Musique concrete
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Takanobu Hoshino – Untitled
At one time Japanese sound artist Takanobu Hoshino’s art was seemingly concerned with the crackling Geiger counter air of his home city Fukushima. The ubiquitous residual glint of radioactivity permeated his creations, for example the CD ‘Fukushima’, a collaboration with Roel Meelkop,…
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Blank tape positive RICHARD GARET (Contour Editions 2013) Review by David Vélez I from the liner notes: ‘Blank Tape Positive focuses on the modification of magnetic tape and playback machines as a substantial material for sonic sources. This exploration has been…
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Strata. TARAB -Eamon Sprod- (Unfathomless 2013) Review by Caity Kerr ‘Strata’ is described as having been created from recordings made in a series of vacant lots and their immediate surrounds in the north-west of Melbourne. The first thing that strikes the…
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Solace. BILL THOMPSON (self release 2012) Review by Caity Kerr Bill Thompson’s work is wide-ranging and largely experimental. He should be described as a statement artist, which means that he’s capable of appropriating an idiom or genre, or elements from…
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2013 in retrospective I (336)
2013: The year in retrospective. Part I -TESSA ELIEFF- Text, images and sound by Tessa Elieff Download ‘Caris Clocks’ by TESSA EILEFF Download ‘Craster Blowhole’ by TESSA EILEFF Recording excursion snapshot: Sound gathering on England’s North East coastline. In early…
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Offset. PALI MEURSAULT (Doubtful Sounds 2013) Review by David Vélez From the liner notes This work is the result of a research about the mechanical sounds of printing machines. I was invited in two different printing workshops in Grenoble and…