Category Archives: Recommends

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ON INSTAGRAM THIS MONTH – MAY

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REBLOG – CREATIVE LISTENING – A CLOSER LISTEN

SP* Episode 36: CREATIVE LISTENING – with C. Lavender [podcast]

C. Lavender is a sound artist, sound healing practitioner, educator, and author of Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives. She has worked with labels including Editions Mego, RVNG, Longform Editions, and most recently iDEAL, who have just released Rupture In The Eternal Realm, a sonic reinterpretation of a Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice. In this episode of the Sound Propositions podcast, we discuss the influence of Pauline Oliveros, how working as an educator led to writing Transcendent Waves, and the evolution of the relationship between her practice as a sound artist and sound healer. (Joseph Sannicandro)

I have known of C Lavender’s work for a number of years and posted past releases here and on other platforms. It’s always great when you watch peoples upward trajectory ( nothing to do with me).

Recommend the podcasts, not just this one, and thanks to ACL for still allowing me to repost and discover new sounds on a regular basis.

This led to tonight’s longlisten –

ambient, electronic ambient, deep listening, experimental, industrial, noise, synth

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ANOTHER ONE LEAVES TOO EARLY

Sawako (1978-2024)

ambient, electronic music, electronica, experimental, field recording, minimal

ambient, electronic music, electronica, experimental, field recording, minimal

A lovely overview here – also recommend looking around FOUR QUESTIONS | LOCATED SOUND the act and art of listening to located sound, curated by Jez riley French

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THREE RELEASES

New Release

experimental, noise, cello, electro, electronic experimental, techno

Recommended listening – Sibylle Pomorin (*1956)

https://soundcloud.com/sibylle-pomorin

Artist of the Week – Pamela Z

experimental, electronic, singer, theatrical, vocal

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ROLE MODELS… PAMELA Z

Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist making works for voice, electronics, samples, gesture activated MIDI controllers, and video.

https://pamelaz.com

Heroes: Pamela Z
July 11, 2023
Text by Michael Anthony Hall

electronic, experimental, vocal, avant-garde, contemporary classical, electroacoustic

Pamela Z: Expanding Our Imaginations

experimental, electronic, theatrical, vocal

https://www.sfcv.org/articles/feature/omnivorous-mind-pamela-z

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THREE RELEASES

One I missed

Ghost Structures
Female Laptop Orchestra – EP release date:
5 July 2022

New Release –

electronic, chillout, electronic electronica, experimental, live recording

Recommended –

drone, experimental, glass, neo-classical, percussion, sound art

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THREE RELEASES

I’ve started to do something on twitter (can’t get away with the new moniker 😠) which occasionally I shall put here for those of you interested in more short bites in sound.

New release –

24bit, 96khz, ambient, atmospheric, cosmic, meditation, space music

One that I missed –

electronic, ambient, experimental, new classical music

Recommendation –

experimental, acousmatic, electroacoustic, electronic, musique concrète

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LISTENING TO…

Recommended longlisten – Beautifully immersive and enveloping…

experimental, ambient, drone, electroacoustic, noise

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LISTENING TO…

experimental, ambient, electronic.

Sparse with plenty of sonicspace . Minimalist but not. The blackbird outside my window approved : )

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KAIJA SAARIAHO

1952 – 2023

It is with sadness that I learnt of the death of Kaija Saariaho. There are others more eloquent and knowledgeable than me, who have written obituaries to match her importance in the pantheon of composers.

All I can say is that personally, her music was one of the first where I discovered the beauty of the natural world encapsulated in sound and composition, using both orchestral and electronic instruments.

As my blackbird sings in the garden this morning, somehow, I hear a connection between his song and her songs.

Composer, electronic, opera, electroacoustic, orchestral, chamber music, innovator, pioneer.

Lichtbogen (1985-86) for nine musicians and live electronics –

Solar

Verblendungen (1982/1984)