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Todays Discovery – Orlando and Tomaga

Over in Twitterland there’s been a conversation about the perceived lack of women artists on Tape releases. There are a few, which I will post here in time but this really caught my ear….

“For its second release, the Association for the Re-Alignment of Magnetic Dust presents a split release between Orlando and Tomaga of music for video games. Inspired by fictional worlds, imagined quests, and surreal dreams, they soundtrack your adventures in gameland.

Released March 25, 2015

Side A: All music by Orlando. Track 1 mixed by Dilip Harris.
Side B: All music by Tomaga

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Review Reblog -Izabela Dłużyk ~ Soundscapes of summer

As you all know I have a great love for the synthesized sound and electronics but NOTHING compares to the sonic beauty of the real world and to more than prove the point, this release is exquisite.
Even without her personal backstory, this is a field recording album that is surely the top of my list and is a beautiful record of a day in Summer that we can all appreciate.

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Soundscapes of summerThis is perhaps the sweetest story we’ve heard all summer, and it arrives as the season is starting to slip away.  It’s the story of a young woman born blind who falls in love with the sounds around her, begins to record them, and pursues her childhood dream.

Under these conditions, Izabela Dłużyk‘s physical challenge becomes her gift.  She has an extraordinary ear for unique and startling sounds, which makes her an excellent field recordist.  Her writing also shows great sensitivity, and provides readers with an entry point as she describes “the mystery of fleeting moments, of sadness and hope brought by changing seasons”.  The sounds on this album were recorded this summer in Polish forests, but as the flocks prepare to migrate, the sonic field has already begun to change.  Given the date of release, it’s impossible to avoid comparisons to the human experience, as we trade the soundtrack…

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Todays Discovery – Binary Breath by Heejin Jang

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This is the danger for me or a good thing for you, that one link leads to another. Looking at the discography from Heavy Mess, a discrete cassette label. currently based in Salt Lake City, Utah and where you can find Teasips’ album from an earlier post, I came across this intriguing release from Heejin Jang.

“Crafting field recordings and digital noise into a sonic sculpture that is as hypnotic as it is chaotic. A perfect dose of ambience and frenzy.

A statement from the artist:

“The four ambient pieces that comprise “Binary Breath” are about the transpositions that had taken over my mind and body, generating a code in cipher.”

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News – ‘Reversal Of The Muse’ – femininity in creativity

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downloadREVERSAL OF THE MUSE is a new blog curated by Laura Marling that explores femininity in creativity.

The first podcast presents an interview with Vanessa Parr, sound engineer at The Village Studios in LA for 10 years, close collaborator of Elton John, B.B. King, Coldplay and John Mayer amongst others, and now independent sound engineer.

I find very interesting Laura Marling’s chat with Vanessa Parr where Vanessa recalls how she broke into a male dominated field, where female engineers are few and far between (the actual interview begins at 2’27”).

https://soundcloud.com/reversalofthemuse/in-conversation-with-vanessa-parr

This new blog has been shared on FB by the great mastering engineer Mandy Parnell.

Here is another video where Vanessa Parr discusses how she broke into the recording engineering field. It is no surprise that she states “I went to a number of studios where they say: ‘We don’t hire girls! We hire girls to be client-service-girls’ “.


<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/46336808″>Women In Rock’s…

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Todays Discovery/ Review Reblog -Marielle V Jakobsons ~ Glass Canyon

Here’s my Todays Discovery – the artist Marielle V Jakobsons and I’m not going to add anything to this except listen…

 

…and read..

 

 

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Quick – how many solo synth and violin artists can you name?  If you came up with more than three, we salute you.  We last encountered Marielle V Jakobsons as the “J” in EJS, whose album was included in our winter recommendations; but here she presents a new sound for a new season.  Glass Canyon is even different from her last solo outing, Ore (recorded as Darwinsbitch), in that her abstractions have grown more accessible.  This is not to say that these tracks are friendly, how-do-you-do handshakers, but that the album as a whole declares, “Your efforts to understand me will be rewarded within a reasonable span.”

The mood of these six pieces is reflective without being mournful; they betray a deep concentration, an attention to craft.  Synth and violin are not natural partners, but Jakobsons fits them together like soulmates on an internet dating site.  “From…

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Review Reblog – Various Artists – Sobre Cintas — Yeah I Know It Sucks

artist: Various title: Sobre Cintas keywords: argentina experimental experiemental improvisation jazz and improvised music noise Argentine label: Adaptador Records “Sobre Cintas is an eclectic compilation of audio files where the only line that links each selected audio is the use of the magnetic recording as sound recording mode. // “ – I have no idea […]

via Various Artists – Sobre Cintas — Yeah I Know It Sucks

 

Last week the focus was Latin American artists, so this follows on . This is a diverse collection of electroacoustic, jazz, noise, tape and experimental utilising magnetic recording.

Here is a piece by Alma Laprida to demonstrate –

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Vectors of Vektroid and Vaporwave

If you are interested in finding out more about Ramona Andra Xavier aka Vektroid this is a great article.

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Review Reblog – Elisa Luu – Enchanting Gaze — Yeah I Know It Sucks

artist: Elisa Luu title: Enchanting Gaze keywords: pop acoustic electronica experimental folk Italy label: http://labelnetlabel.com/ \ Elisa Luu’s Enchanting Gaze is an album that is of the pretty kind, something that lightens up and gives that special sparkle of a having a wonderful day. Not unlike other releases, this one has tracks inside. Let me […]

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So glad this has been picked up for review as it is a release of beautiful folktronica with a twist.

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Review Reblog – various artists – A Documentary of Women in Experimental Music

Courtesy to YIKIS for the reblog : )

 

PS – There was an interesting note added by C-Drik at Syrphe – Recommend you check these out too.

Hi,

Thanks for this but not at all about women across the world, it’s very Western-centred. Here is a compilation of women in experimental music from South East and East Asia : https://syrphe.bandcamp.com/album/art-of-the-muses and another one (only available on CD) including women from Egypt who compose experimental music : https://www.discogs.com/Various-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%89-%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%81%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-Egyptian-Females-Experimental-Music-/release/4968572

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artists: various
title: A Documentary of Women in Experimental Music
keywords: experimental experimental electronic hip hop lobit noise noise step women New York
label: Philosophy Records

“A Documentary of Women in Experimental music is a collection of noise and weird sounds from women across the world. From Sweden to England, from New York to Hungary– reflects just how widespread and varied experimental music and noise is. Come enter our world and get to know the ladies of noise.”

–mascara

Anastasia Vronski starts this compilation with a work titled ‘A Doc of Women in Experimental Music’. In it you will be greeted with a warm alien voice that talks probably about this doc of women in experimental music. It functions as a nice introduction.

Then Anastasia Vronski expands her contribution to this compilation by providing a very interesting track named ‘Expander’. I don’t know what it is that I’m hearing in…

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Review Reblog – Daina Dieva – KAS

Daina Dieva is known for her participation in Lithuania’s culture of performance art and in drone ambient music. Though late last year I had the opportunity to review her collaboration with Skeldos, Aviliai, once I realized that there was another album by her available—one in which there was no information available, making it more interesting, […]

via Daina Dieva’s “KAS” Is Impressive Dark Ambient that Flutters in the Light and Rips the Dark — Heathen Harvest

 

Just stumbled across this review of Daina Dievas’ new release KAS and was instantly taken by the ethereal, otherworldly but somehow rooted to the earth sound but Heathen Harvest describe this release better than me.

This is my Todays Discovery and I will be returning to this artist in the near future, here.