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An Album a Day pt2

For the past couple of years I’m Gary (@noyokono) on twitter has a challenge for February – MWE
“Music Writer Exercise: Each day in February, listen to 1 full album you’ve never heard, from start to finish. Write one tweet about it. #MWE”
Ok, I’m no writer but I did this last year and I’ attempting it again and here are next 6 albums –

MWE#7 –  Fire-Toolz / Even the Files won’t touch you –

A Halloween carnival ride of twisted electronic alt reality

MWE#8 – Treeborhood – Boreal Network

Soundtrack to an 80’s film I wished I’d seen…

MWE#9 – The bitter tears of Petra von Kant/ Reiner Werner Fassbinder . OST – Nalyssa Green

A meld of two sonic worlds, ancient and modern

MWE#10 – Dreamscapes by Barton McLean

Sound pictures that fill the senses from an electronic music pioneer

MWE#11 – Pink Waves – Female Focussed Sounds – Urban Arts Berlin

A showcase of intriguing contrasts

MWE#12 – Ore – darwinsbitch (Marielle V Jakobsons)

A cosmic and terrestrial soundscape of foreboding

 

 

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Today’s Discovery – Karine Dumont

Discovered via Many Many Women

Ice Data by Karine Dumont

Kalalunatic / Karine Dumont is a musician and composer, working mostly on electroacoustic and improvised music.
She has worked for many years with theatre companies producing original scores as well as creating her own personal compositions. She also plays the soprano saxophone, using it as a tone generator or noise maker.

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Friday Focus – Many Many Women

The site Many Many Women  regularly posts artists it is listening to, which I highly recommend. Just reblogging a couple here –

via Now Listening: Blectum from Blechdom — Many Many Women

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Today’s Discovery – Priscilla McLean

Electronic Music Pioneer

Conversation with Priscilla McLean

NewMusicBox 10/5/2006

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An Album a Day pt1

For the past couple of years I’m Gary (@noyokono) on twitter has a challenge for February – MWE
“Music Writer Exercise: Each day in February, listen to 1 full album you’ve never heard, from start to finish. Write one tweet about it. #MWE”
Ok, I’m no writer but I did this last year and I’ attempting it again and here are the first 6 –

#MWE 1 – Sundrowned – Lykanthea and Savage Sister
Dreamlike vocals that drift – Recommend headphones

#MWE2 – Moons of Pluto – Maria G
Resonant minimalist electroacoustic combining classical, jazz and electronic experimentalism.

#MWE 3 – About a Girl – Blessa

Lo fi, low key sparse experimentation from Blessa

#MWE 4 – Ten Love Songs by Susanne Sundfor

Anthemic, melodic, danceable with a classical tinge –

MWE # 5 –
Estórias para Voz, Instrumentos Acústicos e Eletrônicos” (Fermata Indústria Fonográfica, (1981) by Jocy de Oliveira

A mystical touch of Noh

MWE #6 – Aquator System by Eva Geist

Quirky, fun and filled with ideas, combining old and new

 

 

 

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Today’s Discovery – Yume by Cat Hope

 

Cat Hope is an Australian musician and academic, based in Perth, Western Australia. She is best known as a noise, installation and performance artist.

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Review Reblog – Cat Hope – Yume

Today’s Discovery…courtesy to YIKIS

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Artist: Cat Hope
Title: Yume
Keywords: australia electronicexperimental silkscreen art cat hope diy record label free jazz noise Moscow
Label: Post-Materialization Music

Sometimes it’s good to have a dictionary at hand as even though it’s fun to rely on thinking that you know it all, sometimes words that you think you know turn out to be something you didn’t have no clue about. For example the word ‘Cat Hope’… I was like you, automatically thinking that it was the way how to describe the hope of a cat, or the hope that the presence of a cat brings. I mean look at those hospitals or elderly houses in which they have cats to stroke and cuddle with and how much love and hope it brings to the elderly and other patients… yes, Cat Hope like this is a amazing thing until you find out that Cat Hope actually means…

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Today’s Discovery – Slow Air – Aisha Orazbayeva

I have passed Kazakh violinist and musician Aisha Orazbayeva  like ships in the night but have recently discovered and am listening more to her electroacoustic music. This track is beautiful in its drone minimalism which slowly builds and evolves.

http://www.aishaorazbayeva.com/

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A Couple of Interesting Reads…

A Performance Artist Makes Space for Silence in an Oversaturated World

Ahead of her performance there, Meredith Monk gave a lecture at the University of Michigan outlining her approach to performance as an opportunity to break out of our chaotic visual culture.

 

A Floating Noise and Drag Club Celebrates San Francisco’s Lost Underground

We were about to embark on Attention! We’ve moved., a night of noise music and drag performance on the ocean concocted by Oakland artist Constance Hockaday and San Francisco experimental art space The Lab, in conjunction with — and conceived as a subtle resistance to — the first Untitled art fair in San Francisco.

Both articles from and by Hyperallergic

 

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Review Reblog -Helen White: Solar Wind Chime

Really fascinating how artists combine scientific theory or research and then sonically express the data, so that what I’m listening to definitely is “making an intangible, invisible phenomenon audible”.