written for & premiered by the Attacca Quartet at the Phillips Collection on 04.20.21

note| Imago is a response to artworks that, due to the pandemic, I couldn’t see or interact with in real life. The distance from the pieces and the wonderful Attacca Quartet created something of a disembodied writing experience. Untitled & The Allusion of Gravity exist most clearly in my mind, illuminated and filled in by imagination & impression. However, I can’t draw on the memories or emotions of first sight, deep study, or sketching in their presence. What did translate over the internet and staring my eyes red at the laptop screen, was the musicality and impossible figurations of Linn Meyers’ and Alyson Shotz’s incredible works. Their limited materials, repetition, and sheer physicality of process made me determined to bring those presences into this new work and seek proximities. 

Repetition, for me, is queer — pushing to see a single moment from every angle, the desire to experience multiplicity, recognizing the capacity of objects to move in a thousand directions at once. I wrote to invoke images of physical creation with timbre, process, and shared materials. I strove to interact the motion of drawing with the smooth movement of a quartet of bows, of adding detail with pen or brush as dragging tightened hair. I saw the physicality and endurance of continuous motion, bowing or harmonics or strums or dense harmonies, as the bending and beading of a complex work. I sought the infinite shapes and implications of a group orientation towards sculpture or magnified square of mylar - in their overlapping vision, a new and beautiful object. A wider perspective. 

(Imago is the final stage of insects metamorphosis - happy cicada year)

Imago [2021] | Attacca Quartet

Art Bei Ton Podcast 038: Electric Indigo
( @indigo )

For the 38th episode of our podcast series, we are delighted to welcome an artist who is for us one of the most important pioneers on the scene. Founder of the Female: Pressure platform and working to introduce the values of brotherhood into the clubber community since 1998, we are honored to present here an extraordinary Hypnotic Techno set from the very talented DJ and producer Electric Indigo.

Hosting her set now is particularly meaningful to us, as she was playing our last 'real event' before the covid restrictions began.
It's now been 15 months since our 'Eclectique x Art Bei Ton' event at :// About Blank (13.02.20) and we haven't been able to work fully since. A lot of nostalgia, but still a lot of hope for a better future - we look forward to seeing you on the dance floor very soon!

More info about Electric Indigo:

Electric Indigo works as a musician, composer and DJ. Her name stands for the intelligent interpretation of techno and electronic music.
She started her DJ career in 1989 in Vienna and worked at the legendary Hard Wax record store in Berlin from 1993 to 1996. 

In 1998, she created female:pressure, the international database for female, non-binary and transgender artists in the fields of electronic music and digital arts which got an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2009. 2012 she received the 'oustanding artist award' in the category Computer Music from the Austrian Ministry for Arts and Culture.

She makes music for concert spaces, clubs and occasionally for stage plays and short films. In her compositions and live performances, she emphasizes the spatial-temporal placement of subtly elaborated sounds and structures, often generated from speech recordings. Electric Indigo shuttles between Vienna and Berlin.

Photo: Elsa Okazaki

SC: https://soundcloud.com/indigo
FB: https://www.facebook.com/electricindigo
IG: https://www.instagram.com/electricindigo_official/
RA: https://ra.co/dj/electricindigo


Tracklist:

01. Irakli - Selfupdate [Dial LP45]
02. Caterina Barbieri - Virgo Rebellion / Lucy Remix [Stroboscopic Artefacts 10YEARSEP]
03. Jamaica Suk - 4th Dimension [Mord H005]
04. Pyramidal Decode - Equilibrio [Hardtools 074]
05. Divide & Oisel - Ciclo 2 [Affekt LTD05]
06. Chapter 3 - Panic Attack [Edit Select 84D]
07. Lewis Fautzi - Inwards [Mord 075]
08. Exium - Atheris [PoleGroup 61]
09. Cri Du Coeur - Slave In / Lady Starlight Remix [Arkham Audio 06]
10. Function - Misinterpetations Of Reality [Tresor 320]
11. Specific Objects - Lockdown Groove [Twice Infinity 001]
12. PWCCA - Orlok [Inducted Waves 011]
13. Monolake - Specimen Fractal [imbalance computer music ML035]
14. VRIL & Rødhåd - Geomantic [WSNWG 005]
15. Rose Bonica - Send Forgiveness [Future Bounce 009]
16. Pfirter - Last Breath [Odd Even 030]
17. Zadig - Silent Warrior / Adriana Lopez Remix [KR3 004]
18. Electric Indigo - ferrum 4 / Jamaica Suk Remix [Editions Mego 271X]
19. Kernel Existence - Asist / Electric Indigo Remix [Konsequent 078]

Art Bei Ton Podcast 038: Electric Indigo

info: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/guests-142-cecilia-castro
http://www.ceciliacastro.net
https://soundcloud.com/ceciliacastro

Cecilia Castro

GUESTS 142 – Cecilia Castro

Lawrence Abu Hamdan – The Freedom Of Speech Itself

5478

I Know

بمناسبة صدور ألبوميه الجديدين، كلاترد تِل الفردي و دوتس من مشروع  أو ن فور بي بالتعاون مع أنسي، يختار الناقد والموسيقي رامي أبادير أعماله المفضلة من منتجين وموسيقيين إلكترونيين مصريين يتابعهم عن كثب أو أثروا عليه.
@rami-abadir
@mostafa-o
@0N4B
أسماء التراكات والفنانين على صفحة المادة. الرابط أعلاه.

شنف ١١ | رامي أبادير

< This work intends to be a theoretical, noisy and testimonial journey of used sonic tools as viral devices on the latest feminist demonstrations in Argentina. A soundscape that combines riot sounds, protest songs, testimonial voices, and theoretical texts; all connected by noises and spread through echoes.<        Cecilia Castro

El contagio feminista – curated by @Annaraimondo
Produced for the listeners of: 01 Radiokunst - Kunstradio 
Ph: Pussymantra


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ABSTRACT

I have worked in Buenos Aires on three occasions over the last two years and experienced each time its street feminism. The word « feminism » seems to infiltrate daily conversations from coffee shops to taxis, from supermarkets to elevators. One day, while walking down the street, I saw a public workers notice about women safety: “Workers won’t whistle nor harass women in the street”. For the first time I thought of feminism as a form of social contagion. This contagion could be called « Marea Verde » (Green Tide), in reference to the feminist claims for legal abortion voiced by the massive demonstrations taking place in Argentina today. Since the start of the campaign in 2017, the feminist movement has adopted a distinctive symbol: a green handkerchief. Beyond the demonstrations, it is worn today as a token of our own feminism, as a call to solidarity. This plural feminism permeates the streets, conversations, dreams, hopes, and political agendas, compelling us to confront sexist violence in all of its forms. In spite of the ongoing process of deep cultural and social transformation, Argentina still has not legalized abortion yet and according to 2019 police and judicial reports, a woman dies of feminicide each 36 hours.

Today, the feminist movement in Argentina is called Ni una menos (Not one less). It emerged in its current form in 2015 and soon spread across several Latin American countries and internationally. Regular demonstrations are held to protest against acts of femicide and promote debates on topics such as gender roles, sexual harassment, gender pay gap, sexual objectification, legality of abortion, sex workers' rights, and transgender rights. Since then, Ni Una Menos has grown into a powerful international women’s movement that describes itself as « a collective cry against gender violence » (1)

The mouvement Ni una menos generates a time-space in which to listen and produce listening. The feminist production of listening in Buenos Aires promotes the identification of common claims without sacrificing the value of multiplicity and possible dissent, it claims the right to « agree to disagree »(2). It generates many possibilities and questions, « involving the openness of being this or that, beyond the cognitive security» (3). It became an epistemological storm, a transgression which has made visible and audible the limits of the patriarchal’s limits (4). To me, this active form of listening has turned feminism into a public contagion. Now, if this contagion has the color of a green tide, I wonder if we can focus on its sonic dimension and possibly activate a meta-listening of the radical transformation, embodied by the plurality of feminisms in Buenos Aires. To this end, I have invited a group of Argentinian sound artists to interpret the idea of feminism as a social contagion.

(1) http://niunamenos.org.ar/category/manifiestos/
(2) Bickford, Susan, 1966, Listening, conflict, and Citizenship. The dissonance of democracy, New York: Cornell University, p.4
(3) Corradi, Fiumara, Gemma, 1996,The other side of language. A philosophy of language, New York: Routledge, pp 32-33
(4) Foucault, Michel, 1977, Language, counter-memory, practice. Selected essayes and interviews by Michel Foucault, edited by Donald F. Bouchard, New York: Cornell University press

Anna Raimondo

Vocal Technologies: The Viral Nature Of The Green Tide (Podcast Kunstradio)

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