EVENT – PoL # 19 (Not a) Sound Map of Karachi

September 23, 2015 Feminatronic

If you are interested in Sound Studies and Field Recording – This looks interesting.

With Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver
Date: Wednesday October 14th, 2015
Time: 18:30
Venue: London College of Communication, Elephant & Castle | meet in reception of LCC
Free with limited capacity
To reserve a place please email: s.voegelin@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Karachi is Pakistan’s largest city, the second most populous in the world and the capital of Sindh Province. A port on the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman, it is a megacity of 20 million inhabitants (more than double of London). In the 1940s, American servicemen dubbed it ’The Paris of the East’ [1] and the city was the main stopover for flights and ships passing through the region. With Dubai now as the main stopover, Karachi faces environmental and structural disorder, with an estimated 500,000 street beggars and a private security industry generating ($6,000,000) six hundreds of millions of dollars in business each year.

How does Karachi’s socio-economic structure and history…

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Discovery, Introducing, SoundCloud Spotlight

TODAYS DISCOVERY / SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT – KAYAKA

September 21, 2015 Feminatronic

Introducing, Reblog, Review

REVIEW REBLOG – KAYAKA – Sonic Kitchen

September 21, 2015 Feminatronic

So glad I checked this out and breath of fresh air posting about jazz experimental electronics. You can hear the tracks from this release here –
Courtesy to Dalston Sound for this review.

_____on Sound

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Focus, Soundcloud, YouTube

SOUNDCLOUD PLAYLIST – THEREMINSISTAS

September 20, 2015 Feminatronic

Focus, Introducing, YouTube

THEREMIN ECLECTICISM – Part 2

September 19, 2015 Feminatronic

Articles, Focus, Introducing, YouTube

THEREMIN ECLECTICISM – Part 1

September 19, 2015 Feminatronic

Introducing, Season

PIONEERS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC – CLARA ROCKMORE

September 19, 2015 Feminatronic

Having a focus on the Theremin on all platforms this week so I am reposting some old and new posts this weekend starting with this –

CLARA ROCKMORE

Rockmore was without peer as a performer in the early decades of the instrument’s use. While many listeners have heard the theremin played poorly or used mostly as a spooky special-effects device, Rockmore used it to perform classical works. Under her control, the theremin sounded like a blend of the cello, violin and human voice.

Theremin World

THE NADIA REISENBERG AND CLARA ROCKMORE FOUNDATION

DISCOGRAPHY

Event

EVENT – Introduction to Live Coding Performance with Shelly Knotts and Joanne Armitage

September 18, 2015 Feminatronic

Discovery, Introducing, Reblog, Review

REVIEW REBLOG – Mark Lyken | Emma Dove ~ Mirror Lands (Deluxe Edition)

September 18, 2015 Feminatronic

When I first came across Mirror Lands via A Closer Listen, I was struck by the sounds and images. Seems I still am and the release of the Deluxe Edition gives me another reason to revisit it.
Review courtesy to A Closer Listen.

a closer listen

One of our favorite field recording works of last year, Mark Lyken and Emma Dove‘s Mirror Lands, is about to get the deluxe treatment from Time Released Sound. Those who missed it last time will have another shot this Sunday! To celebrate the re-release, we’ve slightly edited our initial review to reflect the new edition.

We last encountered Mark Lyken and Emma Dove with their installation-based EP and video The Terrestrial Sea. Their new work expands on that prior release and continues an investigation of the sonic and visual properties of Scotland’s Black Isle. Time Released Sound is presenting the work in two versions: a regular and a deluxe edition. Both editions include the soundtrack and a link to the film, while the deluxe edition includes additional ephemera (shown above): vintage prints, maps and pages from travel books, all honoring the location of the film.

The film is…

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Discovery, Introducing, Vimeo

TODAYS DISCOVERY / SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT – FETTER

September 15, 2015 Feminatronic

Jessica Tucker (1989, USA), aka FETTER, is an Amsterdam-based multimedia artist, musician, and producer. With her intimate and layered vocal/electronic music, together with her surreal and playfully strange animation videos and poetry, Tucker’s work expresses a kind of optimistic melancholy. In her recent installation work she deals with themes such as narcissism, insecurity, and the concept of ‘maintaining potential.’ In the past Tucker has also explored through sound, video, installation, and performance, topics such as the paradoxical simultaneity of presence and absence in distanced forms of self-expression, the vulnerability and power of the voice, and the human tendency to conceptualize ‘self’ in terms of abstract spatial relations.

from artists’ own site