Mirjam Tally

“Sound is central in Tally’s creations. Her music is a flow of playful contrasts where a sense of humour and poetic use of sound are blended to mix. Beside writing works for contemporary music scene, she is active as a film composer. Her earlier works are mainly for chamber ensembles and electronics. In recent years, importance of orchestral music has increased in her oeuvre. Sometimes she uses elements of jazz, folk and pop, Nordic or exotic instruments (Estonian kannel, didgeridoo, tanpura, accordion and others) and treats sound material with a modernist open mind.

She has graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music as a student of Lepo Sumera in 2000. Since 2006, Tally lives on the island of Gotland, Sweden. In 2009-2010, she was Composer in Residence at Swedish Radio P2 channel. Since 2012, her orchestra works are published by Gehrmans Musikförlag.” www.mirjamtally.com

Submission to ‘Ekho:: Toward a Repetitive Sounding of Difference’

 

 

Breathe (2005) is realized at Visby International Centre for Composers, in Studio Alpha and it was part of the NOMUS scholarship. This work was premiered at Dark Music Days festival on Iceland in 2006. I have used pre-recorded flute sounds (mostly tongue-ram’s and breathing inhale/exhale) which I have processed in Pro Tools (mostly using transpose and reverse). These original flute sounds are recorded with Estonian flutist Monika Mattiesen at the electroacoustic studio of Estonian Academy of Music.

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Sexing Sound: Symposium & Exhibition

Sexing Sound: Music Cultures, Audio Practices, and Contemporary Art & Sexing Sound: Aural Archives and Feminist Scores at CUNY Center for the Humanities, New York Feb/March 2014.

“Pop and rock music has long been an important forum for experimentation with gendered performance, audience identification, and different models of authorship and collaboration. What happens, we ask, when the complex affective and social dynamics of popular music cultures are put into a dialogue with more rarified notions of audio cultures or sound art? Taking the issue of sexual difference and sexuality as its central concern, this symposium brings together an international group of artists, writers, educators and curators to address the gendered complexes of “music cultures,” “audio practices,” and where these two realms intersect in contemporary art. Presentation topics include the feminist sound archive Her Noise, women in early punk, the voice, and the soundscape.” read more via CUNY website…

CLICK TO WATCH FULL SYMPOSIUM ARCHIVED HERE

[Political Provocation and Agency: Jamaican Sound, Punk, and Pussy Riot] [Sonic Practices Between Performance and Installation] [Turntablism: Feminist Collaboration & Authorship] [Women’s Work, Feminist Archives & the Gendered Voice]

Beatriz Ferreyra

Beatriz Ferreyra is an Argentine composer. She worked with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer (1963-70) where she collaborated on the realisation of the Solfège de L’objet Sonore albums. While there she completed research and ran the interdisciplinary seminars. In 1975, Ferreyra joined the Composers College of the IMEB (Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges) and later created the experimental concerts series ‘Les rendez-vous de la Musique concrète’ at the Centre d’études et de Recherche Pierre Schaeffer. Ferreyra has performed at many international festivals, electroacoustic conferences and music seminars. As an independent composer, she has received commissions for performance at festivals and concerts, as well as public celebrations and events, films and ballets. Beatriz Ferreyra has also worked in the area of music therapy and served on numerous juries for international competitions adjudicating experimental musics.

‘Demeures Aquatiques’ (Waterish Dwelling): electroacoustic music commissioned by G.R.M. (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) in 1967.  First Performance: Avignon’s  Festival, August 1968, France.

Christina Kubisch – Mono Fluido

 Christina Kubisch is a German composer and sound-installation artist. She is a Professor of Audio-Visual Arts at the academy of Fine Arts, Saarbrücken and has had international solo exhibitions since the seventies as well as numerous releases with  various labels.

Below – ‘Ocigam Trazom’ from Mono Fluido (Important Records 2011), Constructed using field recordings, tape, flute and custom EMS synthesizer.

Laurie Spiegel

Laurie Spiegel is an American composer. She has worked at Bell Laboratories, in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic-music compositions and her algorithmic composition software Music Mouse…

Ivana Stefanović – The Epistle of Birds 1976

Ivana Stefanović is a Serbian composer born 1948 in Belgrade. She trained as a violinist, and since the late 1960s, worked as music editor at Belgrade’s national radio and television. Her compositions include orchestral and vocal music, as well as radio art and stage music.

Ivana Stefanović – ‘The Epistle of Birds’ – a tape collage of bird songs published on 7″ in 1976 by Russian state label Melodyia

Hildegard Westerkamp

Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer, radio artist and sound ecologist. She presents soundscape workshops, lectures internationally, performs and writes… She is a founding member of the World Forum on Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) and a co-founder of Vancouver Co-op Radio…

Listen via her website HERE

A Portrait of Eliane Radigue