It was suggested that I listen to this release and I’m glad I did..
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..
Category Archives: Reblog
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
REVIEW REBLOG – Panic Girl – Breeze EP
Great when collaboration works to the benefit of getting eclectic music to a wider audience.
Thanks Yeah I Know it Sucks for the link and review.
artist: Panic Girl
title: Breeze EP
keywords: electronic electronica experimental marc mozart mista min panic girl trip hop breeze jomox korg magick Germany
artist website:http://www.panic-girl.com/
Webzine Feninatronics is informing its followers of lots of talented female artists out there in the experimental and electronica music environments. One of these celebratory posts triggered me to check out the music of Panic Girl & I’m (as a music lover) utterly grateful for having this brought to the attention..
Panic Girl brings a pretty laid-back atmosphere in a free downloadable track named ‘Breeze’. This atmosphere doesn’t come in like a cloud brought to you by a summers breeze, but more by the artist forcibly marching it in with a massive stepper of a beat. Once the pretty dreamy atmosphere of voice and melodic artifacts has arrived in all it’s bright and glory; the beats retrieve for us all to enjoy the…
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REVIEW REBLOG – Lea Bertucci ~ Axis/Atlas
I can always rely on A Closer Listen to widen horizons sonically and this is no exception…
Those who view New York artist Lea Bertucci as a bass clarinetist are missing the bigger picture. Fresh from her residency at Brooklyn’s ISSUE Project Room and already preparing for two other residencies, Bertucci has proven herself to be a visual artist, sound designer, improvisor and curator. She seldom plays the bass clarinet without electronic manipulation; and sometimes, she doesn’t play it at all.
Those familiar with Bertucci’s work from our past reviews, or even from her live performances, should throw out everything they know when considering the new release. To start, the opening cut is a flute piece: a sound collage that incorporates “an earworm from the Bulgarian folk song Dragano Draganke.” The collage imagines the process of forgetting, or at least trying to forget, a melody that is already embedded in the mind. As one can imagine, the process fails, while the composition does not. The more Bertucci alters…
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NEWS – Guest artist Hannah Kemp-Welch
Artist Hannah Kemp-Welch joined me with a selection of her favourite sounds, ranging from fluxus performances to guitar noise, beat poetry to musical boxes. Hannah’s practice centres around performative interventions using sound, playing with tech, though always lo-fi, DIY, and with a sense of humour. She investigates personal and social interactions when listening or experimenting with sound, with a pretty Fluxus approach. As well as performing and exhibiting work, Hannah runs the research blog sound art text. You can also find her on twitter at @SoundArtHannah.
Tune in from 1am – 3am (GMT, Morning of Tuesday 16th Feb) or 8pm – 10pm (EST, evening of Monday 15th Feb) on NTS.live.
This is also the 100th episode of Fractal Meat. Wahey!
You can hear other episodes from the archive here.
REVIEW REBLOG – Iris Garrelfs: Breathing Through Wires
Wow, just came across this review and I find this release is a free download. Had to reblog on both counts…
EVENT – Queef live in Plugd
benign presents:
Primal Barber Trio – Dublin a capella vocal trio. Grunts, gasps, wheezes, snorts, splutters, gurgles, mumbles, shouts, wails, and more.
https://desertedvillage.bandcamp.com/album/barberbarberbarbr
Queef – ‘Queef are the combined forceful imaginations of Claire Guerin and Laney Mannion (miniature zebra)
whistling into saucepans and banging stones off stones
bringing the enjoyment of making noise (all sorts of noise) to the greater public
experimenting in a live setting, exploring, connecting and bringing together a better understanding of the vocal calamity of humanity, to listen attentively to what one might have once been considered mundane household objects or debris one might find strewn across a rocky beach…’
Queef movie : vimeo.com/94867123
https://soundcloud.com/queef-2/
Plugd Records, Triskel Arts Centre
9.00pm, suggested donation €5
benign is a Cork based group aiming to promote experimental practice, musical and otherwise.
RSVP : https://www.facebook.com/events/441650019364566/
France Jobin ~ Singulum
Been a bit busy lately and suddenly find that there is a lot to post this week including this review courtesy of A Closer Listen…
Like a sluggish mummification process, the light and creamy textures of Singulum are gently wrapped around the body, embalming the slowly developing ambient music. On Singulum, Montreal sound artist France Jobin gently nudges her music forward, and it’s so hushed it’s hardly there at all; it’s an incredibly subtle approach.
Inspired by quantum physics, Jobin uses a series of quiet field recordings that are in turn manipulated, processed and lightly looped, the latter enjoying a healthy, liberal amount of space and freedom (an open loop, if there is such a thing), her modular synthesizers rearranging and transforming the music beyond all recognition. Science, sound and music are inextricably linked, so close as to resemble sons and daughters. They are elegant, despite the stuttering glitches that occasionally pass by. Reshaping both the timbre and the tonal quality of the original recording results in an entirely new entity being created.
Shapes inside the…
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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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Todays Discovery Reblog -the beauty of joan la barbara (scores and photographs)
Something a little different as my Todays Discovery is this website – The Hum Blog. Recommended.
I’m a huge fan of Joan La Barbara. Her LP The Voice Is The Original Instrument is one of my favorite documents of the 1970’s NY avant-garde. La Barbara is a master of advanced vocal technique. In addition to her own remarkable creative output, she’s had a long career working with many of the greatest names in avant-garde composition – John Cage, Robert Ashley, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, David Tudor, and her husband Morton Subotnick. In my wanderings around the internet I’ve come across some of her wonderful scores and images of performances etc. I thought I’d pass them along. To see and learn more visit her website.
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