CANCER RESEARCH UK
This album is for faze exile who’s sister recently died after battling breast cancer.
According to figures released by cancer research uk cancers are responsible for one in four deaths in the uk and almost eight million people worldwide died from cancer in 2008.
All money raised from this release be donated to cancer research uk: www.cancerresearchuk.org
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