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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

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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‘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”

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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!

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Book Cover — **Between Air and Electricity**
Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments
Cathy van Eck

Cathy Van Eck – Between Air and Electricity is open access now, free and downloadable per chapter, you’ll find it here:

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Listening to –

October 16, 2020 Feminatronic

Whities 030
by SØS Gunver Ryberg

electronic, idm, dark ambient, experimental, noise, techno

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June 28, 2020 Feminatronic

Para-Ti
by Liliana Carvalho

Ambient, field recording, sound art, soundscape

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June 4, 2020 Feminatronic

Ain Bailey

Sound Artist, DJ, Sound Play

” uses field recordings and found sounds and are inspired by ideas and reflections on silence and absence, architectural urban spaces, and feminist activism. Her electroacoustic compositions are created for a variety of forms, including multichannel and mixed media installations, moving image soundtracks, live performance and dance ”

Ain Bailey

British Music Collection

Dr Norah Lorway

Lecturer, Researcher, live Coding, drones and beats

Music on the xylem record label

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Anna Xambo, PhD
” Senior Lecturer at DMU. Experimental electronic music maker. Co-Founder of WoNoMute at NTNU. Co-Founder of online records label Carpal Tunnel.”

pyr247 – H2RI Generated music using her self-built tool MIRLC

Anna Xambó

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May 22, 2020 Feminatronic

Cecile Babiole

” …visual and audio arts through installations and performances that investigate digital medias with irony”

Cecile Babiole

Clara de Asis

“…electroacoustics and minimal approaches to sound….highlights simplicity, non-intervention and active listening”

Clara de Asís

Alexandra Cardenas

Composer/Programmer/Improviser/Live Coder

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Buy Music Lists

April 19, 2020 Feminatronic

Thought I would put together some lists to help support in a very small way, artists, labels and collectives at this difficult time during the COVID-19 pandemic and also simply because it’s music that needs to be heard : )

I’ll add new lists regularly but here are the first two.

As always – No order. No preferences.

#1 – Collectives and Compilations

Feminatronic Buy Music Club – Let’s Stick Together #2

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April 3, 2020 Feminatronic

Moniek Darge – Belgian composer, musician, audio artist and educator.

005: Moniek Darge – An Interview with field recording artist Moniek Darge

Andrea May (BRAZIL) aka mayHD is a visual and sound artist. Projects include infographics, illustration, collage, video projection (vjing), installation, sound art, djing, and collective actions.

Orphan Fairytale

Experimental, electronic

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February 24, 2020 Feminatronic

Compilado Feminoise México

by Sisters Trianglar Records

released February 19, 2019

Valley Girl by Madalyn Merkey

released April 2, 2014

Suma Love by Tropical Rock

released January 1, 2015

Tropical Rock is Kathleen Baird & Camilla Padgitt-Coles

Radiant Stars by Lucette Bourdin

released December 12, 2009

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February 24, 2020 Feminatronic

I have been having a giant clear-out and I found loads of scraps of paper accumulated over the last 8 years with artist names on them.
So I’ve decided that for 2020 I will post a few here at a time and add them to the artist directory, as well as posting on Twitter and Facebook.

There are many…

As usual, no order – no preference

Alina Maldonado

Violinist, composer, improviser.

Photo by Bradford Bailey

Also a member of AnaTrizas –

“A women artists collective conformed by Alina Hernández, Daniela Falcón and Shanttal Saad, who explored through sound and transmedia the meaning of femininity and the dissolution of identity. Concerned about the empowerment of women in the improvisation and experimental music scenes they look up to collaborate with other women in order to create a stronger community in which they support each other.