OPENSIGNAL is a collective of artists based in Providence RI concerned with the state of gender + race in experimental electronic-based sound and art practices. We host technical skillshares, critical discussions, and events featuring artists pushing the boundaries of thought and practice in electronic performance.
OPENSIGNAL compilation records are now available – limited to 100 copies.
There are 8 artists on this coke-clear 12″ vinyl record: Asha Tamirisa, Wilted Woman (cc Eel), Caroline Park, Blevin Blectum, Claire Kwong, Bridget Feral, Lucy Lewis, Akiko Hatakeyama.
Hi Monique… who are you, where are you, and what have you been up to lately? Hi there, I’m a small girl running a small record label called Sonic Pieces. We are based in Berlin, Germany. This year has been pretty exciting and busy so far. I’ve been working on album releases by two lovely Norwegians, Otto A Totland and Erik K Skodvin, who are also known as Deaf Center. We also toured Japan together in April joined by Spanish artist Rauelsson whom I’ve released a record with last year. It’s been amazing and I can’t wait to go back.
So when was the first time that you got involved with music? I had an early interest in music. When I was teenager I used to listen to the radio a lot and was compiling cassettes. I grew up in a tiny village in the middle of Germany and have…
One of the coolest radio shows is the world is Ears Have Ears, featured on Australia’s FBi Radio 94.5fm, every Thursday night from 9-11. Artists love the show so much that they contribute original music, with an emphasis on soundtracks. Ears Have Ears is a great resource, and will provide newcomers with days of new music. Mainstream radio may be stagnant, but the variety of creative contributions on display here is enough to renew one’s faith in radio as a venue for pushing things forward, rather than preserving the status quo. Even better: in the modern era, one need not possess a large transistor radio to tune in to the show. All one needs is a computer and the desire to be engaged!
At A Closer Listen, we review a lot of experimental music and receive five times as much as we review. But to find so much
Listen in as Eric Leonardson and Monica Ryan celebrate World Listening Day 2014 by reflecting on the work of R. Murray Schafer and the World Soundscape Project. Interviewees Professor Sabine Breitsameter of Hochschule Darmstadt (Germany) and Professor Barry Truax of Simon Fraser University (Canada) discuss the impact of Schafer’s ideas and offer commentary on contemporary threads within the field of Acoustic Ecology. How does does Acoustic Ecology help us to think through today’s complex environments and how can listeners like you make a difference?
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Eric Leonardson is a Chicago-based audio artist and teacher. He has devoted a majority of his professional career to unorthodox approaches to sound and its instrumentation with a broad…
I thought it might be an idea to highlight a collection of tracks available to listen, download and buy, by female electronic artists. Music Box is just like a box of chocolates – varied and sometimes not to everyone’s taste but overall, demonstrating the eclectic nature of music creation. Dive in and sonically eat more than one…
The groundbreaking new music institution the Deep Listening Institute, has impacted thousands of musicians throughout the world with innovative approaches the new music, Deep Listening courses, arts retreats, festivals, books, recordings, and so much more. Now the Deep Listening Institute is in danger of closing its doors. Composer Pauline Oliveros, legendary proponent of Deep Listening and American 20th century composer icon, now appeals to musicians worldwide to help keep the Deep Listening Institute up and running. Share with your friends, help the Deep Listening Institute, and help preserve this American contemporary music advocate.
This is a new feature for Feminatronic where each month I will be highlighting the music of women who create and produce electronic music in all its’ forms.
This month, I thought that I would start with one of the giants in electronic music creation, development and innovation –
PAULINE OLIVEROS is a senior figure in contemporary American music. Her career spans fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. In the ’50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists, poets gathered together in San Francisco. Recently awarded the John Cage award for 2012 from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, Oliveros is Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and Darius Milhaud Artist-in-Residence at Mills College. Oliveros has been as interested in finding new sounds as in finding new uses for old ones –her primary instrument is the accordion, an unexpected visitor perhaps to musical cutting edge, but one which she approaches in much the same way that a Zen musician might approach the Japanese shakuhachi. Pauline Oliveros’ life as a composer, performer and humanitarian is about opening her own and others’ sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Since the 1960’s she has influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual. Pauline Oliveros is the founder of “Deep Listening,” which comes from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert music with composition, improvisation and electro-acoustics. Pauline Oliveros describes Deep Listening as a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, of one’s own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening is my life practice,” she explains, simply. Oliveros is founder of Deep Listening Institute, formerly Pauline Oliveros Foundation.
Album: Sanctuary (1995).The Deep Listening Band was founded in 1988 by Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis. David Gamper replaced Panaiotis in 1990. The band is named after Oliveros’ term, concept, program and registered servicemark of the Deep Listening Institute, Ltd., Deep Listening, and specializes in performing and recording in resonant or reverberant spaces such as cathedrals and huge underground cisterns including the 2-million-US-gallon (7,600 m3) Fort Worden Cistern which has a 45 second reverberation time.
Although not technically electronic there is a use of electronics and processing to create Collaborations No 1 and so have reblogged this review – beautiful.
We were extremely impressed with Lucy Claire‘s last EP, Suite, and the follow-up EP, Collaborations No. 1, is equally impressive. While the new EP contains two new tracks and three mixes, the variety makes the 27-minute set work well as an overall collection.
On Collaborations No. 1, the London pianist is joined not only by a string quartet, but by vocalist Alev Lenv and guitarist Bruised Skies. The latter also contributes a remix, while other remixes come from Message to Bears and worriedaboutsatan. These are not the acts one would expect to find among Claire’s friends, but their contributions demonstrate the breadth of her potential reach: beyond modern composition into the realms of ambient and electronic music.
The two main tracks – “Stille” and “Somnus” – are complementary opposites. “Stille” is the more accessible track, the only overt lyric being the title. Mournful strings are laid atop…
Hi Monique… who are you, where are you, and what have you been up to lately?
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