Tag Archives: found sounds

Introducing, Podcast, Reblog

REBLOG – CLAIRE GUERIN – Podcast interview with The Salon de Bruit in Berlin

I have clicked through and it looks as if this will be very interesting with focus on the Irish Sound Art Scene. Try to catch it online after the 28th. In the meantime, there is a list of links of artists, venues and sites that are related to the episode – Well worth checking out.
Courtesy to Claire Guerin and her blog for this post and don’t forget to check the soundboxes free download above.

Claire Guerin's avatarClaire Guerin

‘Seamus and Paul from the Salon de Bruit in Berlin invited me to join them on their monthly podcast.  They wanted to hear about sound art in Ireland from my experience to what I’ve grown up with and experienced with The Guesthouse.  Follow the link to have a listen and to see the links to some of the work I suggested in the interview too. ‘ -Claire Guerin

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This will be online from the 28th of July 2015.

Salon de Bruit <-Click here to listen

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Discovery, Introducing, Season

TODAYS DISCOVERY – MARTA ZAPPAROLI

MARTA ZAPPAROLI

Discovery, Introducing

MONDAY REBLOG – SO! Amplifies: Mendi+Keith Obadike and Sounding Race in America

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Here is the original piece which goes into detail about the theory and methodology behind the sound installations of Mendi and Keith Obadike.

                  SO! Amplifies: Mendi+Keith Obadike and Sounding Race in America.

Courtesy to SO! Amplifies for this article.

Discovery, Reblog, Recommends

MONDAY REBLOG – World Listening Day 2015: Mendi + Keith Obadike’s “Blues Speaker [for James Baldwin]” (2015) #WLD2015

It’s Monday reblog time and here is a recent post from Sounding Out in celebration of World Listening Day 2015. I have been following the work of Mendi and Keith Obadike for some time as their art looks in detail at Race and Sound in America. I will repost the previous piece above from SO! Amplifies – recommended. Courtesy to Sounding Out for this post.

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World Listening Month3For World Listening Day 2015, Sounding Out! is honored to debut Mendi + Keith Obadike’s  new documentary video about their recent large-scale urban installation at The New School’s University Center in New York City, “Blues Speaker [for James Baldwin]” (April 2015), dedicated to writer and public intellectual James Baldwin (1924-1987). –JS

As Mendi + Keith describe, “For Baldwin sound, music, and the blues in particular were sources of inspiration. The multichannel sound art work meditates on a politics of listening found at the intersection of Baldwinʼs language and the sound worlds invoked in his work. It uses the glass façade of The New School’s University Center as delivery system for the sound, turning the building itself into a speaker. The 12-hour piece is created using slow moving harmonies, melodicized language from Baldwinʼs writings, ambient recordings from the streets of Harlem, and an inventory of sounds contained in Baldwin’s story…

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Monday Reblogs, Reblog

SOUNDING OUT – Misophonia: Towards a Taxonomy of Annoyance

Every Monday I look forward to the Sounding Out posts as they are very thought provoking and interesting. Todays is no exception and kind of fits with the Experimental season here at Feminatronic. By the way, I am writing this listening to Yoko Onos’ ‘Cough Piece’ which has an aura about it through headphones. Courtesy to Sounding Out for the article.

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chewingWorld Listening Month3This is the second post in Sounding Out!’s 4th annual July forum on listening in observation of World Listening Day on July 18th, 2015.  World Listening Day is a time to think about the impacts we have on our auditory environments and, in turn, their effects on us.  For Sounding Out! World Listening Day necessitates discussions of the politics of listening and listening, and, as Carlo Patrão shares today, an examination of sounds that disturb, annoy, and threaten our mental health and well being.   –Editor-in-Chief JS

An important factor in coming to dislike certain sounds is the extent to which they are considered meaningful. The noise of the roaring sea, for example, is not far from white radio noise (…) We still seek meaning in nature and therefore the roaring of the sea is a blissful sound. Torben Sangild, The Aesthetics of Noise

When hearing bodily sounds, we often react with discomfort, irritation…

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Reblog

Bérangère Maximin – Dangerous Orbits

Courtesy to Dalston Sound for this review. Worth clicking through to Crammed Discs to hear clips from the album. Wonderfully atmospheric.

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Dangerous Orbits

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Web Focus

WEB FOCUS – HILDEGARD TO HILDEGARD

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HILDEGARD TO HILDEGARD

As the site states –

A weekly programme on Soundart Radio 102.5fm http://www.soundartradio.org.uk featuring music by female composers ancient and contemporary, from Hildegard von Bingen to Hildegard Westerkamp. We are open to submissions from women worldwide. Listen live on Thursdays from 2pm GMT.

YES! Women composed great music through time. Little known and published but valuable nevertheless!

A fantastic list of Women Composers and their links, scroll down the page to view.

Web Focus

WEB FOCUS – SONICTERRAIN

Sonic Terrain

As the site states –

“Sonic Terrain is dedicated to explore the reality of sound, encouraging to not just hearing it, but to listening to it (and recording it) for reflection, relaxation, art, science, etc, valuing sound as a fundamental element that is practiced and studied by an incredibly wide array of professions: laypeople, sound designers, multi-media artists, philosophers, musicians, scientists, researchers, ecology conservationists, educators and many more. That’s why Sonic Terrain aims to offer a place for those disciplines to be cross-pollinated in order to expose everyone to aspects of sound, recording and reality they may not have considered yet.”

A huge resource for all things sound and here are a couple of tasters:

Christine Sun Kim on SonicTerrain

Cheryl Leonard

Polar Explorations: An Exclusive Interview with Cheryl Leonard

Bandcamp, Discovery

TODAYS’ DISCOVERY – KUTIN, KINDLINGER, KUBISCH, GODOY

Thanks to A Closer Listen for the review of Ventil Label releases, leading me to this –

SoundCloud Spotlight

SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT – CARO C

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 the artist is  Caro C

“One-woman electronic avalanche” – bbc.co.uk

“a pioneering independent electronic musician” – Metro, UK

Caro C