REVIEW REBLOG – Notes On… ‘Clean’ By The Japanese House

November 12, 2015 Feminatronic

A couple of electro pop artist reviews today courtesy of Notes on Sound – a new site promoting primarily but not wholly new and undiscovered indie artists. Found a couple of posts that I can happily share here.

NOTES, ON SOUNDS....

In March, a mysterious figure called The Japanese Housereleased their first-ever track, ‘Still.’ It was a minimal, moody piece of work from a person who clearly loved using vocoders and enjoyed experimenting with auto-tune (in a good way). At the time it was quite difficult to garner any information about the shadowy figure behind the project, yet the track still got one of its first major plays on one of Zane Lowe’s last Radio 1 shows. It soon emerged that The Japanese House was the project of 20-year-old Londoner Amber Bain, and on her debut EP Pools To Bathe In, released in April, she’d made a short collection of tunes that were atmospheric, emotional and touched on a wide range of genres.

Her latest effort, Clean, might come just a few months after her debut but it shows that Bain is far from being short on ideas…

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Event, Reblog

EVENT – DD Day 2016 at HOME Manchester – Tickets on sale and funding in place

November 12, 2015 Feminatronic

Artist of the Week, Discovery, Event

ARMISTICE DAY 2015

November 11, 2015 Feminatronic

Here is a sublime piece that sonically fits the day from my Artist of the Week

Sharon Gal

Discovery, Introducing

TODAYS DISCOVERY – NAOMI KASHIWAGI

November 10, 2015 Feminatronic

Naomi Kashiwagi is an award-winning artist who produces sound works, installations, performances and works on paper, that draw upon her cultural heritage, an intrinsic fusion of two cultures, British and Japanese. Drawing is central to Kashiwagi’s practice and she makes drawings using a range of media including diamonds, typewriters, gramophones and pianos, as well as graphite and pen.

The reason this artist is my Todays Discovery is her work with Gramophone records entitled – Gramophonica

Articles, Reblog

ARTICLE REBLOG – Sound and Space

November 10, 2015 Feminatronic

Some interesting thoughts here and includes sound artists Susan Philipsz and Louise K Wilson

Hayley Wanless

Different spaces resonate in different ways.
The materials of a space will alter how a space sounds which also has an effect on how a space feels.
Sonic qualities of different spaces will all differ, whether the space is open and large, small and confined or outside and windy.
The environment can affect sound which is why if the same composition was played in a bedroom as opposed to a large hall, the listening experience would be completely different.
Materials can either reflect or absorb sound; reflecting surfaces provide and echo where as absorbing surfaces can dampen a sound.

Susan Philipsz

Whilst visiting the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin last February, I experienced Susan Philipsz work ‘Part File Score’- 2014. Exhibited in the converted train station part of the gallery, Philipsz used the stations pillars to install speakers, thus almost hiding them away and revealing the true architecture of the space…

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Introducing, SoundCloud Spotlight

REMEMBRANCE…

November 8, 2015 Feminatronic

Here is this weeks’ Soundcloud playlist – Electro Strings – a little early as it seems to fit the week to come –

Discovery, Introducing

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

November 8, 2015 Feminatronic

This is my Todays Discovery. Nothing more needs to be said…

Event

EVENT – “Can Composition and Performance be Research?” Forum, November 25th, London

November 6, 2015 Feminatronic

Some interesting thoughts here about the process of composing and funding. Should be a lively debate…

laura zattra

“Coffee and synths. KayoDot album “Hubardo” recording, 2013-06-13″ by Daniel Means – Flickr: Coffee and synths. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/

Try to imagine a research funding application from Arnold Schoenberg. Research question: ‘can I make music in which all pitch classes are played equally often?’. In his article ‘Composition is not Research’ John Croft challenges a conception and ideal of compositional work in academia (download the PDF article).

The incongruity between the act of composition and the way we are required to portray it has not gone unremarked: the advice you’ll receive from a seasoned composer-academic is simply to make up some nonsense to get the money, and then forget the nonsense and write the piece you wanted to write in the first place. The problem with this is not just that funding goes to those most adept at writing nonsense, but that it is…

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Artist of the Week, Discovery, Introducing

ARTIST OF THE WEEK – KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH

November 4, 2015 Feminatronic

Web Focus

WEB FOCUS – Many Many Women – About

November 4, 2015 Feminatronic 1 Comment

Here is a fantastic index of innovative composers, improvisers, and sonic artists which if you fulfil the criteria as an artist you can request to be added. Follow the About link –

The focus of this index is on women in experimental/avant garde music: contemporary classical/post-classic composition, free improvisation and avant jazz, electronic/ electroacoustic music, sound art, sound installations, radio art, sound poetry, etc. A few of these artists may also work within relatively mainstream forms, but they are included here because of their other work that is more challenging (example: Yoko Ono)

Source: About