Just listen to the vocal on this rise up – a wall of feedback – an amazing 7 minutes – the ghosts will be in your head all day…
Broadcast Black Session (La Maison de la Radio: Paris, France) May 4th, 2000 – a perfect representation of their trademark electronic art-pop, Trish’s amazing voice and the band’s ability to transform experimental recordings into beautiful live performances. The set featured the original lineup that toured in support of their spectacular debut album
more here….Golden Apples wishes to thank Aquarium Drunkard
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Dr Gonzo + The MFG return…
Dr Gonzo says…”Very excited to be hosting Golden Apples on RTRFM 92.1 today with the MFG. Join us from 2pm for some winter soultice, psyche-funk, low fi electronique sneaker-gaze, scandanavian free-jazz and more. Warning: wide open doors of perception recommended…”
Listen Here (select 26 June)
PLAYLIST
Karin Krog – Just Holding On with John Surman
Karin Krog – Images In Glass with John Surman
Bob Crew & Charles Fox (Barbella Soundtrack) – Entrance in Sogo
Fadoul – Sid Redad
Shweta Jaweri – Heart of Darkness
Mt Mountain – Diablo
The Doors – This Is The End
Santo & Johnny – Sleep Walk
Terry Brooks & Strange – High Flyer
Abraham Battat – Listen Baby
Small Professor – Would somebody please ESOTSM her out of my gotdamn head – Mixed Jaws V
Sensational’s Fix – Slow Motion Movie
Emeralds – Summerdata
Sensation’s Fix – Cold Nose Story
Brian Eno – Triennale – Shoot Off Assembly
Alex Menzies & Alex Smoke – Fair Is Foul
Afrobeat Makers – The Sun Returns – Nu Guninea – The Tony Allen Experiments
Urals – Radiance
Casino vs Japan – It’s very Sunny Go Hawaii
Open Mike Eagle & Paul White Dive Bar Support Group – Hella Personal Film Personal
Mindset – Good Love
Deerhunter – Leather & Wood
Kris Dane – Saturday Night
The Dangerfeel Newbies – Catch The Sun
David Axelrod – The Mental Traveler
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Au Sommet – Musique de film imagine
Anenon- Camembert
Mei Saraswati – Tek Life
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RTRFM re-stream listen here (select 19 June)
Mixcloud re-stream of the show here
PLAYLIST
The Free Design – Chorale
Dick Hyman/Mary Mayo – Maid of the Moon
Alice Coltrane with Strings – A Love Supreme
Popol Vuh – Oh Hear thou who darest
Orlando (Vanishing Twin) – Earth Moon Earth
Jane Weaver – Don’t take my Soul
The Hare and the Moon ft Alaska/Micheal Begg – A fracture in the Forest
Weyes Blood – Storms that Breed
The Soundcarriers – Boiling Point
Jacco Gardner- Find Yourself
The Lilys – Returns Every Morning
Dorian Pimpernel – Alephant
Utopia – Karl Heinz Schafrer & Arabia
Cosmic Flux History – The Dandelion Set
Firefly Refrain – Espers
Revenge of the Black Regent – Add N to X
Anita Lane – Blume
Brian Eno – Sky Saw
This Mortal Coil – Baby Ray Baby
Masonik – Mammona
Broadcast ( Andy Votel Remix) – Booklovers
Song of the Sea – Lisa Hanningan
Marissa Nadler – Flora Barone Queen of the Vaudeville Throne
Adjagas – Mum ja Mun
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Short super 8 film about the landscape in the writing of Alan Garner by Adam Scovell with music by Atoms – more here
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A Folk Cantata by Iwo Zaluski who I believe may have been the Music Teacher at Park Lane Primary School in Wembley UK in 1974 – Early ambitions as a concert pianist were shelved in favour of teaching by day and leading the London-Polish rock band Domino at weekends – this was originally posted by James Cargill of Broadcast and whenever I hear it – which is quite often in my sound-world – I think of Trish Keenan and Broadcast – James has some beautiful demos and other things over here – highly recommended by The Golden Apples
– Claude
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Originally broadcast on April 1, 2010, Avant-garde and outsider arts site UbuWeb shared a 40+ year audio retrospective Women In Electronic Music 1938-1982 hosted by Jon Leidecker and Barbara Golden, featuring the work of Clara Rockmore, Bebe & Louis Barron, Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Eliane Radigue (above), Suzanne Ciani and many others. Listen to it here
Playlist
Part 1
Clara Rockmore – Vocalise (Rachmaninoff) (recorded 1987)
Johanna M. Beyer – Music of the Spheres (1938, recorded 1977)
Bebe and Louis Barron – Forbidden Planet / Main Titles, Overture (1956)
Daphne Oram – Bird of Parallax (1962-1972)
Delia Derbyshire – Dr. Who (1963)
Delia Derbyshire – Blue Veils and Golden Sands (1967)
Delia Derbyshire – Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO (1966)
Else Marie Pade – Faust and Mephisto (1962)
Mirelle Chamass-Kyrou – Etude 1 (1960)
Pauline Oliveros – Mnemonics III (1965)
Ruth White – Evening Harmony (1969)
Ruth White – Sun (1969)
Micheline Colulombe Saint-Marcoux – Arksalalartoq (1970-71)
Pril Smiley – Koloysa (1970)
Alice Shields – Study for Voice and Tape (1968)
Daria Semegen – Spectra (Electronic Composition No. 2) (1979)
Annette Peacock – I’m The One (1972)
Wendy Carlos – Timesteps (1972)
Ruth Anderson – DUMP (1970)
Priscilla McLean – Night Images (1973)
Laurie Spiegel – Sediment (1972)
Eliane Radigue – Adnos III (1980)
Maggi Payne – Spirals (1977)
Maryanne Amacher – Living Sound Patent Pending: Music Gallery, Toronto (1982)
Part 2
Monique Rollin — Etude Vocale (1952)
Jean Eichelberger Ivey — Pinball (1967)
Gruppo NPS – Module Four (1967)
Jocy De Oliviera – Estória II (1967)
Tera de Marez Oyens – Safed (1967)
Franca Sacchi – Arpa Eolia (1970)
Sofia Gubaidulina – Viente-non-Vivente (1970)
Beatriz Ferreyra – l’Orvietan (1970)
Suzanne Ciani – Paris 1971 (1971)
Françoise Barrière – Cordes-Ci, Cordes-Ça (1972)
Jacqueline Nova – Creation de la Tierra (1972)
Teresa Rampazzi – Musica Endoscopica (1972)
Lily Greenham – Traffic (1975)
Annea Lockwood – World Rhythms (1975-97)
Megan Roberts – I Could Sit Here All Day (1976)
Laurie Anderson – Is Anybody Home? (1977)
Laetitia de Compiegne Sonami – Migration (1978)
Constance Demby – The Dawning (1980)
Miquette Giraudy (w/Steve Hillage) – Garden of Paradise (1979)
Ann McMillan – Syrinx (1979)
Doris Hays – Celebration of No (from Beyond Violence) (1982)
Brenda Hutchinson – Fashion Show (1983)
Barbara Golden / Melody Sumner Carnahan – My Pleasure (1997)
Joan La Barbara – October Music (1985)
Here is a great two part article with words, pictures and music. Links below to article reproduced and edited with permission from Wombeatz, a Leeds-based organisation dedicated to the training and promotion of women in music technology. Visit the Wombeatz website for more information.
Visionary Women Who Paved The Way For Electronic Music Part 1
Visionary Women Who Paved The Way For Electronic Music Part 2
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Daphne Oram in her studio
Shiva Fesharki working on the turntable scoring of ‘Still Point’ working from the detailed pencil draft pages remaining in her archive.
Still Point – Experiencing untold history unfold.
On Friday 24 June London’s DEEP∞MINIMALISM festival presents the never before performed Still Point composed by electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram and brought to life by London Contemporary Orchestra and composer Shiva Feshareki, who performs on turntables an electronic manipulation of the recorded orchestra, in duet with the live orchestra.
Background
Those into the history of electronic music will be familiar with the name Daphne Oram and her involvement with The BBC Radiophonic Orchestra which she co-founded. Oram used her time out of hours, often working late into the night, to collect the newly purchased reel-to-reel machines together in a vacant studio. By linking them up via a mixing desk and playing test oscillator recordings into them, she was able to complete her first experiments in purely electronic music. Oram’s goal was to create a machine that would directly link the composer to the sound in almost the same way that a painter can see the effect of his brushstrokes on a canvas in real time. Read more about Daphne Oran and the ‘Oramatics System’ in this excellent article over at Resident Adviser
In 1948, whilst working as a radio programme engineer at the BBC Daphne Oram began work on a new and highly innovative symphonic piece entitled ‘Still Point’. Completed in April 1950, it was submitted to the BBC for the Prix Italia only to be turned down on the basis that the adjudicators wouldn’t understand the “acoustic variants and prerecording techniques” utilized.
“Still Point’ predates the work of an entire generation of composers and artists in its radical use of live electronics including turntable manipulation and sampling with live orchestra….The record cutting process is the part I am most excited about, as we will be cutting dubplates in rehearsal directly as the orchestra plays, using a 1950s lathe run by sonic-scientist Aleksander Kolkowski). It will be a rare experience”
Interviews
James Bulley from the London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO) discusses Daphne Oram’s ‘Still Point’
Shiva Feshareki artist, composer and turntablist discusses Daphne Oram’s ‘Still Point’
Featuring a repeated vocal motif (“loneliness”) spoken by an female speaker identified only as “Oriental girl” (somehow managing to be sublimely creepy and moving at the same time) and spoken lyrics by David Tibet, Michael Cashmore plays the rest of the instruments on the song, ranging from acoustic/electric guitars, keyboards, tubular bells, and glockenspiel. The song continues to expand majestically for about seven minutes, until only the repeated vocal returns, at which point a jarring cacaphony of highly distorted guitar and drum soloing crashes into the forefront, continuing for five minutes before finally fading back to give the final line: “A dozen Winters of Loneliness, and the dozen summers against the world”.
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…1 Year Ago
…28 Years Ago
Claude Mono presents a kaleidoscopic soundscape of private press folk, drone and haze, delta swamp rock, Werner Herzog meets Palmbomen II, psychedelic soul meets Giorgio Moroder and so much more….
Listen Here – re-stream – includes chit chat
HQ Mixcloud Here – just the music – re-sequenced
PLAYLIST
Death and Vanilla – Hidden Reverse – To Where the Wild Things Are
Circle/Temple – The Osmic Projector/Vapors of Valtorr – Fractures
Ummagma – Ocean Girl – Frequency
Palmbomen II – Carina Sayles – Watch the Palmbomen II videos
Boozoo Bajou – Same Sun – Grains
Colleen – I Was Deep in a Dream and I Didn’t Know It – Everyone Alive Wants Answers
Colleen – Long Live Mice in the Metro – Everyone Alive Wants Answers
Werner Herzog – The Burden of Dreams – Original Soundtrack
Antena – Frantz (Nouvelle Vague Mix) – Versions Speciales
Boozoo Bajou – Keep Going feat. Tony Joe White – Dust My Broom
Not Waving – Punch – Animals
Soft Walls – All the Same – No Time
CAN Halleluhwah (MACHINE remix)
Adrian Younge – Party’s Over – Adrian Younge presents The Delfonics
Adrian Younge – Sandrine (Instrumental) – Something About April II Instrumentals
Chimes and Bells – The Mole (Trentemoller Remix)
Speck Mountain – Shame on the Soul – Some Sweet Relief
A.R. Kane – Anitina (The First Time I See She Dance Remix)
Pulse Lovers – I Feel Love – A Second Masquerade
Jim Ransom – It’s So Profound – Just Come Along For The Ride
Lights – Branches Low
Larry Jon Wilson – Sapelo (YZ Remix)
Comox and Friends – Sunrise Sunshine
The Golden Apples of the Sun 