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I am an electronic musician who, as someone recently said to me, set up Feminatronic to act as "soft PR" for female electronic artists from all genres and styles. If I can give a little helping hand then why not?

Todays Discovery – Zalys

Zalys  first released her ambient space music in 2013, so 2016 is the third birthday of the project ! There are many tracks and albums released so Odyssey – An Anthology is a compilation that lets the listener discover the project.

Weekly Theme – Nothing but the Stars

Playlist #65 is a journey around the Cosmos.
This playlist focusses on the Stars and Cosmos. It gives a chance to spotlight mostly but not exclusively, Ambient Space, Drift and Drone music where women have been generally under represented, although I am discovering there are more out there than I realised. This is music to immerse yourself in and take time to listen for the nuances and changes.

Artists are – Iotronica, Suzanne Doucet, Zalys, Lomita, Joanne Gabriel, Isabel Porto Nogueira, Patrizia Mattioli, and Katlyn Aurelia Smith,

Todays Discovery –

This is Electroacoustic in its’ purest form and beauty

“Commissioned and recorded by violinist Airi Yoshioka. Available for purchase on Albany Records: www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.m…_Code=TROY1305

Kyrielle is an invocation to the Virgin Mary. The title is from a medieval French poetic form based on the Kyrie (“God have mercy on us”). Since it has the French “elle” (“she”) embedded in it, the word Kyrielle can also evoke a female deity, not just the Christian Mary, but all compassionate female spirits such as the Chinese Kwan-Yin, the Japanese Kannon, and the Tibetan Tara.

I created the tape part on a Macintosh G4 computer, using C-Sound and ProTools.”

Alice Shields

Weekly Theme – Electroacoustic

This week the theme is Electroacoustic music, spurred on by a series of articles in New Music Box. Firstly, The Opportunity of Electroacoustic Musicology

Closeup image of an old patch-cord synthesizer

and secondly, Alice Shields’ thoughts on Electroacoustic music today –

-Structural and Playback Issues in Current Electroacoustic Music | NewMusicBox:

Photo published for Structural and Playback Issues in Current Electroacoustic Music

Playlist#27 highlights Electroacoustic artists. This is just the tip of the Iceberg as the range of music creation covers everything from Tape, Minimalism, Music Concrete, Sound Art and Installation to name a few but all are using electronic sound production and applying them to compositional practice.
Artists on this playlist are –
Caroline Park, Marina Vesic, Miki Yui, Delphine Dora and Bruno Duplant, SonicBright, Marlene Radice, Olivia Block and Julia Teles.

Review Reblog – International Call and Response: Ladyz in Noyz — Yeah I Know It Sucks

Hi there and welcome. We all know what a lady is; someone who drinks tea with a little pinky up in the air, but noise ladies are a little different! Are you interested? We have something really interesting for you over here; it’s a movie in which noise ladies from different parts of the world […]

via International Call and Response: Ladyz in Noyz — Yeah I Know It Sucks

Review Reblog – Kasper T. Toeplitz & Anna Zaradny ~ Stacja Nigdy w Życiu — a closer listen

How to best translate the live experience to the vinyl experience? Play it loud. Having been (pleasantly) deafened by Anna Zaradny at the Unsound Festival a few years back, I was heartened to hear two new LPs from the artist this season: the current collaboration with Kasper T. Toeplitz on Aussenraum and a solo set on Musica Genera / Bocian Records. […]

via Kasper T. Toeplitz & Anna Zaradny ~ Stacja Nigdy w Życiu — a closer listen

I can always count on A Closer Listen to expand my musical  journey in new directions and this fits with the theme this week of Electroacoustic music.

 

News – c i r c e : the black cut [v.3] ~ open call 2016 — A STEREOSCOPIC perspective of Music & Art©

c i r c e :the black cut: Open Call 2016 Deadline: September 04, 2016 [Phase #1] Website: annastereoscopic.wordpress.com/κίρκη-circe/ International Open Call: CIRCE :The Black Cut: 3rd Presentation The New International Open Call of Participation in the 3rd Presentation of CIRCE The Black Cut consists of 3 Phases and its new Theme is ‘CIRCE The […]

via c i r c e : the black cut [v.3] ~ open call 2016 — A STEREOSCOPIC perspective of Music & Art©

Reblog – The New Peruvian Electronic Renaissance — Bandcamp Daily

 

“We have not been an industrialized society. It’s been precarious, but that has spawned a very inventive and rich culture.” —Luis Alvarado Electronic music in Peru dates back to the 1960s, but you’d be forgiven for not knowing that until recently. The tropical bass boom has put the Andean nation on electronic music’s global map, and […]

via The New Peruvian Electronic Renaissance — Bandcamp Daily

News – Immagini Per Diana Baylon: new vinyl by Teresa Rampazzi — laura zattra

As with the spellbinding Musica Endoscopica, this issue of Immagini Per Diana Baylon – one of her three known soundtracks for art installations – helps to place Teresa as Italy’s answer to Daphne Oram; that is, a pioneering female experimenter operating in a male dominated field since the ’50s, and an artist/musician/technician who was magnetically drawn to the emerging possibilities […]

via Immagini Per Diana Baylon: new vinyl by Teresa Rampazzi — laura zattra

Event – Oliver Coates on programming DEEP∞MINIMALISM, Southbank Centre’s new music festival — Read The Sampler

Copy of Deep Minimalism series tile

 

24 – 26 June 2016 St John’s Smith Square 24th June – 7.30pm concert with LCO 25th, 26th June – from 3pm each day An alternative title for this three day festival in St John’s Smith Square produced by Southbank Centre might be “Slow Change Music”. Through an extended email conversation with Laurie Spiegel…

via Oliver Coates on programming DEEP∞MINIMALISM, Southbank Centre’s new music festival — Read The Sampler