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21 July 2012

We suggest you check out Birthdays by Francis Dhomont, the latest addition to our shop.

20 July 2012

Christine Groult and Beatriz Ferreyra will present two different outdoor concerts on July 30, 2012 at Pré du Moulin in Boulc (France) and on July 31 at Place des fêtes in Barnave (France). On the programme in Boulc: La condition captive and Le temps du ciel: entropie by Christine Groult, and Río de los pájaros azules and Les larmes de l’inconnu by Beatriz Ferreyra. On the programme in Barnave: Si l’oiseau par hasard… and Étincelles by Christine Groult, and La ba-balle du chien-chien à la mé-mère and Río de los pájaros by Beatriz Ferreyra.

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19 July 2012

Today on electro:thèque, hear a full album stream of Transformations by Hildegard Westerkamp.

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18 July 2012
By Glen Hall

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“… it makes us more aware of the richness of our day-to-day sound world.”

Duration and density. Sonority and spatialization. Canadian electroacoustic / sound composer Darren Copeland creates intricate, engaging pieces that make commonplace sounds mysterious, evocative or just plain interesting. How long a sound is becomes malleable, and this makes listening active. Stretched or segmented, environmental sounds’ nature is tested, questioned, reframed in this 5.1 Surround Sound DVD-Audio’s 8 compositions. The voice of a single 9/11 witness becomes an entire soundscape through Copeland’s ingenious editing and processing in They’re Trying to Save Themselves. The phonemes of Streams of Whispers title are sifted, repositioned, transposed, deconstructed and, in general, ‘messed with’ to create an immersive soundscape. On Schedule was created using a demanding procedural strategy, which itself was subject to modification if sonic results were not satisfying. His willingness to make ‘theory’ subordinate to aesthetic sensitivity and judgement marks Copeland as an artist. Based on the train schedule between London and Moscow, each of the piece’s 27 sections focuses on differing facets of overtones and sound spectra, giving shape and movement to its selected elements. Listeners with a surround sound system can get the full effect of Copeland’s specialty: spatialization. At art space he founded, New Adventures in Sound Art, he can move sounds around a multichannel, surround and overhead sound system. On this disc, sounds move independently, rather than in the traditional back-and-forth of stereo panning. An offshoot of Copeland’s spatialized sound art is that it makes us more aware of the richness of our day-to-day sound world.

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11 July 2012

We suggest you check out Revue & corrigée #92 by Various artists, the latest addition to our shop.

8 July 2012

Hildegard Westerkamp is one of the five keynote presenters at Conference on Sound, Media and the Environment The Global Composition on July 25 - 28, 2012 at Hochschule Darmstadt (Germany). She will first co-animate the Electronics Atelier of the 46th Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music on July 22 - 25.

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