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Review Reblog – Midori Hirano ~ Minor Planet

Courtesy to A Closer Listen for the reblog. Recommend and well worth you click through to the other releases mentioned.

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minor-planetWe’ve always had a weakness for Sonic Pieces’ hand-stitched covers, shown below in an image borrowed from Sounds of a Tired City.  Minor Planet contains an circle on the cloth cover to represent its title, but we’re simply going to call this “the new red one.”

The iconoclastic Midori Hirano cheerfully changes her sound from album to album.  klo:yuri was an electronic album with stringed guests; the lovely Time Unbox, a collaboration with Ytamo released earlier this year, was an ambient/modern composition blend, wrapped in origami paper, containing occasional vocals.  Minor Planet travels into space, imagining galaxies and stars.  Electronics remain present, but are present more for adornment than tempo.  The one constant is Hirano’s piano, present on each album as a connective thread, or in this case like the tether between spaceship and astronaut.

sonic-pieces-collectionMore than anything, Minor Planet is an album of texture…

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Todays Discovery – Orlando and Tomaga

Over in Twitterland there’s been a conversation about the perceived lack of women artists on Tape releases. There are a few, which I will post here in time but this really caught my ear….

“For its second release, the Association for the Re-Alignment of Magnetic Dust presents a split release between Orlando and Tomaga of music for video games. Inspired by fictional worlds, imagined quests, and surreal dreams, they soundtrack your adventures in gameland.

Released March 25, 2015

Side A: All music by Orlando. Track 1 mixed by Dilip Harris.
Side B: All music by Tomaga

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Event News – Mean Time

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MEAN TIME

Up until the 1st of October 1916 Ireland was on Dublin Mean Time, which was 25 minutes and 21 seconds behind Greenwich Mean Time. On that day, when England put its clock back by an hour for Winter, Ireland put its clock back by 35 minutes and ended the historic time difference between the two countries.

Mean Time is a collaborative art project inspired by this event and in particular by Countess Markievicz’s opposition to what she saw as one more act of colonial oppression: the imposition of a foreign time on what should have been a sovereign people. 

 

The project is bringing ten professional female sound artists from Ireland and abroad to the historical location of Richmond Barracks in Dublin city, where 77 women were remanded after their involvement in the 1916 Rising- including Countess Markievicz herself. 

 

They will perform a unique improvisation based on especially commissioned pieces on the theme of these lost 25 minutes and 21 seconds, for the anniversary of the abolition of Dublin Mean Time. 

The event will combine contemporary music, performance art, radio art and electroacoustic composition, ‘clawing back’ time lost and imagining many possible future Irelands. The programme will be broadcast live on Nova, RTÉ Lyric FM. 

The participating artists are Daria Baiocchi | Fiona Hallinan | La Cosa Preziosa | Vicky Langan | Úna Lee | Olivia Louvel | Jenn Kirby | Claudia Molitor | Gráinne Mulvey | Rachel Ní Chuinn

In addition, a series of free sound art workshops for all the family will also take place on the grounds of Richmond Barracks on Saturday 1st October. For more info: http://facebook.com/ meantime1916

Both performance and workshops are free but ticketed.  To book please email: meantime1916@gmail.com

Mean Time is made possible thanks to the support of Dublin City Council and The Arts Council.

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Reblog – Spools Out Radio -My Female Tape Artists Twitterstorm (The Good Kind)

 

Over in Twitterland there’s been a conversation about the perceived lack of women artists on Tape releases from all genres. This developed into a good healthy discussion and suggestions, which resulted in this article.
Check out the links and discover some great new artists and Tape distributors too.
Many thanks to Spools Out for posting the question in the first place. The resulting answers have been positive : )

 

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(featured image – Daphne Oram performing live back in the day)

So dear listeners, as I was perusing my incoming cassette tapes pile, I noticed I hadn’t a single plastic cassette that hadn’t been made by a chap/dude/bro. It’s not the ideal situation to have to do so, but I took to twitter to see if the social media hive mind could quickly solve my tape-based inequality problems, and tweeted the below:

I was far from disappointed by the resultant wave of recommendations, so thought I’d quickly chuck a load of the recommended artists and released I received into this very blog post…

Richard Hopkins of Feral Tapes jumped right in to tell me:

https://twitter.com/feraltapes/status/776340122119839744

Here’s some music from the Maurice’s…

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TECHNE – Call for Participation

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from TECHNE:

Dearest Electronic Musician and Artist,

You’re invited to participate in an experiment to map a history of women in electronic music for Sound American and it will only take a moment of your time!

…

TECHNE (Suzanne Thorpe & Bonnie Jones) have been invited by Nate Wooley, founder of the periodical Sound American, to create a graphic visualization illustrating a history of women in electronic music. The graphic will be published in the January 2017 print version of Sound American whose theme is “Networking.”

Here’s what you need to do to participate:

SUBMIT this form online with names of influential female electronic musicians https://goo.gl/forms/Fet9CLbmfkma1VPC2

CUT & PASTE & FORWARD our request (the entire email text) to a female-identified music colleague who is important to you

DEADLINE we need all responses by the end of the month, so take a moment right now to send this out into the world!

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Todays Discovery – Feminoise Latinoamerica

This is a huge compilation, 60 electronic artists from several Latin American countries. Each track has a photo of the artist, a small bio and links where to hear their works or contact them.

 Cover art: REBE CA (Paraguay)
Released August 10, 2016
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Reblog / Web Focus – The Hum Blog

via joan la barbara’s voice is the original instrument reissued by arc light editions — The Hum Blog

 

Posted this before I think, but you can’t have too much of a good thing. Also recommend browsing The Hum Blog, there are loads of really interesting articles covering many aspects of Electronic, Classical, Jazz and World music and is one of the places that I begin to read, learn loads and lose the time….

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Review Reblog -Izabela Dłużyk ~ Soundscapes of summer

As you all know I have a great love for the synthesized sound and electronics but NOTHING compares to the sonic beauty of the real world and to more than prove the point, this release is exquisite.
Even without her personal backstory, this is a field recording album that is surely the top of my list and is a beautiful record of a day in Summer that we can all appreciate.

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Soundscapes of summerThis is perhaps the sweetest story we’ve heard all summer, and it arrives as the season is starting to slip away.  It’s the story of a young woman born blind who falls in love with the sounds around her, begins to record them, and pursues her childhood dream.

Under these conditions, Izabela Dłużyk‘s physical challenge becomes her gift.  She has an extraordinary ear for unique and startling sounds, which makes her an excellent field recordist.  Her writing also shows great sensitivity, and provides readers with an entry point as she describes “the mystery of fleeting moments, of sadness and hope brought by changing seasons”.  The sounds on this album were recorded this summer in Polish forests, but as the flocks prepare to migrate, the sonic field has already begun to change.  Given the date of release, it’s impossible to avoid comparisons to the human experience, as we trade the soundtrack…

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Review Reblog – Marlo Eggplant – Internal External

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artist: Marlo Eggplant
title: Internal External
keywords: electronica ambient experimental experimental noise Olympia

Internal External by Marlo Eggplant is an album that clearly hangs on the experimental noise side of the sound spectrum. She seems to open up her inner workings and exposes the abstract sounds of feelings in ways that feel like we are actually behind these thoughts; a backstage of emotional content, one that exposes all her wires and yet are for any foreigner hard to define.

Basic Trust vs. Mistrust’ for example is moving material, a bit like we are on an train ride to the inner depths of the artist her mind, going in deep into the dark abyss of inner workings who are responsible for her outer workings. The sound is sliding through, creating a non grab-able content that could be seen as a tunnel vision of abstract ambient -noise. Over this rails the sound…

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Review Reblog – Bethan Kellough ~ Aven

“Job may have rued the futility of chasing the wind, but at least in one sense, this sound artist has managed to capture it. (Richard Allen)”
Exactly.

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Tone54_frontAven refers to that which is hidden, yet still is heard: underground shafts through which air reaches the surface.  Fascinated by Iceland’s natural geothermal activity, Bethan Kellough recorded the subterranean rumbles and upper-level hisses, and augmented them with wind recordings made in Iceland and South Africa.  Only the very trained ear will be able to distinguish the difference between South African wind and Icelandic wind (Savannah bush, strands of straw), but neither identification nor deception is her intention.  This soundscape is inspired by the very nature of sound.

While field recordings are the lead story, the artist also plays violin.  Her gentle strings allow her to shape the soundscape into a personal reflection.  What do you hear in these sounds? she asks without words.  What drama can be heard in rising rumbles and twists of wind?  To escape through a shaft from an underground cave is to act out a myth…

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