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CD" - IntervalThe dreamily ambient sequences of "+1", a project by Laura and Mark Cetilia, constitute a fruitful and challenging colloborative work. The precision with which the duo compose has never been greater. Laptops and cello combine to produce a painstakingly thorough acoustic and digital confluence of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . bastard pop . experimental . free form
Marina Rosenfeld - Plastic Materials
CD - Room40Marina Rosenfeld is rather famous in the underground New York scene (and not only there) for her compelling combination of an atypical conceptual turntablism along with more avant-garde and original experimentation. In "Plastic Materials", too, some of the electro-acoustic structures typical of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental . free form . soundscapes
Nommo Ogo - Across Time And Space
CD - Record LabelRather emotional and psychedelic electronica, with strong melodic ingredients and space-future influences. Nommo Ogo, a combo hailing from the glacial latitudes of Alaska recorded this album in the United States, in California, Colorado and Oregon, arranging plots that are unraveled - contrarily - in a ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . folktronica
Mario Masullo & Andrea Gabriele - Les Couleurs Ne Meuvent Pas Les Peuples
CD - PersistencebitThe new project by Mario Masullo & Andrea Gabriele is replete with divergent inspirations. They are both sound designers who are well-versed in several genres, manipulating both acoustic instruments and laptops/electronic devices with equal skill. Compared to their earlier productions, the duo seem to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . electronica . ethnic . experimental . free form
Mice - World Tour
CD - EcosonoAs a combo whose typical sounds are very wobbly and crooked, permeated with electronic, experimental and jazz influences, "Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble", traveling 30,000 miles by ship around the world, have created a successful series of concerts, collaborating with and connecting ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental . field recordings . soundscapes
Akira Kosemura - Polaroid Piano
CD - Someone GoodAkira Kosemura creates fascinating miniatures in form of delicate piano elaborations, pop and classical at the same time, gentle and repeated, with light backgrounds of natural sounds and measured clicks. Pants, scratches, light percussions of string instruments, discrete field recordings that reinforce the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . acoustic/digital . electronica
Milosh - III
CD -!K7Gentle melodies and indietronic patterns are veined with a very insistent downtempo melancholy and crystal clear sounds in this finely modulated work by Milosh, a Canadian classical and jazz composer. This is his third release, emblematic in its sensitive junctions, embedded in a tenuous electronic music, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Stephan Moore - To Build A Field
CD - Deep ListeningSounds that seem to converge in ultra-rarified sequences, hesitating in sensitive constructions with strong environmental and narrative structures, reflect the background of Stephan Moore, the author, a long time member of the live band at the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Moore is a composer ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Anne Laplantine - A Little May Time Be
CD - AhornfelderThe harmonic structures in this work have a distracted quality, a fragile polyphony. Experimenter and transalpine videomaker Anne Laplantine is well-known for projects created under the moniker Michiko Kusaki e Angelika Koehlermann. She is now turning her attention to a style of digital pop, rendered in ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Tom Hamilton - Local Customs
CD - Mutable MusicThe elegant and modulated instrumental interventions of Jacqueline Martelle (flute), Richard Cohen (clarinet), James Martin (trombone), Terry Kippenberger (bass) and Rich O'Donnell (percussion) are twisted with electronic harmonic sequences dictated by Tom Hamilton, in a work similar to electro- ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . impro . laptop
Domenico Sciajno - Doves Days In Palermo
CD - BowindoFrom March to July 2008 Palermo held the 'Doves Days', 'Meetings of music, sounds and experimental electronic arts' – a festival organised for the third time by Antitesi. Works were selected for this edition for their ability to cultivate a sense of cultural exchange between artists, practitioners and a public of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Nicolas Bernier - Les Arbres
CD - No TypeAcoustic and electronic sounds in 'Les Arbres' can be listened to in the form of a delicate but rigorous project, led by Nicolas Bernier, a composer able to activate symmetries between piano and environmental textures, developing intense and expanded melodic tunes. The Canadian author places ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . ambient . electronica . experimental
Ethan Rose - Oaks
CD - BaskaruTo create these minimal sound ellipses Ethan Rose uses an old Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. The sounds are often velvety, ambient and symphonic, and are manipulated using computers and other electronic devices. They are also intertwined with more traditional acoustic instruments such as flute, clarinet, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . laptop
Taylor Deupree & Kenneth Kirschner - May
CD - Room40Recorded live at the Lisbon's OFF Festival in May 2008, this collaborative project by Taylor Deupree and Kenneth Kirschner is specifically focused on the relationship resulting from the interaction between the sounds produced by an acoustic piano and those produced in subsequent laptop manipulation. The ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Zeitkratzer & Keiji Haino - Electronics
CD - ZeitkratzerLive sessions recorded at the Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin, during November 2005, and at the Donaufestival Krems, in Austria, the following year, are used here to compose the rarefied acoustic and digital sequences by Zeitkratzer. This is an ensemble founded by Reinhold Friedl, and is ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Kenneth Kirschner - Filaments & Voids
2CD - 12KDelicate sequences, rarefied samples followed by silence, active suspensions and short drones, reminiscent of Cage's main intuition: that sounds include a certain absence. The opposite is also true, and here silence is sprinkled by barely perceptible frequencies and vibrations. This condition of lack ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Noah Creshevsky / If,Bwana - Favorite Encores
CD - PogusAn experimental 'one + one' - non-collaborative - between Noah Creshevsky and Al Margolis (aka If, Bwana), whose respective compositions are skilfully framed, meticulously organizing the imaginary and the forms of sound that the concept of 'hyperrealism' suggests. Orchestrations that take raw materials ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Carrier Band - Voice Coil
CD - Deep ListeningA recording of Pauline Oliveros, Peer Bode and Andrew Deutsch's 2003 performance at the Deep Listening Space in Kingston (New York), 'Voice Coil' is structured as an extended suite. It is an experiment that merges rarefied accordion with the sounds of a particular vocoder, creating elegant ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . field recordings
Miya Masaoka / Joan Jeanrenaud - For Birds, Planes And Cello
CD - Solitary BJoan Jeanrenaud, the irreproachable cellist of the Kronos Quartet (who can boast of collaborations with Astor Piazzolla, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, but also with David Byrne and Joan Armatrading) gives instrumental support to this 54-minutes-long continuum of field recordings and ambient textures; a ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental . folktronica . soundscapes
Nole Plastique - Escaperhead
CD - NexsoundStrange hybrid sound jumps, somewhere between pop, glitchy folktronics, psychedelia and more contemporary soundscapes are some of the specific ideas that meet in the work of atypical composers like Andrei Kiritchenko. The owner of the Nexsound brand is also a digital experimenter and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . laptop
Fennesz - Black Sea
CD - TouchMelodic emphasis and discontinuous threads, fragments, hybridizations and crossed patterns: a thick and changing sea of sounds submerges the listener with ambient textures and thousands of streams, confluences and stagnations. Fennesz, walking down a similar path to the one he took with his previous ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental . free form . impro . laptop
David Bartel - Deep Sound Channel 1
CD - Angry VeganRecorded at Brooklyn and Trenton (New York), Deep Sound Channel 1, for all its mixing of electronic bleeps, dub grooves and last generation clicks, certainly doesn’t surrender to strong electro-acoustic influences. The musician involved in this project (Adam Caine, Jeff Kaiser, Jacqui Carrasco) have ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . glitch'n'cuts
He Can Jog - Middlemarch
CD - AudiobulbWith the anagrammatized moniker 'He Can Jog', sound artist Erik Schoster pays tribute to John Cage, master and seminal experimenter. Cage remains an essential point of reference, especially for those who still wonder about the complex compositional structures in contemporary music. It's not by chance, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . ambient . drone . experimental . soundscape
Maju - Maju-5
CD - ExtremeIn Japanese, "Maju" (pronounced 'may-you') has approximately the same meaning as the English word "cocoon". So in this album, the music-induced relaxation is completely different to that often obtained in neo-lounge intimate trends, usually derived from frivolous electronic entertainment and consumed in ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Frank Rothkamm - Opus Spongebobicum
CD - FluxFrank Rothkamm is always surprising, attaching curious anecdotes to his projects, which are sometimes biographical, or - as in this case - focused more on the genesis of his work and ideas, creating compositions based on clearly conceptual mental processes. 'Opus Spongebobicum' although ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . field recordings . free form
Yoshio Machida - Hypernatural #3
CD - BaskaruThis is the third and final episode of the Hypernatural series, which is inspired by research into Far Eastern organic sounds. It is distinguished by sensitive audio "transparencies", obtained through the interweaving of recordings, which are often ethereal and abstract. Yoshio Machida is incredibly skilled ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . audio art . electronica . experimental . free form . glitch'n'cuts
A_dontigny - Geisteswissenschaften
CD - No-TypeAim&execute; Dontigny is based in Quebeq and is certainly a compositor who can't be easily categorized. He is the founding member of the free noise collective Napalm Jazz, and the animator for the No-Type label, which has released his second album. This is a work that brings together a decade ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . free form . noise
Erratum #4. Sound Review. Noise + Art + Poetry
3 CD - ErratumAn anthological release, yet still very interesting, “Erratum # 4. Sound Review. Noise + Art + Poetry” was edited by the homonymous transalpine magazine and was compiled by Joachim Montessuis. This three-disc compilation brings together a consistent set of abstract and experimental sequences, which ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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@C - Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom
CD - CronicaThis atypical album is divided into four tracks of unusual and disparate lengths - the first lasts more than twenty minutes, the second and third are less than two minutes long, and the last stretches out to more than forty minutes. 'Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom' by Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Maja S.K. Ratkje - River Mouth Echoes
CD - TzadikIn a nutshell: acoustics with tenuous electronica, edited traditional music instruments, sensitive sonorities, highly calibrated but destabilizing. The performance is heartfelt and there's an extreme diversity within the passages, improvisation, and in the creative continuum of its elements. It is ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental . folktronica . microsound
Saralunden & Andrey Kiritchenko - There Was No End
CD - NexsoundThe collaboration between Andrey Kiritchenko and Saralunden was able to originate this transversal lo-fi folktronica with many delicate overtones. It's a collaborative project supported by the Swedish Institute in May 2006 and then culminated in the spring 2007 tour. The sound trajectories are able to almost ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Zavoloka - Viter
CD - KvitnuThe interweaving of concepts related to the four natural elements (air, water, earth, fire) has already generated contemporary art forms (the "arte povera" in Rome during the sixties, for example, or the consequent first experiments with the musique concrète or proto-ambient musicians like Alvin ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . soundscape
Spyweirdos - Ten numbers
CD + DVD - Creative SpaceVery abstract and glitchy electronica, soundscapes resulting from a measured mix of digital and acoustic elements (the latter aren't sampled, but played ad-hoc for every single track). Barely hinted rhythmic patterns, drones, then violins, cellos, pianos. Melancholic sequences by the Greek combo Spyweirdos, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . ambient . audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts
Autistici - Volume Objects
CD - 12 KRarefied and abstract digital soundscapes, acoustic iterations ('Broken Guitar', 'Discarded Violin') and bleeps come to us from David Newman, aka Autistici, for the 12K label directed by Taylor Deupree. Extremely sensitive constructions full of melody, crackle attitude and very contemporary styles, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Bernhard Gunter / Heribert Friedl - TRANS~
CD - Non Visual ObjectsSampling field recordings using the hum (the noise produced by the difference of potential between electronic devices connected together) as a base is truly unusual. The interference is generated by three different low power voltage adapters and the positions of the microphones are changed to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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CD" - Interval
CD - Room40
CD - Record Label
CD - Persistencebit
CD - Ecosono
CD - Someone Good
CD -!K7
CD - Deep Listening
CD - Ahornfelder
CD - Mutable Music
CD - Bowindo
CD - No Type
CD - Baskaru
CD - Room40
CD - Zeitkratzer
2CD - 12K
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CD - Nexsound
CD - Touch
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CD - Audiobulb
CD - Extreme
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