Category: Sound Art
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Sound Art Mixtape 21
The International Nothing – Just None of Those Things 0.00 Marc Matter – Could Change Lawrence English – Viento (Antarctica) 45.19 Shit and Shine – Plum Whiskey 1.00.49 Aidan Baker – Harmonics 1.06.09 yan jun – killer 1.15.25
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Sound Art Mixtape 20
Steph Kretowicz – I hate it here 0.00 Jerman/Barnes – 40 Pictures Of Frozen Lakes 41.52 David Watson and Matthew Welch – Weave 55.36 Natasha Barrett – Speaking Spaces No.1: Heterotopia 1.06.15
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Taylor Deupree – Harbor
Taylor Deupree, surely one of today’s preeminent sound artists, will introduce his 14th solo recording on June 5. Harbor comes to us via laaps records in France. By virtue of collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Stephan Mathieu, Stephen Vitiello, Marcus Fischer and Tetsu Inoue (among many others), Deupree can be counted among a small […]
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Philip Jeck Has Passed After a Short Illness
We lost another great artist last week. Touch announced today that British artist Philip Jeck has passed. The 69-year-old turntablist and sound artist produced 12 albums and collaborated on several others with Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit and Gavin Bryars. Jeck’s first album was released by Jon Wozencroft and Mike Harding’s Touch label in 1995. “Jon […]
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New Fields We Found LP to Benefit Voices of Children in Ukraine
U.K. sound artist Fields We Found will donate all proceeds from Expanse, a new release that dropped Mar. 1. The album is available via Bandcamp as a name-your-price download until Mar. 18. “I just wanted to do something to help,” says Fields We Found. “The situation in Ukraine is so bleak. [We’ve] raised well over […]
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2021 Favourites
This year marked the fifth anniversary of what was originally known (by a very small few) as the Badd Press Blog. That somewhat regrettable handle is behind us, thankfully. As is another year of COVID-19 awfulness. This latest variant is a blow to be sure. But it is also a reminder of what keeps us […]
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Sound Art Mixtape 17
Tim Feeney & Vic Rawlings – Conway Library 0.00 Richie Hawtin – Syntax [Two] 30.52 Julian Sartorius – Looked Groove 001-003 51.00 Thomas Köner – Takla-Makan 1.04.08
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Sound art mixtape 13
Jim O’Rourke – Best that you do this for me 0.00 pä – la demeure phréatique 36.48 Lijnenspel – Grenzmauer ’75 1.07.01 Kevin Press The Moderns, vols. 1-3 – available exclusively from Amazon
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Yui Onodera – Suisei
The press that accompanied the 2007 release of Yui Onodera’s astonishing Suisei, for field recordings and pipe organ noted three translations of its title: aquatic, a comet and the planet Mercury. There is a fourth possible reference point. Onodera confirmed for me that there is no connection to his recording, but Japan’s Institute of Space […]
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These Liminal Days – Empty Spaces I
Peter Wood is a professor of theatre at the University of Mississippi. He earned his doctorate in theatre history and performance studies a bit further north, at the University of Pittsburgh. Besides teaching, Wood remains active in the field – he directs and composes sound design works for theatre productions. He also records ambient music […]
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