Mindy Meng Wang

Collectedness // October 6, 2021

ATMOS - part 4

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Ambient #166

Eclectic Electronic Soundscapes -

It's 2019 and I'm taking stock this 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.

As with all the playlists, there are no prefences and focussing on letters makes the playlist very eclectic. 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....
Here I've updated the letter F…
Artists are Beatriz Ferreyra, Factory Floor, Anna Friz, flor.con.venas, tfarhad, annef, Ellen Fullman, Valeri Marina aka Faxtar, Fierling, Libertad Figueroa,  Fia Fiell, Tamara Filyavich, Felicity.V.Ford, Stefana Fratila, Ekin Fil, Bridget Feral, Stacie Flur, Fire-Toolz, Feral Five, FETTER, Furchick, futurshuttl, Shiva Feshareki, FRKTL, Susan Campos Fonseca, lina.filipovich, FH HF, Laura Fitzpatrick, Lesley Flanigan and Fovea Hex.

Feminatronic #152 - Artist Alphabet - F is for.....

Öldurótið

will-ill

will-ill ( TV edit )

will-ill ( ill instrumental )

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From the new album by Chinese-Australian guzheng artist Mindy Meng Wang (and collaborators), 'Phoenix Rising'. Available for purchase here: https://mindymengwang.bandcamp.com/album/phoenix-rising

Mindy Meng Wang & Fia Fiell - Undercurrent 暗涌

Un Fil Invisible - extr : 3’17’’ – 2009

Since I could not find the original version of this song on Soundcloud I decided to upload it.

Enjoy :)


All credit goes to Boards of Canada

Boards Of Canada - Olson

Tummaa

Musta Planeetta

Thea Farhadian (violin), Silvia Matheus (electronics)
Track title: Alma
Live Recording by Michael Zelner, Luggage Store Gallery - 
San Francisco, Dec 2022
Mixed by Silvia Matheus

www.theafarhadian.com
https://soundcloud.com/silvia-a-matheus

"Alma" - Thea Farhadian (violin) & Silvia Matheus (electronics)

Artist: SG (Andrew Pekler) 
Title: For Lovers Only / Rain Suite  
Cat#: faitiche 33
Release: Oct 6th 2023
Format: LP/DL

SG is none other than Andrew Pekler returning to faitiche with an album of sentimental guitar escapism. For Lovers Only / Rain Suite features ten tracks made using only an electric guitar and a handful of effects pedals (plus some additional recordings of rain) and finds Pekler once again attempting to reconicile his tendencies towards kitsch, experimentation and minimalism.   What does Pekler's pseudonym SG stand for? Sentimental Guitar? Sound Gallery? Shy Guy? Sad Gnosis? Saudade Glamour? Soft Goth? We don't know, but we asked notorious Chicago romantic Sam Prekop for his take on the album – his reply:

It’s a wonder where the rivers go and far, how fast or slow. 

Just seconds to remember, who can forget,
when you are lost. 

I think to recount every step, in both hands, eyes open, the clouds unfold, one two three. 
Every other step, just as well.

Where the moss is soft, you know strong. How many hours, days?
I could have been careful, did I forget? 

Never mind. 
Waking up, in these arms, where the rivers go, slow. 
One two three, one two three.

SG (Andrew Pekler): Sentimental Guitar Dream

03 Nathan Fake - Audio Gold

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01 Nathan Fake - Fortune Bru

Created and produced by Anna Friz at Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music, Seydisfjördur, East Iceland. Excerpted from “Two Sleeps”, a radio artwork produced for Radio Arts, UK. Recorded in 2015. Taken from the Soundplay 2014 CD compilation by Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, 2015.  

Among other artists contributing are also: Christina Kubish (DE), BJ Nilsen (SE), Jana Winderen (NO), John Grzinich (EE/US), Kacper Ziemianin (PL), Roger Döring (DE) & Konrad Korabiewski (PL/DK/IS), Martyna Poznańska & Jacob Eriksen (PL), Porcje Rosołowe (PL), Rudy Decelière (PL)                                                                                                      More info: http://artandsciencemeeting.pl/?p=2478&lang=en

Anna Friz | Air Can Break Your Heart | excerpt

ulla - table

Foja Cero

Title track from the new LP, 'Insignia', out in Japan-only on cassette for Ryo Murakami's Depth Of Decay label.

https://depthofdecay.bandcamp.com/album/insignia

Insignia

Marching Men

Vu du Dôme released by Editions Gravats the 6Th april 2018

Èlg - Hourra - from "Vu du Dôme" LP - Editions Gravats - 2018

A Soundtrack for a Film

Cave

Glockenspiel and pan pipes on a compilation of Aus and NZ ambient from 1980-1995, curated by Sanpo Disco's Rowan Mason for Bedroom Sucks Records.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2018/10/26/premiere-john-elder-wayayisma-petra/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/elder-petra

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John Elder - Wayayisma Petra (STW Premiere)

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In Films

The beginning.
First single off the "Voices" LP.

Anyway Friday

Second single from the forthcoming "Voices" album. Download/Stream in link. Album pre-order goes live June 14th.

Voices

Tracklist: 
1. Mindy + Carolyn (Fia Fiell)
2. The Long Goodnight
3. Needle Space
4. Cocoon

This takes place on land stolen from the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation. MIE acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung People as the rightful owners of the land we live on, and pays respect to their elders, past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded.

http://www.aao.com.au/cocoon
https://www.instagram.com/mindy_mengwang/

Graphics by Rick Milovanovic.

Presented by babyxxan.

Episode 9 : Mindy Meng Wang

Preorder Vinyl  ~ https://bit.ly/MindyMengWang

Mindy Meng Wang is a versatile Chinese/Australian composer and guzheng player. Born and trained in China, she studied western musicology in the UK before migrating to Australia. 
 
Her work explores the fertile space between traditional and contemporary practices, and is part of a significant movement of Chinese musicians redefining and reinvigorating their musical tradition. 
 
Mindy's vision is to create a strong voice for young female composers of Chinese heritage around the world, and to contribute to a deeper and reciprocal musical connection between Australia and China.

'An Improvisation Through Time & Space' EP is out Friday, October 2.

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Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 - Dimensions Of A Strange Land  异境

Preorder Vinyl  ~ https://bit.ly/MindyMengWang

Mindy Meng Wang is a versatile Chinese/Australian composer and guzheng player. Born and trained in China, she studied western musicology in the UK before migrating to Australia. 
 
Her work explores the fertile space between traditional and contemporary practices, and is part of a significant movement of Chinese musicians redefining and reinvigorating their musical tradition. 
 
Mindy's vision is to create a strong voice for young female composers of Chinese heritage around the world, and to contribute to a deeper and reciprocal musical connection between Australia and China.

Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 - Thoughts In The Rain  落雨思

Pre-order here ~ http://bit.ly/timmindysc

After the release of their debut collaborative single,“Sleeping Tiger On The Bund 蓄势待发”, Mindy Meng Wang 王萌, and Tim Shiel return today with their latest single & video, “Hidden Qi 隐.气”. Released via not-for-profit label, Music In Exile, the track brings audiences one step closer to their newly announced collaborative EP, Nervous Energy 一触即发, due March 12.

Introduced with a calming drone melody, “Hidden Qi 隐.气” opens up a dreamlike soundscape, fuelled by looped guzheng tones, steady beats and psychedelic guitar licks. Premiered via Gorilla vs. Bear the video is similarly hypnotising, finding the perfect meeting point between traditional and contemporary to showcase the harmonious existence of these disparate contexts and influences. Directed by Athina Wilson and produced by Yang Chen (Eye To Eye), the visual showcases Mindy’s traditional performance, further developing the ongoing narrative of how the East and West can intersect or collide with one another.

Mindy on the release: “‘Hidden Qi 隐.气’ is filled with powerful, firm but flexible energy. Like the inner strength - Qi of a Kung Fu master in the legend, the Qi hidden flows in his body is free but controlled, like the qualities of mountains, rocks, stars, and rivers...The whole song takes people to a dreamland surrounded by clouds and mist, as if you are floating in the clouds and you saw a martial arts master practising from afar. He jumps so light and moves so fast and sometimes disappears in the trees, the energy wave of his Qi shocked petals off the flower...flying in the sky...”.

Tim on the release: “‘Hidden Qi 隐.气’ introduces a sound that I love that feels unique to the guzheng - which is the sound of a slowly evolving drone, that shifts and squeaks with a beautifully organic quality.  I was led by Mindy's technique for this song perhaps most of all, trying to supplement her sound with a simple boom-bap inspired beat and psychedelic guitar flourishes.  Midway through the song, it shifts into a cinematic space recalling the 70s film soundtracks of John Barry, Janko Nilovic or even Morricone”.

“Hidden Qi 隐.气” is the second taster of the collaborators’ forthcoming EP, Nervous Energy一触即发, arriving on March 12. Just last month, the world was introduced to the pairing through their debut single together, “Sleeping Tiger On The Bund 蓄势待发”. Premiered on Double J, the single saw nationwide acclaim across the airwaves, with additions from FBi, RTR, 2SER and SYN, as well as online love from NME, Deafen County and a premiere from Purple Sneakers.

 Over the course of 2020, the duo worked ceaselessly on developing new material in spite of ever changing COVID restrictions. First recorded by Mindy on her 21-string traditional guzheng and then shared with Tim via the internet to be reworked, the result is something neither had imagined possible. What developed was a collection of tracks that oscillate from breakbeat to minimal house influences and laid-back dub and pop sounds, underpinned throughout by an acoustic instrument almost two metres long and thousands of years old.

Mindy Meng Wang and Tim Shiel 'Nervous Energy 一触即发' out March 12th, 2021 via Music in Exile and Above Board (UK/EU).
https://musicinexile.com.au

Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 x Tim Shiel - Hidden Qi 隐.气

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Early in 2020, the music community was forced to close its doors, not only to the outside world, but to each other. Creative partnerships were lost, performances cancelled, studio time scrapped. 

In response to these limitations, as is often the case, innovation and cooperation blossomed. Melbourne’s Music in Exile label, a not-for-profit aimed at profiling musicians from refugee and migrant backgrounds that give the city its world-class reputation in the arts, kick started the new Building Bridges series, aimed at keeping individuals connected and inspired during lockdown.

Nervous Energy, a collaborative effort between Chinese/Australian avant-garde composer Mindy Meng Wang 王萌, and  her Melbourne-based contemporary Tim Shiel, is the first product of this series. Over the course of the year, as COVID restrictions ebbed and flowed, Tim & Mindy worked ceaselessly on developing new material, first recorded by Mindy on her 21-string traditional guzheng, and then shared with Tim via the internet to be reworked into something neither had imagined possible. 

The result is four compositions that oscillate from breakbeat to minimal house influences and laid-back dub and pop sounds, underpinned throughout by an acoustic instrument almost two metres long and thousands of years old. It is a hymn to the world Mindy inhabits, a place where tradition is forced to adapt with changing values and different cultures. 

Throughout the record, Mindy’s strong association with visual imagery and traditional Chinese storytelling prevails, conjuring images of “eastern power and beauty” and “a dreamland surrounded by clouds and mist, as if you are floating in the cloud.”

As Mindy says, “Tim’s music made my blood surge immediately, and I couldn’t help holding my breath; my muscles tightened, like a wild leopard about to jump out from the dark, or balancing on a string up high in the sky. I used the guzheng to create a meditation of tranquility in the chaos, to try calm my emotions and fast heartbeat. The gentle melody brings rational control and pulls everything back to a perfect balance.“
 
Sleeping Tiger on the Bund 蓄势待发, the duo’s first single, references the juxtaposition of Shanghai’s Bund district, where the city’s ultra-modern and ceaseless pace of life meets protected heritage sites. It symbolised a constant struggle in Mindy’s creative process; inspiration drawn from ancient traditions trying to find context in a modern world. The Tiger references the Western world’s view of China, as a sleeping threat which may at any moment awaken. As Mindy again says, “There is a special and complex feeling of power and strength in this song. It is clean and thorough, strong yet soft; decisive and delicate. It is full of a dynamic and urgent sense of time.”

Sleeping Tiger on the Bund 蓄势待发 is the first single from Nervous Energy, a collaborative EP from Tim Shiel and Mindy Meng Wang 王萌. The EP will be available digitally + on limited edition vinyl through Music in Exile / Above Board (UK) on March 12th, 2021.

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Mindy Meng Wang, 王萌 x Tim Shiel - Sleeping Tiger On The Bund 蓄势待发

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