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    Remixed, remastered, revised, reissued: irr. app. (ext.)

    by 5:4 July 24, 2020 • 11:11
    July 24, 2020 • 11:11

    The most fascinating – and the most extensive – campaign of reissuing earlier work that i’ve ever encountered is by US artist Matt Waldron, better known as irr. app. (ext.). His earliest releases date from the late 1990s, a time when Waldron’s access to and capabilities with technology were apparently…

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    Nordic Music Days 2019 (Part 2)

    by 5:4 November 21, 2019 • 06:00
    November 21, 2019 • 06:00

    Being the host nation, music from Norway was especially well-represented at this year’s Nordic Music Days in Bodø. Harnessing the large and impressive organ of Bodø Cathedral, Trond Kverno‘s Triptychon 2 was one of the fieriest things i heard at the festival. We tend to think of toccatas as fast-flowing,…

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    Nordic Music Days 2019 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 November 19, 2019 • 16:31
    November 19, 2019 • 16:31

    Founded in 1888, the annual Nordic Music Days is one of the oldest contemporary music festivals in the world. It’s a peripatetic festival, moving from place to place each year, and for 2019 – surprisingly, for the first time – it moved north of the Arctic Circle, to the small…

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    relief – The Gloaming

    by 5:4 September 7, 2019 • 22:00
    September 7, 2019 • 22:00

    An album that i’ve been returning to again and again in recent months is The Gloaming, the debut release from relief, nom de guerre of composer Chris Berkes. As debuts go – a 42-minute work cast in four broad movements – it’s certainly impressive. A title like The Gloaming, with…

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    Juhani Silvola – Post-biological wildlife

    by 5:4 July 8, 2019 • 17:23
    July 8, 2019 • 17:23

    We might call it “conjectural anthropology”. What i’m referring to here is music (or any art, for that matter) that seeks to fabricate and/or otherwise be inspired by fictitious notions of organic life and activity. We find examples of this in, among other places, the strange electronic languages being uttered…

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    Forum Wallis 2019 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 June 18, 2019 • 12:50
    June 18, 2019 • 12:50

    It’s impossible to be aware of everything that’s going on in new music. For me, that fact is usually associated with new CD releases, but i’ve come to realise it’s just as true for concerts and festivals. Apropos: Forum Wallis, a five-day festival of contemporary music that takes place annually…

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    Only Connect 2019 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 May 29, 2019 • 14:41
    May 29, 2019 • 14:41

    There’s something absolutely right about the bringing together of Norway’s Only Connect – a festival that, as its name implies, encourages one to question (inter)connections between ostensibly disparate musics – with Tectonics, Ilan Volkov’s peripatetic festival the name of which evokes fundamental, underlying bedrocks that continually meet, connect and rupture.…

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    Robert Scott Thompson – Of Natural Magic and the Breathing of Trees, William Price – Rush Hour

    by 5:4 May 14, 2018 • 16:13
    May 14, 2018 • 16:13

    A couple of noteworthy albums of electronic music by US composers have found their way to me recently. Of Natural Magic and the Breathing of Trees by Robert Scott Thompson was released last year and pretty much tells you everything you need to know in that title. Aesthetically, the five pieces contained on this album…

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    New releases: Paul Dolden – Histoire d’histoire, Annette Vande Gorne – Yawar Fiesta

    by 5:4 September 25, 2017 • 15:10
    September 25, 2017 • 15:10

    Nobody – but nobody – makes music that sounds like Paul Dolden. His work typically exhibits unchecked exuberance, both his instrumental and electronic (and electroacoustic) music not merely firing on all cylinders, but with their inner workings ludicrously pimped and their processors absurdly overclocked, sounds and timbres piled on top…

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    New releases: Morton Feldman, Jonty Harrison, Chaya Czernowin

    by 5:4 December 4, 2016 • 16:11
    December 4, 2016 • 16:11

    It’s been good to get back to the plethora of new releases that have have found their way to my door in recent weeks and months. While i don’t like to make spurious connections between disparate pieces of music, i’ve been fascinated at the way various composers explore the interplay…

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    Electric Spring 2015

    by 5:4 February 25, 2015 • 21:33
    February 25, 2015 • 21:33

    i don’t know which felt more strange, being in Huddersfield for a music festival in February (rather than November), or the fact that, somehow, for two decades the university’s Electric Spring festival has entirely passed me by. Better late than never, i suppose, especially as this year’s festival, which took place…

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    An acousmatic revelation: BEAST – Pioneers of Sound, Birmingham

    by 5:4 February 3, 2014 • 21:28
    February 3, 2014 • 21:28

    Last weekend Birmingham was treated to what will surely be regarded as one of the highlights of the 2014 electronic music calendar. Presented by Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST), Pioneers of Sound was a 3-day festival primarily exploring works by three of the central figures of acousmatic music, François Bayle,…

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