AFRICAN AND ASIAN SEASON – SYRPHE

June 6, 2015 Feminatronic 1 Comment

These are the final posts for the season on Feminatronic centred around African and Asian Electronic Artists, which began with the discovery of the Syrphe website and label.

The Syrphe site is a treasure trove of wonderful electronic and experimental music and soundscapes from mainly Africa and Asia. I thought that I would take some time through May to discover for myself and bring you some of the creative electronic music gems female artists are producing. It has led me on a trail of discovery, which I hope to continue to bring you in the future.

In the meantime, I hope that you have enjoyed listening as much as I have.

Bandcamp, Discovery

TODAYS’ DISCOVERY – FRKTL

June 4, 2015 Feminatronic

I posted this on Twitter a little late so I am reposting here.

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WEB FOCUS -SoundGirls.Org – F.A.Q.s

June 4, 2015 Feminatronic

SoundCloud Spotlight

SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT – CARO C

June 2, 2015 Feminatronic

This is a new idea I am trying here, to spotlight the SoundCloud pages of artists, many but not all, only have their SoundCloud pages as their web presence, especially new or under the radar artists and so this is another means to give a bit of a boost and shine a light on their music.

This week the artist is Caro C

“One-woman electronic avalanche” – bbc.co.uk

“a pioneering independent electronic musician” – Metro, UK

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Breaking the Barriers of Sound from Colombia

June 2, 2015 Feminatronic

Courtesy to SoundGirls.Org for another great spotlight interview.

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Actions and Sound

June 2, 2015 Feminatronic

Courtesy of Hayley Wanless for this post that contains appraisals of soundart from Laurie Anderson and Janet Cardiff.

Hayley Wanless

Whilst visiting the ‘Listening’ exhibition at the Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery and the Site Gallery I thought about how our actions interact and alter sound. The space is curated by Sam Belinfante and the exhibition shows us that listening is not solely through the ears but is also through the functions within our brain.

My favourite piece was Laurie Anderson’s ‘The Handphone Table’ (1978). Anderson’s work causes you to interact with the piece with your whole body. I sat down at the table and placed my elbows on the table top with my hands covering my ears and could feel the sound vibrate through my body. The sound cannot be heard until you touch the piece with your body. At one end of the table the sound was vocal tones and the other end was musical tones. This work was extremely interesting and made me think of how our interactions with…

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MORLEY GALLERY : THE ENGINE ROOM International Sound Art Exhibition

June 1, 2015 Feminatronic

Not too late for this….

Magz Hall

I am delighted my work Spiritual Radio, a transmitting FM book, has been selected for The Engine Room International Sound Art Exhibition. The show is happening at Morley College Gallery and features work by the work and other finalists for the engine room sound art competition, supported by TC Electronic, Tannoy, Mogami and HBB Communications.

Dates: 12 May – 12 June 2015 Private View: 11 May 2015 Opening times: Monday – Friday 11:00-18:00 Saturday 12:00-16:00 Sundays, bank holidays and Saturday 30 May closed Venue: Morley Gallery, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7HT

Entry: FREE – See more at:

https://engineroomlondon.org/pages/exhibition/

An expert panel of judges, electroacoustic composer, Professor Simon Emmerson and established artists, composers and performers, Ray Lee and Mira Calex will select winners, which will be announced during the opening night of the exhibition on 11 May.

22 works from emerging sound artists from Singapore, Russia…

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Todays’ Discovery -Ruth White – Evening Harmony 1969

June 1, 2015 Feminatronic

Here is Todays’ Discovery via Ekho, Women in Sonic Art – Ruth White

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“Ruth White (born 1925) is an American composer known for her electronic music compositions. While most of her career was dedicated to educational recordings, she is perhaps most famous for being an electronic music pioneer, most notably for her early explorations of sound using the moog synthesizer…”

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Ora 21 : Rest

June 1, 2015 Feminatronic

I am listening to this now and very interesting thoughts here…

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Ora 21: Rest
Daniela Cascella and Salomé Voegelin, with James Wilkes
28 May 2015
8pm
Resonance 104.4FM

For this episode of Ora, Daniela Cascella and Salomé Voegelin invite poet and researcher James Wilkes for an hour of conversations, readings, moments of listening and looking, around the elusive notion of rest. A category only grasped through difference and through context, rest is discussed and thematised by Cascella, Voegelin and Wilkes by considering rest as interval, rest as social code and habit, rest as pause in reading and writing, and rest as critical device.

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Sunday Mix

SUNDAY MIX – THE MOON

May 31, 2015 Feminatronic 1 Comment

The moon was but a chin of gold
A night or two ago,
And now she turns her perfect face
Upon the world below.
Her forehead is of amplest blond;
Her cheek like beryl stone;
Her eye unto the summer dew
The likest I have known.
Her lips of amber never part;
But what must be the smile
Upon her friend she could bestow
Were such her silver will!
And what a privilege to be
But the remotest star!
For certainly her way might pass
Beside your twinkling door.
Her bonnet is the firmament,
The universe her shoe,
The stars the trinkets at her belt,
Her dimities of blue.

Emily Dickinson

The stars that round the Queen of Night

Like maids attend her
Hide as in veils of mist their light
When she, in full-orbed glory bright.
O’er all the earth shines from her height,

A silver splendour.

Sappho

A tiny moon as white and small as a single jasmine flower
Leans all alone above my window, on night’s wintry bower,
Liquid as lime-tree blossom, soft as brilliant water or rain
She shines, the one white love of my youth, which all sin cannot stain.

A White Blossom

D.H.Lawrence (1885 – 1930)