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Discovery, Reblog, Recommends, Web Focus

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.

bradfordbailey's avatarThe Hum Blog

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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REVIEW REBLOG – Listen: ACRE TARN – ‘Dawn Faces’

Here is Todays Discovery – Acre Tarn and recommend listening to her Soundcloud page.
Courtesy to Notes on Sounds for the pointer and review.

Notes On Sounds's avatarNOTES, ON SOUNDS....

Hailing from The Lake District, Anna-Louisa Ehterington began impressing with her dreampop tunes last year with ‘Flex’ and ‘Lanterns.’ As ACRE TARN she’s been leading anyone who’ll follow down a rabbit hole that leads to a synth wonderland that’s hypnotic but propulsive enough to still get you dancing.

Her latest track ‘Dawn Faces’ doesn’t deviate too much from that already winning formula, instead pairing beautiful melodies and flittering synths together like we’ve become accustomed to. Still, it’s definitely not a sign of ACRE TARN slowing down, as ‘Dawn Faces’ might be her most engaging single yet; that’s in part due to the ethereal chanting Etherington adds and the weighty drums that keep the featherweight instrumentation grounded. Perhaps if Robyn spent a year listening to only the Cocteau Twins you’d get something that sounds like this. But Etherington beat her to it.

Listen to ‘Dawn Faces’ below.

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NEWS – DD DAY on TOUR

Source: DD DAY on TOUR

Further Information here –

 

Screening of the award-winning documentary The Delian Mode by Kara Blake

A new 17 minute audio collage of Delia Derbyshire archive material compiled by Delia Derbyshire archive lead researcher David Butler
3 music performances of DD Day commissions inspired by the Delia Derbyshire Archive by The Architects of Rosslyn (Mandy Wigby & Howard Jacobs), Caro C and Daniel Weaver
Live music will be accompanied by a digital visual art commission by Andrea Pazos.
Discovery, Introducing, Reblog, Recommends, Review

REBLOG – Midori Takada ‎- Through The Looking Glass

Some of you will know how I’ve championed this album in the past and so I’m glad to be able to reblog this here : ))
Courtesy to Obscure Music Daily.

Obscure Music Daily's avatarObscure Music Daily

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Through The Looking Glass is an album by Midori Takada that was released in 1983 on the label RCA. This album is ambient.

This album has some of my favorite ambient tracks on it. Beautiful serene melodies, slow warm drones, birds, windchimes, spastic xylophone(?) loops, and so on. The album utilizes lots of traditional and non-electronic instruments which gives it an awesome sound. Lots of wood winds and various minimalist percussions creating beautiful ambiances perfect for laying in a field on some alien planet watching the clouds. Half of the tracks are more serene and some are more tribal, especially with the final track “Catastrophe Σ” which is tribal ambient (a subgenre that focuses on rhythmic drumming instead of melodies) . My favorite tracks are the first, Mr. Henri Rousseau’s Dream, and the third, Trompe-L’oeil; the more serene / calm / melody driven ones.

Listen to it here

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Electronic Music, Reblog, Recommends, Review

REVIEW REBLOG – Björk: Vulnicura – Album Review

Lovely in-depth review courtesy of PonDeWayWayWay

pondewaywayway's avatarPon De Way Way Way

When I hear the words “breakup album” I have to hold back a groan; the cathartic nature of such an experience helps some artists to create their best work but it leads just as many, if not more, to deliver overwrought, cliché filled downers. So, when I was reading the news of  Vulnicura’s rush-release, my excitement was dampened somewhat by Björk’s own description of her latest album, her eighth and the first since 2011’s ambitious Biophilia project. However, as is almost always the case with the Icelandic auteur, things are rarely straightforward and never as expected. I should have known not to be worried, Vulnicura contains some of her most vulnerable and emotional work whilst ever continuing to innovate. As a result it may just be her best work since 2001’s Vespertine.

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Discovers, Focus, Introducing, Reblog, Recommends, Reviews

AOTY 2015 #9: Holly Herndon – Platform

Having a mass posting today…

pondewaywayway's avatarPon De Way Way Way

herndon Holly Herndon – Platform

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TODAYS DISCOVERY – Olga Wojciechowska – Maps And Mazes (Time Released Sound)

Headphone Commute has flagged this release a couple of times and every time the process of reblogging has failed me. Not this time. This is music that strikes a chord with it’s sheer beauty and would be on my Christmas list or Best Of… if I had one.

Read the review here –

[Maps And Mazes] is a stunning collection of electronically treated modern-classical beauties… somewhat dark and moody at times […] yet always elegant and absorbing…

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ARTICLE REBLOG – The Top Ten Sounding Out! Posts of 2015!

So much to read and also revisit. Relevant and thoughtful as ever.

Aaron Trammell's avatarSounding Out!

The holidays are here and to celebrate Sounding Out! has compiled a list of 2015’s top ten most popular posts (according to views). So, cozy up to that monitor, queue up that epic album you’ve been meaning to listen to, and take a second to revisit some of our best memories this year.
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Vincent Andrisani
To conceive of Havana in sound is to think not of the material spaces of the city, but rather, across them. From inside the home, residents participate in conversations taking place in the streets, while those in the streets often call for the attention of their friends or family indoors. Through windows, open doors, and porticoes, residents engage in interpersonal exchanges that bring neighbourhood communities to life. To listen across these spaces is to listen trans-liminally from the threshold through which sounds must pass as they animate the vibrant social life…

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Event, News, Opportunity, Recommends, Spotlight, Web Focus

NEWS – female:pressure – Call for Submissions

female pressure

< CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS >

via female:pressure statement –

female:pressure is launching an awareness and solidarity campaign for the canton of #Rojava (located in northern Syria), where women participate on all levels of decision making and building a new society from scratch, with built-in social, racial and ethnic justice, religious freedom, ecological principles and gender equality.

With a series of music, media and sound art to listen, dance and fight to, we would like to send our love and strength to these women and spread a positive message in support of their efforts.

We are calling for participation and submission of works. The work must be related and critically deal with the topic of #Rojava; otherwise there are no restrictions. Everybody is welcome!

Further details HERE

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ARTICLE REBLOG – Alyx’s Favorite Albums of 2015

Whatever your musical tastes there is much to agree with and discover here and some time left before Christmas to add to wish lists…

Recommended reading – Not just any old Best of List.

Alyx Vesey's avatarFeminist Music Geek

On Monday, I discussed some of the TV show music cues I liked from this year. Today I’m providing a list of my favorite albums. I’m not really one for hierarchies. There is a top three (kinda), but after that it’s unranked because what does it mean to be the seventh-best record of the year really? That said, it’s no accident that many of these entries interrogate citizenship in a year profoundly defined by malevolent structures and forces that unequally restrict and allocate who gets to be a citizen and under what conditions. It’s also quite deliberate that many of these albums were self-produced by women resisting the pressure to justify themselves. It’s not a comprehensive list, as undoubtedly soon I’ll unearth a treasure or someone will recommend something. Year-end lists are comforting narratives we craft about our own tastes to cope with the passage of time and I always like…

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