Sometimes I reblog articles that are not strictly electronic but the underlying story or creativity just has to be given a wider audience. There is a recent interview with Ellen Fullman in The Guardian, which I read recently which has some interesting comments about being a creative artist and the responses she got when she wore the metal skirt in public. Worth reading.
NEWS – Guest artist: Iris Garrelfs – with exclusive new material
Iris Garrelfs joined me for a chat about her practice as experimental vocalist, composer and installation artist. Tune in to hear some of her work including collaborations with Poloumi Desai, Viv Corringham, Jude Cowan Montigue and Georgina Brett. Plus an exclusive new recording of Iris performing a solo concert at a church in Telegraph Hill. Tune into NTS.live on Monday night / Tuesday morning (29 Feb / 1st March) – at 1am to 3am GMT, or 8pm to 10pm EST.
Iris Garrelfs is an artist working on the cusp of music, art and sociology. Her practice includes fixed media, installation, improvised performance and has been included in major institutions worldwide, for example Tate Britain, National Gallery, Visiones Sonores Mexico, MC Gallery New York. Several of her works have just been nominated for the British Composer of the Year Award (Sonic Art).
Elsewhere she is the commissioning editor of…
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REVIEW REBLOG – Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther ~ Unter Grund
If you click through from this review, I also recommend you read the detailed overview on the Gruenrekorder site for added info on the Rhur and the connections between humans and nature – water and sound.
Courtesy to A Closer Listen for the reblog.
Many of the water-based recordings we receive are beauty-based, calling to mind vacations by the sea, meditations by the river, the sweetness of summer rain. Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther‘s Unter Grund is different: historical, political and metaphorical, it prompts the listener into larger modes of thought.
The original presentation was a 26-channel installation, and we’re intensely jealous of those who were able to check it out. The CD version is an intricate soundscape of water movement in the Ruhr area, recorded above and below ground, in spouts and pipes, pumps and ponds. The expanded recording area paints a fuller picture of water flow than one might receive from the personal experience of water from faucets and shower heads, heaters and drains. Where does the water come from? Where does it go? Is it clean? Few people ask such questions, content to trust that what enters their homes must be…
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NEWS – Éliane Radigue International Conference, CFP
I am pleased to share with you this Call for Papers I just received from Marc Battier, professor at IReMus / Université Paris-Sorbonne.
COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL ÉLIANE RADIGUE
Le colloque international Éliane Radigue a l’ambition de réaliser un panorama de l’œuvre de la pionnière de la musique électroacoustique française Éliane Radigue et d’inciter à la recherche sur les femmes compositrices du XXe et XXIe siècle. Le colloque est organisé par le CReIM (Cercle de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les musiciennes), le GEMM (Genre, Musique et Musiciennes) qui cherche à encourager les recherches sur les femmes dans le rôle de musiciennes, compositrices ou musicologues, l’IEC (Institut Emilie du Châtelet), ainsi que par l’IReMus (Institut de recherche en musicologie) et l’École doctorale Concepts et langages (ED V).
L’intérêt particulier pour la musique d’Eliane Radigue est dû au fait qu’elle est l’unique compositrice française de sa génération qui puisse être considérée comme une des pionnières majeures de…
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SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT -Akane Hosaka
“With her lunging rhythms and deliciously retro melodies, Akane Hosaka catapults us into a world of gleeful wallabies and drummer-boy monkeys.Her discovery of music came through song, and only later led to instrumental experimentation.References to her early influences, the 60s and 70s precursors of electropop, are deliberate, there for all to see: Raymond Scott, Perrey & Kingsley or Yellow Magic Orchestra. Nevertheless her true inspiration is from the visual world and lies in graphic forms and architectural fantasy:Keiji Ito, Archigram or Bruno Munari.For her, these images evoke musicthat she then sets about transcribing.Naturally reserved, she’s a perfectionist in her work. Seeing her in the studio is like watching a blacksmith in the smithy, as she bends her music into the required shapes.
Her compositions are like pastel-coloured soap bubbles in extra-bright Super 8.”
http://www.sonore.com
NEWS – Pledge for Parity
International Women’s Day is Tuesday, March 8th, 2016. The day’s purpose is to “celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women.” This year’s theme is: Pledge for Parity. Professional dance music DJs today are internationally known entities, touring the world and benefitting from what’s become a globally recognized culture. Yet the industry surrounding it is far from being equitable for women.
To accelerate parity from within, turn(the)tables on, a non-profit using dance music to fight problems of inequity and injustice, is suggesting DJs and producers make a pledge for International Women’s Day and beyond to challenge conscious and unconscious bias and create a more inclusive, flexible culture. How? Through the creation of charts on sites like Beatport, Traxsource, Juno, Resident Advisor, and wherever else they may already be active, on March 8th dedicated to the special day, with the intention of turning the tables on gender gaps…
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TODAYS DISCOVERY -Julia White
‘in the cities of dust’ a magnetic beauty sized in rough Diamond … for you.
Trained to noisey & punk rock, she offers us 9 pretty soothed thumbnails of pure beauty.” (David Teboul / Soft Recordings).
REVIEW REBLOG – Julia White – In the Cities of Dust [Soft]
It was suggested that I listen to this release and I’m glad I did..
EVENT – PoL # 23 Sound and Ecological Crisis
With Anja Kanngieser
Date: Tuesday March 8th, 2016
Time: 18:30
Venue: London College of Communication (Meet at front reception: directions)
Free with limited capacity
To reserve a place please email: markpeterwright@gmail.com
Image credit: Polly Stanton, 2015.
This PoL session will ask participants to consider how they understand ‘nature’, and what their stakes in it are, individually and collectively. In an era currently being defined as the Anthropocene, a geophysical term “which recognizes that human intrusion on the planet’s surface and into the atmosphere has been so extreme as to qualify our time on earth as a specific geological epoch”, the session explores imaginations of the natural world. It does so through mediums and methods of sound being used contemporaneously by artists, bioacousticians and scientists to make sense of, and communicate, earth system changes. Mapping out a range of ecoacoustic practices from field recordings to data and geo- sonifications, the…
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EVENT FOCUS – Film of Story of Sound talk
You can watch films of the Story of Sound talks for Lighthouse Arts in Brighton Pavillion. featuring myself alongside sound designers Chris Watson Barry Adamson and Glenn Freemantle at Story of Sound 2015. Shame I was ill that day but I don’t think you can tell too much!
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/programme/the-sound-of-story-2015-films
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