[Microsound-announce] Furthernoise issue: August 2007

[Roger Mills]

Welcome to the August 07 issue of Furthernoise.org where we are 
featuring a host of new reviews, features, news, events and an audio 
player stacked with new sounds.
Furthernoise issue August 2007
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=63

Reviews & Features

"Talking Space To Space - Iris Garrelfs" (review)
Iris Garrelfs is best known for her emotive, improvised glitch-tech 
performances based around electronically manipulated, digitally warped 
voice sounds and site specific, multi-channel installations. The 
central theme of her work is the tension between the human and 
technological and she often uses her voice as raw material.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=180
review by Roger Mills

"Solo Traveler - John Morton" (review)
John Morton is a new music composer from New York who began working 
with music boxes by chance in a collaborative visual arts project with 
his wife Jacqueline Shatz. Admittedly not a fan of music box music, 
Morton said he became very interested in the cyclic patterns that 
exposed themselves by combining multiple operating music boxes that 
purposely were not played in sync.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=186
review by Derek Morton

"Joe Meek - Composer, Producer & Phonographer" (feature)
Joe Meek was Britain's first independent pop record producer. Born in 
1929 in the market town of Newent in the Forest Of Dean, he spent much 
of his youth building radios and tape recorders, experimenting with 
sound recording.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=185
feature by John Pickford

"Backwards & Devic Kingdom" (review)
Extreme is a record label based in Melbourne releasing cross genre 
experimental works that dip into and out of electronic, soundtrack, 
world, ethnic, ambient, free jazz, noise and Musique Concrete, often 
mixing and matching combinations of all of these styles.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=182
review by Roger Mills

"Empires and Milk - Loren Dent" (review)
Loren Dent describes himself as an "aural architect", which, like the 
hairdresser who calls himself a "tonsorial artist", has a faint whiff 
of pretentiousness. We'll allow it, though: it's a step up from the 
stale and stolid "sound designer"; and "musician" just doesn't cut it 
now paradigm's shifted, post-post-Cage, far beyond The Sound of Music 
into the Music of Sound.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=190
review by Alan Lockett

"Grace/Precarious - Sabrina Siegel" (review)
Grace/Precarious is the fifth solo recording of improvised compositions 
from multi-disciplinary artist and musician Sabrina Siegel. Featuring 
cello, electric guitar and voice, the physicality of playing a musical 
instrument is the driving force behind Siegel’s improvisations. Each 
composition draws on the circumstances (physical, spatial, emotional, 
sensual) of its creation to reach a fine balance of grace and 
precariousness.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=189
review by Stacey Sewell

"Morketid - Netherworld" (review)
Meant to evoke a forbidding frozen Norwegian landscape, the sampled and 
manipulated found sounds on Morketid are fashioned into drones, 
textures and subtle beats that move at an appropriately glacial pace, 
drawing the listener into an immersive listening experience.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=184
review by Bill Binkelman

"Plate Tectonics by Nid" (review)
Plate Tectonics summons up subterranean imagery, with the great 
shifting of huge continental masses. Certainly Nid has the subterranean 
part down with each of the three tracks being soaked in a deep bass 
resonance. But they also succeed in creating an oneiric sound using 
loops that phase in and out, in combination with various sounds from 
the real world.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=181
review by Caleb Deupree



Roger Mills
Editor, Furthernoise

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