Femintronic is on Soundcloud and has a wide selection of playlists covering all genres.
Here is the newest one with a focus on Field Recordings
TODAYS’ DISCOVERY – Geneviève Calame – Labyrinthes Fluides
Courtesy to Ekho: Women in Sonic Art for Todays’ Discovery Genevieve Calame and here is some more –
“During the 1970s, classically trained Swiss composer Geneviève Calame (1946-1993) worked at Geneva’s Studio de Musique Contemporaine, where she composed various electronic music compositions likeL’Oiseau Du Matin (1972) or Geometry I, II, III (1975-1976). She was the co-founder of the Artistic Research Team, or A.R.T., in 1971, working on intermedia projects including video and new technologies. Created in the A.R.T. studio in 1976, Labyrinthes Fluides, is based on the EMS Spectron video sythesizer. allowing sound waves to generate pictures and movement.” Continuo
WEB FOCUS – SONICTERRAIN
As the site states –
“Sonic Terrain is dedicated to explore the reality of sound, encouraging to not just hearing it, but to listening to it (and recording it) for reflection, relaxation, art, science, etc, valuing sound as a fundamental element that is practiced and studied by an incredibly wide array of professions: laypeople, sound designers, multi-media artists, philosophers, musicians, scientists, researchers, ecology conservationists, educators and many more. That’s why Sonic Terrain aims to offer a place for those disciplines to be cross-pollinated in order to expose everyone to aspects of sound, recording and reality they may not have considered yet.”
A huge resource for all things sound and here are a couple of tasters:
Christine Sun Kim on SonicTerrain
Polar Explorations: An Exclusive Interview with Cheryl Leonard
TODAYS’ DISCOVERY – KUTIN, KINDLINGER, KUBISCH, GODOY
Thanks to A Closer Listen for the review of Ventil Label releases, leading me to this –
New Label: Ventil Records
Courtesy of A Closer Listen.
Those who only know Peter Kutin from last year’s excellent sound collage Burmese Days may be surprised at the sound of the new label founded by Kutin and Peter Kindlinger. Only one of the first two releases is field recording related, and even the untreated Decomposition morphs into an electronic work by the time it has ended. But only a few years ago, both were part of the quartet dirac, whose drone-like, single-track album Phon is still one of our favorites. In Kutin / Kindlinger / Kubisch, the participants’ names are no longer obscured. The label’s other preliminary project, Ventil, hides the names of drummer Katharina Ernst and visual artist Conny Zenk, but we suspect it would have been confusing to call the quartet Kutin / Kindlinger / Ernst / Zenk.
This latter trio is responsible for the label’s first release, a wise move as the name of the…
View original post 547 more words
Rugby Stories Call
I’m helping commission this fantastic open call for #audioportraits of Exeter for Phonic FM, Full Details here http://www.phonic.fm/rugbystories
Deadline Friday 12 June 2015
Deadline Time: 5pm
Budget 750
Phonic FM posts open call to artists
This September and October, England will host Rugby World Cup 2015. Three of the tournament’s matches will be played at the Sandy Park ground in Exeter.
With support from Exeter City Council, Phonic FM is inviting proposals for original creative audio portraits of Exeter and its communities, in some way exploring the reach and influence of the Rugby World Cup 2015 matches in the city.
These hour-long works will be broadcast on Phonic FM around the time of the matches at Sandy Park. They will also be posted online, shared with other broadcasters and deposited for posterity with various libraries and archives.
Four works will be commissioned. A fee…
View original post 185 more words
SUNDAY MIX – SOMETHING DIFFERENT
So, I had a think about the Sunday Mixes…and I think to allow them to breathe and get some space, I am going to post one a month, starting with this month and this is a little different as I am highlighting a Poetry website and SoundCloud page from a Modern Pianist –
I have reblogged Lindy Karpestras’ poetry below but via her SoundCloud page I have discovered the ambient artist Madeleine Cocolas
the unknowable transforming point 181/185
Something Different for the Sunday Mix today.
TODAYS’ DISCOVERY #3 – ZAHRA MANI
TODAYS’ DISCOVERIES #2 _litter
Feminatronic 
You must be logged in to post a comment.