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Sounds: Bidoun on Ubuweb

Have recently been digging into the “Noise” edition of the Middle Eastern arts and culture magazine, Bidoun, which features, among other things, an interview/discussion about music and noise with Jace Clayton (aka DJ /Rupture) and music critic/writer, Kalefa Sanneh. The journal also has a really nice collection of Middle Eastern avant-garde music available on Ubuweb, which you can listen to here.

It includes works by the Turkish-American composer, Ilhan Mimaroglu, the Iranian master, Ali Reza Mashayekhi, and the Egyptian electronic music pioneer, Halim El-Dabh. Really great stuff….

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Video: Pierre Bastien

I will be playing a few pieces by French composer and instrument-maker, Pierre Bastien, on the Feb. 25, 2010 edition of RF. Here is a wonderful video of Bastien performing with his self-made instruments at STEIM in the Netherlands. (Click through for the video).

Photo by Nono

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Songcycle: Ergo Phizmiz's Faust Cycle

I’m only a little over an hour into Ergo Phizmiz’s sprawling fifteen-hour song cycle so I can’t offer a critical summary of whole kit and caboodle. I can say, however, that it’s been a captivatingly strange and inventive radiophonic journey thus far. Listen for yourself at Headphonica:

Ergo Phizmiz, The Faust Cycle, or, the House of Dr. Faustus

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Video: 30,000 plastic bags (Zimoun)

This a video of the latest installation by Swiss sound and installation artist, Zimoun. It involves 30,00 plastic bags crackling beguilingly in a breeze created by a series of ventilator fans. You can check out more videos of his work on his own website and on Vimeo.

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Sounds: Ice Sheets

A recording of the fascinating synthetic-sounding crunch, pop, and thrump as the ice on a frozen lake expands and contracts. This was recorded by Berlin sound artist, Andreas Bick in 2005-6. Got me thinking about London sound artist Peter Cusack’s beautiful and very different album of frozen lake sounds, Baikal Ice (2003).

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Radiodiffusion Internasionaal: Erkin Koray Edition

This edition of the excellent Radiodiffusion Internasionaal show is devoted entirely to the music of the godfather of Turkish rock, Erkin Koray. There are a few rare gems in here as well as some stone-cold Erkin classics. Great stuff! I also highly recommend checking out the Radiodiffusion Internasionaal Annexe mp3 blog.

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Emptyset Interview and Mix

Paul Purgas and James Ginzburg (aka Emptyset) were responsible for one of my favorite albums of 2009. Their eponymous debut on Caravan was stunning blend of dark, finely textured atmospherics and deep bass that was as beautiful as it was brutally dystopic. In this interview on Sonic Router the duo discuss their background, influences, and working methods. Purgas and Ginzburg also contribute a wonderful mix that pulls together music from a variety of different influence from fairly abstract ambient music to dubstep, house, and techno.

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Tribute: Alvin Curran on Maryanne Amarcher

This very touching tribute by composer and MEV founder, Alvin Curran, to the late Maryanne Amarcher, appeared in the New York Times online, no less….

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Video: Pete Um

I’ve been listening to the lovely and weird Pete Um album, No Pressure on Gagarin records a lot these days and am fast becoming an Um fangirl of sorts. Pete Um is an Aphex Twin fanboy, as he explains in this video and then elaborates further in Part Two.

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Video: Black to Comm

I’ve been super obsessed with the new Black to Comm CD on Type ever since it arrived in the mail last week, so I thought I’d sharethis lovely video for the track “Hotel Freund.” Warning for those impure of heart: There are BUNNIES in this video! And they’re romping!! Please, view with care.

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