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Sound Propositions 012: Marcus Fischer
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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“e ingenuo sforzo di rifare la vita” (a mix for S K Y A P N E A on NTS)
“e ingenuo sforzo di rifare la vita” a mix for s k y a p n e a on NTS – by joseph sannicandro (a closer listen / lost children) LISTEN (guest mix begins at 00:56:00) In addition to a show on NTS radio, S K Y A P N E A is a record…
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Sound Propositions 011: Taylor Deupree
Originally published at www.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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Canti Magnetici ~ Tape Batch #2: Luca Garino, Videobasic, Absent Outfit, Danny Clay + Greg Gorlen
Serious question: Why release music on tape? The resurgence of tape labels in recent years has been met with a seemingly never-ending flood of condescending think pieces. I’m against fetishization and nostalgia more than most, yet I think it’s important we take seriously that for some the tape never went away, and if the current…
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Interview: Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (Liturgy)
Originally published on www.SSGmusic.com on February 10th, 2012 Back in September, Liturgy headlined Il Motore during POP Montreal’s opening night. Even as an accidental trio (one member couldn’t get into Canada) the group were powerful, perhaps even more so in this stripped-down format. Liturgy’s frontman Hunter Hunt-Hendrix has generated a lot of controversy (see his academic…
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Giuseppe Ielasi ~ Untitled, Bellows ~ Reelin’
Originally published by A CLOSER LISTEN Giuseppe Ielasi began producing music in the early ‘90s as a guitar player in the European free improv scene, but has long since been known primarily as a deeply skilled producer of inventive elecroacoustic music. He has also run several labels (Fringes, Bowindo, Schoolmap, and currently Senufo Editions) and…
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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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Jorge’s guide to DF
<<Jorge’s guide to DF>> is a companion to <<a sea without a port>> Released on the Italian label Galaverna December 21, 2015 listen / read more: galaverna.bandcamp.com/album/a-sea-without-a-port www.galaverna.org?p=3261 <<a sea without a port>> utilized recordings made around Mexico City (especially in the colonias and delegaciones of Roma, Condesa, Zona Rosa, Centro, Tepito, San Miguel Chapultepec,…
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Robert Curgenven ~ Climata
The border between two spaces both separates and conjoins, allowing for distinction as well as interplay. Depending on one’s perspective this can be understood as a contamination or a vital encounter. The latest from Australian composer Robert Curgenven explores sonic borders through the work of visual artist James Turrell. Drawn to the potential acoustics of…
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con_cetta vs MonoLogue ~ Orlando
Originally published at A CLOSER LISTEN. The ever-reliable Time Released Sound label kicked off 2014 in strong fashion with Orlando, a unique collaboration billed as con_cetta vs MonoLogue. Though conceptually interesting and certainly enriched by an understanding of its context, the album stands as a beautiful work on its own. The use of music in…
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