Tag Archives: sound art

I MUST GO DOWN TO THE SEAS AGAIN…

On Twitter @Feminatronic has Sunday afternoon listening suggestion tweets roughly based around a theme and I thought that maybe I can occasionally recreate some of these here. This week the subject is  ‘I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky …’ and fits in with the  Field Recordings season.

FEMINATRONIC DISCOVERY – THE FOREST ORGAN

Feminatronic is on a voyage of discovery and this is todays gem.

SOUND BY ARTISTS ON VIMEO #1

 

JO THOMAS

 

DAWN SCARFE

 

CHRISTINA KUBISCH

Maria Marzaioli

Thanks to Ekho – Women in Sonic Art for this post.

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Maria Marzaioli is a Musician/Composer MariaMarzaioliSoundcloud

“As an artist I am interested in sonic and musical representations of the landscape around us – both the natural and built environment. Through sound, my work seeks engagement with the phsyical world in alternative ways and encourages people to explore and (re)evaluate their relationship with place and space differently.”

Submission to ‘Ekho:: Toward a Repetitive Sounding of Difference’

“This work was conceived as a score, giving a set of instructions to be followed for a journey of your own choosing that is to be repeated on the hour, every hour for 24 hours. The piece of music ’24 hours in 12 minutes’ is created from the recordings made on the journey I chose, following those instructions.”

“The piece is made up of multiple acts of repetition, physically walking the same path repeatedly and recording at the same places for set durations of time…

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MUSIC THAT REMINDS ME OF WINTER Pt 3

SHORT DIGEST – SPOTLIGHT ON THE THEREMIN

Part of the Feminatronic Season on the Theremin

SPOTLIGHT ON THE THEREMIN

THEREMIN

THEREMIN WORLD

 

Theremin an electronic odyssey

Excellent article from the BBC News site

Leon Theremin – The Man and the Music Machine

 

Electronic music pioneer Robert Moog built theremins long before he built synthesizers. In the 1960’s, he produced such models as the wedge-shaped Vanguard theremin and the shoebox shaped Moog Melodia theremin. Today, Moog Music Inc. produces the popular Etherwave and Etherwave Plus theremins and kits as well as the new MIDI-enabled Theremini theremin. Other popular models today include PAiA’s Theremax and Burns’ line of B3 theremins.

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY