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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.

 

Focus / Reblog – FACT mini-doc on my live approach — colleen

A very short post to let you know that FACT made a mini-documentary on my live approach while I was at Mutek in Montreal on 3 June, you can see the interview and live footage below and read the article here 🙂

via FACT mini-doc on my live approach — colleen

 

Interesting short piece about the tech and processes used by Colleen in live concerts,  that combines the old with the new to  create new sounds and textures.

 

Reblog – PREMIERE: Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains (“87 Billion Suns” by Strië) — Stationary Travels

If there is one thing the eleven year history of Serein tells us, it is that the Welsh label does not put out a release unless it is something special – just consider records like Pine by Olan Mill, Retold by Nest or Charcoal by Brambles. That makes their first new material published this year a tantalizing […]

via PREMIERE: Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains (“87 Billion Suns” by Strië) — Stationary Travels

Review Reblog – The Unfathomless Series: Flavien Gillié and Vanessa Rosetto

Vanessa Rosetto – “intense and fragile beauty”…
Courtesy to A Closer Listen for the reblog.

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FlavienThe Unfathomless Series continues to be the best ongoing series in the field recording industry, as proven by new entries from  Flavien Gillié and Vanessa Rossetto.  The sounds are always intriguing and the unified presentation ~ featuring art by Daniel Crokaert ~ contributes a memorable visual identity.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.  These lyrics, penned decades past, lamented the destruction of nature for commerce.  But what happened next?   Flavien Gillié attempts to answer this question with the single-track Nonante-neuf fragments harenois (roughly translated 99 fragments of sound from Haren).  This Brussels community became industrialized, but then the industry left: factories razed, airport deserted.  While walking through the ruins of this area, one can sense the sedimentary weight of history, which no longer seems like progress.  And yet its future is already written: a new “mega prison” will soon open, and the local gardens…

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Reblog – Feminatronic interview

Out of the blue, I was asked if I would talk about Feminatronic and a few thoughts on some very important issues. It ended up quite a long read (it could have been longer). It’s presented in the inimitable style of YIKIS but it’s turned out better than I hoped and it spreads the word : )

Thank you YIKIS for asking me to do this. Also, for supporting and highlighting some diverse and eclectic female artists on your site who I may never have come across and may never have been able to spotlight.

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Perhaps you have heard of Feminatronic, a website that is worth to be bookmarked as your eyes and ears will be receiving an almost unstoppable stream of interesting artists, music, articles and documentaries. To make it even more special; they all happen to be female. It’s in fact a celebration to them who make electronic music of all sorts, and for a music consumer it is also a celebration as the diversity and quality will always set you to discover one new thing after another.

1 ^ these childhood friends are discovering things

Some people might think but why only females? It’s a good and reasonable question perhaps as why not a mixed crowd of electronic music and sound artists of all kinds? I believe it has to do with that unfortunately there is tons of electronic artists out there, but it seems to be a very male dominated world…

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Various Artists ~ Tiny Portraits — a closer listen

 

Flaming Pines’ Tiny Portraits series returns with four singles inspired by international streetscapes. This is the best of the batches to date, offering an incredible array of variety and a few sonic surprises. The series’ subtitle is “small renderings of place in memory”. To aid the listener, a sound map is updated whenever a batch […]

via Various Artists ~ Tiny Portraits — a closer listen

As A Closer Listen says…”Kate Carr is getting very good at this facet of presentation, blazing a trail for others to follow.  By embracing the visual when continuing to embrace the digital and physical, she provides multiple doors through which the listener might enter.” Recommend listening to the other Tiny Portraits they really give a sense of place to a distant listener.

 

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.

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.”

 

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.