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Positionen - Texte zur Aktuellen Musik - Nr. 138
Best magazine I know on contemporary music! In German so I hope you can read it, too! Glitter on the cover adds to the charm this time.
Label: Positionen
Medium: Magazine
Category: Uncategorized.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Magazines, Music Magazine, Music Theory.
Leonardo Barbadoro - Musica Automata (LP version)
The ensemble of musical robots at the Logos foundation in Ghent inspired Leonardo Barbadoro from Firenze, Italy, to compose for it.
Label: Helical / Logos
Artist: Leonardo Barbadoro
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Mechanical Music, Robots, Sound Art, Vinyl.
Various Authors - Spectres IV: Mille Voix / A Thousand Voices
Fourth issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicale..(read more)
Label: Shelter Press
Artist: Various Authors
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Music Theory, Sound Studies, Vocal Art.
Alan F, Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, Thor Magnusson - Live Coding _a user’s manual
First comprehensive introduction to the practice, and a broader commentary on the potential for live coding to open up deeper questions about contemporary cultu..(read more)
Label: MIT Press
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Digital Culture, Live-Coding, Media Art, Open Source.
Gonzo (Circus) - # 179 (Jan / Feb 2024)
In Dutch. With a Sonic Acts Festival Special, 2023’s end of the year lists, Cyanne van den Houten, Marina Herlop, and for the metalheads: an article about..(read more)
Label: Gonzo (Circus)
Artist: Gonzo (Circus)
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Magazines, Music Magazine.
Nina Dragičević - Auditory Poverty and its Discontents – an Essay
Where sounding is understood as an exhibition of activity, vitality, and power, Dragičević proposes to analyse sonic phenomena in econo-political terms.
Label: Errant Bodies Press
Artist: Nina Dragičević
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Poetry, Politics, Sound Studies.
Frans de Waard and Alfred Boland - The Annual – Everything you never knew you were interested in
Brand new music magazine, conceived and fabricated by Korm Plastics man Frans de Waard and designer Alfred Boland. Great in its eccentricity and its eclecticity..(read more)
Label: Korm Plastics
Artist: Frans de Waard and Alfred Boland
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: '70s, '80s, Magazines, Music Magazine, New Wave and Post-Punk, Punk.
Karen Lancel - Can I Touch You Online?
“We show intimate data in public. Mediated intimacy needs public dialogue.” Call for a new aesthetic AI approach to experience of intimate and empat..(read more)
Label: Own
Artist: Karen Lancel
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Installation Art, Interactive Technology, Media Theory, Privacy, Sensority, Tactility.
Schokkend Nieuws - 165 (dec 2023 / jan 2024)
In Dutch. Special: De Gevaren van de Zee. De Zeemeerman: ‘s Neerlands grootste flop. Grindhouse Christians: Ron Ormond, The Wickerman, and much much more...(read more)
Label: Schokkend Nieuws
Artist: Schokkend Nieuws
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Cult, Eccentrics, Film History, Magazines.
Oshunmare - Mimagidu
Weaving a magical soundworld, influences from West-African mythology (like the rainbow serpent Oxumaré), elements of triphop, quirkiness mixed with melancholy...(read more)
Label: bytrecs
Artist: Oshunmare
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Electronic, Songwriters, Trip Hop, Vinyl.
Maschin Kaput - TAPE 2 | Tēpu II | テープ II
Noisy and free-raging rock band from Hamburg. Intense and gritty improvisations on bass, synths and various self-built instruments.
Label: Own
Artist: Maschin Kaput
Medium: Music Cassette
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Experimental Rock, Improvisation, Noise-Rock, Tapes.
Kwartet Niek Hilkmann - Koele Meren
You could easily call the (Dutch) songwriter Niek Hilkmann the Dutch Jonathan Richman. The deadpan observations and existential, introspective lyrics evoke memo..(read more)
Label: Excelsior Recordings
Artist: Kwartet Niek Hilkmann
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Dutch Pop, Singer Songwriter.
Our favorites
soccer Committee - ♥/Lamb
Quiet and sparse arrangements , plenty of time for the tone to resonate. Mariska Baars carefully selects each note, and lets the sound evolve with care.
Label: Morc Records / morc 88
Artist: soccer Committee
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Guitar, Minimal, Songwriters, Vinyl.
Marije Baalman - Composing Interactions – An Artist’s Guide to Creating Expressive Interactive Systems
Respect for this groundbreaking work! Whether you’re a musician, dancer, designer or programmer, complete guide to imagining and building interactive work..(read more)
Publisher: V2 / ISBN: 9789082893540
Author: Marije Baalman
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Interactive Technology, Live-Coding, Mapping, Media Art.
IC-RED - Goodfun
Great-sounding punk-rap duo of Martha de Barros & Goya van der Heyden experimenting, a vibe of NYC No Wave, and of raw early hip-hop.
Label: South of North / SONLP-011
Artist: IC-RED
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Experimental Rock, Post-Punk, Vinyl.
Karen Archey - After Institutions
“Institutional critique has historically evaded aesthetics, something Archey seeks to rebalance in her selection.”(Art Review)
Publisher: Floating Opera Press / ISBN: 9783981910889
Author: Karen Archey
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Criticism, Culture Theory.
Roope Eronen - The Inflatable World
short pop song versions of previously extended space-synth improvisations. Get your inflatable bed and pink bubblegum out and float away on these joyful and ecc..(read more)
Label: Discrepant / Pacific City Discs / PCD04
Artist: Roope Eronen
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electro-Pop, Space Age Music, Vinyl.
Kaja Draksler - In Otherness Oneness
Draksler’s music has been described as being “in the border area and in the intersection of jazz, free improvised music, classical modernism and new..(read more)
Label: Unsounds / 73U
Artist: Kaja Draksler
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Piano.
RE#SISTER - RE#SISTANT BODIES
This beautiful wearable album will look good on you, or on anything! Completely hand-made wearable containing USB-stick. Artwork on 12 cards in 7″ size ..(read more)
Label: Own
Artist: RE#SISTER
Medium: Gadget
Category: Instruments & Gadgets.
Tags: 1-of-a-Kinds, Art Object, DIY, Electronic Music, Gifts, Rotterdam.
Son Ash - Easy Listening for the Hearing Impaired
Debut album by Andreas Pallisgaard. Calm explorative timbral studio experiments of analogue synths, reminding me a bit of the classical-music-inspired works of ..(read more)
Label: År & Dag / AD01
Artist: Son Ash
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Analog Synth, Denmark, Minimal Music, Vinyl.
Blanche Blanche Blanche - Seashells
Already the 10th album by Zach Phillips and Sarah Smith. Quirky pop songs with lyrics full of sharp social commentary as well as a slightly juvenile joyfulness...(read more)
Label: Reading Group / RG19
Artist: Blanche Blanche Blanche
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde Pop, Songwriters, USA, Vinyl.
Mads Emil Nielsen - PM016 (2020 Remaster)
Remaster & vinyl reissue of a release from 2014 by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen (on C30 tape). The cover artwork by visual artist Dane Patterson is the..(read more)
Label: Arbitrary / arbitrary03RE
Artist: Mads Emil Nielsen
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Analog Synth, Denmark, Electronic, Soundscapes, Vinyl.
Kenneth Goldsmith - Duchamp is my Lawyer – The Polemics, Pragmatics and Poetics of UbuWeb
What Kenneth Goldsmith started in 1996 as a site to share relatively obscure literary works grew into an essential archive of 20th and 21st century avant-garde...(read more)
Publisher: Columbia University Press / ISBN: 9780231186957
Author: Kenneth Goldsmith
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Archives, Artist Film, Avant-Garde, Poetry.
