Eclectic Electronic Soundscapes -
It's 2023 and I'm taking stock this year and seeing how far I've come on my sonic journey, especially as it's my 10th Anniversary year.
To make sure that I'm giving space for as many artists as possible and to try and discover new one's, Feminatronic will be focussing on Artists alphabetically throughout the year on all platforms.
Here is an updated playlist for the letter A(pt2)…
As with all the playlists, they are jumping off points to discoveries. Just let some of the tracks play onto the next....follow up on "sounds like"....see who's following, many artists follow other artists....
Artists on this playlist are Eunice Artur, Ellen Allien, A'Bear, Katrine Amsler, groupA, Shams Asma, Betty Apple, Alisu, Ellen Arkbro, akkamiau, Deena Abdelwahed, Lyndsie Alguire, AH! KOSMOS, ALieN TriBe, Amethyste, Poppy Ackroyd,Birgitte Alsted, Felicia Atkinson, Sarah Angliss, Atom Eye, AFFLATUS, Sabina Hyoju Ahn, Astilbe, Auriea, Clara de Asis, Yuko Araki, Anomie, arsonist, Audri Acuna, Meryll Ampe, Aschka, Arrebato, Ambiencellist and Laurie Anderson.

Feminatronic #145 - Artist Alphabet - A is for (pt2)

"Hamuli" consists in two graphic notations arising from the unpredictable, the error and the echo - in an undetermined space where that encounter occurs.
It's a proposal that relates the reverse and the inverse movement as a game to be played.
Put the headphones on, stand in the center of each score, about 2 meters from the wall. And listen.

Score and sound by Eunice Artur

Hamuli

BPC300 Ellen Allien - "Freak EP" is out on BPitch Control
Download from Beatport:
http://www.beatport.com/release/freak/1318726
Order Vinyl from BPC Webshop:
https://www.bpitchcontrol.de/market/browse/8898

To be free, means to be a freak. Whether as a DJ, label manager, T-Shirt creator or all-round talent – since two decades, Ellen Allien is one of Berlin’s exceptional phenomena that have created her own universe with the combination of old school-based underground love and contemporary experimental spirit. After the lovely musical affair with Thomas Muller for the track „Free Nation“, for her new solo release we hear the anniversary bells ringing. The three tracks – which are co-produced by Martin Eyerer and Skinnerbox – already mark the 300th catalog number of BPitch Control.
The „Freak EP“ is not only the result of the last months in Berlin; it also flags up the change to Ibiza, where Ellen uses the warm season to spray her positive vibe during her residency in DC 10. „Butterfly“ acts like the kick-off and not only host graceful 808 pinpricks, with the dreamy melody in the background a nostalgic aura raises that reveals Ellen’s warmer side. Especially the bass rumble emphasizes the physicality of her music in an impressive manner – in short: pure love. „Come To
Me“ is desire and passion within seven and a half minutes. In addition to the deep house frame groovy beats pushes in the foreground that sets free a hypnotic mantra. Spineless dancefloor magic that rewinds time with the haunting rave signal, floating Roland synths and the SH101 raveline. With the title track „Freak The Night Away“, Ellen once more succeeded in creating a hymn that embodies both the slogan of every great night as well as the strong atmosphere of her energetic DJ sets. Again, we hear Ellen’s charming voice – crazy, playful, creative. Following the motto: just go! With rattling claps and a warm bass, dancing won’t become a compulsion; the track clearly goes under the skin with its 303 acid hints as well as Roland piano sounds and opens the gate to another dimension. A stunning release! Happy jubilee!

Ellen Allien - Butterfly

WOANDERS © 2014 is one of my newest - not quite finished yet. Being an electronic collage of sounds from several earlier works, recordings from near and far away places, and having been performed in earlier versions - with other names - it is indeed a "work in progress" - it has been for several years, and may continue life-long? Like in "Zu versuchen, die Fragen" from which much is "recycled", The Poet Rilke is an inspiration and many of his words in hidden background. A finished (and provisional?) version (dur. 18') is on the way soon, and here you have the start of it - in stereo - the original is in quadrophonic format.

Woanders Start - Stereo

Live Electronics/experimental music by Asma Ghanem & Christopher Marianetti.
Poem by Giselle Buchanan

From Brooklyn to Palestine: Your Blood Is My Blood (Poem by Giselle Buchanan)

Rock and roll trance dance for the answers

Acidic Acrobat

TRANSIT KIROVSKY

Links:
http://www.dacapo-records.dk/da/artist-birgitte-alsted.aspx 
http://www.alsted-music.dk/
http://www.komponistforeningen.dk/node/8653

Danish composer and violinist.

Wroooom, said the door in a stairwell at Aarhus Concert Hall.   Sssscchhh from another door at the studios at DIEM, Danish  Institute  of Electronic Music. The handle and the lock have their unique sounds as well as the brass banisters at the staircase of the Concert Hall.
Danish composer Birgitte Alsted (b.1942) is inspired and  fascinated  by the noises and sounds of everyday life, the music  of the  surroundings, and the expressions from the (non)verbal communication relating humans as well as other living creatures.
In 2002 she combined the wrooom, the sssscchhh and several  other sounds with words from a letter by the poet Rilke into her work "Zu Versuchen, die Fragen". 
(Malene Wichmann 2007, - updated 2014)

A further important source of inspiration is literature and poetry  which  traces the development of the human mind. Contemporary  writers and  older literature - not least the Bible have both  contributed to Birgitte Alsted's multifaceted universe.


Birgitte Alsted is an experimental artist, educated as a violinist at  Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1971, started composing same year, and took much later a master-degree in  Electronic  Music Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus in 2006.
Her work as a performing musician is an essential element in her   activities as a composer - her idiom is often dramatic, and she  works  with acoustic instruments, computer and tape.
Alsted's activities as a composer range wide: from alternative  forms  of expression like collective improvisation and creative music teaching for children - to theatre music and "absolute" music: solo-works, different acoustic ensembles, orchestral music,  -and  electronics, many times accompanied by live-performed violin (mostly herself).
For several years Birgitte Alsted has been working with  multimedia  performances. This has involved the use of electronic devices and resources in her compositions, and she has experimented with the  creation of many-faceted sensory experiences using poetry, dance and  slides in her works.
In later years, a great deal of her "oevre" are electroacoustical works. In this branch she presently has won most acknowledgement, for instance for the works "Sorgsang II" (Lament II), "Zu versuchen, die Fragen", and "Agnetes Latter" (Agnete's Laughter), - all available on cds published by Dacapo.

Birgitte Alsted has won numerous grants and prizes including  the  Hakon Børresen Prize, the Danish Composers Association's  Jubilee  Prize, the three-year grant of the Danish National Arts Foundation in 1980 and 2006, and in 2011 both the Major Prize for a woman composer awarded by The Danish National Arts Foundation and the life annuity granted by the Danish Ministry of Culture.


Feminatronic

Celebrating the eclecticism of electronic artists who identify as female. A personal journey, ever unfolding and never ending. Yes, there is a lot of music...

Woanders Start - Stereo

birgitte alsted