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SoundCloud Spotlight

SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT – ANNA MEREDITH

This is a new idea I am trying here, to spotlight the SoundCloud pages of artists, many but not all, only have their SoundCloud pages as their web presence, especially new or under the radar artists and so this is another means to give a bit of a boost  and shine a light on their music.

This week is Anna Meredith

Anna Meredith is a young Scottish composer who writes electronic and acoustic music. She likes to work with orchestras, bands and choreographers to create music that uses clapping, stamping, shouting and beatboxing instead of instruments.

Anna Meredith

Discovery, Season, Web Focus

FOCUS ON IKUE MORI

Here is a spotlight on one of the great pioneers of electronic experimental music, Ikue Mori, which is part of the African and Asian Season .

ikueMori

IKUE MORI INTERVIEW – PERFECT SOUND FOREVER

INTERVIEW BY JASON GROSS (1997)

PHANTOM ORCHARD: STEVE ELKINS INTERVIEWS

ZEENA PARKINS AND IKUE MORI

Introducing, Reblog

MEREDITH MONK – MERCY

I have always admired Meredith Monk and this is one of my favourite pieces.This links with the review below from between sound and space

Poetry, Recommends, Sunday Mix

SUNDAY MIX – WALKING

 Every Sunday I put together a mix loosely based around a theme, as I think that music and poetry go so well together and since today I went for a stroll along the seafront to blow the cobwebs away, todays theme is Walking

My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance-

and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave…
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)

Rain so dark I
can’t get through—
train going by
in a hurry. The voice
said walk or die, I
walked,—the train
and the voice all
blurry. I walked with
my bones and my heart
of chalk, not even
a splintered notion:
days of thought, nights
of worry,—lonesome
train in a hurry.

 

 

I will have been walking away:
no matter what direction I intended,
at that moment, I will have been walking
Away into the direction that you now say
I have always intended, no matter what my
intention was then, I will have been
Walking away, though it will not be clear
what it was that I was leaving or
even why, it seems that you will say
That always, I was walking away,
intending a direction that was not towards
you, but moving away with every step,
Or, even when I pretended to be walking
towards you, only making the place
for my feet to go backwards,
Away, where I will have been walking,
always away:   intention and direction
unknown, but knowing you will always
say I will have been walking away.
A Kind of Villanelle

 

 

Poems courtesy of Poetry Foundation
Soundcloud, Sunday Mix, Twitter

FEMINATRONIC SUNDAY MIX – Happy Piano Day 2015

This weeks’ Sunday mix is a little bit different as it celebrates that beautiful instrument, without which I wouldn’t have my synths.

Happy Piano Day

Discovery, Introducing

FEMINATRONIC DISCOVERY – JULIA KENT

If you are looking for eclecticism you’re in the right place.

JULIA KENT WEBSITE

Uncategorized

WEB FOCUS – A CLOSER LISTEN

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As the About page states,

“A Closer Listen was founded on the principles of kindness, communication, and partnership.  We also aim to be a resource for the discovery of new music.  Here at A Closer Listen, a bedroom artist is just as likely to get reviewed as a major label artist.  We hope that if you enjoy a particular release on our site, you’ll click on the category (for example, “Field Recording and Soundscape”) to find related releases.  You may be surprised to find new names and amazing underground sounds; your next favourite album may be only a click away.  In addition, we’ve prepared a steady stream of exclusive mixes for your listening pleasure.  We love doing what we do, and we hope you’ll love what you see and hear!”