Category Archives: Spotlight On

Focus, History, ICYMI, Interviews, Listening to..., Reading, Recommends, Rolemodels, Spotlight On

A BEAUTIFUL READ…

April 6, 2021 Feminatronic

https://thequietus.com/articles/29814-annea-lockwood-interview

A Quietus Interview
Earth, Wind And Fire: An Interview With Annea Lockwood

Jennifer Lucy Allan talks to the New Zealand born composer about love letters on quarter-inch tape, piano gardens and doll shops, and the physical effects of sound upon our bodies

7704A – Tiger Balm
by Annea Lockwood
1977

Experimental, chants, folk, meditation, traditional

Bandcamp, Focus, Introducing, Listening to..., Spotlight, Spotlight On

LISTENING TO…

March 15, 2021 Feminatronic

Pioneers EP
by Johanna Knutsson, Lioness, Tora Vinter, Fjäder, Ravens’vor
2020

Electronic, experimental, house, ambient, ambient electronic, deephouse, new age, techno

“These tracks were inspired by three pioneers within electronic music, Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire and Clara Rockmore. The approach was to mould these artists tools, sounds and mannerisms, but filter them trough our own, contemporary creative lenses.“

Bandcamp, Electronic Music, Listening to..., Recommends, Rolemodels, Spotlight, Spotlight On, Sunday Ambience, YouTube

Sunday Ambience

January 24, 2021 Feminatronic

Eliane Radigue – Born 24th January, 1932

Octopus
by Helene Breschand / Eliane Radigue / Kasper T. Toeplitz

Experimental, avant-garde, classical, electronic, improv, postmodern

#Throwback, Bandcamp, Catch Up, Focus, From the Vaults, ICYMI, Introducing, Listening to..., Soundcloud, SoundCloud Spotlight, Spotlight, Spotlight On

It Wouldn’t Be Christmas here without…

December 24, 2020 Feminatronic

Finally, made it to Christmas eve and probably, like many, I feel that it’s been a hard slog of a year, more so for some, especially those working in the Entertainment and Hospitality sectors. If you are able, and I know it’s hard, try and buy someone’s’ music this Christmas. Many artists are struggling and a ka=ching, however small, could mean more than you will ever know.

I’m going to post a couple of usual suspects, an old playlist that’s still good, and also a crazy happy new release from Xylitol that made me smile : )

Signing off now for a few days. Wishing you ALL, whoever you are, wherever you are, hopefully, a Peaceful and Happy Christmas. O / Feminatronic

#Throwback, Bandcamp, Catch Up, Focus, Listening to..., Spotlight, Spotlight On

#Throwback 4/12/2020

December 4, 2020 Feminatronic

I have always been reluctant to use hashtags, not sure why but after 8 years I think maybe I should join the modern age : D

I have begun to do the #throwback on twitter , an album on Tuesdays and one on Thursdays, no order or prefences, it just has to be released before this year but it is a good way to get more music that might have been missed, a little spotlight. I’m trying to post contrasting releases, so this week is a collection of noise artists and idm –

ladyz in noyz 3
by Various Artists
2013

—————————————————————————————

Cyclizine
by Lux E Tenebris – Now known as Meemo Comma
2016

#Throwback, Bandcamp, Catch Up, ICYMI, Listening to..., Spotlight, Spotlight On

#Throwback

November 26, 2020 Feminatronic

I have always been reluctant to use hashtags, not sure why but after 8 years I think maybe I should join the modern age : D

I have begun to do the #throwback on twitter , an album on Tuesdays and one on Thursdays, no order or prefences, it just has to be released before this year but it is a good way to get more music that might have been missed a little spotlight. Here’s two quite contrasting releases to start –

Santiago
by Flavia Goa
2019

experimental, experimental guitar

——————————————————————————————

Where Time Meets Space
by Mila Chiral
2017

electronic, ambient, dance, techno

Articles, Focus, ICYMI, Interviews, Reading, Rolemodels, Spotlight, Spotlight On

Some Good Reads…

November 13, 2020 Feminatronic

A little update…I’m still here but like many I’m taking stock of things. In the meantime, here’s some reading that you might be interested in –

Maryanne Amacher – Petra – The experimental composer’s Petra steps inside a cyberpunk cathedral. by Geeta Dyal

——————————————————————————————

Bristol in Stereo // Holly Herndon
Published on Apr 25, 2019

Holly Herndon talks about PROTO and not messing up the next internet in Bristol’s live and new music magazine.

——————————————————————————————

Chipzel has spent a decade making incredible music with Game Boys

“I thought it was super cool and really punk, and really futuristic and weird and nerdy,” she says of discovering the chiptune scene. “I just loved everything about the aesthetic.”

——————————————————————————————

Kate Bush’s Never For Ever: From Promising Artist to Innovator and Influential Producer – November 11, 2020

Sam Liddicott explores the importance of this now forty year old release and Kate Bush as writer, performer and producer.

——————————————————————————————

‘She made music jump into 3D’: Wendy Carlos, the reclusive synth genius

“She went platinum by plugging Bach into 20th-century machines, and was soon working with Stanley Kubrick. But prejudice around her gender transition pushed Wendy Carlos out of sight”

——————————————————————————————

Resonance: Angélica Negrón and the Poetics of Musical Automata (November 2020) – I Care If You Listen

“The world is fortunate to have artists like Angélica Negrón who continually expand what is possible in the arts, and thus the human experience.” Read more from Sun Yung Shin on ICIYL!

——————————————————————————————