virkeligt smukke klange. en mikrotonal ballade?

Saturday 01.02.2014, CTM 2014 – Dis Continuity, Berlin

Lectures & panel discussion with Sadie Plant (UK/CH), Susanne Kirchmayr (AT), Fender Schrade (DE), Marie Thompson (UK. Moderation: Annie Goh (UK/DE)

Recent discourse on the subject of women and electronic music falls tendentially into two categories; either writing forgotten histories of pioneering work of women such as Daphne Oram, Elaine Radigue, Delia Derbyshire, Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher amongst many others, or with reference to the recent statistics via female:pressure, highlight the huge quantitative discrepancies between male and female musicians, DJs and producers represented at labels and music festivals worldwide. Whilst both can be considered worthwhile approaches in their own right, the former approach risks creating fetishized figures of "patchbay nuns" (Abi Bliss) and the latter finds hostile responses and risks ostracization in its own field. In both, one fundamentally important aspect remains overlooked - Judith Butler formulated this as the necessity not only to inquire how the category of “women” might become more fully represented - for example here in music -, but also crucially to understand and critique the very categories and structures of power in which these discourses operate.

Taking root from an abstract ontological level, in which binary categories of sex and gender have long been refuted (biologically as well as culturally), the panel aims to assess the interactions between sound, gender and technology from various philosophical and artistic positions. The widely discussed "cyberfeminism" borne in the early 1990s questioned the perpetuation of technology as a male-dominated domain, whilst also inciting digital culture as an ideal flourishing ground for subversive strategies. Though the relationship of this purported digital utopia never largely or explicitly addressed sound, it shares dimensions in its affective power as well as non-linear, decentralized and unhierarchical characteristics. 

After approximately two decades since cyberfeminism boomed - how can we assess the cyberfeminist dream of the subversive potentialities within technology in the current status quo? How does an inquiry into the nature of sound tally to the broader aims of cyberfeminism? Does a gendered understanding of technology and sound technologies help the dismantling of the structures which form sound, gender and technology today, or does it perpetuate these? Referring to both levels of feminist activism and feminist theory outlined above, as well as the dual tendencies within cybernetics towards order and chaos at the core of cyberfeminism – what can be identified as continuity and discontinuity in the structures of sound, gender and technology?

CTM 2014: Sound, Gender, Technology – "Where to" with Cyberfeminism?

Performed by Talea Ensemble at Harvard University of August 24th

thicket I (Excerpt, Live at Harvard, 2014)

Music for Organs (2016)

In collaboration with Ragnhild May

Concert-installation for Organ, selfmade instruments, modular synthesizer and spatialized subwoofer array

KonzertKirken, Copenhagen
G(o)ng Tomorrow

04.11.2016

http://gongtomorrow.dk/en/fri-411-opening-everything-is-important/

Music for Organs (Live at KonzertKirken, 2016)

How to make an architectural instrument in to something portable? Listen to the interview and live recording of organ-builder and sound artist Ragnhild May performing Oppsite 2017 together with Kristoffer Rassted at Super Deluxe in Tokyo. 

Interview by Sandra S. Borch
Sound mix by Thomas Ring Knudsen & Niels Malte Lundsgaard Sørensen 
Editing by Anne Dalby 
Jingle by Mikkel Stensgaard
May 2017 

www.opposite2017.com
www.thelakeradio.com

Opposite 2017 X Ragnhild May feat. Kristoffer Raasted X The Lake

Lyd bevæger sig 4,5 gange så effektivt gennem vand som gennem luft. Og modsat manges opfattelse, er lyde under vand meget tydelige og klare. Man er i stand til at høre selv bittesmå detaljer over store afstande. Lyt Dybt dykker derfor ned under overfladen og lægger øret til den forunderlige lydverden, som udspiller sig, når plankton smasker, når pukkelhvaler synger, når isbjerge kælver eller når de tektoniske plader rører på sig. Vi begiver os samtidig ud på en rejse dybere og dybere ind mod jordens rumlende kerne.

Lyt Dybt: Under overfladen

The second episode of AIR features synth music icon Suzanne Ciani to talk about humanizing machines and the nature of synthetic sound. Please note that this episode was recorded live at Terraforma Festival, so you'll hear a signifcant amount of background noise and music throughout the interview.  


@SuzanneCiani is a pianist, composer, and Buchla pioneer, helping to introduce one of electronic music's earliest forms in the 1970s alongside Don Buchla himself. She is known not only for her sound design work for commercial brands, but for her incredible music on labels like Atlantic, RCA, and her own Seventh Wave Records.







Audio treatment by Man Made Mastering
AIR intro tune by Gene on Earth

Featured music: Suzanne Ciani - Sirens (1982)

AIR 002 / Suzanne Ciani

A beautiful iDEAL mix by JASSS who is releasing her debut album on September 18th (she is actually using a handful of iDEAL releases on this one). JASSS has that excellent taste of sounds that will no doubt make your summer feel a bit more multidimensional. Get into her zone. Get into it. Get deep. Become complete.

iDEAL MiXTAPE TWENTY by JASSS

Båndmagasinet er et nyt tiltag på pladeselskabet Resonans i samarbejde med AUT; et kassettebåndsmagasin for lydoptagelser og små lydværker, der eksisterer i mindre traditionelle medier eller formater, og som derfor ikke nødvendigvis kan finde hjemme i andre musikalske distributionsformer. Magasinet er kurateret af Asger Kudahl, William Kudahl og Jan Høgh Stricker, sidstnævnte også vært i radioprogrammet her. Medvirkende kunstnere: Tobias Kirstein, Claus Haxholm, Sandra Boss, Lars Bech Pilgaard & Johannes Bjørkman

Bandmagasinet no.1

Harmoniske Øvelser for selfdesigned microtonal organs and vocal
by Ragnhild May & Kristoffer Raasted

Vinyl released by Sensorisk Verden:

https://sensoriskverden.bandcamp.com/album/harmoniske-velser

Harmoniske Øvelse A

Ragnhild May

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