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FEMINATRONIC MUSICBOX #3
I thought it might be an idea to highlight a collection of tracks available to listen, download and buy, by female electronic artists. Music Box is just like a box of chocolates – varied and sometimes not to everyone’s taste but overall, demonstrating the eclectic nature of music creation. Dive in and sonically eat more than one…
Into the Woods: A Brief History of Wood Paneling on Synthesizers*
A very interesting article from Tara Rodgers
*a companion piece of this research, on electronic sounds as lively individuals, is forthcoming in the American Quarterly special issue on sound, September 2011.
Not long ago, while researching the history of synthesized sound—or taking a break to troll for interesting synthesizers for sale online (activities that, for me, inevitably blend together)—I came across a thriving industry of small companies that offer custom-made wood panels to adorn the sides of old and new synths, like Synthwood, Custom Synths, Analogics, and MPCStuff.
As Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco note in Analog Days, their history of Moog synthesizers, an “analog revival” is underway: “Today in the digital world, there is a longing to get back to what was lost” (9). The music technology magazine Sound on Sound concurs, documenting a renewed interest among electronic music-makers in modular synthesizers like those popularized by Moog and others in the…
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FEMINATRONIC FACEBOOK NEWS UPDATE
The 2nd Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism post-graduate research event seeks to query the place and performance of activism within discourses and practices of sound arts, sound-based arts and experimental musics that are engaged with gender, feminist and queer politics.CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: SGFA::2014London College of Communication, University of the Arts LondonOctober 16th – 17th 2014
Deadline: Monday 16th June 2014
The inaugural SGFA, focusing on the role of gender in sound-based arts and experimental musics, took place in May 2012 following the Her Noise: Feminisms and the Sonic symposium at Tate Modern. We are delighted to announce a call for participation in the 2nd Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism post-graduate research event to take place in London on October 16th and 17th 2014. SGFA::2014 will expand upon the 2012 event and we invite presentations of twenty minute formal research papers or ten minute emerging researcher/artist presentations sharing recent or ongoing work, addressing the question
What, in the historical present, might constitute an activist life in sound?
This is an open call and we welcome responses from all relevant disciplines and will accept a variety of formats from academic presentations, proposals for artworks and documentation of artworks to more experimental contributions.
Please send expressions of interest, including the theme, topic and format of your presentation, of around 200 words and a short biography of no more than 200 words by Monday 16th June 2014 to SGFA2014@crisap.org We will let you know if your submission is accepted by July 9th 2014.
Journal of Popular Music Studies special issue on Nightlife and Global Club Cultures
Proposed Special Issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies
Guest Editors: Madison Moore and Francisco Raul Cornejo
200 Word Proposals Due: Friday, August 15th 2014
Proposal Submission: madison.moore@kcl.ac.uk and frcornejo@aya.yale.edu
Further information here
Thanks to Pink Noises for highlighting these articles.
Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Women in Computer Music – SuperCollider Workshop Scholarship
Summer workshop opportunity to study SuperCollider
PAULINE OLIVEROS VLOG AT 80
Free album alert from Magnetic Wind.
Downloadable mp3 album, Asleep Next To You. http://freefloatingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/asleep-next-to-you .
Just download and play…. great sleep drift, meditative music. See the video at magneticwind.com
EM15 FESTIVAL
EM15 Festival
Dedicated to live performance and forward thinking visions in sound and image, EM15 promises festivalgoers an expansive and multidimensional experience!
Artists who are involved –
FEMINATRONIC 8TRACKS#10 – SOUND ART PART 2
This is the second part of the Feminatronic Sound Art 8Tracks and includes:
Atom Eye
Margaret Noble
Annea Lockwood
Hildegard Westerkamp
Maggi Payne
Sybella Perry
Elizabeth Veldon
Electric Kulintang
Thank you for listening
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FEMINATRONIC MUSIC BOX SOUND ART SPECIAL #2
I thought it might be an idea to highlight a collection of tracks available to listen, download and buy, by female electronic artists. Music Box is just like a box of chocolates – varied and sometimes not to everyone’s taste but overall, demonstrating the eclectic nature of music creation. Dive in and sonically eat more than one…
FEMINATRONIC SHORT DIGEST ON SOUND ART #2
I thought that it might be best to put together short Digests of about 5 or 6 items that may be of interest on this blog. This will be easier for you to read and keep up with and for me to put together. So here goes…
I have often wondered…
WHAT IS SOUND ART?
This is part two in a season I am putting together about Sound Art and the women who have been and are, at the forefront of this highly eclectic and diverse art form.
ACL 2013 TOP TEN FIELD RECORDINGS AND SOUNDSCAPES
GREY LADIES. SYBELLA PERRY ON THE FIELD REPORTER
Interview: Louise Mackenzie By David Meadows
PEEL North East Visual Arts 5.3.14
Elizabeth Veldon makes record label for gender variant and trans artists
The Work of Hildegard Westerkamp in the Films of Gus Van Sant:
FEMINATRONIC CONNECT NEWS
It occurred to me that not everyone is on Facebook and often there are interesting news items that come up on the Feminatronic Connect Facebook page that not everyone can see. So I thought that I would have the occasional posts that grouped together some of these items and hopefully bring them to a wider audience.
This post is a little longer than usual due to being occupied with my other life but I think it is a varied and interesting set of articles.
Thanks for your support of Feminatronic.
So here goes..
Peaceful Radioshow featuring Kerani
Golden Retriever’s Matt Carlson On… Eliane Radigue and How to Make Successful Drone Music
Saturday, May 10. 12–5pm.
FREE
FREE
Organized by Molly Smith in collaboration with The Kitchen, Women’s Synth Workshop is the first event in a continuing series focused on inspiring women to learn about the technical aspects and ideas behind modular synthesis and experimental electronic music. Led by various prominent wom…en in the field—including Alice Cohen, Rose Kallal, Delia Gonzalez, Lori Napoleon, Abby Echiverri, and Liz Wendelbo—the event will feature daytime discussions, lectures, and interactive demonstrations before transitioning to performances. Floor model synthesizers will be provided by the Williamsburg synth shop Control. All visitors welcome regardless of gender.
Created in 1971, The Kitchen is among the oldest non-profits in the country, whose legacy in electronic and experimental music is especially strong. Among composers and performers who presented some of their earliest and seminal works here early are Maryanne Amacher, Laurie Anderson, David Behrman, Harold Budd, Philip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, and Steve Reich. Today the organization’s board features such composers as Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly.
Schedule of events:
12:00 – 12:15: Introduction
12:15 – 1:00: Abby Echiverri
1:00 – 1:45: Lori Napoleon
1:45 – 2:15: Open Synth Play
2:15 – 3:00: Liz Wendelbo
3:00 – 4:00: Delia Gonzalez, Alice Cohen, Rose Kalal, Camilla Padgitt
4:15 – 5:00: Open Synth Play
FEMINATRONIC WEB FOCUS – HER NOISE
In the words of the Her Noise Overview:
Her Noise was initiated by Lina Džuverović and Anne Hilde Neset in 2001 with an ambition to investigate music and sound histories in relation to gender, and to create a lasting resource in this area through building up an archive… the initial desire of Her Noise, to ‘create a lasting resource’, that also operates as a starting point for new investigations. This blog is part of this project to invoke a living archive: a series of guest curators, each from different areas within the worlds of sound-based works and experimental music, will be invited to contribute to the blog. Guest curators will turn the dial to artifacts in the archive that have resonated with them and offer personal directions for a future listening-out for people who speak up about gender and talk back with sound.
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