Always interested to read different slants on artists and their work and this is a good example…thoughtful piece.
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REBLOG – Listen: Pieces of Juno – ‘Valentine’
Earlier in the week, when covering one of the latest tracks from Dream Wife, we apologised for missing the boat a little when it comes to Valentine’s Day-related musical material. Well, we have to apologise a second time (shame on us). Though to be fair, the latest track by Pieces of Junoisn’t exactly, directly, totally related to Valentine’s Day, it just happens to have a bit of a wordy connection to it.
But enough of our apologetic guff. We’re here to talk about the latest track from the Norwegian’s new instrumental EP Frisson, which comes out later this month on all-female collective KOSO. Kine Sandbaek Jensen has moved in all kinds of directions with her electronic project but from the sounds of ‘Valentine’ she’s continuing to experiment on this new collection. Starting out as a slow burner with a classical guitar lick, it soon gets taken over by some…
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AN ALBUM A DAY
This is not totally different for me but last month I accepted the challenge, like many others, to listen to and write short notes on an album a day during February 2016. I thought I would post up these here as part of my Todays Discovery theme.
Not in any order of preference here are the first 5 –
Beautiful Introspection…
Rhythmic electroacoustic / field recordings with a sense of place and culture.
Glitch DJing disparate sounds into a cohesive soundscape
ARS SONOR – TRANSIENT / ETERNAL
Awakening drone…Space with a barbed wire edge
One to watch in 2016 –
ARTICLE REBLOG – ellen fullman, her long string instrument, and three archival films
Sometimes I reblog articles that are not strictly electronic but the underlying story or creativity just has to be given a wider audience. There is a recent interview with Ellen Fullman in The Guardian, which I read recently which has some interesting comments about being a creative artist and the responses she got when she wore the metal skirt in public. Worth reading.
NEWS – Guest artist: Iris Garrelfs – with exclusive new material
Iris Garrelfs joined me for a chat about her practice as experimental vocalist, composer and installation artist. Tune in to hear some of her work including collaborations with Poloumi Desai, Viv Corringham, Jude Cowan Montigue and Georgina Brett. Plus an exclusive new recording of Iris performing a solo concert at a church in Telegraph Hill. Tune into NTS.live on Monday night / Tuesday morning (29 Feb / 1st March) – at 1am to 3am GMT, or 8pm to 10pm EST.
Iris Garrelfs is an artist working on the cusp of music, art and sociology. Her practice includes fixed media, installation, improvised performance and has been included in major institutions worldwide, for example Tate Britain, National Gallery, Visiones Sonores Mexico, MC Gallery New York. Several of her works have just been nominated for the British Composer of the Year Award (Sonic Art).
Elsewhere she is the commissioning editor of…
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REVIEW REBLOG – Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther ~ Unter Grund
If you click through from this review, I also recommend you read the detailed overview on the Gruenrekorder site for added info on the Rhur and the connections between humans and nature – water and sound.
Courtesy to A Closer Listen for the reblog.
Many of the water-based recordings we receive are beauty-based, calling to mind vacations by the sea, meditations by the river, the sweetness of summer rain. Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther‘s Unter Grund is different: historical, political and metaphorical, it prompts the listener into larger modes of thought.
The original presentation was a 26-channel installation, and we’re intensely jealous of those who were able to check it out. The CD version is an intricate soundscape of water movement in the Ruhr area, recorded above and below ground, in spouts and pipes, pumps and ponds. The expanded recording area paints a fuller picture of water flow than one might receive from the personal experience of water from faucets and shower heads, heaters and drains. Where does the water come from? Where does it go? Is it clean? Few people ask such questions, content to trust that what enters their homes must be…
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NEWS – Éliane Radigue International Conference, CFP
I am pleased to share with you this Call for Papers I just received from Marc Battier, professor at IReMus / Université Paris-Sorbonne.
COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL ÉLIANE RADIGUE
Le colloque international Éliane Radigue a l’ambition de réaliser un panorama de l’œuvre de la pionnière de la musique électroacoustique française Éliane Radigue et d’inciter à la recherche sur les femmes compositrices du XXe et XXIe siècle. Le colloque est organisé par le CReIM (Cercle de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les musiciennes), le GEMM (Genre, Musique et Musiciennes) qui cherche à encourager les recherches sur les femmes dans le rôle de musiciennes, compositrices ou musicologues, l’IEC (Institut Emilie du Châtelet), ainsi que par l’IReMus (Institut de recherche en musicologie) et l’École doctorale Concepts et langages (ED V).
L’intérêt particulier pour la musique d’Eliane Radigue est dû au fait qu’elle est l’unique compositrice française de sa génération qui puisse être considérée comme une des pionnières majeures de…
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SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT -Akane Hosaka
“With her lunging rhythms and deliciously retro melodies, Akane Hosaka catapults us into a world of gleeful wallabies and drummer-boy monkeys.Her discovery of music came through song, and only later led to instrumental experimentation.References to her early influences, the 60s and 70s precursors of electropop, are deliberate, there for all to see: Raymond Scott, Perrey & Kingsley or Yellow Magic Orchestra. Nevertheless her true inspiration is from the visual world and lies in graphic forms and architectural fantasy:Keiji Ito, Archigram or Bruno Munari.For her, these images evoke musicthat she then sets about transcribing.Naturally reserved, she’s a perfectionist in her work. Seeing her in the studio is like watching a blacksmith in the smithy, as she bends her music into the required shapes.
Her compositions are like pastel-coloured soap bubbles in extra-bright Super 8.”
http://www.sonore.com
NEWS – Pledge for Parity
International Women’s Day is Tuesday, March 8th, 2016. The day’s purpose is to “celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women.” This year’s theme is: Pledge for Parity. Professional dance music DJs today are internationally known entities, touring the world and benefitting from what’s become a globally recognized culture. Yet the industry surrounding it is far from being equitable for women.
To accelerate parity from within, turn(the)tables on, a non-profit using dance music to fight problems of inequity and injustice, is suggesting DJs and producers make a pledge for International Women’s Day and beyond to challenge conscious and unconscious bias and create a more inclusive, flexible culture. How? Through the creation of charts on sites like Beatport, Traxsource, Juno, Resident Advisor, and wherever else they may already be active, on March 8th dedicated to the special day, with the intention of turning the tables on gender gaps…
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TODAYS DISCOVERY -Julia White
‘in the cities of dust’ a magnetic beauty sized in rough Diamond … for you.
Trained to noisey & punk rock, she offers us 9 pretty soothed thumbnails of pure beauty.” (David Teboul / Soft Recordings).
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