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WEB FOCUS – SIX PILLARS

I have been following Six Pillars for a while as it covers all the arts from Iran and further afield. It was the doorway into discovering the importance of electronic music in Iran and subsequently, elsewhere in the World. Looks like a great Sonic event happening in December. Please support if you can.

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six pillars logo smearSix Pillars began as an audio-research adventure into arts and culture from Iran and its diaspora in 2005, and the website began in 2007. This weekly experimental radio show has since expanded over the years into performance events, residencies, art exhibitions, installations and an avant garde sound ensemble. Six Pillars’ focus has now progressed into West Asian, South Asian and North African arts and culture. it has taken its producers and collaborators to West Asia, Columbia and more. It has taken its listeners into anonymous bedrooms in Tehran and major art events and galleries around the world.

Nominated for a Radio Academy Award in 2014, Six Pillars has an adaptive format and a pedagogical approach to programming, resulting in guest producers from a far afield as Malaysia, Iran and Egypt.

Current broadcasts: Wednesdays 9-9.30pm, repeat Fridays 3.30-4pm.
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REVIEW REBLOG – Madl Qurina – Don’t Make a Sound

This is lovely in its strangeness with a darker underside. Found Madl on Soundcloud if you are interested. Thanks to  Yeah I Know it Sucks for tracking this down and the review.

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Artist: Madl Qurina
title: Don’t Make a Sound
keywords: electronic, confusing, cute, electronic, experimental, Vancouver

If you go for this release you might experience the music gracefully swimming in like a full grown swan from the local mystery park. You might hear its Soft and calmness,  you might be aware of it slightly being confused as it follows the pleasant stream right into the pleasure receptors that are also known as ‘ears’. You might hear lo-fi waves that go from watery flow into another, bringing elegance and pleasantness wherever they go in a dreamy music way. You might hear this all, but you have to be quiet so not to destroy or miss out on the hidden elements within this atmosphere.

You might experience this as the place in which you might meet angelic sleepy melodies, greeting you like fairy tales in which a secretive voice kindly whispers a flattering…

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NEWS / EVENT – Brighton Digital Festival Radio // Future Sounds Conference

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I will be talking at Brighton’s Digital Radio Festival on Sept 24th part of a day long conference being run by Totally Radio a day of inspiring conversation, music, live broadcast and sound art at radio’s cutting edge. More info

http://brightondigitalfestival.co.uk

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NEWS / EVENT – Announcing: Delia Derbyshire Day 2016 at HOME, MCR

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REVIEW REBLOG – Green Shadow – green shadow sings the songs of green shadow

Elizabeth Veldon is an artist that Feminatronic has followed from the early days of the site but for some reason this review passed me by. Now is the time to make amends.

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Artist: Green Shadow
title: green shadow sings the songs of green shadow
keywords: experimental, avant-garde,electronic, noise, United Kingdom

Green Shadow sings the ‘all noise is silence’ song, which covers exactly what the title suggests, minus perhaps the singing. Or perhaps it is indeed sung, but just through unconventional ways. In any way the ‘all noise is silence song’ does deliver enough noise to become silent again. It’s a fascinating theory, and if you (like me) had strolled through the popular harsh noise wall memes on a certain social platform, you might even have seen visual proof of an extreme version of this conceptual thought and experiment.

Someone took a HNW track, placed it in an audio editor and enlarged the volume up, and up until only visual silence was left. This is a good example of a victorious miracle that is of a ‘try it yourself at home’ kind…

But…

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TODAYS DISCOVERY – SUSAN MATTHEWS

I have previously highlighted Susan Matthews’ music, namely Shadow Wraiths and because it is hauntingly lovely I am reposting it together with the newest release.

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REVIEW REBLOG – Susan Matthews – SirenWire69

Finally reblogging this review and making Sarah Matthews , Todays Discovery.
Courtesy to Yeah I Know it Sucks for the review.

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Artist: Susan Matthews
title: SirenWire69
keywords: ambient, classical, experimental, other, avant-garde, industrial, United Kingdom

The first track ‘Hegemony’ comes in like a thrilling piece in which a possessed typewriter types by itself to create a panicky disturbing horror story. This kind of audio story is quite unique; the story telling, the chapters and the thrilling end certainly speaks to the imagination; turning the sounds in a short exciting movie that goes in the ears to create a unforgettable disturbing scene in the visual parts of the brain.

Botanical Rite no.1′ brings the sound of a piano that drops like a muffled memory; slowly and politely in a soft Lo-fi layer of pleasant dust. The sounds of a pleasant noise switches it’s place and confirms that both sound entities are pretty much the sane, even though them being different.

With ‘Bruised Letter’ we can hear a bruised letter being spoken out…

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SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT – SARAH ANGLISS

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Sarah Angliss is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, roboticist and sound historian, particularly known for her skills on theremin and for the musical automata she’s devised and built to accompany her live on stage.

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SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT – Cristina Pullano

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Cristina Pullano – voice/lyrics, guitar, laptop, field recording

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REVIEW REBLOG – Akane Hosaka pt2

Here is part 2 of the focus on Akane Hosaka.
There is a certain charm with the music and the review sums it up, it does bring a ray of sunshine through the clouds.
Review courtesy of Yeah I Know it Sucks.

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2Artist: Akane Hosaka
keywords: rhythm, melodies, lo-fi, retro, loops, fun, happy, experimental, electronic

Do you remember the fun music by Akane Hosaka? Her album ‘Loop Music‘ on Wrieuw Recordings (released on a floppy diskette) is still one of my personal highlights in the collection. But to be fair, Akane Hosaka doesn’t sit still and continues her musical journey in an ever expanding way!

Akane Hosaka creates the happiest loopiest electronic loop experimentations and it’s not only obvious fun for her to make them, but also great fun for us listeners to follow these electronic adventures as they come to life and evolve. The great thing of her music expeditions is that a part of the process is that her wonderful nostalgic happiness are once done all finding a way on her official sound cloud account; making it possible to really follow the happenings as if it’s stories within…

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Celebrating the eclecticism of Electronic Artists who identify as female