There was an eerie hum emanating from a dimly lit room above a bakery on a side street in Durham. In the corner of the room, Lori Napoleon sat next to a series of old switchboards, draped in wires and covered in blinking red lights. She’s controlling the switchboards, which are creating the droning sound…
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Each of the essays in this month’s “Medieval Sound” forum focuses on sound as it, according to Steve Goodman’s essay “The Ontology of Vibrational Force,” in The Sound Studies Reader, “comes to the rescue of thought rather than the inverse, forcing it to vibrate, loosening up its organized or petrified body (70). These investigations into medieval sound […]
via Desiring Medieval Sound — Sounding Out!
Finally got to read this article concentrating on the sound installation work of Janet Cardiff,her famous piece 40 Part Motet and it’s relationship to Medieval sounds.
Pauline Oliveros, Annea Lockwood, Kristin Norderval, Rinde Eckert, Billy Martin, Jon Hassell, Anne LeBaron, Elliot Sharp, Brenda Hutchinson, Stuart Dempster, John King, Rhys Chatham, Pamela Z, Ben Neill, Alvin Curran, Ben Barson, Christian Wolff, Laurie Spiegel…and Frederic Rzewski and Terry Riley… to name a few
Really interesting read from Alyce Santoro
Great article here both as a personal piece and as an introduction to artists at the forefront of avant garde music. Good stepping off point for further discovery…
ddmmyy spoke to Jennifer Walshe ahead of their performance of /AND JUMP FROM THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE at their debut London concert, 210416. They discussed skateboarding, Fluxus, and diversity in contemporary music. Below is an extract from the full interview, which can be found here. ______________________________________ You say Fluxus felt politically pertinent in the 1960s. How do…
Artist: Jodie Lowther Title: Circles & Holes keywords: experimental glossolalia ambient dark electronic female vocals haunting hauntology library music noise psychedelic recordings samples soundtrack vocal London format: digital / Tape artist website: http://www.jodielowther.co.uk/ (do check it out for wonderful wonders) artist on FB: Jodie Lowther Artist Jodie Lowther her curriculum is impressive. Her drawings have […]
Couldn’t agree more…
One of most remarkable forces in post-war avant-garde music. There are few who I adore more.
Great overview again of a very eclectic artist.
This is everything you ever wanted to know about Christina Vantzou and then some. Recommended long read.
Sound Propositions is an ongoing, semi-regular series of conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Rather than writing copy that can just as easily have come from a press release or a catalog, this series tries to take the emphasis away from the ‘what’ and shine light on the ‘how’ and ‘why.’ You can find the previous nine interviews, as well as additional articles and features, here.
It’s a feeling not a learning/
it’s a knowing and believing
Christina Vantzou released her debut solo record No. 1 on the august Kranky label, just a few months before we launched ACL in early 2012, and we’ve followed her career carefully since. Though we knew her as one-half of the audio-visual duo The Dead Texan (alongside Adam Wiltzie), we were…
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Always interested to read different slants on artists and their work and this is a good example…thoughtful piece.
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