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Live in Session: Conspirators of Pleasure

Courtesy of Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone. You can still hear the show : )

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Performing live in the studio on Friday 3rd April will be Conspirators of Pleasure, aka Poulomi Desai and Simon Underwood. Tune into NTS from 8am to 10am to hear them play.

Conspirators of Pleasure (Poulomi Desai – ex Dead Jalebies and Simon Underwood – founder member of post punk band The Pop Group) are an improvising duo that seek to bend all the rules, question the sacred, create extraordinary soundscape performances and self-regulating sonic systems, using modified and prepared instruments. Part of their unusual musical armoury includes a prepared sitar, sonically twisted stylophones, prepared bass, modified toys, resurrected radios and visually scarred slide projections. Their compositions explore experimental terrains, twisting technology to transform organic sounds into eerie calls that flow from intense waves of abrasive, noisy, chaos invoking industrial nostalgia, to structured pulsating rhythms, to melancholic, microtonal drones.

The duo have worked with a range of musicians and artists including, Noise=Noise…

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Free download of Dotto Performance!

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Segments of the live Dotto performance recorded on Sunday 26th of April 2015 in Exile, Cork Community Printshop, lower Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork.

Group collaborative performance with Danny McCarthy (The Quiet Club), Harry Moore, Katie O’Looney, Mick O’Shea (The Quiet Club), Claire Guerin (Queef) and Laney Mannion (Queef).

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Electronic Music, Poetry, Sunday Mix

THE SUNDAY MIX – THE SUN

Here is this weeks mix of music and poetry and the subject this week is the Sun –

Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven with repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.

Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.

The dusty attic spider-clad
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.

Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy’s inmost nook.

Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.

Summer Sun – Robert Louis Stephenson  

    

The Sun—just touched the Morning—
The Morning—Happy thing—
Supposed that He had come to dwell—
And Life would all be Spring!

She felt herself supremer—
A Raised—Ethereal Thing!
Henceforth—for Her—What Holiday!
Meanwhile—Her wheeling King—
Trailed—slow—along the Orchards—
His haughty—spangled Hems—
Leaving a new necessity!
The want of Diadems!

The Morning—fluttered—staggered—
Felt feebly—for Her Crown—
Her unanointed forehead—
Henceforth—Her only One!

The Sun – Just touched the morning – Emily Dickinson

How valuable it is in these short days,
threading through empty maple branches,
the lacy-needled sugar pines.

Its glint off sheets of ice tells the story
of Death’s brightness, her bitter cold.

We can make do with so little, just the hint
of warmth, the slanted light.

The way we stand there, soaking in it,
mittened fingers reaching.

And how carefully we gather what we can
to offer later, in darkness, one body to another.

Molly Fisk – Winter Sun

Ah Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller’s journey is done;

Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my Sunflower wishes to go!

Ah Sunflower – William Blake

Articles, Interviews, Season

AN INTERVIEW WITH ELYSE TABET OF LITTER – AFRICAN PAPER

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Space may just be what connects the senses.

An Interview with Elyse Tabet of Litter

Africa Paper

Discovery, Season, Web Focus

FOCUS ON IKUE MORI

Here is a spotlight on one of the great pioneers of electronic experimental music, Ikue Mori, which is part of the African and Asian Season .

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IKUE MORI INTERVIEW – PERFECT SOUND FOREVER

INTERVIEW BY JASON GROSS (1997)

PHANTOM ORCHARD: STEVE ELKINS INTERVIEWS

ZEENA PARKINS AND IKUE MORI

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My Home, Sinking ~ Sleet

Courtesy of A Closer Listen.
Also check out Natalia Drepinas’ music project Your Schizophrenia and her photography
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sleet 2The surprising thing about Sleet is how warm it sounds, considering its title.  This is the second winter-themed release from My Home, Sinking, both released in May, when garlands and dances around the maypole are more in fashion.  Instead of capturing the feeling of sleet, it captures the feeling of sleet outside when all is safe and warm inside, a group of friends trading stories in dialogue and lyrical song while softly playing the instruments they have brought to the house.

The lineup has changed slightly since the self-titled debut.  This is still Enrico Coniglio’s baby, but apart from Coniglio, only Katie English (cello) appears on both works.  Their interplay still counts for a uniformity of sound.  But new moments stand out here, especially those in which one or two instruments act in twain: the guitar and vibraphone, joined by light drums on “Chains”; the field recordings, vinyl…

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Twitter, Update, Web Focus

NEWS FROM THE TWITTERSPHERE

Todays twitter posts all have African and Asian artists in common or sites that promote them and their music: –

 

 

 

 

 

Introducing, Reblog

MEREDITH MONK – MERCY

I have always admired Meredith Monk and this is one of my favourite pieces.This links with the review below from between sound and space

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Meredith Monk: mercy (ECM New Series 1829)

Courtesy of between sound and space.

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Meredith Monk
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Meredith Monk voice
Theo Bleckmann voice
Allison Easter voice
Katie Geissinger voice
Ching Gonzalez voice
Allison Sniffin voice, piano, synthesizer, viola, violin
John Hollenbeck voice, percussion, melodica, piano
Bohdan Hilash clarinets
Recorded March 19/20, 2002

I regularly have dreams about flying. Said ability never comes, however, without focused and sustained effort on my part. In order to achieve flight, I must push against the air with my arms, gaining height ever so incrementally—sometimes losing altitude on the downswing—until I am in a position to navigate obstacles such as buildings, trees, and power lines. If these dreams had a soundtrack, it might sound something like Volcano Songs, for here is a space in which the human voice soars, to be sure, but not without the utmost discipline on the part of its performers. The “rudimentary” nature of this album serves to accommodate its broader wingspan, thereby widening…

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Discovery, Season, YouTube

Todays Discovery – Liliane Chlela

This is a beautiful and evocative piece by the Beirut artist Liliane Chlela.

LILIANE CHLELA

Celebrating the eclecticism of Electronic Artists who identify as female