Can’t better the review….Thanks ACL for pointing me in the right direction again : )
Electronic music is cold and soulless. You’ve heard this truism from an acquaintance. They are wearing a Pink Floyd shirt. They refuse to believe that knobs and buttons have the same emotional capacities as strummed guitars. Point them to this debut album from San Francisco’s Xyla. This gorgeous record serves a kind of sonic affogato. […]
Xyla ~ Ways — a closer listen
I have always been reluctant to use hashtags, not sure why but after 8 years I think maybe I should join the modern age : D
I have begun to do the #throwback on twitter , an album on Tuesdays and one on Thursdays, no order or prefences, it just has to be released before this year but it is a good way to get more music that might have been missed, a little spotlight. I’m trying to post contrasting releases, so this week is a collection of noise artists and idm –
ladyz in noyz 3
by Various Artists
2013
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Cyclizine
by Lux E Tenebris – Now known as Meemo Comma
2016
I have always been reluctant to use hashtags, not sure why but after 8 years I think maybe I should join the modern age : D
I have begun to do the #throwback on twitter , an album on Tuesdays and one on Thursdays, no order or prefences, it just has to be released before this year but it is a good way to get more music that might have been missed a little spotlight. Here’s two quite contrasting releases to start –
Santiago
by Flavia Goa
2019
experimental, experimental guitar
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Where Time Meets Space
by Mila Chiral
2017
electronic, ambient, dance, techno
Agora
by Alёna Korolёva
experimental, field recording
Dream Signal
by Heejin Jang
live performance, noise electronics, field recordings
The life of Insects
by Ale Hop
experimental, ambient, improv, psych, sound art
We Q
by clang
Edith Lettner and Dafna Naphtali
electronic, ambient, ambient electronic
Maja S. K. Ratkje: Corona lockdown concert for TUSK Festival 2020
by Maja S. K. Ratkje
experimental, avant-garde, contemporary classical, experimental electronic, improvisation, voice
Trans-Millenia Music
by Pauline Anna Strom
electronic, ambient, experimental, meditative, new age, pioneer, synth
I’ve been looking through some of my drafts in a bit of a tidy up, and have found many that, for some reason, I forgot to post, like this one…Now’s as good as any…
National Women’s Hall of Fame Induction Sept. 14, 2019 –
Laurie Spiegel: (1945- ) A composer whose work appears on NASA’s “Golden Record,” (shipped out on the Voyager spacecraft) Laurie Spiegel is known worldwide for her pioneering work with early electronic and computer music systems. A cutting-edge thinker, her experience with early analog electronic music systems led Spiegel to innovate musically and instrumentally. She has focused largely on interactive software that uses algorithmic logic as a supplement to human abilities, thereby expanding access to creative expression for a far greater number of people than was previously allowed through traditional methods of musical training. The aesthetics of musical structure and cognitive processes have also been a focus of Spiegel’s work. Spiegel’s work has been re-issued, having appeared in the popular Hunger Games movies, highlighted in the 2018 BBC Proms, and featured in various museum settings where the intersection of electronic music compositions, the machines, and software used to create those compositions, and the visual arts have come together in harmony.
Four Electronic Artists Reflect on the Influence of Composer Laurie Spiegel
A little update…I’m still here but like many I’m taking stock of things. In the meantime, here’s some reading that you might be interested in –
Maryanne Amacher – Petra – The experimental composer’s Petra steps inside a cyberpunk cathedral. by Geeta Dyal
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Bristol in Stereo // Holly Herndon
Published on Apr 25, 2019
Holly Herndon talks about PROTO and not messing up the next internet in Bristol’s live and new music magazine.
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Chipzel has spent a decade making incredible music with Game Boys
“I thought it was super cool and really punk, and really futuristic and weird and nerdy,” she says of discovering the chiptune scene. “I just loved everything about the aesthetic.”
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Sam Liddicott explores the importance of this now forty year old release and Kate Bush as writer, performer and producer.
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‘She made music jump into 3D’: Wendy Carlos, the reclusive synth genius
“She went platinum by plugging Bach into 20th-century machines, and was soon working with Stanley Kubrick. But prejudice around her gender transition pushed Wendy Carlos out of sight”
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Resonance: Angélica Negrón and the Poetics of Musical Automata (November 2020) – I Care If You Listen
“The world is fortunate to have artists like Angélica Negrón who continually expand what is possible in the arts, and thus the human experience.” Read more from Sun Yung Shin on ICIYL!
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Cathy Van Eck – Between Air and Electricity is open access now, free and downloadable per chapter, you’ll find it here:
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Artist: MoralixTitle:禅Keywords:electronic ambient drone drone ambient experimental meditation vaporambient vapordrone vaporwave CopenhagenLabel: Fireflower foundation 禅 by Moralix has the power to make it seem as if the concept of all that you see and feel had been all a bit of nonsense. Somehow by showing us a picture perfect church with cling clong bells at first sight has a lot to do with this unexplainable […]
Moralix – 禅 — Yeah I Know It Sucks
electronic, ambient drone, drone ambient, experimental, meditation, vaporambient, vapordrone, vaporwave
Artist: Francesca HeartTitle: Ianassa Alga MiraggioKeywords: experimental ambient drone electronic new age vaporwave FairfaxLabel: ingrown records Francesca Heart lets us dive in the music with our beautiful bathing costumes, properly decorated with a designed pattern of colorful flowers and starfishes. Oh we feel so delighted as the music twinkles around our healthy body lines, how […]
Francesca Heart – Ianassa Alga Miraggio — Yeah I Know It Sucks
Another ‘find’ from YIKIS and a lovely Sunday afternoon listen. Reposting some YIKIS posts here as they have an interesting take on sounds, as well as a platform that actually supports artists that would never get a lot of attention otherwise. I’m all for that : )
Ianassa Alga Miraggio
by Francesca Heart
experimental, ambient, drone, electronic, new age, vaporwave
Due Matte
by Valentina Magaletti & Marlene Ribeiro
Experimental, uk underground music, concrete, tropical, tropical concrete
“Two of the most important artists of UK underground music: Valentina Magaletti (Tomaga, Vanishing Twins, etc) and Marlene Ribeiro (Gnod, Negrabranca) were invited to contribute to Hysteria, an artistic residency in Porto 2019. “Due Matte” is the fruit of it: an interaction game between styles and sounds, mesmeric in its echoes of distant landscapes and enveloping in its spatiality.
A music exercise in “tropical concrete”.
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