The latest Soundcloud playlist is all about the Voice and this is the focus this week on Twitter and Facebook, so this seems a very appropriate reblog.
Category Archives: Monday Reblogs
REVIEW REBLOG – Ars Sonor and the Reviews of Caffeinate
Great overview again of a very eclectic artist.
REVIEW REBLOG – Fatima Al Qadiri: Brute – Album Review — Pon De Way Way Way
Fatima Al Qadiri’s first full-length, 2014’s Asiatisch, was a promising but flawed début. Its best moments, Szechuan and Shanghai Freeway, were brimming with tension and a barely contained magic and were easily two of the year’s best tracks. However, despite these promising peaks and all its concept Asiatisch didn’t come together as a body of work. Its […]
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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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REVIEW REBLOG – Delphine Dora: L’au-delà
A couple of great reviews this afternoon beginning with this…
REVIEW REBLOG – Maja S. K. Ratkje – Crepuscular Hour
NEWS – Guest artist: Iris Garrelfs – with exclusive new material
Iris Garrelfs joined me for a chat about her practice as experimental vocalist, composer and installation artist. Tune in to hear some of her work including collaborations with Poloumi Desai, Viv Corringham, Jude Cowan Montigue and Georgina Brett. Plus an exclusive new recording of Iris performing a solo concert at a church in Telegraph Hill. Tune into NTS.live on Monday night / Tuesday morning (29 Feb / 1st March) – at 1am to 3am GMT, or 8pm to 10pm EST.
Iris Garrelfs is an artist working on the cusp of music, art and sociology. Her practice includes fixed media, installation, improvised performance and has been included in major institutions worldwide, for example Tate Britain, National Gallery, Visiones Sonores Mexico, MC Gallery New York. Several of her works have just been nominated for the British Composer of the Year Award (Sonic Art).
Elsewhere she is the commissioning editor of…
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REVIEW REBLOG – Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther ~ Unter Grund
If you click through from this review, I also recommend you read the detailed overview on the Gruenrekorder site for added info on the Rhur and the connections between humans and nature – water and sound.
Courtesy to A Closer Listen for the reblog.
Many of the water-based recordings we receive are beauty-based, calling to mind vacations by the sea, meditations by the river, the sweetness of summer rain. Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther‘s Unter Grund is different: historical, political and metaphorical, it prompts the listener into larger modes of thought.
The original presentation was a 26-channel installation, and we’re intensely jealous of those who were able to check it out. The CD version is an intricate soundscape of water movement in the Ruhr area, recorded above and below ground, in spouts and pipes, pumps and ponds. The expanded recording area paints a fuller picture of water flow than one might receive from the personal experience of water from faucets and shower heads, heaters and drains. Where does the water come from? Where does it go? Is it clean? Few people ask such questions, content to trust that what enters their homes must be…
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REVIEW REBLOG – Julia White – In the Cities of Dust [Soft]
It was suggested that I listen to this release and I’m glad I did..
EVENT FOCUS – Film of Story of Sound talk
You can watch films of the Story of Sound talks for Lighthouse Arts in Brighton Pavillion. featuring myself alongside sound designers Chris Watson Barry Adamson and Glenn Freemantle at Story of Sound 2015. Shame I was ill that day but I don’t think you can tell too much!
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/programme/the-sound-of-story-2015-films
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