Latin American electronic / electroacoustic artists tribute and creative responses to, the writings and thoughts of Pauline Oliveros.
Read more of the background to this project, curated by Susan Campos-Fonseca here
Friday Focus – Femmecult
Modern perspectives in art, music and culture.
Seattle-based electronic music composer, Bardo:Basho (Kirsten Thom) did a live set exclusively for Femmecult
Interview with her on the website. http://www.femmecult.com/sound/bardob…
For more Bardo:Basho please visit her online.
https://soundcloud.com/bardobasho
https://www.facebook.com/bardobasho
Plum (Shona Maguire) hosts the Femmecult January 2014 podcast showcasing some of the musicians that have been influential on her work along the way.
Plum is an electro-pop producer & multi-instrumentalist who became the first female artist ever to win a Scottish Alternative Music Award, securing “Best Electronic” award in March 2013, having been heralded “One to Watch for 2013” by Best of British Unsigned in January 2013, and with her album The Seed in the ‘Best Albums of 2012’ list for many bloggers home and abroad.
Check out more of her work at her website: www.http://plumtunes.com
All info courtesy of Femmecult.
Reblog – on palto flats and wrwtfww’s reissue of midori takada’s seminal through the looking glass
I have loved this record for so long and over the years have visited it on many occasions. It is “a masterpiece failed by its own time”. – like so many that I could name. While other artists are feted and gain all the publicity, there are many who deserve as much accolade and praise – and finally, Midori Takada is getting the recognition she long deserved.
Although it doesn’t quite fit into the electronic field as such, please try and listen, and take in the 40 minutes that demonstrate how often gems are lost due to fashion in music, lack of distribution, knowledge and being in the wrong time and place.
It is sublime.
Today’s Discovery – Horse Follows Darkness by Delia Gonzalez
“Horse Follows Darkness is essentially a modern electronic soundtrack for the Revisionist Western.” but it’s more than that, it’s a wondrous sound on the ear that has a retro feel but also firmly rooted in the now.
Album of the Day: Delia Gonzalez, “Horse Follows Darkness”
Review Reblog – Félicia Atkinson ~ Hand in Hand
“A sense of otherworldly is paired with the familiar, the macabre with the sensual.” – Definitely.
If there is a state of sonic lucid dream, Félicia Atkinson could serve as a guide to its realms. Electronic pioneers like Delia Derbyshire might have opened that door, but Atkinson’s carefully crafted and deeply immersive minimal soundscapes, woven through ASMR spoken word snippets, invite you to step further in. Contrary to being detached from reality, this ambitious recording is a triumph in synthesis and interconnectivity, honoring its title. A sense of otherworldly is paired with the familiar, the macabre with the sensual. Dreams and reality go fluidly and fittingly together, as contemporary midi textures with historical Buchla or Serge accents.
Atkinson recorded Hand In Hand at home in Brittany and at EMS Studio in Stockholm. Her readings of desert and architectural magazines, botanical guides and sci-fi novels flow seamlessly into the album, along with her other contemporary artistic practices.
Most immediately influenced by Derbyshire’s aesthetics, especially The Dreams, Hand…
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Today’s Discovery – Jessica Moss – Pools of Light
Review Reblog – Jessica Moss ~ Pools of Light
Finally reblogging this review and I have to say that this release has been on replay for days…..
There is a warm solemnity to Pools of Light, like participating in a communal prayer, where hopes are a dream to ward off death, an ultimate end that is nonetheless a welcome fact of life. Inasmuch, at least, as it is the thought of ceasing to be what brings us all together – in the liner notes, Jessica Moss beautifully exclaims “FEELING LOVE IN A MELTING WORLD”. Just like her work as part of the apocalyptically-inclined A Silver Mt. Zion, this album is an interplay of hope for the hopeless and hopelessness for the hopeful, an emotional process in which the sharing of an all-encompassing pain is the relief that provides a basis to keep dreaming, to integrally act in the name of a truthful empathy that wants not to deny suffering but to heal it in communion.
The album is divided into two sections, “Entire Populations” and…
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Friday Focus – Women’s Audio Mission
Women’s Audio Mission addresses two critical issues:
- Less than 5% of the people creating the sounds, music and media in the daily soundtrack of our lives are women.
- The alarming 70% decline in women/girls enrolling in college STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math) programs since the year 2000.
Women’s Audio Mission uses music and media and an incredible “carrot” of a training environment – the only professional recording studio in the world built and run by women – to attract over 1,200 under-served women and girls every year to STEM and creative technology studies that inspire them to amplify their voices and become the innovators of tomorrow. WAM’s award-winning curriculum weaves art and music with science, technology and computer programming and works to close the critical gender gap in creative technology careers.
#changingthefaceofsound
Today’s Discovery – multa nox
Experimental ambient, drone, electronic from Sally Decker aka multa nox.
Multa Nox’s Dreamy New Drone Explores the Loneliness in Human Connection – Thump
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