A quiet start to the week…
Reblog – Maiya Hershey – Tides [Shimmering Moods]
A quiet start to the week…
Category Archives: Focus
Today’s Discovery #2 – Theda Hammel on Giving Sondheim the Synth Treatment
Sometimes you just come across something that makes you sit up and listen….
Today’s Discovery – Katharina Klement ~ peripheries
Today’s Discovery brings a city to life…
What comes to mind when you think of Belgrade? Katharina Klement went on a nine-week mission to discover the sound of the city, and came away with a multitude of answers.
peripheries plays like a sonic photo album, the images more important than the flow. While the album begins with a thump, the field recordings soon settle into a sort of rhythm. As the set progresses, a tapestry is revealed. The overture of the city is heard from a balcony: dogs, sirens, traffic, street music, passers-by. A discernible hum emerges. Is this Belgrade? Can a single chord, a melange of sounds, sum up the city? Klement answers with an emphatic no. Her explorations reveal jagged edges and clear demarcations, from Tesla’s gorgeously amplified induction motor to the bells of Saint Sava.
An unexpected poignancy visits during “nijemo kolo (mute dance)”, though one must read the liner notes to detect it…
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Focus Reblog – In the studio with Poppy Ackroyd
Let’s start at the very beginning. Can you tell us how you got involved in composing, and what was your very first piece of gear? My first piece of equipment was an Electro Harmonix 2880 super multi-track looper. It looks really simple but is surprisingly versatile. I wrote the original version of my track ‘Grounds’ […]
via In the studio with Poppy Ackroyd — Headphone Commute
Here’s another article about the composer Poppy Ackroyd and the methods and tech she uses in the studio to create her music.
Reblog – Duologue: A Conversation with Poppy Ackroyd — Stationary Travels
With her 2012 debut ‘Escapement’, Brighton-based composer Poppy Ackroyd entered the same rare air as such esteemed innovators of modern classical and electronic music as Nils Frahm and Hauschka. Classically trained on violin and piano, she creates utterly mesmerizing music by manipulating and multi-tracking sounds primarily from these two instruments in sometimes unconventional ways, an approach […]
via Duologue: A Conversation with Poppy Ackroyd — Stationary Travels
Friday Focus – The Missing Voice Podcasts
“The Missing Voice is a podcast series exploring gender within the music industry, produced by Belfast based musicians, Isobel Anderson and Francesca O’Connor. Combining one-to-one interviews with group discussions and special themed editions, the aim of the podcast is to highlight the challenges around gender in music but also where progress and new opportunities are taking place.”
Today’s Discovery – Sound Map
Travel the world through mini sound postcards….
” Sound Map is an audio project by artists Hannah Kemp-Welch and Lisa Hall, first shown at Tate Modern during Uniqlo Tate Late, June 30th 2017.
Responding to Cildo Meireles’s sonic vision of the Tower of Babel, we invite participants to listen to the most widely spoken languages across the globe, and reconsider the world map by language and listening, rather than country. This series of audio works form sonic postcards — snapshots of each language.
Collecting speech and song from online radio stations, news channels and live web cams, we’ve sought to capture each language in a two-minute mix. The audio was gathered at midday in the respective locations to ensure a chance selection process, free from bias. Where needed, environmental sounds were also sourced from online databases.”
Reblog – Album of the Day: Laurel Halo, “Dust”
Today’s Discovery – Are Euphoria by Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa
Friday Focus – Ladyz in Noyz
It is an ongoing series that celebrates experimental/fringe/noise/sound artists/musicians who are women. The projects represented span the globe and aim to increase gender diversity, visibility, and representation within music and sound arts.
It has further developed into an international inclusive collective network that furthers organizations and individuals with similar missions/interests.
Links to Ladyz in Noyz releases can be found here – http://www.corpuscallosumdistro.com/ladyz_in_noyz.html
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