[Music] Dead Vibrations Explore the Darker Side of Swedish Shoegaze — Bandcamp Daily

Dead Vibrations. Stockholm’s Södermalm, often shortened to “Söder,” which is Swedish for “south,” is a neighborhood that was home to famous Swedes (Greta Garbo spent her childhood there), and famous fictional Swedes (Mikael Blomkvist, the journalist searching for sinister answers in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). But it’s also prime real estate for up-and-coming […]

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[Music] Various Artists – Summer (from a closer listen blog)

Earlier this year, the Bigo & Twigetti label asked its artists to contribute a personal reflection of summer. This compilation is the result. Summer is a potpourri of presentations that opens up the question, “What does summer sound like?” For this listener, summer sounds like the opening track, Pavel Karmanaov‘s “Michael Music”: ebullient, with sparks and ocean droplets […]

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[Music] Enrico Coniglio ~ Bragos series: Astrùra / Solèra — a closer listen

There are different schools of thought when it comes to the production of “soundscapes.” There is R. Murray Schafer, who coined the term, and his World Soundscape Project, which approaches the soundscape as “acoustic ecology.” Some have criticized his approach as nostalgic, with romantic notions of pre-industrial life, constructing a division between nature and […]

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[Music] Pierre Henry, Pioneer Musique Concrète — Binary Heap

“Pierre Henry was born in Paris, France, and began experimenting at the age of 15 with sounds produced by various objects. He became fascinated with the integration of noise into music. He studied withNadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, and Félix Passerone at the Paris Conservatoire from 1938 to 1948 (Dhomont 2001).Between 1949 and 1958, Henry […]

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[Music] Taran’s Free Jazz Hour Podcast 16/2016 — Avant Music News

Source: Taran’s Free Jazz Hour – Main – 16/2016. Jazz Poetry Improv @Sowieso, Berlin: Anna Kaluza, as/ Niklaus Neuser, Tp/ Horst Nonnenmacher, B/ Rui, Faustino, Dr/ Taran Singh, Poetry Leo Bones: Ziv Taubenfeld, Bcl/ Shay Hassan, B/ Nir Sabag, Dr Lubatov: Simon Nabatov, P/ Gareth Lubbe, Vla, Vo Unseen Rain Solidarity: Matt Lavelle’s 12 Houses […]

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[Music] Lawrence English – Approaching Nothing — music won’t save you

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LAWRENCE ENGLISH – Approaching Nothing (Baskaru, 2016) Non della sola costruzione di cattedrali di suono attraverso il trattamento elettronico di drone è fatta l’arte di Lawrence English, ma di una ricerca a tutto tondo degli aspetti percettivi di un universo di impulsi auditivi originati da fonti concrete e catturati in maniera più o meno accidentale. […]

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