Tag Archives: experimental

ARMISTICE DAY 2015

November 11, 2015 Feminatronic

Here is a sublime piece that sonically fits the day from my Artist of the Week

TODAYS DISCOVERY – NAOMI KASHIWAGI

November 10, 2015 Feminatronic

Naomi Kashiwagi is an award-winning artist who produces sound works, installations, performances and works on paper, that draw upon her cultural heritage, an intrinsic fusion of two cultures, British and Japanese. Drawing is central to Kashiwagi’s practice and she makes drawings using a range of media including diamonds, typewriters, gramophones and pianos, as well as graphite and pen.

The reason this artist is my Todays Discovery is her work with Gramophone records entitled – Gramophonica

Discovery, Introducing

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

November 8, 2015 Feminatronic

This is my Todays Discovery. Nothing more needs to be said…

Web Focus

WEB FOCUS – Many Many Women – About

November 4, 2015 Feminatronic 1 Comment

Here is a fantastic index of innovative composers, improvisers, and sonic artists which if you fulfil the criteria as an artist you can request to be added. Follow the About link –

The focus of this index is on women in experimental/avant garde music: contemporary classical/post-classic composition, free improvisation and avant jazz, electronic/ electroacoustic music, sound art, sound installations, radio art, sound poetry, etc. A few of these artists may also work within relatively mainstream forms, but they are included here because of their other work that is more challenging (example: Yoko Ono)

Source: About

Discovery, Introducing, Reblog, Reviews

REVIEW REBLOG – Various Artists ~ Pod Tune

November 4, 2015 Feminatronic

This is a pure ambient joy and wonderful collection of tracks that I can’t fail to make my Todays Discovery, including Christina Vantzou and Mia Hsieh to name a couple of artists.
Courtesy to A Closer Listen for the review.

a closer listen

Before podcasts, there were pod tunes ~ long, intricate songs flowing from underwater behemoth to underwater behemoth. These dynamic vocalizations carried stories of other pods in other oceans. Together, the humpback whales would learn these new songs, sometimes hours long, and share them with those they met. Even with dwindling populations, they continue this practice to the present day.

A humpback whale’s ability to memorize music is unsurpassed, and yet each rendition is different: a nuance here, an inflection there. It’s easy to project our emotions upon the whales, hearing plaintive cries in the drawn-out lower registers and joy in the higher tones. Yet their true depth of meaning lies beyond us. Whalesong provides a window into something ultimately unfathomable: the life of the earth’s largest creatures, connected by ancestry and geographic expanse.

Humans have been fascinated by whales for years, although the earliest fascinations had more to do with…

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Discovery, Introducing

TODAYS DISCOVERY – Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

November 2, 2015 Feminatronic

Not for the first time but well worth rediscovering the beautiful sounds of the Buchla Music Easel via the music of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.

Reblog, Review

REVIEW REBLOG – Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Tides

November 2, 2015 Feminatronic

I have loved the sound of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smiths’ music for some time, (a lot to do with the use of the Buchla Music Easel) ever since I first heard the track Sundry and this review has prompted me to make her the Artist of the Week.

Yeah I Know It Sucks

Artist: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
title:Tides
keywords: experimental, electronic

Tides by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is a remarkable pleasant release for the ears and the inner soul. It opens up with the calm easy going birds exploring the temperatures of a lovely day; but instead of having just nature do its thing it’s the artist’s lovable kindness in music that will make the inner hearts smile. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith manages to use limited sounds to bring a melodically minimalism that seems to breath in and out love in the kindest order. It’s as if the artist captured the senses of naive innocence of a beautiful wishful day in natural surroundings; it’s soft, kind and cherishing.

This is not just the beginning if this amazingly soothing record; it’s a feeling that IS this record. In each ‘Tides’ track the artists explores a theme that is lovable and kind, the music that makes…

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Discovery, Introducing, SoundCloud Spotlight

TODAYS DISCOVERY / SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT – Phantasm Nocturnes

October 31, 2015 Feminatronic

Interviews, Introducing, Reblog

INTERVIEW REBLOG – Phantasm Nocturnes (Betty Koster) interview

October 31, 2015 Feminatronic

Phantasm Nocturnes has been on my Artist page for sometime and her music is on the Noise playlists. It’s pretty powerful music and so glad I can post this interview from Yeah I Know it Sucks

Yeah I Know It Sucks

Hello dear reader; good to see you here! I’m KN and on my way to the house of Betty Koster for an interview. In case you have been hiding away under a gravestone; Betty Koster is the music producer fairly known for her work under the Phantasm Nocturnes (and PN-lobit) moniker. Her music is pretty special and in general pretty damn spooky too! I’ve always wanted to meet her, so recently I just asked if she would be up for an interview. She agreed and now I’m on my way to her home.. How exciting and glad you can come along, as I’m probably too excited to pull this one off all on my own.

Luckily it’s been a wonderful day weather wise, maybe she has a garden to sit and sunbathe for a bit.. We are close now.. A nice and posh looking neighborhood..

a nice looking neighborhood Betty Koster lives in a…