Singer Vijaya Maid, from Shirur town in Pune district, sings nine ovi inviting the gods and goddesses to a family wedding. The songs picture of the joyous day

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Savitribai Ubhe sings five ovi about the daily grinding of grain to flour, and a woman’s efficient ways that could make her family prosper.

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Space Death

Mazurka of Frederic Chopin, opus 17 no.4 in a minor, played on the square piano (ca.1830)  at Ulefoss Hovedgård, Norway, by Nils Henrik Asheim. A preview of the release October 2013 on Lawo Classics.   www.nilshenrikasheim.no

Chopin Mazurka Op17no.4 N.H.Asheim on square piano 1830

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This set of the grindmill songs is about the daily chore of grinding grain to flour and how a mother prepares her girl child for this hard work.

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Jai Sakhale in Pune’s Mulshi taluka sings 9 songs/ couplets about a woman advising her daughter – a new mother – on looking after her health while also observing the social customs and norms expected of her.

Art by Labani Jangi.

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This piece gets inspiration from Alvin Lucier’s Sferics (1988). Sferics musically explored electromagnetism from radio waves in the ionosphere. In this piece, I investigate the acoustic properties of electromagnetic fields and their translation into music. I am using MIRLC 2.0, a self-built library in the free Supercollider software. I am developing this library to allow the live coder to retrieve or rewire sounds based on music information retrieval techniques. You can find the first version at github.com/axambo/MIRLC.

The audio input signal is a personal recording of electromagnetic fields emitted by a home network router recorded with a self-built induction microphone. You can find out more about circuit sniffing in this video by Nicolas Collins: https://youtu.be/4T7qkYY7LZM. Based on these acoustic properties of the pitch, onsets and beats, a sinusoidal sound generator, a bit crush sound effect, and a bass generator are triggered, respectively.

This piece was first released in the album compilation Compassion Through Algorithms Vol. II (Light Entries, 2020), a collaboration between Light Entries and Algorave Sheffield curated by Alex McLean, with all proceeds to Young Minds Together: https://lightentries.bandcamp.com/album/compassion-through-algorithms-vol-ii

It has been presented live for the first time at “Concert PACE 1 Live Music from MTI2. Works by Simon Emmerson, Anna Xambó Sedó, John Richards, and Leigh Landy” on November 10, 2021, during the Electroacoustic Music Studies conference 2021 in Leicester: http://www.ems-network.org/ems21/schedule.html 

This recording is a rehearsal previous to the EMS21 Concert: Live Music from MTI2 and it is dedicated to Alvin Lucier, who has passed away on December 1, 2021.

Magnets @ EMS 2021 Rehearsal - To Alvin Lucier

Ratnabai Padwal and Sonubai Mote, singers from Shirur taluka, Pune, paint the picture of Sita’s exile in the forest and the sorrow of losing loved ones, in these 13 grindmill songs.

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Shahu Kamble from Mulshi taluka, Pune, sings about the hurtful words of a friend and neighbour, the pride in her children, the longing for her mother, and more.

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