Kate Carr * Synthetic Bird Sounds
Kate Carr creates environments with birds she never recorded * Synthetic Bird Music is a compilation of recordings of birds that don’t exist.
Category: other-music
Claire M. Singer * Galya Bisengalieva
Claire M. Singer explores the possibilities of different organs to capture the dramatic Scottish landscape *** Galya Bisengalieva’s Polygon sonificates the effect of 465 nuclear tests in the Kazakh steppe.
From The Mouth Of The Sun * Claire Deak
Two albums from Lost Tribe Sound’s latest subscription series (which you don’t necessarily have to subscribe to to enjoy them): one by From The Mouth Of The Sun, and another by Claire Deak and her Sotto Voce Consort.
CV & JAB (+ Vantzou) * Branciforte & Bleckmann
CV & JAB (Christina Vantzou & John Also Bennett) present their third (‘rhizomatic’) collaboration. Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann further explore the musical language they developed earlier.
Rutger Zuydervelt * Coen Oscar Polack
Rutger Zuydervelt’s score for Lily&Janick’s contemporary circus performance *** Coen Oscar Polack explores new concrete pastures.
Quiet Places * Flocks
Quiet Places presents four sides of associative sonic landscapes, not unlike that of the KLF. Flocks debut album merges Jon Hassell’s Fourth World music with some Krautrock ingredients.
Testen / Šerc * Natasha Barrett * Dorian Wood
Three different approaches to field recordings: a realistic reproduction (Martina Testen & Simon Šerc), completely reconfiguring the landscape (Natasha Barrett), and observing life from within an empty milk jar (Dorian Wood).
Drøne * Rand
Drøne ‘reasserts the feminine while the male world falls apart’ *** Rand’s Peripherie album gets a remix treatment.
Aki Yli-Salomäki * Mardit B. LLeshi/Bledi Boraku
Exploring new (post-classical?) territories with Aki Yli-Salomäki (Finland) and Mardit B. Lleshi / Bledi Boraku (Albania).