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Feminatronic is now on SoundCloud with eclectic playlists – Here is #1
Feminist Music Geek Presents … Spectrum
I returned to college radio late last month with my own show. Feminist Music Geek Presents… is currently in its third week. It honors women’s historical and contemporary musical contributions across genre. However, while I hope people are tuning in to WSUM on Friday nights at 9 p.m. to listen to the program, I wanted to give listeners the ability to stream my playlists afterwards. Here’s “Spectrum,” the first episode of FMG Presents… I’ll post a new episode each week.
Three things to note.
1. Each show focuses on a particular theme, which I explain at the beginning of the episode. Themes provide a useful organizational framework and allow me to put recording artists in dialogue with each other in a new context.
2. I’ll be excising WSUM-specific content (i.e., PSAs and underwriting) from the episodes, because community radio and digital streaming sites serve different entities.
3. As…
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EVERYTHING IS PRACTICE – CHARITY RELEASE
As Elizabeth Veldon says herself :
…a corking little football/ world cup themed album i appear on – all the money goes to the abc trust who work with disadvantaged children in Brazil
FEMINATRONIC MUSICBOX #3
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…
In the Garden of Sonic Delights
Arriving on the heels of last year’s Soundings exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art is In the Garden of Sonic Delights, a new sound art exhibition located in Westchester County, New York. Richard Allen reports on the opening day festivities.
Soundings was a huge step forward for the sound art community, as it was MoMA’s first exhibition of the kind. This was a major coup for a wide field worthy of wider recognition. But the central setting of Sonic Delights – the stunningly beautiful grounds of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, New York (30 miles north of NYC) make an even greater impression. In Manhattan, one is surrounded by activity, and MoMA is a busy place; but to walk through fields and pavilions, surrounded by birds and bees and nary a car is to experience impressions of nature embedded in nature.
The…
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Into the Woods: A Brief History of Wood Paneling on Synthesizers*
A very interesting article from Tara Rodgers
*a companion piece of this research, on electronic sounds as lively individuals, is forthcoming in the American Quarterly special issue on sound, September 2011.
Not long ago, while researching the history of synthesized sound—or taking a break to troll for interesting synthesizers for sale online (activities that, for me, inevitably blend together)—I came across a thriving industry of small companies that offer custom-made wood panels to adorn the sides of old and new synths, like Synthwood, Custom Synths, Analogics, and MPCStuff.
As Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco note in Analog Days, their history of Moog synthesizers, an “analog revival” is underway: “Today in the digital world, there is a longing to get back to what was lost” (9). The music technology magazine Sound on Sound concurs, documenting a renewed interest among electronic music-makers in modular synthesizers like those popularized by Moog and others in the…
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WEB FOCUS – TECHNE
Techne was started in 2010 by Suzanne Thorpe and Bonnie Jones, educators and musicians active in electronic music communities in the US and abroad.
Techne’s mission is to democratize technical tools within a safe environment for exploration, risk taking and creative expression.
Electronic Music: Powered by Girls! 2014 Tour
FEMINATRONIC FACEBOOK NEWS UPDATE
The 2nd Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism post-graduate research event seeks to query the place and performance of activism within discourses and practices of sound arts, sound-based arts and experimental musics that are engaged with gender, feminist and queer politics.CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: SGFA::2014London College of Communication, University of the Arts LondonOctober 16th – 17th 2014
Deadline: Monday 16th June 2014
The inaugural SGFA, focusing on the role of gender in sound-based arts and experimental musics, took place in May 2012 following the Her Noise: Feminisms and the Sonic symposium at Tate Modern. We are delighted to announce a call for participation in the 2nd Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism post-graduate research event to take place in London on October 16th and 17th 2014. SGFA::2014 will expand upon the 2012 event and we invite presentations of twenty minute formal research papers or ten minute emerging researcher/artist presentations sharing recent or ongoing work, addressing the question
What, in the historical present, might constitute an activist life in sound?
This is an open call and we welcome responses from all relevant disciplines and will accept a variety of formats from academic presentations, proposals for artworks and documentation of artworks to more experimental contributions.
Please send expressions of interest, including the theme, topic and format of your presentation, of around 200 words and a short biography of no more than 200 words by Monday 16th June 2014 to SGFA2014@crisap.org We will let you know if your submission is accepted by July 9th 2014.
Journal of Popular Music Studies special issue on Nightlife and Global Club Cultures
Proposed Special Issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies
Guest Editors: Madison Moore and Francisco Raul Cornejo
200 Word Proposals Due: Friday, August 15th 2014
Proposal Submission: madison.moore@kcl.ac.uk and frcornejo@aya.yale.edu
Further information here
Thanks to Pink Noises for highlighting these articles.
Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Women in Computer Music – SuperCollider Workshop Scholarship
Summer workshop opportunity to study SuperCollider
PAULINE OLIVEROS VLOG AT 80
Free album alert from Magnetic Wind.
Downloadable mp3 album, Asleep Next To You. http://freefloatingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/asleep-next-to-you .
Just download and play…. great sleep drift, meditative music. See the video at magneticwind.com
EM15 FESTIVAL
EM15 Festival
Dedicated to live performance and forward thinking visions in sound and image, EM15 promises festivalgoers an expansive and multidimensional experience!
Artists who are involved –
Mutek + Elektra = EM15
The 15th edition of the venerable electronic music festival Mutek begins in Montreal Tuesday May 27, running until Junday June 1. Opening night features performances from Tim Hecker, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Kangding Ray (and many more), with the programming getting progressively clubbier as the week progresses, including long sets from Richie Hawtin, Ricardo Villalobos, and Nico Jaar. What began as a small festival to show off Montreal’s best electronic musicians and foster the connections between Europe and North America has become one of the most anticipated and consistently innovative festivals in electronic music, having long since branched out to successful editions in Barcelona and Mexico City.
See the complete festival PROGRAM
This year Mutek have joined forces with (erstwhile rivals) Montreal’s Elektra festival of digital arts to jointly celebrate their crystal anniversaries. The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal will serve as their HQ, one…
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