Electronics cowgirl, irreverent scientist, explorer
Following the work of Darsha Hewitt is like feeling your way through the inside of an electronic circuit. It is tactile, visceral. Her trial-and-error approach comes from a truly experimental [...]
Sound notes
Interior travels
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY In her music, Montreal composer Analia Llugdar delves deeply into the primal interior of sound, as evidenced by a sampling of her work [...]
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY As with any American city, the dominant feature of the Knoxville soundscape is the almighty car. With an extension of the interstate [...]
Features
A cabaret of contradictions
“Good evening and welcome to the Friendly Rich Show. My name is Friendly Rich. Thank you. And I’ll be your loyal host this evening. Behind me, my mystery-meat orchestra, the Lollipop[...]
PSYCHOTROPIC SONICS
I’m lying on the living-room floor. I’ve been like this for two hours, on my back, in the dark, headphones on. The record on the turntable is literally locked in its groove and[...]
Immerses the audience
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY Sitting behind his drum kit and laptop, Richard Windeyer manages the energy of the dance floor, while his colleague Sabrina[...]
Visions of sound
Recombinant sound art gives new voice to obsoleteness
The Combine Project (2004-09) is a series of kinetic sound sculptures constructed from an abandoned 1964 Allis-Chalmers All-Crop combine harvester. I discovered it ten years ago on a property [...]
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Reviews
Cathy Lane, ed. Playing With Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice.
Cornerhouse Publications.
Tim Lawrence. Hold On To Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973–1992.
Duke University Press.
Big Ears Festival. Knoxville, Tennessee. March 26–28, 2010.
Something for everyone.
Sonic Acts XIII. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. February 25–28, 2010.
Spacing out on the Amstel.
Densités Festival. Fresnes-en-Woëvre, France. October 23-25, 2009.
Top-flight improv and electronics in a tiny Flanders town.
Decibel Festival. Seattle, Washington. September 24–27, 2009.
Genre-themed diversity.
ROVA Saxophone Quartet & Nels Cline Singers. The Celestial Septet.
New World Records 80708.