As soon as Fight Your Own War was announced, a ripple ran through the loose confederacy of friends, contacts, label heads, and performers that make up the noise “scene.” For performers and fans of power electronics, a book focused almost exclusively on the genre can be seen as a nod towards recognition of influence for […]
For one deep Listening Pauline Oliveros, décédée le 25 novembre à l’age de 84 ans, fut incontestablement une très grande dame de la musique contemporaine, expérimentale, minimaliste et de ce que l’on nomme aujourd’hui les arts sonores. Son accordéon ne soufflera plus à nos oreilles ses longues mélopées, ses drones envoûtants, ses accords resserrés, cette […]
via Quand un accordéon se tait ! Disparition de Pauline Oliveros — DESARTSONNANTS – SONOS//FAIRE
Always learn about and discover new artists via nnnoises.com and here is another in the series on visual noise, the artist being Mariska de Groot.
Intrigued by optical sound, Mariska de Groot [NL] makes and performs comprehensive analog light-to-sound instruments and installations which explore this principle in new ways. Her work often has a reference to media inventions from the past, with which she aims to excite a multi-sensorial and phenomenological experiences in light, sound, movement and space.
In CineChine you experience in physical proportions the phenomenon optical sound – an invention of the 1920’s applied in celluloid and synthesizers – where light and sound are a similar. Objects that remind of a disassembled movie machine are positioned in the room. For every exhibition a new side-specific composition is made:
Nibiru is a mechanical performative installation wherein simple rhythmical body movements activates a squeaky pendulum drawing machine, that on its turn creates complex mathematical images. Noises of friction are amplified and sound patterns are created by light-sensitive speakers that scan the changing projected…
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Pioneering Canadian Women In Electronic Music
“Recent lists of pioneering women in electronic music have bolstered the fact that women were right there making significant work during the nascence of electronic music, from the late ’50s to ’70s, on a quest for sounds and sequences never heard before. Yet most of the women who helped pioneer electronic music in Canada don’t pop up in those lists….”
September 29, 2016
This article aims to rectify this.
…and you can get the tape here…
https://arandel.bandcamp.com/album/bog-bog-the-electronic-ladyland-mixtape
Couldn’t really pass this release and review…
Over in Twitterland there’s been a conversation about the perceived lack of women artists on Tape releases from all genres. This developed into a good healthy discussion and suggestions, which resulted in this article.
Check out the links and discover some great new artists and Tape distributors too.
Many thanks to Spools Out for posting the question in the first place. The resulting answers have been positive : )
(featured image – Daphne Oram performing live back in the day)
So dear listeners, as I was perusing my incoming cassette tapes pile, I noticed I hadn’t a single plastic cassette that hadn’t been made by a chap/dude/bro. It’s not the ideal situation to have to do so, but I took to twitter to see if the social media hive mind could quickly solve my tape-based inequality problems, and tweeted the below:
I was far from disappointed by the resultant wave of recommendations, so thought I’d quickly chuck a load of the recommended artists and released I received into this very blog post…
Richard Hopkins of Feral Tapes jumped right in to tell me:
https://twitter.com/feraltapes/status/776340122119839744
Here’s some music from the Maurice’s…
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via joan la barbara’s voice is the original instrument reissued by arc light editions — The Hum Blog
Posted this before I think, but you can’t have too much of a good thing. Also recommend browsing The Hum Blog, there are loads of really interesting articles covering many aspects of Electronic, Classical, Jazz and World music and is one of the places that I begin to read, learn loads and lose the time….
REVERSAL OF THE MUSE is a new blog curated by Laura Marling that explores femininity in creativity.
The first podcast presents an interview with Vanessa Parr, sound engineer at The Village Studios in LA for 10 years, close collaborator of Elton John, B.B. King, Coldplay and John Mayer amongst others, and now independent sound engineer.
I find very interesting Laura Marling’s chat with Vanessa Parr where Vanessa recalls how she broke into a male dominated field, where female engineers are few and far between (the actual interview begins at 2’27”).
https://soundcloud.com/reversalofthemuse/in-conversation-with-vanessa-parr
This new blog has been shared on FB by the great mastering engineer Mandy Parnell.
Here is another video where Vanessa Parr discusses how she broke into the recording engineering field. It is no surprise that she states “I went to a number of studios where they say: ‘We don’t hire girls! We hire girls to be client-service-girls’ “.
<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/46336808″>Women In Rock’s…
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