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 […]
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Reblog – Visual Noise 15: Cinechine and Nibiru by Mariska de Groot
Always learn about and discover new artists via nnnoises.com and here is another in the series on visual noise, the artist being Mariska de Groot.
Intrigued by optical sound, Mariska de Groot [NL] makes and performs comprehensive analog light-to-sound instruments and installations which explore this principle in new ways. Her work often has a reference to media inventions from the past, with which she aims to excite a multi-sensorial and phenomenological experiences in light, sound, movement and space.
CineChine
In CineChine you experience in physical proportions the phenomenon optical sound – an invention of the 1920’s applied in celluloid and synthesizers – where light and sound are a similar. Objects that remind of a disassembled movie machine are positioned in the room. For every exhibition a new side-specific composition is made:
Niburu
Nibiru is a mechanical performative installation wherein simple rhythmical body movements activates a squeaky pendulum drawing machine, that on its turn creates complex mathematical images. Noises of friction are amplified and sound patterns are created by light-sensitive speakers that scan the changing projected…
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Todays Discovery – Sonic Environment Waves (July 2016) — MAKING WAVES
This month we’re delighted to have Dr. Leah Barclay, Co-Chair of Sonic Environments, and President of the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology , guest-curate this playlist: Sonic Environment Waves. About the playlist, Leah writes: This playlist features composers who are working in innovative ways with place, environmental sound and new technologies. It has been curated to […]
via Sonic Environment Waves (July 2016) — MAKING WAVES
Not solely electronic. Much is Classical music and / electroacoustic but increasingly there are electronic elements in the compositions and a great introduction to Australian composers. Really recommend listening to the beautifully presented playlists.
“I am a woman in electronic music”
1st October 2016
Just the tip of the iceberg.
A few of the women I have linked with in Electronic Music.
Feminatronic is following 822 on SoundCloud alone and it’s growing everyday.
Todays Discovery – Pioneering Canadian Women In Electronic Music
Pioneering Canadian Women In Electronic Music
“Recent lists of pioneering women in electronic music have bolstered the fact that women were right there making significant work during the nascence of electronic music, from the late ’50s to ’70s, on a quest for sounds and sequences never heard before. Yet most of the women who helped pioneer electronic music in Canada don’t pop up in those lists….”
September 29, 2016
This article aims to rectify this.
Reblog – Album of the Day: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani, “Sunergy”
Couldn’t really pass this release and review…
Event News – Mean Time
Up until the 1st of October 1916 Ireland was on Dublin Mean Time, which was 25 minutes and 21 seconds behind Greenwich Mean Time. On that day, when England put its clock back by an hour for Winter, Ireland put its clock back by 35 minutes and ended the historic time difference between the two countries.
Mean Time is a collaborative art project inspired by this event and in particular by Countess Markievicz’s opposition to what she saw as one more act of colonial oppression: the imposition of a foreign time on what should have been a sovereign people.
The project is bringing ten professional female sound artists from Ireland and abroad to the historical location of Richmond Barracks in Dublin city, where 77 women were remanded after their involvement in the 1916 Rising- including Countess Markievicz herself.
They will perform a unique improvisation based on especially commissioned pieces on the theme of these lost 25 minutes and 21 seconds, for the anniversary of the abolition of Dublin Mean Time.
The event will combine contemporary music, performance art, radio art and electroacoustic composition, ‘clawing back’ time lost and imagining many possible future Irelands. The programme will be broadcast live on Nova, RTÉ Lyric FM.
The participating artists are Daria Baiocchi | Fiona Hallinan | La Cosa Preziosa | Vicky Langan | Úna Lee | Olivia Louvel | Jenn Kirby | Claudia Molitor | Gráinne Mulvey | Rachel Ní Chuinn
In addition, a series of free sound art workshops for all the family will also take place on the grounds of Richmond Barracks on Saturday 1st October. For more info: http://facebook.com/ meantime1916
Both performance and workshops are free but ticketed. To book please email: meantime1916@gmail.com
Mean Time is made possible thanks to the support of Dublin City Council and The Arts Council.
Reblog – Spools Out Radio -My Female Tape Artists Twitterstorm (The Good Kind)
Over in Twitterland there’s been a conversation about the perceived lack of women artists on Tape releases from all genres. This developed into a good healthy discussion and suggestions, which resulted in this article.
Check out the links and discover some great new artists and Tape distributors too.
Many thanks to Spools Out for posting the question in the first place. The resulting answers have been positive : )
(featured image – Daphne Oram performing live back in the day)
So dear listeners, as I was perusing my incoming cassette tapes pile, I noticed I hadn’t a single plastic cassette that hadn’t been made by a chap/dude/bro. It’s not the ideal situation to have to do so, but I took to twitter to see if the social media hive mind could quickly solve my tape-based inequality problems, and tweeted the below:
I was far from disappointed by the resultant wave of recommendations, so thought I’d quickly chuck a load of the recommended artists and released I received into this very blog post…
Richard Hopkins of Feral Tapes jumped right in to tell me:
https://twitter.com/feraltapes/status/776340122119839744
Here’s some music from the Maurice’s…
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TECHNE – Call for Participation
from TECHNE:
Dearest Electronic Musician and Artist,
You’re invited to participate in an experiment to map a history of women in electronic music for Sound American and it will only take a moment of your time!
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TECHNE (Suzanne Thorpe & Bonnie Jones) have been invited by Nate Wooley, founder of the periodical Sound American, to create a graphic visualization illustrating a history of women in electronic music. The graphic will be published in the January 2017 print version of Sound American whose theme is “Networking.”
Here’s what you need to do to participate:
SUBMIT this form online with names of influential female electronic musicians https://goo.gl/forms/Fet9CLbmfkma1VPC2
CUT & PASTE & FORWARD our request (the entire email text) to a female-identified music colleague who is important to you
DEADLINE we need all responses by the end of the month, so take a moment right now to send this out into the world!
Reblog / Web Focus – The Hum Blog
via joan la barbara’s voice is the original instrument reissued by arc light editions — The Hum Blog
Posted this before I think, but you can’t have too much of a good thing. Also recommend browsing The Hum Blog, there are loads of really interesting articles covering many aspects of Electronic, Classical, Jazz and World music and is one of the places that I begin to read, learn loads and lose the time….






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