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Article Reblog -Delia Derbyshire’s Dr Who: Feminism in Electronic Music ?

On the 3rd of July 2001, British composer of electronic music and musique concrète (a form of electroacustic music) Delia Derbyshire died in Northampton, England. Alongside Daphne Oram and Maddalena Fagandini, she was one of the key female figures in the development of electronic music in the twentieth century. In 1962, she joined the BBC […]

via Delia Derbyshire’s Dr Who: Feminism in Electronic Music? — A R T L▼R K

 

What a great discovery from ART LARK and some interesting thoughts here from Delia Derbyshire herself.

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Web Focus – Sonic Environment Waves — 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 — MAKING WAVES

Although not strictly electronic – “Making Waves is a monthly series of curated playlists streaming one hour of quality, new composed music.  Founded in 2015, Making Waves shines a spotlight on the music of Australian composers. Fresh playlists are released on the first day of each month and older playlists are made available all year round via our archives; perfect for those with just a few minutes to explore one track or for hours perusing a myriad of diverse sound-worlds.”

 

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Article Reblog -The Rare Recordings of Pauline Oliveros, Jerome Rothenberg and More — Bandcamp

New Wilderness Audiographics, a US-based label founded by 75-year-old composer/poet Charlie Morrow, hasn’t released music for over three decades, but the label has just unloaded digital versions of 40 rare, mostly unknown cassettes. Originally recorded and released in the 1970s and early ’80s, the astonishing collection features music by such luminaries as Pauline Oliveros, Phil Corner, […]

via The Rare Recordings of Pauline Oliveros, Jerome Rothenberg and More — Bandcamp Daily

 

Lots to read and listen to here, apart from Pauline Oliveros and check out the Bandcamp Daily too, as they post some rare, under the radar  and interesting artists, genres and labels.

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Todays Discovery – Zalys

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Zalys  first released her ambient space music in 2013, so 2016 is the third birthday of the project ! There are many tracks and albums released so Odyssey – An Anthology is a compilation that lets the listener discover the project.
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Weekly Theme – Nothing but the Stars

Playlist #65 is a journey around the Cosmos.
This playlist focusses on the Stars and Cosmos. It gives a chance to spotlight mostly but not exclusively, Ambient Space, Drift and Drone music where women have been generally under represented, although I am discovering there are more out there than I realised. This is music to immerse yourself in and take time to listen for the nuances and changes.

Artists are – Iotronica, Suzanne Doucet, Zalys, Lomita, Joanne Gabriel, Isabel Porto Nogueira, Patrizia Mattioli, and Katlyn Aurelia Smith,

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Weekly Theme – Electroacoustic

This week the theme is Electroacoustic music, spurred on by a series of articles in New Music Box. Firstly, The Opportunity of Electroacoustic Musicology

Closeup image of an old patch-cord synthesizer

and secondly, Alice Shields’ thoughts on Electroacoustic music today –

-Structural and Playback Issues in Current Electroacoustic Music | NewMusicBox:

Photo published for Structural and Playback Issues in Current Electroacoustic Music

Playlist#27 highlights Electroacoustic artists. This is just the tip of the Iceberg as the range of music creation covers everything from Tape, Minimalism, Music Concrete, Sound Art and Installation to name a few but all are using electronic sound production and applying them to compositional practice.
Artists on this playlist are –
Caroline Park, Marina Vesic, Miki Yui, Delphine Dora and Bruno Duplant, SonicBright, Marlene Radice, Olivia Block and Julia Teles.

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News – c i r c e : the black cut [v.3] ~ open call 2016 — A STEREOSCOPIC perspective of Music & Art©

c i r c e :the black cut: Open Call 2016 Deadline: September 04, 2016 [Phase #1] Website: annastereoscopic.wordpress.com/κίρκη-circe/ International Open Call: CIRCE :The Black Cut: 3rd Presentation The New International Open Call of Participation in the 3rd Presentation of CIRCE The Black Cut consists of 3 Phases and its new Theme is ‘CIRCE The […]

via c i r c e : the black cut [v.3] ~ open call 2016 — A STEREOSCOPIC perspective of Music & Art©

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Reblog – The New Peruvian Electronic Renaissance — Bandcamp Daily

 

“We have not been an industrialized society. It’s been precarious, but that has spawned a very inventive and rich culture.” —Luis Alvarado Electronic music in Peru dates back to the 1960s, but you’d be forgiven for not knowing that until recently. The tropical bass boom has put the Andean nation on electronic music’s global map, and […]

via The New Peruvian Electronic Renaissance — Bandcamp Daily

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News – Immagini Per Diana Baylon: new vinyl by Teresa Rampazzi — laura zattra

As with the spellbinding Musica Endoscopica, this issue of Immagini Per Diana Baylon – one of her three known soundtracks for art installations – helps to place Teresa as Italy’s answer to Daphne Oram; that is, a pioneering female experimenter operating in a male dominated field since the ’50s, and an artist/musician/technician who was magnetically drawn to the emerging possibilities […]

via Immagini Per Diana Baylon: new vinyl by Teresa Rampazzi — laura zattra

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Reblog – Visuals to sounds: the Oramics Machine

Here is another in the series Visuals to Sound from nnnoises.com

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Nowadays lots of media artists, musicians and music software and hardware products are dedicated to translating visuals into sounds and vice versa. One of the pioneers in this area of “visual sound” was a British electronic composer called Daphne Oram. She was one of the founders of the famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1958. But after hearing Poème électronique of Edgar Varese at the Brussels World’s Fair, she decided to leave the BBC and start her own electronic music studio a year later, the Oramics Studios for Electronic Composition. In this studio, she made one of the first synthesizers and quite likely the first audiovisual synthesizer in the beginning of the 1960s: the Oramics Machine.

With this (of course) analogue and largely mechanical machine, she drew shapes and waveforms onto a synchronised set of ten 35mm film strips which overlayed a series of photo-electric cells. These cells in…

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