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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?
Event, Reblog

EVENT – DD Day 2016 at HOME Manchester – Tickets on sale and funding in place

Artist of the Week, Discovery, Event

ARMISTICE DAY 2015

Here is a sublime piece that sonically fits the day from my Artist of the Week

Sharon Gal

Discovery, Introducing

TODAYS DISCOVERY – NAOMI KASHIWAGI

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Naomi Kashiwagi is an award-winning artist who produces sound works, installations, performances and works on paper, that draw upon her cultural heritage, an intrinsic fusion of two cultures, British and Japanese. Drawing is central to Kashiwagi’s practice and she makes drawings using a range of media including diamonds, typewriters, gramophones and pianos, as well as graphite and pen.

The reason this artist is my Todays Discovery is her work with Gramophone records entitled –  Gramophonica

Articles, Reblog

ARTICLE REBLOG – Sound and Space

Some interesting thoughts here and includes sound artists Susan Philipsz and Louise K Wilson

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Different spaces resonate in different ways.
The materials of a space will alter how a space sounds which also has an effect on how a space feels.
Sonic qualities of different spaces will all differ, whether the space is open and large, small and confined or outside and windy.
The environment can affect sound which is why if the same composition was played in a bedroom as opposed to a large hall, the listening experience would be completely different.
Materials can either reflect or absorb sound; reflecting surfaces provide and echo where as absorbing surfaces can dampen a sound. 

Susan Philipsz 

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Whilst visiting the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin last February, I experienced Susan Philipsz work ‘Part File Score’- 2014. Exhibited in the converted train station part of the gallery, Philipsz used the stations pillars to install speakers, thus almost hiding them away and revealing the true architecture of the space…

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Introducing, SoundCloud Spotlight

REMEMBRANCE…

Here is this weeks’ Soundcloud playlist – Electro Strings –  a little early as it seems to fit the week to come –

Discovery, Introducing

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

This is my Todays Discovery. Nothing more needs to be said…

Event

EVENT – “Can Composition and Performance be Research?” Forum, November 25th, London

Some interesting thoughts here about the process of composing and funding. Should be a lively debate…

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“Coffee and synths. KayoDot album “Hubardo” recording, 2013-06-13″ by Daniel Means – Flickr: Coffee and synths. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/

Try to imagine a research funding application from Arnold Schoenberg. Research question: ‘can I make music in which all pitch classes are played equally often?’. In his article ‘Composition is not Research’ John Croft challenges a conception and ideal of compositional work in academia (download the PDF article).

The incongruity between the act of composition and the way we are required to portray it has not gone unremarked: the advice you’ll receive from a seasoned composer-academic is simply to make up some nonsense to get the money, and then forget the nonsense and write the piece you wanted to write in the first place. The problem with this is not just that funding goes to those most adept at writing nonsense, but that it is…

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ARTIST OF THE WEEK – KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH

Web Focus

WEB FOCUS – Many Many Women – About

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Here is a fantastic index of innovative composers, improvisers, and sonic artists which if you fulfil the criteria as an artist you can request to be added. Follow the About link –

The focus of this index is on women in experimental/avant garde music: contemporary classical/post-classic composition, free improvisation and avant jazz, electronic/ electroacoustic music, sound art, sound installations, radio art, sound poetry, etc. A few of these artists may also work within relatively mainstream forms, but they are included here because of their other work that is more challenging (example: Yoko Ono)

Source: About

Discovery, Introducing, Reblog, Reviews

REVIEW REBLOG – Various Artists ~ Pod Tune

This is a pure ambient joy and wonderful collection of tracks that I can’t fail to make my Todays Discovery, including Christina Vantzou and Mia Hsieh to name a couple of artists.
Courtesy to A Closer Listen for the review.

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4 POD TUNE Cover ArtBefore podcasts, there were pod tunes ~ long, intricate songs flowing from underwater behemoth to underwater behemoth.  These dynamic vocalizations carried stories of other pods in other oceans.  Together, the humpback whales would learn these new songs, sometimes hours long, and share them with those they met.  Even with dwindling populations, they continue this practice to the present day.

A humpback whale’s ability to memorize music is unsurpassed, and yet each rendition is different: a nuance here, an inflection there.  It’s easy to project our emotions upon the whales, hearing plaintive cries in the drawn-out lower registers and joy in the higher tones.  Yet their true depth of meaning lies beyond us.  Whalesong provides a window into something ultimately unfathomable: the life of the earth’s largest creatures, connected by ancestry and geographic expanse.

Humans have been fascinated by whales for years, although the earliest fascinations had more to do with…

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