Elisha Morningstar/Lorenzo Abattoir, Titled

two short extracts of extensive research into moss listening, forming part of a new multi-channel installation Moss Listening (working title).

recorded with JrF c-series+ contact mics (with impedance adaptors)

photo by Pheobe riley Law

Pheobe riley Law / Jez riley French - moss listening (working title) extracts

some short extracts of recordings of plants & in soil horizons.

recorded with JrF c-series+ microphones & d-series hydrophones

for more information on the JrF range of specialist microphones see;
https://jezrileyfrench.co.uk/plant-tree-soil-recording.php

for more information on my practice see; 
https://jezrileyfrench.co.uk/

JezrileyFrench Plantandsoil Extracts

Minimalist movement on the open fields of sonic harmonicity – by composer and musician Ellen Arkbro, the monthly “Moving places” brings forth new listenings in the in-between of experimental forms of sound and music. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/ellen-arkbro/episodes/ellen-arkbro-12th-december-2023

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First thing on Fridays - Jack Rollo's here to take care of things.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-jack-rollo/episodes/early-bird-show-jack-rollo-22nd-march-2024

The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo & Hands in the Dark 220324

First solo release from vocalist, movement artist and composer Elaine Mitchener, whose work encompasses improvisation, contemporary music theatre and performance art. Solo Throat draws on the work of African-American and African-Caribbean poets Kamau Brathwaite, Aimé Césaire, Una Marson and N. H. Pritchard as source material for twelve new vocal compositions
Elaine Mitchener is a veteran of vocal expression in the global Black Avant Garde, traversing free improvisation, cross-disciplinary music theatre and contemporary composition with clarity and joy. Most recently, Mitchener has been improvising and composing with the written word as source material - challenging classical ensembles with her piece (“the/e so/ou/nd be/t/ween”), and commissioning composers Matana Roberts, Jason Yarde and George Lewis to respond to the work of Sylvia Wynter (“On Being Human as Praxis”, Donaueschinger Musiktage, 2020). Her performance of Umbra poet N.H Pritchard’s text FR/OG at OTO in 2021 was a revelation - a solo vocal recasting of the powerful visual-material form that Pritchard uses to disrupt semantic ‘sense’.

Building on this performance, Solo Throat takes the work of Pritchard alongside poets Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Aimé Césaire and Una Marson as its source material. Its compositions are a loose translation - a carrying from text to voice which holds multiplicity and celebrates the transformative power of literary possibility. Surrendered to the spacing and repetition of consonants and vowels, Michener’s exceptional phonetic freedom gives rise to a sensuous experience which intensifies the roles of rhythm, timbre and breath in expressing meaning.

Solo Throat comes together as much through difference as similarity. Mitchener’s own solo improvisations sit alongside the work of Brathwaite, Césaire, Marson and Pritchard, forming a constellation of unlikely alignments which make no aesthetic conclusion. Instead, Solo Throat is a site of encounter, an irreducibly plural de-composition of words into a heterogeneous assemblage of sounds and impulses, emphasising what Anthony Reed calls, “the play on and the surplus of margins of lyrical translation to resituate other pathways of expression”. Just as the poets cited use white space to complicate our act of reading, so Mitchener utilises silence and multiphonics to complicate the act of voicing and the way we listen.

Solo Throat

ROKU036 - Elaine Mitchener - "stretchedwoundspeaks" from Solo Throat

https://www.teatrpolski.pl/werter.-inspirowane-cierpieniami-m%C5%82odego-wertera.html

Instrukcja Całowania ("Werter" Jaremko/Górniak Teatr Polski)

PAM, previously host of beloved NTS show Okonkole Y Trompa, joins you for a dawn chorus every Thursday. Traversing obscure rarities, globetrotting vintage pop and beyond. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-w-pam/episodes/early-bird-show-w-pam-4th-april-2024

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Freedom To Spend examines fully realized yet under recognized sonic statements from other eras when accessibility to technology did not always equate to accessible music... Less is more, more or less. Spend some mind, free your time. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/freedom-to-spend/episodes/freedom-to-spend-1st-may-2024

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An audible chrysalis in reverse, this mix takes you from the most sublime to haunting and uncomfortable soundscapes.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/metamorphosis-2024/episodes/metamorphosis-2024-breedon-hope-cement-works-1st-may-2024

Pheobe riley Law / Jez riley French - moss listening (working title) extracts

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