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NEWS – Guest artist Hannah Kemp-Welch

Graham Dunning's avatarFractal Meat

Artist Hannah Kemp-Welch joined me with a selection of her favourite sounds, ranging from fluxus performances to guitar noise, beat poetry to musical boxes. Hannah’s practice centres around performative interventions using sound,  playing with tech, though always lo-fi, DIY, and with a sense of humour. She investigates personal and social interactions when listening or experimenting with sound, with a pretty Fluxus approach. As well as performing and exhibiting work, Hannah runs the research blog sound art text. You can also find her on twitter at @SoundArtHannah.

Tune in from 1am – 3am (GMT, Morning of Tuesday 16th Feb) or  8pm – 10pm (EST, evening of Monday 15th Feb) on NTS.live.

This is also the 100th episode of Fractal Meat. Wahey!
You can hear other episodes from the archive here.

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REVIEW REBLOG – Iris Garrelfs: Breathing Through Wires

Wow, just came across this review and I find this release is a free download. Had to reblog on both counts…

Event, Reblog

EVENT – Queef live in Plugd

Claire Guerin's avatarClaire Guerin

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benign presents:

Primal Barber Trio – Dublin a capella vocal trio. Grunts, gasps, wheezes, snorts, splutters, gurgles, mumbles, shouts, wails, and more.
https://desertedvillage.bandcamp.com/album/barberbarberbarbr

Queef – ‘Queef are the combined forceful imaginations of Claire Guerin and Laney Mannion (miniature zebra)
whistling into saucepans and banging stones off stones
bringing the enjoyment of making noise (all sorts of noise) to the greater public
experimenting in a live setting, exploring, connecting and bringing together a better understanding of the vocal calamity of humanity, to listen attentively to what one might have once been considered mundane household objects or debris one might find strewn across a rocky beach…’
Queef movie : vimeo.com/94867123
https://soundcloud.com/queef-2/

Plugd Records, Triskel Arts Centre
9.00pm, suggested donation €5

benign is a Cork based group aiming to promote experimental practice, musical and otherwise.

RSVP : https://www.facebook.com/events/441650019364566/

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Reblog, Review

France Jobin ~ Singulum

Been a bit busy lately and suddenly find that there is a lot to post this week including this review courtesy of A Closer Listen…

ukstratboy's avatara closer listen

FJLike a sluggish mummification process, the light and creamy textures of Singulum are gently wrapped around the body, embalming the slowly developing ambient music. On Singulum, Montreal sound artist France Jobin gently nudges her music forward, and it’s so hushed it’s hardly there at all; it’s an incredibly subtle approach.

Inspired by quantum physics, Jobin uses a series of quiet field recordings that are in turn manipulated, processed and lightly looped, the latter enjoying a healthy, liberal amount of space and freedom (an open loop, if there is such a thing), her modular synthesizers rearranging and transforming the music beyond all recognition. Science, sound and music are inextricably linked, so close as to resemble sons and daughters. They are elegant, despite the stuttering glitches that occasionally pass by. Reshaping both the timbre and the tonal quality of the original recording results in an entirely new entity being created.

Shapes inside the…

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Articles, Focus, Reblog, Review

REVIEW REBLOG -Björk: Biophilia

Lovely long and in-depth read courtesy of ECM Reviews.

Tyran Grillo's avatarBetween Sound and Space: ECM Records and Beyond

The 2004 Summer Olympiad was an unprecedented event for its host city of Athens. Under the motto “Welcome Home,” 10,625 athletes representing 201 nations competed in 28 distinct sports: a veritable sea of bodies representing the human form at its finest. All the more appropriate that, following the Parade of Nations, Björk should fill the stadium with her anthem, “Oceania”—a homecoming of a different sort, concerning currents more powerful than all those bodies combined. “You have done good for yourselves since you left my wet embrace and crawled ashore,” she sang, Mother Nature presiding over her children before they ran, leapt, and tumbled their way through hundreds of demanding events. Here, conspicuous yet perhaps unnoticed, was the deeper origin story of the games: somewhere within, at the mitochondrial level, proliferated feats of prowess that we could only dream of replicating without. As Björk stood rooted, her dress unfurled to cover…

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Discovery, Reblog, Recommends, Web Focus

Todays Discovery Reblog -the beauty of joan la barbara (scores and photographs)

Something a little different as my Todays Discovery is this website – The Hum Blog. Recommended.

bradfordbailey's avatarThe Hum Blog

I’m a huge fan of Joan La Barbara. Her LP The Voice Is The Original Instrument is one of my favorite documents of the 1970’s NY avant-garde. La Barbara is a master of advanced vocal technique. In addition to her own remarkable creative output, she’s had a long career working with many of the greatest names in avant-garde composition – John Cage, Robert Ashley, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, David Tudor, and her husband Morton Subotnick. In my wanderings around the internet I’ve come across some of her wonderful scores and images of performances etc. I thought I’d pass them along. To see and learn more visit her website.

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REBLOG -joan la barbara vocalizing the alphabet on sesame street in 1977

This is somewhat strange for me as I used to watch Sesame Street and always loved the songs (and Grover). I particularly remember the Ladybug Picnic,so when this came up on my reader I had to have a look and I remember this…Strange? Not Joan La Barbara, lets’ make that clear. It’s just all these years later I have finally discovered who created the wonderful vocal soundtrack to my early life…pretty cool.

bradfordbailey's avatarThe Hum Blog

My dear friend Koen just sent this to me, via our mutual friend Byron, in response to my post on Joan La Barbara. Thanks to them both. I have a palpable memory of the sequence, and particularly the sound, from childhood, but haven’t seen it since. It’s a wonderful fragment from a time when experimental music bled into the mainstream, and planted its seeds in us all.  Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

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Mixcloud, News, Radio, Reblog

NEWS REBLOG – Monthly Radio Shows

Neotropic's avatarNeotropic

Just a little reminder that my monthly radio show is coming up this Sunday on Reel Rebels Radio my show runs from 3.30pm until 5pm. Please tune in or if you are not able to you can catch all my previous shows on Neotropic on Mixcloud. There are a fabulous array of great shows on Reel Rebels Radio a truly independent station with its heart at the centre of the community! You can catch up on all the latest news/shows on their facebook page. New radio show 2016

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REVIEW REBLOG – Listen: ACRE TARN – ‘Dawn Faces’

Here is Todays Discovery – Acre Tarn and recommend listening to her Soundcloud page.
Courtesy to Notes on Sounds for the pointer and review.

Notes On Sounds's avatarNOTES, ON SOUNDS....

Hailing from The Lake District, Anna-Louisa Ehterington began impressing with her dreampop tunes last year with ‘Flex’ and ‘Lanterns.’ As ACRE TARN she’s been leading anyone who’ll follow down a rabbit hole that leads to a synth wonderland that’s hypnotic but propulsive enough to still get you dancing.

Her latest track ‘Dawn Faces’ doesn’t deviate too much from that already winning formula, instead pairing beautiful melodies and flittering synths together like we’ve become accustomed to. Still, it’s definitely not a sign of ACRE TARN slowing down, as ‘Dawn Faces’ might be her most engaging single yet; that’s in part due to the ethereal chanting Etherington adds and the weighty drums that keep the featherweight instrumentation grounded. Perhaps if Robyn spent a year listening to only the Cocteau Twins you’d get something that sounds like this. But Etherington beat her to it.

Listen to ‘Dawn Faces’ below.

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ARTICLE REBLOG – Digging Deep And Deeply Delian : Sounds Explained And Unexplained

Robin The Fog's avatarRobin The Fog

Crumbs, it’s been a busy couple of weeks. Let’s start the beginning with my report for BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight on the recent Delia Derbyshire Day that took place at HOME, Manchester and that I was lucky enough to attend. Partly intended as an introduction to one of the great pioneers of the Radiophonic Workshop, much of the ground covered here will already be familiar to regular visitors to these pages; but listen closely and you’ll catch a couple of exclusive extracts from work that have lain unheard in Delia’s archive for decades! It’s a real privilege to be able to bring you even this small taster!

Part of my on-going commitment to keep the nation’s airwaves just that little bit Radiophonic, this report also went out on The World Service a few days later and was posted on The Today Programme’s Facebook page; all of which has hopefully helped to continue the festival’s…

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Celebrating the eclecticism of Electronic Artists who identify as female