- "This Heap Is Greater Light is the result of an eight month intensive collaboration between Canadian electro-acoustic composers Mathieu Ruhlmann and Chris Strickland. The result is a methodical crushing of disparate times, materials, and environments into a continuous organic flux. The pieces on this album explore intensity and quietude, noise and tonality. They incorporate field recordings, digital synthesis, classical instruments, and a sundry of everyday occurrences using reel to reel tape machines and VCR decks. This Heap Is Greater Light is a perplexing and highly-detailed work of dream-like music concrete."
Brighternow said: Passing away at the age of 91 really shouldn't be sad, but I guess it's natural for us human beings to react in that manner.
Well, of course you're right, 91 is one big long life and I'm happy to be one of those folks that cry at sad movies. When I was young 91 seemed ancient and as I get older it doesn't seem so. From http://www.thenational.scot/culture/profile-farewell-to-else-marie-pade-denmarks-grandmother-of-electronic-music.12791 In an apposite conclusion to his piece, Sherburne writes: “Electronic music is often treated as a boys’ club, but the truth is, from the very beginning, women have invented devices, techniques, and tropes that would define the shape of music for years to come; they just went unrecognised for their efforts. [But] you don’t detect any resentment on the composer’s part, just an abiding fascination with the world of sound. In fact, at 89, living in an assisted living community, she was still planning new compositions based on birdsong.” You just have to love that kind of spirit. My aunt painted everyday until a fall in her 91st year changed the last 7 months of her life. Never had a prescription or a cavity in her life. Made me think of her.
Also, made me think of her.. Pauline Oliveros & Ione - Water Above Sky Below Now
from Bandcamp released September 24, 2015 Music and Processing by Pauline Oliveros, spoken word performance by Ione, Recorded by Jesse Stiles at New York Live Arts, Live Ideas Festival 2015. Mastered by Neel at Enisslab, Cover by Nathalie Du Pasquier
Ps- thanks for introducing me to her as well. She always make me think of my sister, the accordion player in our family, who left this world way too soon.
A windy, cold, drizzly morning that fired up the furnace for the first time this summer. Perfect morning to listen to music. Jan 08/2016 Other Minds -emusic
Modern Hits (an anagram for Other Minds) is a series of digital-only releases by under-recognized electronic music composers from the Bay Area. The series features unreleased recordings as well as reissues of previously released material. Our hope is that the series will shed a new light on the oft-lauded and vibrant electronic music community of the Bay Area.
The name Carter Scholz will be familiar to those who follow electronic music as well as contemporary Science Fiction writing, as Scholz is an adept practitioner of both. Lexicon Plus centers around a series of pieces made via a Lexicon-brand multi-effect unit fed back into itself and manipulated through computer controlled MIDI. The result is a shockingly dense pulsing wall of noise, each movement a different color.
Fantastic Planet is the soaring, evocative new album from Noveller, the solo instrumental venture of Austin-based composer and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. The LP is a journey through eclectic sonic terrain, blending rich waves of synth with soaring cinematic guitar lines, guiding the listener through Noveller's most diverse and compelling release to date.
This outfit really needs to put out a new album, even though I'm nowhere close to tiring of their two existing albums. Among the members are Chris Montague and Kit Downes... familiar names to my site.
... I was about to call it a night... then popped this in... and started an uncontrolable/spastic 'dancing' around my music room (Life Begins at the Hop) (yes, yes it does).
Edit: I forg9t how absolutely cool and great these cats were.... bliss (Runaways).
OK.... 'forgot' is the wrong word... they got phonetically 'buried' under other stuff I've been listening to...tomorrow morning I'm pulling out a handful of their CDs to provide the soundtrack to my morning/evening commute for the next cuple weaks.
ETA.... Headphones for the win (You're the Wish I Are I Had).... this is too fun to stop and call it a nitght.... let it roll.......
2013 From Bandcamp ...enlists the help of drummer Scotty Rooney (Alaskan), bassist Dorian Williamson (Northumbria/Adoran) and vocalists Émilie Bresson & Jeanne Peluard (Monarch) to add fresh elements to TQA's sound: thundering drums, thick foggy bass and witch-like shrieks, while retaining thisquietarmy's signature drone-based soundscapes that remain omnipresent throughout the record
2012 from Bandcamp Two talented composers of ambient-atmospheric soundscapes, Shane Morris & Mystified, have joined forces to create Epoch, the first installment of a trilogy about prehistoric time and evolution. Epoch is a conceptual album of deep, resonant, atmospheric drone soundscapes based around life during the Mesozoic era of Earth’s past; a time long before people, when great reptiles walked the planet, prospered, and ultimately ceased to exist.
In order to evoke a 200 million year old soundworld, Morris & Mystified draw from a completely organic sonic palette. According to Mystified’s Thomas Park, “The release goes back to primitive techniques to capture a contemporary sound. Epoch uses no electronic sources or synthesizers – only acoustic sounds.”
I highly recommend checking this out to people who like Juliana Barwick and other things in that vein; I keep liking it more with every listen; it's on emu and bandcamp
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Western Skies Motel - "Generations"
First Listen Live: Watch Neko Case, k.d. lang And Laura Veirs Perform Their New Album
eta, http://www.vuhaus.com/ <- Lots of nice stuff
Chris Greene Quartet - "Music Appreciation"
Colorlist - "Sky Song"
From http://www.thenational.scot/culture/profile-farewell-to-else-marie-pade-denmarks-grandmother-of-electronic-music.12791
In an apposite conclusion to his piece, Sherburne writes: “Electronic music is often treated as a boys’ club, but the truth is, from the very beginning, women have invented devices, techniques, and tropes that would define the shape of music for years to come; they just went unrecognised for their efforts. [But] you don’t detect any resentment on the composer’s part, just an abiding fascination with the world of sound. In fact, at 89, living in an assisted living community, she was still planning new compositions based on birdsong.”
You just have to love that kind of spirit. My aunt painted everyday until a fall in her 91st year changed the last 7 months of her life. Never had a prescription or a cavity in her life.
Made me think of her.
Also, made me think of her..
Pauline Oliveros & Ione - Water Above Sky Below Now
from Bandcamp
released September 24, 2015
Music and Processing by Pauline Oliveros, spoken word performance by Ione, Recorded by Jesse Stiles at New York Live Arts, Live Ideas Festival 2015. Mastered by Neel at Enisslab, Cover by Nathalie Du Pasquier
Ps- thanks for introducing me to her as well. She always make me think of my sister, the accordion player in our family, who left this world way too soon.
2006
from Discogs
1) Lion's Eye For Gamelan (1985)
Performer – The Berkeley Gamelan Ensemble
Written-By – Barbara Benary
2) Lion's Tale For Sampler (1989)
Credits
Perfect morning to listen to music.
Jan 08/2016
Other Minds -emusic
from http://webstore.otherminds.org/products/carter-scholz-lexicon-plus
Modern Hits (an anagram for Other Minds) is a series of digital-only releases by under-recognized electronic music composers from the Bay Area. The series features unreleased recordings as well as reissues of previously released material. Our hope is that the series will shed a new light on the oft-lauded and vibrant electronic music community of the Bay Area.
The name Carter Scholz will be familiar to those who follow electronic music as well as contemporary Science Fiction writing, as Scholz is an adept practitioner of both. Lexicon Plus centers around a series of pieces made via a Lexicon-brand multi-effect unit fed back into itself and manipulated through computer controlled MIDI. The result is a shockingly dense pulsing wall of noise, each movement a different color.
from Bandcamp
released January 27, 2015
Fennesz/Main - Split Series #15
2002
Threads Orchestra - "Ranch"
This outfit really needs to put out a new album, even though I'm nowhere close to tiring of their two existing albums. Among the members are Chris Montague and Kit Downes... familiar names to my site.
On Bandcamp - https://threadsorchestra.bandcamp.com/album/ranch-music-by-jonathan-brigg
- Mort Aux Vaches
2003
ps- Terrific, some excellent guitar from Dave Pearce.
Here's a sample
Jerry Johansson Quartet - "House of Hope"
Andreas Söderstrom & Johan Berthling - "30 grader i februari"
On Bandcamp - https://andreassoderbergjohanberthling.bandcamp.com/album/30-grader-i-februari
Weird, I just noticed that it looks like they've got Andreas's last name wrong.
Edit: I forg9t how absolutely cool and great these cats were.... bliss (Runaways).
OK.... 'forgot' is the wrong word... they got phonetically 'buried' under other stuff I've been listening to...tomorrow morning I'm pulling out a handful of their CDs to provide the soundtrack to my morning/evening commute for the next cuple weaks.
ETA.... Headphones for the win (You're the Wish I Are I Had).... this is too fun to stop and call it a nitght.... let it roll.......
..No Thugs In Our House.
(Mr. Partrtidge. (sp) . deserves serious props.... )
2012
2013
From Bandcamp
...enlists the help of drummer Scotty Rooney (Alaskan), bassist Dorian Williamson (Northumbria/Adoran) and vocalists Émilie Bresson & Jeanne Peluard (Monarch) to add fresh elements to TQA's sound: thundering drums, thick foggy bass and witch-like shrieks, while retaining thisquietarmy's signature drone-based soundscapes that remain omnipresent throughout the record
Bandcamp
from Discogs
Recorded By, Producer, Written-By, Sounds [All Sounds Created By] – Alphaxone,
Alt3r3d Stat3, Asbaar, Aseptic Void, Atrium Carceri, Cryobiosis, Dark Matter(11),
Halgrath, Mystified, Neizvestija, Sjellos, Ugasanie*
2012
from Bandcamp
Two talented composers of ambient-atmospheric soundscapes, Shane Morris & Mystified, have joined forces to create Epoch, the first installment of a trilogy about prehistoric time and evolution. Epoch is a conceptual album of deep, resonant, atmospheric drone soundscapes based around life during the Mesozoic era of Earth’s past; a time long before people, when great reptiles walked the planet, prospered, and ultimately ceased to exist.
In order to evoke a 200 million year old soundworld, Morris & Mystified draw from a completely organic sonic palette. According to Mystified’s Thomas Park, “The release goes back to primitive techniques to capture a contemporary sound. Epoch uses no electronic sources or synthesizers – only acoustic sounds.”
2013
Bandcamp
I highly recommend checking this out to people who like Juliana Barwick and other things in that vein; I keep liking it more with every listen; it's on emu and bandcamp
I haven't listened to this anywhere near enough!
2014
Bandcamp
Seeing The Revolution in First Ave on Friday. Allegedly Appolonia and the Appolonia 6 will be there too!
Craig