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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.

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‪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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Discovery, Introducing

TODAYS DISCOVERY – SYNTHESIS VOL 2 – DIXIE TREICHEL

Discovery, Introducing, Reblog

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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Discovery, Electronic Music, Introducing, Soundcloud, Spotlight

SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT – PATRIZIA MATTIOLI

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Introducing, Reposts, Soundcloud

REPOST – CLAIRE GUERIN – Free Download of Soundbox Orchestra

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Missed this event to publicize it but the free download link is here.
Courtesy to Claire Guerin blog for this post.

Claire Guerin's avatarClaire Guerin

Atelier Macumba
HB55 Kunstfabrik, Herzbergstrasse 55 (Eingang B)
Berlin-Lichtenberg
Tram M8, 21: Herzbergstr/Siegfriedstr
18:00 PÜNKTLICH!!!!

The participants in the SoundBoxes Workshop will present an immersive, surround-sound experience inspired by the works of Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, John Grzinich, David Tudor, Gordon Monahan and others, performed in a darkened room for an eyes-closed audience. In the piece, a swarm of individual, simple sound sources such as tones and textures are modulated and moved through the space physically by the performers to create a complex sonic environment. Delicate and intimate sounds pass closely near the bodies and ears of the audience, while stronger, more extreme sounds occur at the edges of the space to give a sense of the architecture of the room and the objects in it.

PLEASE ARRIVE AT 18:00 SHARP FOR THIS PERFORMANCE!

And then stick around for IPAs and a chance to demo some of theMacumbista.net

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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

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.

guestlistener's avatarSounding Out!

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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Discovers, Looking Back to Now, Spotlight

LOOKING BACK TO NOW – VIV CORRINGHAM

Like many people I get side tracked when I am looking for things on the net for Feminatronic. Often there are a wealth of articles, reviews and interviews from previous years. That is the problem with the net – here today, gone tomorrow.
I thought that I would give some of these ‘lost to the ether’ pieces a re run with the idea that this could be combined with a what the artist is doing now.

Here is the first looking back to the now with Viv Corringham. The link is to the news page on the website –
http://vivcorringham.org/news

Article courtesy of The Field Reporter

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.