An Album a Day pt1

For the past couple of years I’m Gary (@noyokono) on twitter has a challenge for February – MWE
“Music Writer Exercise: Each day in February, listen to 1 full album you’ve never heard, from start to finish. Write one tweet about it. #MWE
Ok, I’m no writer but I did this last year and I’ attempting it again and here are the first 6 –

#MWE 1 – Sundrowned – Lykanthea and Savage Sister
Dreamlike vocals that drift – Recommend headphones


#MWE2 – Moons of Pluto – Maria G
Resonant minimalist electroacoustic combining classical, jazz and electronic experimentalism.


#MWE 3 – About a Girl – Blessa

Lo fi, low key sparse experimentation from Blessa


#MWE 4 – Ten Love Songs by Susanne Sundfor

Anthemic, melodic, danceable with a classical tinge –


MWE # 5 –
Estórias para Voz, Instrumentos Acústicos e Eletrônicos” (Fermata Indústria Fonográfica, (1981) by Jocy de Oliveira

A mystical touch of Noh


MWE #6 – Aquator System by Eva Geist

Quirky, fun and filled with ideas, combining old and new

 

 

 

Review Reblog – Olivia Louvel – Data Regina

Wonderful multi media experience when you visit the site, beautifully presented

http://www.dataregina.com/

Olivia Louvel - Data Regina

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Cat Werk Imprint – CW11 – 8th February 2017

Christopher Nosnibor

The inspiration for Olivia Louvel’s latest album (fantastically presented, like its predecessor, in a DVD size digipak) casts an arc way back into history. Louvel, it transpires, was fascinated by the lives of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I – two queens who existed simultaneously on the same island, during the 16th Century – a period dominated by men. Two queens who, powerful and celebrated in their own lifetimes as well as posthumously, would never meet. And so, on Data Regina, Olivia Louvel sets herself the challenge of addressing their simultaneous yet entirely separate, disparate narratives of these two bitter rivals, and presenting distinct voices as she charts their adversarial relationship.

The twenty years during which the two queens reigned simultaneously were fraught, tempestuous ones, punctuated by battles on the Anglo-Scottish borders, disputes and reconciliations, and ultimately…

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Today’s Discovery – Yume by Cat Hope

 

Cat Hope is an Australian musician and academic, based in Perth, Western Australia. She is best known as a noise, installation and performance artist.

Review Reblog – Cat Hope – Yume

Today’s Discovery…courtesy to YIKIS

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Artist: Cat Hope
Title: Yume
Keywords: australia electronicexperimental silkscreen art cat hope diy record label free jazz noise Moscow
Label: Post-Materialization Music

Sometimes it’s good to have a dictionary at hand as even though it’s fun to rely on thinking that you know it all, sometimes words that you think you know turn out to be something you didn’t have no clue about. For example the word ‘Cat Hope’… I was like you, automatically thinking that it was the way how to describe the hope of a cat, or the hope that the presence of a cat brings. I mean look at those hospitals or elderly houses in which they have cats to stroke and cuddle with and how much love and hope it brings to the elderly and other patients… yes, Cat Hope like this is a amazing thing until you find out that Cat Hope actually means…

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Today’s Discovery – Slow Air – Aisha Orazbayeva

I have passed Kazakh violinist and musician Aisha Orazbayeva  like ships in the night but have recently discovered and am listening more to her electroacoustic music. This track is beautiful in its drone minimalism which slowly builds and evolves.

http://www.aishaorazbayeva.com/

Event / News

Wednesday 1 February 2017, 18:00 – 21:00 Upper Street Gallery, London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6SB. Directions. Free, please RSVP to l.h.hall@lcc.arts.ac.uk. A listening event organised in conjunction with the publication of Colloquium: Sound Art and Music published by Zero Books September 2016, edited by Thomas Gardner and Salomé Voegelin, with […]

via PoL # 31 Listening Event — Points of Listening

A Couple of Interesting Reads…

A Performance Artist Makes Space for Silence in an Oversaturated World

Ahead of her performance there, Meredith Monk gave a lecture at the University of Michigan outlining her approach to performance as an opportunity to break out of our chaotic visual culture.

 

A Floating Noise and Drag Club Celebrates San Francisco’s Lost Underground

We were about to embark on Attention! We’ve moved., a night of noise music and drag performance on the ocean concocted by Oakland artist Constance Hockaday and San Francisco experimental art space The Lab, in conjunction with — and conceived as a subtle resistance to — the first Untitled art fair in San Francisco.

Both articles from and by Hyperallergic

 

Review Reblog -Helen White: Solar Wind Chime

Really fascinating how artists combine scientific theory or research and then sonically express the data, so that what I’m listening to definitely is “making an intangible, invisible phenomenon audible”.

Review Reblog – on ashley bellouin’s ballads

Minimalism doesn’t mean that there’s nothing going on sonically and here is proof.

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Review Reblog – Norah Lorway – drone bølge

ICYMI 2016….

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Artist: Norah Lorway
Title: drone bølge
Keywords: ambient ambient drone Vancouver
Label: xylem records

drone bølge sketches a seemingly immersive massive world of vast layers of ice, cold wind & warm intentions. Within this harsh scenery absolute beauty is discovered, swirling around in the ears to create amazing views and sights within the perspective of the mind. I saw deep blue, rays of sunlight reflecting on snowed upon huge surfaces and wished I had a photo camera to shoot some amazing shots from it. These kind of environments are such a discovery that it’s almost unbelievable that it’s just music dancing away with the imagination generated within your own head.

The second part of the journey feels as if the music had transported us miraculously on top of the highest snowy hill in the middle of the amazing scenery, creating that vibration between the nostrils of sniffing extremely cool fresh…

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