Sound Propositions
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Enrico Coniglio ~ Bragos series: Astrùra / Solèra
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 culture…
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Glauco Salvo ~ 5 Haiku
A compact suite in five parts for banjo, e-bowed zither, and electronics, it is nonetheless the environmental sounds that are the heart of 5 Haiku. Drawing metrical and formal inspiration from its poetic namesake, 5 Haiku is given shape by Glauco Salvo’s tentative playing in quiet dialogue with his natural surroundings. Recorded live on-site with…
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Andrew Pekler ~ Tristes Tropiques
Andrew Pekler returns with a heady solo album full of beautiful electronic vistas and tropically-inspired ethnographic hallucinations. In searching for the blurry border between the familiar and the foreign, Tristes Tropiques is the direct descendant of the “coffee-coloured” Fourth World music of Jon Hassell. At times densely layered and others richly minimal, a classic headphone…
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Sound Propositions 010: Christina Vantzou
Originally published at A CLOSER LISTEN Sound Propositions is an ongoing, semi-regular series of conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Rather than writing copy that can just as…
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Sound Propositions 09: Kate Carr
Originally published at acloserlisten.com Sound Propositions is an ongoing, semi-regular series of conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Rather than writing copy that can just as easily have come from a press release…
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The Other Side of the COIN COIN: Matana Roberts’ River Run Thee
We’ve been in Europe since the end of May, just now returning to our temporary home-base of Minneapolis, where working on my PhD has somewhat slowed down my more casual writing projects. I’ve only published two installments of Sound Propositions in the past year (with Mark Fell and Kate Carr), contributed occasionally to CULT MTL,…
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Laibach Are More Untimely Than Ever
Laibach 1987 Laibach circa 1987 Originally published by Cult Mtl In the ’80s many bands flirted with fascist and totalitarian imagery, but only Laibach was willing to go all the way. The Slovenian group is currently in the middle of a world tour, and will be stopping in Quebec this week for the Festival International…
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The CATHEDRALS project
Released as part of Pietro Riparbelli’s CATHEDRALS project, this 25 track album constitutes a psychogeographic soundwalk through Montreal’s Oratoire Saint-Joseph. https://pietroriparbelli.bandcamp.com/album/oratoire-st-joseph-du-mont-royal Joseph Sannicandro – Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (Montreal, Quebec)As an Italian-American, I think it goes without saying, I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church. Like many others, I experienced a definite theological break…
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Sound Propositions 08: Mark Fell
Originally published at acloserlisten.com “Imagine a Zen Buddhist with unresolved emotional issues.” -Mark Fell describing snd Sound Propositions set out to be a kind of anti-gear gear column. A studio diary that was about artistic decisions, not copy for a consumer electronics catalog. In short, I wanted to explore questions others weren’t asking.…
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ACL Mix for Secret Thirteen
Please enjoy this 55-track, 73-minute mix I composed for the excellent site Secret Thirteen. TRACKLIST 00. The New Objective – The Internationale Played On A Gramophone from The Campanile, Shot At By Fascist Buffoons, As Depicted In Fellini’s Amarcord 01. MB | Hue | Fhievel - Erimos (excerpt) [Digitalis Recordings, 2007] 02. Tim Hecker –…
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A Machine In The Garden [mix]
“Our inherited symbols of order and beauty have been divested of meaning.” Leo Marx This is something of an unusual mix: an edited soundwalk consisting of field-recordings made during the Sonic Delights festival at Caramoor in Katonah, NY. Richard Allen has already written about this exhibition (here and here, including plenty of photographs) which motivated…
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Luca Sigurtà ~ Bliss
Originally published by ACL A simple three-note melody is quietly sounded out as electronics buzz and swarm their way into the foreground, a low tone gently swelling in the back. A bird cries above, water sloshes lightly in the harbor. What is conjured up is not quite bliss, but something more ecstatic, outside-of-itself while still…
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