this sounds excellent Sophie.  this trio is super awesome. wish I was here !

The Shining Pyramid created by Embla Quickbeam as a sound track commission in response to Itdreamedtome's `Arthur Machen inspired film.

Created for the Shining Pyramid symposium, an event based on the esoteric writings of Arthur Machen and other such writers, a day of talks, film and music at Aberystwyth national library Mar 2020, commissioned by the Listen to the voice of Fire and Sound and Music curator composer programme 2020.

Full release at Listen to the Voice of Fire Bandcamp page. 

Limited Edition Cassette and hand sewn letterpress cover booklet, token & badge.Essays about the Welsh literary occulture of Arthur Machen, John Cowper Powys, Thomas Vaughan & more accompany a full colour Maltese cross encased cassette, limited to 50 with new hermetic sound from: Embla Quickbeam, Facing the Ocean (founder members of the Oroonies), Tristan Rhys Williams, John Harvey, Leona Jones & itdreamedtome, presented in handsewn booklet on Medieval laid paper, with original line art illustration by Brian Lucas (Angel Archer/Old Million Eye), a letterpress cover and letterpress card token, a button badge and digital 12 page supplementary photo/text/links pdf.

The Shining Pyramid - Embla Quickbeam

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Tune in for episode 4 of https://soundcloud.com/iamdanielgeorge's InScape radio show "Transcending the Trope: Black Truffle Records Showcase with Oren Ambarchi".

The founder of Black Truffle Records https://soundcloud.com/orenambarchi joins Daniel to showcase some iconic records from his label. They also chat about how spaces create a catalyst for his sound, riding waves of adrenaline on stage and uncovering the minute details that make a whole composition. Some have called him a musician or a performer, however,  ‘Artist’ is a much more poignant encapsulation of Oren because his practice has helped carve out a malleable zone in both art and music using sound and sonic techniques as his paint and brush for over 35 years.
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From the short film Sea Songs - a visual exploration of superstitions in the Highlands of Scotland.

Sea Songs snippet

Composer Sophie Cooper presents Back to Work, the third episode of The Sampler Audiozine.

In this episode, Sophie Cooper unpacks what it means for musicans to be going back to work. What are some of the anxieties and tensions that arise from doing live work again, and what does it mean for rural musicians to be going back into urban centres for work?

Tracklist:

@sophie-cooper – “More and More” (extract)
Natalia Beylis @sunkenhumsounddiary – “Invaded by Fireflies” (extract)
Daniel Weaver – “Falling up (for Gravity and Levity)” (extract)
Natalie Sharp @lonetaxidermist – “Rochdale Vivification” (extract) 

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#3 Back to Work (Sophie Cooper) | The Sampler Audiozine

“Forza Bari! Alé! Alé!” is a composition that combines extended vocal techniques, field recordings and performance.

In this piece, I want to underline the social value that characterizes football, which can still give people a strong sense of community despite the changes of modernity. The strong collective sense of belonging that arises during a football match, which is expressed at its maximum during big events and victories, sometimes can involve the entire community, an entire population, even those who normally appear outside of any involvement. Getting all together in this ceremony allows the affirmation of a collective consciousness. The society becomes aware of itself, provides the desire to embark a common journey in the name of the same ideal, creates a kind of emotional bond with that specific territory.

Inspired by some funny moments of my childhood related to football, in August 2010, I organized a lunch with some members of my family and an old friend and fan of the football team of my hometown: Bari. My aim was to recreate the atmosphere of a typical noisy and memorable Sunday lunch at my grandmother's house, always characterized by the same elements: ‘strasc’nat con le brasciole’ (a kind of pasta with veal or horse chops), the radio that would transmit the live commentary of the match, the sound comments and unexpected gestures of my uncle, a crazy fan of the team, and the tragicomic squabbles between him, my grandmother and the other guests at the table.

The radio commentary I used in my performance was from the last Bari match of the 85-86 season, which ended with a resounding victory of Bari against Pescara, 2 goals to 0. By winning this match, Bari finally returned to ‘Serie A’ after 16 years in B. The event was received with great enthusiasm by everyone in Bari, who massively poured out into the streets, banging pans, singing and shouting.

Through its louder football supporters, I want to offer a typical portrait of the Bari citizen, a comic figure, simple, genuine, always ready to show off, very attached to his city and family.

Special thanks: Marco Dellino, the Barile family for the participation in the performance and Giuseppe Balenzano for the Bari radio commentary.

Artist's Biography:

Manuela Barile is an Italian multidisciplinary artist and vocal performer that leaves and works in Portugal. Her artistic research is based on a project-oriented work that combines vocal compositions based on extended vocal techniques focused on the relation between voice, soundscape and acoustic properties of the place with different media (performance art, field recordings, video, photography). It is developed on and for places, taking in account several aspects, such as the natural conformation of the territory, tradition, memory, ritual and sacred symbolizations deposited as indelible signs in the ground. Manuela Barile is the co-artistic director of Binaural, a Portuguese cultural organization dedicated to the promotion of sound and media arts in a rural context.

Football Sound Narratives

Manuela Barile: Forza Bari! Alé! Alé!

Extract from our gig at The Golden Lion in Todmorden, November 2017
Emmanelle: hurdy-gurdy and vocals
Sof: guitar and vocals
Sam: organ

Emmanuelle Parrenin, Sophie Cooper, Sam McLoughlin

...node lecha unessaper tehilatecha...

for 8 voices

performed by Roomful of Teeth
conducted by Brad Wells

...node lecha unessaper tehilatecha... | for 8 voices (2018)

Two Cryptic artists come together for the first time, as visual artist Heather Lander and musician and composer Alex Smoke present Primordial Waters. Noting how advances in science and technology seem to be turning our attention ever further away from the natural world, the artists seek to remind audiences of our most fundamental history: our common origins in water. Beginning from an elevated perspective, Primordial Waters gradually draws audiences closer into its mesmerising weather-pattern swirl of mists and water, the pull of tides, the movement of water that’s sometimes calm and sometimes tempestuous. The effect is mesmerising and meditative – a reminder to slow down, remember our place in the world, and commemorate the natural laws that bind us to our planet.

Sonica: Primordial Waters

Journey into the unknown with a new work from Glasgow-based Polish singer and composer Ela Orleans. Set to soaring music that recalls the Cocteau Twins and classic science-fiction movie soundtracks, footage of the 1969 Apollo moon mission is repurposed to retell the narrative of Night Thoughts, a nine-poem cycle written by Edward Young in the 1740s. Orleans’ Night Voyager marries the footage of fearful but optimistic astronauts captured in the archive material with Young’s meditation on death – and speaks, too, of the possibility of cultural forgetting, as in Young’s poem, now scarcely remembered but called in its time ‘the grandest and richest poetry that human genius has ever produced’.

Sonica: Night Voyager

Composition-émotion en 4 actes, d'après une improvisation vocale en duo avec Delphine Dora. Avec la participation de Nadège Milcic.

Anima Opus intérieur ♥ Delphine Dora

A musician from Stoke on Trent who now lives in West Yorkshire.

Currently I make music solo and in collaborations with pianist Delphine Dora and in my band with Julian Bradley - The Slowest Lift. 

Latest releases out via Crow vs Crow, VHF and Feeding Tube Records. 

Releases on Was ist Das?, Front and Follow, Exotic Pylon, Wild Silence, Tor Press, Blackest Rainbow, Night People, Bum Tapes, End of the Alphabet Records, Rural Colours

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