Feminatronic has a YouTube Channel which this months playlist is highlighting female electronic artists who use Field Recordings in their work.
Artists included are –
Sarah Angliss, Hildegard Westerkamp, Jo Thomas, Annea Lockwood, Christina Kubisch, Mira Calix, Janet Cardiff, Susan Philipz and Yuko Nexus 6.
This is a real gem and a great introduction and personal view, based on 45 years of experience on Field Recording practice. It also seems that there are crossover difficulties experienced that I have had in creating music such as data storage and recording failures. I recommend that you do listen through headphones as the field recordings really come to life.
Due to restrictions just click on the link below to watch on Vimeo.
I’m glad I did.
FOOT NOTES: On the Sensations of Tone organized by Alastair Noble On view: January 15 – March 7, 2015 Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 14: 6-8 pm Featuring work by:
Una Lee
Annea Lockwood
Chris H. Lynn
Robert Macfarlane
Ed Osborn
David Rothenberg
Chris Watson
As the press release states
Field recordings have proliferated in recent years due to the availability and portability of high quality recording equipment, enticing composers and sound artists to take their studios to the edge of the wilds or down the street.
The exhibition FOOT NOTES: On the Sensations of Tone and two public performance events draw together nine artists/composers whose works poetically map sound that reflect and emerge from their interaction with the natural environment.
In the words of the Cities and Memory site:
What is Cities & Memory?
Cities and Memory is a global field recording & sound art work that presents both the present reality of a place, but also its imagined, alternative counterpart – remixing the world, one sound at time. Every faithful field recording document on the sound map is accompanied by a reworking, a processing or an interpretation that imagines that place and time as somewhere else, somewhere new. The listener can choose to explore locations through their actual sounds, to explore reimagined interpretations of what those places could be – or to flip between the two different sound worlds at leisure.
So it is the start of a new year for Feminatronic and I was thinking what should I cover next as a subject and whilst mooching around looking for interesting items to highlight I thought, OK let’s look at the craft of Field Recordings and subsequent music created from Field Recordings. I am no expert in this area but I will try to cover as much of the work of female artists in this field ( no pun intended). Yes……a Season on Field Recordings, starting with….. Alastair R. Nobles’ article about the development of the concept of sound as music,which is my starting point for this season.
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 –
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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