Electroacoustic
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French artist Sylvain Milliot will release his first album under the name Véhicule on Friday. Le Temps du Chien is a detailed, carefully assembled combination of acoustic and electronic sounds. Neither purely ambient nor new classical, it offers the listenability of the former and the refinement of the latter. It sounds too advanced to be…
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The promotional material accompanying this new 27-minute work, improbably titled “Side A/B,” describes partners Stuart Chalmers and Neil Campbell as “two old Yorkshire-based chaps.” It is a standard bit of British humility. Chalmers is an accomplished, well-known found-sound artist, while Campbell has earned international accolades as a post-punk innovator and prolific artist in the years…
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Kaan Bulak’s piano opens this debut from the Berlin duo with a searching, tender solo. It is so engaging in fact that the entrée of Robert Lippok’s electronics go unnoticed at first. He drifts in like a fog, disregarded right up until the point it is difficult to focus on anything else. As the 13…
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This collection landed in my inbox on the busiest email day of the year so far. While it’s true that I enjoy my email a great deal more than most, this particular day was genuinely overwhelming. Scanning the titles that came in, this compilation of young Lithuanian composers living and working abroad felt more arcane…
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In addition to its title piece, Mokuhen and Kevin Gironnay’s Kegimo features a pair of tracks entitled “Mo Kegi 11 56” and “Mo Kegi 04 54.” Clearly we’re dealing with a collaborative effort here that both artists are proud to put their name on. Mokuhen is composer and electronic music producer Laurent Guérel. His work…
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The Best of 2018: A to C, D to G, H to K, L to M. Oberman Knocks – Trilate Shift Orcastratum: Orcastratum Daniela Orvin – Home Åke Parmerud – Grains (ph)authers – (ph)authers Ryan Porter – The Optimist Prairie – After The Flash Flood Michael Price – Tender Symmetry R.A.N. – Şeb-I Yelda Trevor Ransom – Spring…
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