Electroacoustic
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The Best of 2018: A to C, D to G. Haiku Salut – There Is No Elsewhere Snorri Hallgrimsson – Orbit Han – Tuning The Invisible Francis Harris – Trivial Occupations Jon Hassell – Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) Sinjin Hawke And Zora Jons – Vicious Circles Hilde Marie Holsen – Luzuli The Illusion…
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The Best of 2018 – A to C is here. Ana Dall’ara-Majek – Nano-Cosmos Dalot & Sound Awakener – Little Things Sarah Davachi – Let Night Come On Bells End The Day Dopeman – Winter EP Emanuele Errante – The Evanescence Of A Thousand Colors Fred Everything – Long Way Home Fennesz – Station One…
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Montreal-based composer Monique Jean’s take on electroacoustic music has been described as “engaging a present that happens now.” Credit François Couture with that sharply written phrase. Indeed, there is an abrasiveness to her work that feels urgent and forceful. Her new release Troubles features two vivid examples. The first is “T.A.G.” The title is an…
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Sweden’s Åke Parmerud has assembled four acousmatic works dating between 1990 and 1995 on a must-have collection of out-of-print recordings. (Acousmatic is an electroacoustic subgenre composed for presentation with speakers rather than live instruments.) These powerful, sometimes disturbing recordings all date back to the mid-1990s. Thematically and artistically, each has maintained extraordinary relevance. “Grains of…
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This ear-tickling electroacoustic beauty comes from Montreal’s Ana Dall’Ara-Majek. Born in Paris, she’s a composer and sound artist who earned her PhD in composition at the Université de Montréal in 2016. Dall’Ara-Majek describes Nano-Cosmos as “a cycle of acousmatic pieces dedicated to insects, small arthropods and micro-organisms.” It’s not difficult to imagine that if our…
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Field recordings can be a tricky business. When they capture the experiences of people not credited – or for that matter, asked for permission – they raise important questions about the right to privacy and ownership of our image and voice. At the same time, they deliver a line of sight into worlds many of…
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