Electronic Music, Introducing, Reblog, Review

REVIEW REBLOG – Lisa Busby ~ Fingers in the Gloss

Courtesy to A Closer Listen for the review reblog.

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multicolor coversIf you sleep in an oyster long enough, you become a pearl.  And this is exactly what happened to Lisa Busby, who is “not the same woman.”  But fear not!  Shards of the old Lisa remain.  She’s still calcium carbonate under all that shimmer.  We never forget our roots.

Long-time readers already know the reference.  Sleeps in Oysters was one of our favorite musical duos of the last decade.  Don’t you worry, John fans ~ he’s swimming languorously in The Lumen Lake, while Lisa’s been floating on the good ship Rutger Hauser. She is not an excessive girl.  This is how we know they still get along.  Now that summer’s over, Lisa’s been hanging out in bakeries and mortuaries, recording beautifully non-linear music.  No A-A-B-A here.  More like X-Z-Q-Q.  Everybody knows those are the coolest letters.

riso happy!By virtue of her music, Lisa scores a non-linear review.  Follow…

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Electronic Music, Poetry, Sunday Mix, YouTube

SUNDAY MIX – ..it’s cold outside

Over the wintry
forest, winds howl in rage
with no leaves to blow.

Over the Wintry – Natsume Soseki (1867 – 1916)

Out of the bosom of the Air,
      Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
      Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
            Silent, and soft, and slow
            Descends the snow.
Even as our cloudy fancies take
      Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
      In the white countenance confession,
            The troubled sky reveals
            The grief it feels.
This is the poem of the air,
      Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
      Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
            Now whispered and revealed
            To wood and field.

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

The snow is deep on the ground.
Always the light falls
Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.
This is a good world.
The war has failed.
God shall not forget us.
Who made the snow waits where love is.
Only a few go mad.
The sky moves in its whiteness
Like the withered hand of an old king.
God shall not forget us.
Who made the sky knows of our love.
The snow is beautiful on the ground.
And always the lights of heaven glow
Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.

Electronic Music, Focus, Introducing, News, Reblog, Uncategorized

NEWS – Dreamtime Collection Releases

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I’ve put together an album, rereleasing some of the tracks I love that I feel are perfect for an album that helps put you to sleep.  I’m calling it the Dreamtime Collection.  On it you’ll find tracks like Asleep Next to You, Entering the Shell and Falling.  While it could be argued that most of my music could put you to sleep, these tracks have been put together with that purpose in mind.  The plan is to have several editions of the Dreamtime Collection, volumes, that include new material.  This is the new project.  Dreamtime Collection.  We’ll see how many volumes we come up with.  Enjoy!

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NEWS – YSWN / Knowledge sharing ideas

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Discovery, Electronic Music, Introducing, Recommends, Soundcloud

TODAYS DISCOVERY – Sara Bigdeli Shamloo

Sara Bigdeli

I know very little about Sara Bigdeli  Shamloo and I can’t recall how I came across her music but I’m glad I did. What I do know is that she is a  Iranian vocalist / songwriter / composer and much of her work is in the theatre (correct me if I’m wrong). She is also a member of 2 bands – 9T Antiope and Migrain,  the latter I have been listening to recently.

 

Discovery, Electronic Music, Introducing, Reblog, Review, YouTube

REVIEW REBLOG – Agnès Pe – Método para Enya: el fluir del Orinoco

Courtesy to Yeah I Know it Sucks for this review.

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artist: Agnès Pe
title: Método para Enya: el fluir del Orinoco
keywords: enlightment, experimental, electronic, Enya, devotional, blinding, light, music, video, experimental

Agnès Pe is next to someone with experimental musical skills, an creative individual with a special gift. She has a special magical power that could potentially blind you, me and others. This she can do by pointing her hands in a way that a blinding ray of light could shoot out like bright laser beams.

I know it sounds ridiculous and I totally agree that you cannot make such a thing up… And that’s why it’s the truth, and nothing but the truth. Of course there is evidence, but this evidence comes with a great risk. In fact watching the evidence might be so damaging to your eyes, that it might be the last thing you will ever see. Is it worth the risk of losing your eye…

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Electronic Music, Introducing, SoundCloud Spotlight

SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT – Alma Laprida

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ALMA LAPRIDA

Alma Laprida is an Argentinian artist specialising in Electroacoustic, experimental and field recordings.

Discovery, Electronic Music, Introducing, Recommends, Soundcloud

TODAYS DISCOVERY -Diane Thome

There was a bit of a buzz on Twitter today about a list compiled on RYM website covering women in electroacoustic, minimalism, tape music, musique concrète, free improvisation, and related genres  which I highly recommend.

This is a brilliant work in progress and although there are many artists I know there are many that I do not. Never missing a chance to discover new music I began to look through and just followed the links.

In doing so, I came across Todays Discovery – Diane Thome.

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Here is a wonderful collaboration she did with Robert Austin. He states on the Soundcloud page –

This is a collaboration with my longtime collaborator, Seattle composer Diane Thome. I designed sounds for her (usually hundreds), from which she selected a subset, and arranged the samples into an audio collage, typically 8-16 tracks. I would then nip, tuck, re-synthesize, adjust dynamics and panning etc. We would pass it back and forth until we both agreed that it was ‘done’. I would sometimes write sections for pieces myself, and the goal was to produce a computer-synthesized tape which could stand on its own, though typically a solo instrument would play together with the tape. “Estuaries” was scored for oboe and computer synthesized sound, and here is the latter.

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REVIEW REBLOG – Kate Carr ~ I had myself a nuclear spring

Courtesy to A Closer Listen for the reblog of the Review.

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nuclear boxNo stranger to creative formatting, sound artist Kate Carr has just released her latest work on a USB flash drive, housed in an aluminum tin.  While it may suggest smuggled secrets from Spectre, these recorded sounds are meant to be shared.

On the surface, the album is about the Seine, but in this case, the river is viewed from an unusual angle.  As Carr puts it, the landscape is “almost apocalyptic.”  She continues, “These muddy marshes filled with buzzing electrical towers, corroded machinery, shrieking birds and canals feeding a nuclear complex were like nothing I had ever seen.”  Local electromagnetism made even hydroponic recordings difficult, as heard in the ghostly, feedback-laden “The darkness of riverbeds”.

Carr presents a mixture of field recordings and light musical adornment ~ a guitar line here, a subdued beat there.  The sources of the electronics are harder to discern, as they may have been born…

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NEWS – Rhythms and Song / Reductive book launch at Hundred Years Gallery

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Rhythms and Song is a new text published in the Reductive Four book . It’s in five parts: 1 and 5 are recordings of inner voices as well as prompts/scores for reading, 2, 3 and 4 were born out of very specific moments and materials: remembering a statue of Martyr Saint Vittoria in Rome during a gig (bones and wax), counting/listing some books of mine that got burned in a fire earlier this year (paper and fire), mixing the voices of Twin Peaks’ Nadine and Breton’s Nadja (silence and voice).

I will read from the texts during a performance in collaboration with Ryoko Akama on Friday 27th November at Hundred Years Gallery in London , as part of the Reductive Four book launch.

Rhythms and Song

1. That listening feeling.

2. The murmurs of Saint Vittoria, martyr.

3. The silences of Nadine and Nadja.

4. After the fire. A litany of…

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