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Matilde Meireles, sound artist, concocted a sound-mapping project for Belfast in 2013-2019 – which involved linking together “telecommunication boxes” around the city. Here on Loop. And Again. (CRÓNICA...
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Andreas Trobollowitsch has surfaced here a number of times over the years, to varying degrees of success with his experiments and sound-art exploits. It’s fair to say he can’t be pinned down or easily...
View ArticleThat’s Quite a List
Swiss-born experimenter Christof Migone hasn’t quite “landed” with us on his recent releases – Swan Song (drone produced from old brewing equipment) was quite good, Wet Water was just too process-heavy...
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Chamber Music (ANTS AG26) by Steve Peters, American sound artist who has collaborated with Steve Roden (and many others) and may be based in Seattle, although he’s also travelled to New York and New...
View ArticleMaps, Plans and Gamelans
Two cassettes from Canada received 14 July 2023. Tossapol has his own touchy-feely take on the field recording genre as manifested on No Plot, Only Landscape (PRESSES PRECAIRES) cassette. He likes to...
View ArticleMy House is a Decayed House
Excellent piece of sound art / installation art from two contemporary German artists Daniela Fromberg and Stefan Roigk. Their Unfamiliar Home (EDITION TELEMARK 923.09) is one of the more absorbing and...
View ArticleLight Room / Empty Room
Two fine pieces of art music long-form process drone composed by Marta Forsberg on her record TKAC (THANATOSIS THTLP5). The abiding theme on both pieces is “light”, and relates to the aim of this...
View ArticleThe Way In
Latest release from the French sound artist Eric La Casa is called Installations (SWARMING 012) – four new installation works, each one a collaboration with a different fellow creator, and presented as...
View ArticleDarkness in the Attic
Herewith two further instalments in the reissue programme for the disturbing industrial-experimental music of Genetic Transmission, i.e. Tomasz Twardawa of Poland. I see that the poor fellow has since...
View ArticleThe Compositions of Roots
Fab piece of field-recording meets musical composition on the split LP Notes From The Forest Floor / Line Of Parts (SN VARIATIONS SN6) by Chris Watson and Georgia Rodgers. The item is released on...
View ArticleThree Acoustical Surveys
Three new items from Lasse-Marc Riek’s label Gruenrekorder from 18 May 2020. Enrico Coniglio has been researching the Venetian lagoon for 15 years. His latest findings are published in the form of...
View ArticleFrom Head To Toe
The Body Imitates The Landscape (UNSOUNDS 64UD) is the latest work by Argentinian composer Claudio F. Baroni, who made Motum for the Unsounds label in 2018. This new work is quite conceptual, very...
View ArticleWoman Of Vienna
Got a couple of items related to Derek Baron, an audio mastering technician who evidently does his own field recording thing on the side…the first of these, Recollects, I will have to park for the...
View ArticleLight Particles
Japanese multi-media artist Eisuke Oooka works in photography and video as well as music – the title of his latest release, Installation Of Video Soundtracks (OVERSOUL SOUND STUDIO OSSSCD004), should...
View ArticlePoeme Partition X
Another great piece from Jean-Luc Guionnet, the French composer and musician. Today’s record Points Sans Surface (CIRCUM-DISC LX012) is not very far apart from Distances Ouïes Dites, his 2016 work...
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From the New York label XI Records here’s a two-CD set Red / Machinic Fantasies (XI 140) showcasing the work of Cecilia Lopez. Lopez is from Buenos Aires and her work is respected internationally,...
View ArticleA House Is Not A Home
Australian sound artist Tarab last heard around these parts with his An Incomplete Yet Fixed Idea, an album full of chaotic collages. At the time I observed “I suspect Tarab is not one to ignore...
View ArticleIn the Mind-Warp Pavilion
Official pack shot image from MICL website Pavilion / Paviljonas (MICL CD098) is another assemblage of contemporary Lithuanian music presented and distributed by Music Information Centre Lithuania;...
View ArticleThe Next Sun Dome
Official product photo copied from the Tonometer website Last heard from Danish composer Christian Skjødt with his Works Of Uncommitted Crimes LP from 2014. That was certainly a process-art droner to a...
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Astrid & Ephraim Wegner Feldstudie Göppingen GERMANY Verlag Kunsthalle Göppingen CD03 CD (2017) A fascinating audio documentation of three sound-walks the artists undertook in and around Göppingen...
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