The latest playlist on Soundcloud #30 includes tracks from artists who create Melodic Instrumental music and Matzumi is one of the biggest names in this genre of electronic music.
One woman – one project ! New Age, Ambient and Soundtracks.
* CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS *
Calling for submission of work from female Sonic Artists for a paper entitled ‘Ekho :: Toward a Repetitive Sounding of Difference’. The paper will be analysing Echo as an original sound, combining Sound Studies and Feminist theories. All works will be included in the archive alongside an artist profile.
We are particularly interested in hearing from artists working in areas of drone, minimalism, field recording, sound spatialisation and noise – but welcome any submissions. Supporting statements are encouraged discussing the ways in which your work, or your identity as a female Sonic Artist, responds to the themes of Echo / Subversive Difference / Difference and Repetition.
Please see below or email for further details.
DEADLINE :: 23rd Nov [/Submissions before this date are appreciated]
Submissions and questions to :: ekhofemalesound@hotmail.co.uk
MIRA KATHARINA LANGNAU – AYANDA
Sounds of Science: The Mystique of Sonification
Welcome to the final installment of Hearing the UnHeard, Sounding Out‘s series on what we don’t hear and how this unheard world affects us. The series started out with my post on hearing, large and small, continued with a piece by China Blue on the sounds of catastrophic impacts, and Milton Garcés’ piece on the infrasonic world of volcanoes. To cap it all off, we introduce The Sounds of Science by professor, cellist and interactive media expert, Margaret Schedel.
Dr. Schedel is an Associate Professor of Composition and Computer Music at Stony Brook University. Through her work, she explores the relatively new field of Data Sonification, generating new ways to perceive and interact with information through the use of sound. While everyone is familiar with informatics, graphs and images used to convey complex information, her work explores how we can expand our understanding of even…
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FEMINATRONIC UPDATE – OCTOBER 2014
So, I have decided to amalgamate the two Facebook pages and all posts will now be on the Feminatronic Facebook page.
As the Feminatronic Twitter page has taken off and what with maintaining the Website, I have to try to give myself some space to continue as an artist myself.
I will continue to post as much as I can that I think may be of interest to everyone and help promote those female artists who are creating electronic music, whatever the genre or field.
Thank you for supporting Feminatronic this past year.
Working Against the Silencing of Female Sound Artists: Wikipedia Editing
SO! Amplifies: Mendi+Keith Obadike and Sounding Race in America
SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig. You’re welcome!
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Several years ago—after working on media art, myths, songs about invisible networks and imaginary places—we started a series of sound art projects about America. In making these public sound artworks about our country we ask ourselves questions about funk, austerity, debt and responsibility, aesthetics, and inheritance. We also attempt to reckon with data, that which orders so much of our lives with its presence or absence.
We are interested in how data might be understood differently once sonified or made musical. We want to explore what kinds of codes are embedded in the architecture of American culture.
Big House/Disclosure
The first sound art project in this vein that we completed in 2007 was entitled Big House / Disclosure. Northwestern University commissioned
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MoMA’s “Soundings” exhibition: critiquing the critics
Interesting thoughts contained within this piece.
“Soundings” is MoMA’s first exhibition dedicated solely to “sound art”. It features installations by 16 contemporary artists working with sound – these include notables such as Susan Philipsz (Scotland), Stephen Vitiello (America), Richard Garet (Uruguay), Marco Fusinato (Australia).
Recent reviews for “Soundings” have revealed some interesting attitudes held by critics towards the discipline of “sound art”. As each review contains common reactions to the show some general conclusions can be drawn about the type of sound-art critics prefer:
1. Installations using recognisable sounds or familiar melodic structures are received favourably.
2. Installations that utilise abstracted or dissonant sounds are received unfavourably.
Installations featuring voice, strings, and field recordings fared well in the reviews, these sounds being melodic or familiar to the listener. Thus, for sound art to be “successful”, must the audience recognise the source of the sounding object, or do the reviews merely reflect a conservatism…
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Interview/Documentary: field recording and “sound art”
I was recently invited to curate a show about field recording and sound art for Soundproof on Australia’s ABC Radio National. For one hour Soundproof’s host Miyuki Jokiranta and I discussed the physicality of sound and soundscapes, listening to works by Hildegard Westerkamp, Andrea Polli, Richard Garet, Chris Watson, Heiki Vester, Jacob Kirkegaard.
My selection of pieces was intended to showcase the diversity of interests and styles that is explored by contemporary field recordists and artists working with sound. Join Miyuki and myself to listen to sounds from deserts to Antarctic research stations to huskies and helicopters to Mexican train lines to Norwegian killer whales to the vibrations of German bridges.
This show is now available to download directly from the ABC.
FEMINATRONIC CONNECT UPDATE – PART 1
Feminatronic is on Facebook and the Feminatronic Connect page posts news from artists, websites, radio stations and fans of electronic music. Not everyone is on Twitter. So here are some of the things that have been happening…..
Invisible Sounds – a story by Nastia Tarasova & Irina Shatalova
The garden is filling with rain – Elizabeth Veldon
Lucille Calmel and Sylvain Chauveau live in Brussels – 18th October, 2014.
Delia Darlings Tour – Oxford 9th October, 2014
Sound, Gender, Technology – “Where to” with Cyberfeminism?
Bekki Williams – Shadow of the Wind (ReMastered )
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