Announcing funding of £42,600 awarded by The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a programme of activities and events to celebrate the late Delia Derbyshire’s 80th anniversary year.
via Announcing: Delia Derbyshire 80th birthday electronic music heritage project — Delia Derbyshire Day
For the past couple of years I’m Gary (@noyokono) on twitter has a challenge for February – MWE
“Music Writer Exercise: Each day in February, listen to 1 full album you’ve never heard, from start to finish. Write one tweet about it. #MWE”
Ok, I’m no writer but I did this last year and I’ attempting it again and here are the first 6 –
#MWE 1 – Sundrowned – Lykanthea and Savage Sister
Dreamlike vocals that drift – Recommend headphones
#MWE2 – Moons of Pluto – Maria G
Resonant minimalist electroacoustic combining classical, jazz and electronic experimentalism.
#MWE 3 – About a Girl – Blessa
Lo fi, low key sparse experimentation from Blessa
#MWE 4 – Ten Love Songs by Susanne Sundfor
Anthemic, melodic, danceable with a classical tinge –
MWE # 5 –
Estórias para Voz, Instrumentos Acústicos e Eletrônicos” (Fermata Indústria Fonográfica, (1981) by Jocy de Oliveira
A mystical touch of Noh
MWE #6 – Aquator System by Eva Geist
Quirky, fun and filled with ideas, combining old and new
Wonderful multi media experience when you visit the site, beautifully presented
Cat Werk Imprint – CW11 – 8th February 2017
Christopher Nosnibor
The inspiration for Olivia Louvel’s latest album (fantastically presented, like its predecessor, in a DVD size digipak) casts an arc way back into history. Louvel, it transpires, was fascinated by the lives of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I – two queens who existed simultaneously on the same island, during the 16th Century – a period dominated by men. Two queens who, powerful and celebrated in their own lifetimes as well as posthumously, would never meet. And so, on Data Regina, Olivia Louvel sets herself the challenge of addressing their simultaneous yet entirely separate, disparate narratives of these two bitter rivals, and presenting distinct voices as she charts their adversarial relationship.
The twenty years during which the two queens reigned simultaneously were fraught, tempestuous ones, punctuated by battles on the Anglo-Scottish borders, disputes and reconciliations, and ultimately…
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Today’s Discovery…courtesy to YIKIS
Artist: Cat Hope
Title: Yume
Keywords: australia electronicexperimental silkscreen art cat hope diy record label free jazz noise Moscow
Label: Post-Materialization Music
Sometimes it’s good to have a dictionary at hand as even though it’s fun to rely on thinking that you know it all, sometimes words that you think you know turn out to be something you didn’t have no clue about. For example the word ‘Cat Hope’… I was like you, automatically thinking that it was the way how to describe the hope of a cat, or the hope that the presence of a cat brings. I mean look at those hospitals or elderly houses in which they have cats to stroke and cuddle with and how much love and hope it brings to the elderly and other patients… yes, Cat Hope like this is a amazing thing until you find out that Cat Hope actually means…
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I have passed Kazakh violinist and musician Aisha Orazbayeva like ships in the night but have recently discovered and am listening more to her electroacoustic music. This track is beautiful in its drone minimalism which slowly builds and evolves.
Wednesday 1 February 2017, 18:00 – 21:00 Upper Street Gallery, London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6SB. Directions. Free, please RSVP to l.h.hall@lcc.arts.ac.uk. A listening event organised in conjunction with the publication of Colloquium: Sound Art and Music published by Zero Books September 2016, edited by Thomas Gardner and Salomé Voegelin, with […]
Really fascinating how artists combine scientific theory or research and then sonically express the data, so that what I’m listening to definitely is “making an intangible, invisible phenomenon audible”.
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