No. 4
by christina vantzou
soundtrack, slow light, omnidirectional
I have been revisiting some articles from sites I have followed these past 8 years and came across the Christina Vantzou interview from March 2016 on Sound Propositions / A Closer Listen, well worth checking out here. I had posted it at the time but it spurred me to go check out new releases and here is this afternoon’s listen.
Here’s the review of No4 on A Closer Listen too.
These are strange times and like many I have been spending time taking stock. How to move forward when you feel like your feet are in concrete?
I decided to revisit and also finally visit other people’s sites and repost some gems here. This series Sound Propositions, in the words of A Closer Listen themselves is ” fusing narrative interviews with music, field-recording, and sound design” and there are some very creative artists doing that.
I thought I would post a couple here, well the start of the articles and interviews but they are well worth clicking through for the rest : )
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 […]
Sound Propositions 09: Kate Carr — a closer listen
On the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima, tonight’s listening is –
+70hiroshima
by elizabeth veldon
Experimental, avantgarde, electronic, minimalism
Reblog – Amy Cutler ~ Örö Tape: Fieldtrips of the Damned / Marina Rosenfeld & Ben Vida ~ Vertice — a closer listen
What is the purpose of recorded sound? As music lovers, we live and breathe it. But what is its raison d’être? Recordings transport us into distant places or timeframes. They prompt emotional and intellectual responses. The aural can complement visual and spatial arts. It can be raw material for further sonic explorations. Perhaps multi-disciplinary artists […]
Para-Ti
by Liliana Carvalho
Ambient, field recording, sound art, soundscape
Chimères (pour ondes Martenot)
by Christine Ott
Alternative, cinematic, electronic, experimental, ambient, avant-garde, contemporary, electronica, ambient minimalism, modern classical, neo-classical, noise, ondes martenot, soundtrack
Lovely review here at A Closer Listen
My short review – How fresh and new sounding is the wonder that is the ondes martenot on this beautiful release : )
Sound Artist, DJ, Sound Play
” uses field recordings and found sounds and are inspired by ideas and reflections on silence and absence, architectural urban spaces, and feminist activism. Her electroacoustic compositions are created for a variety of forms, including multichannel and mixed media installations, moving image soundtracks, live performance and dance ”
Ain Bailey
Lecturer, Researcher, live Coding, drones and beats
Music on the xylem record label
norah lorway
Anna Xambo, PhD
” Senior Lecturer at DMU. Experimental electronic music maker. Co-Founder of WoNoMute at NTNU. Co-Founder of online records label Carpal Tunnel.”
pyr247 – H2RI Generated music using her self-built tool MIRLC
Anna Xambó
Lament by Patricia Wolf
Experimental, dark ambient, drone, field recordings, noise, sound art
I came across this beautiful ethereal release via this review in A Closer Listen
Sans Nom Ni Forme by Clara de Asis
Experimental modern minimalist composition
” …visual and audio arts through installations and performances that investigate digital medias with irony”
Cecile Babiole
“…electroacoustics and minimal approaches to sound….highlights simplicity, non-intervention and active listening”
Clara de Asís
Composer/Programmer/Improviser/Live Coder
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