Couldn’t agree more…
One of most remarkable forces in post-war avant-garde music. There are few who I adore more.
PoL # 24 Walking with Crickets
With Lisa Hall
Date: Wednesday April 13th, 2016
Time: 18:30 (approx end: 20:00)
Venue: London College of Communication (Meet at front reception: directions)
Free with limited capacity
To reserve a place please email: markpeterwright@gmail.com
A sound walk with crickets to explore the city.
This session takes as its starting point a sonic trend which began in China over 1000 years ago in the Tang Dynasty – that of keeping crickets for their song. While mainly kept in the home or garden, the crickets were also carried around in small gourds, concealed in clothes and worn like a portable music player. It is thought that the practice, started by the royal family, began in order to bring company and comfort to the listener. The trend quickly caught on and became a popular pastime practiced widely in society, and it continues to this day.
For this Points of Listening session we…
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NEWS / EVENT – Soundcamp 2016
Saturday 30 April – Sunday 1 May 2016
SoundCamp is a series of outdoor listening events on International Dawn Chorus Day, linked by Reveil: a 24 hour broadcast of the sounds of daybreak, relayed live by audio streamers around the globe.
Soundcamps in the UK will be at: Stave Hill Ecological Park, London (SoundCamp); South Lakes, Cumbria (Octopus Collective); Camber Sands, E Sussex (Radio Arts); Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon (Soundart Radio); Bridport, Dorset (Divacontemporary); Penryn Cornwall (End of the World Garden).
And in: Acra, NY (Wave Farm); Chicago, Illinois (Radius); Romania (Mazi); South River, Ontario (NAISA); Fortore, Italy (Interferenze, Liminaria); Ljubljana, Slovenia (CONA), Põlva County Estonia (John Grzinich, Veljo Runnel), Sandfly, Tasmania (Julia Drouhin).
Additional Live streams from: Jeju Island, Korea (Jiyeon Kim, Gang il Yi), Hanoi, Vietnam (Nhung Nguyen), Soni, Tanzania (Maweni Farm), Rethymno, Crete (Katerina Tzedaki), La Pampa, Argentina (Fabian Racca), Morretes, Brazil (Luciano Breves), Cologne, Germany (Udo Noll), Noosa River, Brisbane, Australia (Leah Barclay), Sukanta Majumdar (Kolkata, India).
Workshops with: Rob St John (hydrophones), Geoff…
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REVIEW REBLOG – Ars Sonor and the Reviews of Caffeinate
Great overview again of a very eclectic artist.
REBLOG – Watch: Julianna Barwick – ‘Nebula’ — Notes On Sounds
Image: Derrick Belcham Fans of atmospheric ambient music rejoice! Queen of all things epic Julianna Barwick is back with a new album, Will, which is out soon and it can’t come too soon after the release of her last LP Nepenthe. As most fans of Barwick will know, she spends much of her time touring […]
TODAYS DISCOVERY – PUCE MARY – THE SPIRAL
Some of you may know that I like a bit of noise but it has to be creative and have atmosphere and timbre. This is the brand new release from Puce Mary and it has all of this. See what you think. Also below is a short review from Heathen Harvest that sums it up really well.
Courtesy to Heathen Harvest
REVIEW REBLOG – Voice – Sculpting Sound with Maja S. K. Ratkje (a Film)
Voice – Sculpting Sound with Maja S. K. Ratkje is a feature documentary by IJ. Biermann and Kai Miedendorp, which tracks the life of Maja S. K. Ratkje—improvisational vocalist, sound artist and composer—between 2010 and 2014….
Courtesy to Dalston Sound for the reblog and the great collection of reviews regarding Maja S.K.Ratkje recently.
REVIEW REBLOG – Fatima Al Qadiri: Brute – Album Review — Pon De Way Way Way
Fatima Al Qadiri’s first full-length, 2014’s Asiatisch, was a promising but flawed début. Its best moments, Szechuan and Shanghai Freeway, were brimming with tension and a barely contained magic and were easily two of the year’s best tracks. However, despite these promising peaks and all its concept Asiatisch didn’t come together as a body of work. Its […]
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REVIEW REBLOG – Watch: Kayla Painter – ‘efa’
Experimental soundscapes that catch the ear of electronic music guru Mary Anne Hobbs? Yes please! Bristol-based Kayla Painterimpressed earlier this year with her first release on Turnstile Records, ‘Revert,’ a slice of ambient electronica. But her latest, ‘efa’ is a much more challenging listen, which is filled with reverberating basslines and handclaps before building up into something relatively extreme.
Kayla said of the track: “It was created with the dream essence in mind, wanting to explore the relationship between two elements, all the while never being sure exactly what is there. The track and video explore the relationship between real and unreal through the narrative of a modern day fairy tale.”
‘efa’ also has a suitably odd little video, which, as you can probably see below, has a goat man in it. Yep, ‘efa’ pretty much has it all covered.
Watch the video for ‘efa’ below.
ARTICLE REBLOG – SP 010: Christina Vantzou
This is everything you ever wanted to know about Christina Vantzou and then some. Recommended long read.
Sound Propositions is an ongoing, semi-regular series of conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Rather than writing copy that can just as easily have come from a press release or a catalog, this series tries to take the emphasis away from the ‘what’ and shine light on the ‘how’ and ‘why.’ You can find the previous nine interviews, as well as additional articles and features, here.
It’s a feeling not a learning/
it’s a knowing and believing
Christina Vantzou released her debut solo record No. 1 on the august Kranky label, just a few months before we launched ACL in early 2012, and we’ve followed her career carefully since. Though we knew her as one-half of the audio-visual duo The Dead Texan (alongside Adam Wiltzie), we were…
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