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REVIEW REBLOG – Watch: Kayla Painter – ‘efa’

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Experimental soundscapes that catch the ear of electronic music guru Mary Anne Hobbs? Yes please! Bristol-based Kayla Painterimpressed earlier this year with her first release on Turnstile Records, ‘Revert,’ a slice of ambient electronica. But her latest, ‘efa’ is a much more challenging listen, which is filled with reverberating basslines and handclaps before building up into something relatively extreme.

Kayla said of the track: “It was created with the dream essence in mind, wanting to explore the relationship between two elements, all the while never being sure exactly what is there. The track and video explore the relationship between real and unreal through the narrative of a modern day fairy tale.”

‘efa’ also has a suitably odd little video, which, as you can probably see below, has a goat man in it. Yep, ‘efa’ pretty much has it all covered.

Watch the video for ‘efa’ below.

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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.

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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

REVIEW REBLOG – Various Artists – Pod Tune [Pod Labs]

Having a Sea Sounds theme on Twitter and Facebook this week concentrating mainly on Field Recordings but slipping some other tracks in too. I have plugged this album before as it is a firm favourite but haven’t posted this review so here it is courtesy of Stationary Travels –

NEWS – Exclusive Première: Liz Helman’s “Labyrinthian”

On the next show, Monday night / tuesday morning (14th/15th March) (1-3am BST / 8-10pm EST) we have a special broadcast from Liz Helman, the first play of her new longform drone piece Labyrinthian.…

Source: Exclusive Première: Liz Helman’s “Labyrinthian”

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.

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REBLOG – Listen: Pieces of Juno – ‘Valentine’

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Earlier in the week, when covering one of the latest tracks from Dream Wife, we apologised for missing the boat a little when it comes to Valentine’s Day-related musical material. Well, we have to apologise a second time (shame on us). Though to be fair, the latest track by Pieces of Junoisn’t exactly, directly, totally related to Valentine’s Day, it just happens to have a bit of a wordy connection to it.

But enough of our apologetic guff. We’re here to talk about the latest track from the Norwegian’s new instrumental EP Frisson, which comes out later this month on all-female collective KOSO. Kine Sandbaek Jensen has moved in all kinds of directions with her electronic project but from the sounds of ‘Valentine’ she’s continuing to experiment on this new collection. Starting out as a slow burner with a classical guitar lick, it soon gets taken over by some…

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ARTICLE REBLOG – ellen fullman, her long string instrument, and three archival films

Sometimes I reblog articles that are not strictly electronic but the underlying story or creativity just has to be given a wider audience. There is a recent interview with Ellen Fullman in The Guardian, which I read recently which has some interesting comments about being a creative artist and the responses she got when she wore the metal skirt in public. Worth reading.

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NEWS – Éliane Radigue International Conference, CFP

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I am pleased to share with you this Call for Papers I just received from Marc Battier, professor at IReMus / Université Paris-Sorbonne.

COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL ÉLIANE RADIGUE
 
Le colloque international Éliane Radigue a l’ambition de réaliser un panorama de l’œuvre de la pionnière de la musique électroacoustique française Éliane Radigue et d’inciter à la recherche sur les femmes compositrices du XXe et XXIe siècle. Le colloque est organisé par le CReIM (Cercle de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les musiciennes), le GEMM (Genre, Musique et Musiciennes) qui cherche à encourager les recherches sur les femmes dans le rôle de musiciennes, compositrices ou musicologues, l’IEC (Institut Emilie du Châtelet), ainsi que par l’IReMus (Institut de recherche en musicologie) et l’École doctorale Concepts et langages (ED V).
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L’intérêt particulier pour la musique d’Eliane Radigue est dû au fait qu’elle est l’unique compositrice française de sa génération qui puisse être considérée comme une des pionnières majeures de…

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