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ETHEREAL SOUNDSCAPES COMPILATION PLANNED

Here’s an opportunity some artists may be interested in : )

demerararecords's avatarDemerara Records

Demerera Records plan to put out a compilation in 2016 focused on ethereal, otherworldly soundscapes. So if you have tracks that are maybe harmonically modal and unconventional or which utilise strong evocative sounds in a surreal or dreamlike way, please submit them using one of the following methods:

  • create a dropbox folder and add demerararecords@yahoo.co.uk
  • put the track(s) on a Soundcloud page & email details to us
  • attach file(s) to a WeTransfer file with a covering message

Please do not use any other method to submit tracks. Tracks selected will be used on an informal license basis whereby the composer/artist allows Demerara Records to use the track(s) on the album but the composer/artist retains full ownership of both the track and recording and can use it/them again for separate release in the future.

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REVIEW REBLOG – Madl Qurina – Don’t Make a Sound

This is lovely in its strangeness with a darker underside. Found Madl on Soundcloud if you are interested. Thanks to  Yeah I Know it Sucks for tracking this down and the review.

kainobuko's avatarYeah I Know It Sucks

Artist: Madl Qurina
title: Don’t Make a Sound
keywords: electronic, confusing, cute, electronic, experimental, Vancouver

If you go for this release you might experience the music gracefully swimming in like a full grown swan from the local mystery park. You might hear its Soft and calmness,  you might be aware of it slightly being confused as it follows the pleasant stream right into the pleasure receptors that are also known as ‘ears’. You might hear lo-fi waves that go from watery flow into another, bringing elegance and pleasantness wherever they go in a dreamy music way. You might hear this all, but you have to be quiet so not to destroy or miss out on the hidden elements within this atmosphere.

You might experience this as the place in which you might meet angelic sleepy melodies, greeting you like fairy tales in which a secretive voice kindly whispers a flattering…

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Electro Camp 2015 – festival & workshop, September 9-13

Thanks for posting this and hope I’m not too late to repost : )

Laura Zattra's avatarlaura zattra

Electronicgirls è una netlabel dedicata all’attività delle donne nel campo della musica elettronica del presente e del passato. Dal 9 al 13 Settembre (Forte Marghera, Venezia) Electronicgirls organizza questo evento (festival + workshop) a cui non potete mancare. Iscrivetevi: le iscrizioni scadono a breve, il 24 agosto! Avete ancora pochi giorni di tempo per farlo!

Electronicgirls is a netlabel dedicated to the effort of women in electronic music from the past and present. From September 9th to 13th they are organizing this new special event (Forte Marghera, Venezia). You cannot miss it! Only a few days are left before subscriptions close up on August 24th. Hurry up!

ELECTRO CAMP III

JENNIFER ROSA/ VENIERO RIZZARDI/ FRANCESCA VASSALLO
* performers  / * musicians  /  * video makers

Program: http://liveartscultures.weebly.com/electro-camp-3.html

Description: http://liveartscultures.weebly.com/workshop-electro-camp.html

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Aural Guidings: The Scores of Ana Carvalho and Live Video’s Relation to Sound

Long but very interesting read. Courtesy to Sounding Out! for this article.

Maile Colbert's avatarSounding Out!

If you were to choose to watch live video composer and performer Ana Carvalho’s work silent, your brain would be easily guided into a synesthetic experience, assigning sounds to each rhythmic change in color, pace, frame. Her images oscillate…they dance, they breathe. As you experience this, there might be a sense that you have lost your ability to hear the outside world, as these images are clearly attached to, woven with, a part of sound.

There is a history of composers such as Iannis Xenaxis and Cornelius Cardew using graphic scores and notation in place of traditional methods and symbols, as a way to reach a deeper expression through allowing greater interpretation, chance, and improvisation with their musicians. They concentrate more on conveying information on how a work is played, rather then what notes to play when. Carvalho uses the graphic score much in the same way, but also as a…

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Yôko Higashi – Dzera

Courtesy for this review to Yeah I Know it Sucks

kainobuko's avatarYeah I Know It Sucks

Artist: Yôko Higashi
title: Dzera
keywords: electronic, electroacoustic, experimental, electronic, experimental, pop, France
reviewer: Willem van O.

Copy and pasted from the artist bandcamp page for informational exchange:
Yôko Higashi – hamaYoko (born in Japan) is a performer,
vocalist, butoh dancer based in Lyon, France.

Dzera is a track of around 8 minutes, if Google translate can be trusted it was made out of improvisations, in the image of Dzerassae , a legendary fallen goddess named Nartes… Yes, I know.. I have no idea what it means too; but you know the French language sometimes can be L’horrible for non-French speaking and reading people / or lacking google translators. So let’s listen to a language everyone in the world could understand; music… Or maybe even better: Sound.

Yôko Higashi’s Dzera comes to me across as an unreal world,
a soundscape in which the air to inhale has made way for…

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MNM at the ZKM

Sometimes whilst wandering around the web I caught in it and come across blogs that catch my eye. Here is a recent discovery, Alan Gleesons’ sound art blog. I came across it quite by accident and glad I did as there are lots of eclectic posts which I will be reposting here, starting with this…

Alan's avatarAlan Gleeson

While the R&D for Feeedback5 moves ahead with lots of exciting developments MNM has been out on tour, this time to the ZKM in Karlsruhe. MNM is conceptualized & directed by Christian Graupner/Humatic and features Mieko Suzuki & Ming Poon. The software has been programmed by João Pais with the support of Musical Interaction Team at IRCAM Centre Pompidou / Norbert Schnell with tech & music collaboration from myself. While it has been displayed in the past as an standalone installation we have also developed a stage version, which is what we performed at the ZKM last week, with DJ Meiko Suzuki at the controls.

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TODAYS DISCOVERY – Selma Raziel – Ontologia I

This is challenging experimental music but the review gives you a very good idea of the release . Well worth a listen and Selma Raziel is my discovery today thanks to Yeah I Know it Sucks.

kainobuko's avatarYeah I Know It Sucks

Artist: Selma Raziel
title: Ontologia I
format: cassette / digital
keywords: alternative, experimental, binaural, beats, ritual, spoken word, Krakow, Poland

The first track on this album is named ‘parasomnie’ and transports us instantly inside a boiler room in which an avant-garde orchestra made out of rhythmically played boiler equipment and goose like chattering sounds, forms the music backdrop of Selma Raziel’s spoken word.

tchnął ducha’ begins more soft, as if the artist is stroking her both hands together to form a rhythm, while the legs are playing with some stuff that has been lying on the floor. With this sound situation Selma sets a very close and intimate atmosphere which she only enlarges by singing and talking softly in your ears.

With ‘dokąd zdąża teraz ‘the artist let listeners experience the full bennefits of focusing her music in a stereophonic way. Both left and right ear are being assigned to…

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Soldering with Nina Richards

Here are the other workshop details : )

Modular Synthesis with Zoë Blade

Support this network if you are in Yorkshire, UK. Looks like some interesting and positive things going on.

Colour of Sound: Indigo

Here is the most recent instalment of the sound of colour. It is both interesting and a subject that I hope to return to in the future.
There is an article about Writing about the Colour of Sound that accompanies this series which you can find here – recommended.
http://soundslikenoise.org/2015/07/18/writing-about-the-colour-of-sound-an-abc-radio-national-feature/
Courtesy to Sounds Like Noise for the series.

soundslikenoise's avatarSOUNDS LIKE NOISE

indigo

A short sample from Indigo. To listen to the full version go to ABC Soundproof.

In this penultimate episode of the Colour of Sound series we visit Isaac Newton as he investigates the nature of light and colour. It was Newton who formally identified the ROY-G-BIV colour spectrum after his experiments passing light through glass prisms.

Newton also attempted to connect colour with sound, a move which is often seen as an embarrassing blip in his career. He described each of the seven colours as musical intervals. Indigo, the colour of the supernatural, was described as a 6th interval.

Please go to ABC Soundproof to hear the episode in its entirety.

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