Archive for October, 2010
I can’t believe that the weekend is over, and another long week is ahead of us. When does this end? I finally booked my beach vacation, so at least I have something to look forward to. Meanwhile, here’s Clem Leek reflecting on the same: My guitar was next to me so I picked it up [...]
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This week’s selection magically ties into our Sound Postcards project. At the beginning of October, I opened this project up for your submissions via Headphone Commute’s Sound Postcard Group and have received numerous fantastic entries! Among them was a track by Máistrí that totally took me by surprise. Here was a modern classical miniature composition [...]
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Today we share with you yet another Sound Postcard from our favorite artists… Yann Novak is a sound and video installation artist from Los Angeles, manipulating audio documentation into minimal and ambient explorations. He is also the man behind Dragon’s Eye Recordings and has recently released an album on Richard Chartier‘s LINE, titled Relocation.Reconstruction. Today [...]
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On this silent Monday evening, we are honored to share with you a Sound Postcard from the world renown composer in minimal and reductionist electronic music, Richard Chartier. With numerous releases on his own curated label, LINE, as well as its parent label, 12k, and many notable labels such as Raster-Noton, Spekk, and Room40, Chartier [...]
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Welcome to another episode in our musical travels… I started off this journey with a promo I have received in the mail from Peter Gregson. His beautiful cello sounds revived in my mind the memories of listening to Hildur Guðnadóttir, and I decided to revisit her earlier digital release, Iridescence. That, in turn, prompted me to drift [...]
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Tags: modern classical, neo classical, piano
Mix : :papercutz – Dream Scores
This weekend we are proud to present you with another exclusive mix from one of our favorite artists – :papercutz. Bruno Miguel has appeared on these pages before, first with the Ultraviolet Rmx’s (Apegenine, 2008), his debut album, Lylac (Apegenine, 2008) and Two and a Half Questions with Bruno Miguel; then with his own Reflections [...]
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Tags: cinematic, modern classical, piano, soundtrack
Welcome to another entry in our new Sound Postcards chapter, featuring sounds from your favorite artists. As this project evolves, we traverse a few field recordings that happen to be recorded in parks. Here’s one from our latest featured composer, Marcus Fjellström: Nothing special or creative, just a simple sonic postcard: children playing with their [...]
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Dark and moody, sad and beautiful, organic and ghostly, the latest album by Marcus Fjellström, Schattenspieler, is an incredible achievement, that grows on you with every listen. This morning, when I was hoping to be a little upbeat, the rainy weather changed my mood, and I gravitated towards yet another listen of the album, which [...]
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Tags: cinematic, modern classical
Tell us a bit about the process of composing for Schattenspieler. Well, I guess there are two facets to it; half of the album — the House Without a Door suite — was composed in 2006, just around when Gebrauchsmusik came out. For that I tried to fuse avant garde classical composition with a ‘Fritz [...]
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Welcome to another entry in our new Sound Postcards chapter, featuring sounds from your favorite artists. Today we present you a submission from David Newman, (Autistici), the man behind Audiobulb Records. Here are his words: Endcliffe Park is a large park in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The park was opened in 1887 to commemorate the [...]
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In case I wasn’t exactly clear about the new chapter in Sound Postcards, here are the details: last weekend I invited some of my [and certainly yours] favorite experimental, ambient, and modern classical artists to contribute a piece of their own, exclusively for Headphone Commute. These are indeed their Sound Postcards sent to you from [...]
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Today we kick off a brand new chapter, presenting you with Sound Postcards from your favorite artists! Words and pictures are one thing… but a sound is a whole other… I can only speculate on how this whole project will turn out, and where it will go… but meanwhile the clock is ticking, and I [...]
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In Allan Moore‘s classic comic book series, Watchmen, written in 1986-87 and recently adopted into a film, directed by Zack Snyder, we come upon the story’s main antagonist, named Adrian Veidt. Going by the name Ozymandias, Veidt retires from the superhero work, devoting his attention to running his own enterprises… At the end of the [...]
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This week we feature a track by one of our old time friends and contributors, Sarah Badr. Sarah has previously written a review of Telefon Tel Aviv‘s Immolate Yourself. I knew that Sarah was a designer, artist, and a writer… but I had no idea that she was also a musician, composing pieces under the [...]
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New York City. I enter the subway station, walking down the steps, through the turnstiles, circling around the underground performers… Then I continue my descend through another stairwell, down into the depths of something alive all on its own, where the noise is loud and the air is hot, suffocating the ears and deafening the [...]
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It feels like David Wenngren doesn’t need an introduction. But in case you have missed his previous releases as Library Tapes, I’d recommend you pick up a few of my favorites: Feelings for Something Lost (Resonant, 2006), A Summer Beneath The Trees (Make Mine Music, 2007), and Fragment (Kning Disk, 2008). There’s also his 2009 [...]
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Tags: modern classical, piano
Where does the title of the album, “Like Green Grass Against A Blue Sky” come from? i’ve been having the title for a few years now. i can’t really remember exactly when but i saw a great photo somewhere of a field of green grass against a blue sky and yeah, there you go. nothing [...]
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With a stressful week behind me, feeling a bit in a reflective mood, I sit down to revisit some of my favorite ambient pieces, as featured in Headphone Commute’s Best of 2009 : Music For Bending Light And Stopping Time. A few of my selections have not been previously reviewed on these pages – and, [...]
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Tags: ambient, minimal
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