Category Archives: Recommends
SOUNDCLOUD PLAYLISTS
Feminatronic is on Soundcloud,linking with as many artists from around the world, creating electronic music from as many genres as possible. Every Monday, I put together a playlist of usually 8 tracks, around a general theme and this week the focus is on Duo’s. Whatever your musical interests, there’s bound to be something waiting to be discovered.
REBLOG – interview with Haiku Salut
As expected, a different sort of interview from Yeah I Know it Sucks but that’s no bad thing. I’m just in time for a couple of gig plugs too : ))
Whilst I adore music in general, I very rarely fall head over heels for a band. So far my journalistic adventures have introduced you to two such acts, Twink and The Caring Babies. The advantage for these two acts is that they live across a big ocean, so can escape my overly earnest fandom. No such luck for Haiku Salut. From the moment I picked up their “How We Got Along After the Yarn Bomb” EP I have been drawn into their magical, beautiful musical world, a journey which continued with their gorgeous debut album “Tricolore”. Listening to their music truly is that, a journey, through folk, electronica alongside glitches and chiptune influences, it’s music to which you can dream and escape the real world. The latest album “Etch and Etch Deep” continues where the other releases left off, whilst sounding incredibly confident and complete.
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TODAYS DISCOVERY – Sara Bigdeli Shamloo
I know very little about Sara Bigdeli Shamloo and I can’t recall how I came across her music but I’m glad I did. What I do know is that she is a Iranian vocalist / songwriter / composer and much of her work is in the theatre (correct me if I’m wrong). She is also a member of 2 bands – 9T Antiope and Migrain, the latter I have been listening to recently.
TODAYS DISCOVERY -Diane Thome
There was a bit of a buzz on Twitter today about a list compiled on RYM website covering women in electroacoustic, minimalism, tape music, musique concrète, free improvisation, and related genres which I highly recommend.
This is a brilliant work in progress and although there are many artists I know there are many that I do not. Never missing a chance to discover new music I began to look through and just followed the links.
In doing so, I came across Todays Discovery – Diane Thome.
Here is a wonderful collaboration she did with Robert Austin. He states on the Soundcloud page –
This is a collaboration with my longtime collaborator, Seattle composer Diane Thome. I designed sounds for her (usually hundreds), from which she selected a subset, and arranged the samples into an audio collage, typically 8-16 tracks. I would then nip, tuck, re-synthesize, adjust dynamics and panning etc. We would pass it back and forth until we both agreed that it was ‘done’. I would sometimes write sections for pieces myself, and the goal was to produce a computer-synthesized tape which could stand on its own, though typically a solo instrument would play together with the tape. “Estuaries” was scored for oboe and computer synthesized sound, and here is the latter.
TODAYS DISCOVERY – CATERINA BARBIERI
REBLOG – Chosen One: Christina Vantzou
You know that feeling of happiness when you are waiting for a bus and two come along at the same time? Here is a wonderful in depth (and I mean it)interview with Christina Vantzou.
Courtesy to Fractured Air for the reblog.
Interview with Christina Vantzou.
“ I think about images a lot while working on sound, but in a very simplified way at first. I collect images and slowly individual scenes starts to form in mind. The feeling or level of tension the images would hold against the music is what I think about, rather than narrative.”
—Christina Vantzou
Words: Mark & Craig Carry
October 2015 saw the Kansas-born and Brussels-based artist and composer Christina Vantzou release her third solo album – ‘N°3’ – via Chicago-based independent Kranky. Vantzou – whose formidable body of work also spans the mediums of both visual art and film-making – began her own music career as one half (alongside Adam Wiltzie) of the duo The Dead Texan as the hybrid role of keyboardist/animator/video artist. The pair released their debut self-titled album in 2004 (Vantzou’s distinctive artwork graces the sleeve) and still ranks as one of the…
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REBLOG – Fractured Air 46: Moon Ate the Dark ‘Moon Over Blood Mountain’
Courtesy to Fractured Air for the reblog and suggest you listen to Moon Ate the Dark, who I have featured previously on Feminatronic. Great playlist : ))
Moon Ate the Dark is the neoclassical-infused drone collaborative project between Welsh pianist Anna Rose Carter and Canadian producer Christopher Brett Bailey. The London-based artists’ two full-length releases – 2012’s self-titled debut and this year’s highly-anticipated follow-up (‘Moon Ate The Dark II’), both released on the prestigious Berlin-based imprint Sonic Pieces – forges a deeply affecting experience for the heart and mind: the rich, dense textures of Bailey’s production is masterfully interwoven with Carter’s stunningly beautiful piano-based compositions.
Fractured Air 46: Moon Ate the Dark “Moon Over Blood Mountain”
To listen on Mixcloud:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Fractured_Air/fractured-air-46-moon-ate-the-dark-moon-over-blood-mountain/
Tracklisting:
01. Emily Hall ‘Scream’ [Bedroom Community]
02. Laurie Spiegel ‘Drums’ [Philo, Unseen Worlds]
03. Jenny Hval ‘Blood Fight’ [Rune Grammofon]
04. Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind ‘Rocky Mountains’ [Warner Bros.]
05. Ikue Mori ‘Musashi Plain Moon’ [Tzadik]
06. Joanna Newsom ‘The Book of Right On’ [Drag City]
07. Eliane Radigue ‘Kyema’ (excerpt) [Experimental Intermedia Foundation]
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REBLOG – Sounding Out! Podcast #48: Sound and Sexuality in Video Games
As ever thought provoking…
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This week’s podcast questions how identity is coded into the battlecries shouted by characters in video games. By exploring the tools that sound studies provides to understand the various dynamics of identity, this podcast aims to provoke a conversation about how identity is encoded within the design of games. The all too invisible intersection between sound, identity, and code reveals the ways that sound can help explain the interior logic of the games and other digital systems. Here, Milena Droumeva and Aaron Trammell discuss how femininity and sexuality have been coded within game sounds and consider the degree to which these repetitive and objectifying tropes can be resisted by players and designers alike.
Milena Droumeva is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University specializing in mobile technologies, sound studies…
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REVIEW REBLOG – Marie Davidson – Un Autre Voyage
Feminatronic favourite, Marie Davidson and thanks to Yeah I Know it Sucks for the review.
Artist: Marie Davidson
title: Un Autre Voyage
keywords: electronic, experimental, ambient, avant-garde, drone, uncategorizable, Austin
Label: Holodeck Records
within an instant Marie attaches synthesized music with an electronic beat to the brain of the lucky listener. With perfect skill and will to thrill the music explores a journey infected by the story telling voice of Marie who merged perfectly on the bubbling strangeness that is this music. We are all burning’ the story goes; and I can only say that this music is worth to burn for! But wait,(don’t burn up straight away) it’s getting even better!
With ‘Excès de vitesse’ the electronic music becomes very groovy, with a infectious baseline and a rocking steady beat which gives the voice of Marie the right amount of flavor to go all French on us. It’s like rocking out on commodore bleep rock from a time that we all would smoke freely…
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