Category Archives: Focus

Today’s Discovery – Talugung / _blank split release

Released January 13, 2017

“Experimental bedroom recordings. Dislocation, noise, home dubs, lofi, outsider, psychogeographical minimalism”

 

Interview on Power Moves Label –

A split disc from two anomalous, constantly working, compelling artists.

Ryan Waldron, who records as Talugung and lives in Hamilton, glides the first four pieces through intricate trial-and-error fascinated with microtonal and limiting scale-work, mesmerized and ultimately shaping entire hypnotic and repeating sound-worlds around treated timbre and wooden sustain. Adventurous and meditative, a deep approach to unwinding natural pulse and natural acoustic emulation.

Blanca Rego, who records as _blank and lives in Barcelona, finishes the album with a long-form curious piece of abstracted reinterpreted field recording, both data-bent and new-art cumulative, turning found sound ideas into stretched-out puffs of smoke, blurred from original presentation and flipped into static one-note-like hanging clouds. They pass by overhead but brush against us and vibrate like breezes from heavy swinging bells pushing their musical imprint of fine air and movement.

Five questions to both artists – please read on.

 

Review Reblog – ACL 2016: Top Ten Field Recording & Soundscape — a closer listen

Few people would guess that the Field Recording and Soundscape section of our site would also be its most timely and political. And yet, as this year’s selections indicate, the genre is far more than nature recordings. While these continue to have their place, they also hint at much larger stories: climate change, disappearing environments, […]

via ACL 2016: Top Ten Field Recording & Soundscape — a closer listen

 

I’m not a great lover of end of year lists but I’m reblogging this one as it contains some of my favourite field recording discoveries of this year, all via ACL.

Book Review – “Fight Your Own War: Power Electronics and Noise Culture” Edited by Jennifer Wallis — Heathen Harvest

As soon as Fight Your Own War was announced, a ripple ran through the loose confederacy of friends, contacts, label heads, and performers that make up the noise “scene.” For performers and fans of power electronics, a book focused almost exclusively on the genre can be seen as a nod towards recognition of influence for […]

via “Fight Your Own War: Power Electronics and Noise Culture” Edited by Jennifer Wallis — Heathen Harvest

Update

Occasionally, I put finger to keyboard and write a few words to let you all know that I am not a robot.

I am about to take down my artist pages, only temporarily until the new year, so I can update them, add artists and try to keep up with all the women who create electronic music that I have come across. It proves to me that there are “many many women” out there and it’s growing all the time, which is great.

In the meantime, there are some wonderful resources and lists which I am going to post here and elsewhere, so over Christmas if you want some reading or listening….

Let’s start with

female pressureFemale:Pressure

http://www.femalepressure.net/
VISIBILITY – http://femalepressure.tumblr.com/

 

Many Many Women

https://manymanywomen.com/

 

 

AUD WOMEN   Audible Women

http://www.audiblewomen.com/

 

EKHO2  Ekho…Women in Sonic Art

https://ekhofemalesound.wordpress.com/category/women-in-electronic-music/

 

 

PNW Femme / Non Binary / Trans Electronic Music Talent Database

A database that’s growing by the minute

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reblog – a requiem for pauline oliveros

Cannot underestimate the importance of Pauline Oliveros as an artist, mentor and human being. She seemed to touch so many people’s lives and was, but will continue to be a titan in the pantheon of electronic pioneers.

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Article Reblog – 1957 improvisations by pauline oliveros & terry riley (with loren rush, laurel johnson, robert erickson, and bill butler)

Reblog – Fractal Meat: Mary Stark — We need no swords

Loom songs.

via Fractal Meat: Mary Stark — We need no swords

 

“Graham Dunning’s Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone radio show is a constant inspiration in its tireless exhumation of new exploratory music and sound art. December 2016 marks the show’s fifth birthday and to celebrate Dunning has made all the music from his associated Fractal Meat label free to download for the rest of the year.

Off to download…….

Today’s Discovery – Teresa Rampazzi

Teresa Rampazzi – Atmen Noch (1980)

Article Reblog – The New Faces of Japanese Chiptune — Bandcamp Daily

A younger generation active in the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka is ushering in a new wave of 8-bit music.

via The New Faces of Japanese Chiptune — Bandcamp Daily

Some time ago I was introduced by YIKIS to Akane  Hosaka who creates beautiful miniature loops using chiptune tech and over the past year I have heard more of this huge phenomena in electronic music creation. This is a great overview of the rise of Chiptune music, which has never gone away for me, as I’m a Game lover….

News Update – Writings on Teresa Rampazzi — laura zattra

Teresa Rampazzi website has finally a new page containing a list of articles, books, and other material dedicated to this awesome pioneer pf electroacoustic music: http://www.teresarampazzi.it/writings-on-t-rampazzi/) I contributed with many writings to this emerging literature, since my Master thesis in 2000, and I’m proud of this. The first text dedicated to her dates back to 1979, with an […]

via Writings on Teresa Rampazzi — laura zattra