I seem to have missed a whole month here but to be honest there are far more important things on my mind at the moment and I’m sure yours.
I have been highlighting some SoundCloud pages on twitter and thought it would be good to post them here too. As usual no preferences and literally just random…
About 1200 artists here and growing…
“…she pushed the boundaries between electronic music, classical music and art in a truly unique way.” – Warp Records
I am absolutely beside myself to hear of the death of Mira Calix.
She was one of the rare artists who supported my little venture through the years and for that long distance online connection, I am grateful. Thoughts go out to her family and friends.❤
I seem to have missed a whole month here but to be honest there are far more important things on my mind at the moment and I’m sure yours.
I have been highlighting some SoundCloud pages on twitter and thought it would be good to post them here too. As usual no preferences and literally just random…
For a short while I wrote for the No Audience Underground zine TQ
For the past couple of years I put together playlists for the zine to introduce to a wider audience some of the artists that I had listened to since starting my Feminatronic journey. These lists were specific to the zine readership in that the music I selected was deemed to be more challenging, underground , experimental and not always solely female identifying artists. My aim was purely to get a predominantly male readership to consider things maybe outside their comfort zone and mine too.
Due to the natural development of the zine, my article was no longer required and so I thought that I would continue them here, starting with my very first –
My Listening 8 Tracker #1
I’m at the age where I spend a lot of time thinking about the past, some good and some not so good but the simple concept of my listening 8Tracker is based on happy hours of music discovery.
In case some of you don’t know, many years ago as a bored teenager a family acquaintance let me use her 8Track. Do you remember them? Huge cartridges that you fed into the front of a large wooden box, and with giant headphones on, you were transported to new sonic realms, in my case it was Roxy Music ‘Stranded’.
Taking this simple concept, I thought I would put together an 8 Track of my recent listening of musicians from around the world together with links. These artists create music that fits loosely into the NAU sound (there may be some leeway with this) but I think it’s always good to expand your listening horizons and after all this is my personal listening.
Oh, and they mostly also just happen to identify as female, unless otherwise stated ; )
No order. No preferences. Links where available .
Happy Listening.
eggshell
Suzanne Bedlam et les Herbes Folles
France
furiosa aa
https://soundcloud.com/ortie03/tracks
diy, electronic, experimental,noise
Taxidermia for Solo Cello and Electronics
Katarina Gryvul
Ukraine
https://katarinagryvul.bandcamp.com/
electroacoustique, electronic, experimental, ambient, avant-pop, cello, classical contemporary, ethereal vocals,experimental electronic
Wanna SEE
Itta
Korea
Experimental, shamanic, drone, ambient, psychedelic pop
Breadwoman and Other Tales
Anna Homler and Steve Moshier
USA
Experimental drone, electronic music, improv, sampling sound art,sound collage, turntablism
To Vo
Excerpt by Luong Hue Trinh
Viet Nam
Electroacoustic
Isama Noko
Isabel Nogueira and Maia Koenig
Brazil / Argentina
https://maiakoenig.bandcamp.com/music
Alternative, electronic, experimental, chiptune, noise
Eva Van Deuren aka
Orphan Fairytale
Belgium
Self made electronics, toy instruments, cassette loops, small keyboards
This year to try and cover as much as is possible for a single person, I am dedicating each month to a specific area of interest or platform and just by chance February is Longlisten month.
Sometimes tracks are just too long for the usual playlist I put together so I decided to put together bite sized playlists for longer tracks.
Bite sized in number of artists but not scrimping on the length and quality of the listening : )
Take some time and immerse in the sound waves.
Artists are Leden / Angusdei, Alina Kalancea, Katrine Amsler, Mia Zabelka, Marta De Pascalis, Sophie Delafontaine and Pauline Oliveros.
Each disc will feature two artists, both of whom have “carte blanche”.
The first collection is from Audrey Poujoula & Maria Costa and the following collection will be between Limpe Fuchs & Valérie Vivancos
Here are a couple of other long listens that I have enjoyed this week –
electronic, dark ambient, experimental, experimental electronic, ritual, ritual music, sound art, sound poetry, soundscape
Vase de Spagyrie
by Julia Hanadi AL ABED
experimental, acousmatic, acousmatique, electroacoustic, experimental electronic, musique concrete, musique électroacoustique
Julia Hanadi aLabed is a french composer in musique concrète who also plays live electronics.
Eclectic Electronic Soundscapes –
Sometimes tracks are just too long for the usual playlist I put together so I decided to put together bite sized playlists for longer tracks.
Bite sized in number of artists but not scrimping on the length and quality of the listening : )
Take some time and immerse in the sound waves.
As with all the playlists, they are jumping off points to discoveries. They are not meant to be definitive. Just let some of the tracks play onto the next….follow up on “sounds like”….see who’s following, many artists follow other artists….
Artists are Andrea Parkins, OR poiesis, Pom2B, Susana Lopez and Sabina Hyoju Ahn.
Starting to wind down a bit as I’m planning to take some time off in August to finally complete projects of my own and see to some life things finally 😁
In the meantime here’s an eclectic collection of throwback tracks worth listening to…
2018 – Experimental track using a 4ms Spectral Multiband Resonator, PEG, Mutable instruments Clouds, Braids, Tides, Kinks. Frequency Central Ultrawave and Wave Runner LFOs, Fonitronik TH 555 VCO.
Mutliple layers of tracks recorded in Ableton. A bass track added using Abletons Analog synth,
Jana Winderen – Frozen Signal
from Spire Live in Berlin by Spire
2012
classical, experimental, organ
PASSAGE
by Allysse Riordan
2017
field recordings
Breath
by Lydia Ang
2012
experimental, electroacoustic
leaveslips
by tay_ploops
2016
experimental, collage, curious, fragile, hiss, intuitive, journal, loops, lullabye, notes to shelf, sketchbook, sound art, ukulele, wyrd
My forest Is Deep
by CLARA GAZUL
2012
devotional, ambient, dark, dark ambient, drone, electro, experimental soundtrack, experimental electronic, gothic, melancholy, soundscape, soundtrack, theatrical
A little late but better late than never…
Quitratue
by Marta De Pascalis
2014
Experimental
Alien Bog/Beautiful Soop
by Pauline Oliveros
1966/ 1967
re-released 1997
classical, avant-garde, contemporary, experimental, experimental electronic, tape music
Since it was Canada Day last Thursday I reposted this playlist for #throwbackthursday…
Eclectic Electronic Soundscapes –
“Recent lists of pioneering women in electronic music have bolstered the fact that women were right there making significant work during the nascence of electronic music, from the late ’50s to ’70s, on a quest for sounds and sequences never heard before. Yet most of the women who helped pioneer electronic music in Canada don’t pop up in those lists. On the surface, the early electronic era in Canada looks like a man’s game, yet looking a little deeper you’ll find Canadian women on the margins, surrounded by tape machines, computers and instruments of their own making.” – Red Bull Music Academy.
They still are at the forefront and this playlist is just a jumping off point….. Artists are –
Ann Southam, Hildegard Westerkamp, Marcelle Deschenes-Harvey, Shimmer Crush, Helena Krobath, Jessica Gabriel, ambient – sonic, Roxanne Turcotte and Rose Bolton.
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