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SUNDAY MIX – ..it’s cold outside

Over the wintry
forest, winds howl in rage
with no leaves to blow.

Over the Wintry – Natsume Soseki (1867 – 1916)

Out of the bosom of the Air,
      Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
      Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
            Silent, and soft, and slow
            Descends the snow.
Even as our cloudy fancies take
      Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
      In the white countenance confession,
            The troubled sky reveals
            The grief it feels.
This is the poem of the air,
      Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
      Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
            Now whispered and revealed
            To wood and field.

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

The snow is deep on the ground.
Always the light falls
Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.
This is a good world.
The war has failed.
God shall not forget us.
Who made the snow waits where love is.
Only a few go mad.
The sky moves in its whiteness
Like the withered hand of an old king.
God shall not forget us.
Who made the sky knows of our love.
The snow is beautiful on the ground.
And always the lights of heaven glow
Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.

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NEWS – Dreamtime Collection Releases

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I’ve put together an album, rereleasing some of the tracks I love that I feel are perfect for an album that helps put you to sleep.  I’m calling it the Dreamtime Collection.  On it you’ll find tracks like Asleep Next to You, Entering the Shell and Falling.  While it could be argued that most of my music could put you to sleep, these tracks have been put together with that purpose in mind.  The plan is to have several editions of the Dreamtime Collection, volumes, that include new material.  This is the new project.  Dreamtime Collection.  We’ll see how many volumes we come up with.  Enjoy!

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Discovery, Electronic Music, Introducing, Recommends, Soundcloud

TODAYS DISCOVERY – Sara Bigdeli Shamloo

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I know very little about Sara Bigdeli  Shamloo and I can’t recall how I came across her music but I’m glad I did. What I do know is that she is a  Iranian vocalist / songwriter / composer and much of her work is in the theatre (correct me if I’m wrong). She is also a member of 2 bands – 9T Antiope and Migrain,  the latter I have been listening to recently.

 

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REVIEW REBLOG – Agnès Pe – Método para Enya: el fluir del Orinoco

Courtesy to Yeah I Know it Sucks for this review.

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artist: Agnès Pe
title: Método para Enya: el fluir del Orinoco
keywords: enlightment, experimental, electronic, Enya, devotional, blinding, light, music, video, experimental

Agnès Pe is next to someone with experimental musical skills, an creative individual with a special gift. She has a special magical power that could potentially blind you, me and others. This she can do by pointing her hands in a way that a blinding ray of light could shoot out like bright laser beams.

I know it sounds ridiculous and I totally agree that you cannot make such a thing up… And that’s why it’s the truth, and nothing but the truth. Of course there is evidence, but this evidence comes with a great risk. In fact watching the evidence might be so damaging to your eyes, that it might be the last thing you will ever see. Is it worth the risk of losing your eye…

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SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT – Alma Laprida

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ALMA LAPRIDA

Alma Laprida is an Argentinian artist specialising in Electroacoustic, experimental and field recordings.

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TODAYS DISCOVERY -Diane Thome

There was a bit of a buzz on Twitter today about a list compiled on RYM website covering women in electroacoustic, minimalism, tape music, musique concrète, free improvisation, and related genres  which I highly recommend.

This is a brilliant work in progress and although there are many artists I know there are many that I do not. Never missing a chance to discover new music I began to look through and just followed the links.

In doing so, I came across Todays Discovery – Diane Thome.

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Here is a wonderful collaboration she did with Robert Austin. He states on the Soundcloud page –

This is a collaboration with my longtime collaborator, Seattle composer Diane Thome. I designed sounds for her (usually hundreds), from which she selected a subset, and arranged the samples into an audio collage, typically 8-16 tracks. I would then nip, tuck, re-synthesize, adjust dynamics and panning etc. We would pass it back and forth until we both agreed that it was ‘done’. I would sometimes write sections for pieces myself, and the goal was to produce a computer-synthesized tape which could stand on its own, though typically a solo instrument would play together with the tape. “Estuaries” was scored for oboe and computer synthesized sound, and here is the latter.

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TODAYS DISCOVERY – CATERINA BARBIERI

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REBLOG – Caterina Barbieri

Here is an overview of the artist Caterina Barbieri from Ekho :: Women in Sonic Art, which I recommend you visit. Thanks to Ekho, Caterina Barbieri is my Todays Discovery and her music fits in well with the Friday Culture Fix.

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“Caterina Barbieri (b.1990, Bologna, Italy) is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music. Mostly interested in modular synthesis, three-dimensional spatialisation and psychoacoustic aural sculpture, her music arises from a meditative approach to primary waveforms, microtonality and the polyrhythm of harmonics, on the boundary between drone, minimalism and techno in multichannel systems.

Her minimalistic focus is rooted in the exploration of the stratigraphic potential of voltage-controlled synthesizers, in terms of polyrhythm and polyphony.
Synthesis, texture-based forms and immersive listening are three fundamental conditions for her to enhance an advanced cognitive and auditory art, not based on extrinsic links but solely built on the experience of the spectrum, able to develop our very limited ability of perceiving the vertical domain of music, involving us in a holistic way.” www.caterinabarbieri.com

Submission to ‘Ekho:: Toward a Repetitive Sounding of Difference’

Undular is an eight-channel piece composed by Caterina Barbieri. All sounds derive from a…

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EVENT – Live in session: Shiva Feshareki & Jack Jelfs

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Joining me in the studio on 27th November, Shiva Feshareki & Jack Jelfs will perform live with turntables and homemade instruments. Tune into NTS.live from 8-10am.

Born in London in 1987 Shiva Feshareki is a composer, DJ and turntablist working closely with the physicality of sound. With electronics, she focuses on analogue and bespoke electrics that generate ‘real’ and pure sounds of electricity, over computer products. With acoustic instruments, she is concerned with the interaction of tone, texture, and space. Since 2013, Shiva works mainly as a collaborative composer, and uses either deep improvisation or chance events, to create her collaborative teams, and often works with children and young people in educational environments.

Jack Jelfs is an artist working in London. Much of his work lies between musical composition and sculpture and uses wood, steel, video, electromagnets, plastic and analogue electronics. He has recently undertaken several collaborations with Shiva Feshareki, including…

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REBLOG – Fractured Air 46: Moon Ate the Dark ‘Moon Over Blood Mountain’

Courtesy to Fractured Air for the reblog and suggest you listen to Moon Ate the Dark, who I have featured previously on Feminatronic. Great playlist : ))

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Moon Ate the Dark is the neoclassical-infused drone collaborative project between Welsh pianist Anna Rose Carter and Canadian producer Christopher Brett Bailey. The London-based artists’ two full-length releases – 2012’s self-titled debut and this year’s highly-anticipated follow-up (‘Moon Ate The Dark II’), both released on the prestigious Berlin-based imprint Sonic Pieces – forges a deeply affecting experience for the heart and mind: the rich, dense textures of Bailey’s production is masterfully interwoven with Carter’s stunningly beautiful piano-based compositions.

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Fractured Air 46: Moon Ate the Dark “Moon Over Blood Mountain”

To listen on Mixcloud:

https://www.mixcloud.com/Fractured_Air/fractured-air-46-moon-ate-the-dark-moon-over-blood-mountain/

Tracklisting:

01. Emily Hall ‘Scream’ [Bedroom Community]
02. Laurie Spiegel ‘Drums’ [Philo, Unseen Worlds]
03. Jenny Hval ‘Blood Fight’ [Rune Grammofon]
04. Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind ‘Rocky Mountains’ [Warner Bros.]
05. Ikue Mori ‘Musashi Plain Moon’ [Tzadik]
06. Joanna Newsom ‘The Book of Right On’ [Drag City]
07. Eliane Radigue ‘Kyema’ (excerpt) [Experimental Intermedia Foundation]

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