“Anne-F Jacques creates microscopic worlds of whirring machines, steampunk flea circuses of motorized sonics birthed from her collection of mechanical discs and wheels (‘rotating surfaces’), meticulously calibrated and often adjusted with weights or blocks to interfere with their natural balance…”
A lovely overview / Introduction to the work of Anne – F Jacques –
Category Archives: Focus
Belated Friday Focus
Here are the last couple of Friday Focusses, which I forgot to post here –
Facebook Group that supports artists and a place to share noise, experimental, ambient, drone, glitch, field recordings, free improv, circuit bent, musique concrète, free jazz, anti-folk…
Worth bookmarking.
A platform showcasing innovative female artists in digital art & electronic music
Website – http://blog.wmnetwork.fr/
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/wmnetworkparis
International Women’s Week
Although it is International Women’s Day on Wednesday 8th, March, I’m posting up as much as I can this week on all platforms, to celebrate the achievements of electronic music creators.
Here are a few articles to start, that may be of interest –
Listening as Activism: The “Sonic Meditations” of Pauline Oliveros
40 Years Of Women In Electronic Music
How Daphne Oram’s radical turntable experiments were brought to life after 70 years
Femme Electronic: Uganda’s Platform for Female DJs and Electronic Music Producers.
The Voice of Moving Meditation – An Interview with Meredith Monk
An Album a Day pt4
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 and although I listen to a lot of music everyday, this does spur me to listen to new discoveries. I did this last year and I’m attempting it again and here are the last albums –
MWE#22 – Challenging intriguing chansons of stifled anger and noise for grown-ups – LET THEM GROW by Maja Osojnik
MWE#23 – Experimental Grime, hints of Vaporwave and warped electro Gospel. A revelation that’s quite special –
MWE#24 – Black Quantum Futurism – Space-Time Collapse I – Connecting history with the future in multi layered sonic collages.
MWE#25 – Melodic chillout that moves the feet – Online Dating by Tryphème
MWE#26 – Alice Kemp – Uneasy listening with dark undercurrents creating claustrophobic atmospheres –
MWE#27 Sarah Rasines pyr124 –Gameboy, found sounds, loops + glitches create hypnotic toe tapping rhythmic patterns
MWE#28 Anne Gillis – Lxgrin – Relentless nightmarish experiments in voice, loops and repetition = Challenging and cathartic
News – YSWN – Finding other groups/networks/blogs
So many groups now exist with various goals, and a collective motivation to support women, girls and all genders who do not identify as cis men. This map has been created by the Yorkshire Sound Wom…
Friday Focus – Audible Women
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
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.
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 –
Friday Focus – Many, Many Women
Many Many Women is an Index of over a thousand artists, composers, improvisors and sonic artists who identify as women –
Genres covered include Classical, Electroacoustic, Electronic, Improvised / Jazz, Intermedia, Noise / Other and Songmakers.
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