Voice – Sculpting Sound with Maja S. K. Ratkje is a feature documentary by IJ. Biermann and Kai Miedendorp, which tracks the life of Maja S. K. Ratkje—improvisational vocalist, sound artist and composer—between 2010 and 2014….
Courtesy to Dalston Sound for the reblog and the great collection of reviews regarding Maja S.K.Ratkje recently.
Category Archives: Focus
ARTICLE REBLOG – SP 010: Christina Vantzou
This is everything you ever wanted to know about Christina Vantzou and then some. Recommended long read.
Sound Propositions is an ongoing, semi-regular series of conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Rather than writing copy that can just as easily have come from a press release or a catalog, this series tries to take the emphasis away from the ‘what’ and shine light on the ‘how’ and ‘why.’ You can find the previous nine interviews, as well as additional articles and features, here.
It’s a feeling not a learning/
it’s a knowing and believing
Christina Vantzou released her debut solo record No. 1 on the august Kranky label, just a few months before we launched ACL in early 2012, and we’ve followed her career carefully since. Though we knew her as one-half of the audio-visual duo The Dead Texan (alongside Adam Wiltzie), we were…
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International Womens Day 2016
Eclectic Electronic Soundscapes for International Womens Day 2016
Just skimming the surface of creativity. A starting point.
Artists are –
Beatriz Ferreyra, Doris Norton, Cosi Fanni Tutti, Lucrecia Dalt, AGF / Tujiko Noriko, Pia Palme / Eliane Radigue, Wendy Carlos, Ikue Mori / Maja S.K.Ratkje, Sarah Davachi, Iris Garrelfs, Adina Izarra, Joan La Barbara, Annette Peacock, Lena Platonos, JLin / Holly Herndon, Pharmakon / SEEMING, Elysia Crampton, Marie Davidson, People Like Us, voicesoundtext.
Also here are a couple of playlists that you may enjoy –
ARTICLE REBLOG – yoko ono’s first musical work – a grapefruit in the world of park (1961) – original hand typed script
Always interested to read different slants on artists and their work and this is a good example…thoughtful piece.
REVIEW REBLOG -Björk: Biophilia
Lovely long and in-depth read courtesy of ECM Reviews.
The 2004 Summer Olympiad was an unprecedented event for its host city of Athens. Under the motto “Welcome Home,” 10,625 athletes representing 201 nations competed in 28 distinct sports: a veritable sea of bodies representing the human form at its finest. All the more appropriate that, following the Parade of Nations, Björk should fill the stadium with her anthem, “Oceania”—a homecoming of a different sort, concerning currents more powerful than all those bodies combined. “You have done good for yourselves since you left my wet embrace and crawled ashore,” she sang, Mother Nature presiding over her children before they ran, leapt, and tumbled their way through hundreds of demanding events. Here, conspicuous yet perhaps unnoticed, was the deeper origin story of the games: somewhere within, at the mitochondrial level, proliferated feats of prowess that we could only dream of replicating without. As Björk stood rooted, her dress unfurled to cover…
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REBLOG – Part 2 Radio Survivor Interview
We’re happy to return to the second part of our interview with radio scholar and radio artist Magz Hall. In the first part of the interview, Hall detailed the many ways in which we can understand radio, in both a contemporary and historical context, through the lens of radio art. She introduced us to a number of fascinating projects that she has been involved with and discussed the connection between her practice and community radio broadcasting.
In this second half, Hall picks up on these themes and takes us into the future by explaining how she imagines alternative trajectories for FM broadcasting. She ends our interview by pointing to some of the projects she is currently working on, including one which calls attention to the important environmental aspect of radio.
REBLOG – An Interview with Dani Mari of Female Frequency
Two great Organisations well worth checking out and supporting : ))
AOTY 2015 #9: Holly Herndon – Platform
Having a mass posting today…
Holly Herndon – Platform 
TODAYS DISCOVERY – Olga Wojciechowska – Maps And Mazes (Time Released Sound)
Headphone Commute has flagged this release a couple of times and every time the process of reblogging has failed me. Not this time. This is music that strikes a chord with it’s sheer beauty and would be on my Christmas list or Best Of… if I had one.
Read the review here –
ARTICLE REBLOG – The Top Ten Sounding Out! Posts of 2015!
So much to read and also revisit. Relevant and thoughtful as ever.
The holidays are here and to celebrate Sounding Out! has compiled a list of 2015’s top ten most popular posts (according to views). So, cozy up to that monitor, queue up that epic album you’ve been meaning to listen to, and take a second to revisit some of our best memories this year.
Vincent Andrisani
To conceive of Havana in sound is to think not of the material spaces of the city, but rather, across them. From inside the home, residents participate in conversations taking place in the streets, while those in the streets often call for the attention of their friends or family indoors. Through windows, open doors, and porticoes, residents engage in interpersonal exchanges that bring neighbourhood communities to life. To listen across these spaces is to listen trans-liminally from the threshold through which sounds must pass as they animate the vibrant social life…
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