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Sonic Phantoms – Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence
Description In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of ‘sonic phantoms’: auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a ‘phantasmatic’ presence. Structured around a large body…
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Sonic, Social, Distance and Soundtracks for Strange Days, compilation Part 2
Sonic, Social, Distance As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into some sort of social restriction…self-isolation, social isolation, physical distancing, quarantine…since those who have the luxury of walls have gone behind them–time has…
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Wayback Sound Machine, A sonic constellation compilation Part 2
A message from the editor: This Sonic Constellation Compilation is part of the ongoing series: WAYBACK SOUND MACHINE, A CONSTELLATION OF SOUNDING TIME, which asks What can we gather from sounding the past–and with that in mind, what…
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Wayback Sound Machine, A sonic constellation compilation Part 1
A message from the editor: This Sonic Constellation Compilation is part of the ongoing series: WAYBACK SOUND MACHINE, A CONSTELLATION OF SOUNDING TIME, which asks What can we gather from sounding the past–and with that in mind, what…
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Manifesto for future ambient
Composer and ROOM40 commander Lawrence English has published at FACT an interesting retrospective of ambient as genre, aesthetic, philosophy, etc, including at the end a beautiful manifesto entitled “12 notes on future ambient”: Ambient is a music of lived moments. Ambient…
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Eco part 2: Alma Laprida
This is the second part of Echo, a series of interviews of Latin American female artists. This time I interviewed Alma Laprida, an artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina, whose work with sound has been drawing my attention for some time now. Here the interview.…