Thinking
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Exclusive Interview with Yiorgis Sakellariou
Mecha/Orga, aka Yiorgis Sakellariou is a sound artist/composer from Greek, currently living in England. He has done CD and virtual releases, composed music for theatre and film, lead workshops and concerts, and since 2004 he has curated the label Echomusic.…
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Complementary Disconnections, Interview with Slavek Kwi
As he puts it himself, Ireland-based sound artist Slavek Kwi is “obsessed by freedom”: The freedom to accept or refuse traditions, the freedom to use or disregard cultural references, the freedom to establish his own ideologies only to question and…
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Place and Sound
Great audio documentary on sound art and field recording, with Francisco Lopez, Jacob Kirkegaard, Jodi Rose and Joseph Bertolozzi. Four unique composers and sound artists who compose using location sound recordings talk about where music begins; does it exist in nature or is…
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Outcuts. DAVID HELBICH (Surfacenoise 2013) Review by Chris Whitehead In his comments on the best (and worst) of 2012, Edu Comelles set off a strand of thought in this very journal that questioned the holy conventions of what field recording…
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Sound, Memory and Environmental Awareness, An Exclusive Interview with Cheryl Tipp
Cheryl Tipp needs no introduction in this blog. She is a wonderful person, curator and researcher mainly focused on sound. She lives in London and currently works at the British Library doing curatorial work on nature sound, from where she…
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I Wish You Hadn’t Asked. JAMES DIVE (2011/12) Review by David Vélez Installation’s official video ________________________________________ From an interview with James Dive by The Sidney Morning Herald Q. So, why a house that rains on the inside? A (JD). It’s about…