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…
SO! Reads: Susan Schmidt Horning’s Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP
The recently published
,
Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture & the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP
is historian
Susan Schmidt Horning
’s first book. Veering away from the usual sound recording suspects (like the phonograph),
Chasing Sound
shows how the studio and the audio engineer are central to the cultural and technological changes associated with the production and reproduction of sound.
According to Schmidt Horning, such changes were reflected in the shifting ideal of recorded music as a representation of live performance to the ideal of recorded music as a studio-engineered creation. Using the accounts of those responsible for recording sound, Schmidt Horning constructs a rich narrative that manages to be accessible while still focused on the highly technical work required of studio workers. That said, by focusing so heavily on user practices and anecdotes she misses an opportunity to engage with the theoretical implications of the…
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FEMINATRONIC SHORT DIGEST ON SOUND ART #2
I thought that it might be best to put together short Digests of about 5 or 6 items that may be of interest on this blog. This will be easier for you to read and keep up with and for me to put together. So here goes…
I have often wondered…
WHAT IS SOUND ART?
This is part two in a season I am putting together about Sound Art and the women who have been and are, at the forefront of this highly eclectic and diverse art form.
ACL 2013 TOP TEN FIELD RECORDINGS AND SOUNDSCAPES
GREY LADIES. SYBELLA PERRY ON THE FIELD REPORTER
Interview: Louise Mackenzie By David Meadows
PEEL North East Visual Arts 5.3.14
Elizabeth Veldon makes record label for gender variant and trans artists
The Work of Hildegard Westerkamp in the Films of Gus Van Sant:
Kate Carr ~ Lost in Doi Saket
Lost in Doi Saket
is a unique release that can only be experienced on
Kate Carr
‘s website: a Google sound map with approximately sixty pins representing sixty Soundcloud field recordings. Click on the pin, see a photo of the location, listen to the sound: it’s that easy. To travel around Thailand in this fashion mimics Carr’s own experience, in which she was able to rent a scooter with little training and set off to explore the countryside. Her 600k experience now becomes ours: familiar and disorienting all at once.
The difference, of course, is that while the home listener/viewer is provided a computer rather than a scooter, and is able to set off in a non-linear fashion. One can choose to follow Carr (or at least to guess her route) or to click randomly. As a travelogue, it’s far more appealing than a slide show. In a way, it’s…
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Mark Lyken | Emma Dove ~ Mirror Lands
We last encountered
Mark Lyken and Emma Dove
a year ago with their installation-based EP and video
The Terrestrial Sea.
Their new work expands on the work of that prior release and continues an investigation of the sonic and visual properties of Scotland’s Black Isle. An installation is again the launching pad; a special edition CD/DVD version is in the works, while the digital score is already available.
Mirror Lands, the film, is directed and lensed by Lyken and Dove, who share soundtrack duties as well. This ambitious 67-minute project represents a confident forward step. One of the appealing components of the DVD is that the narration, music and field recordings can be separated. While the soundtrack stands on its own, it makes a lot more sense in the larger context.
Sea birds cry and swoop against a black backdrop before the piano and narration are introduced. A…
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FEMINATRONIC CONNECT NEWS
It occurred to me that not everyone is on Facebook and often there are interesting news items that come up on the Feminatronic Connect Facebook page that not everyone can see. So I thought that I would have the occasional posts that grouped together some of these items and hopefully bring them to a wider audience.
This post is a little longer than usual due to being occupied with my other life but I think it is a varied and interesting set of articles.
Thanks for your support of Feminatronic.
So here goes..
Peaceful Radioshow featuring Kerani
Golden Retriever’s Matt Carlson On… Eliane Radigue and How to Make Successful Drone Music
Saturday, May 10. 12–5pm.
FREE
FREE
Organized by Molly Smith in collaboration with The Kitchen, Women’s Synth Workshop is the first event in a continuing series focused on inspiring women to learn about the technical aspects and ideas behind modular synthesis and experimental electronic music. Led by various prominent wom…en in the field—including Alice Cohen, Rose Kallal, Delia Gonzalez, Lori Napoleon, Abby Echiverri, and Liz Wendelbo—the event will feature daytime discussions, lectures, and interactive demonstrations before transitioning to performances. Floor model synthesizers will be provided by the Williamsburg synth shop Control. All visitors welcome regardless of gender.
Created in 1971, The Kitchen is among the oldest non-profits in the country, whose legacy in electronic and experimental music is especially strong. Among composers and performers who presented some of their earliest and seminal works here early are Maryanne Amacher, Laurie Anderson, David Behrman, Harold Budd, Philip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, and Steve Reich. Today the organization’s board features such composers as Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly.
Schedule of events:
12:00 – 12:15: Introduction
12:15 – 1:00: Abby Echiverri
1:00 – 1:45: Lori Napoleon
1:45 – 2:15: Open Synth Play
2:15 – 3:00: Liz Wendelbo
3:00 – 4:00: Delia Gonzalez, Alice Cohen, Rose Kalal, Camilla Padgitt
4:15 – 5:00: Open Synth Play
FEMINATRONIC SPECIAL ON SOUND ART – VIDEOS
FEMINATRONIC WEB FOCUS – HER NOISE
In the words of the Her Noise Overview:
Her Noise was initiated by Lina Džuverović and Anne Hilde Neset in 2001 with an ambition to investigate music and sound histories in relation to gender, and to create a lasting resource in this area through building up an archive… the initial desire of Her Noise, to ‘create a lasting resource’, that also operates as a starting point for new investigations. This blog is part of this project to invoke a living archive: a series of guest curators, each from different areas within the worlds of sound-based works and experimental music, will be invited to contribute to the blog. Guest curators will turn the dial to artifacts in the archive that have resonated with them and offer personal directions for a future listening-out for people who speak up about gender and talk back with sound.
FEMINATRONIC TUMBLR UPDATE
Unfortunately, I have had to close the Feminatronic Tumblr site, due to some people using it to promote sexually explicit images / sites or followers who blatantly were promoting themselves in a sexually explicit way.
Nuff said : (
Feminatronic is not a platform for porn.
It is a serious site for promoting the electronic music creativity of women.
I am sorry to lose the real followers of Feminatronic Tumblr and hope that you will continue visit the Website, Facebook or Twitter.
Thank you for your continued support of Feminatronic.
FEMINATRONIC SOUND ART SPECIAL – JANET CARDIFF
I have often wondered…
WHAT IS SOUND ART?
As part of the Feminatronic season on Sound Art, I am focussing on the women who have been and are, at the forefront of this highly eclectic and diverse art form.
Today the spotlight falls on JANET CARDIFF
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