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EVENT – Talk at YSP

magz hall's avatarMagz Hall

Sound and radio artist Magz Hall has joined YSP for a residency over summer 2015. Magz’s exploration of the artistic potential of radio, outside of conventional settings, has seen her turn ceramic pots, books and now trees in the YSP grounds into radio transmitters. Powered by solar energy, the trees create their own micro FM station, broadcasting a radio wave translation of biological processes and reactions to the environment.

http://www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/magz-hall
Join Magz for a guided tour of the tree radios and a talk about her practice. Sat 29th August at 13:45.

http://www.ysp.co.uk/events/magz-hall-meet-the-artist

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Articles, Discovers, Interviews, Introducing, Reblog

INTERVIEW REBLOG – Step Right Up: Moon Ate the Dark

Earlier this week I reblogged a review about Moon Ate the Dark (Headphone Commute) and here is an in depth interview with them courtesy of Fractured Air.

markcarry's avatarFRACTURED AIR

Interview with Moon Ate the Dark.

“..there is always a surprise and it keeps the music alive, which is what I think we both strive for whilst playing together.”

— Anna Rose Carter

Words: Mark Carry

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Moon Ate the Dark is the neo-classical-infused-drone collaborative project between Welsh pianist Anna Rose Carter and Canadian producer Christopher Brett Bailey. The London-based transplants’ two full-length releases – 2012’s self-titled debut and this year’s highly-anticipated follow-up, both released on the prestigious Berlin-based imprint Sonic Pieces – forges a deeply affecting experience for the heart and mind: the rich, dense textures of Bailey’s production is masterfully inter-woven with Carter’s stunningly beautiful piano-based compositions.

Delicate and hushed tones of Anna Carter’s piano serve the opening notes to Moon Ate the Dark’s latest sonic journey –the mesmerising sophomore record, ‘Moon Ate theDarkII’ – whose fragile beauty radiates like the first rays of sunlight…

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SERIES REBLOG – The Colour of Sound: violet (final episode)

Sad to hear this is the final episode in this series. Really enjoyed listening to the sound of colours and have posted every one here, although now luckily, there is one place to hear them on Radio National. Also recommend visiting the Soundproof site if you are interested in everything sound / field recordings and Radio Art.

soundslikenoise's avatarSOUNDS LIKE NOISE

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A short sample from Violet, the final colour to be interpreted in the Colour of Sound series.

Violet, the colour denoting the imperial ranks in Ancient Greece and Rome, was believed by Aristotle to be heard as an octave, a perfect interval that can be infinitely repeated. Contemporary studies into colour-sound theory are indebted to the work of Aristotle (384-322 BC) whose musings are thought to be the earliest exploration into the subject. His belief in the harmony of the spheres reverberated for centuries influencing scientists such as Isaac Newton in their quest to identify the colour of sound.

This is the final episode in the Radio National series. To listen to it in full visit the Soundproof website.

Radio National have the Colour of Sound as a featured series allowing you to listen to each of the episodes from one page. And now to the next project …

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REVIEW REBLOG – Tomoko Sauvage – Ombrophilia

Courtesy to Dalston Sound for this review.

Here is a link to an earlier post on Tomoko Sauvage.

Tim Owen's avatar_____on Sound

Ombrophilia

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REVIEW REBLOG – möström ~ we speak whale

Courtesy to A Closer Listen for this review and well worth following the link and looking at the creativity of The Vegetable Orchestra : )

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UNREC09_frontThe genre-defying debut of female trio möström is a sparkling original, beguiling in the best sense.  These Viennese veterans of other bands (including Gustav, broken.heart.collector and The Vegetable Orchestra, dedicated to “the exploration of the acoustic properties of vegetables” – really!) have now combined forces to produce music that can’t be imitated, because it doesn’t imitate anything else.  In fact, the only comparison we can make involves the “Emoticon” video, which shares the visual (although not the aural) tone of múm’s “They made frogs smoke til they exploded”.  Simultaneously playful and creepy, the childlike visuals are blended with extremely dark undertones, earning a parental warning without a single lyric.

Still with us?  Good.  Then you’ll definitely appreciate the album.  Perhaps the safest way to approach the music is sideways, so as not to alarm it.  The disjointed feeling of the combined instrumentation (bass clarinet, keyboard, DIY electronics) is mirrored by…

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Bandcamp, Introducing, Review

REVIEW REPOST – Sara Goodman – Airplanes No Longer Exist

This is getting to be a habit but Yeah I Know it Sucks has done it again with this find. This is the first of my discoveries today and is another example of the huge variety of experimentalism that is out there.

kainobuko's avatarYeah I Know It Sucks

Artist: Sara Goodman
title: Airplanes No Longer Exist
keywords: dub, electronic, experimental, glitch, musique concrete, noise, poetry,
label: Poverty Electronicshttp://povertyelectronics.bandcamp.com

Sara Goodman’s ‘airplanes no longer exist’ release on Poverty Electronics is one that is of a kind experimental kind. My ears are drawn in directly by ‘ She Spanks Silver Peacocks’ which sounds to low-bit loving ears like a soft brew of recognizable data loss. The sound is one of a rhythmic, yet muffled kind; as if a microscopic microphone with the ability to record had been placed in a pocket of a coat and the artist added her hand and moving fingers to get this specific sounding audio work to sound like it sounds.

‘The Sideways Market Collapsed ‘skips the low-bit aspect and goes for a soundtrack that has musical aspects, yet it is fully dressed as a experimental of sound in which a listener can apply their…

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TODAYS DISCOVERY – YOKO HIGASHI

Following on from the review of Dzera in Yeah I Know it Sucks,   I discovered this collection of ambient  voice / fieldscapes from Yoko Higashi

Events

EVENTS – Supernormal Festival 2015

This is the season of the Festival and I am giving a plug to those that look interesting and include many of the artists that Feminatronic has highlighted,( also discovering new artists along the way). Last weekend was Full of Noises in Cumbria http://fonfestival.org/ which included such artists as Andie Brown, Leslie Deere, Aine O’Dwyer and Helen Frosi among the great line up overall. Will have more on this soon.

Next weekend – August 7-9th,is Supernormal Festival http://www.supernormalfestival.co.uk/ and artists include Jennifer Walshe, Karen Gwyer, Vicky Langan amongst another eclectic and looks like, joyful arts experience. Here is Poulomi Desai performing at Supernormal 2013.

Omsonic's avatarOmsonic

‪Performance and film screenings at Supernormal Festival 2013:  Sitar, Circuit Bent, Slide Projectors, axe, knives, kitchen implements + Electronics.‬

The full series of “Experiments with Noise” videos were also screened at the festival.

Supernormal Festival (Braziers Park) is a wonderful small festival of experimental arts and music. Big thanks to Sam Francis. See: http://www.supernormalfestival.co.uk/programme/2013

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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TODAYS DISCOVERY – SYNTHESIS VOL 2 – DIXIE TREICHEL

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TODAYS DISCOVERY – SYNTHESIS VOL. 2

Here is Todays Discovery thanks to Alan Gleeson. I will be returning to some of the artists on this collection in the near future.

Alan's avatarAlan Gleeson

Excited to have a track selected for this compilation which is released today. SYNTHESIS VOL. 2 is an International compilation of intelligent works produced by professional sound artists and musicians from South Korea, Uruguay, Ireland, Venezuela, Greece, Belgium, Brazil, Sweden, France, Poland, Mexico, Denmark, Israel, the UK, Colombia, Italy and the US. A big thanks to Vero Mota & Urban Arts Berlin for the time and effort taken to organise and release this. Listen, enjoy, buy and share. Cover image by Daniel Palacios

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